There is Soup Kitchen in Puleduo Park.Ian heard the news yesterday evening. Soup Kitchen is a charity kitchen.Pretending to speak English is because "Pule Duo" is an old American company!He had already forgotten the name of the guy who told Ian that way, but he remembered that since it was a charity kitchen of Pule Duo, it should be of good quality and quantity, and there would definitely be a bunch of homeless people. Ion decided to wait in front of Puleduo Park before dawn.If you are lucky enough to row twice, you don't have to worry about it the next morning.But it seemed that everyone was thinking the same thing, and the park was crowded with men and women from the city center before dawn.

Puledo Park is located between Meiji Avenue and the Yamanote Line, with a width of only 30 meters and a length of 250 meters, which is extremely long.This is of course, because it is a trail park, and there is a parking lot underground. Now the barbed wire fence that reflects the silver light surrounds Puleduo Park, completely closed at night.It used to be a Shibuya District Park, but it was acquired by a world-renowned sports company called "Prodo" two years ago. It was named after the company, and an indoor football field and a skateboard field were set up. It has since become a private paid park.

When it was still a district park, the vegetation was sparse, there was a sandy area to play, and there were huge graffiti on the entrance wall, which was eye-catching.Although it is messy, it is humane. Many homeless people and street children live in cardboard houses here. The center of the slender park is always full of people like a walking area in a downtown area. Many people were very angry, saying that the privatization and charging of parks is actually a conspiracy to drive away homeless people.Ian, who has survived on his own wit since he was a child, has already developed the habit of acting before getting angry, even if he hears such criticism, he doesn't take it seriously.

Ion hurriedly lined up to the back of the line, and in the blink of an eye, there were already many people lined up behind him.If the meal is prepared for 200 people, who will be the first?Ion began to count how many figures were in front of him.There are more than a hundred people, and there are more than a hundred people in the rear, so probably only one meal can be obtained.Although he was disappointed, he thought that if he had eaten this morning, he should be able to last until the evening, so he felt relieved again.Living on the streets means running every day to get food. Ion looked around.Many familiar homeless people came.At the front is Mr. Yamada, who has lived on the street for fifty years.Mr. Yamada is already 80 years old, and he has repeatedly declined volunteers' advice to put him in a shelter, preferring to fight on the streets.But it seems that the cold wind in December is still too tossing, I saw him kicking his feet constantly.

Yamada later became a group of moms, single mothers and divorced homeless women.It is dangerous for women to go alone, so they always go together.Almost everyone is carrying a child, some of them are holding a baby whose neck is not yet hardened, and some are holding one in each hand.The mother and child were both heavily clothed and moved slowly. Achang and Suzuki, who are about the same age as Ion, are also behind.Suzuki, who had a big crew cut, saw Ion, and immediately turned his head away with a displeased face.Ion pretended not to see it and ignored him.Before Achang suggested to Suzuki that the number of young homeless people is not large, it is better to form a group like mothers and support each other, but Ion refused on the spot, and they held grudges for it.However, Ian just didn't like the fact that the two of them were crying and crying at every turn.

"Isn't this Ian!" Someone poked Ion's back, and he looked back, it was Jincheng who used to live together in Yoyogi Park Village. Ever since Jin Cheng got into an argument with someone for stealing money and got his front teeth broken, he disappeared without a trace, not knowing where to hide and what to do.Jin Cheng was only in his early thirties at most, very young, but always hunchbacked, with conspicuous white hair. Ion saluted silently.In the past, Jin Cheng took good care of him, allowing him to live a relaxed life, but mixing with Jin Cheng, who ruined his companion's reputation, was of no benefit, so Ian left.In fact, as soon as Jin Cheng appeared, there were roars from all over the team.

"Jincheng, you still have the guts to show your face!" "Go away!" Jincheng turned a deaf ear, please Ian. "Let me sit next to you." "No." Ion refused. "Please, I haven't eaten in two days." Jincheng begged pitifully.Ion pulled the woolen hat lower and turned his face away. "Everyone is the same." "Why is everyone the same? Look at you, you are fat and fat after eating for nothing." Jin Cheng spoke with a mouth that lacked front teeth, and at the same time poked Ian's shoulder hard.If someone is asked to jump in the line to receive food, the person who gave way has to leave. This is an unwritten rule, so Ion can't let Jin Cheng in.

