【Respect】The Beautiful Future

Kusuhara Tsuyoshi still understands the many complex connotations contained in the simple word drinking tea. The most common thing is to come to the office to drink a cup of tea and talk about life when he was a student.Of course, one-sided and one-sided talks.

But compared to the current situation, that is actually nothing.This is the idea that Kusuhara just sat down and forgot it was the first few minutes.He maintained a motionless posture and waited for Munakata to speak, until his previously tense hands and feet began to gradually go numb, while the Brigadier General sitting behind the table still moved gracefully, making tea unhurriedly.

Kusuhara just lowered his head slightly, while carefully raising his eyes to stare at Munakata, he adjusted his sitting posture slightly.The stretched legs under the table made him secretly heave a sigh of relief, but before he could finish his breath, Munakata ended his movement and handed him tea.Kusuhara hurriedly reached out to take it, his fingertips shrank subconsciously when they touched Munakata's hand, he withdrew his hand and gripped the cup tightly, bowed slightly to thank in a low voice.

Reiji Munakata saw all his little moves and said with a smile, "Aren't you planning to justify yourself?"

Kusuhara swallowed the small sip of tea, and said helplessly, "It's all true. As for the reason... Even if I say it, I can't win your sympathy to let me leave the army, right?"

Munakata nodded in affirmation of his words, glanced over and said: "If you really understand that some actions are useless, you won't disobey the order, Kusuhara-kun." He paused slightly, his tone naturally exuded a sense of oppression, " The reason why you keep silent is because you can't trust me?"

Kusuhara, who was being talked about, was speechless for a while, and avoided Munakata's eyes that seemed to see through everything. He hesitated and said: "My father is infected, although the situation is not serious for the time being. But only by my mother's words , no matter what, I can’t afford the cost of treatment drugs. So I want to go back... I can help a little bit, and it’s better than being here..."

"The Federation is trying its best to allocate supplies here, and those problems will be solved after the shortage of medicines is filled." Munakata said, "If you don't want to waste time here, you can try to be the best and join General Habari's Second Army. When the time comes Follow him back to Kyoto, and you can get pretty good treatment based on your experience here."

Kusuhara was slightly startled, and then slowly smiled wryly: "I recognize you, Your Excellency." He put his hands on his knees and clenched into fists, "Although it's disrespectful, please allow me to say that there are no recruits A few were voluntary."

Munakata remained expressionless, and nodded lightly to let him continue.

"As far as the entire Japanese region is concerned, neither the Federation nor the army can convince us anymore." He took a deep breath, calmed his emotions, and said, "Since three years ago This has been the case since the beginning. We don’t know what the Federation is doing with a lot of manpower and material resources, but what we know is that Tokyo was abandoned without hesitation. The Alliance Army has invaded a large area of ​​our land and the Federation has turned a blind eye to it! How many soldiers have been infected by the virus? Ah... aren't we the ones who bear all the consequences in the end?"

"When you were sent here, we thought there would be changes." Kusuhara just lowered his head, his nails digging deep into his palms as if they were about to bleed.

"You regained the occupied area, but returned at the last moment, and joined forces with General Habari to attack Tokyo... The alliance army was trampling our people in the occupied area at that time. They were just about to move, but you were in a civil war with the Barbara!" He couldn't restrain his trembling, and his tone became a little sharper.He was so hot-headed that he finally said it out loud and buried his grief and indignation in the bottom of his heart to bury the initial fear, "Could it be that the so-called recovery...is really just for General Yuzhang to take the opportunity to attack the bark dance that has lost its main force?" Luo's play? Your Excellency!"

"The Federation has never thought of saving us, they only have interests in their eyes, and we have been abandoned long ago, right?" He choked up, "Anyway, we are dispensable to such a big country..."

"Then what about you, such behavior... Are you still worthy of the title of the Sword of the Federation!?" Kusuhara raised his head excitedly to look at Munakata, his eyes were already red, and his expression suddenly changed in the next second.His face turned pale in an instant, he moved his lips but couldn't make a sound, the chill ran up from the soles of his feet along his spine, and Kusuhara was a little out of breath from the fear of being buried.

However, Munakata Reiji was just looking at him.His eyes were calm, and his violet pupils were like a vast sea.

Kusuhara just now realized that he had said so many terrible things, even if Munakata took out his gun and shot him dead now, it would not be a problem.

