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Chapter 13 fourth quarter

kind adults 桐野夏生 5225Words 2018-03-23
Will Sabu come?If he didn't come, Ian would have to wait for him on that dangerous step.Please, be there. Ion went to the underground shopping mall with a prayerful heart.He entered the staff bathroom when no one was there, and then opened the door for cleaning tools. "too slow." Standing in front of him was Sabu, whose eyes were squinted by the light from the doorway.The camouflage jacket is the same as yesterday, but today he wears jeans.With a headlamp on his short-cut head, he looked like a young charcoal worker. "Great, you're really here." "Where's the money?" Sabu asked immediately.Ion was aware of the pistol in his backpack and replied, "I brought it."

If he asks how much, how should I answer?Ion was worried, but Sabu didn't ask any questions as if the matter had nothing to do with him. "Okay, let's go. The Colonel said he would like to see you." Who is the Colonel?Isn't it the copper and iron brothers? "Is the Colonel a twin?" "No." Sabu replied briefly without interest, and then turned on the headlight on his forehead. "Ion, follow up. Don't forget to close the door." After closing the door, it instantly became a dark shaft.Sabu's headlamp swung to illuminate the wall below.What if I fall down?Ion felt his ass itch.

"Don't fall behind." Sabu, who was familiar with ladders, walked quickly down the stairs.Ion chased desperately, but was immediately pulled away.The iron handrails were icy, and I held them tightly for fear of falling, and my hands started to freeze from the fingertips.If your fingers are frozen, you will not be able to exert force, which is very dangerous.But I can't see my feet, so I can only rely on the handrails.Ion called out to Sabu who was a few meters ahead: "Sabu, can you walk a little slower? Please!" Sabu stopped and looked back at Ion who was still dawdling on it.The light from the headlamp shone directly on Ion, his eyes were dazzled for a while, his feet slipped, and he fell several steps in a row.

"Be careful!" Sabu yelled.At the very moment, Ion's hand finally grabbed the handrail and did not fall off.Cold sweat spewed out suddenly, and the whole body was shaking.The elbow I hit suddenly hurt, and I couldn't use any strength. The two walked down for a while.Ion stopped to catch his breath and looked up at the stairs.Converted into a building, it is probably five floors deep down. Far above was a thin band of light.It was the light leaking from the crack in the door of the small room where the cleaning tools were stored.Light is proof of existence on earth. Goodbye, Mogami.Goodbye, Camiko.Goodbye, pistol lady.I, who have no home, want to enter the dark abyss underground, and then take it as my home and live in it.

At this moment, for some reason, Ion thought of "brothers and sisters".There were eight—no, nine—in all.The number of people is uncertain, but Ian is the second from the bottom, and has a "sister" named "Phosphorus". As soon as the "adult" left, everyone played in the basement of the house.Bring the cushions in and siege the ground for a game of war or something as simple as Super Mario on the one and only old console.The leader of the game, of course, is the Bronze Brothers. "Don't be in a daze, come here!" Sabu roared, Ion came back to his senses, and started to walk down.The rumble from the subway was getting louder, and the subway must be passing by.

"Listen well, if you go down a little further, you will enter the Hengkeng, so be careful over there." It's dangerous, right?It's scary, but now that we've come here, there's no turning back.Ion nodded. The hot, gray wind blows towards my face, smelling like the subway.Ion smelled the smell of the vehicle he had never been in, and occasionally heard the door close with a "puff". The subway has no drivers and no drivers.The completely driverless trams allow passengers to open the doors themselves.Only when the train departs will it make an airlock-like sound, intimidatingly informing passengers.