Ion stepped on his feet tightly, desperately resisting the urge to kick Jin Cheng's calf or elbow him in the stomach.Fortunately, Ion has grown taller these days, and his body shape has become almost the same as Jin Cheng's. "Ion, what's wrong?" He should be hiding aside and watching the situation, Mogami walked over.The top one is an NGO member, and the business card he gave Ian was printed with "Street Children Aid Association". She was very interested in Ion a few years ago and has been chasing him, often meeting him on the streets of Shibuya.Every time they meet, Mogami will provide Ian with some help.Sometimes they would give him cash, although the amount was very small, and in winter they would give him warm clothes and hot soup, and from time to time they would invite Ion to eat hamburgers or French fries at Yuanshi.For Ion, Mogami is the only "good-hearted adult".

"What happened?" Top asked two people.Mogami was tall and thin, wearing glasses, with deeply furrowed brows and deep straight lines between his brows.He always dresses the same way in winter: a black down jacket with a black beanie, and a black nylon backpack on his shoulders. "No, it's fine." Ion shrugged.Jin Cheng licked the gums where the teeth were missing with the tip of his tongue, and fixed his eyes on Ian. "I said, I'll help you find a way for your sake, don't bully children, okay?" Mogami warns Jincheng.Child, this word made Ian feel weird, so he fell silent.He was already fifteen years old in October, so was he considered a child?

"Where is Ian a child? How can a child be so shrewd and tricky?" Jincheng cursed.However, he seemed to know that the situation was unfavorable, so he unexpectedly walked back honestly.Although the homeless people in front of and behind the line pretended to be indifferent, they frequently peeked at Jin Cheng's back. "thanks." Ion thanked Momokata.If you get help from others, be sure to thank it, so that interpersonal relationships will become smoother and it will be easier to do things.That's the best way to teach him. Mogami narrowed his eyes happily and said, "You have also learned to thank you."

