Page 20
She was once the apple of her parents' eyes and had a very happy family, but there are always various accidents in the world.
When she was in elementary school, her mother fell ill. At that time, she foolishly hoped that her mother would get better soon, because the food her father prepared was not tasty at all, and most of the time they still ate bento from convenience stores.
As time went by, her mother had not been discharged from the hospital and her father's face became gloomier day by day, and she began to have a bad premonition.
However, every time she visited her mother, she was always smiling, which made her doubts disappear.
But one day when she was in class, she saw her father appear. His expression was very indifferent and he exuded a cold aura.
He took her to the hospital without saying anything, and what she saw was her mother lying motionless on the bed with her eyes closed. She thought she was asleep.
Then her father told her that her mother had rested forever. How could she not know what this meant when she was already in fifth grade?
She suddenly burst into tears and ran to the bedside to wake up her mother, but there was no longer that familiar voice to respond to her.
After my mother passed away, the whole house fell silent. After the initial hardship, although I was still sad, I slowly got used to it.
However, her father did not get over it. Every day, he would go to work or come home to drink. He was very decadent. But she was very sensible and tried to do what she could.
Year after year, she gradually grew up and was in the second year of junior high school. She looked more and more like her mother. Compared with the photos, some people would believe that they were twins.
And there was something a little bit wrong with the way her father looked at her, with pain, sadness, and unspeakable emotions. Although she felt uncomfortable, she could understand it. After all, she looked too much like her mother, which might have brought back his memories.
At this time, she had not yet thought that this situation was actually somewhat dangerous, and perhaps even Mr. Nagano himself had not thought about this problem.
But later on his alcoholism became even worse. Fortunately, the company would not fire people easily, so they just exiled him to an unimportant position.
As time went on, danger would eventually break out. One night during the summer vacation, she was studying, and then she heard the sound of a door opening and someone falling. She knew it was her father who came back drunk again.
She had experienced this situation countless times over the years, so she was familiar with it. She went out to help him back to the room, took off his shoes and coat, and prepared a glass of water.
It was very hot in the summer, and she wore very cool clothes at home. Mr. Nagano was not completely drunk at this time. He raised his hand and touched her face, calling her Junko.
This was her mother's name. Apparently the drunk father had made a mistake again. She held his hand without caring and then put it down to explain that she was a daughter.
However, perhaps because of the hot summer, his hazy eyes were full of love and desire. Suddenly she was pulled down, which scared her.
Then she began to struggle, but her strength was too weak. Fortunately, the other party was drunk and could not use any strength, so she pushed him away luckily with a sudden force.
Mr. Nagano's luck was obviously not very good. Coincidentally, his head hit the corner of the cabinet and then he lay motionless.
She was frightened and wanted to run away, but when she saw the blood gradually flowing out, she hurried over to check and found that there was no breathing and no heartbeat.
In an instant, her mind went blank. Her mother was dead, and her father was also killed by her. Now that they were all dead, what was the point of her still being alive?
Then, like a puppet, she went to the kitchen, took out a knife and cut her wrist. It hurt a lot, but she gradually felt relieved as she felt the cold blood flowing out.
Before she lost consciousness, she saw her mother and father. They smiled and waved to her. She smiled for the first time in a long time.
But she was lucky to be found by her neighbors. At the same time, she hated her damn luck. However, she completely collapsed the moment she saw her grandmother.
The days that followed were like a walking corpse. Just like Song Gang's song, she thought about ending it all every day, but she didn't have the courage, neither the courage to die nor the courage to live.
Thanks to grandma, she gradually got better, but that was only on the surface. She didn't want her only relative to be sad again.
"It's so sad, I killed my father with my own hands," she said with a sad face.
"It was just an accident," Song Gangdong said softly after a moment of silence.
"That's what they all said, but I was the one who killed him," she responded with a chuckle.
Song Gangdong could only remain silent as he looked at her smiling face. He was not a spiritual mentor, and this reason was far beyond his imagination. It was already amazing that she could still go to school normally.
"I'm afraid of the dark. Since that night I can't sleep without light," she said self-deprecatingly.
"I'm sorry," Songgang Dong regretted.
He shouldn't have regarded himself as a life mentor, shouldn't have sung this song, and shouldn't have brought up the other person's painful memories again.
Now when I think about the chicken soup I borrowed from, I want to slap myself twice. Bullshit about being brave and strong. The other party has already done a good job. Sometimes escape may not be a bad idea.
"Can you sing that song again?" she asked without saying anything.
"Okay," Songgang nodded.
The melodious voice rang out again in the moonlight, and then she sang along softly, tears streaming down her face as she sang.
Chapter 35: The Driver's Admiration
Bang!
The dazzling light made it impossible for the two to open their eyes. After a while of adjusting, they saw the patrolman shining a flashlight on them.
"There really is someone here." He looked very surprised.
"Brother Songgang, I finally found you," Saori's happy voice rang out.
When Songgang Dong looked carefully, he found that Saori was also there. She was holding his schoolbag in her hand. She must have come to look for him because she saw that he had not come back for a long time.
However, her expression changed when she saw that there was not only Songgang but also a girl clinging to him in the warehouse, and that girl even seemed to have cried.
"What did you do in there!" she asked anxiously.
