"Wow, beautiful sister! Play with me!
"No! Play with me!
"Customer! Customers."
"Hey, guys, help me clear my plate!
The eunuchs enter the room prompted by Shihei, and when they step into a very large living room, they are bewildered by the reception from a large number of children.
Miho and Marion in particular had children gathered, and Miho and the others were hollowing at each other with their hands pulled and embraced.
If you look at it, it feels like the children other than Shihei are of lower age, in a age group that does not exceed ten years old, and some of them are about kindergarten.
The room had an advanced design and was also very spacious and it was seen that there might be 150 square meters in the bill. In fact, this household room prepared by this Leopard of the Dark Night was a shallow high grade apartment with a building life of 6 LDK. Still, it's narrow enough for nearly twenty children to live, but it doesn't look like they care about it either.
Even watching the children interact was a soothing air as they were used to living together in large numbers.
"Here, guys! My brother is going to have an important conversation with these people, so everyone needs to take care of it... just in case you pack your bags and help him with his little balls."
Shihei gives a voice to a girl called Calm Faced Little Ball, who falls into the category of the elderly among the children, the girl nods.
"Okay. Brother Shihei."
"Uh, why are you packing?
"Look, we're all going. Because you just have to have clothes and important things."
"" "" Yes "" "
Yuto feels distressed as he sees the children scattered across each of them. These children, knowing nothing, were abandoned by their parents, taken away by an adult they did not know, and came here. And even now, I keep getting caught up in the adults' own hands.
(Maybe what I do is the same as the Dark Night Leopard... Whatever the reason, I'm trying to get these kids out of here for this convenience that nothing matters to them)
Miho and Marion also remembered the same feeling as Yuto, giving a slightly more complicated look.
"Let's talk over here"
I followed behind Shihei, who said so, and when he was passed to about six tatami rooms that were halfway through the hallway, and there was no table and only a chair was provided for the murderous landscape room, he lowered his hips to each of them.
And Shihei turned his face to the blessed men, and opened his mouth.
"I've heard a lot about you. I knew the water stop was working for the Chinese government. But is it true that you're hired by a suspicious military organization called the Leopard of the Dark Night? And that's why they're holding us hostage and making us obey the water stop."
When the eunuchs nod, Zhipei strikes his tongue and causes his face to be distorted.
"Nothing stopped the water, you didn't tell me! If that's the case, so am I.
"… Shihei-san, I fought the water stopper."
"! You!? I was often able to fight the water stop and live..."
"Yes... it was a formidable enemy. If I hadn't stood up to everything I could, they would have done it right away. So listen. I think Mr. Waterstop is following the Leopard of the Dark Night against his will. That's trying to protect you guys...... The Leopard of the Dark Night is a dangerous organization. I don't think Mr. Suzumizu will ever be freed if he fought and won against the World Organization of Competent Persons. Of course, Shihei and the others..."
……
"So let us protect Mr. Shihei and the others. That way, there's no longer any reason to follow Mr. Cease Water's Dark Night Leopard. Besides, the World Organization of Competent Persons, which seems to outnumber the Leopard of the Dark Night by its size and strength, has decided to do everything in its power to retaliate against the Leopard of the Dark Night. If this succeeds, you won't have to worry about later harassment by the Dark Night Leopard. And of course, I'm not going to let the future of the kids involved this time be bad institutions."
……
Shihei listened silently to the eunuch and stared at his serious eunuch's face jizzily.
"I still can't accept that."
"Huh!? Why!? Mr. Shihei. If you stay here."
Blessings also enlarge their eyes in an unexpected response.
"So you guys... who can say that he can be trusted with the World Organization of Competent Persons? Besides, you guys came here because you felt awkward fighting the water stop, didn't you? The point is, we're working on a plan not to fight the water stop."
"What are you talking about!? The Leopard of the Dark Night set it up first! Even we don't like it and do this! And you can still be held hostage? If you're protected by an institution, you'll be free from this! It's tens of thousands of times better than the life captured by the Leopard of Darkness!
Without Miho being able to keep his mouth shut, I argue.
"... you guys end up the same way, with the Chinese government guys"
"What!?
