Reality is less than pleasant.
Individual detectives come to bother others when they can't chase their girlfriends themselves, diligently reporting almost every day 'Report, once-organized member + N was chased down today', 'Report, a codename member of the organization was captured today!' , and every now and then refreshingly trying 'Mr. Mirai, have you seen any suspicious people lately?' .
This is thinking that Gin or Belmode will go for precise revenge against Ichijō Mirai if they're not dead.
Ichijō Mirai: "."
Fortunes don't come in pairs, and the game is depressing.
The long and unskippable childhood is like a wet rainy season, and about the only fun is teasing the adults.
The Ichijō couple are not a good choice to tease, they...
Perhaps out of some parental guilt and self-blame, no matter how abnormal Ichijō Mirai was or how much he needed a set of evil spirit suppression techniques, they were able to quickly adapt and swallow it without changing their expressions.
Most of the time they would even aggressively catch up in turn, being even more abnormal than Ichijō Mirai.
'What, you think you are abnormal? No, Mirai, it's the mom/dad who is abnormal. Children born from abnormal parents are also abnormal, so of course they are normal. And you are so cute now, much more normal than us. You are different from other children because you are a smart child. Don't always compare yourself with children, compare yourself with your parents more!' are all basic tongue twisters.
However, more than verbal gibberish, their actions prove that they actually think Ichijō Mirai is not normal, such as taking him to an unknown clinic for blood tests, taking him to a psychiatrist, hugging him at just the right moment, and staring at him with a sad look in their eyes.
Ichijō Mirai breathed a huge sigh of relief: okay, so I'm really not normal, they were so serious about their bullshit that he really faltered 'Is it possible that the way I acted when I terrorized them is really still in the realm of normal kids?!!!' .
The cow-cat couple is so not amusing, the good ones are the police officers.
As long as there is a little clue at the murder scene, even if it is just a little bit, their eyes will light up and they will exclaim in amazement, saying something like 'How amazing, he is indeed the child of Officer Ichijō!'
They will also fall into a struggle, holding on to reason, 'Wake up, you are an adult, Officer Ichijō is so busy that he brought the child to the scene to solve the case, you must protect him! You are an adult!', while sinking into happiness, 'Hehe, so awesome, as long as you follow the detective's orders like a dog playing Frisbee, you can easily solve the case, hehehe.'
But there is a downside. When they flutter their ears and try to pick up the Frisbee, they don't even notice that they are being amused.
On the contrary, there are existences that lend themselves to 'cordial and friendly exchanges', such as individual friends who are older than him and have already been born.
Then there was Morofushi, who had a keen sense of smell, often refreshed within five meters without moving, and was very wary of organizing precise retaliation to keep an eye on his unreliable friends.
Morofushi-san is happy to play along.
:)
However, before that, there was a problem that needed to be solved...
A debuff like [Both Parents Dead]...
How do I get rid of it?
*
The bell rang for the end of class, ringing throughout the school.
But the teacher didn't move, he stepped down from the podium and stood by one of his classmates' table, appearing to be helping with a difficult problem, while his eyes looked out the window every now and then.
The students, on the other hand, were in their seats whispering to nearby classmates, laughing at pleasant topics, but again, every few seconds, they would look out the window in unison.
In the midst of all the quiet, the only quiet brown high school student had an overwhelming presence.
Furuya Rei calmly cleared his desk when he heard the very low voice of the student next to him, "Furuya-san, are you going to see Mirai-san later?"
He and the other classmates who had lowered their conversations to look over looked at each other for a few moments before asking in a tangled voice, "Are you going to beat him up again?"
'Again'.
High school students are usually honest in class, but they don't stay in their seats honestly after class, and there's only one reason to be honest at this point: in the middle of the class, they learned about the news that 'Ichijō Mirai came to school'.
Who is 'Ichijō Mirai'?
It's a police officer's child, a shining dazzling detective, a brilliant sun.
