Blood Of Platinum
Chapters 124. The Mystery Behind a Tying Relationship. 1
Ryou and Kaito eventually fell silent and said nothing to Kino. Ryou returns to the older brother by sitting on his bed, as if seducing him not to throw him out.
“Kino..um..Nii-san..
“Ryou still in your mode?” ask Kino with a smile
“I. Don't kick me ya”
Kaito who was still standing finally walked up and sat on the chair he pulled up to near the patient's bed. He began to catch his breath and exhale.
“Haaa~”
Ryou just looked at that while commenting inwardly with a mocked face.
‘It feels like seeing grandparents sitting’
“Ryou wasn't mocking Kaito-san, was it?” kino said suddenly
“Eh?!” Ryou was surprised by the pale face
“Hmm?” Kaito watched Ryou who was panicking
Ryou's heart almost stopped. He knew that the brother was sensitive, but could not predict the contents of the human heart as well.
“I didn't mock him! Who is Kaito?! He's not an artist, not a singer, not a youtuber! I don't need to bully people who sigh like grandparents do...hmph!!!”
Ryou instantly covered his own mouth with a hand after accidentally saying the contents of his own heart. Kino's eyes changed immediately.
“Ryou”
“Ma–forgive me”
Kaito could only fall silent without commenting.
‘Remember Kaito, remember! You are healthy and normal. It's enough to pull your emotional veins just to serve teenagers from foreign worlds like Ryou. Hold, hold’ his murmur in the heart
Ryou just continued to be next to the older brother with a face like it needed pity.
“Try to defend yourself, Ryou?”
“A–I'm not defending myself! Se–in addition, we also have to talk a lot of important things!”
“An important thing?” Kino was starting to look curious
Kaito began to open the conversation in a serious tone.
“First, about a relationship that recently happened. Since your pocket watch is gone, we are directly connected to a foreign place we met some time ago. Until the peak, Kino almost died from the actions of people from foreign places”
“.....” both brothers listened
“Starting from the meeting of the three of us with the children asking for donations at the altar door, then my search by Justin's men until your involvement in the recent kidnapping case. Isn't this too..coincident” continued Kaito.
“Continue?”
“Obviously too coincidental. Plus again at that time, we just got back from ‘world noon’. We can not go to ‘world malam’ back because the place is no” Ryou continued
“But, the strangeness of our body has not changed at all. Regulation ‘both worlds’ still applies as you say. It's just, I feel like the problem we're having is like tying us to something.”
“What do you mean, Kaito-san?”
“Like fate that purposely ushered the three of us to engage with everyone from that foreign place”
“.....” Kino was speechless with a serious face
Kaito's sentence made Kino think hard now. The pocket watch that was still around his blanket, was now taken by him. He looked at the little thing while thinking.
“Ka–if you remember back.this pocket watch in my pocket originally disappeared not long after colliding with Theo-kun before we knew him”.
“Theo is the kid who stole that pocket watch, Kino. Didn't you notice?” chirped Ryou
“I.. I've known about it since meeting Stelani-chan and the others”
“So. I thought you didn't realize it at all” Ryou said
“At that time, I had invited them all to eat together to get a clue about this pocket watch and the whereabouts of the child who accidentally hit me at the altar. I just try not to blame him and intend to take this pocket watch myself. I didn't expect to be attacked like that”
“I thought...Could your pocket watch lead us to engage with them?” Kaito asked with a serious look
Kino and Ryou looked at each other. Of course, the expression they made reflected a sense of surprise.
“It...what a thing like that–“ Ryou looks unsure
“I.. I started thinking that the possibility was there”
“Kino?”
“Think carefully about this, Ryou. Originally, we came to this place by chance or maybe a mistake. And when we came, Kaito-san was injured from the fight against the wolf pack. Then, when Kaito-san has managed to get the pieces of her memory, we.”.
“We are actually stuck in this problem” Ryou continued Kino's remarks
“True. It starts with a lost pocket watch and gets us involved with Theo-kun as well as the others. Does that make enough sense to you?”
“You're right. What you said is true. It's like.this pocket watch is something that is there to help Kaito” Ryou look towards Kaito
Kaito looked at the pocket watch held by Kino with a sharp gaze.
Kino fell silent and began to look at the details of the pocket watch in his hand with a strange face, as if unable to cover up his anxiety. Ryou who realized his brother was getting restless also spoke up.
“Back to our problem tree now. If that were true, then the core of all the problems is only one and that is none other than the piece of your memory jewel, Kaito” Ryou began to speak seriously
“The jewel piece belongs to Kaito-san.”.
