Arknights, Suika's Messenger Journey

"Commander, should I send her to the Guard Bureau now?" Seeing that the other side didn't speak, Xingxiong had to bite the bullet and ask.

"Well, since she chose to come back to you, it means that she may not be who we thought she was before.

What is she doing now?

"Already asleep!"

"In that case, bring her to the Guards Bureau tomorrow morning when you go to work!" Jiu on the other end of the phone said after thinking for a few seconds.

"Commander, I have one more thing to report!" Just as Xingxiong was about to hang up the phone, he saw the wine gourd not far away.

"what's up?"

"I suspect there are businesses in the city illegally selling alcohol to minors."

"Why do you, a policeman, care about this...that child is drunk?" Jiu on the other end was a little angry at Xingxiong's confusing words. After all, Xingxiong was also a member of the serious crime squad, and she didn't need to care about these economic crimes. But the next second she realized why the other party said such a seemingly funny thing.

"Hmm..." Xingxiong also knew that what he said was a little too funny at this time, so he at least hummed twice, neither too light nor too heavy.

"I will arrange for people to investigate all businesses in the city that are qualified to sell alcoholic beverages." After saying that, Jiu hung up the phone.

Hearing the busy tone on the phone, Xingxiong reluctantly breathed a sigh of relief.

After returning to the house and washing up briefly, she moved a camp bed to the hall and fell asleep.

the next morning.

"Ouch!" A scream was heard from inside the house.

Xingxiong, who was sleeping on the bed in the previous second, came to the door quickly like a hunting female leopard in the next second.

When I opened the door, I saw Suixiang with tears in her eyes and her head tilted up, her face full of indescribable sadness.

"You're not...wetting the bed!"

Seeing the other party's look of great sorrow and despair, Xingxiong asked with gritted teeth.

Remember, this is her bed.

"You're the one who wet the bed, your whole family wets the bed!" Hearing what Xingxiong said, Suixiang instinctively wanted to refute, but her head did not move.

After approaching, Xingxiong also noticed that Suika was strange. She pointed to her neck and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

"I have a stiff neck...I can't move at all." Suixiang said with tears in her eyes.

"I'm glad you didn't wet the bed!" Xingxiong showed a rare gloating expression after hearing this.

"Are you laughing at me..." Suika shouted angrily when she saw the other person turning his face away but his shoulders twitching.

"No, no... I just thought of my sister in my hometown... I couldn't help but be moved by the scene..." Xingxiong wiped away tears while saying this.

But both of them knew that the tears in her eyes were not tears of homesickness, but tears of pure laughter.

However, at this time, Suika couldn't move her head because of a stiff neck, so she could only watch Xingxiong laugh but was unable to do anything.

After laughing enough, Xingxiong sat down on the bed and touched Suika's neck.

"My bed is not bad, and the pillow is the right size. How did you get the wrong pillow..."

"Don't mention it. I was half asleep and wanted to turn over, but I forgot and couldn't. As a result, I tried to do it... and when I woke up, my neck was sore."

When it comes to stiff neck, Suixiang is filled with anger.

She forgot that she now had two big things on her head, one on the left and one on the right, which just fixed her position. When she lay on the bed, her head had no room to move at all.

Xingxiong walked out with a smile on his face

"I'll make you breakfast, you rub it yourself, it will be fine in a while."

Just as Xingxiong finished making the egg noodles, Suixiang came out of the house rubbing her neck.

Sitting on the stool and looking at the noodles that Xingxiong brought to her, her expression was a little strange.

"What's wrong?" Xingxiong couldn't help but ask when he saw that Suika didn't start eating but stared at the noodles in a daze.

"It's nothing, I just feel like I've tasted this before." Touching her face, Suika looked conflicted. She felt that the taste of the egg noodles was very familiar, but she just couldn't remember where she had eaten it.

Xingxiong was amazed when she heard her words. She originally thought that Suixiang finished eating noodles in a half-asleep state last night, but it seems that she didn't wake up at all and finished eating in her sleep.

"Why do you care whether the taste is familiar or not? If you don't eat the noodles now, they will become clumpy..." Xingxiong reached out and patted her head gently.

Cuixiang thought about it and realized that this was the case. Things that you can't remember can be recalled slowly later, but if you eat noodles too slowly, they will really clump together.

Chapter 9 Ibuki Hyō is an inseparable part of Ibuki Suika

Looking at the little kid in front of him who could eat the clear soup noodles with his mouth full of oil, Xingxiong felt that he was really worrying too much yesterday.

It's hard to say how such a child could be involved in any conspiracy. She just looks silly and cute sitting here eating.

"Did you go out yesterday?"

Xingxiong suddenly asked after seeing that she had eaten and drunk her fill.

"Yes, there's nothing in your room, and it's not fun, so I went out for a walk."

Suixiang said lazily after burping on the sofa.

"and then?"

"Then I walked and walked until I turned the corner and came across an old lady selling morning tea. She insisted that I sit there and chat with her, so I did.

Then a few thieves came out, robbed the old lady of her money and beat her up. I saw those thieves running into a very narrow alley and I chased them.

But those guys ran too fast and the road was too complicated, so I lost them.

Just at this moment, a blond uncle appeared, muttering something about "not fearing hardship". When he saw me, he asked me if I was lost. I said yes, and he took me out.

After I came out, I didn’t know where to go next, and I was afraid of getting lost again, so I just came back.”

Cuixiang is very good at telling half-truths to deceive people. For example, what she said before was basically true. She didn't know what she was doing, so her coming back was also true. The only thing she said was how she came out of the alley was a lie.

Xingxiong was not unaware of this either. She asked again about the appearance of the blond uncle. Suixiang was so excited that she almost took out a pen and paper to draw what Lao Ma looked like for her.

