Tokyo: Rabbit Police and Her Evil Partner
Chapter 301 Welcome to the Zhang Family
Chapter 301 Welcome home
"What happened next?" Yuan Yuzi couldn't help wiping away her tears.
When Mayu Ito was recounting the past, the residents looked nostalgic, interrupted from time to time, and added some small details, making the character profile in her mind more real.
"Koizumi loves eating dango very much, and always chews it with his mouth covered..."
"Yes, and she likes painting very much. She drew all the posters in the village..."
"Sometimes I tap her shoulder from behind and she gets startled..."
The original residents of the town have now become middle-aged people. They sit on the edge of the cliff with their husbands or wives, talking to each other and talking about the past with bitter smiles.
The lingering sadness was like a moist sea breeze, which whistled past and left behind almost transparent salt grains, which accumulated over time and formed a thick white shell.
Ever since the ferry left the port, Koizumi Mizuha has been like a lost soul, standing on the edge of the cliff day and night, looking at the horizon.
The boyfriend jumped off the ship with his daughter and disappeared. The crew sent a telegram to inform them that they must have drowned and reported "cargo damage".
Perhaps out of guilt, or perhaps because Mizuha Koizumi picked up the kitchen knife, Mr. Tsuchiya did not continue to pester her. Instead, he passed on the news of the damage and hypocritically paid a small amount of compensation.
After that, Sister Koizumi found a job as a tower guard, watching the port day and night.
Whenever a ferry came into the port, she would run to look, repeating Yingzi's name and gesturing awkwardly with her hands. The crew and fishermen all knew her, and when they got off the boat on the return trip, they were used to waving their hands and shaking their heads.
Mayu Ito has also grown up. She has reached her rebellious period and yearns for the big city outside. Every time she quarrels with her parents, she goes to the lighthouse to find Sister Koizumi. The latter always makes her feel a gentle power, firm in silence, and flexible like a wild flower in the cracks of the stone.
"Why do you have to keep waiting? Sister Koizumi, have you ever thought about... starting over?"
She lowered her head and sat on the lawn side by side with Koizumi Mizuha. When the latter heard this, she stretched out her hand and gestured lightly:
"She will definitely come back"
"I will always wait for her"
……
This wait is three years.
Spring goes and winter comes, and the cold and heat never stop. Mayu Ito spent three years of her youth. In spring, she went to the mountains to pick flowers, and met Koizumi Mizuha guarding the cliff. She shouted: "They won't come back! Sister, please go home!" When it snowed in winter, she and her friends came to make a snowman, but saw Koizumi Mizuha still sitting there, with a thick layer of snow on her body.
As white as salt.
……
On the day Mayu Ito graduated, she went to the movies with her friends. The movie being shown was "Hachiko: A Dog's Tale". She had never heard of Hachiko before, she only knew that it was a story about an Akita dog.
As a mountain person, she couldn't really empathize with the movie. The male protagonist adopting Hachiko was not uncommon in the countryside. She also raised an Akita dog, which had a bad temper and was stubborn. Later, it ran away. She was sad for a few days, but the matter was over.
However, when she saw Hachiko guarding Shibuya train station day after day, tears inexplicably fell.
Friends laughed at her for being hypocritical. No one in the cinema was moved. This movie was shown in a small rural town, which was really the wrong audience. Everyone was drowsy, and only Mayu Ito was in tears.
"Don't you think it's cruel?" she asked her friend, "What's the point of letting it wait for someone who won't come back?"
My friend couldn't answer the question and thought Mayu Ito was weird. She suddenly made a big deal out of it. Could she really be moved by a silly dog?
Mayu Ito suddenly wanted an answer, so she said goodbye to her friends and took a bus back to town. Her parents were very happy to see her come home after a long absence and wanted to keep her at home for dinner. But she couldn't wait a moment and asked about Koizumi's recent situation.
Unexpectedly, the parents looked embarrassed and hesitated. Ito Mayu asked again and again, and then she learned that several detectives from the investigation department came to the town to fight against violent gangs and were looking for trouble with Mr. Tsuchiya and the gang members every day.
