Chapter 6 second quarter

Ion felt as if he heard someone's footsteps, and got up reflexively.It might just be a psychological effect, but this is an abandoned house, and it wouldn't be surprising if someone broke into it.In fact, when Ion came in for the first time, the ceremony hall was in chaos.The chairs in the banquet hall were roughly swept to one place, and several glass windows sealed on the wall were broken. who is it?Ian made up his mind, if the opponent is also a homeless person, he will fight to the end.He discovered this Shibuya Palace first, and he has the right to possess it.There are other things to watch out for, though—there are plenty of criminal groups that set fire to buildings when they find no one there.

Ion tiptoed to the hall where the voice came from.The hall is the part of the snail-shaped dome, which is connected to the front entrance. Because of the high space of the dome, it is full of openness.The guests who come to the banquet drink drinks here and wait to enter the venue.On the right there are balconies leading to the courtyard grass and on the left a large white wall.What appeared to be a large painting originally hung on the wall, with black frame marks. No one, no breath of human activity.Ian breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the wall, and was immediately frightened and froze in place.I don't know when a huge picture was painted on the white wall.It wasn't there in the morning, so someone broke in and drew it while Ian was arranging food and distributing it to work at the locker store.

That picture had a huge impact on Ion.There was a baby in each of the right and left hands, as big as Ion's chest.The hands are thick, they should be the hands of a man."Iron" is written on the right hand and "Bronze" on the left.Babies placed in the right hand are red and face left, and babies in the left hand are yellow and face right.A pair of babies face each other curled up like fetuses. "Bronze Brothers." Ion murmured, and squatted down weakly.This is a soul crisis that I have never experienced in the five years since I escaped from the institution—no, the soul visited me happily.Ion remembered that he also cared about someone.It's not liking or love, and I can't even use any words to define that huge existence.It is the twin brothers of copper and iron.

Copper and Iron, who were three years older than Ion, were like the same person.They are identical twins, just like a person looking in a mirror, from the teeth to the mole on the left cheek are exactly the same.They would speak the same words almost at the same time, with the same indistinguishable quality of voice. "Copper, iron, where are you?" Ion suppressed his intense heartbeat and ran around in the venue.Banquet hall, attic, storage room, staff room.He opened all the doors and looked for the brothers.Have they finally come to get him?With the lonely gene, how longing and yearning for the pair of identical twin brothers!

"Bronze, iron, come out if you are here! You are here to pick me up?" Ion shouted, but his voice echoed in the ruins.The sun sank in a blink of an eye, and the venue fell into darkness. Ion illuminated the drawing with a flashlight.correct.The brothers left this picture here, indicating that they would come to join him sooner or later.Did this picture instruct him to wait here? "I'll wait, I'll wait here!" Ion yelled into the darkness.As soon as he turned off the flashlight and found himself alone in the darkness, Ion suddenly became frightened.He has never been like this.

Ian was shivering from the cold, he didn't eat his bento, he didn't read manga, he didn't fall asleep, he just waited wholeheartedly for something to happen. If you are the copper and iron brothers, you will definitely give yourself some signals before showing up.Like throwing a glass window with a pebble, or casting a shadow on a wall. Isn't it the same as the house I stayed in before entering the child care center?The mischievous and mischievous Bronze Brothers are the leaders of these "brothers and sisters" like Ian, and also the mentors who teach them how to deal with adults.

"There are three kinds of adults: adults with good intentions, adults with bad intentions, and adults who are neither good nor bad. It is rare to see a kind adult, and you will run away immediately when you encounter a bad-hearted adult. But the most tormenting us is the one who is neither good nor bad. Not bad adults. And there are so many people like this, absolutely don’t trust them, in short, you must thoroughly see through adults. Only in this way can we survive.” The copper and iron brothers emphasized again and again.Every word and every sentence of the two people's words are the same, and they speak at the same time as if they have practiced.

