Seven o'clock at night. Land, sea and moon often go out this time of year.
"You're not going for a drink today? I'll make dinner."
The land, sea and moon are roaming in the house, and Etsu calls out.
"I had a bit of a rough time yesterday. I'm reflecting that it wasn't good even though I was protected. I won't be drinking outside for a while."
Land, sea and moon appeared painfully in Etsu's eyes in a quiet tone.
"You're sick."
"Hmm....? Ah... ah, yeah."
Lu Kaiyue nodded slightly with a shy smile.
"Hey... E-chan. Wow, I knew you'd failed.
"Are you talking about them?
Etsu asks Lu Kaiyue, who speaks in a slender tone.
"Yeah. I... wanted to make a happy family, but the opposite happened."
"It's not your fault. You've confronted them."
"There's the opposite result. I don't know how to treat it...."
"It was because your sincerity was conveyed that they quit bad things. At that time, the great men and thorn road were about to be killed, but when you sat down and apologized and watched the cover, there was no way that they didn't feel anything about you. Because of what I felt, I didn't have to do anything wrong."
Listening to Etsu's words, Mr. Lu Kaiyue sighs heavily.
"But he did it again...."
"Haven't you checked to see if they're there yet?
"No, I understand. It's the trick. I heard from the victim."
I can't talk about it in detail in front of him, but there are individual differences in how people eat. Mr Lu Kaiyuki knows how to eat his son. Exact match.
"I thought I changed my mind because I heard you became a lawyer...."
He and the great man were getting in touch quite a bit, but the thorns were out of touch. The great man heard it through you because he came into contact with the thorn.
"It's not your fault that the thorn road has opened up. What I hate... is the one who took the thorny path."
Her face clouds when she talks like that.
"But it's true we couldn't save him. How could this be so bad? Though the thorn road was a very gentle child... God is terrible to give such a gentle thorny path a terrible fate to make you run such a murder."
When Mr. Lu Kaiyue sighed again, the bell rang.
I visited Lily and Platinum Taro.
"From what I've heard about Lu Kaiyue and Platinum Taro, it seems that the enemy figured the killer wasn't Lu Kaiyue or" You. "This means your son is more likely to be targeted."
On the pale lily, the hand resting on the knee of the sitting mother trembled little by little.
"Yuri, don't worry about me. I need my son's guards."
"Who is Yuri Lin? In the first place, we don't know where the great men or the thorns are."
In response to Mr Lu Kaiyue's request, Lily said without hesitation.
"I was just talking about the thorny road... How did this happen?"
"I only know the thorn road with the great man when I was a kid, so when I heard the story, I had the impression that I got greyed out before I knew it, so I didn't come."
I don't want to say it in front of Platinum Taro, Mutsuki, and Akiko, but it is a lily that used to play with the great man and thorn road when I was a child. Especially with a great man who liked toys.
"I always think. I ran into evil because of all the terrible things that happened to me and the thorny road. But I was saved by seeing you. I changed my mind. But the thorns are still out of their minds. If the world was just full of kindness, neither I nor the thorny road would have stained my hands....."
Not only the name, but the background is similar to Mutsuki's.
Hmm?
"Mutsuki grew up in an unimaginably harsh environment and was instilled with the urge to kill. As a result, he became a killer called the Octopus Ripper. However, the tragedy of Mutsuki was that his heart could not be stained with evil. And at the same time, I grew up with a lot of love."
After listening to the story of Lily, Mr. Lu Kaiyue herself has something in mind and feels tingling and chest pain.
"But that won't be an excuse. That's why you can't be guilty."
"No. You can say that blaming the sinner for the sinner is equal to beating the weaker. Mutsuki said that. Evil has only a reason to be evil. Anyone who talks about anything beautiful, if they taste exactly the same situation as themselves, they won't have to become a killer like themselves. If I swapped my soul, lost my memory, and went from the starting point to the exact same life as Mutsuki, would I have to be the same killer as her? Well, that might be something that everyone can say, not just Mutsuki."
For some reason, after listening to the pleasant story of Lily, Mr. Lu Kaiyue felt a little relieved. I felt like I was being offered a hand of salvation.
