Chapter 111 Bloodshed on the Rails (Part 2)

When they returned to Hokkaido a few years ago, Higashinohara and Nishimaru Miria took a passenger plane chartered by their homeroom teacher, Mr. Tatokawa Asuka, but now when they return to Tokyo, they take a railway train.

They needed to take the express train to Hakodate in Hokkaido, and then transfer to the Shinkansen train from Hakodate to return to the train station in Tokyo. It calculated that it would take about nine hours. Higashinohara chose two pictures considering that Nishimaru Miria was still young.

Sleeper.

Changes in transportation may be partly due to the fact that no one is reimbursing fares these days.

But having said that, strictly speaking, Miria Nishimaru can be considered a "little rich woman". If you really want to buy a plane ticket, you don't have to worry too much about money.

It's just that Tokugawa Ritora had given him a knife before the attack in Hokkaido, with the intention that he would take care of Nishimaru Miria. People must go through the test of conscience when they are alive. Now, as soon as Higashinohara was killed, he started to take care of Nishimaru Miria.

Money to buy tickets always made him feel a little uneasy.

Nishimaru Miria is also very sensible. This seven-year-old girl now leaves Higashinohara to decide almost all other matters except completing cultural classes every day and training her own abilities quantitatively. Unlike the girl from her hometown who has nothing to do, she can also do something from time to time.

Compared to Moko's girl of the same age, Higashino Yukino, she is so well-behaved that it's a bit heartbreaking.

The sleeper berths in Wano are also called sleeping trains. They are divided into large bunks without partitions and upper and lower bunks with slightly partitions. Higashinohara grabbed the last two special tickets, which are upper and lower bunks with partitions between each other, which is equivalent to the previous life.

Soft sleeper box.

After putting away his luggage, Higashinohara looked around at the soft and comfortable sleeper car.

He was quite satisfied with his occasionally extravagant choice today. The most important thing was that the package ticket sold by the ticket purchasing software also included a ticket for the second half of the journey after transferring to a sleeper class.

When he turned around after looking at it, Higashinohara found that Nishimaru Miria was staring blankly at the TV news broadcast on the wall of the sleeper compartment, and her originally simple and delicate face suddenly turned a little pale.

The sound on the TV sounded a little noisy, and the news was talking about an anonymous report letter published on the front page of the Asahi Shimbun in recent days:

An anonymous person who did not want to be named made a shocking exposure of the darkness behind the accident that occurred on the northern side of the Nemuro Strait in Hokkaido on New Year's Day, 1122 Tianyuan Calendar.

The report letter detailed the direct connection between a certain cabinet minister and the attack, the behind-the-scenes transactions with the Shayash Dawn Revolutionary Army, and the benefits they expected to obtain.

Although the content published by the Asahi Shimbun has concealed the specific name of a certain cabinet minister in the report letter, as long as any normal-minded person in Wano who has the ability to think independently reads the whole article, he will quickly find that almost every person in this report letter

Every sentence is directed at Cabinet Minister of Foreign Affairs Taku Amuro.

At this time, the Asahi Shimbun picture showed everything.

I saw a group of well-dressed politicians walking out of the parliament building in Chiyoda District. After passing through the green space next to the fountain in front of the building, they were surrounded by a group of media reporters. Countless microphones were used to press the fat man's face.

in front of a middle-aged man.

"Lord Amuro, we and the public would like to know, what do you want to say about the anonymous report letter published by the Asahi Shimbun?"

"Is there really a behind-the-scenes deal between us and the Dawn Revolutionary Army of the Grand Duchy of Shayash? Is there any hidden secret behind the attack on Team Leader Tokugawa?"

"I heard that the cabinet has set up a special investigation team to investigate the attack on Team Leader Tokugawa. Could you please share with us the specific progress of the investigation?"

"We all know that Captain Dragonfly or the Disciplinary Committee of New Tokyo appeared in Beihai. Does this mean that he, who upholds 'interest leads to justice', has intervened in the incident of Captain Tokugawa? Do you think he might find you because of this?

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Under the lens of countless media reporters, a dead winter leaf fell in the wind above his head. In the face of repeated questioning from reporters from major TV stations, Foreign Minister Taku Amuro's face was surprisingly calm.

He stopped and said to the many microphones with a sad face, "The death of Captain Tokugawa is a sad fact for our entire country of Wano. I think everyone can appreciate the contribution he made to the country of Wano in his life.

It is obvious to all and there is no need for me to elaborate further.”

Having said this, Foreign Minister Taku Amuro paused, his tone full of endless helplessness and sorrow, "But now! Some people with unknown intentions are trying to control us through public opinion to divide this country! To interfere and prevent us from

Investigate the truth behind it!"

"Here, I want to reassure everyone that if I am really guilty, then I will personally go into the prison. Even if I don't go into the prison, the 'Captain Dragonfly' you are talking about will judge me!"

"But as you can see, I have a clear conscience! That's why I'm still standing here today!"

"I don't want it at this time! Because my personal public opinion takes up too many social and public resources, I will not answer such questions in the future. Thank you all."

In the cold wind under the sunset leaves in winter, Foreign Minister Taku Amuro bowed deeply to the camera.

The news footage on the TV ended here, TV Asahi switched back to the studio, and the host began to broadcast other news content.

In the soft sleeper compartment of the train.

"He's lying!"

