Chapter Eleven: Seeing Off "Little Sister"
"Is this reward high enough, Master Chuan?" said the Monkey King as he pulled out a glittering gold cigarette case from his pocket, opened it and drew out a cigarette. He habitually tapped the head of the cigarette on the case, then brought it to his nose for a sniff before placing it between his pursed lips.
With a "hiss", the shop assistant presented the lit match, allowing his superior to light his cigarette. The ape-like manager patted the shop assistant's head in satisfaction, took a fierce drag, then put out the cigarette and flipped over a lump of human flesh, revealing the still-fresh skin underneath.
"What's the emblem of Crow Team?" Chuan Qi finally understood, these two pieces of meat with emblems were cut from Huang Ya and Jin Ya's arms.
"Thank you! Thank you, Kojō and Inukai Jikō!" Chōhei's eyes brimmed with hot tears as he grasped one of Kojō's hands in both of his own, speaking words of gratitude.
"General Kawakami, no need to thank me. We are comrades in the same trench, and it's only natural that we care for each other and help one another." With a bloody hand, Captain Hiko withdrew from the "reward", and with a swift motion, he tapped General Kawakami's forehead, then burst into loud laughter.
The monkey wiped away his tears and said to the shopkeeper, "Dog Nurture, please turn the rearview mirror around. Let River Ride take a look. A beauty mole, it's beautiful on a woman's delicate face. But on River Ride's coarse face, as rough as a woman's buttocks, is it still a beauty mole? It's not a beauty mole, what is it then?"
"It's an old callus ground out by buttocks and a sitting position." The shopkeeper and the monkey trainer sang in harmony, teasing the Sichuan riders.
Chuan Qi had just been grateful and thankful to Monkey King for being a role model of helping others with pleasure, so when he was putting blood on his own face, he didn't dodge or feel disgusted. However, now the two of them were recklessly insulting each other.
"Ah!" Just as Chuanji was about to curse, Houlaochang's next words left him bewildered.
"Has Kawahime understood the new mission that was just conveyed by the representative of this department?" The tone of Kōka-chō's voice was very serious, not like he was joking with him.
"What new task? What new task?" Chuan Qi knew that military orders were like mountains, and although he was annoyed and angry, he still followed the strict rules and obeyed the command of his superior, but he really didn't understand what new task had been assigned to him, so he asked repeatedly.
"Hmph, wasn't it said that the Crow Team is a team of spies within spies? How did they 'fall' to such an idiotic level, needing to ask again and again about such a clear task?"
"A mountain is big with rocks, but a river only raises shrimp. Don't make things difficult for Mr. Chuanqi anymore, just speak clearly." The shopkeeper appeared to be helping Chuanqi out of trouble, but was actually setting up the Crow Team.
"Are you kidding me? Doesn't the Deputy Director of the Dog Unit know the nature of a special agent's work? What's the difference between speaking clearly and sending a coded telegram?" The Monkey Director's face turned stern, his mouth twisted into a blowpipe shape, and flames shot out of it that could scorch the Kawachi cavalry: "This department never thought that the Crow Team would be so useless! One bear after another, a whole den of bears. Still as mysterious as Unit 731, just as important as the Kamikaze team? Bullshit!"
"Don't insult my Raven team!" Chuan Qi went crazy and shouted at the Monkey King: "Chuan Qi is incompetent, but it doesn't mean the entire Raven team is incompetent!"
"Good, good, good." The monkey teacher applauded and asked after the river knight had calmed down slightly: "May I ask, River Knight, why did you come here to welcome me?"
He shook his head. It wasn't that he didn't want to answer, but rather that he didn't know how to answer.
"I don't know?" said Kōshirō, "Inuyasha, you tell him."
"Hey!" The second son of the shopkeeper was about to clarify the topic, but was stopped by the monkey again.
"Did you know how Mu Ya died?"
What's the difference between this and scolding a mute for not speaking? Just as Chuanji was about to lose his temper at being deceived by Hou Xuelong, the other party's next words calmed him down.
"Do you know why the person who killed the woodpecker cut off the mark on his arm?" The tone of the monkey's voice dropped a lot, but Kawahito was enraged again by these words.
"Ah! So you've been on the train all along, what's the point of following our team?" Chuan Qi was furious and suddenly reached out to grab the collar of Hou Kechang, shaking him violently as he scolded.
At this time, the southern style of the shopkeeper was already on top of the Sichuan rider's head, and the air immediately became tense.
"Put down the gun, Dog Keeper." Monkey Class Commander calmly ordered the shopkeeper, then grabbed the handcuffs locked on his neck by Chuan Riding and opened them. "Chuan Riding Captain, you should think more about things, consider where you are now, and you won't be so naive to say such nonsense."
"Where am I?" Kawahara muttered in confusion: "I'm at the train station,..."
The monkey saw the river and rode foolishly to his home, crying and laughing as he shouted at him: "You're on the car of this lesson! This lesson is a special car, and you say that this lesson is following you. Is there anyone in the world as foolish as you?"
"Really?" Kawahara suddenly came to his senses, indeed he was too foolish, until now, he still didn't understand why the conductor seemed to know everything about what happened on the train?!
The monkey king grew up disappointed and secretly delighted in the foolishness of the river horse, thinking that the topic had been going around in circles with no one able to respond, and even if it continued, there wouldn't be much meaning to it. So he ordered the shopkeeper to tell the truth about the whole thing to the river horse, while he himself closed his eyes and meditated.
The shopkeeper sat up straight, with the back of his head facing Chuan Qi, and said: "The reason why the captain and deputy captain came to pick you up is that your 'send relatives' task was completed by chance."
"Has my mission been accomplished?" Kawaji didn't consider this question at all, nor could he have considered it at this point, and simply said: "Aren't we supposed to be escorting comfort women related to the strategic deployment of the Great Japanese Empire? Where are the comfort women?"
"Your task is to send relatives, don't drag the comfort woman issue!" The shopkeeper was impatient and raised his voice: "Now 'little sister' has safely gone to her husband's home, no need for you to worry blindly!"
Chuan Qi suddenly realized that the old woman was actually the "little sister" she had escorted, who brought with her a dowry that would satisfy her husband's family, and also the "crow" emblem on Mu Ya's arm, entering the mushroom district.
The shopkeeper listened to the analysis of Chuan Qi and insulted him without any scruples, saying: "Some countries boast that they have trained police pigs, it seems not a fantasy."
"Hey!" The river horseman reached out to grab the collar of the shop boy, but was stopped by the loud voice of Houleng.
"Ah, my dear Kawaki-kun," said the long-tailed monkey, "take good care of the reward I've given you for this lesson, and then go carry out your new mission."
After finishing speaking, Hóu Kè Cháng closed his eyes again to meditate and added: "The time left for Chuán Jì Jun is not much."
"What's the new task?" Kawahime asked irritably.
"Didn't I just tell you?!" said the monkey boss without opening his eyes, and then instructed the shopkeeper: "Dog Nurture, repeat it to him again. It's our bad luck to run into this kind of person!"
"Hey!" The shopkeeper slowly read out: "beauty mole, buttocks, cocoon."
Damn it, what kind of mission is this? How did it end up being related to moles and old calluses on my butt?