"It's just expediency." "Expediency? Where did you learn such an esoteric word?" "I learned it from the cartoon you gave me." Most Shang laughed.When he smiled, the corners of his eyes drooped, and his face became kind.When he is not smiling, he always has a dignified expression as if he is carrying the world's troubles on his shoulders. "Why do you always look unhappy?" Ion asked.Mogami replied that seeing a child like Ian struggling to survive alone, and a society that made the child struggle to survive alone, tortured his heart.Ian shrugged and said: There are such weird adults in the world. It was already five years ago that Mogami strongly urged Ion to enter the shelter and go to school. "In this country, you children must receive compulsory education. It is stipulated by law, so you must enter the child protection center and go to school. It is your right to go to school, and it is also the obligation of the child protection center to let you go to school. But you Must have escaped from those child care centers, right?" Ion didn't speak.Mogami said with regret: "I don't know when, more and more children escaped from the child care center every year. No one can grasp the correct number. Unless you tell the truth, no one will know that you are from the child care center." Which child care center ran out. That's why we are in this job. I said, Ion, can you trust me? I want to help you. The welfare and security system has collapsed. Even if you are forced to send you back to the child care center, You will only repeat the same mistakes, you will definitely run away again, can you please not leave Shibuya, let me protect you until you grow up?" "Okay, I'll just stay in Shibuya." Ian reluctantly agreed to Mogami's proposal, but he couldn't understand why Mogami wanted to send him to the child care center and force him to receive school education?Isn't Ian living freely by his own strength?What's wrong with this?There was a strong wind blowing in Ion's heart, and this wind hated restraint more than anything else. Mogami is a serious and missionary NGO member.He didn't know why, but he just missed Ion, always finding out where the Ion people were, and came to check on the situation.Ian didn't want to talk about himself at all, and frankly speaking, he was bored by his curiosity. But it is also true that most times he was rescued from the predicament.Especially the winter before last Ian had the flu, if not for Mogami's help, he might have died. Japan now has a new type of influenza raging every year.Especially the new type of influenza that broke out the year before last was extremely cold that year, and the vaccine production speed was too late, which claimed many lives.Many homeless people also died of influenza in poor conditions.Really miserable. Mogami not only let Ian, who suffered from high fever, sleep in his own residence, but also took care of him without fear of infection.This was all because Ion was afraid of being sent to the child care center and refused to be hospitalized. The apartment Mogami lived in was in Nakano. It was a room with only six tatami mats. The toilet was shared and there was no bathroom.Mogami lived such a poor life, but let Ian occupy the bed for more than a week, while he slept on the cushion in the cold winter. "Why are you being so nice to me?" Ian asked this question after recovering, and Mogami himself said with some confusion: "Probably because I like you." "What is liking?" Ion's question caused Mogami to show a surprised expression. "Like means caring about a person, wanting to see him again, talk to him: always think about him. Don't you have such experience?" "No." Ion replied coldly, seeming disappointed.But Ion doesn't like to please others, so he never lies. "Ion, have you never liked anyone?" "Not once." Mogami's eyes lit up, as if he had discovered something.Why?Ion thought about it for a while, but immediately felt that it didn't matter. For Ian, it is more important to find the secret place where the convenience store throws away the expired bento, and the coin that the vending machine forgot to take away from the coin return hole, these are the things that give him a real sense of being alive. "Where are your parents? Do you have parents?" This was the first time Mogami asked about his family.Mogami always treated Ion with caution, and rarely asked questions like interrogation. "I don't know. I didn't have parents from the beginning." Ion replied without moving his eyebrows. "It's impossible for you to not have parents. It's biologically impossible. It's just that you don't know it?" Mogami said with a smile. "But there isn't." "Then who gave you that handsome name for you? Ion is a great name." "I don't know, just take it casually. The names of other people are also taken randomly." "Anyone else? Do you have siblings?" Mogami's eyes widened, as if he wanted to ask further questions, Ion quickly changed the subject. "Don't talk about me, what kind of people are your parents?" Ion looked at Mogami with eyes sunken due to high fever, and Mogami took out a photo album from under the shelf. "Show you the picture." Ian flipped through the photo album and saw Mogami's father whose body and face shape were exactly the same as Mogami's, Mogami's mother whose eyes and mouth were exactly the same as Mogami's, and Mogami's sister whose temperament was similar to the female version of Mogami. "It seems." Ion said with trembling in his heart.Mogami was startled when he heard that, but he didn't show any emotion, he just stared at Ion's side face. After Mogami went out the next day, Ian slipped off the top bed, stepped on unsteady steps, put on the baggy denim pants, and changed into the sweaty T-shirt.The