I’m Really Unnerved In Tokyo

"So Miss Gu Yuan was born able to see these things?"

In an anime cafe not far from the venue, Tsukage Chikusa lowered her head and stirred the ice cubes in the Coke glass with a straw.

"That's right, at first I could only faintly feel the existence of something..."

The person sitting across from him was "at least let me treat you to dessert as a thank you", dragged him to this shop forcibly, and then began to eat Korusa by himself.

"After experiencing a very scary event, it gradually became clearer..."

At this moment, she has changed back to her high school uniform full of vigor and girlishness.

"Unfortunately, even if you get entangled, you can't complain to your parents and classmates, only Mayumi..."

After all, a pair of wings is no way to sit down for the latest "Rui Xin Cheese Claw Cake".

"Ahahaha, Miss Guyuan is really strong..."

Looking at the woman who almost lost her tongue of grievances not long ago, but now she was eating cake full of energy, Tsukage Chikusa touched her head and smiled empathetically, but her eyes under the frame became deep.

Since when can I see myself?

It should have started from the day I got that old laptop...

...

three years ago.

"I am Liu Tian, ​​thank you for coming so far. If I hadn't been contacted by the police, I would not have known that Dean Qingren had such a big son...he really looks like one..."

In the dilapidated orphanage, a middle-aged man enthusiastically led Tsukage Chikusa into a room on the third floor.

"Hmph, no one would call a strange man they've never seen in their entire life their father..."

Seeing Yanagida kneeling on the tatami, Tsukage Chikusa did not sit down, but just interrupted the other party's words with a cold snort.

"...Take it out, the document you mentioned, I will leave after signing it."

A few days ago, it was this man named Liu Tian who contacted him through the police and asked him to sign a "Death Confirmation" as the only immediate family member.

The "confirmed object" of this "Death Confirmation Letter" is Tsukage Haruto, Tsukage Haruto, the father whom Chikusa Tsukage has never seen since birth.

"So, this guy has been hiding in the small room of the orphanage for more than 20 years?"

Sighing, Tsukage Chikusa finally sat down and looked around curiously.

With curiosity about his life experience and unable to bear the other party's sincere request, he hesitated again and again, but he chose to come here.

In the small and dilapidated tatami room, apart from the basic living furniture, there are only a few bookshelves full of books. It can be seen that the owner of the house was very poor before his death, but he is a book lover.

"Although I'm not qualified to express any opinions without knowing it, but Dean Qingren is really as important as the sun to our 'Little Daisy Welfare Institute'..."

Liu Tian took out a document from the drawer and placed it on the low table, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, sighed and looked at the shrine beside him.

"In recent years, not only has he donated all his manuscript fees and property to the orphanage, but he himself has also worked hard for the children until the last moment of his life..."

Following Yanagida's gaze, Tsukage Chikusa looked at the photo on the shrine in a daze.

It was a middle-aged man wearing glasses, looking gentle, full of bookish atmosphere, with a warm smile on his face.

"Tai...Yang?! Hey...hehehe...you...irresponsible scum!!!"

Looking at the familiar facial features in the black and white photo, Tsukage Chikusa's eyes flashed with a fierce light like a wounded beast, pointing at the man in the photo and yelling.

When he was a child, he often fantasized about the touching scene when he saw his father whom he had never met for the first time before falling asleep.

Perhaps, he was sent by an agency starting with the letter D to perform top-secret missions around the world, so he couldn't come home every night like his classmates' father.

Perhaps, he lost his memory due to a brain tumor, and one day he would come to this familiar neighborhood by accident, hold the hands of their mother and son again, and retrieve the lost memories together.

Or maybe, he has already died and become a powerful existence in the world of corpses and souls, planning to defect from the virtual circle one day in the future and come to the present world to put on a mask that cuts off cause and effect for himself.

As he grew older, these naive delusions of his burst like bubbles, but occasionally he still couldn't hold back his curiosity about his father.

After her mother passed away, this ignorant thought gradually turned into hatred.

But he never thought that the first time he saw his father's image was through the black and white photo in front of the altar.

What is even more unexpected is that for the past twenty years, this man has actually lived in a place that he can reach within four hours by Shinkansen, in this dilapidated orphanage, living an ascetic life for these orphans. Life.

"Mr. Moon Shadow, please don't get excited... Perhaps, there are hidden secrets and misunderstandings..."

"Hidden secret? Misunderstanding?"

Tsukage Chikusa collapsed powerlessly, and thumped the low table with both hands.

"What reasonable secrets and misunderstandings would cause a father to die in a dilapidated orphanage, and instead make his child a real orphan?!"

"For so many years, not to mention visits, not even a letter or a phone call!!"

"...It turned out that the first and last meeting was actually asking me to sign this broken letter for him?!"

"If he hadn't deserted us...if anyone had been in the house that day... Mom wouldn't have..."

Big tears fell on the tatami, and then dissipated like waves on the beach.

"Please... my condolences..."

Liu Tian opened his mouth slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he could only pat the young man's thin back gently.

After a while, Tsukage Chikusa seemed to calm down, wiped the corners of her eyes, picked up the pen on the table, and signed her name on the document.

In the silent room, only the sound of the signature pen "swish, swish, swish" can be heard.

"...In this way, it will be fine."

After signing, Tsukage Chikusa stood up and prepared to leave.

But his gaze was fixed on the penultimate floor of the huge bookshelf in front of him.

There, lay a black worn-out suitcase.

On one corner of the box, the words "Emi Sato" are engraved.

It should be the name of the former owner of the box.

"This is……"

Tsukage Chikusa couldn't help it, and reached out to take down the box.

"...This bastard who didn't even dare to come back... has the face to keep other people's things..."

Although Sato is the number one surname in Japan...

But Emi Sato was his mother's name before changing her name to "Emi Tsukage" after she got married.

Over the years, although his mother never mentioned the matter of that man in front of him, it can be seen from the fact that she never changed her surname back that she still has inseparable thoughts about that man.

Until she died, she was thinking about that missing man.

"This is, mom's stuff...I want to take this box away..."

Tsukage Chikusa turned around and looked firmly at Yanagida beside him: "This man who has never fulfilled his responsibilities as a husband and father for a day is not qualified to keep this thing!"

"Although the dean has told Araki-kun to come back and tidy up the things on these bookshelves, but..."

Hearing his request, Liu Tian showed embarrassment, frowned, and then nodded.

"...If this can make you feel less hatred for Dean Qingren, then please go ahead."

After all, he was also full of apology and love for the son of Dean Qingren whom he had never met.

Although he doesn't know the reason why Dean Qingren abandoned his wife and son, it is an indisputable fact that he dedicated his life and all his inheritance to the orphanage.

As the sole heir in law, the young man in front of him would be too inhumane if he refused to let the other party take away even some of the sundries from his lifetime.

"Don't worry, I don't have time to waste my precious life, remembering a dead stranger."

Seeing the consent of the other party, Tsukage Chikusa took a deep breath, picked up the box, turned and left without hesitation.