"Here is the first hurdle. If you can't overcome it, you will be left behind." Sabu waited on the platform of the stairs, pointed to the horizontal hole in the brick wall and said, "It's two meters away from the stairs." "Go down after entering this hole, and then to the station platform." Sabu demonstrated to him.He climbed over the handrail, jumped into the hole in the wall, and climbed up.After he finished it easily, he shouted at Ion: "Try it!" Ion imitated him and jumped over.The thigh hit the wall, and the pain of being "executed" started.He took advantage of the bumps on the brick wall to barely get into the hole.He tried his best, but Sabu didn't lend a helping hand, just squatted aside and smoked.Seeing that Ian had succeeded, he threw the cigarette into the darkness.

"This way." Not even having time to breathe, the two continued down the horizontal pit.A hole with a diameter of about one meter extends obliquely downward, and seems to be connected to a ventilation pipe.The end point is a small room like a mechanical room.Sabu put the headlamp into his arms and murmured to Ian: "This is the station platform. Walk slowly, there are surveillance cameras everywhere, absolutely don't look at the camera." Sabu gestured after leaving the room, and Ion immediately followed.Sabu put his hands in his pockets, pretended to be a passenger, and walked leisurely.

Is this the subway platform?It's almost like a tunnel.Ion looked around curiously and impetuously.Sabu turned back and stood next to Ion.He smiled on his face, pretending to be good brothers, but his words were very severe. "Don't look around. You'll be arrested for sneaking." Ion was taken aback.He always thought that the arrest was nothing to do with him, but what he did to the pistol woman was a crime and a robber.If the old woman calls the police, the second policeman will immediately call the surveillance cameras at the intersection or station.Ion imitated Sabu's smile.

"That's right, just pretend to be happy. I heard that the surveillance cameras will catch people who are dissatisfied all over their bodies." Sabu smiled.When we reached the end of the long platform, an underground train came.The headlights illuminate Ion, slowing down.Ion watched with longing. "I really want to sit and watch." Sabu nudged him, indicating the unassuming door in the corner of the platform. "Go in from there, now is the opportunity." The subway doors opened, and the passengers came out in a file.Everyone went to the exit, no one would pay attention to the boy in the corner of the platform.Sabu disappeared through the door in the blink of an eye.Ion also followed, another vertical pit.This time the ladder extends upwards.It's steep, but at least it's not pitch black.There are red lights everywhere.

