I'm a demon in Tokyo!

Chapter 66: The Pain of Parting, the Joy of Reunion (Please Read)
"Ah, I forgot you don't smoke, Sori Sori."

Just as Zhou Zhenyu was about to take back the cigarette, the Liqun in his hand was taken over by Uesugi Che.

"Benefit the group, benefit the group. Smoking alone is self-interested, but smoking together is beneficial to the group."

Uesugi Tetsu smiled at him and saw the old, wrinkled packaging box and the only cigarette left inside.

"Right?"

Zhou Zhenyu gave him a thumbs up, showing his white teeth: "Fellow countryman, good."

"But smoking is not allowed in the hospital, and it's not easy to light up on the curb either." Zhou Zhenyu shrugged and pointed to the smoking room not far away. "The details of daily life are well taken care of, one set after another."

The two walked into the smoking room. Zhou Zhenyu lit a cigarette for Shangshan Che first, and then lit one for himself.

In his opinion, it didn't matter if Uesugi Che ordered or didn't smoke it. He had kept the Liqun until now to give it to his friend.

But the people standing in front of me are my compatriots.

In a foreign country, the word "compatriots" is much more familiar than a few friends, not to mention that they saved him.

Zhou Zhenyu took a deep puff of smoke and exhaled, his eyes becoming complicated as the smoke rose.

He thought for a while before he found a starting point for the topic.

"Actually, my flight back home is scheduled for the early morning of the day after tomorrow, on Spring Airlines. If nothing goes wrong, I should be able to find a room near the airport to stay in for the night."

Uesugi Tetsu: "I have to say that the green skin in the sky is still affordable."

Zhou Zhenyu raised his eyebrows and showed him the screen: "What do you think of the 199 special airfare?"

"——I would feel bad if I wasn't allowed to stand all the way."

"Haha, that's right." Zhou Zhenyu grinned and continued, "She came to the hospital because my ex-girlfriend suddenly got a new terminal illness that has recently appeared. She's said she won't live for many days."

The smile on Zhou Zhenyu's face disappeared.

"Her parents passed away early, and her grandparents also passed away a few years ago, so she called me last night hoping that I could come and see her for the last time."

The original joyful atmosphere suddenly disappeared.

Zhou Zhenyu continued, "She's a very nice person. She broke up with me because she was dissatisfied with my low education and lack of job prospects. She didn't want to drag me down, so don't say I'm a coward. I know a thing or two about the domestic public opinion environment."

Uesugi Tetsu sighed: "How can that be possible?"

However, the new terminal illness has only recently appeared...

Uesugi Tetsu asked hesitantly, "Can I meet her later?"

"Then she must be happy."

As soon as he got rid of the serious topic, Zhou Zhenyu's eyebrows danced: "That little girl said a long time ago that she wanted to meet other Chinese people besides me. She said that I nod and bow when talking to others, and I look no different from the locals.

I said it was impossible, man, I was born and raised in China. It was just a matter of following the flow, but she just smiled and said nothing every time.

Zhou Zhenyu took a long drag on his cigarette. "Usually at this point, I'd give her a good scolding."

When talking about the past, the smile on Zhou Zhenyu's face became noticeably gentler and more lively.

He threw the empty cigarette holder into the trash can.

"And even at the end of this terminal illness, she never gave up hope of living."

Zhou Zhenyu said seriously, "So, I think I can still fight for it. I'd better put the idea of going home and lying down for now."

Walking out of the smoking room with Uesugi Tetsu, the cold wind blowing in from outside the door immediately washed away the smell of cigarettes on them.

Zhou Zhenyu shrank back and thought,
"But I also know that the current employment situation is grim. There are many college students and graduate students who can't find a job, let alone someone like me who only has a high school diploma."

Uesugi Tetsu followed him into the hospital and suggested, "Working in a factory or delivering food is definitely not a good way forward. These two industries treat people like screws. Why not try education and training? After all, you have the status of a child of a certain resident."

"I have some ideas, and I can also develop my own media or something." Zhou Zhenyu nodded thoughtfully.

The two walked to the nurses' station on the sixth floor, and Zhou Zhenyu confirmed the room number after some inquiries.

