Chapter 2 second quarter

Ion walked towards the west side of Meiji Avenue, and as expected, Mogami followed from behind.Ion ignored Mogami, and quickly bent into Dogenzaka.When the stomach is full, people will want to sleep.Because of the cold in winter, sleep is very shallow, and it is easy to get sleepy. Ion suppressed his sleepiness and climbed up the steep slope leading to Baixuan Store. A few years ago, due to the redevelopment project in the Baikendian area of ​​Shibuya, many small shops were forced to be demolished or closed.However, the real estate company that carried out the development project closed down, and the project was interrupted, and it became abandoned.Homeless people and foreigners without visas settled in it indiscriminately, forming a ghost town and gradually becoming an untrodden area.

There are many small vendors in front of the Chiyoda Inari Shrine, full of exotic and strange things.Instant noodles, detergents, toothbrushes, toothpicks and other trivial daily necessities, vegetables and pickles obtained from unknown sources, and cheap clothes are piled up like a mountain for sale. Ion passed through the vendors and walked into the alley behind the shrine.Half of the building has been destroyed, and the stairs of the residential-commercial building are still covered with blue plastic sheeting. Ion ran up the stairs. There is a black door on the third floor. There is no signboard in the room, but a pile of stickers have been torn off, making it look dirty.Mogami followed him halfway through, but he might have been polite and didn't follow here.

Ion knocked on the door. "The door is unlocked." The woman's cold voice came out.Ian opened the door and entered the room. The inside seemed to be an office, only about three square meters in size, filled with green coin-operated lockers. In order to prevent the locker from being stolen, several strong iron chains were attached to the wedges driven into the wall.There are also large lockers for suitcases in the dark room. This is a 24-hour coin-operated locker shop targeting homeless people.One of the most frustrating things about living on the streets is having nowhere to leave your valuables.If it is carried on the body, it is easy to be stolen or encounter robbers.Some homeless people in Minato City seem to have bank deposits or rent bank safes. However, men and women living on the streets of Shibuya all deposit cash and important items in the coin-operated locker shop of Baixuan Store.

"It's too slow, you're twenty minutes late." The old woman sitting at the table in the shop complained. "I can go to other children, and I can find someone to replace you." The old woman was hunched over, but she wore a fashionable blue dress.Thinning hair is dyed orange, and she wears a lot of lipstick. She holds a thin metal rod in her hand, and Jiujiu rotates the roller on the rod to rub her cheeks. "Sorry, I'm going to arrange food distribution." Ion made use of his usual training and apologized obediently. He got a locker store to help him look after the store this morning.

If it is left unattended, someone will break the lock of the locker to steal things, or stay in the store, or even use the socket in the store to charge mobile phones or game consoles. Criminals are everywhere waiting for the opportunity.Watching the store only needs to sit in the house all the time. Although the salary is only a few hundred yuan, it is a good job that everyone is rushing for in the cold winter. "Twenty minutes is a third of an hour. But you haven't been to school, and you don't know how to count." said the old woman sarcastically, standing up lazily. "I know how to count." Ian pursed his lips and said.

"Then your hourly wages will also be deducted by one-third. Is this a matter of course?" The old woman continued rubbing her cheeks with the roller.Ion pointed to the metal bar and asked, "What is that?" The old woman silently rolled the metal rod across Ion's cheek.The cold touch of metal made Ion's skin crawl. "There are wrong particles in it." "What's that for?" The old woman said without a smile: "The skin will become smooth. Turn around thirty yuan, and it will be deducted from your salary." The old woman put the wrong stick into the golden bag and put it carefully in the black leather bag.The old woman was petite and seemingly powerless, but it was rumored that she carried a pistol with her to protect against robbers, and the neighbors called her "Pistol Woman".

