It was a dreamless night, and Hasegawa Yu woke up at his usual biological clock time.

When he opened his eyes, the first thing that caught his eye was a ten-centimeter Garfield-shaped robot on the bedside table, which was swinging back and forth to unplug the charging plug for his mobile phone.

Before leaving, Hasegawa Yu packed this apology gift produced by Jinpei Matsuda into his suitcase and brought it to the United States.

The artificial intelligence said some words of disdain, but it couldn't resist the mermaid's request and would occasionally control the Garfield robot, which could do some basic movements, to move around outside.

It took a minute for the small robot to successfully unplug the fully charged mobile phone. Noah's Ark noticed the mermaid's movements.

【Xiaoyou, you're awake.】

"Why didn't Noah call me?"

Hasegawa Yu stretched, sat up from the bed, and checked the time. It was three hours later than usual!

[Nothing to do this morning. You stayed up late last night. Getting enough sleep is the most important thing.] Noah's Ark has a good reason.

Hasegawa Yu blinked and said nothing more.

He unconsciously picked up the phone, and the call record showed that the call was hung up near dawn.

Hasegawa Yu was stunned. Did Brother Ling continue talking on the phone for several hours after he fell asleep?

Akai Shuichi came back an hour ago. He heard Xiaoyou was still asleep, so he asked if she wanted breakfast. I asked him to save some for you. But he went out again later.

While the artificial intelligence was speaking, Hasegawa Yuu lowered his eyes and stared at the screen. After stroking the phone twice, he silently exited the call log interface.

He turned off the screen of his phone and looked up, "Thank you, Noah~ I'll go wash up now."

After washing up, Hasegawa Yu went straight to the kitchen.

He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that breakfast was a very ordinary toast, bacon and fried eggs.

As long as it's not canned, everything is fine!

Although it has been a while, I am still not used to the fact that Xiuyi can cook dishes other than canned food.

Overnight, dark clouds from the Pacific Ocean drifted over New York, pressing together in a gray haze and dropping continuous, wet raindrops.

The cold winter has long passed, and now is the time when everything is striving to grow. This kind of weather is very comfortable for those who don't need to go out.

After breakfast, Hasegawa Yu returned to his room to carry out his daily self-study plan and basic dance exercises.

In the afternoon, the doorbell rang outside the apartment.

It's bourbon.

Huh? Who?

Hasegawa Yu, who was on guard, opened his eyes wide, "Zero-brother?!"

How come Brother Ling appears outside the apartment door!

Hasegawa Yu hurried to open the door.

A blond man wearing a gray-white hoodie and a baseball cap appeared outside the door.

Seeing the door open, he raised the small bag in his hand, raised the corner of his mouth, and greeted: "Xiaoyou."

"Brother Ling!" Hasegawa Yu moved aside to make way and said excitedly, "Come in quickly."

After entering the apartment, he calmly glanced around the living room at all the signs of life. A dark light flashed across Jōguchi Ling's eyes, and he sneered in his heart.

Oh, that annoying FBI.

He turned his head, "Xiaoyou..."

Without waiting for the blond and dark-skinned man to finish his words, Hasegawa Yu immediately rushed over and hugged him, unconsciously burying his head in the man's neck and rubbing it, "Woo, Brother Zero."

As soon as I saw Brother Zero, I thought of the fifth round.

At the end of the fifth round, before he turned into bubbles and dissipated, the person he saw was Brother Zero.

"Brother Zero." The orange-haired young man's eyes were filled with tears. "I'm glad we meet again."

Caught off guard, Fūya Rei's body froze, and he subconsciously raised his hands, "!!!"

Wait, wait, Xiaoyou can actually do this for the FBI?!

Want to divert his attention with this trick?

His brain was slow to process the information coming from his ears, and Fūya Rei realized something. He slowly lowered his hand, paused, and then hugged the person in his arms again, "Is Xiaoyou so excited? You're crying."

"In that case, why don't you go back to Japan, Xiaoyou?"

Hasegawa Yuu withdrew from his embrace, wiped his eyes, and said dryly, "I didn't cry."

He lowered his head embarrassedly and said, "I just couldn't control my emotions for a moment."

Oops, after I came to my senses, I hugged Brother Ling without even asking if I could hug him in advance.