"What is it this time?" Ion asked, and Sabu replied, "Emergency escape ladder." The two climbed the ladder in silence.After climbing to the end, another door opened.As a result, when they reached the stairs of a certain station, Sabu led Ion without saying a word.The two of them walked in the underground street lined with restaurants. The shops sold food that Ian had never seen before, and their stomachs started to growl. Sabu entered the underground entrance of the fashion building, and then used the emergency escape ladder to go down to the third basement floor. This time it was a dark corridor. "The underground of buildings in Tokyo are almost all connected to each other, so we all move like that." "Won't you be tired?" Ian asked, and Sabu shook his head: "We know everything about the underground, and we can go to any place through the underground, which is our pride." There are also homeless people in the narrow passage.Everyone lay on the ground, casting empty gazes into the darkness.When passing through the passage, Ion was afraid of running into someone he knew, and kept avoiding eye contact. At the end is a narrow staircase that only allows one adult to pass.After going down the stairs to the fourth basement floor, there is a heavy looking door.The moment Sabu opened the door, Ion was almost dizzy from the heavy exhaust gas inside. It was a vast underground parking lot. Orange dim lighting is featured throughout.Exposed exhaust pipes crawled across the ceiling, and the walls were covered in blackened stains. "Not good." Sabu suddenly pulled the corner of Ion's down jacket.Ion saw an employee on a motorcycle approaching.He was pushed by Sabu and hid behind the white box car. The employee stopped the locomotive, checked the surveillance camera footage transmitted to the mobile phone, and tilted his head in wonder.Ion held his breath.If he got caught here, it would be revealed that he had a gun, and that would be the end of it.Sabu poked Ion's back with his fingers, and Ion looked back, Sabu was laughing at him who was trembling.Ion shrank his body in embarrassment. The employees searched around, and finally left behind the sound of the exhaust as if giving up.Even so, Sabu and Ion were still cautious, hiding behind the car and moving. Finally reached the end of the parking lot.After quickly confirming the surroundings, Sabu opened a rusty door marked "Mechanical Room".Inside, entrenched is a gut-like pipeline surrounded by barbed wire. "This is the pump room. There must be drainage equipment underground. The pump room can lead to other buildings, or there are secret passages. When you get lost, you should go to the pump room first. Remember?" After Sabu hastily explained, he turned on his headlights.Where do we go from here?Sabu left the confused Ion and climbed up the ladder on the wall of the pump room.He easily lifted the ceiling board and got into it.Should have entered another floor.They went down the first floor to the parking lot through the passage on the third basement of the building, and now they climbed up the first floor, so is it still the third basement? The confused Ian hurriedly grabbed the ladder.Sabu moved freely underground, which made Ion feel like he was drunk.He didn't know where he was now and where he was going. "where are we going?" Ian said to himself, but Sabu didn't look back, and replied, "Just take the Futoshin Line to Shinjuku. Tokyo's underground is connected by the subway network. That's why we are called underground gangs." .” In the ceiling of the pump room there is a dark passage, about four meters wide and two meters high.The passage full of oppression is so long that there is almost no end in sight.Water dripped from the walls and ran into the gutters along the walls.The ditch water flowed in the direction of the two at an unexpected high speed. "What is this road for?" "The passage for maintenance. It's just a road that was built before, and it's not used now." "How long ago was that?" "How would I know?" Sabu's headlamp illuminated the dark tunnel, and Ion watched with anxiety.The unexpected air vents of the Shibuya Underground Mall, the sloping tunnels leading to the platforms, and the vertically extending emergency escapes are all near the subway, so they aren't that scary. But the road was dark and wet and closed, and dead silent.What if you have to go this way alone?Ion was extremely disturbed. "Aren't you afraid?" "Afraid of what?" Sabu shook his head. "I've lived underground since I was born, and that's the norm for me. It's also Obasan who told me this way." The water droplets falling from the ceiling dripped on Ian's neck, and the ice was so frightening that he couldn't help screaming. "Don't you want to live on the ground?" "No, but I did. Obasan took me to her apartment. I was about six years old." "Is it fun?" "It's hard to say..." Sabu's voice sank. "Is Clean Obasan like your mother?" Ion asked casually, but Sabu, who was walking in front, turned his head.The light from the headlamp grazed Ion's face and hit the ceiling. "Speak less and pretend that you understand it well. I don't know what a mother is, so I can't answer you. Here, no one grows up normally. Don't you too? Ion." Although he said it harshly, Sabu had a smile on his face. "What happened to Obasan?" "Dead, that's why I'm here." "How did you die?" Sabu looked overwhelmed. "Hey, are you considered a prisoner under trial?" "Sorry, I just wanted to know." "Fall off the subway tracks and got electrocuted," Sabu said with a shrug. "Pitiful." "Poor?" Sabu asked back. "What about you then?" "I don't remember anything." "Is that just right?" Sabu laughed, but