Seeing that a reliable police officer had arrived in town, Koizumi Mizuha wanted to ask the Investigation Division to help find her daughter. Mr. Tsuchiya was worried that she would call the police, so he tried to stop her and often brought people to her house to threaten her.
Everyone gave her an advice, suggesting that she go to the newspaper and post a missing person notice. This was better than just waiting on her own and also to avoid angering Mr. Tsuchiya and bringing revenge.
Koizumi Mizuha went to Shizuoka Prefecture alone and begged the newspaper to publish a missing person notice, but she refused to reveal the detailed address, fearing that her daughter would run into Mr. Tsuchiya and others when she returned home.
The editor felt sorry for her and agreed to remove the joke column in the center of the newspaper and replace it with a small missing person notice.
The Investigation Division learned about this and went to Koizumi Mizuha to question her, repeatedly stating that they would guarantee Koizumi Mizuha's safety. The two sides communicated with each other using pen and paper, and Koizumi Mizuha told the truth about everything she had experienced in order to find her daughter. The Investigation Division sent a criminal police officer to guard the scene, and the rest of the people went back to submit reports, handle formalities, and mobilize reinforcements.
That night, Mr. Tsuchiya bribed the detective on duty, dragged Koizumi Mizuha out of the lighthouse, called all the residents to watch, and then led people to beat Koizumi Mizuha with wooden sticks in the square where a bonfire was lit in the hot spring town.
"This is what happens when you snitch!"
Mr. Tsuchiya killed a chicken to scare the monkeys, and he did not let the dying Koizumi Mizuha go until the residents knelt down and begged him to stop. Afterwards, he went to the local police station, made arrangements in advance, and reported Koizumi Mizuha missing, asking her not to appear in front of the police again.
That day, Mayu Ito cried until she was hoarse, but she didn't hear the answer she wanted.
The residents called in a surgeon for emergency treatment, but Koizumi Mizuha struggled on the brink of life and death for two days but still could not recover.
Before she closed her eyes, everyone gathered around her, sobbing softly, and only then did they realize that the girl who was as thin as a coal ball was once their family member.
At the moment of her last breath, Mizuha Koizumi stretched out her hands and gestured, expressing her last wishes.
They said it was impossible, but they kept it in mind. They had complained countless times that Koizumi Mizuha was a burden and that she would starve to death sooner.
But in fact, Koizumi Mizuha had never been hungry for a single day. She grew up in this place where mountains and seas meet, and everyone buried her under the lighthouse, which was considered a return to her roots.
That low stone pillar is the tombstone of Mizuha Koizumi.
……
"If one day"
"The one I love, or the one you love"
"Returning to the cliff from the other side of the sea"
"Please shout"
"Her name"
"Welcome Home"
……
Ping Yingzi stood on the deck. The cliff in front of her was pitch black and the sea breeze was howling, like a ghost town.
The sea shook, she held onto the railing, turned around and asked the crew how far they were - the dancer claimed that Koizumi Mizuha had something heirloom to give her, so she followed them to the port and took a boat back to the sea cliff.
The crew member looked at the watch and said, "Soon," which was what he said half an hour ago. Ping Yingzi was alert, her hand was always in the cardboard box, holding the gun handle from the moment she got on the boat.
She had gotten used to it, used to the malice of the people around her, used to her own life being displaced. As Fushimi Shika said, this world is full of thorns, and if you want to survive, you can only adapt. There is no point in escaping, and there is no way out behind her...
At this time, dawn broke.
The first ray of morning light pierced the sea surface, just like Moses parting the Red Sea. The darkness was split in two between the cliffs and the sea, and flocks of seagulls returning from their migration to the south flew by.
Ping Yingzi's eyes fell on the lighthouse, where a group of people she had never met stood, shouting to her. The sea breeze brought their hoarse shouts to her ears:
"Sakura——"
"——Welcome home!"
Ping Yingzi turned around, looking confused. The crew member scratched his head embarrassedly and said, "Sorry, I lied to you. Koizumi didn't leave anything behind..." He paused, restrained his expression, and said seriously, "But before she died, she wanted her daughter to know that she had been waiting here and had never given up. There was a harbor here that belonged to you."
Yes, every broken soul is looking for a home.
There is always someone who will wait for you.
(End of this chapter)
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