Hasegawa Yu looked away guiltily, wanting to quickly pass over the topic. "Never mind that, why did Brother Ling suddenly come to New York?"

Feeling the unique cool warmth of the mermaid in his arms dissipate, Furuya Ling lowered his hand, his expression normal, "Didn't Xiaoyou say you hated someone? I happened to be free, so I came here."

“!”

Hasegawa Yu realized it belatedly. According to the time when he hung up the phone and the flight time, Brother Ling had already boarded the plane at that time?

He looked up and met a pair of purple-grey eyes that were filled with concern.

It is like the ocean under the light of dawn, mysterious and tranquil, giving the mermaid a sense of security.

For a moment, an indescribable soft feeling rose in Hasegawa Yu's heart, wrapping him lightly.

"Will it delay Brother Ling's work?" After a while, he pursed his lips and asked only this question.

"It's no problem." Fūya Ling said lightly, handing over the small bag in his hand, "Xiaoyou, open it and take a look?"

Hasegawa Yu, whose attention was diverted, took it curiously.

When the bag was opened, inside was a palm-sized, hand-made, hand-cranked music box.

"Wow!" Hasegawa Yu held up the music box with both hands and looked around curiously, "Did I shake it?"

Furiya Rei turned his head away as if not caring, "Yeah."

Hasegawa Yu carefully grasped the handle of the music box and began to shake it.

As the gears turned, a familiar melody came out from the small music box.

"Sol Sol Sol Fa Mi, Sol La Si Si Si La Do..."

Hasegawa Yu couldn't help holding his breath when he heard the music box music.

This is their mermaid song about the seven seas!

Fūya Rei, who was secretly observing the orange-haired youth's reaction, coughed lightly and said, "The pitch may not be right in some places. I tried my best to restore it."

Hasegawa Yu held the music box in his palm and said, "On the way to the shrine during the New Year, Brother Zero asked me to record a song for this reason?"

"Yeah." Furuya Rei explained rather uncomfortably, "I saw what happened on November 22nd. Wasn't it Noah who did it for Xiaoyou?"

"I guess that was a very special day for Xiaoyou. Xiaoyou has been in this world for so long, I must give you a gift."

Seeing the orange-haired youth staring at him without saying a word, Furuya Rei simply finished speaking, "I had planned to wait until you returned to Japan before giving it to me, but I didn't expect Xiaoyou to stay away for so long."

Hasegawa Yu couldn't help but reveal tears in his eyes, "That day was my birthday."

"Wow, Brother Ling..."

"Why are you crying again?" Fūya Ling raised his hand hanging by his side halfway and then put it back, then turned to tease.

"Brother Ling, you're talking nonsense. My eyes are dry."

Hasegawa Yu sniffed, not noticing the blond man's small movements, "This is touching."

He put the music box away carefully and said, "I will definitely cherish this gift from Brother Ling."

【Akai Shuichi will be returning to the apartment soon. 】

After hearing the AI's reminder, Hasegawa Yu, who was about to say something to Rei Furuya, suddenly got stuck and said, "!!!"

Finished!

Brother Ling is really unhappy with Brother Show One!

Hasegawa Yu, whose brain had stopped working, turned around in a circle.

Furiya Rei was confused, "Xiaoyou?"

Unsure whether Morofushi Kagemitsu had told the people in Japan about his cohabitation with Okiya Subaru, Hasegawa Yu hurriedly pushed the blond, dark-skinned man towards his bedroom.

"I, I suddenly remembered that a friend is coming over. Can Ling-ge go into the bedroom first? I'm afraid you'll scare him."

Jianggu Ling: "?"

Furuya Ling didn't move. "What friend? Can't I meet him?"

"Not yet." Hasegawa Yu refused weakly, but did not relax the force of his hand pushing the man, "I'm afraid that Brother Ling will be scared."

Seeing this, Furuya Rei narrowed his eyes, skipping the possibility of him and his "friend" being frightened of each other, and reluctantly took two steps along with the force of the mermaid's push on his back.

"Is this the new friend Xiaoyou made here in New York?"

"Uh-huh."

Hasegawa Yu, who didn't know where Akai Shuichi had gone, was anxious, "Brother Ling, could you please go to my bedroom for a while? I promise I'll be back soon!"

