Natsu Kawano walked down the street in despair, she didn't go to the rain like those bitter heroines, and she still held an umbrella in her hand.

But her eyes are dull, and she has lost her false self-confidence, and at this time she looks like a beautiful, but empty, soulless puppet.

When she walked through the traffic lights and through the crowd, she no longer had the heart to distinguish whether other people's eyes were good or bad, and she also lost her original vigilance.

And when someone with malicious intent approached her, a hand suddenly grabbed her wrist, and Natsuryo Kawano looked down and saw that it was the petite Sakuraba Chiyuki.

Sakuraba Chiyuki glared at the middle-aged man behind him viciously, "If you dare to get closer, I'll call the police right away!" ”

The middle-aged man's face was a little ugly when he was yelled at like this, and he quickly fled under the gaze of everyone.

"What's the matter with you, didn't you lecture me before, saying that I didn't have a sense of vigilance? You..."

Sakuraba Chiyuki just wanted to continue to reprimand her, but when she saw Kawano Natsuryo's bloodless face and her eyes that were extremely empty and lost, her heart also fluttered.

Is it...

She failed...

I should have guessed a long time ago, didn't I?

What exactly was I expecting?

When Natsuryo Kawano came back to her senses, she found that Sakuraba Chiyuki was very helplessly squatting and crying, she was puzzled at first, but she quickly came to her senses.

"Why are you crying?" Natsuryo Kawano also squatted down, and she gently hugged Sakuraba Chiyuki.

Is she grieving for me?

Although I haven't known each other for long... However, Natsuryo Kawano really felt a sense of security when he stayed with Sakuraba Chiyuki.

This is because... Is there a commonality between defeated dogs?

Perhaps, because she is the only one who can understand her own estimates, so she will contact her when she is completely at a loss...

"It's none of your business..."Senyuki Sakuraba was still crying.

Because you've failed... It also means that I really don't have a chance at all...

He'll never be nice to me again...

Kawano Natsuryo's already dry eyes were also rendered by the atmosphere of Sakuraba Chiyuki crying, and the two girls were just hugging each other and crying here.

Pedestrians passing by on the side looked at each other when they saw this scene, and it was rare that some enthusiastic people would come forward and ask them what was wrong.

But neither girl answered, but chose to pick up the umbrella again, and then left hand in hand.

…

Natsuryo Kawano came to Sakuraba Chiyuki's residence, and although she was mentally prepared, she couldn't help but be surprised when she really saw the environment she was in now... As well as distress.

"What are you doing? Come on in. ”

"Ahh Well... My shoes are a little dirty..."

"It would be nice to wipe it down later, but... Is it really okay if you don't go home? Sakuraba Chiyuki stood at the entrance and twisted her wet clothes, turned her head and asked.

"Well, I told my mom."

"Mom......" Sakuraba Chiyuki's eyes were a little gloomy.

"What's wrong?" The last time Natsuryo Kawano chatted with her, he only learned that her mother had been punished, and Chiyuki Sakuraba also said that Haruka Sakuraba went to work, not that she was arrested.

So she didn't fully understand Sakuraba Chiyuki's situation at this time.

But looking at Sakuraba Chiyuki a little girl living alone in such a dilapidated room, she still instinctively felt sympathy.

In fact, Sakuraba Qianxue's room is not dilapidated, and it can even be said that she takes care of it clean and tidy, but in the eyes of a pampered person like Kawano Natsuryo, it is just shabby.

"No, it's nothing..."Sakuraba Chiyuki just thought of the last time she saw her mother, and saw her mother repenting of her pain through a glass, and her heart was extremely uncomfortable.

She didn't understand her mother's behavior, and she once resented her, but when she really saw the environment she was in and her haggard face, she still felt a lot of heartache.

If only she hadn't deceived Saionji Akino...

If only everything could be done all over again...

Sakuraba Chiyuki may have learned the result of Kawano Natsuryo's failure, so the time spent immersed in regret today is extraordinarily long.