top of the clothes have been washed, so they are very clean. After Ion got dressed, he dug out the photo album from the top shelf and looked through it.There are many Mogami from my childhood.Mogami wearing a baseball uniform and holding a bat, Mogami gesturing victory in the swimming pool, Mogami wearing a school uniform, and Mogami in a class photo.The best past, the best memories, and the best relationships, Ian stuffed the photo album into his backpack. After leaving the top room, Ion walked as far as possible to the farthest garbage dump and threw away the top photo album.He didn't know why he did it.Presumably he felt uncomfortable with a biologically "group" of similar people.That is to say, the family members of Mogami terrified him, and the name "Mogami's past time" also terrified him. There is only one person, no father and no mother, so it is lonely DNA.He also forgot about the past, so it was blank.Without the anchor of human relationship, people can only float. A few days later, when Ion was about to run across the dangerous central street, he saw Mogami standing there with a cold face. "Ion, you took my photo album, right?" Ah, um, maybe.Ion tilted his head ambiguously, pretending to be stupid. "Give it back to me, please. That means a lot to me." "Sorry, I lost it." Ion laughed out loud, and just ran away.He thought Mogami would chase after him angrily, so he rushed into the alley.He knows the alleys of Shibuya like the back of his hand, so he should be able to get rid of Mogami.However, Mogami did not follow. Ian thought that Mogami would be so angry that he would cut off relations with him now, he was very happy.Just when he thought that Mogami would never have anything to do with him again, Ion realized that Mogami's interest in him had always made him uncomfortable.I must be a cruel person, not suffering from loneliness at all.Don't countless street children in Shibuya also hate Ion, saying that Ion is a selfish, cold, and willful guy? But one month later, Mogami appeared in front of Ion again as if nothing had happened. "How are you recently?" Mogami asked, and Ion decided not to touch him. "Nope." "No? This is too indifferent. Don't you ask me how I am?" "What's the meaning?" Ion raised his head, and Mogami told him: "The dialogue can only be established if we pay equal attention to each other. It's your turn to ask me." Why is this guy so annoying?Ion felt impatient and ignored him.Finally, Mogami said by himself: "Hey, well, I know you are such a person, and I won't take it seriously. By the way, I was appointed as the Shibuya District Commissioner, and I can come to Shibuya every day from now on. .Before I was in charge of Shinjuku, so I didn’t have much time. Ion, I haven’t been here for a while, are there any new faces added?” "I don't know, other guys have nothing to do with me, so I won't pay attention." Ion played dumb and looked up at the sky.Looking from the gaps of the messy buildings, the winter sky, which is constantly changing in shape, is different from usual, blue and transparent. It is said that the crows in the city regard high-rise buildings as forests, and so do the children living on the streets. They are Hansel and Gretel wandering in the forest called the city, although there is no candy house at all. "You're still the same." Mogami smiled wryly. "By the way, I brought you a manga." Seeing Mogami take out a few second-hand comics from his backpack, Ion decides to forgive Mogami. "Then I'll take it." "Hey, didn't I teach you? You should say 'thank you' at this time, so that the relationship between people will be smooth." "What do relationships have to do with me?" "It can't be like this." Mogami's eyes were serious. "Interpersonal relationships are the weapon of survival. You have to learn." "I don't need it." Ian rudely denied it, but he wanted manga very much, so he couldn't help biting his lip.There was no television on the street, and he hadn't seen a movie.Ion's only entertainment is comics.Ion learned characters, vocabulary, and emotions through comics.Although it's just a matter of when people will be angry and when people will be happy. "Don't you want comics?" Mogami looked at Ion with a mocking look.Ion stretched out his dirty hand to snatch the book, but was blocked by the long hand on the top. "Give me comics!" "You can't say that. You have to apologize to me first. Listen, you threw away my cherished photo album without authorization. Anyway, let's forget about the past. There is no way, but you have to apologize to me. My request is not too much, right?" ?Then I forgive you so that we are the same as before. The ritual is not yet complete." "Return the ceremony, you are very annoying." Ion became annoyed.What annoys him the most is this attitude of always wanting to teach Ian a lesson.What a nosy. "Ian, if you want comics, please apologize to me. If you don't apologize, I won't give you comics." Normally, Mogami would not be so stalking, but today he was determined not to back down.Ion felt that he was remembering the photo album. "Okay. I'm sorry." "That 'okay' is too much." "Sorry." "No sincerity." "Sorry." Mogami nodded in satisfaction, then handed the manga to Ian and said, "Thank you, I'm sorry. These two sentences will be of great help to making a living." "In this world?" Ian sneered, hugged the manga and ran away.Mogami lowered his eyes, as if saying "yes", and it was very satisfying to see. As Mogami said, since that day, Ion has often seen Mogami in Shibuya.Ion threw away the top photo album, which caused him a loss, so maybe he stared at Ian closely.Ian couldn't understand what attracted Mogami to him, but he didn't bother to delve into it. Three hours in line.The sky