“I think so too. I'm sure the appearance of a strange road that never existed in ‘both worlds’ before and the change in the location of the fountain must be related to all that. The relationship between us and all these people must also have meant” Kaito continued
Kino began to think seriously using all his genius brains back. Not long after, Kino began to tell all his hypotheses.
“I want you to try listening to my thoughts first”
“What is it, Kino?” ryou asked the brother
“This may not be entirely true, but considering this is the closest then I feel that we can consider it true”
Kaito stood up and pulled his seat closer to Kino and Ryou.
“Say. I always believed in your thoughts and hypotheses”
“Begini. Just like Ryou and Kaito-san said. Likely, we are indeed connected to this place because Kaito-san's memory is still somewhere in this ‘world’. Since the beginning we have been talking about it”
“.....” Ryou and Kaito listen seriously
“Only, it was never thought that we would be involved with a serious problem like this. We just start with the thought that my pocket watch and Ryou did lead us to get involved with Theo-kun and the others. I'm starting to think that the main problem we have to solve first then is to let go of all those kids' relationship with a guy named Justin”
“And we have done it” Ryou replied
“That's true, but not entirely true also”
“What do you mean, Kino?” Ryou asked the older brother
“This pocket watch has been in the hands of both of you after you managed to defeat the man. However, our relationship with them is still not over as I was involved in another matter together with Stelani-chan and Fabil-kun” Kino resumed his explanation
“Not ended? You mean, it makes us have to solve another problem, which is to save you and cut off all relationships related to Justin? Is that?” Ryou tries to guess Kino's thinking
“Fast. I was involved in the kidnapping case because of an exchange by a man named Justin while still alive, which made the children's relationship with Justin still connected” Kino continued his thinking
“If you think about it again, it is true. And it was all because he was trying to find me with the most ridiculous reason I've ever heard” Kaito started to understand Kino's thinking
“Arkan-san has told me everything just now and that is what makes me sure that my abduction case is the fate that binds the three of us with those children”
“But, Kino..now it's all over. A gorilla demon named Justin has died and is already merchandise now. Hasn't this already proven that the problem is over?” ask Ryou
“That's not wrong, Ryou. What you say is true. The problems that bind us to those kids and Justin are over. Now what do you think is left of this predestined relationship involving us?”
Ryou and Kaito thought for a moment, until they finally came to a conclusion from all those thoughts.
“Memory jewel pieces!” answer them simultaneously
“True. As if removing all the fog from the mystery, now there is only one answer left that is a piece of jewel belonging to Kaito-san. And if it is concluded from all that then the answer is likely to be located close to all the children it”
“Location..maybe..”.
“As you thought, Kaito-san. For its existence, it can be ascertained in the isolated area. The place where the kids live”
“You're a genius, my brother!!” Ryou immediately hugged Kino tightly while smiling
Kaito thought for a while and asked Kino.
“Means, my memory gem is in the hands of one of those kids? So you mean?”
“I'm not sure about it yet. However, it is strange that our relationship with them has not been severed until now. That proves that they and we still have a bond. And the thread that connects it is just a piece of your memory, Kaito-san”
“......!!” Kaito was quite surprised by that
“Kino right! My brother can't be wrong about this! Now the question is twofold, which is between who one of them is carrying it or where your memory piece is located. What is clear, all of that should be in a place related to those boys”
“Ryou is not wrong, Kaito-san. In essence, our last problem is finding those pieces of memory near Theo-kun and the others”
“Wait, then..then a lot of possible people and places that can be used as a target” Kaito start to look serious
“If sorted, the people who have relationships with us and those kids lately are Arkan-san, the bar manager Joel-san, someone named Riz-san and.”.
“Isn't that all?” ryou asked with a confused face
“No. Your brother said that ‘people who are in contact with them lately’ so..black market manager, husband and wife couple Jack and Seren can also be included as a target” list, Kaito replied.
“It's true” Kino confirmed it
“What?! You two are crazy! The demon disguised that human?! That demonic woman who almost sent my sister to another world called the afterlife is also on the list?! Don't joke!!” Ryou protested
“But, that's right Ryou. In the last two days they did connect with Theo-kun and the others”
“No! No no no no!! I can't accept that I did. Wait a minute! Hey, Kaito! Didn't that woman named Seren have time to smile at you like the main character of the girl in the shoujo manga? She likes you huh?!”
Ryou releases his embrace from the older brother and immediately shouts by pointing at Kaito's face.
“You are the second person to try to match me with that crazy woman. Mr. bartender is the first person”
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