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But it is precisely because of this that I feel so blocked in my heart.

Is this the only way for such a young girl, who is not yet an adult?

Turning her head, she looked at the police post behind her, then at the crowd in the square in front of her. Asada Shino opened her mouth but still didn't know what to say.

She was fighting criminals like a vigilante and was complacent about it. But when she really saw this scene, Asada Shino suddenly felt that what was the difference between herself, a complacent vigilante, and the guy in the police post behind her who could only watch all this?

Is this all I'm pursuing?

There was a voice in Asada Shino's heart telling her clearly that no, she was not a vigilante who could only "stand guard", but...

What else can I do?

108. Special medicine injection

What else can I do?

In fact, Rika would think so sometimes, but it was just a thought.

Just like an artist's occasional complaints and thoughts about life, after thinking, he always has to return to life. In order to have a place to stay tonight, he still has to take cases.

Oh, this “taking the case” doesn’t mean taking over the case like a private detective, but...**.

Rika is sixteen years old this year - actually she lied about her age and said she was fifteen. But if she said she was fifteen, many customers would be worried about breaking the law and getting arrested, so she said she was sixteen.

Rika was also fifteen years old when she first came into contact with this business, about half a year ago. At that time, Rika had only a little money left and thought that she would commit suicide after spending this little money, so she ran to the gigo in front of Kabukicho to play FGO arcade, and then someone came up to her and asked how much money it cost.

So I did it.

Of course, this business is not good, everyone knows it, and there will always be customers who persuade Rika to think about the future with a heavy face during the sage time, but...

"I can't even imagine tomorrow, so I'll just have to continue to live like this" - Rika would always answer like this.

In fact, Rika had fantasies about the future. She had thought about saving money and going to a specialized school so that she could learn the skills and become a manicurist. For this reason, Rika worked hard and could do it four or five times a day to make money, but...

No, because Rika has no identity.

Her identity was with her parents, and Rika begged them to give her her insurance card and other things, but was rejected. Later, Rika was taken to a shelter, but her parents wouldn't come to claim her after she had stayed there for a long time, so she had to run away again, but was caught again, and ran away again, repeating the cycle.

Japan's shelters are not like those in the colonial country, which will teach you a skill or enable you to survive. Japan just arrests homeless people, that's all.

So the only thing you can do, the only work you can work hard on, is **.

There are actually many girls like Rika, who, for various reasons, escaped from home or lost contact, and have no hope of escaping their current life, so they gathered in Toyoko, where they depended on each other. If they made money, they would get a room in the cheapest couple hotel and sleep together with several people. If they didn't make money, they would sleep on the street.

The hotel owner was very nice and never complained about a room (there were several people in it), so everyone was very grateful and never damaged anything in the room and tried to keep it tidy when they left.

Just like that, we just try our best to survive, and no one will encourage each other by saying things like "think more positively" or "hold on", because everyone knows that just being alive is already the best they can do.

But misfortunes always happen to the unfortunate ones with special rage.

One of Rika's friends got syphilis.

Generally speaking, if you have this disease, you can just commit suicide. It is much more comfortable than being tortured to death slowly due to lack of money for treatment. Many people who suddenly disappeared in Dongheng were either captured by a protection center or died.

The deaths of these unidentified people will not even be noticed, unless their families report them missing, the police will accept the case.

But most family members will not report their disappearance, so these people who are actually dead will continue to be "alive" in a way that they still exist but their whereabouts are unknown.

And this falls into the category of the hermits, those guys who live on the edge of abandoned buildings.

It's a strange relationship, isn't it? Maybe even a little weird?

But in Japan, this is the real "story".

Rika's friend who had syphilis was originally going to die according to customary practice, as people would be shunned by others if they had the disease anyway. However, when Rika took the case, she unexpectedly got a box of "miracle medicine".

Of course, this was not stolen. Rika was willing to work hard to earn money. Although this job was illegal, it was different from stealing - even if she was at the bottom of the society, stealing was still despised.

Rika accidentally found this box of special medicine on the chair where the guest put his clothes after he left.

There weren't a lot of words written on the box of the special medicine. The box even looked a little irregular. There was no trademark and no incomprehensible symbols. What's more, it was mostly Chinese characters. Rika didn't know many words, so she took a picture of it with her mobile phone and then read it out and listened to it. Only then did she roughly understand that this seemed to be a trial antiviral drug.

The drug is applicable to syphilis.

So Rika sent this message to her companions almost without hesitation, asking her to die later so that she could try out the medicine first to see if it would work.

If it is useless, it’s not too late to die. If it is useful, then wouldn’t you be able to survive?

Although the concepts of life and death seem to have become particularly indifferent, and it seems that they can die at any time without a care, but in fact, these people do not want to die in particular - similar people have already died, and those who are active in Dongheng all want to live.

The reason for death is simply because there is no way to live.

......

