Hikigaya, the Son-in-law of Three Surnames

Since most of the customers are otaku, a beautiful girl like Akane Shinjo is still quite eye-catching when she comes here.

"Look, look, it's the legendary Godzilla."

"Ah, is this the ruffian version of Godzilla?"

"The newly arrived Five Emperors."

Just like a child having a great time in a popping pond, Akane Shinjo suddenly became energetic when she arrived at the figure shop and explained to Hachiman the origins of the monsters and some special effects memes.

Ultraman is well-known in Asian circles, but to a layman like Hachiman, aren’t all monsters the same?

However, for Akane Shinjo, monsters seem to have a special charm, and she can talk about them in great detail.

The other otakus in the store were immediately impressed by the cute, curvy girl like Akane Shinjo, who turned out to be a veteran special effects fan.

After all, what bad intentions do special effects fans have?

It's just that the greasy man next to her makes her even more annoying.

Hachiman didn't care what others thought of him, but what surprised him was that Akane Shinjo didn't seem to be interested in the Ultraman figures and didn't even look at them.

Chapter 17 I will turn you into light

After buying the figures, the two came out of ANIMATE and went to the Maid Street on the south side of Central Avenue. However, Hachiman now had maid PTSD, so the two bought two sandwiches and Suntory Oolong tea at the convenience store and sat on a bench under a tree.

In fact, watching the bare-shoulder maids in garter stockings soliciting customers at the door in the middle of summer and looking at pairs of beautiful legs swaying in the distance is also a beautiful sight to enjoy with a meal.

"If you like it so much, why not just pick one and go in? You have plenty of money anyway."

As Akane Shinjo looked at her spoils of victory today, she couldn't help but feel a little sour in her mouth.

"Idiot, even if you have money, you can't spend it recklessly." Although it might be nice to spend thousands or tens of thousands of yen to go into a coffee shop and chat with the maids and ask them to help pick your ears, it is still a wasteful behavior in Hachiman's eyes.

"Then are you willing to buy me a figure?" To be honest, Akane Shinjo is a very straightforward person. Any monster figure here is enough for them to enjoy in the maid cafe.

"That's because, of course, buying you a figure is not a waste." Hachiman turned his head with a smile, the cool sunlight shining on his slightly stubbled face, giving him a decadent sense of handsomeness.

"Why?" The tea master expressed his shyness appropriately.

Come on, come on, keep talking.

But what was new to her was that she didn't seem to be acting entirely now.

"That's because, of course, how can a father ask for money to buy toys for his daughter?" Hachiman said, patting her little head.

This explanation made Xin Tiao Qian very unhappy. This was not the kind of father she wanted.

Really annoying.

Seeing Akane Shinjo silently munching on her sandwich, Hachiman took something out of his pocket and handed it to her.

Akane Shinjo looked at the small soft Ultraman in her hand, a little stunned, and looked at Hachiman.

The young man said as if he was a little embarrassed: "Well, it seems that when we paid the bill, even the boss felt a little embarrassed to charge us too much, so he gave this to me."

In fact, he noticed that although Akane Shinjo deliberately skipped the Ultraman figure area, he could feel the special emotion she had every time she walked by, so he picked up the smallest Ultraman.

However, Shinjo Akane smiled inexplicably and said, "The boss of that shop really likes to give customers some incomplete figurines as gifts."

"Is it defective?" He had never noticed it before.

"Look, there are traces of glue on the head and neck, and it's not very stable..."

As she spoke, Akane Shinjo gently pinched Tiga's head with her fingers, and the head fell off.

She looked at the Ultraman figurine whose head and body had been separated, and carefully wrapped it in oil paper and placed it in a bag.

She looked a little weak in the sunlight: "I told you before, all the Ultraman figures I got were damaged due to some strange reasons. I don't have a complete Ultraman figure, even a small soft plastic one like this."

This is how she defines herself as a child who is not favored by Ultraman.

Hachiman felt that something was wrong with her mood and asked, "Are you talking about the killing of your adoptive father?"

This matter was briefly mentioned by Akane Shinjo when she first arrived at Hachiman's apartment that night, but Hachiman didn't know the details.

"Uncle, you know, I actually killed him on purpose."

In the hot summer, Akane Shinjo's words send chills down people's spines.

"Although according to the police report, that person attacked me at home and tried to rape me..."

