It's good to fight in a group, you just need to focus on one target.
It's even better in single combat.
If you know you have enough arm length, you can hold your enemy's head down with your hand, and he will...
So, after receiving an urgent report of "Report to the Settlement Squad, traces of Ichijō Mirai were found, urgent notice, this is not a suspect, traces of the bastard who has already dealt with the matter and is alive and kicking again and the harbouring criminal were found!", Furuya Rei came over by smelling the smell, and saw the shaggy Matsuda Jinpei and the two hateful criminals.
They had just come out of the convenience store, carrying several bags with small colorful items.
Matsuda Jinpei was unwrapping a popsicle, his hair was unusually disheveled, looking as if it had been burned in anger, and his expression was clearly 'Don't think I've forgiven you, even though I don't beat you up anymore, and even though I shopped with you, I'm still holding a grudge.' The eyebrows were furrowed in a high and low frown, and said suspiciously: "Did you really press my head just now because you don't know how to fight and you don't want to see my face when I'm settling the score?"
One step away, Morofushi Hiromitsu, who's in the middle of breaking open a popsicle, looks up. He looks like he wants to be brave enough to tell Matsuda-san not to be fooled, but because if he opens his mouth and laughs out loud, he'll probably get a grudge from the good-natured Matsuda-san, so he opens his mouth for a few times, then urgently shuts up and lowers his head, and continues to break open the popsicle in a bustling manner.
Ichijō Mirai was still picking through the shopping bag, "Huh? Uh-huh, yeah, I don't know how to fight with my friends."
That's true.
He doesn't really know how to fight with his friends because he doesn't have any, but the truth of "I don't know how to fight, so I hold my head down"...
It's better to just say 'no, I just wanted to see if you'd keep fighting when you got pushed down and turn your arm into a pinwheel'.
"I'm happy with how you lie with a straight face, but can't you improve your speaking skills?" Matsuda Jinpei looked over slyly, "I'd like to pretend that I believe it, but that's too stupid to believe it, isn't it? Can you seriously lie again?!"
After a long time of picking, Ichijō Mirai finally picks out a popsicle, and as if it were a treasure, he unwraps it and hands it to Matsuda Jinpei himself, "This should be the coldest, come on, Matsuda, eat it! Eat the coldest popsicle you can find to cool down the worst fire!"
Matsuda Jinpei: "..."
Not only are you not lowering the fire, but you're fueling it, aren't you? Asshole!
He grabbed the popsicle and became angry again.
Before he took a bite out of the popsicle in anger, Furuya Rei met Ichijō Mirai's eyes and had to say, "Ahem, evening, good evening?"
Morofushi Hiromitsu was an accomplice, Matsuda Jinpei had defected, and the other would-be defectors had not yet arrived, so he had to take over the responsibility of settling the score, "I heard from the police officers that they caught a murderer who had been on the run for more than twenty years, and it's very impressive, and the police officers were quite frightened after questioning him, and they thought that if they hadn't caught him, he would have killed people indiscriminately on the street, given the insanity of the crime. He might have killed people on the street."
"So, heroes, don't you want to explain?"
He looked at Ichijō Mirai, who looked at Morofushi Hiromitsu, who paused and silently averted his eyes, looking at the streetlight for a few seconds before looking at Matsuda Jinpei, unwilling to accept the 'explanations? and 'Come on, I've decided it's you Morofushi, explain yourself! The microphone was handed over by Matsuda Jinpei.
Matsuda Jinpei, who was being watched, bravely stepped forward, knocked over both microphones with one hand, and excitedly shared with Furuya Rei: "Let's not talk about that, guess what Morofushi just said? It's about this guy!"
"This guy has a crush!"
"Hahahahaha," He laughed out loud, repeating for emphasis, "This asshole actually has a crush! Can you imagine? Hahahaha, I feel like if I confess I'll be told 'Hey, seriously, I'm playing Future, ah no, I'm boyfriend and girlfriend with Mirai-san, really?!!!' ."