In the short corridor leading to the ward, Uesugi Che noticed that Zhou Zhenyu's small movements became obviously more frequent, his breathing became rapid, and his hands couldn't stop shaking.

When he reached the closed door of the ward, Zhou Zhenyu stopped.

He tilted his head to look at Shang Shan Che, tugged at his cheap clothes that cost less than two hundred yuan in total, and said, "Brother, can I meet her dressed like this?"

Uesugi Tetsu patted his shoulder and said, "She definitely won't mind this. And don't look so sad. She's already feeling bad, so what's the point of putting on a sad face?" "That's true."

Zhou Zhenyu was silent, patted his cheeks, and took a deep breath.

He placed his slightly trembling hand on the cold doorknob, mustered his once sunny smile, and twisted it downwards with force.

Push the door open and enter.

A strong smell of disinfectant wafted out, accompanied by the faint sobbing of a girl.

Uesugi Che could see that on the snow-white hospital bed, there was a girl with pale skin, bony figure, deep eye sockets, but still with long black hair.

Even if she just sat there crying, Uesugi Tetsu could clearly feel the intense and profound fear, anxiety, sadness, and pain that kept coming from her...

An extremely complex array of negative emotions were intertwined in the girl's body, constantly tormenting her spirit and soul.

Uesugi Tetsu just stood at the door and watched, and couldn't help but feel a deep sadness.

Zhou Zhenyu's face was filled with sadness and anger for a moment, but in the next moment, he forced out a gentle and warm smile.

He stepped forward cautiously, and said softly, as if afraid of disturbing something: "Mengzi, long time no see..."

On the hospital bed, the crying of a girl named Hoshino Yumeko suddenly stopped. She groaned twice in panic and frantically tried to find something to cover her ugly face and exposed body.

Zhou Zhenyu looked carefully at his ex-girlfriend, the girl who had once vowed with him on the rooftop to gain a foothold in Tokyo.

Hoshino Yumeko quickly covered her face with her hands: "Don't look, don't look..."

"Mengzi, it's been so long since we last met, and you're still so shy."

As the girl tried to stop him, Zhou Zhenyu embraced her in his arms.

"sorry."

He closed his eyes and whispered, "I'm back."

The girl stopped crying, raised her thin and trembling hands, and hugged Zhou Zhenyu as well.

At this moment, the sound of something opening was heard in the house, like an auditory hallucination.

However, the next moment, an extremely genuine smile appeared on Hoshino Yumeko's face, and it became more intense at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Uesugi Tetsu's pupils shrank slightly.

The scene before us is clearly lovers who have been separated for a long time meeting each other again. It is a very warm and beautiful scene.

He should have applauded and congratulated.

But compared to congratulations, Uesugi Tetsu felt more terrified at this moment.

—All of Hoshino Yumeko's negative emotions vanished in an instant. At the same time, she was filled with a surge of intense joy, happiness, and joy, all intertwined together...

This bizarre scene almost made Uesugi Toru step forward and separate the two immediately.

"Wait a minute. Don't alert the enemy until something happens that affects the outside world."

Taking a deep breath and forcing himself to calm down, Uesugi Tetsu thought to himself that this was definitely not a normal change in Hoshino Yumeko's mood.

It was more like...something was using her as a breeding ground for extreme emotions.

He quietly gazed at the couple in the ward who were hugging each other in tears and were about to be separated by life and death.

Uesugi Tetsu could feel the joy of reunion of Hoshino Yumeko when she saw her lover again before her death, and he could also see the pain of separation that Zhou Zhenyu was suppressing tightly.

Whether it is the joy of reunion or the pain of separation, they probably just become a handful of nutrients in the petri dish.

Love becomes an accelerant of death.

The changes he had just witnessed were the best evidence. Under such drastic and extreme emotional changes that were visible to the naked eye, Yumeko Hoshino might not even be able to see the sun tomorrow morning.

Uesugi Tetsu closed his eyes.

For the first time, he felt genuine anger and murderous intent.

Uesugi Tetsu's expression was calmer than ever before, and he just kept repeating the name word by word in his mind:
"Love is gone."

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