Chapter 618 – Seven Nights of Asahina

　　”Still thinking about your father?”

　　”Uh-huh.” Yuzurina nodded, “All these years, I’ve never had a good feeling about him, plus I thought he owed money outside the country and hid from paying it back, causing Grandma Tsuru and I to be displaced, so I resented him even more ……

　　But this time I suddenly realized that he seems to be not quite the same as what I know.

　　Debt owed, wanted, and the search of the underworld, the hunt of the white road …… Perhaps the back of this matter is not as simple as I thought.”

　　Lin Qiye nodded in agreement.

　　”So, you plan to ……”

　　”Go to Osaka.” A touch of determination surfaced in Yuzurina’s eyes, “No matter what, go and claim his relics, take one last look at him, and maybe …… learn a little bit about what he used to be.”

　　”Good.” Lin Qiye asked again, “What about Grandma Crane? Is she at ease with you?”

　　”I’ve already had a good chat with Grandma, although she’s been reluctant to let me go on an adventure, I insisted, and then she gave up trying to persuade me to be careful on the road.” Yuzurina continued, “I’ve already booked a nursing home for Grandma Crane, and the money’s all been paid, so someone will pick her up tomorrow.”

　　”A nursing home?” Lin Qiye froze, “When did you book it?”

　　Yuzurina bowed her head in silence for a moment, “The day before I killed myself ……”

　　”You had already thought about what would happen after your suicide?” This time it was Lin Qiye’s turn to be surprised, “I always thought that you just committed suicide on impulse.”

　　Yuzurina shook her head, “During that time, that group of gangsters looked for my whereabouts like they were crazy, their home was smashed, and they also went around preparing people at intersections to block me, if it was just me, I wasn’t afraid of them, but Grandma Crane, she’s getting old, and if I got her involved in it as well,…… it would be even worse than if I had died myself.

　　But I know that if this continues, I will be found by them sooner or later.

　　I didn’t want to involve Grandma Crane, so I used all of my family’s savings to book Grandma Crane into a nursing home, enough for her to live in for a long time, leaving only 20,000 yen for emergencies.

　　As long as I’m dead, the gangsters will stop tracking me, and won’t come after Grandma Crane, so she’ll be able to get away.”

　　Lin Qiye is thoughtful, “So that phone call you made to the police before you killed yourself was intended to get them to spread the news of your death while they recovered your body, so that the gangsters would know about it and die, while also preventing Grandma Tsuru from tracking down your body, and then having the gangsters notice her presence?”

　　”Hmm.”

　　Lin Qiye turned his head and carefully sized up this girl who was only twelve or thirteen years old, his eyes filled with shock.

　　This kind of tactic …… was really something a child could come up with?

　　”It would be too much of a shame for a child like you to die.” Lin Qiye shook his head.

　　”Perhaps the God of Blessings, Great Black Heavenly Lord, thinks the same way? That’s why he sent you to save me.” A bright smile emerged from the corners of Yuzurina’s mouth.

　　”I don’t believe in any God of Blessings.” Lin Qiye said, “I only believe in my own sword.”

　　”Saying such things here, but you’ll be arrested, oh?”

　　”They can’t arrest me.”

　　Yuzurina looked up and looked into Lin Qiye’s eyes.

　　”What’s wrong?”

　　”Brother, you ah, aren’t actually from here, right?”

　　Lin Qiye was a bit surprised, “Why do you think so?”

　　”It’s the first time I’ve seen that someone floated over from the sea, and your way of thinking is different from ours, giving me the feeling that …… it’s like you’re from another world.” Yuzurina added, “And those two men of yours, they’re not normal people at first glance!”

　　Lin Qiye raised an eyebrow, “Maybe, so, are you going to report me to the police? Maybe I can get a nice bounty.”

　　”You’re a messenger sent by Lord Blessed God to save me, how could I possibly report you?” Yuzurina said seriously, “Besides, I can feel that you’re a very good person and won’t harm me.”

　　Lin Qiye smiled helplessly, “Go back to bed early, tomorrow morning, set off for Osaka.”

　　Early the next morning, Yuzurina put Grandma Tsuru on the bus to the nursing home.

　　Earlier, Yuzu Rina had used all of her savings to book Grandma Tsuru on a five-year nursing home package, but now that the crisis was over, when she returned from Osaka, she could return the fee and just pay for the care for a few days.

　　When she came back from Osaka to pick up Grandma Tsuru, she could then refund that fee, and with the money Lin Qiye had given them, it would be enough to have a place to stay in the outskirts of another small city, and then everything could start all over again.

　　Yuzurina’s little plan in her mind had already been set up a long time ago.

　　After settling in with Grandma Tsuru, she followed Lin Qiye onto the Shinkansen bound for Osaka.

　　The good thing about the Shinkansen is that it doesn’t need to show any identification, as long as you buy a ticket, you can go wherever you want, even Lin Qiye can ride on the Shinkansen brightly and comfortably to Osaka, after all, it’s still quite tiring to ride a redhead all the way there.

　　Yuzurina sat by the window, curiously surveying the scenery whizzing by outside the window, it was also her first time leaving Yokohama on the Shinkansen, and she was unavoidably a little excited.

　　”Right.” Yuzurina looked like she thought of something and turned her head to look at Lin Qiye, “Brother you don’t have a Japanese name yet, do you? Without a name, a lot of things are inconvenient?”

　　Lin Qiye nodded.

　　Indeed, up until now, he hadn’t given himself a fake name, and if he ran into some trouble after arriving in Osaka, it might be too late to think of a name now ……

　　”Why don’t I make one for you?” Yuzurina’s eyes lit up, “What’s your real name, brother?”

　　”Lin Seven Nights.”

　　”Seven Nights ah ……” Yuzurina thought for a moment, “For a surname, how about Asahina? I’ve always thought that surname sounded good.”

　　”Asahina Seven Nights?” Lin Seven Nights nodded slightly, “It’s fine.”

　　He didn’t know much about Japanese surnames and didn’t want to get too hung up on it, it was just a fake name anyway, as long as people wouldn’t think it was strange when he said it.

　　After about two hours or so, the train finally arrived at Osaka station, Lin Qiye wore a mask and hat, deliberately avoiding surveillance, and walked out of the station.

　　From outside the station, Osaka and Yokohama didn’t seem all that different, with modern metropolises lined up everywhere, and only by standing high up could one see some ancient Japanese architecture in the distance, but Lin Qiye wasn’t interested in that, after all, he wasn’t a tourist.

　　”Go straight to the police station.” Lin Qiye said to Yuzurina.

　　About half an hour later, the two arrived at the entrance of the Osaka Police Station.

　　”Hello, how can I help you?” Walking into the lobby of the police station, a female police officer spoke respectfully in a thick Kansai accent.

　　”Here to collect the relics.” Lin Qiye pointed to Yuzuri Nai by his side, “The relics of the [Fierce Ghost] class wanted criminal, Yuzuri Kurotetsu.”