At this time, Kanna Nagano quickly let go of her hand and wanted to get away from Songgang, but she forgot that her foot was injured, and as a result, she leaned back and was about to fall.
Song Gangdong was quick to grab her waist, and under the light of the flashlight, they looked like the male and female protagonists on the stage.
"You..." Saori's eyes turned red.
"Well, her foot is injured and she has some difficulty moving," Song Gangdong said quickly after pulling her up and settling her down.
Kanna Nagano blushed and nodded: "I accidentally sprained my ankle just now."
Saori looked at her suspiciously and felt relieved when she found that her feet were really not in a convenient position. She then hurried forward and pushed Songgang Dong aside.
"I'll help you up," she said positively.
"Thank you," Kanna Nagano nodded.
At this time, the patrol officer also urged them to come out quickly. From what he saw just now, he knew that it was either a prank or an accident that locked them in.
But the important reason was that I fell asleep and didn't find out earlier. Fortunately, nothing serious happened, so now I just need to let them get out of here as soon as possible.
After a while, the three of them walked out of the school gate. By this time, the sky was already starry and the buses had stopped running. If they wanted to go back, they could only take a taxi.
"I'll send you home first," Song Gangdong said in a firm tone.
Of course Saori had no objection. After all, the other party was really not convenient at the moment. Although Kanna Nagano wanted to refuse, she was rejected in the end.
There are quite a lot of taxis at night. After all, Tokyo is a city that never sleeps, and night is when the carnival begins. Soon the three of them got in the car.
The two girls sat in the back, he sat in the passenger seat, and the driver was a middle-aged man who looked very honest.
"What's your home address?" Songgang asked behind him.
"Tokyo Shinjuku Station East Exit," she said awkwardly.
"Well, Master, go here," Songgang nodded.
The middle-aged man looked at him with admiration and said, "Okay, young man."
This made Song Gangdong feel that the driver was a little strange, but he didn't think much about it, and the car arrived at the destination quickly.
"You didn't have to get off the car just now. I can walk the rest of the way by myself," said Kanna Nagano a little depressed.
"How can that be? It's so late and this is Shinjuku, it's not that safe here," Saori shook her head.
Anyone who has lived in Tokyo knows that it is a mixed crowd and the security is quite poor. They would not feel comfortable letting a girl walk alone.
"Which way?" Songgang asked.
There was no choice but for Kanna Nagano to show the way. As they drove along, Matsuoka Dong finally understood why the driver had that attitude.
As soon as he looked up, he saw the sign of "Kabuki Ichibancho". Although he had been here before, it was completely different from the current one, so he didn't remember it for a moment.
At the same time, we also understood why Kanna Nagano didn't want them to send her away, because this place is a well-known red-light district and not a good place.
Especially since it was still 1991 and the underworld organizations had not been rectified yet, it was even more dangerous. He didn't expect Nagano to live in such a place.
"I think you should go to another place. It's easy for something to go wrong here," Song Gangdong suggested.
"Yes, I heard from my father that it's a mess here." Although Saori said this, her eyes were looking around curiously.
Because the shops on both sides had colorful signs, the whole street was brightly lit, and there were some men who looked not very easy to mess with and some very fashionable women walking side by side.
"My grandma has lived here for a long time," she said sheepishly.
"What does your grandmother do?" Saori asked curiously.
"I run a restaurant," Kanna Nagano answered after a moment of hesitation.
At this time, Song Gangdong interrupted them and urged them: "Hurry up, we seem to be too conspicuous here."
That’s right, people around were looking at them curiously. After all, they were still wearing school uniforms, and the combination of one boy and two girls also aroused their imagination.
There were also some ruffians who looked at the two girls with a hint of evil in their eyes, but when they saw that one of them was Kanna Nagano, they immediately looked away and dared not look at her anymore.
Songgang Dong was a little confused when he discovered this, but at this time he saw an old lady with silver hair and wearing a kimono standing in front of a Japanese restaurant.
"Grandma" Kanna Nagano walked forward with the support of Saori.
The old lady was relieved when she saw her coming back, but when she saw Nagano's expression, she asked seriously, "What happened?"
Song Gangdong felt a sense of pressure coming from the old man, especially the look he gave him just now, which made him feel a little chilly.
"It's okay, grandma. I twisted it accidentally. Thanks to Matsuoka-kun and Saori for sending me back," she explained softly.
"I'm glad you're okay. Come in and sit down first," she said.
Originally Songgang wanted to leave, but he couldn't ask the old man to support him, so he could only enter the Japanese restaurant. There were no customers inside, so it was obviously closed.
"Drink some water." Grandma poured two cups of tea.
Songgang Dong took it respectfully and sat down and briefly told them what happened today. After listening to her, she became obviously much kinder and thanked them again.
"A Shui, take them home safely," grandma ordered the driver.
"Yes," the young man in a suit responded respectfully.
“See you at school,” Kanna Nagano waved.
Then the car started off. Songgang looked out the window and thought about Grandma Qili. It was obvious that she was very extraordinary, as could be seen from the BMW she was sitting in.
Saori was so sleepy at this time that after getting on the bus, she leaned on his shoulder and fell asleep. She didn't wake up until she got off the bus.
In the end, he carried her back to the house, and when he entered, he saw Shinomiya Mikoto standing at the entrance with a cane, looking at them worriedly.