is fully lit, traffic on Meiji-dori increases, and it's time for low-income laborers to rush to the station.When the homeless saw people with jobs, they all bowed their heads in pain, as if they were ashamed to get food for their own purpose. Not long after, two white vans stopped in front of the procession of homeless people surrounding Puledo Park. A dozen young men and women got out of the car.They all wore black jackets with the trendy Puledo logo on them, and without looking at the homeless, they unlocked the park gates and unloaded tables and large pots, food trays, etc. from the car.The distribution of food was about to start, and Ion's mouth was full of saliva. Last night he broke into the convenience store dump, but it was pretty much stripped of anything decent, except for a bag of torn potato chips.I really want to drink hot soup, want to eat meat, fat and rice.Ion's stomach was clenched into a ball and ached.At this age, he can eat without paying any price, except when he stays in the child care center he hates the most, and that is extremely shabby meals.But no matter how delicious the meal was, Ion would definitely not want to go back. The team moved slowly.Ion realized that Mogami had disappeared unknowingly, and looked back.Mogami stood next to A Chang, talking to him with a smile.Achang must be very happy to be able to talk to Mogami.He looked at Mogami with a respectful look like looking at a big brother.Achang was very afraid of being lonely, and he would be abducted by "good adults" all at once, just a fool. Achang is fourteen years old this year, and he is a street boy like his brother, but the child care center took his brother away, and the two were separated, which made him heartbroken.Achang's parents heard that because of the company's bankruptcy, they owed a large debt, leaving two children to commit suicide.So Ah-chang's face is carved with a lament that will never go away. Achang noticed Ion's gaze and waved to him happily.How naive is this guy?I hate that kind of guy, Ian thought, turning his head away.If you have a family, you will think wildly, and nothing good will happen. The procession of hungry men slowly climbed the stone steps and was sucked into the park surrounded by barbed wire.Ion entered Puleduo Park for the first time, felt it was very novel, and looked around.The handsome sign of Prodopark is written in white letters on a black background, the cement slope is a skateboard square, there are tennis courts and two indoor football fields. "Please enjoy." Finally it was my turn.The long-haired young woman said mechanically, and handed the white paper bag to Ion, she refused to meet the vagrant's eyes at all. Ion immediately checked the bag.A round paper bag of a hamburger, a banana, two biscuits, and a white plastic container and spoon suspected of containing soup. "Please go out and eat outside the park." The middle-aged man who wanted to sit on the bench was reminded by the staff and stood up.It is rare to enter the park, but not even allowed to stay.Men with paper bags were taken to other exits, filling the narrow Meiji-dori sidewalk.Everyone stood up and opened the paper bag and started eating. Ion also took out the soup container and brought it to his mouth.Is it pumpkin soup or corn chowder?The yellow soup was no longer hot and the burger meat was cold.The amount is very small, so it should not last until noon. After spending three hours queuing, Ian was disappointed only to get these.The news heard in advance is far from the reality.Ion put the bananas into his faded backpack, intending to save them for later, when Mogami folded them back. "Ion, is it delicious?" Ian stared at the men and women who put the props into the box car, shook his head and said, "It's not that good." "What about the amount?" "not enough." "I think so. Protoss took the park from the homeless, and they're just pretending to help the homeless." The most rare criticism, Ion looked at him in surprise. "It's really strange that you would say such a thing." Ian mocked him. "Will it be?" Mogami said, tilting his long neck. "What happened?" "No, not at all." "No? You were angry before and told me not to speak in that tone." Is Mogami imitating his catchphrase?Ion complained, Mogami showed a wry smile.Then he asked back as if he was about to shake off Ion's curious eyes: "Where do you sleep now? Have you stopped going to Yoyogi Park Village?" "You control where I sleep." Ion threw the paper bag into the white trash bag prepared by Puleduo. The young people employed by Puleduo seem to have been instructed to clean up the garbage immediately and take it home. They patiently waited for the homeless to finish eating.Some of the homeless people complained to them that they were immediately kicked out of the park and that the meals were cold. However, the young man just lowered his eyes and patiently held back his words.No matter what kind of job it is, you should be lucky to have a job.This situation has been going on for too long, and once the job is lost, the family is likely to be destroyed, and then reduced to nothing, like a homeless person who stays here and waits for the food to be distributed. "Ion, tell me where you sleep, what does it matter?" Mogami pressed Ion. "Why should I tell you?" "I want to master the object of my care." "I'm an object of observation? Whatever you want." Isn't the desire to help street children out of personal feelings such as the highest self-esteem or values?Being arbitrarily selected as an object of observation, tracking, and observation will really cause trouble, Ian thought.And no matter how fast he was, judging from Mogami's personality, he would definitely come to check on Ion's situation.