Blood Of Platinum
Chapters 137. The Mystery Behind a Tying Relationship. 4
Kino still could not ignore that feeling. A feeling that made him firmly believe that the two of them and Kaito were already bound deeper than he thought. Perhaps, this kind of feeling only Kino was aware of.
‘You don't understand, Ryou. If it's true that this pocket watch has a relationship with Kaito-san, it means that the two of us will probably get involved with Kaito-san even more deeply. Somehow, I feel that all this is not as easy as you think Kino thought in his heart
Ryou began to ignore the look on the face of the older brother who looked anxious. It seemed, it was enough for him to feel such a thing in the past few days.
Things aren't really good now. At least, only Kino felt it. To change all those feelings, Kino tried to shift the conversation back.
“Hmm? Ryou?”
“What? You want to talk about the hard stuff about Kaito and the others? I don't want to hear!”
“Your clothes..full of blood stains. It will not disappear if left too long”
“Clothes?”
Ryou looked at his own clothes. The outfit was the one she had been wearing since returning home from school before getting stuck in the strange ‘world’. In other words, it was the only clothing he wore early on. Kino is currently wearing hospital clothes.
“Why don't you buy new clothes and wash them before the stain dries?” asked Kino with an anxious face
“You're still worried about a little thing like that? It's not important! Everyone also knows that I brought you to this place in a state of injury” Ryou tried to defend himself
“But that doesn't mean you don't change your clothes. It is not ‘world day’ or ‘world malam’ that all blood stains and wounds will again experience the repetition”
“I know that! But as long as you're in the hospital and unconscious, I keep you here! Where could I go leaving you alone!”
“Although so–”
“You want to see your clothes in the bottom drawer? It was even worse because it was torn and full of holes, like getting tortured!” Ryou showed the bottom drawer to his sister without opening it
All his old clothes had been removed and stored in the bottom drawer by Ryou. What a good sister.
Kino only looked at a glance from a distance and looked at the sister back while shaking
her head.
“Well, don't want to see it right?”
“But, at least you should change Ryou's clothes. It was all for the sake of looking over..”.
“See more...more what?”
“...More normal and Ryou does not show criminal aura”
- Jleb
A word that made Ryou's heart like it was pierced by a sharp knife. It was a very often heard word, very often spoken and very often used by him in the past to describe a simple image of a Kaito.
And now, her dearly beloved sister was using that word for herself. Karma comes in unexpected ways.
“Kino..kau...call me what...barousan?”.
“Barusan? I didn't call Ryou–”
“You said I...I..I showed a criminal aura!” Ryou shouted with a hysterical tone and a strange face
“...Ah, I didn't mean..”.
“You broke my fragile feelings, Nii-san. You're mean, so cruel. How could you break my glass-thin heart and absorb the shaved ice. Hiks..hikss”.
Kino could only smile thinly with her strange face. Seeing his sister's increasingly indistinct mannerism made him even more tired and heaved a heavy sigh while saying with a flat tone and cold gaze.
“Ryou, stop. It was too dramatic and not fun at all”
“Let me be dramatic! Just so you know you're getting mean to me!” now Ryou is sulking
“Ryou...” Kino can only hold his head because he is confused by the behavior of his sister
In an instant, the atmosphere came back to life with a silly little thing from Ryou. Not long after, Ryou suddenly sneezed.
“Haa..chuuuh!”
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This happens at the same time that Arkan and Riz are talking about.
“Finally we can find out the most powerful way to make the fierce child silent like a marmot. Ahahaha” Arkan started to smile and laugh
“Finally, victory in our hands. Ahaha. You genius can report this to us, Arkan”
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Go back to Kino and Ryou's place now.
“Ryou! You why?” Kino was panicking
“Such as someone is talking about me right now. Could it be father and mother in Japan? Or maybe Kaito?” Ryou thought as he scratched his nose with one finger
Kino tries to take the water on the table but is stopped by her sister.
“You did what?”
“Get Ryou water to drink”
“Don't try to do anything weird! I'm not thirsty and I'm okay. Don't move much or the wound will long heal”
“But Ryou snee”
“Indeed sneezing can make people die instantly?”
“Umm..ti–not really, but–”
“Already. Ignore the unimportant and we wait until Kaito returns. We've talked about a lot of things from the annoying to the unimportant. It's time for you to rest. Sleep first”
Ryou, who was sitting next to his brother on the bed, started to stand up and asked Kino to lay down his body again.
“I'm fine” said Kino in a calm tone
“But..”.
Ryou took the pocket watch that Kino hadn't let go from his hands and looked at the watch. Currently, the time on their pocket watch is already showing at 01.32.