His mind went blank, and his heartbeat was almost deafening.

"Yes... I'm sorry!!" Kusuhara reacted slowly, and finally made a move.He stood up in a panic, and the chair rubbed against the ground making a screeching sound.He bent down deeply, and apologized eagerly: "I was just talking briefly, I didn't mean to offend you... I'm very sorry!! Please don't be angry!"

no answer.Kusuhara was annoyed secretly, recalling what he said just now, he was really about to cry, and every second of silence deepened his despair.

"Excuse me, is this your reason?" Munakata finally spoke, and added in a calm voice, "Is this the reason for your self-destructive behavior? Do you think you have been given up? To put it bluntly, it is really a self-righteous speech." .”

Kusuhara was taken aback, and reflexively raised his head to look at Munakata.

He saw that the man was even sitting upright.Munakata smiled slightly, "If you think we are useless, go make yourself useful. Instead of doing some willful behavior here that only asks for trouble, Kusuhara-kun."

Kusuhara just stared blankly at Munakata, and reacted slowly, suddenly felt that the person in front of him... was very special.

He is calm and calm, and he doesn't care about others' slander - it's more like a kind of indifference than too much tolerance.It is the kind of indifference that arises when a person is at the height of the world and looks down on all living beings like ants.People who are not qualified to stand beside him will not move him too much.

It must be a great thing to be recognized by this person, right?Kusuhara inexplicably came up with such an idea.

Reiji Munakata was not surprised to receive the notice from his entourage Yu Zhang Xun to inspect the infected in the marginal area.He can be sure that Yu Zhangxun has already known about his conversation with Kusuhara Tsuyoshi, and even Yu Zhang may be clear about the content of the conversation.Although this general is casual and occasionally off-line, his methods should not be underestimated. If you have the opportunity to cut him up and look at him, he may be a little darker than Munakata.

The military vehicle passed through the fringe area where order had basically been restored, and drove towards the central hospital.After the federal medicine arrived smoothly, the central hospital was converted into a facility for the treatment and management of people infected with the virus [purple].All the infected people in the records are concentrated here, and Yu Zhangxun also specially gave the hospital the right to deal with emergencies in case of accidents.

After the initial panic, the uninfected people began to carefully return to normal life under the management of the army.

"War and disease really gave those religions a great opportunity to develop." Yu Zhangxun suddenly sighed.

Munakata followed his gaze and looked out the car window: they were passing by the original downtown square, a group of young people in white clothes and school uniforms gathered in the center in an orderly manner, and the white fox mask in their hands faintly reflected the light , I don’t know what he was saying, which attracted many people to stop and stare from afar.

It seems that it is indeed much stronger than the scene that Munakata saw when he entered Tokyo for the first time.

Munakata shifted his gaze to Yu Zhang's face, "Then do you believe in such things?"

"Isn't the purpose of our trip here to comfort those who are weak in heart? Although there are many negative factors in religion, it is also a good thing to help us stabilize the mood of the masses." Yu Zhang shrugged, "But I am not that A person who has to rely on foreign things to have the courage to live."

"You should be very clear, Zongxiang, because you are not either." Yu Zhangxun stood at the car door and said to Zongxiang with a smile when he reached the place during the conversation.

Although the people who came seemed to be more excited, what they had to do was to visit the infected people who were quarantined.As the floors gradually go up, the state of the infected is also numb and silent, accepting the constant changes in the body, no matter how severe the pain is, they become accustomed to it, their eyes begin to lose their light, and no one will make them feel too bad when they come. Reaction.

Reiji Munakata took off his heavy isolation suit and took a deep breath, followed Yu Zhangxun into the conference room on the first floor.After they were seated, someone brought tea, and the dean turned on the projection equipment to report in person.

The young nurse finally walked to Yuzhang who was sitting in the main seat, bent down and put the teacup in front of him, but she didn't intend to leave.Munakata was sitting on the first seat on the left, and the nurse's position just blocked his view of Habari.Yu Zhangxun glanced sideways at the nurse, nodded slightly and asked for trouble, but the other party lowered his head and said nothing.

Yu Zhangxun picked up the teacup in front of him, and he could smell the bitter taste just close to the tip of his nose. It was not known how much tea had been put in the strong tea.The dean on the opposite side had already started to speak. He brought the teacup to his lips and drank it, but his brows suddenly frowned.

