【Respect】The Beautiful Future

The second time there was a sharp sound of brakes in front of the Barbara bar, Kusanagi Izumo's movement of wiping the glass was slightly delayed, and he looked up.

A moment later, the wind chime rang softly, and the door of the bar was pushed open.Amidst the crisp sound of heels hitting the ground, two tall and straight men walked in one after the other. Their suits were neat and clean, and the unique air of soldiers could be seen from their posture and walking. field.

Kusanagi Izumo put the wine glass in his hand aside, rested his palms on his hips idly, and quietly hid the gun at the back of his waist under his shirt, with a signature smile on his lips and said, "I'm very sorry, both Sir, we are not open today."

The man walking in front was already standing in front of the bar, and the man behind him also stopped.Hearing this, the other party showed a smile, took out a badge from his pocket, shook it and took it back, and then said in fluent Japanese: "Alliance stationed in Japan, Commander-in-Chief Ovidia." He raised his hand to signal Look at the person standing quietly behind him, "This is my adjutant."

Izumo only saw the golden ornamentation of the alliance flashing in front of his eyes. Although he had some vague guesses in his heart, he was still a little surprised when he learned the identity of the other party.Thinking of Reisi Munakata who had entered the underground base earlier, Izumo couldn't help raising his eyebrows slightly.Today was lively enough, senior military officers from the three parties gathered in the bar, and for a moment he really didn't know whether to feel honored or worried.

"The big man of the alliance—" Even though he said this, his tone was still light, Izumo smiled calmly: "I am—"

"Izumo Kusanagi, Barbara's staff officer. I did my homework before I came here." Ovidia interrupted his words, and his smile gradually deepened.

Izumo nodded slightly without showing any emotion, and said along the way: "That's really troublesome. I just don't know why you came to us in person?"

"Is Zhou Fangzun not here? I still want to talk to him." Ovidia said, looking around the bar.

"The general has very important things to do now," Izumo's tone was still polite with a slightly contemptuous attitude, but there was some toughness that could not be ignored mixed with the gentleness, "It would be more convenient for you to tell me first oh."

Ovidia smiled softly, "No matter how important my affairs are, you'd better inform him."

The smile on Kusanagi Izumo's face also deepened, he looked directly at the young officer, tapped a few times on the bar with his fingers, but was about to speak but was interrupted by the sudden sound of footsteps behind him.The two members of the alliance looked at the source of the sound, and he also looked back, and then he couldn't help but sighed badly in his heart.

Zhou Fangzun and Munakata Reiji walked out of the elevator side by side.Zhou Fang dragged his feet, turned his head away from looking at Munakata with a bored face, Munakata was dragged down by him and slowed down, with a serious expression, not knowing what he was preaching.

Ovidia obviously recognized Zhou Fangzun, and stepped forward.Kusanagi Izumo didn't have time to say anything else, he walked out from behind the bar and stood between the two parties first.

"I've been looking forward to meeting you, Zhou Fangzun." Ovidia held out his hand.

"Huh?" Zhou Fang squeezed out a question from his throat, his eyes glanced at the stranger in front of him and looked at Izumo beside him, his hands were still in his trouser pockets and he didn't move at all.

Kusanagi couldn't help but glanced at Munakata, he stopped talking before they approached, and looked back after noticing Izumo's gaze.Izumo looked away from him, and raised his hand to gesture to the person on the left: "Let me introduce. This is the commander-in-chief of the alliance, Mr. Ovidia."

Hearing this, Zhou Fang just nodded and then glanced at the person in front of him again. On the contrary, Munakata next to him smiled knowingly, and he nodded to Izumo: "Oh, then I'll go first, no Excuse me-"

However, Munakata just took a step before Zhou Fang pulled his arm and stopped him. He turned his head and asked with his eyes, Zhou Fang pulled him two steps closer to him forcefully, "Why are you in a hurry to go?"

Munakata's eyes turned back and forth on Ovidia and Zhou Fang, "The commander seems to have something important to discuss with you."

