The cold wind of late autumn blows back and forth.

A figure of a middle-aged man with a bruised nose and swollen face, wearing only pink boxers, and a look of despair gradually emerged in the dim corridor, holding a baggy empty wallet in his hand.

On the stairs behind me, I could still vaguely hear the young man yelling and cursing, "You dare to molest my girlfriend," and "I'll let you go this time for the sake of compensation, so be careful!"

Ah this?

Good guy...what's going on?

Is it a fairy dance?

...

I am so silly!

real!

When Akiyoshi Takuto walked down the corridor and stepped on the ground for the last time, his mind went into a trance, and his body almost fell down, and he staggered towards the bus stop on the street.

I thought I would regain my youthful heartbeat, but I never expected that I would almost suffer a myocardial infarction.

The scene just upstairs comes to mind...

The innocent girl who was originally soft and weak suddenly seemed to change when a young man with yellow hair broke into the door to catch the rapist. The corners of her mouth rose up and she smiled sneer. From the corner of her eyes, she glanced at her embarrassed appearance squatting on the ground with her head in her hands...

In an instant, Akiyoshi Takuto's still-heated heart completely lost its final warmth.

What a sin!!!

...

After the bus stop sign.

Higashinohara stared at Akiyoshi Takuto, who had silently put on his clothes and buried his head between his knees, holding his head in his hands, with his sparse hair passing through the gaps - you can imagine what kind of "pain mask" that face would be.

What happened tonight may be the last straw and has completely crushed the middle-aged man. He must not be able to go home and continue to face his wife hypocritically to maintain a marriage that is already full of cracks.

After working hard and reaching middle age, one night I found myself with nowhere to go and no one to rely on...

It’s not easy being a man in New Tokyo!

Higashinohara had never been married in his previous life, and was still a high school student in this life. He only felt that it was a bit pitiful for middle-aged people to be played like this, but it was difficult to have any other empathy.

After all, they had been following him all night, and Higashinohara was weighing his wallet, considering whether to treat this miserable middle-aged man living on the street to a hot drink from the vending machine.

At this time, at the corner not far away, a bus drove past the corner with its yellow headlights on.

Bang Dang—!

A bottle of hot drink fell from the vending machine.

Well, the cheapest kind.

Higashinohara bent down to pick it up and was about to turn around.

He suddenly noticed a petite figure jumping out of the front door of the bus in front of the bus stop. The upper body was wearing a black hoodie similar to his own, and the lower body was short skirt, pantyhose and boots. It was a very ordinary Wano country.

Street girl dress up.

However, at this time,

Higashinohara's eyes suddenly condensed.

If he saw it correctly, in the night, he clearly saw a fleeting glimpse of short silver-white hair and a pair of short cat ears on the girl's head.

The next moment, the girl pulled up the big hood of her black hoodie.

At this time, under the bus stop sign with dull yellow street lights, there were only a middle-aged man sitting with his head in his hands and a petite girl who had just gotten off the bus - what Higashinohara saw just seemed to be just an illusion.

What situation is this?

He was having some doubts when he saw the petite girl under the stop sign suddenly leaning towards Akiyoshi Takuto.

Is it a special repertoire of street performances in Wano?

Higashinohara, who was holding coffee and hot drinks in his hands, was stunned for two seconds, and calmly took two steps back into the darkness behind him, preparing to wait and see what would happen.

When he thought about it, after tonight's stimulation, the middle-aged man probably wouldn't have much interest in women as creatures in the short term, right?

...

Under the bus stop sign.

Akiyoshi Takuto noticed the approaching footsteps, and just raised his head with a dejected look on his face, but his whole body was suddenly shaken, and he raised his head blankly, unable to look away again.

Ah this?!

Higashinohara was dumbfounded.

Are women really that fragrant?

But the next second, he noticed something was wrong.

Under the hood of the black hoodie, the girl's face could not be seen clearly, and a strange red glimmer could be seen vaguely flashing through - the middle-aged man who was sitting slumped in the chair immediately stood up like a puppet on strings.

Immediately afterwards, the girl turned around and walked towards the subway station.