After the old woman left, Ian took out the small key and coins from his backpack, and opened the locker he rented.When Ian came to pick up his things from the locker, the old woman who looked after the store asked him: "I see you often, do you want to work here?" There are comics and two bank envelopes in Ion's locker.An envelope containing cash, and if today's salary is included, his total property will be nearly 4,000 yen.He saved the money he earned from such errands, and the money Mogami gave him. Another envelope contained old newspaper clippings with the headline "Compulsory Search."Ion wanted to read it several times before, but there were many Chinese characters he couldn't understand, and he couldn't understand the content.Maybe he could understand it now, when he picked up the newspaper, there was a knock on the door.Ian hurriedly put the envelope back into the locker and locked it.

It was Mogami who opened the door.He took off his black beanie and peeked into the shop with trepidation. "Is this the legendary locker store?" "Let's go out, I want to look at the store." "Understood. I'll leave after I finish talking." Mogami raised his hand obediently.He probably felt relieved seeing that Ian had a job.Then he added this sentence: "I want to call Achang to my place, are you okay?" "What's wrong with me? It doesn't matter to me." Mogami frowned apologetically and said, "Ah Chang is about to have a psychological problem because of his parents' death. I hope he will be placed in a child care center, but he is afraid that he will be bullied there."

The "Street Children Support Association" to which Mogami belongs is not a public agency and cannot force children to be sent to child care centers. The most important thing is to meddle in other people's business.Ion thought so, but didn't speak.He knew that Achang's heart was very fragile, he often cried in the middle of the night, if he didn't rely on others, he couldn't live at all. "Ion is only one year older than Achang, right? Don't you think he is very pitiful?" Ion started biting his nails.He has no nail clippers and has developed a habit of biting his nails.

Ion didn't reply all the time, Mogami replied instead of him: "No way. Is it?" "Yeah. I don't feel anything. And as long as I'm in child care: Will the psychological problems go away?" This question hits the nail on the head.Mogami sighed deeply and was silent for a while. "No, I'm actually a little worried. Although it's related to the counselor, the child has no choice. Achang is eager for love. As long as someone can understand and love Achang, even if he lacks counseling skills, Achang's situation should be able to improve. I He was sent to child care because he would be hurt more and more if he didn't start improving his life. He was traumatized by the belief that his parents had abandoned their brother and chose to die."