"It's the same if you stay here, I'll take you out later." The tone was firm and undeniable.

"In this case—then I have no choice but to be respectful rather than obedient." Munakata tilted his head, and the helpless but not repulsive smile on Izumo's face was caught in his eyes.

Ovidia endured the dissatisfaction in his heart, took back the hand that had been left alone for a long time, and looked up at the beautiful blue-haired man.Searching in his mind was fruitless, and the adjutant beside him also shook his head to indicate that there was no relevant information about this person. He couldn't help asking hesitantly, "Excuse me, who is this...?"

Before Munakata could figure out how to answer, Zhou Fangzun dragged him to the sofa, glanced at Ovidia, and replied concisely: "His surname is Zhou Fang."

Munakata looked sideways at the expressionless man, raised his free hand to push up his glasses, snorted coldly but didn't explain anything.

Izumo, who was leading the two young officers to sit on the opposite sofa, was unsteady for a moment.

Ovidia took a seat opposite them. He was taken aback by this answer, then smiled awkwardly and said, "...Your brother doesn't look quite like you."

Zhou Fang sat with his arms hanging on the back of the sofa, looking even more lazy in contrast to Munakata sitting beside him.Hearing this, he let out a muffled laugh, and even his shoulders trembled slightly, and finally he managed to stop under Zongxiang's cold gaze.

Kusanagi Izumo sighed with some headache, and took the initiative to cut to the point: "So now, can you tell me the purpose of coming here?"

"I hope to cooperate with the Barbara to deal with the Federation." He simply got up.

Shuo, who had been drooping his eyelids, finally raised his eyes and looked at him seriously. Reji Munakata stared at him with his chin up, and Izumo Kusanagi suddenly didn't know how to answer.There was an eerie silence for a while.

Ovidia had made many assumptions before coming to deal with it comprehensively, but this reaction was really beyond his expectation.He pondered for a while, and had no choice but to continue: "It may be too sudden for you, but I made a decision after serious consideration. This time I only brought my deputy to show my sincerity."

"After the cooperation, all the areas won can be handed over to Barbara. I don't think Barbara should have no reason to refuse such a condition?"

"The sacrifice is so great, so what is the purpose of your cooperation?" Zhou Fang asked.

"Well——" Ovidia paused, and smiled: "The interests of the alliance do not lie in the territory, so please don't worry."

"I'm asking about your purpose." Zhou Fang frowned, "Where are the interests of the alliance?"

"After all, it's our secret, I really can't tell you, but I can guarantee that it won't have any impact on Barbara, it's just a contest between the Alliance and the Federation." Ovidia looked at Zhou Fang's impatient expression, After thinking for a while, he added: "If you have to have one purpose to be convinced, then I have more personal purposes for cooperating with you. I can tell you this."

"It's Reisi Munakata."

Hearing this, Zhou Fangzun sat up a little bit, lowered his eyebrows and stared at him, and slowly repeated the name in a low voice: "You said your purpose is, Munakata Reishi?"

Munakata turned his head to look at Zhou Fang's hand resting on his shoulder, bent his lips but didn't say anything.

Under his gaze, Ovidia was inexplicably startled, calmed down and continued: "I have fought against the brigadier general of the Federation before, which left a deep impression on me, so I very much hope to meet him On the one hand.” This is very appropriate.

That kind of impression was really deep, Munakata smiled slightly and nodded in agreement.

Ovidia couldn't help but look at the blue-haired man who was smiling all the time. Compared to Zhou Fangzun, who had a bad complexion, he seemed to be much more talkative, "This...Mr. Zhou Fang might as well come here Tell me what you think?"

The unfamiliar address made Munakata realize that he was calling himself a moment later. He met the other party's expectant eyes, and the smile in his eyes deepened, and he deliberately pulled his tone slowly and said: "This matter I don't have the right to speak. But as you said, it is beneficial and harmless for Barbara to choose to cooperate with you. In addition, I want to ask," Munakata paused, "I don't know what you think of Munakata Reishi I’m really surprised how much you want to meet him.”