"That unfortunate lady might even immediately pull out her phone to check the time to see if the confession day is April Fools' Day. Hahaha, she'll be in shock, right? Right? She might even wake up in the middle of the night and think, 'Mirai-san doesn't really hate me and keeps teasing me. On the contrary, he likes me?' Oh, actually not, it's just an indiscriminate attack. Ha, wait! Hey! Why are you pressing my head again!"
...What, what?
Ichijō Mirai has a crush?
And he's going to confess?
Furuya Rei's pupils shook.
He couldn't imagine what Ichijō Mirai would look like when he was in love, and he couldn't imagine what Ichijō Mirai would look like when he didn't use his natural skill, when he didn't attack everyone in his field of vision indiscriminately, when he didn't play with cats and dogs, and when he stoically walked around with the girl, holding her hand...
The main point is that 'Ichijō Mirai doesn't use her natural skills' is just too inconceivable.
...It's even more unimaginable if you're in a relationship and you're using your natural skills! It's a disaster, isn't it? It's a disaster!
Whether it's 'treating your lover with rare calmness and gentleness' or 'living as lively as ever with your lover', it's an existence that defies one's imagination. Thinking about it, Furuya Rei shrugged her shoulders, locked eyes with Morofushi Hiromitsu, and sighed, "No wonder you and Matsuda have turned to the enemy."
Compared to 'Ichijō Mirai fell in love', which is a big deal that the dinosaurs didn't go extinct, 'settling scores' and so on, it's really a little bit later.
Anyway, Ichijō Mirai must have been on the verge of death again and again, so there will be plenty of opportunities to settle scores later.
"And," Morofushi Hiromitsu, looking at the nearby crowd, and taking the popsicle when Matsuda Jinpei ran by, and the shopping bag when Ichijō Mirai chased after him, said the point that had just been authorized, "the person Mirai wants to like is the hostage from before."
'To like'?
What kind of weird description is that? It's a word for normal human beings. Oh, it's Ichijō Mirai, that's fine.
Furuya Rei ignored the first point and focused on the second: "The hostage from before?"
He suddenly hesitated: the hostage was just a child, right?
"Well, Mirai said he'd like her when she was seventeen," Morofushi Hiromitsu added calmly, 'so to ask us normal people who might have had girlfriends, 'What if you had fun teasing your girlfriend when she was kidnapped as a child, and then found out she was your future girlfriend?' ."
Said, and hesitantly added, "He's not talking about 'future girlfriend', he's talking about someone he likes."
Ignoring all the slogans, it's short and to the point: I haven't gotten to him yet.
Furuya Rei: "..."
Okay.
Furuya Rei convinces himself that 'planning to like someone after x years' and 'saving his future girlfriend when she's kidnapped but teasing her in the process' are two slips that Ichijō Mirai is babbling about jokingly playing with abstractions, and reluctantly ignores them, pondering them for a few seconds before saying, "It's unbelievable but, Mirai's words,"
He turned his head and said to Ichijō Mirai, who had slowed down his pace and had his ears perked up, "It's easy to chase someone, isn't it?"
"Actually, I think it's pretty easy for this guy to chase people," Matsuda Jinpei commented, "This guy can easily make people love and hate him, so it's pretty easy to fall in love with him."
"But the question is how not to hate, right?"
Morofushi Hiromitsu nods, and says, "'Saving the other person from a kidnapping' is actually a good performance, isn't it? That's right."
"It's good that you didn't intentionally take bad risks to scare children," Matsuda Jinpei laughed again, "You're good at chasing people, Mirai."
While he was laughing, Kenji Hagiwara's voice emerged, "Your assessment is fair, but, coming from you, it seems a bit subtle, doesn't it?"
Ichijō Mirai turned his head and saw Kenji Hagiwara, who was a few meters away, dawdling over to him while turning his head to look around, looking like, 'I'm sorry, everyone, please believe me, I don't really know these four childish people'.