Then, Xin Tiao Qian smiled faintly and said, "But in fact, I wanted to kill him. It was not self-defense, but intentional homicide because he always beat my mother. He deserved to die. I knew he was greedy for my body. He often looked at me with a strange look and thought I didn't know. So I dressed more coolly at home. It was the day after my first period, and he knew it."

Xin Tiao Qian said with a smile that since she was born, she had never had any innocent fantasies about love between men and women.

Her first menarche was actually used as bait to kill people. It was really perfect for someone like her.

"Sure enough, he really hit me... You know what happened afterwards. I was acting in self-defense. Even if the police had doubts, I was a minor and they couldn't hold me accountable."

Shinjo Akane turned her head to Hachiman and asked, "Do you think Ultraman will favor a villain like me? I don't think so."

Although the girl was smiling when she said this, Hachiman felt a sense of sadness.

There is no going back from killing someone, and Hachiman himself is an example of this.

When taking the lives of other human beings, people's values ​​are bound to be distorted to some extent.

Hachiman himself is like this, and Akane Shinjo will definitely not be an exception.

Perhaps Akane Shinjo had once dreamed of spending her adolescence like an ordinary JK, but after killing someone, she despaired of everything and just wanted to find a place to stay in this world. Unfortunately, even such a humble request could not be fulfilled.

At that time, Hachiman was saved by Saki, so now, facing Akane Shinjo in a similar situation, he also wants to give it a try.

"Akane Shinjo." Hachiman said.

"?" She stretched her head slightly, looking a little cute.

"I will turn you into light." He raised his thumb and said handsomely.

The girl was like a fish that had come ashore, her lips kept opening and closing as if she wanted to cry...

However, I dare not take the first step easily.

Because she had experienced so much malice and deception since she was a child, many of whom were from people related to her by blood.

"That's annoying. I'm just a high school girl. My body isn't ready yet."

So, when the opportunity really came to her, she backed off.

Use your best awkward smile to make the atmosphere ambiguous, and then brush it off.

Hachiman seemed to understand the girl's mind, but he just smiled, threw the plastic bottle into the trash can, and said, "Okay, it's time to go home. What should I make for dinner today?"

He stood up and stretched lazily while speaking, Xin Tiao Qian followed him silently.

Without the usual deliberate teasing and flirting, even Akane Shinjo herself didn't know why, but she felt a little guilty for rejecting Hachiman, and also annoyed with herself for being timid?

Even Lin Xian'er seemed confused by Ah Fei's transformation, and tea art master Xin Tiao Qian began to become increasingly confused about herself.

But before she could feel her worries continue to brew, when she returned home, the peaceful street became eerily quiet.

"Be careful!" I didn't know who was shouting.

A cloud of white powder sprinkled towards them. It was someone who jumped out from the corner.

Hachiman held her and dodged, but even though she did, the powder still splashed on the young man's face.

With a muffled groan, Hachiman hugged her and kicked the person who sprinkled the powder to the ground.

Xin Tiao Qian grabbed the powder in her hand and said incredulously: "This is lime powder?"

Then, people in different clothes came out from every corner of the street.

The only thing in common was that they all held the same machete in their hands.

In the sunset, there is a sense of solemnity.

Chapter 18: Shaking People

The lime powder started the fight, and then a large number of men with machetes appeared. Xin Tiao Qian even suspected that she saw the machete team in the novel.

Shinjo Akane looked at the white powder on Hachiman's face and felt a little regretful. If she hadn't been trying to protect herself just now, Hachiman wouldn't have been sprinkled with lime powder.

Hachiman quickly wiped his face, but he could only keep one eye open, and his face felt a burning sting.

Five, ten, twenty, twenty-two men with machetes, and with a clear target, they all seemed to be coming for him.

No one should know him now... Suddenly, he remembered what Kudo Mika said.

Be careful of the Moriyama group.

Haha, are the Yakuza in Tokyo so brave now? Are they brave enough to organize and attack him in the street?

What’s a pity is that I just came out for a walk today and didn’t bring any knives, and I was also given a debuff.

Suddenly, a bearded man rushed up with a loud roar, but he didn't expect that Hachiman directly picked up the remaining lime powder of the fallen guy and splashed it on his face. The bearded man was panicked by the attack, and was hit hard on the temple, and the machete in his hand was taken away.