"..." Ovidia was silent for a while, and the golden mech in the fire appeared in his mind, and he replied with a bit of gritted teeth: "It's a cunning man."

"Oh—that's really..."

"Have you talked enough?" Zhou Fangzun interrupted their conversation impatiently, Zongxiang shrugged lightly and stopped talking.

Ovidia looked at the leader of the Barbara who was offended again for some reason, "That...about the cooperation..."

"Then cooperate." Zhou Fang said casually.

"So about—"

"Tell him these things." Zhou Fang raised his finger and pointed to the person leaning on the sofa.

Izumo has been holding back his laughter since he called Mr. Zhou Fang from Ovidia. Now that he was called by name, he had to restrain his expression, smiled at the two alliance members and complained half-truthfully: "The details Just discuss the problem with me, after all, our generals always leave this kind of thing to us to do."

Munakata followed their backs with a smile on his face until he disappeared behind the door. Zhou Fang took out a cigarette from his pocket and bit it in his mouth. He glanced at him and mocked vaguely: "Cunning man, Munakata Rishi."

Munakata looked away in a leisurely manner, leaned over and reached out to remove the cigarette from his lips, "I will take it as a compliment."

[New Year's Greetings]

In order not to have the consequences of giving you hope and disillusioning you so that I get beaten [no], I will just say:

This extra episode has nothing to do with the plot of the main text.

————————————————————

8:00

Munakata Reiji was putting on his shirt when Zhou Fangzun was woken up.A tall, straight and well-proportioned man stood beside the bed, his dark blue hair was rarely messy and soft, and stuck to his neck. The man lowered his eyes and buttoned the buttons of his white shirt one by one, his slender, white fingers against the soft fabric. .The morning sun poured into the room through the opened window behind him, embracing him tenderly.

In short, it is a picture that makes people want to hold their faces and shout that the girl's heart will be drawn out by Su.

But it's a pity that the only audience is Zhou Fangzun, who can't even be considered a boy, let alone a girl's heart-oh, the combination of these two words makes people feel chills.

So Zhou Fangzun muttered a few words dreamily, turned over and planned to continue to sleep, but was shot in the head by Munakata Reiji with his coat.

Zhou Fang stretched out his hands and tore off the clothes on his face, propped his elbows on the bed, and stared at the other party dissatisfiedly, "What are you doing?"

"I thought you were at least smart enough to understand the meaning of 'get up'."

"Isn't tomorrow a holiday?" Zhou Fang scratched his face with drooping eyelids.

Munakata put on his tie, took a moment to glance at him, "Are you moved to know that you have annual leave tomorrow instead of today?"

"Ah... just be moved by it."

"Please get up." Reji Munakata smiled at him.

Zhou Fang slowly looked away, sat up and leaned against the head of the bed, closed his eyes and raised his head, "Izumo said that I can go to the meeting later."

"I really envy your mentality of leaving everything to others without feeling guilty."

Zhou Fang thought of something and opened his eyes: "Yu Zhang Xun also left everything to you?"

"...The general asked for leave today." Munakata pushed his glasses.

Let alone Munakata, I understand.

"So are you planning to continue sleeping?" Munakata returned to the diverted topic.

Zhou Fang yawned for a long time, "I'm not too sleepy because of your noise."

Munakata, who was already fully dressed, looked at him with his arms crossed, "Then do you need me to sing a lullaby before you fall asleep?"

Zhou Fang yawned slightly, and he turned his head to look at Zongxiang: "Are you a threat?"

One hit headshot x2.

When the door finally opened, Anna was at the dining table carefully pouring milk into the cups of the three of them. Hearing the sound, she turned her head and looked at Zhou Fang, who was listlessly rubbing his forehead? It hurts from hitting his head with his belt? The smiling Munakata Reiji said hello:

"Good morning, honor, Reishi."