He clasped his hands together, "Brother Ling, please, please~☆"

When Fūya Ling met those beautiful almond eyes that were twinkling with little stars, he paused, walked silently into the bedroom, and did not forget to take the shoes from the entrance.

Hasegawa Yu breathed a sigh of relief, "I'll be back soon!"

The bedroom door was closed from the outside, and Fūya Rei, who was hiding in the bedroom, looked around the bedroom that was filled with the scent of mermaids.

“…”Okay, he reluctantly cooperated.

When Hasegawa Yu returned to the living room, he heard the sound of a key opening the apartment door.

He raised his hand to greet the man who came in, "Mr. Akai, good afternoon~"

Fortunately, the sound insulation in each room of this apartment is very good. As long as there is not too much noise, once the door is closed, you can hardly hear each other's normal conversations in the living room and the study.

It is still possible to separate Brother Shuichi and Brother Ling!

Akai Shuichi, who was wearing the disguise of Okiya Subaru, seemed to realize something, "Young Master, is there something wrong?"

"No."

Hasegawa Yuu recalled the method he had searched on the encyclopedia about how to deal with people when they didn't want to talk about a certain topic, and asked, "Mr. Akai, did you go to see the brotherhood members again last night?"

"Have you eaten the breakfast left for the young master in the kitchen?" Akai Shuichi avoided the question.

Hasegawa Yu puffed up his cheeks, wondering who was in the brotherhood.

Apart from the car, the weapons have been recovered. It is impossible for Brother Xiuyi to be so fussy about it.

Due to the error in the estimated time of death in the fifth round, it was not on the day of the cruise departure as Hasegawa Yu had expected, but nearly two months later, so he stayed in the United States for a while.

In the past two months, with the help of Ran Mouri, Kudo Shinichi successfully recovered the memory of the original world, and Akai Shuichi's collapse value also dropped to 58%.

During this period, after recovering all the weapons stolen by a low-level member of the brotherhood, Hasegawa Yu did not continue to get involved in the chaotic power struggle within the FBI. He decided to listen to the words of Akai, the fourth-ranked general, and make plans after he recovered his memory.

However, in the seventh round, Shuichi Akai, who has not recovered his memory, inexplicably gets into conflict with the Brotherhood. At night, he would go out in his original appearance to cause trouble for the Brotherhood, and during the day, he would go out in disguise as Subaru Okiya as if nothing had happened.

Because of his actions, the gang forces in New York have been very unstable and public security has been in chaos recently.

Fortunately, these things did not involve Hasegawa Yu, and as the collapse value decreased, the frequency of Akai Shuichi going out at night also gradually decreased, and the restless brotherhood was able to calm down a lot.

At least in the past week, the security situation in New York has returned to the state when Hasegawa Yu first arrived.

Although things weren't much better after I got promoted back.

Unfazed by the orange-haired youth's glare, Akai Shuichi sat down on the sofa, took out his gun and began to maintain it.

Hasegawa Yu then sat down on the sofa opposite him, moved his body, and seemed to be hesitant to speak.

Akai Shuichi observed him for a moment, then looked around the living room obscurely, and suddenly asked, "Has anyone been here?"

"No, no." Hasegawa Yu tried hard to think of a new topic, "I remembered my memory of the fifth round last night."

Akai Shuichi was slightly surprised, "Oh?"

"I didn't miss anything Mr. Akai said."

Hasegawa Yu was referring to the time two months ago when he just gave him the message from the fourth season Akai.

With the beginning, the orange-haired young man spoke more fluently and his expression became much more natural.

"The Greatest Showman is great, and thank you very much for the hug, Mr. Akai." He looked into the man's dark green eyes and said seriously.

Akai Shuichi's hand wiping the gun barrel slowed down, his eyes flashing, "That's good."

"It's a pity that I don't have any memories of watching musicals with the young master." He said with a hint of regret, "I've never watched a musical with anyone before."

I haven’t watched it with “people” yet, I have watched it with “fish”.

Laughing at his own thoughts, Hasegawa Yu patted his chest and said, "It's okay, I can create new experiences with Mr. Akai~"

"I can tell you what happened during the fifth week's musical, whatever Akai-san wants to hear."

