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Chapter 97: No Time to Die, Tokugawa Lihu's Gift (2)

The seaside town of Higashinohara's hometown is actually a depression by the sea, with hills on both sides, and the steep cliffs block the cold wave of the Xiakan Icefield in the northwest.

In the past years, it also blocked a part of the intrusion from the outside world, forming a livable zone, where fishermen from the coast gathered to form the present-day Koshimizu Town.

With such terrain, it is very difficult to see the beach by the sea.

There are only a large number of rugged reefs scattered along the beach. The original owner, Higashinohara, stood on the rocks and took a photo with Xiaodou Ding Higashino before leaving for Tokyo.

Today is December 31st, which is the New Year's Eve of the New Year's Eve in the Gregorian calendar of the Wano Kingdom, also known as the Great Dark Day. In the evening, that is, Christian Eve, people pray to the gods for Tofu, send away the troubled old year, and usher in a beautiful new year. It's called first attainments.

After having breakfast early in the morning, Takeshi Higashino took Higashinohara to remove the flower garden in front of the door last year, and put on the door pine club composed of pine, bamboo and calamus to welcome the gods, as a sign of good luck.

The next day, Koshimizu Town, a small remote fishing village in Hokkaido, was very lively. Those young people who went to the big city of Sapporo to study or work returned home, and they came to visit from time to time, full of New Year's festival atmosphere.

The lunch was unexpectedly rich, and what was served was not the traditional soba noodles of Wano country.

On New Year's Eve, almost every household in the small fishing village prepared abundant seafood at noon.

After steaming, sprinkle the prepared sauce prepared with spices such as red oil, salt, ginger and garlic, pour it directly on it and pour it over, and then bring it out of the pot and the family gathers to eat.

Beside the table, Nishimaru Miri looked dumbfounded at the various delicious and fragrant seafood piled up in the big pot in front of her. No matter when she was poor or she lived with Tokugawa Lihu later, she had never eaten such a New Year's Eve reunion. Fan, for a while, the little face looked stupid and had no idea what to do.

However, Xiaodou Ding Dongye Xuenai was much wilder. She did not forget her mother's instructions, and first greeted Nishimaru Miri to fulfill the friendship of the landlord.

Then she picked up two chopsticks and felt too slow, so she grabbed it with her hands and splattered the juice in her mouth, but she carelessly put the sauce from her thumb into her small red mouth and sucked it, burying her head and continuing to eat nonsense. sea ​​drink.

At this time, let alone Nishimaru Miri, even if Higashinohara had vague memories of the original owner, he was taken aback by the unrestrained way of eating small beans. Is this the unpretentious New Year's Eve dinner for Hokkaido fishermen?

Behind him, mother Shuijiang Ryoko brought a few plates of refreshing vegetables and steamed taro, father Higashino Takeshi also brought a bottle of Tusu wine, and the whole family sat on the table.

Children still learn things very fast, and Nishimaru Miri saw that the same age as her, Yukino Higashino, who was the same age, was eating so deliciously, and soon became a little moved.

She carefully picked up a piece of sea cucumber, learned the way of Yukino Higashino, dipped it in some sauce and gently touched her lips, feeling that it was not as spicy as she imagined before putting it in her small mouth, and found that the taste was unexpected. delicious.

Soon I couldn't stop the chopsticks, and the delicate little face was full of happy and satisfied smiles.

Seeing Miss Nishimaru from the big city of Tokyo eating happily, both Higashino Takeshi and Mizue Ryoko were also very happy.

Higashinohara arrived home last night and told them that Nishimaru Miri is the daughter of Tokugawa Kurito. Unexpectedly, Tokugawa Kurito has a high evaluation and impression in the hearts of Hokkaido people.

Not only because of his status as the son-in-law of Hokkaido, but also because Tokugawa Lihu had repeatedly suppressed it when Hokkaido was harassed by the North Sea pirates more than ten years ago, so that the North Sea pirates once regarded it as a forbidden place. The patron saint of the most important weapon of the country is the love from the heart.

Now that Tokugawa Lihu's daughter actually came to their house as a guest, Higashino Takeshi and Mizue Ryoko were naturally very attentive, for fear that the hospitality would not be well received.