A cold light flashed out of the corner of the eye, Yu Zhang reacted swiftly and leaned aside, raised his hand to grab the wrist of the rushing nurse, the teacup in his hand fell to the ground and shattered, but at that moment he was startled by a woman His strength is actually that great.Because of his movement, the sharp scalpel in the opponent's hand missed the opportunity to pierce Yu Zhang Xun's heart. The nurse simply put all her body strength on him, and the knife in her hand cut through his arm with great force.

It all happened in the blink of an eye, Munakata had already stood up quickly, and only had time to put the distance between her and Yuzhang after the knife fell. He pressed the opponent's shoulder and pressed it on the table while flipping his wrist, But he also frowned with a lot of effort.The nurse was so crushed that she couldn't move, struggled and groaned in pain, and finally the knife she was holding tightly fell to the ground with a 'bang' as she lost her strength.

The doctors on the side obviously didn't expect this situation to happen, and after a moment of stunned, they stepped forward and held down the colleague who suddenly went mad.The dean strode over and grabbed the nurse's hand that kept waving and struggling, and rolled up her sleeves as if sensing something, even though he had a premonition, his eyes widened in an instant, and he hurriedly looked at the nurse who was standing aside, covering the wound on his arm. Yu Zhangxun.

She is infected with the virus [purple], and skin patches that have mutated into purple have appeared on her arms.

"Take General Habari to treat the wound." Munakata narrowed his eyes slightly, looking at the nurse, her initial moans of pain had turned into a smile.A pure hearty smile, like an ignorant child getting the gift he wanted.

Yu Zhangxun lowered his eyebrows and looked sideways at the movements of the doctor bandaging him.The dean apologized in trepidation at the side, desperately trying to clear up their suspicion, cold sweat rolled down his forehead, "I have figured it out, she contracted the virus when she was in contact with patients, and no one in the hospital knew about it." The attack on you is completely her own behavior! Such an accident is indeed our negligence, I am very sorry!! She has been isolated and controlled..."

Yu Zhangxun finally raised his eyes, but he smiled palely at Zongxiang in front of him, "The Federation has entrusted us with a big problem."

The dean quickly silenced, staring nervously at Yu Zhangxun.

"Look, Munakata, this is our people." Yu Zhang said softly, "They only have resentment towards us. In this case, what they think of is not relying on us to survive, but pulling us to die together."

Zongxiang opened his mouth to say something, when there was a sudden muffled noise from the outer hall, and then there was a commotion, the noise was like someone fighting in the hospital hall.

"Although there are no hands and feet on the scalpel, please follow me to check it." At this time, the doctor who wrapped the gauze around Yu Zhang suggested.

Yu Zhang nodded and stood up with him, then raised his hand to signal Zongxiang to go out and have a look.

When the crowd sensed Munakata's arrival, they automatically parted ways. Misaki Hatta and Saru Hiko Fushimi appeared in front of Munakata arguing. The energetic voice of the little man with orange hair became louder after the others quieted down. .

Hatta grabbed the collar of Fushimi, who was taller than him, and ruthlessly pulled him against the pillar in the hall. He stared at the military uniform on Fushimi, gnashing his teeth, and scolded the traitor angrily.

The cadre-level members of the Barbara were not there, and a group of people could only look at each other in blank dismay.The medical staff wanted to step forward to stop him, but they were frightened away by Hatta's vicious posture.

"Bastard! We've been looking for you for so long, but you actually ran to the blue clothes!!" Hatta's eyes seemed to burst out with concrete anger, and he couldn't help but stare at Fushimi's body for a few holes.

"Tsk, why are you looking for me? Isn't it enough for you to have your brother Zun?" Fushimi wore a strange smile and didn't care about his anger.

His words inflamed Badian's anger even more, "What qualifications do you have to mention Brother Zun?! If Brother Zun hadn't saved us back then, we wouldn't have known where we died! Are you actually betraying me like this now, monkey? !"

Fushimi sneered, and said impatiently: "Brother Zun, Brother Zun, isn't he just Zhou Fangzun? I don't think he has any kindness to me, misaki, you're the only one who cares about that kind of passionate punch, isn't it? Is it a child?"

As soon as he spoke, the other people in Wuwuluo also wanted to step forward to argue dissatisfiedly, but just as they stepped out, there was the sound of dragging footsteps behind them, and they looked back happily.