“…No.”

Akai Shuichi paused for a few imperceptible breaths, put the sniper rifle back into his guitar case after maintenance, and said in a half-hearted manner, "I'm afraid I won't be able to help but envy myself for having memories."

"?"

Hasegawa Yu, accustomed to his speaking style, expertly summarized the key points, "If that's the case, Mr. Akai from the fourth and fifth seasons also doesn't have any new memories of the future, and he'll be jealous too."

"The two Akai-sans are even!"

“…”

Hearing this, Akai Shuichi glanced at the orange-haired young man not far away with an ambiguous look, "Compared to me, the young master's way of expressing himself is not much inferior."

What is this, a talent?

Hasegawa Yu: “???”

Leaving aside the wonderful art of speaking, the living room fell silent again.

Hasegawa Yu racked his brains to think about how to get Shuichi away and get Zero out of the apartment.

At this moment, a new doorbell rang outside the apartment door.

Hearing the noise, Shuichi Akai reached for his gun.

Neither of them had any friends in New York who could visit them despite their disguised identities. Scotland had been away from New York for some time, not to mention his identity as a mercenary.

When dealing with the Brotherhood, he should have cleanly cleaned up his mess, Akai Shuichi kept guessing.

Compared to a former FBI agent who couldn't see through door panels, the artificial intelligence that could capture all mobile phone signals got the answer immediately.

【It's Jinpei Matsuda. 】

Why is Brother Zhenping in New York?!

Hasegawa stood up suddenly and started spinning around in place.

Shuichi Akai looked at him, then looked at the door, and put down the gun in his hand as if he had realized something.

"Please wait a moment."

After speaking loudly to the person outside the door, Hasegawa Yu grabbed the arm of another person inside the door and tried to drag him towards the study, "Mr. Akai, could you please go to the study for a while?"

"Ho?" Akai Shuichi stood up, "Can't I stay and entertain him together?"

"No!" Hasegawa Yu was much more decisive and skilled in rejecting someone for the second time. "Mr. Akai, please, please~☆"

Shuichi Akai touched his chin, and after a moment, he put away his shoes at the entrance, cleaned up the traces of himself in the living room, and walked into the study.

"Mr. Akai, remember not to take off your disguise mask," Hasegawa Yu instructed. "Don't come out unless I tell you to."

He was not sure about Brother Zhen Ping's attitude towards Brother Xiu Yi.

"Okay. After all, I'm a nameless person, so I can only agree to the young master." Akai Shuichi shrugged.

Hasegawa Yu: “???”

Hasegawa Yuu skillfully ignored the inappropriate words and summed up the key points. "I will definitely introduce you to each other someday if there is a chance!"

Looking at the study door closed from the outside, Shuichi Akai, who was left in the study, raised his eyebrows slightly, picked up a book from the bookshelf, and sat down on the chair in front of the desk slowly.

On the other side, Hasegawa Yu, who had been locked up as a good person, rushed back to the apartment door and opened it, "Brother Jinping!"

"Why are you sweating so much?"

Matsuda Jinpei, who had been waiting outside the door for nearly five minutes, looked at the orange-haired young man without leaving a trace and said with concern.

"Haha." Hasegawa Yuu was so nervous that he almost bit his tongue. He moved aside to make way for her. "I was just doing dance practice. Brother Zhenping, please come in first."

Upon hearing this, Matsuda Jinpei said nothing more and took a step forward.

Behind him, Hasegawa Yu let out a breath quietly.

Very good, Brother Zhenping is very peaceful, and I should also keep a normal mind.

Use the fish's seven-second memory and temporarily forget the existence of the other two people in the room!

He can!

[Just in case, I checked the location of the remaining two people.]

Hasegawa Yu swallowed and had a bad feeling in his heart.

[Hmm... they're in New York too.] Noah's Ark cruelly announced some news, which was unclear whether it was good or bad.

"It should be okay." Hasegawa Yu muttered.

It’s not like seniors can’t meet each other, there’s no need to hide.

"What do you mean nothing?" Hearing the end of the sentence, Matsuda Jinpei looked back.

"No, no." Hasegawa Yu urgently controlled his expression and smiled.

Wow, how many sets of tableware are there in the apartment for entertaining guests?