The middle-aged man didn't say a word, and followed each other step by step like a man possessed, like acquaintances who knew each other - if it weren't for someone like Higashinohara who kept staring, it would be difficult for even a passerby to spot the two of them.

Human anomalies.

Staring at the backs of the two people,

Higashinohara frowned slightly.

Suddenly, for no apparent reason, he thought back to the wanted police officer he had just seen on the tram, and then thought about whether he had just been dazzled by the short silver-white hair and pointed ears...

And this somewhat strange scene before my eyes.

Could this be the Catwoman who committed the theft?

At this moment, the first thing that came to Higashinohara's mind was the amount of the wanted reward he saw on the train.

Informant:

After verification and arrest, the reward will be 400,000 yen.

You know, the monthly salary of office workers in New Tokyo is just over 300,000 yen.

The local rent ranges from 50,000 yen to 100,000 yen per month. The place where Higashinohara lives is cheaper, only 48,000 yen, and including living expenses, it is less than 150,000 yen per month.

It means that if he can help the people from the Metropolitan Police Department catch this catwoman, he can solve the problem of food, clothing, housing and transportation for more than two months, and occasionally he can go to a restaurant to have a toothpaste to improve his food.

Now the middle-aged man in front of me is miserable enough tonight, so even if Higashinohara is not interested in the bounty (well, this is indeed very exciting), he still has to act as an enthusiastic citizen.

He immediately and calmly took out his cell phone and dialed the police station's police number.

After hearing his description, the Metropolitan Police Department immediately paid attention to it and asked Dongye to keep the phone on and not turn it off to locate him. People from the local police station and the Third Investigation Team of the Metropolitan Police Department would arrive at the scene soon.

Finally, the other party reminded him in a more serious tone not to act rashly. The other party's mental ability was not yet clear, so as not to alert the enemy or cause unnecessary danger.

In fact, if the other party didn't say this, Higashinohara wouldn't go up and act like a hero on his own.

Being a hero also requires corresponding strength.

Even though he is now a so-called [Shadow Instant] ability user, his level 2 and 1 abilities are really not impressive enough.

As for Higashinohara's part-time street discipline committee, that is just an extracurricular task assigned to students by Takehara Minami Super High School, and counts as the final grade point assessment of the semester... Well, maybe there are also schools for able people who provide services to the city government and ordinary people.

The good intentions of the people are in it.

If I have to compare, they are similar to community security guards. They all look tall and energetic, but they belong to the "image post". If you really want to fight crime like a policeman, then forget it...

...

The evening wind blew up the withered yellow leaves, and on the dark street, Higashinohara hung far behind the two people in front of him. He made a few tram stops, and then left the station and entered the long-distance bus station in Shibuya District.

Along the way, the suspect girl did not do anything out of the ordinary. Higashinohara even vaguely felt that the girl seemed a little nervous and was in a state of mental stress.

Well, you should be nervous if you are afraid of being caught after committing a crime - this also strengthens Higashinohara's conclusion that the girl under the hoodie is most likely the Catwoman thief.

...

Even though it was after nine o'clock in the evening, the brightly lit Shibuya Long-distance Station was still bustling with people. After all, this was New Tokyo, a prosperous city known as "Academy City" in Wano.

Higashinohara stared at the door of the station ticket hall and noticed that the petite girl under the black hoodie did not go in. Akiyoshi Takuto in front of him turned around and entered the ticket hall alone.

Um?

Do you want help buying tickets?

Are you getting ready to leave Tokyo?

Higashinohara's face showed a thoughtful look.

After a while, the middle-aged man bought the ticket and walked out. He handed the ticket and the remaining change to the girl in front of him with a distracted look.

The girl under the black hoodie took the money and the ticket, lowered her head and looked at the destination on the ticket seriously, her body trembled slightly unconsciously, and she seemed very happy, and then she carefully put the ticket into her arms.

Then, she stuffed the remaining change from the ticket purchase into the middle-aged man's wallet. She paused while raising her hand, then took out a few large-denomination bills from her wallet and stuffed them into the middle-aged man's wallet.

wallet, and then put his hands together and bowed slightly to express his gratitude to the middle-aged man who was still looking blank.

"Well... I'm quite particular about doing things."
To be continued...