Zhou Fangzun casually walked down the stairs with his hands in his pockets, followed by Shi Shu and Kusanagi.Zhou Fang raised his head lazily and looked over, his eyes swept over, and finally fell on Munakata next to the crowd.

Looking back at the past, Zongxiang didn't need any more words.It seemed to be the same in the previous world, the two of them always looked at each other for a long time, surrounded by Chi Yan and Qing Yan, separated by their clans, only seeing each other.All sounds stopped with the appearance of Zhou Fang, and everyone's eyes were focused.In the end, Zongxiang coughed lightly, adjusted his glasses and looked away.

The strength in Bada's hands had already loosened, he half turned around to look at Zhou Fang, and suddenly called out helplessly: "Brother Zun..." But he didn't know what to say.

"I know." Zhou Fang said.

Hatta was stunned, and the hand that was gripping Fushimi's sleeve dropped down, and the collar buckle of the military uniform that had been pulled loose before was dropped.The button slammed lightly on the marble floor, then rolled away.

Kusanagi walked up, patted his shoulder and said something in a low voice.Hatta stared up at Fushimi, and Fushimi turned his head away from him.

"Have you got everything you want?" Zhou Fang asked Shi Shu with a sideways look.

Ten Shu hugged the document bag in his arms tightly, nodded, smiled at Hatta not far away, and said, "Let's go."

Kusanagi held Hatta's shoulders and led him away, Hatta's hands were clenched and then loosened, he looked back at Fushimi unwillingly, moved the corners of his mouth but did not say a word, and finally turned his head and followed away with determination.

The ten bundles of us no longer include Fushimi.

Zhou Fang glanced at Zongxiang, and turned and walked out the door after seeing the other party's barely noticeable nod.

Barbara and the people in the army managed to solve the problem peacefully without turning the hospital upside down. The crowd of onlookers were relieved and went to deal with their own work.

Fushimi Saru Hiko stood there silent for a long time, walked over and picked up his collar button and clenched it tightly, so hard that his palms hurt but he didn't seem to notice it at all.

As he said, Fushimi Saruhiko who passed out three years ago will probably never be able to understand Hatta Misaki's fanatical admiration for Zhou Fangzun.

Fushimi's throat was a little dry, "The person who tried his best to save you is obviously me, misaki..."

Even he himself can't hear the real voice, not to mention his little sun has already gone away.

Fushimi laughed at himself, and walked back to his original position.Munakata was looking at him, but Fushimi couldn't help but stop in front of him, even though he was upset, he still whispered first: "No need to say anything."

"En..." Munakata showed a slightly innocent smile, "I didn't plan to talk, Fushimi-kun. Sorry, I'm really not very good at comforting people."

"..." Fu met him and stared at him expressionlessly.

"Your Excellency," he said again suddenly, as if thinking of something, he lowered his eyes and looked at his fingertips and said slowly: "What does the future in your eyes... look like?"

"The future... This is not a question that can be answered easily." Munakata pondered, looked back at Yu Zhang Xun who walked out, and then at the direction where Zhou Fangzun left, unexpectedly showing a gentle smile and said : "If I have to be specific, I think—it will be a future where I can freely embrace the people I love."

[Extra/Anna's Secret]

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Kushina Anna was seriously thinking about a problem.

"Which one do you prefer, Dad or Mom?"

The question came from a gentle woman who walked into the bar one afternoon. In fact, the other party just wanted to have a few casual words with the cute little girl, so she chose this question that almost all children have experienced with the intention of teasing her.

Who do you like more?

...But Reishi and Zun, who is the mother?

Anna looked at Kusanagi Izumo behind the bar, he was humming an unknown soothing tune, and the movement of wiping the cup was also pleasing to the eye.

"Izumo," she said.The other party stopped for a moment, turned his head and smiled, "What's wrong with the little princess?"

"What's a mother like?" Anna said.

"Eh—" Izumo froze for a moment.As the experimental subject, Anna was of course an orphan, and Anna never mentioned the issue of parents, and gradually he felt relieved.At this time, the unexpected sentence made him feel a little uncomfortable: After all, he is a child, so no matter how you say it, he still cares about such things, right?

Izumo thought for a while, raised his hand to gently smooth Anna's snow-white hair, and deflected the topic subtly: "Anna is so beautiful, of course my mother will be a very beautiful person."