"Surely if you ask me, it must be the Dark Night Leopard guys who've set me up, right? So you decided to retaliate. But the water stop is too strong for that. So, you mean our rescue, right? But that would be comforting to say rescue, but essentially, our hostage position remains almost unchanged. Now you're gonna be our hostage, aren't you? Change the word" hostage "to" protective ". The only reason is the difference between letting the water stop fighting or not."
"... ugh!
"I've had enough! Don't get involved with us anymore! We just want to live quietly! All of a sudden you show up, you put the water stop in the fight, we're hostages, protection. What the hell, you guys! Shihei, I'm so sorry! I also thought I should follow you when the guy came earlier to explain this. But in the end, what's broken, what's taken, it's not coming back! Even the water stops... we don't have it anymore..."
Miho tries to speak up, but sees Shihei's spicy face and shuts up.
"Enough...... we decide what happens in the future. We're leaving here, like this. That's gonna make your purpose come true, all right?
"Huh!? It's impotent! Where are you going with just Shihei! This is Japan!? Besides, the Dark Night Leopard and the Chinese government will follow. You can't run away!
Marion is surprised to hear this Shihei's decision.
"I fight, too. Even I've learned martial arts to stop the water. I have money, and I find a place to live quietly, avoiding urban areas. So if you defeat the Leopard of the Dark Night, you'll have no more problems, right?
"Oh no..."
Marion mouths ready for Shihei, but Marion will be right. It is a difficult undertaking for this young, not to mention Japanese, boy like Shihei to cross in exotic lands. And having nearly twenty children involves difficulties just travelling.
Yu Man chewed his umbilical cord feeling this shihei's nasty feelings and his willingness to try to protect his life with the children with his skin.
This is by no means Shihei's fault.
others drove them into a situation where they had to make such a determination for their own benefit. The same is true, in that sense, of the curse placed on Akiko Fazuki, whom Miho has requested.
Somewhere there are people involved in these things who think nothing about the lives, circumstances, or minds of others for their own ends. Maybe that doesn't belong to one individual. Sometimes organizations with large areas lose consciousness for the benefit of the organization. I don't digitize humans and put my mind to a handful of sacrifices.
The eunuch was a line he heard so often from the people at the upper levels of the organization during the fierce struggle in the demonic realm that "it was good with this degree of sacrifice".
Every time I heard that line, Yuto was plagued by the nausea that sprang up in his heart, even if he could understand it with his head. To the Blessed One, who had always been at the forefront... it might have been natural if he had made the sacrifice of his companions into the Blessed One he had seen in front of him.
And... the situation in which Shihei and the others are located, in a way, can also be called the front line. Because Shihei and the others are only quantified “objects” in front of a large organization. Besides, it's an unintentionally entangled "object”. Naturally, it also includes water retention.
"What Shihei says...... I understand. Now I can't help thinking that Shihei and the others are being used as tools for two organizations..."
Everyone concentrated on the words of the Blessed One with their own expressions.
…… If you find that out, you can go home now. And I want you to tell him when you see the water stop. Shihei and the others are no longer anyone's hostages... because they are free to stop the water. That way, the water stop won't fight you. You don't have to die either. I don't want to stop the water. I can avoid a fight. Now we have to match each other's interests. "
"No, Mr. Shihei... I still want you to come with us"
"Ha!? What are you talking about! You're so afraid of the water stop! You don't know that, but the water stop is a Taoist! If there's nothing to tie you up like us, you'll never fight."
"I'm not. What I'm trying to say is that even if Shihei and the others were protected by an institution here, it's... not normal"
"So! Just say so!
"But it's also true what Mr. Marion says. No matter how sweet you estimate Shihei and the others in the future, I find it difficult to do what Shihei says. Even Shihei knows that. What does it mean to take a large number of small children and find a place of peace in an exotic land? In fact, if you get out of here now, you're more likely to be reported to the police immediately just to move. So even Shihei-san tried to follow us initially, didn't he?
……
"So... I promise"
Yu Man raised his face and turned his serious eyes to Shihei.
"Convince Mr. Shui to bring him to Mr. Shihei even once. After that, you can make up your mind with Shihei and the others. And when I'm done, I'll find a place where Shihei and the others can live, and I'll have the agency stop protecting Shihei and the others."
