Ryota, Sunny and Kiyo gradually become close.

The reason was because they are all in the same miserable situation, not being surrounded and protected by their families. And they all have to be independent soon.

From the day Kiyo adopted Ryota, he drove him to school instead of letting him go because he was far away from home, and Kiyo was worried about what the gangsters would do to his brother.

At this time, there were no smartphones, only desk phones, and computers, but very expensive tablets. That made him feel uncomfortable because there were no convenient means of communication.

Coming back today, why these days Kiyo's area is so dirty, there's more and more garbage, but there's obviously a janitor, isn't it?

"Strange..." - Kiyo thought to himself.

"I haven't seen them in a few days, and no one has come to clean up."

"How about trying it out?"

Ryota nodded and followed Kiyo around the area, there was no shadow of the janitors. The people here are also talking about it.

"I also find it strange, they normally pass here, but now even their trucks don't go through." - An old lady is watering the plants.

"Are you asking about them? I don't see them either, starting last weekend they went nowhere. So I'm with the garbage pickers." - Said a girl who was collecting trash in a black bag.

"How do I know? I don't see them." - A man who is also collecting garbage said.

"Don't know." - Shouted a rather sad-looking old man, slamming the door.

"It's my father." - Ryota retreated, crouched behind Kiyo.

But in general, no one sees those people. Even Sunny said he couldn't see anyone, even in another area.

Kiyo and Ryota noticed something unusual here, so they will continue to investigate. The first thing they have to do with their neighbors is to collect the garbage. Finished work, they just started working.

Interview task completed. Kiyo carefully recorded what they had heard from the residents of the area, and with Ryota's help, he was able to gather some information from their mouths.

Next, they will go to another district, then to the city. Ryota and Kiyo's hometown is a midland province in the north of Cosmic Vietnam, so there will be some rough places there, but they won't go as high.

Moving to the east is the provincial capital city of the province. Both decided to take the bus up there.

From where they live to the city is only sixteen minutes and ten kilometers. Simply because the two places are close to each other.

Arriving, Kiyo let the driver grab the ticket and got off with Ryota.

It's a busy city, one of the most developed in the Northern Midlands and Mountains in Cosmic Vietnam, so they might have a little bit of trouble crossing the street.

Kiyo and Ryota looked around to see if anyone wasn't riding and immediately saw a pregnant woman, sitting in the seat waiting for the bus.

"Sorry, can we ask a question.." - Kiyo approached.

"What is it?" - She raised her face.

"Have you seen anyone cleaning the road lately? A janitor, for example."

"What are you talking about? They still clean every day." - Ryota was taken aback by her statement.

To testify for the two, she pointed to a man in a janitor's uniform who was collecting garbage bags in the car:

"There you go."

Ryota looked in that direction, confused, and asked Kiyo:

"So.. what does that mean, bro?"

"Well..." - Kiyo hummed.

At the same time, a certain bus stopped in front of them. The woman stood up and quietly got into the bus.

"Or should we go somewhere else..?" - Ryota is still confused.

"But it's difficult to get there, we don't have enough time..."

So they have to go back by another means, which is... cyclo. But people only drive them to the bridge, the rest have to take a taxi.

At that time, the mobile was not yet developed. Students did not have cell phones, so they had to get a taxi.

Kiyo had to spend nearly a hundred CVD for the taxi ride that day, and when they returned, they encountered another scene.

In the middle of the area, they saw the janitors returning, but not all of them, before they could ask, someone's sentence entered their ears:

"Those people have just come out of the district. They are all from other places, all have children. Some are far away, and busy with family, so they ask to return to their hometown. They have been working from day to night, but they never rested. Their salary is not good at all."

Hearing that, Kiyo's heart suddenly seemed to shrink. Turns out, because they wanted to return to their families, they were absent, but they weren't being paid properly. Seeing this, because he felt sorry for them, Kiyo decided to stop the investigation completely, and even without janitors, he should be self-disciplined.

Since then, the sound of trucks going back and forth is as constant as every other day.

* * *

Once again, sunlight shone through the window.

"I'm so hungry.." - Ryota lazily got up, rummaging through the wardrobe.

"Ryota, that's not a place for food." - Kiyo sat on the bed, a bit surprised by his brother's bizarre behavior.

"Ah, is this a wardrobe?" - He slowly walked to the kitchen.

Kiyo went to brush his teeth and wash his face to wake up and said:

"How about eat potato pie today? I'll buy it for you."

"I'll go with you."

"Yeah, take it easy."

Wait for Ryota to finish his personal hygiene, both of them just went out to eat.

Potato cake only has 3 CVD.. Then if I buy two, I have to pay 6..

"Wait here." - Kiyo walked to the store, and bought two.

Both of them sat on a stone bench near the house to eat, observing at everything in front of them. Suddenly there was a strange noise behind that chair.

What's that?

The sound began to grow louder.

Cat meowing?

Ryota had just finished eating the cake when he heard:

"Bro, there seems to be a cat sound..."

"Let me see."

Kiyo followed the sound and discovered a cat with an injury to its body. It has a relatively long, bloody scratch under its orange-yellow fur. Around its neck was a bell.

It's not a feral cat?

The cat was impotent, and found it hard to get up.

Kiyo is back:

"Ryota! Come and carry this cat into the house with me!"

"A-yes!"

They carried it into the house and placed it on a very clean table. The cat looked up and meowed weakly.

Kiyo boiled water and mixed salt water for it, and Ryota put a large towel, leaving only the wound open to calm it down. When he was done, he poured the solution into a bowl, sucked it up with a syringe, and sprayed it on the wound.

I heard salt water has antiseptic properties..

Spray until 100% clean, then apply for the medicine.

This area can't be licked by cats, so there's no need to bandage it...

The cat's first aid is done. It dozed off and fell asleep.

"This cat is so cute."- Ryota smiled.

"But we have to return it to its owner, it's definitely not a feral cat with a bell on its neck."

"I guess it's from the house across from ours."

"Is that so? Then wait until this cat wakes up, we'd bring it back."

They lay on the floor, accidentally took a nap. That cat woke up, quickly jumped down, and went outside. After that, it returned with a dead mouse, placed next to Kiyo's feet, as if to repay the favor.

They haven't seen the cat since then, but it still goes to Kiyo's garden without his acknowledgment.