After informing her companions by phone, Rika didn't delay any longer and hurried to Toyoko - the place where Rika took the case was in a relatively high-end couple's hotel quite far away. She took the opportunity to take a good bath before doing it. For people like Rika, the main way to take a bath is to take a case.

After all, if you ask “Can I take a shower first?” before doing it, 90% of people will not refuse.

Because she was in a hurry to get on the road, Rika accidentally bumped into a passerby on the road. Fortunately, the other party did not mean to cause trouble, so Rika hurriedly apologized, quickly reunited with her companions, and then took the medicine to find the unlucky guy who was sick.

By the way, Li Xiang carefully took out the medicine and looked at it on the way. Unlike the conventional tablets, capsules, pills, etc., these medicines are liquids, and the medicine is contained in a kind of injection that looks very advanced. It seems that it can be automatically injected as long as it is inserted into the body.

This looks like a very advanced medicine, so it should be very effective, right?

Following their two companions and walking quickly for a while, Rika and the other two soon came to a windproof corner against the wall. There sat a girl who looked to be about eighteen or nineteen years old. She was leaning against the wall with a tired look on her face, holding a cigarette in her mouth and smoking silently with her eyes closed.

After hearing the footsteps of Rika and the other two, the girl opened her eyes and looked over, then greeted them in a slightly hoarse voice.

"Hey, Rika, you're here."

"Well, Sister Yuan, I brought the medicine!"

109. Injection of unknown drugs

Rika met Sister Yuan when she first came to Toyoko.

No one knows what Sister Yuan's last name is. She herself refuses to tell it, saying that she wants to completely abandon that dirty last name. So everyone either calls her Sister Yuan or Yuan-chan. In Rika's small circle, Sister Yuan has always played the role of "big sister".

But Sister Yuan is really good at taking care of people and is very trustworthy.

When she first wandered to Toyoko, Rika was just a little kid who knew nothing. She even sold her virginity for a very low price. She was so stupid. If it weren't for Sister Yuan's help, she really wouldn't know how she would be bullied.

Later, Sister Yiyuan pulled Lixiang into the small circle of the group for warmth, taught Lixiang many tricks of survival, and also prevented Lixiang from being "blackmailed" by other people here - not only money, but also physical blackmail.

Although some people think that having fallen into this situation, it doesn't matter if there is nothing to lose?

But taking cases is a job, and outside of work, they are human beings - not a ball of dirty silicone, or a rag. It doesn't mean that everything doesn't matter after doing this job, and they can trample their last remaining dignity into pieces.

They are human beings, living people. Even if they don't live like human beings, they should at least try to behave like human beings, right?

In Rika's memory, Sister Yuan is the person who strives to make herself and everyone else live a decent life. Even Rika's dream of saving money to go to school and become a manicurist was told to her by Sister Yuan.

But Sister Yuan herself was very unlucky. She believed her boyfriend's promise and dreamed of marrying him. As a result, the man disappeared with the money that Sister Yuan was about to save for school.

No matter how mature she is, Sister Yuan is just a 20-year-old girl after all. The huge gap between having hope so close yet being shattered made Sister Yuan a little crazy, and she began to take on cases crazily to try to make money.

Then unfortunately I got sick.

After discovering that she was infected with the disease, Sister Yuan originally wanted to leave here, maybe to go somewhere else, or to leave Tokyo and go to the countryside, anyway, go far away - Toyoko is a place where not only young people from Tokyo and surrounding areas gather, but even children from Hokkaido come here with suitcases to "survive".

For young people of this age group, this is their "place of survival", where there are the most peers and related industries. They feel more at ease here than hanging out with a group of adults.

But just when Sister Yuan was about to leave, Rika unexpectedly got the box of special medicine.

It is hard to say whether Sister Yuan still has the desire to survive after her boyfriend ran away with her money and her love and dreams were shattered, but after repeated requests from Rika and several other girls, Sister Yuan decided to try again.

Injecting drugs of strange origin and unknown effects into the body sounds like a stupid thing, but it is quite common for young people in Toyoko.

Whether it is to numb oneself with addictive drugs, or to suddenly not want to live anymore and commit suicide by taking drugs, a large number of medicine boxes and tin foil can be found in the garbage scattered all over Toyoko Plaza almost every day.

So it's normal to give yourself an injection of unknown origin but high-end-looking stuff!

"...Is this the thing?"

In a corner with few people, she sat cross-legged on the ground, put out the cigarette butt casually, and reached out to take the medicine box that Rika solemnly handed over to her. Sister Yuan closed her eyes and tried hard to recognize the words on it, but in the end she found that she didn't recognize those Chinese characters at all.

For the Japanese, the difference in "recognizing characters" does not lie in whether you can read kana, but in whether you can read kanji. People who don't even know kana are probably only found in very remote areas, but there are quite a lot of "semi-illiterate" people who don't know kanji.