Of course, it was only a rough description, but precisely because of this, it was more credible.

"Then this gourd..." Xingxiong looked at the wine gourd that she threw into the trash can.

"Oh, my Ibuki Hyoriya!" After hearing Hoshiguma's words and following her gaze to see the wine gourd, Suika jumped off the sofa and rushed to the trash can to take out the gourd.

The next second, she was picked up by Xingxiong

"How old are you? How can you learn to drink? Also, where did you buy this wine..."

"I don't know, I forgot, don't touch me, Ibuki Hyo..."

When she found that Xingxiong wanted to grab her wine gourd, Suixiang simply put it in front of her chest and held it tightly with her hands and feet.

Seeing her stubborn look, Xingxiong decided to put aside his previous evaluation of her as cute. It turned out that children were the epitome of trouble.

After putting it on the sofa, Xingxiong turned around and walked back to the kitchen with the bowl.

After cleaning up, Xingxiong came out

"follow me!"

"where to?"

Guards Bureau

"Oh!"

Looking at Suika following behind him with the wine gourd hugged to her chest, Xingxiong felt his eyelids twitching.

When she opened the door, a cold wind blew in, blowing up Suika's skirt. Fortunately, she was quick-witted, otherwise she would have been exposed before she even left the door.

Xingxiong realized at this moment that Suika's clothes were too thin for this season.

"Get in!" Pointing to the three-wheeled vehicle next to him, Xingxiong sat on it without saying anything.

Suika's eyes lit up when she saw the car.

Her impression of this three-wheeled vehicle was still stuck in some TV dramas, where it was a vehicle exclusively for colonels.

After getting in the car, it came onto the street accompanied by a roar.

Soon, Xingxiong parked the car in front of a newly opened children's clothing store.

"Let's go!" Xingxiong got out of the car.

"Well, your Guards Department sells children's clothing?"

As soon as Suika spoke, Xingxiong felt his fist harden again.

“No, if you go out wearing this, people will think we are child abusers in the Royal Guards.

Before you go to the Guards, I'll buy you a new set of clothes."

Xingxiong said and took her hand and walked in.

Looking at the dazzling array of beautiful clothes inside, Suixiang said that it was the first time she knew that there were so many styles of women's and children's clothing.

After some hesitation, she chose a bubble skirt that looked very similar to Patchi (Patcholino Reggie's), and then asked for a big bow to be tied at the back of the neckline. Only then did she walk out with satisfaction while Xingxiong frowned.

Before choosing this skirt, I couldn't wear many clothes because of the big horns. Fortunately, the service staff was helpful and found a way to solve this problem by wearing the skirt instead of the top.

Soon, the two arrived at the Guard Bureau.

Chen and Shi Huaiya had been waiting at the door for a long time. The former was an old partner of Xingxiong, and it was rare for her to be late today, so she came out to see what was going on.

The latter heard that the child from yesterday had been found, so he came over to see the naughty kid who had slipped away without permission and made them have a hard time finding him, and to scare him at the same time.

The two showed surprised expressions when they saw Suika getting out of the car.

"She is indeed a cute child. No wonder those human traffickers picked her up." Shi Huaiya rarely gave a good evaluation of other women.

"Well, Xingxiong, what is that gourd in this kid's hand?" Chen Ze asked curiously as he saw the other person getting off the car with one hand held by Xingxiong and the other hand still holding a gourd tightly.

"It's Ibuki Hyo!" Suika took the initiative to answer.

"Ibuki Hyō?" Chen was a little confused.

"It's the wine bottle!" Xingxiong was a little annoyed. She wanted to throw away the bottle several times along the way, but she didn't expect that this little brat was watching her very closely. As long as she had the slightest intention in this regard, she would look at her vigilantly and would not give her any chance at all.

……

"A wine bottle! Oh my God, Xingxiong, you let such a young child drink!" Shi Huaiya looked shocked.

"I... am not... ah..."

All the explanations finally turned into a long sigh from Xingxiong.

On the way into the house, the two realized that it was not Xingxiong who asked Suixiang to drink, but that this little brat didn't even eat after going out yesterday, and used all the money they gave him to buy alcohol.

I cooked her a bowl of noodles at night because she was so hungry. She managed to finish all the noodles while sleeping.

After hearing what Xingxiong said, Suixiang also remembered where the familiar feeling came from when she ate noodles in the morning. Isn't this the same bowl of noodles in her dream last night?

She felt that the dream was quite real at the time, and every bite of noodles gave her the illusion that she was really eating.

Now I realize that it was not an illusion at all, but that I was drunk and ate a bowl of noodles in a daze.

When she thought of this, she couldn't help but feel a little aggrieved. After all, this body was designed to be the Oeyama Demon King Shuten-doji. Although Ibuki Suika in Touhou was often tipsy, she only drank a few small sips. How could she have known that he would be so drunk.

Looking at the strange looks of the three people next to her, she couldn't help but feel her face flushed.

Chapter 10 I am a small expert in delivering letters

The identity check was carried out quickly

Because Suika insisted that she had no parents and didn't know where her hometown was.

Then when asked about the past, she knew nothing about anything.

The traffickers also said that they picked her up on the street.

Those abducted children can also indirectly prove this.

Considering that she went out alone during the surveillance period but eventually returned to the Xingxiong family, the final decision was to give up the observation since there was no problem.

The policeman in the room meant that since Suika was young and unable to live on her own, she should be sent to a public orphanage.

Xingxiong couldn't accept the news, so she took the initiative to find Jiu and said that she could take on the responsibility of taking care of Suixiang.

"Aren't you kidding me?

Not to mention what others will think if you raise a child without being married.

Is it your job that supports you in raising a child?"