Kokarsuma was not clear about the purpose of Karasuma Renya's trip to the Hatoyama family.

After meeting this little girl from the Karasuma family, Keiko Hatoyama quickly tried to find out this from her mouth.

This is a very simple and cute little girl, but also unsuspecting.

She didn't know the true purpose of Karasuma Renya's trip at all, and only thought it was a normal visit between the two families.

Knowing this, Keiko Hatoyama didn't mention anything about Karasuma Renya again, and the two chatted casually in the small room isolated from the bitter cold.

From the relationship between hemophilia and Queen Victoria in modern European royal families, to why there was no participation of the people at the bottom in the process of revising the constitution when the United States was founded.

With the huge knowledge base built up by being sick for many years and reading all kinds of group books from various countries, no matter what kind of topic Kokarsuma throws, Keiko Hatoyama can easily catch it.

They talk about everything.

Although there was also an extremely embarrassing situation where she was in a hurry and accidentally took the book upside down, and was also debunked by Kokarasuma.

But Keiko Hatoyama wisely chose to forget automatically.

Is there such a thing?

Absolutely nothing!

To be honest, if the memory of this meeting can stay here like this, then this day will definitely become a day that will be cherished in the memory of Keiko Hatoyama.

But unfortunately, the established facts are not transferred according to her personal will.

It wasn't a good day.

On the contrary, it is the beginning of a tragedy that breaks their lives.

"Miss!"

Suddenly, the voice of the old butler sounded outside the door again.

"What's wrong?" Keiko Hatoyama stopped communicating with Karasuma and turned to look at the figure that had appeared outside the shoji door again.

The old butler's voice was not as calm as he used to be, which already gave Keiko Hatoyama a bad feeling in her heart.

It's just that at this time, she thought that something was going on between her grandfather and Karasuma Renya.

However, her assumptions were soon overturned.

Things deteriorated to the extreme in an instant, in a way she hadn't expected at all, in a way she hadn't expected at all.

"I ...... There is an important thing to tell you. ”

The old butler seemed to be worried about Karasuma, who was also in the room.

Keiko Hatoyama didn't say anything, just got up and opened the shoji door and walked outside.

In an instant, the cold air outside rushed in again, and the snow drifted into the room with the wind.

Karasuma also seemed to notice this, and instead of getting up to follow, she sat quietly in the room, looking at the two of them with a puzzled look.

"It's the Shirakawa family." In the old butler's cloudy eyes, there was a rare look of hesitation and unbearability.

"They...... What's wrong? His reaction made Keiko Hatoyama's inner uneasiness soar rapidly.

"The mother...... Killed. ”

The old butler finally told the truth.

"Buzz!"

For a moment, it was like a bolt from the blue.

Keiko Hatoyama only felt a buzzing in her head, but she vaguely heard that the old housekeeper was still talking to her about what had been killed, and that the Metropolitan Police Department had already been dispatched......

Xiaoqing's mother was killed, she was killed by gangsters, her eyes were gouged out, and her death was extremely cruel.

She subconsciously took two steps back and leaned against the shoji door, her face, which was much fairer than ordinary people, was even whiter at the moment.

In fact, from a very early age, Keiko Hatoyama had already noticed Shirakawa Kiyoshi.

Because the distance between the Shirakawa family and the Hatoyama family is not far.

A few hundred meters away from the Hatoyama mansion is an old town in Tokyo, where Kiyoshi Shirakawa and his mother live.

Therefore, when Shirakawa Kiyoshi used to go to and from school every day, he would pass by the street in front of Hatoyama's house.

And Keiko Hatoyama was basically not allowed to go out when she was young because of her health.

But she has a heart that yearns for freedom.

After being annoyed by Keiko Hatoyama's numerous attempts to "escape from prison" from her home, Hatoyama had to build her own watchtower in the mansion.

It's impossible to get you out, at most let you look twice and soothe your free and restless heart.

But under the arguments of Keiko Hatoyama, the old man finally made another concession, allowing her to go out once or twice once in a while, accompanied by the old butler.

In this way, climbing the watchtower to see the streets and pedestrians outside Hatoyama's house when she was bored every day became the only fun that Keiko Hatoyama had when she was young.

Unlike the servants at home, she sees something new every day outside.

And among them, she gradually noticed that at a fixed time every morning and evening, she could always see a somewhat thin boy walking through the street in front of Hatoyama's house with a schoolbag on his back.

This boy is special because he is very punctual.

And it was very accurate, and every day he walked in front of her house without any difference.

Keiko Hatoyama, who did not believe in evil, once squatted on the watchtower with a pocket watch for several days in a row, pinching the time when the boy had come.

In the end, it turned out that this particular boy really walked in front of her house at the same point in time every day, and even if there was a difference, the difference was all within half a minute.

Even the time it took for the boy to walk past her house was almost identical.

It's amazing!

After proving this, Keiko Hatoyama couldn't help but feel a shock.

How can you stabilize to this extent? Are you a robot?

From that day on, the young Keiko Hatoyama officially began to "squat" twice a day, as if she had suddenly discovered some interesting social observation project, and every little time before the boy went to and from school every day, she would always run to the watchtower with her pocket watch, pinching the time to wait for the figure she didn't know the name of, but was already familiar with.

She just wanted to find out even once, when this particular boy was not on time.

It was also during this process that Keiko Hatoyama gradually noticed another special feature about the boy.

He never seemed to smile.

No, this statement may not be quite accurate.

It should be said that he never seemed to have any other expression on his face.

From the very beginning of noticing him, until now, the boy's face has always been a somewhat stiff and indifferent expression, as if he is rejecting people from thousands of miles away.

Yes.

In the short half-minute that passed by her house twice a day, Hatoyama Keiko had never seen any expression on the boy's face other than this indifferent expression.

Not only that, but she also suddenly noticed that she never seemed to see any friends with this boy.

Every day, he went by himself and then returned by himself, and no one ever walked with him.

After noticing these anomalies, young Keiko Hatoyama suddenly felt a little sad in her heart, and she instinctively didn't want to squat at the boy anymore.

Life is certainly not good for boys.

What she knew, was an escape from some known misfortune that she was powerless to change.

Then, on that very day, she finally crouched down to the boy's "late" situation.

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(End of chapter)