“The length of bar shows 01.32 o'clock yes. It's 13:32 in the afternoon and soon the next visit. If you don't sleep now, those little demons will come and colonize this place soon. Trust”
Ryou clasped the pocket watch in his hand and continued to urge Kino to close his eyes. Even so, Kino is still trying to find reasons not to need to sleep.
“But if I sleep, won't they be disappointed? I am also very much looking forward to the cake that Michaela-chan told me before returning home”
“No! If you sleep, they will go home and the calm will return. Our little world will be at peace and once you're healthy, we'll look for Kaito's jewels without having to think about them! Ahahaha!”
Ryou laughed happily. And his laughing voice was similar to the antagonist in a television drama.
“Ryou, you can't be evil like that. They're sweet kids, you know. Let alone Theo-kun, he reminds me of Ryou when I was a kid” Kino said with a smile
“What a sweet! They are little invaders! The warden's making trouble! The little demons were delighted to gather around my brother! And they suck!”
“Ryou..”
“ Anyway they are not sweet at all!” ryou said with a pouting face
“But Ryou doesn't hate them, right?”
“I'm just upset by their behavior. But I don't hate them at all. Since they like you too, it means they have good judgment”
Kino could only laugh a little at his sister's murmur. It seemed that all the simple subject matter made him forget about the tense topic some time ago.
“Ryou, listen to me..”.
“What? You're not going to sleep yet? The medicine has not shown a reaction?”
“A long time ago we didn't talk like this ya”
“Hah?”
“Five days in a foreign place we do not know.it feels like a very long time”.
“You've said that a few times. I'm tired of hearing it” said Ryou who was sitting on the chair
“But, the last time we spent together and chatted like a sister like this when we were at ‘world noon’ that time. While waiting for Kaito-san to sell our antidote, remember right?”
“Don't remind me back with that!” ryou's face suddenly blushed in embarrassment
“Ahahaha, Ryou remembered when I told him that Kaito-san told me a big thing that you did. I still remember the story”
“I told you not to say anything no! Get some rest there! At the very least, just close your eyes like a sleeping person. You'll sleep alone!” Ryou looks sullen and asks his brother to sleep
He got up again from his chair and put up a blanket for his brother so he would close his eyes. After that, Ryou sat back down.
Things eventually became quiet. Kino finally listened to Ryou and closed her eyes. Although it does not feel sleepy, but because the effects of the previous drug make it not so difficult to sleep.
Ryou looked at the pocket watch in his hand back. It had already been about ten minutes since he had asked his brother to sleep. And now, Ryou is trying to make sure of something. He stood up again and whispered into his ears.
“Kino? You're sleeping, right?”
“....” Kino was speechless
Ryou touched the sister's cheek with one finger.
“Kino? Answer me when you've slept” a little joke from Ryou
“……”
“Alright, I take that as an answer if you've slept”
Finally he sat back down and leaned his back on the back of his chair. By taking a breath and exhaling it slowly, Ryou started to look serious. Like, he started thinking about something else.
He remembered everything the brother had said a few minutes ago.
[If...if this time Kaito-san's memory is found..would we be ready to part with her?]
[It's possible that this time we will actually part with him]
[I. But, Kaito-san has helped us a lot. I. I feel that we will not be easily separated by him from now on]
Ryou could not get rid of all those sentences easily.
‘And when I asked him not to think about it, why am I the one who cannot forget all the words of Kino just now?’ he murmured in the heart
After glancing towards the brother's bed, Ryou muttered back in his heart.
‘Sorry for yelling at you, Kino. I understand how you feel thinking about Kaito. To be honest, I also feel that parting with Kaito who has helped us a lot is a sad thing. But I can't make you think about it. Our pocket watch is really connected by him’
‘I don't know if you think the same thing as me or not, but..but maybe it will be very long for both of us to return to Japan after this’
Ryou realized. He only tried to deny it when he talked to his brother. But, he knows
that they won't be able to separate from Kaito easily after all the things that happened.
‘We've connected too far with Kaito's problem now. I don't know why it could be like this either. Just because of an old pocket watch that's in dad's library.’.
Ryou. He immediately sat up straight with a face of panic and shock. After that, he began to think of things that had hitherto never crossed his mind.
‘Old pocket watch..If you think back, why in the home library there is such a strange book? When was the book at home? I've never seen that before. So how could it be there?!’
Things that were never thought of finally began to become an important part.
“Why haven't I thought about that before? Why didn't I realize it sooner? Even though Kino and I have arrived like this, why am I only now aware of it? What book is that really? How a pocket watch similar to Kaito's got in it. Who put it down and why should we both?”
Unfinished with a small mutter coming out of his mouth, suddenly the door of the room opened and broke all of Ryou's strange and panicked feelings.
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