It can generally be understood that the more Chinese characters a person can recognize and use, the higher his cultural level is, while people who know very few and often read them incorrectly will be considered "illiterate."

But this box of medicine seemed to be deliberately showing off, as it was basically written entirely in Chinese characters.

But it doesn’t really matter!

No matter what is written on it, haven't I already made up my mind to give it a try?

"Rika, you guys come over here and block me, I'm going to try this... Where should I stick this thing? Is the arm okay?"

After looking at it over and over for a while, Sister Yuan no longer hesitated. She opened the package quickly, took out an injection, and gestured at her arm.

After receiving the call, Rika and the others moved over carefully and tried their best to surround Sister Yuan - the injection behavior was a bit sensitive, and they were afraid of being mistaken for drug addicts.

However, it must be said that although this injection looks complicated and confusing, it is surprisingly easy to use. After pulling out the protective shell of the needle, Sister Yuan hardened her heart, gritted her teeth, and injected the needle into her arm.

Then, after the needle tip was inserted into the flesh, the injection unexpectedly made a sound similar to the sound of a tire deflation, and all the liquid medicine in the tube was automatically injected into it.

Afterwards, under the concerned gazes of Rika and the others, Sister Yuan gently pulled out the injection, carefully put the needle that was stained with her own body fluids back into the protective shell, and then she frowned slightly and moved her shoulders.

"How do you feel, Sister Yuan?"

"Well, I didn't feel anything too much, but my arm felt a little warm, as if the medicine was flowing through my body - of course, it could also be a psychological effect..."

She waved her hand gently, and looking at Rika and the others who seemed to want to ask something, Sister Yuan quickly returned to her usual cheerful and generous appearance, interrupting them.

"Alright! Even if the medicine is going to take effect, it will take time. It's already late. You don't plan to stay here with me all night, do you? Go to bed when you need to. I won't die overnight. We can just wait and see the effects tomorrow!"

"But......"

"Not so much but, go to bed now, don't work tomorrow? Or do you plan to sleep in front of the guests?"

After carefully putting the protective capsule into her pocket, Sister Yuan began to chase people away. If it were in the past, Sister Yuan would naturally sleep in a room with everyone else, but now...

This disease is highly contagious.

Under Sister Yuan's insistence, Rika and the others could only go to a nearby couple hotel out of worry. As for Sister Yuan herself...

Watching the few people gradually disappearing in the crowd, Sister Yuan maintained a bright smile on her face until they were completely out of sight, and then it slowly disappeared.

Medicine...Reaching out and touching the used injection in her pocket, Sister Yuan revealed a bitter smile.

How is it possible that when you get sick you would just happen to find useful medicine?

If we really had such luck, myself, Rika, and the other sisters would probably not be living this kind of life...

Good luck never favors unfortunate people.

It's just that I don't know what kind of medicine this is. After it was injected, it felt a bit hot and now my shoulders are a bit numb and bloated...

Covering the arm that had been injected with the injection, Sister Yuan took a deep breath and tried to stand up, intending to stay away from here - no matter what the medicine was, it would not kill her immediately, so she had to find a place to spend the night.

As the weather gets colder, Sister Yuan doesn't want to sleep on a piece of cardboard in the square.

But I don’t know if it’s an illusion. After getting up, Sister Yuan suddenly felt a little dizzy. This shouldn’t be a symptom of illness, right? Besides, she had only been infected for a short time, how could it be so serious?

Is this the medicine?

She staggered a bit, but luckily she grabbed the wall in time. Sister Yuan shook her head vigorously to make herself more awake, then left Toyoko Plaza with a staggering gait.

I really don't know what kind of medicine this is. Could it have a sleeping effect?

110. Kill monsters and get equipment

The night passed quietly.

Asada Shino once read in a book that the rising and setting of the sun seemed like a renewal, but in fact, people were just worms crawling in time, and the previous day and the next day were just two connected parts of the body - so inseparable and influencing each other that if they were torn apart forcibly, a bloody scar would be exposed.

This is especially true for Shino Asada.

Asada Shino suffered from insomnia for the first time in her life.

Last night's chivalrous act should have been very simple, just like what she usually did, fighting crime, protecting the weak, and teaching those thugs a lesson, but... Shino Asada did nothing last night.

She just stood there in a daze for a long time on the edge of the Toyokogawa Square, until someone came over and asked her how much it cost for one time. Then Asada Shino suddenly panicked and ran back home.

Then, he stared at the ceiling for another whole night.

Asada Shino kept thinking, if she wanted to continue to be a "chivalrous man" like she was last night, then what should she do?

Those unruly teenagers in the square are making loud noises and have no manners at all. They disturb others, litter and even take drugs. Shouldn't we take care of such guys and teach them a lesson?

A group of sinister and obscene men are roaming around the square, looking for girls, luring them and even playing with them in some perverted ways. Should I beat them up and hand them over to the police?

Yes, that's right, I should do that, but...