Chapter 137 – 11.7 Shadows on Neighbors 3
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Yesterday afternoon.
Kurosaki Sana rarely found a letter stuck in the mailbox.
Maybe someone personally put it in, but there was no stamp attached to the letter.
The simple shape of the envelope is only marked with a familiar mark.
The moment Sana saw that mark, her heart sank.
She had received letters like this before.
It was none other than her husband’s notice of war.
With trembling hands, she opened the envelope.
I didn’t want to read it because I was scared, but there might be important news related to my husband. A will or a memento may have been found. Then I couldn’t help but read it.
Inside the envelope was a piece of letter paper with a short message printed on it.
“Dear Kurosaki.
This is a Japanese military task force.
Tomorrow at 1:00 PM, her husband will drop by the house.
She must have been informed that her husband had been killed in battle, but this is not true.
Her husband her is currently conducting a classified operation, and due to the nature of the classified operation, her family her has been notified that she has also been killed.
However, you will be returning home soon after completing all missions.
Before that, she prepared this place to give her a chance to meet and talk with her wife her.
However, her husband her was seriously injured during battle and had multiple surgeries, and as a result, her appearance her has changed a lot.
If you feel like a different person, just be natural. If she treats her husband as if he were someone else, she may be deeply hurt.
Her husband her is currently on a classified operation, so she must not tell anyone about her survival her / visit her to anyone else or to her family her. If it becomes known that her husband is alive, this visit may be canceled.
Please let Kurosaki-sama wait at home alone at the appointed time.
I’ll be visiting with the other agents at 1:00 tomorrow.
-Japanese Army Special Forces”
After reading her letter her, Sana’s mind her went into a panic.
Her husband her, whom she thought was dead, returns.
The impact of the letter was beyond imagination.
If Sana had been sane, I would have found several oddities in her letters her.
But Sana was in no mood to make a rational decision.
Sana believed everything in her letter as it was.
That her husband is alive She said she could meet her tomorrow.
She was born in a good place and grew up receiving only favors, and she has never been exposed to human malice, so it may be because she has become an unsuspecting personality.
From the moment she received her letter her, Sana entered the countdown to meeting her husband her.
She does n’t know how many times she looked at her watch her in an hour.
What to do with her hair her, what to wear with her clothes her, what to wear with her underwear her.
Makeup, hair, and clothes, Sana did her best to show her most beautiful side of her to her husband, whom she had n’t seen in a while.
She was excited like a middle school girl looking forward to her first date her.
It was to such an extent that Hina, her little daughter her, grumbled when she suddenly saw her mother her displaying her strange behavior her.
The day before, she tossed and turned all night, but the next day she woke up early in the morning. She didn’t know she was tired at all though.
After her children her went to school at the academy, Sana waited restlessly all her life for her husband to come.
And, the current time is 2:00.
An hour had already passed since the promised time.
Mr. Hiroto is late.
Why is it so late
She’s never broken a time commitment.
To hide her nervousness her, Sana cleaned her dust-free living room once more.
Okay. It might be late
Because you’re on an important mission.
I don’t know if something urgent happened.
Even if you can’t come today…… Let’s not be disappointed. There will be another chance next time.
She just imagined that she might not be able to come because of some urgent matter, but she felt sorry for Sana, and she was about to burst into tears.
– Ding Dong.
And finally, the long-awaited doorbell rang.
“Oh!”
Sana jumped up and ran to the front door.
Sana opened her front door, holding her breasts about to explode with her anticipation and her excitement.
“Ah…”
Sana opened her front door and sighed.
She was not the person Sana expected.
There is only a strange man standing in front of the front door.
“Oh, this is quite a quality product…….”
“…… Yes?”
“Uh hmm. No, nothing. Is anyone home?”
“Who are you?”
Sana’s tone she naturally became sharper.
Part of the disappointment came from she not being the person she expected, but part of it was the displeasure of the man’s eyes her looking up and down.
“This. Did you forget That’s me. This is Kurosaki.”
Sana doubted her own ears her.
Right now, there was only one person who would call himself Kurosaki.
“Kurosaki…… Mr. Hiroto?”
Sana was shaken.
My mind went blank at the man’s words.
The man did not miss the gap in her heart that her Sana she showed.
A smile forms on the man’s lips.
“Yes. That’s me. This is Hiroto Kurosaki.”
“Ha, but…… They have different faces and voices.”
She was obviously a different person from her husband to her.
But she had no confidence in Sana’s voice in her.
It was because her letter her, which she read over and over again, said that her appearance her had changed due to a major injury.
Even in movies, you can easily see a scene where an actor playing a spy changes his face and voice his. If the husband is really on a classified mission, it’s not unlikely.
Strong aspirations cloud one’s judgment.
Everyone wants to believe in a story that is advantageous to them, and the stronger the desire, the more they turn a blind eye to the loopholes in the story and cling to the weak evidence.
Sana wanted to believe. That my husband is really alive He said he would come back and hug him.
That strong desire clouded Sana’s judgment of her.
