It was a new day. The weather was clear and cloudless. A certain someone, who had not slept the entire night and had dark circles under his eyes, did not dare to run away. His heart was filled with gloom.
The good student, Tatara, carried his backpack and walked out of the house step by step, peeking at the two silent people.
Had something happened while he was asleep that he didn't know about? Looking at their expressions, he felt as if he had missed the whole world. Ah, he really wanted to know. He really wanted to stay.
Yuanyuan's eyes darted around, and Tatara began to think of an excuse.
As if he had received his "bad" intentions, Shi Shu Sen glared at him with eyes that had become even smaller because he hadn't slept all night. "Duo Liang, if you don't go to school now, you'll be late! I didn't spend so much money for you to waste! "
"Skipping class occasionally is fun!" Duo Liang drew back his lips, delusionally wanting to bluff his way through as usual. However, Shi Shu Sen, who had something on his mind, naturally wouldn't go along with him. His voice was calm and serious as he said, "Fun my ass. Duo Liang, obediently go to class!"
Tatara was stunned. He did not expect him to be so serious today. He was even more confused. Did his unreliable father really fall in love with Sister Reiko at first sight? Did he dislike him for being a hindrance and want to avoid him to pursue her?
Of course, he would be happy if there was a good outcome. However, no matter how he thought about it, Sister Reiko was at a disadvantage … Even his father could not speak for him when it came to beauty and animals.
After all, Tatara was still a kid who had just entered middle school. No matter how precocious he was, he could not help but show some of his thoughts on his face. Reiko could tell at a glance that he was thinking the wrong way. She could not hold back the seriousness on her face. "Tatara, this guy is right. Kids should go to school to study hard and improve themselves every day!"
— — So, without him knowing, the two of them had become so close that they had even changed the way they addressed each other and stopped using honorifics?
"Okay, Sister Reiko." Although the gossipy heart in his heart was surging, Tatara smiled on the surface and obediently agreed. He walked out in a particularly straightforward manner.
Tokugawa Sen was just about to heave a sigh of relief and prepare to negotiate with the girl as soon as he left. However, Tatara, who had walked to the door, suddenly turned around and said seriously, "Sister Reiko, although my father looks fierce, has no money, doesn't have a proper job, and likes to gamble, he's really not a bad person! Please be merciful and let him live! "
After that, he bowed respectfully to Reiko. Before Tokugawa Sen could react, he closed the door and ran away.
After a long while, Tokugawa Sen finally reacted. His face instantly flushed red, and he straightened his neck and roared, "F * ck, little bastard, don't come back if you dare!"
However, of course, the one who responded to him was not Tatara, who had already run away, but Reiko, who chuckled softly.
As soon as she smiled, Shi Shu Sen's heart trembled. He raised his head to look at her, then immediately lowered his head … A tall and sturdy man, like a golden retriever that had made a mistake, obediently knelt in front of her.
Her slender fingers brushed across the Tai Dao, who was pretending to be a corpse again. Reiko was the first to break the silence. She lowered her eyes and asked indifferently, "You've been thinking about it all night. Have you thought about how to say goodbye to Tatara?"
"I …" Tokugawa Sen was stunned. He looked up at her, but met her ambiguous gaze. He immediately panicked and lowered his head, not daring to look at her.
Last night, after he found the message on the strange phone, he had a rare moment of inspiration and guessed her true identity. She had also readily admitted it.
It wasn't that he didn't want to run away, but when she turned to look at Tatara, he gave up. Even though his intuition told him that she wouldn't do anything to Tatara, he still didn't dare to take the risk.
She also didn't intend to do anything to him. She only asked him to think about how to say goodbye to Tatara before lying down to sleep.
She slept well, but he didn't sleep the whole night. He had been thinking about countermeasures, but he couldn't come up with anything even after racking his brains.
To be honest, he had thought about this day before, but that was when he had just become Tokugawa Sen. He didn't expect that seven years later, when he was about to forget his origin and identity, someone would suddenly appear and announce that the journey of life he had secretly embarked on was about to come to an end … It was so sudden that he was caught off guard.
Yes, he wasn't Tokugawa Sen. He wasn't the street scoundrel who was addicted to gambling, drove his wife away, and almost starved his adopted son to death in a broken apartment. Before he became Tokugawa Sen, he was called Ken Sato. He was the youngest son of the president of a listed electronics company in Osaka.
When he was very young, he had symptoms of thalassemia. Fortunately, his family was rich and kept him alive with money. Coupled with the love of his parents and brother, even though he didn't go to school for a single day, even though he had no friends, he still tried his best to live with the love and encouragement of his family. However, he still couldn't endure the torment of his illness. Before his eighteenth birthday, he had a serious attack and chose to end his own life.
Hell wasn't as scary as he had imagined. He calmly accepted the punishment for his irresponsible decision to give up his life. However, before the punishment could even begin, hell was in chaos. He and a group of souls were pushed off the broken bridge. When he woke up, he had already become Tokugawa Sen who had been beaten to death by debt collectors because of his gambling debts.