Hachiman grabbed the machete and chopped him down, then took out a cell phone from his pocket and threw it to Shinjo Akane, saying, "Come on, call someone for me. The number on the phone is a guy named Ye Shan."

"But..." She didn't know Hachiman's abilities, so she hesitated and worried that she would never see him again.

This should have been my original purpose.

"If you don't help me get someone, I'm really going to die." No matter how tough he is, he can't fight 1VS21, especially when all the opponents are armed.

In the worst case scenario, the other party may even be armed.

He easily blocked the opponent's attack, and then chopped him down to the ground with two blows.

Seeing Hachiman's determination, Akane Shinjo pursed her lips, turned around and fled.

When Hachiman knocked down the third man, the offensive of these people slowed down a little.

It was true, although they looked fierce, these guys' skills were actually not that good.

He touched his eyes that could not be opened and said, "Just because I have become weaker does not mean that you have become stronger."

The men raised their knives, kicked up dust in the air, and rushed forward.

...........................

Akane Shinjo kept running and running until she reached the streets of Kabukicho, where neon lights had just lit up.

She picked up Hachiman's phone, found a number marked with Yeshan, and called it. But the voice on the other end was that of a little girl. Soon after, it was the voice of a young man, probably the same age as Hachiman.

Xin Tiao Qian spent three minutes describing the location where she was attacked, but the other party just responded and said, "Be careful too," before hanging up the phone. It was so concise that she even wondered if it would be better to call the police.

However, since this is the person Hachiman entrusted his life to in an emergency, there shouldn't be any problem.

At this time, Xin Tiao Qian was a little confused, whether she should go back or continue hiding.

As she walked, she realized something was wrong. She was very sensitive to sight.

So she walked into the women's bathhouse.

Not far away, a man in sunglasses and a suit reported to the short man over there through the communicator: "That girl entered the women's bathhouse. Don't worry, there is only one entrance and exit to the bathhouse."

The dwarf was the chief planner of this operation. In addition to attacking Fujiko F. Fujio like a fool, he also had a small number of people dispersed to the periphery to prevent Shinjo Akane from escaping alone.

I have to say, that dwarf is quite capable.

"Keep a close eye on that girl. Don't let her escape." The dwarf roared on the other end of the communicator.

The man in sunglasses and suit hung up the communicator and said to his accomplice next to him in dissatisfaction: "Tsk, so why can that dwarf become a member of the Moriyama Group? That guy is a perverted scumbag."

Even within the group, there were actually quite a few people who couldn't stand the dwarfs' flattery to get promoted and their coercion and bribery of actresses to work in the adult entertainment industry. Just like these two, they had to endure it only because of the second generation's high regard for him.

"Don't talk about this, the girl came out."

The two men stared at the girl in the white dress, feeling a little reluctant when they thought that she was about to fall into the hands of the dwarf and the second generation.

However, orders within the group are absolute, and one can only protest to the group leader afterwards.

"Hey, keep quiet. If you know what's good for you, just follow us. Maybe your boyfriend can still survive." The man in sunglasses and suit said with some self-loathing. But when the girl in the dress turned around and looked at him, she only showed a look of fear and inexplicable disgust.

"Unexpected situation, we lost them." He reported to the other end of the communicator, and he didn't care about anything else. They immediately broke into the women's bathhouse. Naturally, there was a commotion. When they came out, the man in sunglasses had lost his hat, and he had a bra and several scratches on his face.

Just when the man in sunglasses was reporting the situation to the dwarf, a girl dressed in forest style came out with her head lowered. With her cleverness, it was not difficult for her to steal a set of clothes from the women's bathhouse. She walked through the dark corners behind the bustling streets of Kabukicho, and it was not only the two men in sunglasses who came to catch her.

Although the girl didn't know that the other party's main target was her, she only knew that she couldn't be caught by the other party now.

She hid next to the trash can and heard several sounds of hurried footsteps.

After waiting for a long time without any movement, Xin Tiao Qian lowered her hand from her lips, only to feel a hint of chill from the damp and dirty environment.

When she subconsciously reached into her pocket, she found that the soft-gel Ultraman was missing. She had clearly taken it out of her dress, so it must have been lost on the way.

She pursed her lips and made sure there were no footsteps nearby before leaving the alley where the trash cans were placed, and walked back along the way to look for the Ultraman with his head and body separated.