"... hmm? Think of what you're going to say...... You're kidding! There's no way I can promise you that! If the water stops turning down, it will end there. Besides, the agency's better off protecting us, isn't it? That way you can force the water stop to be one of us!
"I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that! Even this time..."
Miho stood up unexpectedly, but Marion could forgive him.
"Well, let me ask you something? How do you make that happen? If both the water stop and the engine refuse your proposal, what are you gonna do?
"Push hard...... do it. If this proposal doesn't go through, both Mr. Stop Water and the agency will do their best to hear what he has to say."
"Blessings!
"Then you're not saying anything stupid! I don't know about the engine, but there's no way you can handle the water stop! Besides, I'm guessing you guys came here not to fight the water stop, huh? Then it's the end of the line!
"If the institution uses Shihei and the others to stop the water... for God's sake, I'm not going to belong to the institution. Well, I said something prestigious, but honestly, I'm not worried about the institution. Because he's someone the branch manager can talk to. But you don't know how to stop the water."
"Well, either way, your ridiculous promise won't be fulfilled. Impossible to help stop the water"
"Mr. Shihei... you're learning a little Sendo, aren't you? You just felt a little bit of sentimental anger."
"Nah! Why would I do that to you..."
"Has Shihei ever seen Shizuku's true immortality?
As a matter of fact, Shihei asked me to stop the water once to show her the training. In the mountain forest near the house, the water stop quietly releases the Immortal Qi.
Then... it wouldn't be a mistake to see the surrounding grass swaying around the body of the water stop, as soon as I thought, Shihei blew up behind me. At that time, Shihei had grabbed the grass growing on the ground, not to mention standing on the pressure coming from the water stop.
"So say what..."
"I'll show you my true immortality. So you can compare it to Mr. Water Stop. Senqi isn't the only way to win or lose, is it? But Xianqi is the pile, the realization, the overcoming. It... protects, breaks, and leaves. Repeat this, knowing that all those fundamentals are the same makes Senqi greater. Without the need for this itinerary... some people came to know Xinluo Vientiane, but I made an effort to die, not a great deal. Well, look..."
"" "Huh?
Shortly after this, the door of Shihei and Yuto's room blew up, and the children turned upside down and made a surprise fuss.
"Are you an idiot!? Hey, are you nuts!?
"It's true! I'm stunned, I can't believe I'm doing everything I can in this place."
"Oh, no, just so Shihei can believe me, it's... oh, pain! Sorry!"
Inside that room, Miho and Marion preach Yuto with their shabby hair intact.
Shihei keeps her body and buttocks to stick to the wall.
"Oh, you... are you a Taoist too? Besides... this thickness of immortality"
"Yeah...... so, how about compared to Mr. Water Stop?
Honestly, Shihei couldn't compare. All I had was that there was this boy in the realm of surprise and incomprehension.
However... it was Shihei who had not yet trained, but there was something that I felt from the Immortal Qi of Yuman.
It's... straightness and warmth. And... it was difficult to put into words, but I remembered the feeling that when it came to stopping water, we never felt it, that it was accepted, or that we were being sued for being the same thing as each other.
That we're all together......
If I were to analogize, it was like people's love, their anxiety, their gain or their loss, their light and their shadows without borders, and what they thought was conflicting were actually said to be the same thing.
All we have is a desire for happiness. That's all everyone said.
"You... the hell... And Xianqi is..."
"Immortal Qi is for each person...... it is. Because there's no mistake in each of them. Sendo is also training to know that. So, does Mr. Shihei believe me?
……
Shihei, I don't know if this will bring Yuto in front of me with strength to stop the water. It's true that I felt incredible power, but that's with me when it comes to stopping water.
But it makes me think maybe I can believe it. I think this boy will try to live up to his promise. And for some reason... I think that winning or losing is fine now.
All I had was... water stop again and I wanted to live with my children with water stop. I don't know if parting will come one day.
(But I don't like this way of breaking up. It's not this. It's better to break up. If this guy can't bring in a water stop, I just want to know what the water stop is all about again. And I want to make you like water stop)
Shihei only once, only once... remembered the grin the water stop showed. That was really a slight change. Maybe it was a mistake to look at.