Beautiful people?Oh... Anna thought about it, then Reiji must be her mother.

Izumo stared at Anna, but couldn't catch any sad or disappointed expression, then the little girl nodded, and carefully jumped off the high chair and walked towards the underground base.Only Izumo was left thinking about how to educate Anna.

Anna approached the base hall lightly, and sure enough, she saw the two expecting figures.

Zhou Fangzun leaned back on the chair with his eyes half open, his long legs crossed over the long table used to discuss important military issues.Reiji Munakata sat down on the chair next to him, dignifiedly and gracefully spreading out a half-finished jigsaw puzzle on the long table.

"Can you please restrain your rude behavior a little bit?" Munakata dropped a puzzle piece, frowned and looked at Zhou Fang displeasedly, "Your foot is about to step on my puzzle piece."

"Oh..." The voice sounded more like a sleepy dream.

Zhou Fang slightly bent his legs, moved them a bit and stretched them again.Along with the sound of cloth rubbing against each other, there was the chaotic sound of the jigsaw puzzle being pushed apart—Zhou Fangzun's feet accurately kicked the upper half of Zongxiang's previous assembly apart, even with his eyes closed.

...I have wanted to do this for a long time.Anna had such an idea inexplicably.

"..." Munakata could feel his movements stiff for a moment, then adjusted his glasses and suppressed his anger, and said, "This kind of childish behavior... are you still a child?"

"Don't bring this kind of thing over again." Zhou Fang opened his eyes.

"Oh? That's not acceptable." Munakata curled the corner of his mouth, "This is a gift for the little princess."

"Anna wouldn't like that kind of thing."

Anna nodded earnestly where they couldn't see.

"But I clearly remember how happy she was when she saw the last puzzle." Munakata raised his eyebrows.

"That's because you haven't come here for a long time." Zhou Fang raised his hand to rub his already messy red hair into a mess, "Speaking of which, why is my eye missing a piece on that jigsaw puzzle?"

Zongxiang closed his fingers twisting the puzzle piece, and said with a faint smile, "I picked it out."

……Bad taste.

Zhou Fang looked at him dissatisfied, and sighed annoyedly, "Can't you give her something suitable?"

"Of course, it's not a jigsaw puzzle this time." Munakata turned his gaze back to the jigsaw puzzle, "Anna is past the age where intelligence needs to be developed, and I think you are more suitable for it now."

Zhou Fang thought of something and pulled out a meaningful smile.He sat up and approached Zongxiang, the corners of his lips moved slightly, kissed his ear and said something.

Anna only saw that Munakata's eyes hidden behind the glasses suddenly sharpened, and he twisted Zhou Fanghong's head and pressed it on the table with a snappy movement.That crisp sound, Izumo's heart must be crisp when he heard it - of course, it's not sure which kind of crisp.

... As a good daughter, the caring little padded jacket will never see her father again if she doesn't appear on the stage, Anna!

Kushina Anna came out from the shadows, and when Munakata looked sideways, he let go of Suho's hand and smiled.Zhou Fang straightened up indifferently, and when Anna approached, she saw that Zhou Fang's hand was on Munakata's waist.

Sensing Anna's sight, Munakata glanced at Zhou Fang in a warning manner, but the other party tightened his hand indifferently, and pulled Anna closer with the other hand.

There was not much useful information in the conversation just now, at least the present that Munakata brought her this time was really not a puzzle.

Anna was holding the red glass bead as if she had just found a treasure, and the corners of her mouth could not be restrained from curling up.She leaned closer and stood on tiptoe again, Munakata lowered his head obediently, his eyes downcast looked extremely gentle, so Anna carefully kissed his cheek.

Mom and Dad love being together the most.

This was the last answer, and Anna found a notebook to write it down, planning to tell her seriously when she saw the woman again.

The little girl put down the pen, picked up a glass bead and held it up in front of her eyes, looking at the statue who was about to leave.

He opened the door and said something to Zhou Fang beside him, and then turned around as if sensing his gaze, "See you next time."

Anna nodded vigorously.

Everything you see through the glass beads is beautiful red: the red light falling on the wooden floor, the red door, the red wind chime, and—

Also dyed red Munakata Reishi.

In fact, I don't want to see you next time, she replied in her heart.

When will I be able to see the two people I love the most and who are together all the time?