After the reunion dinner was finished at noon, the evening twilight had not yet fallen, and the family began to gather for the New Year's Eve dinner.

But in the evening, the table is not as wild and rich as the seafood piles at noon. What the family prepares are traditional soba noodles, osechi dishes, and simple foods such as mixed boiled dishes.

Osechi cuisine is packed in exquisite heavy boxes ranging from three to five layers, symbolizing the accumulation of blessings. Inside are some red fish eggs, kelp rolls, dried scallops, etc. A variety of ingredients are added to the rice cake.

After the New Year's Eve dinner, Higashino brought Nishimaru Miri and Pi Dian Dian Ding Dongye Yukino to light a lantern and set off fireworks in front of the door.

Higashino Yukino was always eager to try, but Higashinohara prepared a small firework in his hand and lit one for each of the two little girls.

Yukino Higashino immediately ran around with fireworks like a crazy girl, sparks and lightning all the way, and the somewhat shy Nishimaru Miri raised her head and held the fireworks in her hands, and her lovely, sober and delicate face was reflected in the starlight.

After the fireworks were set off, I received Nianyu (New Year's money) from my parents, and my parents started to prepare food for tomorrow's Zhongri morning.

Higashinohara took two little guys to sit in the kotatsu in the living room to watch the red and white song battle, a fixed program on the evening of the 30th New Year's Eve. From time to time, the bell of the temple near the small fishing village echoed from time to time. The next stroke symbolizes the removal of 108 hours of troubles, and the last stroke will fall at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night.

There is no doubt that this is Higashino's first New Year's Eve in this world.

He looked at Nishimaru Miri, who was watching TV intently, and Yukino Higashino, who was holding a brown koala bought by Higashinohara like a flea. Every now and then, he turned around and went to the kitchen to touch his parents for food. After a while of scolding, he ran back with his short legs.

The corners of Higashinohara's lips twitched slightly.

Although he didn't choose to come to this world and all the things in front of him, but think carefully about what happened this year

There was an unknown [Guilty Manual] in my mind. After completing several missions, I arrested and eliminated some wicked people. I also improved to the normal fourth-order super with the benefit of [Guild Manual] and my own hard work. The strength of the capable person can be regarded as a preliminary to gain a firm foothold in this world.

Thinking of the bullying incident I encountered while taking the slow train on this school trip, although the 1.5 attribute points and the useless [Piano] skill are not very good, the focus is on the response and handling of this incident.

If it was in the past, Higashinohara would definitely not have the chance to stop the mayor who was leaving in the inquiry room, and could only wait for Mr. Taitogawa to find a way outside, or wait for Nishimaru Miri to call Tokugawa Kurito.

But the strength of the fourth-order power user allows him to leave people calmly under normal circumstances. This is the change that strength brings to himself.

Well, but still not enough

After seeing those powerhouses, Higashinohara knew that he had to be faster, higher and stronger!

Otherwise, if one day his identity is exposed, and he really encounters someone like Mick Joya who has no guilt to deal with him, then he will probably be dwarfed in comparison, and he can only run away.

Higashinohara thought about the gains and losses of the past year.

At the same time, Nemuro Strait.

Several warships in Shari Port were also hung with ever-bright lanterns, full of festive festive colors from the bow to the stern.

The reason why the crew of the ship will be on duty on the ship during the New Year's Eve is because tomorrow they will perform an important task to complete the delivery of goods in the offshore area of ​​the Nemuro Strait.

At this time, soft or passionate music is playing on the station boat.

Some of the bored crew members were playing cards, some were watching movies together in the central movie area, and some were drinking coffee and drinking together.

However, thinking that the team leader Tokugawa who came from New Tokyo was also on board, to spend this New Year's Eve with them at the port, everyone was not dissatisfied.

that's it.

The last hours of the night passed in a blink of an eye.

In different corners of the two continents of this world, different people used different ways to draw the final period for the year 1121 of the Tianyuan calendar.

The next morning.

Tianyuan calendar January 1, 1122.

At half past five, Higashinohara woke up under the influence of the biological clock. He put on his clothes and opened the door. His parents had already woken up and asked him to wash up first.