A little translation of these adjectives leads to one more word: a genius so far out of reach that one cannot even raise the slightest bit of envy.
As a detective who has been in and out of the field since he was a child helping the police solve crimes, Ichijō Mirai has a hard time juggling his studies and his cases, but he manages to do so, coming to school every day .
...Even if he comes for a second and then leaves, isn't that still coming?
Let's say there was no school!
Under these circumstances, the teachers and students in the school naturally had very little contact with him, and most of their impressions of him were drawn from the news.
They looked forward to and adored the brief moments when this student would come to school, and even more so, the occasional moments when this student would come to the classroom to see Furuya Rei, and he would come with the same cheerful smile that he had on the news, greet him warmly, and be whisked two miles away with a flourish.
...Uh, about, that's the more unique way of getting along between good friends, right?
It's different from normal cozy get-togethers, it's more intense and hilarious.
In response, Furuya Rei: "."
He had already cleared the table, his eyes deflated into dead eyes, "Haha, he hasn't left yet, huh?"
Instead of stepping into the school, stopping for a second, then stepping out again and slipping away after completing his daily 'school' tasks, Ichijō Mirai's still lingering in the school was a very unfriendly sign: watch out, you might be out of luck.
This was a truth that Furuya Rei had profoundly realized when she met Ichijō Mirai.
He still can't help but grit his teeth when he thinks back to that first meeting:
At that time, he was just a small child who didn't get along well with other children because of the color of his skin, and although he met and became friends with Morofushi Hiromitsu, who had moved to Tokyo with his parents, he often faced ostracism, ridicule and bullying from other children.
In the face of such negativity, he chose to deal with it directly.
So he got into a fight with the other kids.
What comes first in a heated fight is not the defeat or admission of defeat by one side or the shrill popping sound of an adult finding out, or the whimpering of a police car or ambulance, but the sound of a click.
With a click that belonged to a camera, a blinding light seemed to fall from the sky, glittering so brightly that it almost blinded the children.
Click after click, and flash after flash, beautifully illuminating the world, stopping the fight, shining on the faces of the children who turned back in amazement, and silencing the world.
Naturally, the uncontrollable harrumphs of laughter were overly pronounced.
When Furuya Rei got up from the ground, he saw a child younger than himself sitting on the wall not far away, with dark hair and red eyes, a camera in his hand, snapping pictures like a professional reporter, and while snapping pictures, he laughed and laughed back and forth.
He laughed for a good five minutes, as delighted as if he had discovered his friend's dark history.
Laughing so hard that the bully was doubting his life: wait, is he laughing at this dark colored guy being bullied by us? It shouldn't be that much of a stretch, right?
Seeing the bullying scene, most people silently leave even if they don't speak out to stop it, right? There were very few people who joined in on the spot, let alone immediately burst out laughing...
Well, that's a bit too much...
In the end, this scene of the world's silent laughter and arrogant flashbulbs was halted by the arrival of Morofushi Hiromitsu, "Mirai?"
The dark-haired, red-eyed guy sitting on the wall looked over at the sound, and in the midst of his forward and backward giggling too much he tumbled straight backward, letting out the second sound other than laughter, "Dong!"
It's only a dozen seconds later that he climbs back up, and the first second he meets Furuya Rei's eyes he bursts out laughing again, "Hahahahaha!"
"So lame!"
"Hahaha, is there a day when you guys are this lame? So you were so clumsy when you first learned how to fight, you couldn't use your fists or legs."
"Then you said that about me during the first physical arts class!"
It was very generous.
There's no hint of self-consciousness of 'I'm making fun of a kid who's being bullied', as if this isn't something painful for the person in question, but instead, a bad fight is something that needs to be paid more attention to, and needs to be documented right away to be used as black history.
While it's true that Furuya Rei doesn't go so far as to be in pain, and her first reaction to bullying is to fight back decisively, but...
This guy, he's too much of a punching bag, isn't he?
The laughter is so arrogant!!!
Furuya Rei: "..."