16:21

Seri Awashima, who was following Munakata, saw his husband when his boss' figure was staggered.Kusanagi Izumo closed the office door and turned his head to talk briefly with Zhou Fangzun, then raised his eyes and saw two Fourth Army officers coming towards him in the corridor.

Both of them are serious people, so there is really no way to stand there and chat for a few words to exchange the feelings between the various armies.Izumo sighed inwardly, thinking about how to say hello to Awashima without being noticed by Munakata while rubbing shoulders.

Then he saw Munakata Reisi giving him a slight nod of greeting, and then stopped in front of Zhou Fangzun.

"You look like you came back from moving bricks." Munakata said, but raised his hand naturally, and straightened the tie that Zhou Fang had casually put on his neck.

Zhou Fang looked down at Munakata's movements, and wrapped his arms around his waist: "Shouldn't you come to kiss and hug me at this time and say I'll help you move it?"

"Then it's hard work for you, Munakata—"

Zhou Fang's words stopped at Munakata's suddenly tightened tie, Munakata smiled lightly and let go of his hand, Zhou Fang coughed twice and finally managed to breathe smoothly.

Izumo thought, this script of openly showing affection is not right.

No.Izumo-kun, have you forgotten, their scripts have always been like this.

Izumo looked away disheartened and saw Seri Awashima standing beside him, so his disheartened heart turned sunny.

"Xiao Shili." He smiled at the beautiful lady.

Seri Awashima didn't look at him, but there was a soft smile on her usual serious face, she looked out the window and replied in a low voice: "Seven o'clock in the evening, go home for dinner."

Kusanagi Izumo raised his palm to his chest and leaned forward slightly: "Of order."

18:45

The key turned in the lock with a slight sound, and the door was pulled open to reveal Anna's white and delicate face. Zongxiang got up from the sofa and held the doorknob to help her open the door, but he saw the little girl pushing against the door He hesitated to say something.

"What's wrong?" Zongxiang asked.

"Reis...I brought my friends home to celebrate the New Year together." Anna carefully stared at his expression.

Munakata looked back at Zhou Fang who was on the sofa, then looked down at the nervous little girl, couldn't help but chuckled softly and rubbed her snow-white hair, "Since you brought it, come in, Zhou Fang and I will be very welcome. "

Anna raised the corner of her mouth and nodded, then let go of the hand holding the door and turned her head to greet the back.Then a little girl with black hair and black dress appeared in front of Munakata and Zhou Fang.

"My lord?!"

"No need to be too polite!" The emperor stepped forward to stop Zongxiang from getting up, showing a bright smile, "You don't need to care about your identity in private. Uncle Zongxiang!" She looked sideways at Zhou Fangzun, and responded with the same crisp A greeting: "Uncle Zhou Fang!"

"Ah..." Zhou Fang scratched his hair and replied dryly.

——It’s great that I’m in the same generation as Zongxiang and not be treated as 42 years old.

——Don't read other people's expressions randomly, hey!

"You seem to be very used to this address." Munakata said.

The Son of Heaven sat down next to Anna. Hearing this, he looked at Zongxiang seriously and nodded: "Brother Yuzhang told me that when he took me out to play. It is more polite to call people uncle."

...Brother Yu Zhang?

Zhou Fangzun and Munakata Reisi were silent for a while, Anna sighed helplessly, and handed the peeled orange to the emperor.

Yu Zhangxun, do you dare to ask for more face?

at the same time.

"Ah-choo!" Yu Zhangxun raised his hand and rubbed his nose, murmuring indistinctly, "...who misses me."

Kagu Tsuxuan raised his eyes and glanced: "Someone is right to scold you."

Yu Zhangxun turned a deaf ear to his words, looked at the dice and his eyes lit up: "Hey, it's actually six o'clock!" He reached for his chess piece, but was slapped on the hand by Kagu Tsu Xuanshi, "Don't Pretend, you turned it over on purpose when you sneezed, thinking I didn't see it?"