That was the day Cissy went to the city to buy it out and couldn't come home with a heavy rain to stop her. I had nothing to eat...... a heavy rainy day night we were all hungry.
Someone said, "Drink the water and forget it!," he said. Then the children drew water with us and drank it.
"I think I'm hungry!
"True!
"Huh!? Then I'll drink too!
There was no such thing. The truth is, I just couldn't sleep on an empty stomach.
But by doing this, the brightness was lit on everyone...
A water stop appeared there and said with the usual faceless expression.
"Wait. Let's get him now..."
The children said so to the water stop, which they had prepared to turn their bodies and go out into the mountains of heavy rain.
"It's all right!
Stop the water. It's dangerous.
"I drank water, I'm fine, I'm fine!
Sometimes it's anxious to lose an adult on a day like this if you try it on the kids. I'm hungry, but I guess you wanted me to stay home more than that.
The water stopper just looked silently at the children trying to make them go out like they were imminent.
Then... at the same time as if measured...
Goo ~
And the kids bellied.
The water stop becomes stiff only for a moment.
"I'm finding a nest of wild rabbits nearby the other day. Wait, it won't take that long."
That's what I said and hurried. The water stopped popping out in the heavy rain.
Shihei saw it then. That the ends of its lips were slightly raised when the water stopper flipped......
Shihei now glanced at Yuto as she waited for this assessment.
And decide.
"Ok...... Let's trust you."
Believing in Yu Man, Shihei decided at the same time to believe that the water stop must have felt happy at that time. And I'm sure the water stops... with us. Shihei believed it was between looking at the other person's happiness and feeling happy himself.
Shihei and the children go down to the bottom of the condo with Yumen, each boarding three newly prepared wagon-type cars prepared by the Shitianji family.
"Well, do me a favor... Dondo"
"You're welcome, Mr. Shihei."
"Ok...... Yuto"
Shihei tried to make his way to the rear-end wagon car with a grin as he gently raised his hand to Yuto.
"Mr. Shihei."
"Yeah? What?
Speaking to Marion, Shihei stops her legs and turns her face to the gentle-faced blonde girl.
"Actually, the people who hired Mr. Cease Water...... I'm the purpose of the Dark Night Leopard. I don't know why, but he's trying to take me away."
"... what? That!? You didn't say that earlier."
"Yes, Yuto may have forgotten to mention this"
"It's..."
Nico Marion laughed and showed him, now he looked serious.
"And Miho and my classmates were cursed by the Leopard of the Dark Night, and now they're in intensive care."
Shihei is stunned to hear unexpected things.
"Well, then, you..."
"We were going to fight the institution or the leopard of the dark night regardless. In fact, this morning, we are fighting that dark night leopard. And Yuto bumped into each other from the front with Suzumi-san. From what I've seen, I think you two were fighting for real."
"Seriously stop the water and that guy!? Then why has Yuto been in contact with us?"
Shihei doesn't know. If the story is true, the blessed man will have the same power as the water stop. If so, then it should have nothing to do with us being hostages to the water stop.
In a situation where we and our people are being attacked, and if that's all we have, we can beat up the Leopard of Darkness with every stop of water. The very powerful Shitenji family is also backing up.
Suddenly, it was the leopard of the dark night with the water stopper that struck us. Justification rests with the blessed men.
"Yu Man... I got information about Shihei and the others, and I just don't think he liked it. So I chose to cooperate with the Leopard of the Dark Night, to fight Mr. Shui, or to leave Mr. Shihei, who was held hostage..."
"Well, that's... not the way those with power think! And so you fight, and just in case you kill the water stop, you're not bad at anything. No, that's not natural!
"Perhaps."
If we try Shihei, it would be more convincing if Yuto just came to save himself in order not to fight the water stop. Yuto doesn't even have to show Shihei his earlier Immortal Qi just to tell him about the situation Marion said right now.
"It's just, Yuto said. I didn't get stronger to look irrational and pretend I didn't..."
……
"But that's why... Isn't that why Shihei's here now? I think so."
Marion walked past Shihei's side when he smiled again and walked to the car where the Yumen were.
Shihei turns his attention to Yuto, who is just about to get in the car.
"... Don Du Yu Man, weird guy... right"
Leaking so, Shihei got into the rear-end wagon car.