Not only did coming back from the dead bring him the joy of being a human again, but after inexplicably gaining the memories of Tokugawa Sen, there was also the heavy burden and responsibility of life that could crush him.
There was no Sato family in this world that loved him. There was only a skinny and pitiful little boy waiting for his irresponsible father to come home.
In the beginning, he was very afraid that people would find out that he wasn't Tokugawa Sen. He was still injured, so he hurriedly moved away from his original residence with Tatara. At that time, he almost lost his second life that he had painstakingly obtained. It was the four-year-old Tatara who took money from his bag and found a doctor to save his life.
From then on, he treated Tatara as his responsibility. However, at that time, he always felt that someone would come and take him away in the next second, so he didn't dare to put too much emotion into it. Therefore, he learned from the original Tokugawa Sen how he treated Tatara … Of course, he only scolded him verbally. He really couldn't do anything about it. God knows how those filthy words came out of this obedient child's mouth. In any case, he got used to it over time.
The difficult part was making a living. He didn't know how to do anything because he was isolated from the world because of his illness since he was young. In addition, Tokugawa Sen wasn't very cultured, so he could only do some manual labor. He worked from morning to night to earn a little money, and because of his naive personality, he suffered a lot. Even so, he and Tatara didn't have a problem with food and clothing.
It wasn't until Tatara was hospitalized due to long-term malnutrition that he had to pick up Tokugawa Sen's original skills and go to the casino to make money.
What he didn't expect was that Tokugawa Sen's gambling skills, coupled with his extraordinary memory and calculation ability, made him like a fish in water in the casino.
He didn't have much experience in society. At that time, he only cared about making money to treat Tatara's illness. He didn't know how dark the world was. After a series of painful lessons, he was able to save up enough money to pay for the medical expenses.
In the next few years, it was enough time to dye a piece of white paper black. He finally went from a naive person who didn't know anything to a wily old fox that could be seen everywhere in the city. He was a flowery talker, but deep down, he knew the rules that he didn't understand at all.
He usually worked to earn some living expenses, and occasionally went to the casino to improve his life. He wasn't rich, but the life of an adult and a child was still passable … He could also occasionally let Tatara develop new hobbies.
To be honest, he had lived as Tokugawa Sen for seven years. He had a healthy body and a family that depended on each other. Although he was poor, he had no regrets. He had always been preparing for the day he left. He wasn't greedy, but now wasn't the right time. He still needed a little more time.
Reiko didn't rush him. She stroked the Tai Dao again and again. In the end, she couldn't take it anymore and pricked the Tai Dao with his spiritual energy. She pursed her lips and withdrew her mischievous fingers.
Just then, the man who had been silent all this time finally moved.
Tokugawa Sen, who was kneeling with both hands on his forehead, lowered his waist and head, and respectfully asked, "Master, please give me a little more time. Let me arrange for many of my sons."
Lingzi paused for a while. In fact, if he was as rude and unreasonable as yesterday, or simply ran away or acted shamelessly, she could still deal with him in a tough way. However, when he asked her so sincerely and courteously, she actually didn't know how to deal with him.
Speaking of which … did this man actually have multiple personality disorder? He was completely different from the impatient middle-aged man from yesterday. However …
Reiko pursed her lips and leaned lazily against the wall. She said in a stern voice, "Why should I agree to such a request?"
Shishu Sen, who was prostrating himself, stiffened. That's right, why did she agree to his request? If she was so strong, she could just take him away directly … So, since she didn't take him away directly, that meant …
Tokugawa Sen's mind had never been so clear. He abruptly raised his head, and a smug smile appeared on his bruised face. "Actually, you can't take me away right now, right?"
Reiko's expression froze. She had been hunting wild geese all year round, only to be pecked in the eye by the wild geese. This was probably how she felt right now.
"So it's like that! Don't tell me it's the kind of thing that's often written in novels where the person has to agree to it willingly … Could it be that I was right? "
Reiko, who had a part of the truth guessed correctly, was speechless.
Her silence confirmed Tokugawa Sen's suspicions. His expression changed, and he turned back into the pompous middle-aged man from yesterday. He rubbed his blonde hair into a bird's nest and muttered as he walked out, "You made me worry for the entire night. Seriously!"
Reiko narrowed her eyes at his back, and her hand slowly covered the Tai Dao beside her. As expected, it was best to get rid of such an annoying man and bring him back.
"Master."
The man who had already reached the door suddenly stopped and shouted.
"What?" Reiko, who was considering whether to use her fists or the Tai Dao to beat him up, said in annoyance.
"I only need one month. I only need one month. I'll definitely go with you when the time comes."
Reiko was stunned. She raised her head to look at him, but all she could see was his towering but tragic back. She couldn't see the expression under his lowered head.
"If you're still worried, I can pawn my son to you."
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