Nishimaru Miri and Higashino Yukino are still sleeping.

After these two days of getting along, coupled with Higashino Yukino's carefree and mature character, Nishimaru Miri and her soon became familiar with each other.

Last night, the two played in the room for a while after watching NHK's red and white song battle.

Higashino Yukino rummaged through boxes in her room and showed Nishimaru Miri the various babies she had collected in the small fishing village from childhood to adulthood. She was not happy with the latter's heartfelt exclamations. It was too late. It's naturally late today.

The pace of life in the small fishing village is slow, but people get up early in the morning.

Higashinohara went out to complete his daily exercise. Along the way, he met a lot of acquaintances who had a good impression but didn’t remember him.

When he returned home after exercising, Higashino Yukino and Nishimaru Miri also got up. The two little guys were standing side by side on the sink to wash, their little mouths spitting bubbles.

On the first day of the new year, the prime day breakfast is sugar glutinous rice flour and soba noodles with rice cake soup. When eating together, according to tradition, everyone tells each other about the first dream of the new year that they had on New Year's Eve last night. It is commonly known as the New Year's first dream to measure good and bad luck.

If you dream of Mount Fuji, eagle, and eggplant in your first dream, it will be considered a symbol of auspiciousness, because Mount Fuji is the highest mountain in Wano, and eagles are smart and strong birds. Eggplant is pronounced in the Wano language. Similar to reach. These are all good omen of good luck.

When the family was eating, they took turns talking. Father Higashino Takeshi said that he dreamed a lot of fish, while mother said that he didn't sleep well last night, and he didn't seem to have any dreams.

At this time, Xiaodou Ding Dongye Xuenai raised her hand impatiently, indicating that she dreamed of picking up a lot of money on the road, and it was all gone when she was woken up this morning. She turned her head and asked her father if she could make up for it a little.

As a result, he was hit on the forehead.

At the table, Higashinohara drank the rice cake soup, recalled his dream, and his face suddenly became a little strange.

He had been thinking about last year's end of the year last night after eating the Christmas Eve meal. When he slept at night, he dreamed that his identity was exposed and he was hunted down by the world government of heaven and man.

As a result, Heavenly Man sent a great benevolent person with a perfect moral character, with a direct and sporadic crime value, and an eighth-order semi-god-level powerhouse. He had no choice but to flee to the sea to kill the immortals who wanted to kill Higashinohara.

On the way to escape, he met a group of pirates and conquered them, and kept growing in the four sea areas of the south, south, and northwest, and he was about to become the pirate king.

The biological clock is o'clock and he wakes up

Obviously, this kind of dream can't be expressed, so Higashinohara had to vaguely think that he had dreamed of a bird, like an eagle, and like a seagull.

Mother Shuijiang Ryoko suddenly looked happy, saying that this is good, in the future, Higashinohara will definitely get smarter and stronger.

In the end, everyone's eyes turned to Nishimaru Miri. Nishimaru Miri put down the bowl a little embarrassedly, and said with a red face, I seem to have dreamed of seagulls too. No, I became a seagull.

Although Takeshi Higashino is a fisherman, he has also read books for a few years. Hearing this, he can't help but interject with a smile, That means that in the future, the sky is high and the birds will fly. Miss Nishimaru will have a broad vision after turning into a seagull.

Uh-huh.

Nishimaru Miri nodded her head and said, I saw the sea, and there are many people, uh. I seem to have seen a big ship, very big, sinking.

Is the ship sinking?

This obviously does not bode well.

Ryoko Shuijiang quickly shifted his attention and said with a smile that he would take them to a nearby relative and friend's house for New Year's greetings with a smile, and there might be a New Year's red envelope by then.

When Xiaodouding Dongye Yukino heard it, he immediately accelerated the speed of shaving rice.

I shouldn't be able to go.

Higashinohara shook his head and said helplessly, Team Tokugawa mailed it to me from Shin-Tokyo as a New Year's gift. I just arrived at Shari Port today, and I just told me to pick it up today.