“Haha. Look closely at my eyes. You will find out if it is real or not.”
The man laughed lightly and took off his hat his.
As the man said, Sana looked him in the eyes.
It’s been more than 10 years since I have n’t seen her husband her. There was no way Sana, whose memories of her were even blurred, would be able to tell them apart just by looking into her eyes her.
But somehow, as she looked into the man’s eyes of her, they gradually overlapped with her husband’s eyes of her.
Doubt turned into ambiguity, and ambiguity turned into certainty.
“Hiroto… Seed?”
“Yes. I am that Hiroto.”
“Ah……!”
A voice that had sounded completely different just a moment ago now sounded somewhat like her husband’s her.
The man opens his arms as if to hug Sana.
But instead of hugging Sana, she took a step back from her. The strange feeling of incongruity in her that lingered deep in her unconscious made Sana hesitate.
“Um, isn’t it still?”
The man scratched his head and then took out his cell phone and made a call somewhere.
‘Put the car on hold,’ the man said shortly and hung up.
“…… Mr. Hiroto? What is that now?”
“Eh~ these are the agents working together. Due to the nature of the mission, you cannot stay in one place for long.”
“Mission? What is that mission? Can’t you tell your family?”
“Yes. I’ll tell you more as we go. Let’s go together.”
The man held out his hand to Sana.
But Sana didn’t hold her hand her.
Her first feeling of wariness had somehow disappeared.
But still nothing could prove that he was the real husband.
Sana asked the man again with a complicated expression.
“Miss Hiroto. If you really are Hiroto-san, why don’t you call me by my name?”
Please call me by your name
Sana was asking the man with a prayerful heart.
“Ha…”
The man let out a deep sigh as if frustrated.
“You doubt me. What a disappointment.”
“Ah, that…… It’s not like that…… !”
Sana was taken aback by the man’s attitude of her.
The reason Sana could n’t let her guard down was because the man did n’t provide any evidence, but a ray of hope that he might be her real husband her was dragging Sana around.
“We have to keep in mind that due to the nature of our mission, we can be intercepted anytime, anywhere. That’s why you can’t call someone’s name carelessly. In any case, you could be in danger.”
If Sana had been in good spirits, she would have seen right away that the man’s story was an absurd excuse.
However, the man’s brainwashing had already penetrated Sana’s head her. Sana didn’t have the strength left to judge whether the story was true or not.
“I may never see you again. I’m sorry, but I can’t help it.”
The man turned around without regret, without giving Sana time to think deeply.
“Oh……!”
Seeing her back her as she walked out of the yard, Sana did n’t know what to do and stomped her feet.
She may never see her again. The weight of those words was too heavy for Sana, who had already experienced a breakup once.
“Hey, wait! Mr. Hiroto!”
Sana eventually followed the man and came out.
After putting on her shoes, Sana hurriedly left the yard and grabbed the man’s arm of her.
“Believe! I’ll believe you! So don’t leave me, Hiroto-san!”
The man laughed.
It was according to the scenario. As always, it worked so easily this time.
Brainwash and control people. If the gap in the other person’s heart, innate speech, and rune ability were added to it, this job was no different from eating rice cake.
Just then, a van arrived in front of Sana’s house.
The side door of the van opened automatically, and the man motioned for Sana to get into the car.
“Then let’s get on. I will tell you more in a quiet place.”
There was a man in the driver’s seat and two men in the back seat.
“Ah…… There…”
Sana hesitated.
It was because all the men in the car had a rough atmosphere.
“What, nothing to worry about. They are all my colleagues.”
She knows that you shouldn’t judge people based on their outward appearance.
Just look at Knives, Yuu’s best friend. Contrary to his rough appearance, wasn’t he a warm-hearted child?
However, she felt a different physiological aversion to those men than Naives.
The atmosphere of a person who does not respect the other person as the same person. They were the kind of people Sana, who lived only in sunny places, would never come across.
Even though she thought that she shouldn’t be rude to Hiroto-san’s co-workers, she couldn’t get into the car easily.
“Ha, but…… Wow!”
A man, fed up with Sana’s constant hesitating attitude of her, reached out to Sana from her car.
“I can help.”
“Now, wait…… !”
Her strong hand her grips Sana’s wrist her.
Sana felt a chilling fear at her irresistible, manly power her.
“For a moment! Please drop me off!”
Ignoring Sana’s cries her, the side door of her van automatically closed.
“Flaw.”
The man who brought Sana smiled lightly and opened the passenger side door of the van.
He Finished the job neatly today. Now all that’s left is to go back and have fun.
The man smiled leisurely and tried to get into the car, but the passenger seat door, once opened, never closed again.
“──Innocent caterpillar kick──!!”
-Bang-!!
“Kwuh—?!”
The body of the man who was trying to get into the car was crushed and blown away along with the passenger seat door.
“What!”
The men in the car scream and get out of the car at the sudden situation.
They found a dented door, a man passed out, and another man standing on both of them.
“──These bastards.”
Stepping on the collapsed man and the dented door, Knives had his beautiful eyes shining.
