Congratulations on Your Arrest

  Chapter 97 No Time to Die Tokugawa Kuritora's Gift (Part 2)

  The seaside town of Higashinohara’s hometown is actually in a seaside depression, with seaside hills on both sides. The steep slopes and cliffs block the cold wave of the Siakan Ice Field in the northwest.

  In the past years, it also blocked part of the intrusion from the outside world, forming a livable zone, where fishermen from the coast gathered here to form the current Koshimizu Town.

  With such a terrain, it is very difficult to see the beach by the sea.

  There are only large stretches of jagged reefs strewn along the beach. Before leaving for Tokyo, the original owner, Higashinohara, stood on the reefs and took a photo with Xiaodouding Higashino Yukino.

Today is December 31st, which is the New Year's Eve of the New Year's Eve in Wano Country, also known as "Great Darkness Day". At night, it is "New Year's Eve". It's called "first attainment".

  After breakfast early in the morning, Higashino Takeshi took Higashinohara to remove the flower garden from last year in front of the gate, and put up a Kadosong meeting composed of pine, bamboo, and grass to welcome the gods to show good luck.

   For the next whole day, Koshimizu, a small remote fishing village in Hokkaido, was very lively. Those young people who went to the big city of Sapporo to study or work returned home, and from time to time they came out to visit, full of the festive atmosphere of the New Year.

  Lunch was unexpectedly sumptuous, and what was served was not Wano country's traditional soba noodles.

  On New Year’s Eve, at noon, almost every household in the small fishing village has prepared sumptuous seafood. All kinds of big fish and sea cucumbers, oysters, shrimp and shellfish are all steamed in a big pot.

  After steaming, sprinkle the prepared sauce made with spices such as red oil, salt, ginger, garlic, etc., pour it directly on it and pour it all over, and then take it out of the pot and eat it together with the family.

Beside the table, Nishimaru Miri looked dumbfounded at the various delicious and fragrant seafood piled up in the big basin in front of her. She had never had such a New Year's Eve reunion, whether she was poor or later lived with Tokugawa Kuritora After dinner, for a while, the little face looked stupid and he couldn't do anything.

  But Xiaodouding Higashino Yukino is much wilder. She didn't forget her mother's instructions, and first greeted Nishimaru Miri to show her kindness as a landlord.

Then she picked up two chopsticks and thought it was slow, so she just grabbed and ate, her mouth was full of juice, but she put the sauce from her thumb into her small red mouth and sucked it, and continued to eat nonsense with her head buried sea ​​drink.

  At this time, let alone Nishimaru Miri, even if Higashinohara had a vague memory of the original owner, he was taken aback by Xiaodouding's unrestrained way of eating. Is this the unpretentious New Year's Eve dinner of Hokkaido fishermen?

  Behind him, his mother, Ryoko Mizue, brought several plates of refreshing vegetables and steamed taro, and his father, Takeshi Higashino, also brought up a bottle of Tusu wine, and the whole family sat down at the table.

  Children learn things very quickly, and Miri Nishimaru soon became a little moved when she saw that the little Doudin Higashino Yukino who was her age was eating so deliciously.

She carefully picked up a piece of sea cucumber and imitated Higashino Yukino's way of eating it, dipped it in some sauce and touched her lips gently. After feeling that it was not as spicy as expected, she put it into her small mouth, and found that the taste was unexpected. delicious.

   Soon he couldn't stop chopsticks anymore, and his delicate little face was full of happy and contented smiles.

   Seeing "Miss Nishimaru" from the big city of Tokyo eating happily, Takeshi Higashino and Ryoko Mizue were also very happy in their hearts.

   Higashinohara came home last night and told them that "Miri Nishimaru is the daughter of Tokugawa Kuritor". Unexpectedly, Tokugawa Kuritoro had a high evaluation and impression in the hearts of the people of Hokkaido.

Not only because of his status as "Hokkaido son-in-law", but also because Tokugawa Kuritora repeatedly suppressed Hokkaido when it was invaded by Hokkaido pirates more than ten years ago. The Hokkaido pirates once regarded this place as a forbidden place. The patron saint of the "heavy weapon of the country" is loved from the heart.

   Now that Tokugawa Kuriko's daughter actually came to their house as a guest, Takeshi Higashino and Ryoko Mizue were naturally very attentive, for fear that the hospitality might not be adequate.