He sighed and said to Matsuda Jinpei, "Right, so many confessions, but failed many times?"
Matsuda Jinpei: "…"
"No!" His eyes darted around, "It always works!"
So it's true that he's been confessing and failing many times.
"I see," Ichijō Mirai nodded in understanding, "No wonder my dear Matsuda-san didn't show any loyalty to his classmates just now. He was so happy when he heard about it. It turns out that he was expecting a failed partner."
"Hey, hey, hey, I won't look for you if I'm looking for a failed partner, okay? From the first second I become a partner with you, I have to suffer continuous attacks, right? No, no," Matsuda Jinpei shook his head repeatedly, paused, and nudged Ichijō Mirai with his elbow, "Now the only date that you really have a girlfriend hasn't come yet, right? If you don't tell the truth, and you keep making jokes like 'I plan to fall in love with you in x years' and 'The object of my affection is that hostage lady', we won't help you figure it out."
He had a clear plan, "Tell me the truth, and we'll discuss it before Date comes and ask someone with experience, but I feel like Date is a little unreliable... By the way, you can ask him to ask your girlfriend! Girls' opinions are always reliable."
If you don't tell us the truth, and make jokes like 'I'm going to fall in love after X years' and 'My crush is that hostage lady', we're not going to help you out," he said.
He calculated very clearly, "you explain the real situation, before Date came to discuss and then ask the experienced, but I feel that Date seems to be a bit unreliable... By the way, you can ask him to ask his girlfriend! A girl's opinion is always reliable."
The girl who took Date Wataru should be more reliable.
It's a good idea, but: "I'm telling the truth."
Ichijō Mirai said, "I'm not joking, I'm really telling the truth, and of course, 'You're all going to forget about it soon anyway, v you 50, come up with something for me quickly' is also true."
The room fell silent.
Whether it's Morofushi Hiromitsu, who has already been hit four times, or Kenji Hagiwara, who has been hit for the first time, the silence is golden, and the gold content of the room is increasing.
Matsuda Jinpei, who had just laughed the loudest, reluctantly inquired, "Isn't this a joke?"
Ichijō Mirai replied, "It's not a joke."
"...Oh," Matsuda Jinpei responded dryly while turning to the others with his eyes, "Then, then you don't know if she likes you?"
He grudgingly, grudgingly, very grudgingly took this outrageous prefix overload seriously, still a little skeptical, but 'it's Ichijō Mirai, so it's okay' prevailed.
"Right now, I don't know, I don't think I'd like it," Ichijō Mirai replied again, and finally someone was going to take it seriously, so he also straightened up, adding thoughtfully, "If there's no hostage situation, it's like that, but-"
"...I'm not really sure what she likes about me, it seems to be the looks."
It's her face, isn't it?
But doesn't that mean she'll like any handsome guy who shows up?
Wouldn't she stop liking him if he changed his look or destroyed it as the number of wanted men grew?
It was only recently that he realized exactly why 'Ichijō Mirai' hesitated to say 'I'm not sure if my lover will still like me'.
"Ah."
Matsuda Jinpei turned his head in confusion and looked at each of the others, realizing that Ichijō Mirai seemed to be really serious, so he tried his best to ignore the 'she'll like me if there's no hostage situation' which sounded like a lot of trouble to a normal person, "You're really quite handsome, so it's normal for you to like you, isn't it?"
"If you don't intentionally fluctuate other people's blood pressure, you're quite charismatic..."
Of course, even if you are always ready to flick the blood pressure of any lucky person, you are still quite charming, and you can make people love and hate you, but hate needs to be pronounced more strongly, Matsuda Jinpei said in a sarcastic voice, and then simply inquired, "You seem to be very unsure of what she likes about you, isn't there anything about you that she likes very much in the course of getting along with you, and gives you a lot of feedback value? There is no change in attitude at any time, more close or more distant?"