Ion was silent.He couldn't remember anything, and he had no way of knowing.He remembered the newspaper clippings that had been stolen from the locker, and that he was indeed one of the Brothers and Sisters.What about "parents"?He doesn't have half a "parent".There are only "good adults", "bad adults" and "neither adults" in the room.That is, only their children and "adults" who are not parents. Sabu, who was raised by Clean Obasan, is different from himself.Ion, who originally thought that Sabu was in a similar situation to his own, received a slight blow.Sabu had special "good lords".Is that similar to Mogami? Suddenly, Ion remembered that he had left the topmost letter in the locker, and staggered in the damp passageway.The pistol lady said, "You have to rely on someone."So where do you go when you are helpless?The confusion that appeared again and again gushed out again in the dark cave, which made Ian very frustrated. "Is there no adult here?" Ion asked in a trembling voice. "No. We just hate adults, so we live in hiding." "Then what will you do when you become an adult?" Sabu stopped in his tracks, lit his cigarette and said, "Of course I'll leave." Mogami tries to teach Ion how to survive in the real world.In order to become a "well-meaning adult" training, "Thank you, I'm sorry. These two sentences will be of great help in making a living." On top of that, even if you don’t know the etiquette, you can live like Sabu as long as you stay underground.Ion felt elated. Of course the Bronze and Iron Brotherhood who told him how to distinguish "adults" lived here.Because we will never become "adults". Really wanting to see the twin brothers as soon as possible, Ion arched his shoulders as if he wanted to shake off his fear.His choice was correct, and his confusion was swept away. A flickering light appeared across the passage.Ion was startled and stopped, Sabu whispered to him: "Don't worry." It seems to be a companion.In the circle of Sabu's headlights, a tall and thin boy like an insect appeared. He fixed a flashlight on his shoulder. He was a face he had seen in Shibuya Palace.Thinking that the other party was the guy who laughed and watched him being "executed", Ion pursed his lips angrily.The two greeted each other with their index fingers on their lips, as if to say "keep quiet". "North Sando is undergoing vent maintenance." "Three days earlier than scheduled?" "Yeah, it's a bit unusual. Cao Chang is worried that he might be hunting dark people." "What is the dark man?" Ion couldn't help asking, the tall boy showed a suspicious expression. "Who is this guy?" "Volunteer students." Sabu replied, and the tall man took off the flashlight from the shield, illuminating Ion's face. "Why, isn't this the brat from Shibuya Palace? You've been executed, but you still want to join the team? Look at your face that loves the sun, and it's still a refreshing morning sun!" Being said as if it was something unlucky, Ion glared at the thin boy.What he immediately thought of was the profiles of Mogami and Kemiko in Yoyogi Park.Just bathing in the sun, you look happy, why? Ion had a strong urge to bury all the memories under the sun.It doesn't matter if I don't see the light again, I have to choose to live in the dark underground.It's as happy as playing in the basement with "brothers and sisters" when I was a child, and it doesn't matter if I never see the sun again. "I don't like sunlight." Ion felt that these words determined the farewell to Mogami that had been repeated countless times in his heart. "Then what do you like? What do you want? It can't be darkness, right? It's not this kind of wet and sticky darkness, is it? Seriously, what is your purpose?" The thin boy let out a rusty breath and asked persistently. "I don't want anything, I have no purpose." Ion replied like this, but remembered that he likes comics.Almost all the comics I read can be memorized backwards and cherished like treasures.He was always wanting new comics, hanging around that used newsstand. When Ion struggled involuntarily, the hard pistol in his backpack hit his emaciated back.He felt like he had just woken up from a big dream. "I like guns." A smile appeared on Ion's face unconsciously.The thin boy who was staring at Ian turned his eyes away as if feeling hairy inside. "Let's go, Commander is waiting." Sabu patted Ian on the shoulder. "Bye, be careful on the road." Sabu and the thin boy nodded to each other.The young man ran away as if flying. "Sabu, who is that guy?" Sabu smiled: "He's called Brother Mouse. I heard that when the baby was thrown under the manhole cover, it was washed by sewage for several kilometers, but it still survived." The people who live underground pick up the baby that drifts over and raise him up. "What about the dark man?" "People who live underground." "Hunting dark people, does it mean that someone is going to hunt you?" "That's right. But it's generally called a rodent extermination operation in society. But we will also use our tricks to avoid being caught." Sabu said happily. "What happens if you get caught?" "Give it to the police and send it to a juvenile prison." The juvenile prison is different from the correctional education institutions like the juvenile academy in the past, and it is a juvenile prison without correctional courses at all.Because he was worried about recidivism, the sentence was very long. Ian had heard that the young man who was imprisoned for theft was nearly thirty years old when he came out.It's over if you are sent to "unprisoned"-every child in the child care center is afraid of its existence.
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