Nishimaru Miria, who was sitting not far from Higashinohara, suddenly raised her little finger and pointed at the TV screen and said crisply, her delicate and white face was filled with a rare kind of stubborn stubbornness.

After saying this, Nishimaru Miria seemed a little uneasy and raised her head to look at Higashinohara timidly.

After all, the tone of the minister on TV was too confident, too clear-minded, and his posture was too sincere. It would be easy for ordinary people to become suspicious after watching this.

Is that report letter really fake?

Are we really being taken advantage of?

What's more, the little girl Nishimaru Miria's harsh words are more like idealistic accusations without any strong evidence to support them. I'm afraid anyone else would be stunned when they hear this.

However, after hearing what Nishimaru Miria said, Higashinohara's face remained very calm, and he nodded to Nishimaru Miria without thinking.

"I know."

Now it was Nishimaru Miria's turn to be surprised.

However, considering the incredible power of his elder brother and the "little secret" that the whole world only existed between the two of them, Miria Nishimaru was not so surprised.

She twitched her small nose, recalled the contents of the report letter just now, raised her head and looked at Higashinohara seriously, "Brother, does dad's matter really have anything to do with that minister?"

Higashinohara thought of what he saw in the opponent's [Character Profile] after beheading the Northern Army Commander Searle of the Dawn Revolutionary Army that day. He originally didn't want Nishimaru Miri to be tainted too much by the filth behind these shameless politicians.

Dirty transaction.

Before the accident, Tokugawa Ritora had entrusted him to take good care of Nishimaru Miria in the noodle shop. Higashinohara naturally did not want Nishimaru Miria to live in the shadow of revenge at such a young age.

But now I don’t know who reported Taku Amuro through that anonymous letter. Higashinohara didn’t want to deceive the little girl. He pondered for a moment and then nodded and said, “There is some connection, but he is not the only one. I will investigate and deal with the following matters.

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Nishimaru Miria knew Higashinohara's other identity and how great his big brother was, so of course he would not doubt anything and nodded without saying anything.

It was just that she made up her mind in her little heart.

You must grow up quickly!

In this way, even if something happens in the future, she won't have to rely on her big brother all the time. Now that she has no relatives, she actually relies on Higashinohara in her heart, but she doesn't want to live like a burden.

The train started at a quarter past nine.

Accompanied by the pleasant female announcer's prompts, people and things on both sides of the platform outside the train window began to gradually accelerate and move backwards.

Nishimaru Miria sat cross-legged on the bed in the lower bunk of the box. The slightly curly ends of her light blond hair swayed as the train moved. The morning sunlight reflected from the window shone on her delicate little face, and she could vaguely see it.

Her long eyelashes trembled slightly.

She is not Higashinohara, so naturally she cannot perform any "intracranial sword training".

In fact, Nishimaru Miria is currently undergoing meditation training for the telekinesis system talent ability [Wang Yu], which is also a relatively common training method for people with telekinesis abilities.

In the past, she followed the steps at Takehara Minami Private Academy, and her improvement rate was many times faster than other classmates who were older than her. However, Nishimaru Miria was not so eager for strength, so she followed the school's teaching progress slowly.

Come.

Now after Tokugawa Ritora's accident, the little girl realized that she was lucky enough to have such outstanding talents despite her death.

In addition, I have been exposed to Higashinohara's hard training on weekdays, and I can't help but think that even someone as powerful as my elder brother works so hard, and now I don't want to relax for a moment.

Higashinohara didn't say much about this.

in this world,

The harder you work, the luckier you will be.

Although Nishimaru Miria's efforts were a little early, she lost the childhood that a normal child should have.

But since fate has already made arrangements for her, if she doesn't work hard to gain something from fate, her life will be a bit of a loss.

Higashinohara was thinking about whether he should also do "internal sword training" and brush his Kodachi 2-sword style to [Grandmaster level] as soon as possible - now his progress is stuck at 77/100, but the progress below has become extremely slow.

Higashinohara is still trying to rule out what went wrong.

At this time, there was a sound of heavy footsteps in the aisle outside the sleeper box. Four strong, tall, white-skinned men with blue eyes, sunken eye sockets, high noses passed by their box.

The four of them looked inside with vigilant eyes. After seeing a boy about half the age of a high school student and a little girl, they were obviously relieved. Their eyes only stayed on the little girl's light golden hair for a second.

Quickly look away.

Higashinohara, who was sitting on the lower bunk, did not open his eyes, but now he opened his second [Nine Eyes and Six Paths] eyes, and became aware of the wind and grass around him, but the other party seemed to be just passing by, even though he acted a little more wary.

But he didn't care too much.

Judging from their appearance, these people should have come from the Grand Duchy of Shayash in the north. The Grand Duchy of Shayash has recently disintegrated, and several forces within the country have launched a fierce struggle in an attempt to regain power in that cold land that is frozen by ice and snow all year round.

Throughout history, the people who suffer most when something like this happens in any country are definitely the ordinary people.

Therefore, recently there have been many people from the Grand Duchy of Sayash who have smuggled themselves over in Hokkaido legally or illegally. As for the few people just now, whether they belong to the former or the latter is not within the scope of Higashinohara's concern.

However, there seems to be a woman behind the four men who is wearing a hat, with the brim of the hat lowered to cover her eyebrows. Her facial curves are very soft, and the most eye-catching thing is her pale golden hair, which is like the sparkling sea in the sun.

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To be continued...