   After the reunion dinner at noon, the evening was still dark, and the family began to prepare for the New Year’s Eve dinner again.

  However, at night, the table is not as wild and rich as the seafood piles at noon. The family prepares simple food such as traditional soba noodles, Osechi dishes, and mixed cooking.

Osechi cuisine is served in an exquisite "heavy box" ranging from three to five layers, symbolizing the accumulation of blessings. Inside are some roe, kelp rolls, dried scorpion, etc.; The rice cake is mainly added with various ingredients.

  After the New Year’s Eve dinner, Higashino originally took Nishimaru Mili and Pidiandian’s little Doudin Higashino Yukino to light the ever-burning lantern in front of the door and set off fireworks.

   Higashino Yukino was always eager to try, but fortunately Higashinohara prepared small fireworks in his hands and lit one for each of the two little girls.

   Higashino Yukino immediately ran around like a crazy girl, throwing fireworks around, sparks and lightning all the way, and the somewhat shy Nishimaru Miri raised her head and held the fireworks in her hands, her plain and delicate cute little face was reflected in the starlight.

   After setting off the fireworks, I got the Nianyu (lucky money) from my parents, and my parents started to prepare for tomorrow's "Sunday" morning meal.

Higashinohara took two little guys to sit in the kotatsu in the living room to watch the regular program of the New Year’s Eve, the Red and White Songs and Battles. From time to time, the big bells of the temples near the small fishing village echoed in his ears—it is said that the big bells have to be struck 108 times It symbolizes the removal of 108 clocks of troubles, and the last clock will fall at twelve midnight.

   There is no doubt that this is the first New Year's Eve that Higashino came to this world.

He looked at Miri Nishimaru, who was concentrating on watching TV beside him, and at Yukino Higashino, who was holding a brown koala bought by Higashinohara like a flea, and turned around from time to time to go to the kitchen to touch something for his parents. There was a burst of shouting and shouting, and then ran back with short legs

  The corners of Higashinohara's lips also raised slightly.

  Although he came to this world and everything in front of him was not his choice, but think carefully about the little things that happened this year

There is an additional [Crime Manual] of unknown origin in my mind, and I have completed several missions to capture and eliminate some villains. I have also been promoted to the normal fourth-order super power with the gain of [Crime Manual] and my hard work. The strength of a capable person can be regarded as initially gaining a firm foothold in this world.

  Thinking of the bullying incident I encountered when I took the slow train on this school trip, although the 1.5 attribute points and the useless [piano] skill were not very good, the key point was the way that Nohara responded and dealt with this incident.

  In the past, Higashinohara would have no chance to stop the mayor who was about to leave in the inquiry room. He could only wait for Mr. Tachikawa to think of a way outside, or for Miri Nishimaru to call Tokugawa Kuritor.

  But the strength of the fourth-order power user allows him to calmly "retain" people under normal circumstances. This is the change that strength brings to himself.

   Well, but still not enough

  After seeing those strong men, Higashinohara knew that he had to be faster, higher and stronger!

  Otherwise, if one day his identity is exposed and he really meets someone like Mick Joya who has no evil value to deal with him, then he may be dwarfed by comparison and can only run away.

   Higashinohara thought about the gains and losses of the past year.

   At the same time, Nemuro Strait.

   Several warships in the port of Shari were also hung with long lights, full of festive colors from bow to stern.

  The reason why the crew on board the ship is still on duty at night at the age of 30 is because they will perform an important task tomorrow to complete the cargo transfer in the offshore area of ​​the Nemuro Strait.

   At this time, soft or passionate music is playing on the boat.

  Some of the bored crew members were playing cards, some were watching movies together in the central movie zone, and some were drinking coffee and drinking together.

  However, thinking that Team Leader Tokugawa, who came from New Tokyo, was also on board and accompanied them to spend this New Year's Eve at the port, everyone felt no dissatisfaction.

that's it.

  The last hours of the night passed in a blink of an eye.

  In different corners of the two continents of the world, different people used different methods to draw the final stop for the year 1121 of the Tianyuan calendar.

  The next morning.

   January 1, 1122 in the Tianyuan calendar.

  At 5:30, Higashinohara woke up under the action of his biological clock. He got dressed and opened the door. His parents had already woken up and told him to wash up first.