While listening intently, Ian and the others looked at the two wondering: Who is Tong?who is ironBut gradually he felt that it was not important.Both are copper, and both are iron. And even if they were asked, they would not answer properly.Ask one of them: "Are you iron?" The person will answer: "Yes, I am iron." Then the other person will laugh: "I am fooled, I am iron." If you ask again: "Then I am iron." Are you copper?" Both of them would answer in unison: "No, we are not copper, we are iron." The copper and iron brothers are the longing of Ion and others.Everyone was watching them, eager for them to talk to them.Looking at the two of them, you will be intoxicated by the overly perfect similarity, and even so moved that you can't fall asleep.

If there is only one person for each of copper and iron, they will definitely not have that kind of charm and courage.It is precisely because they are two people with exactly the same appearance and personality that they are such amazing and perfect existences.Their words are absolute, so the "brothers and sisters" obey them. Ah, are copper and iron still exactly the same?It is a miracle for human beings that they are so similar—Ion's inner longing has been revived again.Thinking of the two talking at the same time, Ion tightly held the layers of clothes on his body, his body twisted involuntarily.He longed so badly to see copper and iron, so badly he longed to bask in their influence.

Ion tensed his nerves all night, not letting go of the slightest movement.At the slightest sound, he rushed out of the room and groped around the darkened Shibuya Palace. The palace at night is terrifying. There seems to be something standing at the end of the dark corridor, and there seems to be something hidden under the dark ceiling. What is the sound coming from outside the broken glass window?If you keep your ears upright, you can hear all kinds of sounds.wind?Or cats and dogs?Still unknown? Ion trembled with fear.This has never happened in the street life in the past. In the past, Ion was only afraid of adults with bad intentions, so the darkness of night was actually a curtain of safety.

But today's Ion is afraid of the darkness that lurks the mysterious.Something mysterious, he felt that this world was like that, why did he live?why here?Where are you going?It's all unknown.This made Ion feel painfully that he didn't understand anything at all. The moment the Bronze and Iron Brothers avatar picture appeared, Ion changed.It's like degenerating into a toddler living in a world full of fear. Ian parted from the Bronze and Iron Brothers when he was eight years old.How many years have passed since then?Ion was fifteen now, so they hadn't seen each other for seven years.The copper and iron brothers who are three years older than him should be eighteen years old. Seven years ago, these "brothers and sisters" of Ion were suddenly separated and placed in child care centers across Japan.Ion was placed with a "sister" named Selene in a child care center east of central Tokyo.It was a relatively large child care center in the city center, with thousands of children living there. Every child care center has been privatized, and in order to obtain government assistance, they are desperately performing.The so-called performance, the most important thing is to completely cut funds, and the secondary thing is to implement child protection. Another way to say underfunding is that everything is in short supply—whether people, money, time, or love.Therefore, there are not enough nannies, instructors, and psychological counselors. Children are required to endure extreme heat and cold, and they are always hungry.Although compulsory education is available, textbooks are used in turn, stationery is not enough, and there is no access to game consoles, computers and mobile phones in life. The so-called comprehensive protection is to prevent children from misbehaving and escaping, and to let them graduate from the child care center no matter what.Therefore, children are thoroughly managed. If they are found to have bad behaviors such as smoking, drug use, drinking, and sex with men and women, they will be sent to juvenile prisons on the same day, and the same is true for resistance. After the age of seventeen, one can successfully graduate from the child care center, but the graduates cannot operate computers, do not have mobile phones, and are thrown into society without any training, so only a very lucky few can find a job people.Therefore, many people become homeless in this way. No one knows when the child fell into this situation.When people started noticing an increase in abandonment issues and abuse, it all fell into disuse. "Sister" Selene immediately escaped with the older girl.Where she went after that, Ian had no idea.She should be living well in a certain city like Kemiko.The only memory about Selene is that she is a girl with short hair and older than herself.Even if we meet now, we will definitely not recognize each other. Selene didn't take Ion with her when she escaped, was it because Ion was still young?At that time, Ian thought resentfully, if they were brothers of copper and iron, they would never abandon him.It took Ion two years to finally escape on his own.