As soon as his parents heard that it was a gift from Tokugawa Lihu, they immediately regarded it as a major event, and told him to hurry up and go after dinner. Tokugawa Lihu was busy with official business, so don't delay other people's time, and they also asked Higashinohara to help bring them to the New Year. greetings.

Higashinohara smiled and nodded.

However, judging from the description on the phone of Juro Miyano, the captain of the sixth division, it seems that the New Year's ceremony was handed over to him by someone else at the port, and he may not be able to see Tokugawa Kurito by then.

After the meal, Higashinohara and Nishimaru Miri said hello and told her to be at ease with her parents and younger sister to accompany her. The latter nodded obediently and told him to be careful on the road, and he went to the bus stop in the village to wait for the bus.

Higashinohara had to take a car to Shari, and then there was a shuttle bus to the port.

When Higashinohara was standing under the stop sign waiting boredly for the bus, the transport ship surrounded by several warships in the Genshi Strait outside the Shari Port had completed the handover of the cargo and was on its way back.

The transaction process was safe and sound, and the money was paid in one hand and the other hand was delivered, without any turbulence.

At this time, the mission was completed, but the warship that Tokugawa Rito was on left the transport ship and the warship team.

Because he has a special official mission next, which is to patrol the waters around Hokkaido by boat.

Above the warship, sharp propellers ripped through the sea breeze, and an NHK helicopter was filming live, and the tour will be broadcast on the morning news on the first day of the new year.

NHK TV is barely the official channel of Wano Kingdom. This move is intended to send a signal to the people of Wano Kingdom and Hokkaido and even the outside world that people who smuggled to Hokkaido after the disintegration of the Grand Duchy of Shayash will not be left alone. Please The people of Hokkaido are reassured, and those with bad intentions are reassured.

The warship on which Tokugawa Kurito was on.

In the cabin dining room, Miyano Juro, the captain of the sixth division, took a cup of coffee and walked to the side of Tokugawa Kurito, who was sitting upright and bowed his head like a mountain for breakfast.

Team leader, the pirates just now seem familiar.

He tilted his head slightly and said with a smile, Tsk tsk, the people who purchase from the country are really big-hearted, they can't see through such a simple disguise, but they have been added to the trade list, and Judge Carl has been chasing and killing them at sea. As for Sakamoto Ryu and the others, if they knew about it, I'd be pissed off.

Tokugawa Lihu finished the last sandwich, looked up at Miyano Juro, shook his head and said, Don't worry about it, just do our own thing.

That's natural. Miyano Juro smiled and shrugged, I was thinking of ending this business trip early and going back to Okinawa for vacation. I don't want to cause trouble for us.

After speaking, Miyano Jurou lazily left with the coffee.

Tokugawa Lihu couldn't help thinking of the group of people who pretended to be the Judgment Pirates during the sea trade just now, and the young man with his eyes half-closed on the deck behind the crowd, and he couldn't help sighing in his heart.

Subconsciously, he recalled some memories of the young man when he was studying in Tokyo many years ago.

He still remembered that at that time, he was very optimistic about the young man who was always lazy and neglectful but had great talent, and even had the idea of ​​​​training him as the next leader of the third investigation team.

Unfortunately.

The young man's last name was Sakamoto

It is not only the version of the Dragon of Sakamoto, a fighter who fought against the barbarians a thousand years ago, but also the young master of the Dragon of Sakamoto Pirates who is now living in the sea, and he can only sigh a joke of fate in his heart.

But it's not bad now.

Fate made him meet Nishimaru Miri.

That double-talented little girl with an equally outstanding talent, Tokugawa Lihu has every reason to believe that, given time, that little girl will surely bloom as dazzling as that young man back then.

It's really exciting to think about.

However, just when the warship that Tokugawa Rito was on left the team and patrolled along the established route to cooperate with the live broadcast of the NHK TV helicopter.

The waters north of the Nemuro Strait.

One after another, the pure black warships silently pierced the morning fog on the sea surface, and came to this sea area.

Among these warships, there was a large warship with a black horn on the bow.

A not so tall but powerful figure stood on the deck of the bow, looking into the distance, reaching out and gently stroking the black horn full of metallic texture in the cold bow of the warship.

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