  Miri Nishimaru and Yukino Higashino are still sleeping.

  After these two days of getting along, coupled with Higashino Yukino's carefree and familiar character, Nishimaru Miri and her soon became acquainted.

  The two of them played in the room for a while after watching NHK's Kohaku Uta Battle last night.

Higashino Yukino rummaged through boxes and cabinets in her room, and showed Nishimaru Miri all kinds of "treasures" she had collected around the small fishing village since she was a child. She was too happy to be amazed by the latter's heartfelt exclamations. It's naturally too late today.

  The pace of life in the small fishing village is slow, but people get up very early in the morning.

   Higashinohara went out to complete his daily exercise. Along the way, he met many acquaintances who had impressions but not impressions, and kept saying hello. After a set, it felt that the intensity was much higher than usual.

  When he returned home after exercising, Higashino Yukino and Nishimaru Miri also woke up. The two little guys were standing side by side at the sink washing up, gurgling bubbles from their little mouths.

On the first day of the new year, the breakfast on the first day of the new year is sugar yuba and buckwheat noodles paired with rice cake soup. It is commonly known as the "first dream" of the New Year to test good or bad luck.

If you dream of Mount Fuji, eagles, and eggplants in your first dream, it will be considered a symbol of auspiciousness, because Mount Fuji is the highest mountain in Wano, and eagles are smart and strong birds. The pronunciation of eggplant in Wano language is Similar to "achieve". These are auspicious and good omens.

  The family took turns talking during dinner. His father, Takeshi Higashino, said that he dreamed of a lot of fish, while his mother said that she didn’t sleep well last night, and she didn’t seem to have any dreams.

  At this time, Xiaodouding Dongye Xue Nai raised her hand impatiently, expressing that she had picked up a lot of money on the road in her dream, and it was all gone after she was woken up this morning. She turned to ask her father if she could make up for it a little bit.

   As a result, I got hit on the forehead.

  Beside the table, Higashinohara took a sip of rice cake soup, recalled his dream, and his face suddenly became a little weird.

  After eating the New Year’s Eve dinner last night, he has been thinking about last year’s "year-end end". When he was sleeping at night, he dreamed that his identity was exposed and he was hunted down by the world government.

   As a result, Heaven and Man sent a great good man with perfect moral character, zero crime value, and an eighth-order semi-god-level powerhouse.

   On the way to escape, he met a group of pirates and subdued him, and he continued to grow and develop in the four sea areas of the southeast, the northwest, and saw that he was about to become the One Piece King.

   When the biological clock is on, he wakes up from the dream

   Obviously, this kind of dream cannot be brought out, so Higashinohara could only vaguely think that he seemed to dream of a kind of bird, like an eagle or a seagull.

  Mother Shuijiang Ryoko suddenly beamed with joy, saying that this is good, and Higashinohara will definitely become smarter and stronger in the future.

  Finally everyone looked at Miri Nishimaru. Miri Nishimaru put down the bowl with some embarrassment, and said with a slightly red face, "I, I seem to have dreamed about seagulls too. No, I turned into a seagull."

  Although Takeshi Higashino is a fisherman, he has also studied for several years. Hearing this, he couldn't help but interjected with a smile, "That means that the sky will be high in the future, and the birds will fly. Doesn't Miss Nishimaru have a wide field of vision after becoming a seagull?"

"Uh-huh."

  Miri Nishimaru nodded her head and said, "I saw the sea, and there were many people, uh... I also saw a big ship, it was so big, it was sinking."

  The ship is sinking?

   This is obviously not a good sign.

  Shuijiang Liangzi quickly diverted his attention, smiled and said that after breakfast, he would take them to a nearby relative and friend's house to pay New Year's greetings, and there might be a New Year's red envelope at that time.

  Xiaodouding Dongye Xue Nai immediately accelerated the speed of planing rice.

   "I shouldn't be able to go."

   Higashinohara shook his head and said helplessly, "Team leader Tokugawa sent me a New Year's gift from New Tokyo by mail and just arrived at Shari Port today. He just notified me to pick it up today."

As soon as his parents heard that it was a gift from Tokugawa Kurito, they immediately regarded it as a big event, and asked him to hurry up and go there after eating. Tokugawa Kurito was busy with work so he didn't waste their time, and asked Higashinohara to help bring them New Year's Eve greetings.