Yu Zhang withdrew his hand: "Then how much did you say I was just now?"

"Three o'clock."

Yu Zhang looked at the red chess piece that was only two steps away from the finish line, and then at his own blue chess piece that was five steps away from the finish line, "To be fair, I will do it again."

Jia Ju Duxuan looked at him with a smile, and shrugged his shoulders to show that he had no objection.

Yu Zhangxun held the dice in the palm of his hand, shook it, and then let go, the dice rolled all the way towards Kagu Tsu Xuanshi, and finally stopped.

a little.

......

Kagu Tsu Hyunshi laughed, and Yu Zhangxun lay down on the table and howled and beat the table.Kagu Tsuxuanshi struggled to hold back a smile and went to take the dice, and by the way reached out and patted Yu Zhang Xun's head.Habari took a deep breath to calm down, raised his head and stared at Kagutsu Hyunshi's hand seriously.

So the dice rolled all the way to his eyes.

six o'clock.

It's not fair! ! !Yu Zhangxun lay down on the table again.

Kagu Tsu Hyun-shih casually placed his chess pieces at the finish line, propped his chin and smiled: "Xun——"

"I'm dead, don't make noise."

"It's useless to pretend to be dead," Kagu Tsu Hyunshi stood up, and walked around the table slowly to sit next to Yu Zhang, "If you lose, you lose, take it off yourself or should I help you?"

Habari lifted his face from the crook of his arms, and turned sideways to avoid Kagutsu Hyunshi's outstretched hand.He raised his chin and smiled at Kagu Tsugenshi, moved his fingers slowly down, and finally pressed his belt.Kagu Tsu Hyunshi met his gaze, raised his eyebrows and smiled lightly, then turned his gaze back to his hands.

Yu Zhang unbuttoned the belt quickly and methodically, rubbed his index finger along the belt buckle but suddenly stopped, he lowered his voice, and said slowly with a smile: "The eyes are too revealing, sir."

Kagu Duxuan pursed his lips and remained silent.

Yu Zhangxun sighed pretentiously, then pulled out the belt and threw it aside, and blinked at the dissatisfied Kagu Duxuan, "The belt counts as one. Continue."

Kagu, who was already used to being tricked by him, leaned closer and kissed the corner of his curved lips, "There is still time until next year, I'm not afraid that you won't be able to take off your clothes."

23:55

Standing on the balcony, Zhou Fangzun took out the cigarette case from his pocket, lowered his head, bit the filter tip, took out one, put it back, and lit the cigarette with the lighter.Zongxiang was separated from him by a sheet of white smoke, looking through the window at the brightly lit city, his purple eyes were as calm as the sea.

Zhou Fang walked up to him, Zongxiang frowned and looked over, "Such a strong smell of smoke is really nauseating, Zhou Fang."

Zhou Fang stretched out his hand to open the window a little, and the night wind blew in. He let out a long breath of smoke, "If it's a boy, call him Zhou Fanglian, Munakata."

"That level of delusion still troubles you to put it away."

"Heh," he lowered his head and chuckled, "I'm very happy, Munakata."

Munakata Reiji was silent for a while, "I will feel guilty if I develop a tendency to be masochistic, please don't give up the treatment."

Zhou Fang stubbed out the cigarette in his hand, half turned around to face Munakata, "I'm glad you're here."

Zongxiang was stunned for a moment, and then turned into an arc of lips, "Then I will ask you to teach me more in the future."

The sound of fireworks was constantly heard outside the window, and the crowds flying wishing lights on the streets for the New Year celebrations. Orange light spots slowly floated into the sky. The TV in the living room faintly heard the sound of counting down the New Year. The two little girls had already cuddled together sleep.

They embraced and exchanged kisses, neither of them closed their eyes, the bright fireworks outside the window came into their eyes, it was so beautiful.

I'm glad you're here.

Please give me more advice for the rest of my life.