Tokyo: Rabbit Police and Her Evil Partner

Chapter 30 Summer is fleeting

The abbot clasped his hands together, with a sad look on his face, chanted the Buddha's name, and turned away again.

Fushimi Lu had no experience in comforting people. He stood aside, his mind full of classic lines from TV dramas: "Let her be alone at this time", "Don't disturb her", "Nothing you say will help"...

Just as he was about to leave, Yuan Yuzi grabbed the corner of his clothes.

The latter was still crying, but Fushimi Shika already understood.

At this time, a girl needs a solid chest and bury her tears in someone else's arms so that she won't be so sad... Sure enough, the little rich woman also needs someone to rely on when she is sad!
He was about to half squat down to comfort his poor partner, but unexpectedly, Yuan Yuzi lowered her head and blew a large pool of snot with the corner of his clothes.

"Wow! How disgusting!" Fushimi Shika frowned.

"I...hiccup...I'm so sad...and you still say I'm disgusting...waa ...

Yuan Yuzi felt like the whole world was full of malice. She was terrible and felt like she was going to turn into a mountain gangster. She wanted to make creepy crying sounds to scare away all those guys who didn't care about her tears!

Hearing this, Fushimi Shika sighed. He took the rabbit doll from Yuan Yuzi's hand, imitated Kawai's tone, and patted Yuan Yuzi's head with the rabbit doll:
"Tamako-chan is the best, you must cheer up."

"Eh?" Yuan Yuzi was stunned and really stopped crying.

Fushimi Shika saw that it was effective, so he struck while the iron was hot and said, "I can feel that this doll is attached with Kawai's spiritual power. Just now, she was using my body to speak..."

"How childish! So Fushimi-san is just like an elementary school student, believing in ghosts and super powers?" Gen Yuzi blinked her eyes. There were still traces of tears on her face, and she spoke with a faint sobbing tone, using the tone of a kindergarten teacher educating children, saying: "Listen carefully, when people die, there is nothing left."

Fushimi Kakoshi, what nonsense! Do you need to teach me about this? I am only saying this to comfort you!
But it was not appropriate to say such things, so he held it in for a while before deciding to finish this lame show.

"Oh, nothing is absolute. I am Kawai!" He said while fiddling with his rabbit doll.

Yuan Yuzi wiped away her tears and said seriously: "What is my real purpose of becoming a police officer? This is a secret that only Kawai knows! If you can answer it, I will believe you!"

Fushimi Luxin said, "You're not done yet, are you? Why is this naughty child so hard to comfort?" He recalled that in his previous life, he comforted a friend who had been heartbroken. He only needed to give him a red envelope and take him to wash his feet. Why was there so much procrastination?
"Oh, I don't have enough spiritual power. I'm going to sleep first!" He still managed to make up the lie.

Yuan Yuzi took the rabbit doll with both hands, and her emotions inexplicably calmed down.

What if, maybe, it is possible that Kawai's thoughts really remain in this rabbit.

"In fact, I have been having nightmares during this period," Yuan Yuzi whispered, "I dreamed that you and Kawai became murderers, and you murdered Instructor Sakurai together."

Fushimi Shika was shocked and didn't know what to say.

"But Kawai and I have agreed to be partners in justice together. So I believe her, she will definitely not do such a thing!"

Yuan Yuzi raised her head, her eyes, washed by tears, reflected the sunlight and sparkled: "She must have just wanted to persuade Instructor Sakurai to surrender, just like what the newspaper said! And you are just a victim implicated by Instructor Sakurai, right!"

Fushimi Shika suddenly realized that his lie was not very clever, but Gen Tamako chose to believe it.

"Yeah." He nodded.

"Yoshi!" Yuan Yuzi cheered up again and shouted loudly: "Start counting!"

Fushimi Shika was stunned. He was stared at by Yuan Yuzi and said reluctantly, "One."

"Two!" After Gen Yuzi finished shouting, she held up the rabbit doll and imitated Kawai's tone, and shouted again: "Three!"

"Count complete!"

"All members of the reasoning team are here!"

"Let's go now, Snow Brand parlor!"

Fushimi Shika followed her out of the temple gate.

He looked back and saw that the flowers of the ginkgo tree had fallen, and the dense branches and leaves were spreading out, and the courtyard was full of greenery. The sun moved over the hill, and the concrete road was filled with a little heat. He and Yuan Yuzi took off their coats and strode into the cold drink and dessert shop.

Summer is finally here.

……

If life is a novel, according to the usual routine, the next step should be fast-forwarding to "Summer Murder Case", "Summer Funny Daily Life", "Summer Festival Fireworks Party"... But the lives of most ordinary people are boring and repetitive, and Fushimi Kakashi is no exception.

For the next six months, he studied, trained, and slacked off at the police academy.

Whenever Gen Tamako mentioned the investigation, Fushimi Shika pretended to have a headache, saying that he might have organic sequelae, then saying that it might be a relapse of PTSD.

But when it comes to his vacation time, he becomes full of energy.

Because Gen Tamako particularly loves to go to dessert shops, she has an almost morbid obsession with sweets, but she is embarrassed to go shopping alone, so she always brings Fushimi Kazuka with her. The latter eats and drinks for free every now and then, and she personally experiences what kind of carefree life Kawai used to live.

In the blink of an eye, late autumn has arrived.

Six months have passed in a flash, and graduation is almost here.

The new instructor, Masahiro Shirata, gave the students a surprise. He announced that the written test would be cancelled for the graduation exam and replaced with a practical exam, so that the students could be mentally prepared.

"Listen carefully! Don't think that you are qualified to be a police officer just because you have received six months of training! This will be the final test and the most severe test in your police academy career! Losers are not worthy of graduating from the Hokkaido Police Academy, so be mentally prepared!"

Shirata Masahiro was standing on the playground giving a speech, and it seemed like he was serious about it.

Gen Yuzi was so nervous that she couldn't sleep all night, fearing that she would not pass the exam and not graduate. She asked Fushimi Shika how he was preparing, and he always gave the same answer: "What to prepare? The instructor didn't highlight the key points, nor did he say what we would test. What can I prepare for?"

When she heard that Fushimi Shika was not prepared either, she felt relieved.

At lunch time, Yuan Yuzi poked at the broccoli and couldn't help but sigh:

"I don't know which town we'll be assigned to after graduation. What if we're not assigned to the same ward?"

"That's great... No, I mean it's a pity," said Fushimi Shika.

After graduation, the six-month partnership period came to an end. If the two of them were not in the same group, he would no longer have to endure Yuan Yuzi's questioning and could finally enjoy a peaceful daily life of slacking off!
The air of freedom is right before your eyes!

(End of this chapter)