   Higashinohara smiled and nodded.

  However, judging from the description on the phone by the captain of the sixth team, Miyano Juro, it seems that the New Year gift was handed over to him at the port by someone else, and he might not be able to see Tokugawa Kuritora by then.

  After dinner, Higashinohara and Nishimaru Miri greeted her, telling her to stay here with her parents and younger sister to accompany her. The latter obediently nodded and told him to be careful on the road, so he came to the bus station in the village to wait for the bus.

   Higashinohara has to go to Shari by car first, and then there is a shuttle bus to the port.

  While Higashinohara was standing under the stop sign waiting for the bus bored, the transport ships surrounded by several warships in the Genshi Strait outside Shari Port had completed the handover of cargo and were now on their way back.

  The transaction process was without any surprises or dangers, with one hand paying for the goods and the other hand delivering the goods, without any disturbance.

  At this time, the task was completed, but the warship that Tokugawa Kuritora was on left the transport ship and the battleship team.

  Because he has a special official task next, which is to take a boat to inspect the sea around Hokkaido.

  Over the battleship, the sharp propellers tore through the sea wind, and an NHK helicopter was filming live. This tour will be broadcast on the morning news on the first day of the new year.

NHK TV station is barely regarded as the official station of Wano country. This move is intended to send a signal to the people of Wano country, Hokkaido and even the outside world-people who smuggled into Hokkaido after the disintegration of the Grand Duchy of Sayash will not let it go. Please Hokkaido The peace of mind of the people, and the peace of mind of those with unruly intentions.

   On the warship where Tokugawa Kuritora was on.

  In the cabin dining room, Miyano Juro, the captain of the 6th Division, took a cup of coffee and walked up to Tokugawa Kuritora, who was sitting upright and eating breakfast with his head down like a mountain.

   "Leader, those pirates just now seem familiar."

He tilted his head slightly, and said with a smile, "Tsk tsk, the people who buy the country are really big-hearted, they can't see through such a simple disguise, and they are actually added to the trading list. Judge Karl is still chasing and killing them at sea. Sakamoto no Ryu and his gang, I’m afraid they’d be blown away if they knew about it.”

   After eating the last piece of sandwich, Tokugawa Kuritora looked up at Juro Miyano, shook his head and said, "Leave what you shouldn't do, just do our own thing."

   "That's natural." Miyano Juro shrugged with a smile, "I still want to end this business trip early and go back to Okinawa for vacation. I don't want to cause trouble for us."

   After finishing speaking, Miyano Juro lazily left with his coffee.

  Tokugawa Kurito couldn't help but think of the group who pretended to be the "Judgment Pirates" during the sea transaction just now, and the young man with half-closed eyes standing on the deck behind the other party's crowd, and he couldn't help sighing in his heart.

  Subconsciously, he recalled some memories of that youth when he was studying in Tokyo many years ago.

  I still remember that time, he was very optimistic about that young man who was always lazy but extremely talented, and even thought of training him as the next leader of the third investigation team.

Unfortunately.

  The young man's surname is "Sakamoto"

  It is not only the version of the dragon of Sakamoto who fought against barbarians thousands of years ago, but also the young master of the pirate clan of Sakamoto who is now living in the sea. I can only sigh the joke of fate helplessly in my heart.

   But now it's not bad.

  Fate made him meet Miri Nishimaru.

  That little girl with equally outstanding talents and dual talents, Tokugawa Kuritora has every reason to believe that, in time, that little girl will definitely bloom with a dazzling brilliance no less than that of the young man back then.

  Thinking about it is really exciting.

  However, when Tokugawa Kuritora's warship left the team, patrolling along the established route to cooperate with the NHK TV helicopter's live broadcast.

  The sea area north of Nemuro Strait.

   One after another, pure black warships pierced through the morning mist on the sea silently, and came to this sea area, like ghosts on the cold sea, a cold and murderous aura spread across the sea.

  Among these warships, there was a large warship with a black horn standing on its bow.

  A not-so-tall but powerful figure stood on the deck at the bow of the ship, looking into the distance, reaching out and gently stroking the cold black horn full of metallic texture on the bow of the warship.

  (end of this chapter)