No?
From the very beginning, Suzuki Sonoko was like a lively, cheerful rabbit, pouncing on people with bright eyes and rubbing her soft fur against them.
"No," Ichijō Mirai replied reluctantly, "she was very enthusiastic the first time we met."
"Oh~" Matsuda Jinpei and Morofushi Hiromitsu exchanged a glance, and first took a good look at Ichijō Mirai to make sure that he wasn't playing some kind of lovey-dovey hate-value maneuver, but rather was genuinely distressed, before continuing, "First time we met, a hostage case?"
Hostages to the rescuer attitude is not normal!
"No, she's only ten now, she doesn't understand yet," Ichijō Mirai said truthfully, "It was when she was seventeen."
He thought for a moment and added details, "She thought I was a staff member at the dessert store, and came to the dessert store with a friend, and was friendly and welcoming when she saw me."
The one who could best convince himself to ignore the 'are you serious, how can you really talk about the future like that' was Morofushi Hiromitsu, who was hit the most often, and between glances with Matsuda Jinpei, he said, "Wasn't it love at first sight?"
"Are you sure," Matsuda Jinpei inquired slowly, "that you weren't just showing off?"
"Damn it, even if it's imagination, you're thinking too much about your favorite person falling in love with you at first sight, aren't you?!"
"Calm down," Kenji Hagiwara raised his hand to hold down Matsuda Jinpei's shoulder, "Mirai wasn't swatting at you to taunt you, he was just being moved to open up a little bit, don't worry about it."
"...I know," Matsuda Jinpei silently clenched his fists, "but you seem to be strafing me!"
He pinched his bony fingers and glanced at Ichijō Mirai, "You're not happy about love at first sight, you'll be honest when she hates you."
"Okay, sorry for strafing you," Kenji Hagiwara apologized, not forgetting to add, "The person you like definitely doesn't hate you, she didn't tell me that, I can assure you,"
"Hey what are you raising your fist for? Mirai didn't say anything, wait are you going to hit me? I can guarantee it!"
As he turned his head to run, he turned his head and distantly saw Date Wataru who was looking at the road sign in the distance, immediately stopped and stared, "Oh no, Date with a girlfriend is back."
"It's okay, it's good that Date is back," Ichijō Mirai smoothly held down Kenji Hagiwara, "You don't want to change the subject with a tone as if something bad happened, dear Kenji-san, honestly suffer the blow of justice,"
He signaled Matsuda Jinpei with his eyes to punch him, and his other hand waved enthusiastically, "Wataru!"
Date Wataru turned his head at the sound of his voice, holding up his cell phone in relief as his eyes lit up, locking eyes with the enthusiastic and cheerful Ichijō Mirai for a couple of seconds, only to take a step and look around silently for a few moments, realizing that there was no shelter around him from which to flee, before walking over to him with a stiff upper lip, "Uh, are you guys, are you settling a score?"
I don't know the score, but who's next? It's not gonna be him, is it?
"Ah, that's not true, we're all good people who don't settle scores, now it's just that the bad Kenji who got in our midst is going to get his ass kicked," Ichijō Mirai replied, "one dares to blitz someone with a submachine gun, and the other has the audacity to strafe two people by himself, that's too much!"
"Never mind the fact that they're both biting off more than they can chew, I do it all the time and I'm sure it won't be a big deal," he said easily, "Excuse me, Date with a girlfriend."
Suddenly, he paused, his red eyes dropping to stare at Date Wataru's cell phone, the ghostly glow of a cell phone reflected in the bottom of his eyes.
Morofushi Hiromitsu, who was close by, saw his ears flick, as if he had heard a sound and was alertly twitching them.
"Well, fire, I don't really like fire, but I like the paradoxical fools who are timid yet brave in a fire," Ichijō Mirai no longer had the same half-joking, half-serious look he had before, his brow relaxed and his tone lightened, "Please tell me the details of the mission, Date-san who's not on a date."