A pet gay bar in downtown Tokyo, close to Ye Dead Leaf Town. That was where the great man worked.
Renai and Angel returned to the office, and Yume and Katsuhiko arrived. The thorns and Kasuga are together.
The store itself is quite spacious and has many customers. There are dogs, cats, ferrets, cowards, squid, micropigs. And all the clerks are gay.
"There are pets brought in, and the bar is full of animals, and the Okuma is full of them. Oh, what a lovely shop."
In the mood of other faces, Kasuga was the only voice that played happily.
"I focus on animals."
"Me too....."
The dream begins with a micropig and Katsuhiko begins to play with the Inco.
The thorn and the great man sat next to each other in the same seat.
"I've never seen my brother at work before."
While the great man pours the whisky, the thorny road smiles at his embarrassing face.
"Why did you... become a lawyer?
"Let's laugh. No, if you don't laugh, I'll tell you."
In response to the question of the great man, the thorn road put the glass in front of it.
Maybe I won't laugh.
"Because I want to save people in need."
Putting the glass down, the thorn answered with a distant glance.
"I'm killing people while saving them. I wonder what the hell I'm doing. It's contradictory. I'm confused. I'm lost. That's funny. You've been drunk forever. I don't even know why..."
After speaking to that point, the thorn again poured a glass of whiskey into the stomach all at once.
"That's it, a common villain. Ideally, I would not hesitate to sacrifice for the sake of greatness. I'm in the middle of it."
"Do you really want power?
A great man asking with anxiety toward a self-abusive thorny path.
"We're all being fooled by fate. It takes strength to resist. It's simple."
"You want to help a lot of people with a lot of power? The work of a lawyer is not enough. Can't you just save people little by little within your reach?
"Oh, I'm dissatisfied. It's not gonna work. We're gonna see too much of reality."
In the dark eyes of the thorny way of speaking, the flame of anger swayed, and he looked great.
"I feel like I want to save you, I feel like I want to break you, I don't care, and I don't want to break you all. I'm splitting up. Ambivalentz."
"Old cases aren't the beginning. Something else?
"I wonder if there was anything back then...? But there was something more motivating than that. There's been a recent incident."
The thorn breathed heavily into the question of the great man.
"A free journalist got dressed wet. He was chasing a bad scandal from a congressman, but he was framed on the contrary. I was defending him, but I couldn't help it. I couldn't bear to see him go to jail for his innocence. I could not take advantage of the loopholes in the law and do my dirty hands to allow the bad man to frame the good man. And when such a bad man imagined in public that he would do a beautiful thing in front of a good man and all the stupid voters would vote, he was going to throw up. I'm sure I'm blue too... but I can't forgive myself. I felt the limits of the law, and I used the power of land, sea and moon to solve it. I threatened the damn senator with death magic and made him confess. Journalists are not guilty. After all, the world is ready for evil to prevail, so I also became evil and saved good."
"But you're also attacking and killing innocent people... That's strange, isn't it? Does it make sense that while the journalist you defended desperately saves his life, strangers can kill him?
"Guilty. I choose who to attack."
And he put his hand in front of his brother's face, and smiled cruelly, as he silenced the great man, and said the thorny way.
"I've checked in advance who's going to attack. The guy who lives in this town, he's a bait, and he's only after women who think it's better for the world to kill him. Well, it's troublesome to find one of those objects."
Though thorny, it was a lie. A lie that reassures my brother a little. In fact, if it's just a woman with a strong inspiration or a woman who seems to have supernatural powers, the good guys and the bad guys are attacking without care.
These murders aren't heartbreaking. But you're killing yourself, telling yourself it's a sacrifice for the cause.
"So... what are you going to do?
"The feeding woman and Kijima's raw medicine are all my strength. And take advantage of the great convergence of edges. I'll do everything I can. I'll get everything I can get. I'll scratch your feet as long as I can. I'm gonna smash my whole life into it."
To the great man questioning with a sad look, the thorny path was declared with a smile of nihil.
While playing with pets, Kazuhiko and Kazuhiko listened to the conversation between Hayato and the great man.