Ion shrugged: "Isn't it?" "No, even if it is the truth, there are subtle differences. Things are not that simple." Mogami shook his head indignantly.At such times, Mogami would suddenly become stubborn, which was very troublesome. "I don't understand the subtleties. Why do you suddenly say such a complicated thing? I'm not Ah Chang." Ion became angry, and said solemnly: "From the standpoint of Achang's parents, they didn't abandon the child, but thought that they could save the child by committing suicide. I want Achang to know that he has misunderstood." Ion smiled: "Are you serious? Try it out. What adults are thinking has nothing to do with children. Children will never understand. Even if they understand, it is meaningless." The eyes under Mogami's glasses lit up again, as if interested, so Ion stopped talking.Even if Mogami is a "good lord", Ion still has areas that he doesn't want him to get involved in. "Mogami, stop talking about Achang. I want to sleep." After finally getting into the warm room, if Mogami keeps talking, he won't be able to sleep.Ion yawned exaggeratedly to imply this. "I'm sorry to disturb you. Anyway, I'll let Achang stay at my house first, and then send him to the child care center. Don't mind." Mogami apologized. "You think I'd mind?" "A little bit." Mogami smiled. "why?" "There is a feeling in the world called jealousy, but I don't think you know it." "I know jealousy, but I don't have that feeling." "Yeah, you're not interested in other people." "interest?" Ion was not happy about being judged by Mogami.He was already annoying adults like that in the childcare center.Mogami also, pretending to be kind, is actually spying on Ion's background.Ion deepened his vigilance, he didn't want others to observe the self that he didn't even understand, and be arbitrarily analyzed. "Then what about you?" "Didn't I say it before? I like Ion, and I like my parents. I like my sister, and I like friends. I have a lot of people I like, and I'm interested in them. It's called 'attachment.' " The guy is finally telling the truth.Ian thought to himself, the best is to show off, even if Ion throws away his photo album, because of this thing called "attachment" in his heart, the established interpersonal relationship is unbreakable.And I don't have such a relationship, so I deserve to be looked down upon by you, right?Ion felt an indescribable strangeness again. "Then can you love Achang? Even his parents don't want him anymore, can you love him if it's not his parents?" "That's a good question. I'd love to love him if I could, but maybe I'm not up to it." Mogami said with a sigh. "It's really admirable." Ion turned his head away unhappily. "I'm going to sleep, you go quickly." Mogami will take special care of Achang, because he judged that Achang can't live alone on the street.Indeed, Achang often squatted on the streets of Shibuya in despair recently, his clothes were dirty and his face was covered with dirt, and it was rare to hear him speak.But as soon as Achang touched Mogami, he would show pleading eyes, making people sick.It can be guessed that he is asking Mogami for help, but Ion is not interested in Achang. Last fall, Achang and his eight-year-old brother appeared on the streets of Shibuya.A boy who was only around the age of junior high school students wandered with a young child, and became a topic among homeless people. Amika, the leader of the first generation of moms, immediately extended a helping hand and took the two of them to a cardboard house in Yoyogi Park Village to settle down.Under Ya Meixiang's questioning, Achang told about the sudden death of his parents, the two were placed in different child care centers, and he rescued his younger brother and escaped.But the elder brother, who was already a junior high school student, seemed frightened and uneasy, and seemed to be relying on his younger brother instead. Ya Meixiang weighs more than 100 kilograms and has a burly figure. She is the leader of the mothers.At that time, it was the heyday of mommy, and there were more than fifty people.And everyone brought their children, forming a large settlement of more than a hundred people in Yoyogi Park. The group is big, and it is especially popular among homeless people.Amixiang and the others first built a nursery in a cardboard house, cooperated with large food banks, and invited them to deliver food for babies and young children.In addition, we negotiated with the district office to allow older children to go to the public elementary school near Park Village, and set up showers in the drinking water area, actively promoting various activities. But one day something went wrong.When Ah Chang went out to look for food, his younger brother was taken away by the police, and his whereabouts have been unknown since then.Achang's younger brother must have been placed in a child care center, but there was no way to know where it was.After half a year, they finally found out, and it was with the help of Mogami's group. Hearing that his younger brother was in an institution in Hokkaido, Achang cried and said that he would never see his younger brother again.After that, his whole person changed. He left the mums and started wandering the streets. The Mammies are a group of homeless women with children, and Achang, a teenager, is not comfortable being there.An internal power struggle that erupted late last year added fuel to the flames.The leader, Amika, is chased away by a new young woman, Kemiko. Amixiang has the ability to speak socially, has also been on TV, and is a celebrity.But because of being in the limelight, she seems to have provoked a lot of gossip behind her back, like she can only pretend to be a blessing, but in fact she is a rich man, favors her own subordinates, and so on. By comparison, Camiko was only nineteen years old.Since she ran away from home at the age of thirteen, she has been wandering around Shibuya. She has a wide circle of people and is also very prestigious among young women.In the blink of an eye, the mommies fell into Kemiko's grasp, and the members became younger all at once.I heard that the group following Amika moved to the Asakusa area. Mogami, who was about to go back, turned back and said, "Ion, I have a question for you. Why did you escape from the child care center? Is it because someone bullied you?" "No." Ion shook his head. "I think so, so what's bothering you?" "No." Ion replied immediately. Even though he had experienced the life of hunger, cold or scorching heat, Ian had never felt uncomfortable in his heart.He remained silent, Mogami said: "Sorry to bother you, see you next time." At this moment, the door of the store opened suddenly, and a young woman rushed in, almost bumping into Mogami head-on.Surprisingly, this person is none other than the new leader of the mummies, Kemiko.