She patted her cheek, first went to the bathroom to turn on the hot water switch, and then handed the towel to Natsuryo Kawano.

"You sit down now, I'll make you a cup of tea to warm your body, otherwise you'll catch a cold later."

"Oooh... Okay..."Natsuryo Kawano looked at the capable and strong figure of Sakuraba Chiyuki, and couldn't help but feel admiration for her.

"Summer cool."

"Huh?"

"You, why are you bullying him?"

"......" Natsu Kawano was silent for a while when he heard this.

"Maybe it's because I'm a natural evil girl."

“… Do you regret it? ”

"Hmm..."

"Then I think... You should change it in the future, especially your narcissistic nature. ”

"Hmm..."

"Recently... I tried to change, and after learning to read words, in school... A lot of my classmates don't hate me very much... They're starting to want to get along with me, too..."

"Before, we... Although the mistakes we have made cannot be remedied, we can still change them. Sakuraba Chiyuki poured hot water into the cup, put it in the tea bag of Genmaicha, wrapped the cup in a rag, and slowly held it in front of Kawano Natsuryo.

“… You're right. Natsuryo Kawano looked at the steaming brown rice tea, and suddenly felt a little better in his heart.

"I used to think that people are fixed and boring, and everyone is set to have a destiny after they are born, and they are just marionettes of fate, and nothing will change."

"Excellent people, like me..."Natsu Kawano subconsciously began to say narcissistic things again, this has become a habit of hers, and it is really difficult to get rid of it for a while.

"Ahem, excellent people are destined to be born excellent, they will show all kinds of shining points since they were young, and then they will go all the way unimpeded, and clumsy people, even if they try harder, they will not be able to grasp the essentials after all, and in the end, they will only comfort themselves, and they will be useless."

"I've seen a lot of people like that, whether it's elementary school or junior high school, but they all lost, lost to me."

"But... This time it's you who lose. Sakuraba Chiyuki looked into her eyes and said.

"yes... That's why I realized that what I had been saying all along might be wrong..."

"You're still too arrogant and super narcissistic."

"I'm really pretty after all, huh?"

"Here we go again!"

“……”

"Poof—" The two girls looked at each other and laughed as if they were amused.

"Summer cool."

"Huh?"

"Stay tonight... Good no good? ”

“… Good. ”

Natsuryo Kawano looked at Sakuraba Chiyuki's aggrieved little face, reached out and pinched her tender flesh, "If you feel uncomfortable, you can be coquettish with me?" ”

“…… I don't want to..."

——

After running into a wall countless times, Shunji Kawano finally collected relevant information about the Fujiwara family.

It's just that this information came very suddenly and a little strangely.

Originally, others warned him not to investigate these things that should not be touched, but I don't know why, suddenly the other party relented and was willing to do intelligence transactions with him.

Anyway, now I can finally report some progress to Mr. Akino.

Although he has been busy during this time, he has not been able to come up with substantive results, and he really feels very guilty.

Lucky...

——

Saionji Akino pours a cup of tea for Toshiharu Kawano and makes him dinner.

Shunji Kawano has obviously lost weight in the past few days, and because he stayed up late, his handsome face showed a little sickly.

"Mr. Shunji, you can eat something first, and I'll take a look at it myself."

"Hmm... Okay, okay. Shunji Kawano looked at the hot meal in front of him, sighed a little in his heart, and quickly buried his head in eating.

Maybe he was too hungry to tell the taste, but when he put the food in his mouth, he only thought of the word delicious.

Saionji Akino looked at the materials in his hand, and his fingers subconsciously rubbed the paper.

His brow furrowed slowly.

The current situation of the Fujiwara family... Doesn't seem optimistic...?

The three direct chaebol heirs died one after another, either due to illness or car accidents... Now only the sole helmsman of the chaebol is left, Mr. Fujiwara Yoshiaki.

"The intelligence of the Aso family... I haven't been able to collect it yet, Mr. Akino, I'll be there..."

"Mr. Shunji, you better rest first." Saionji Akino smiled and said, "I believe in your ability, but the body is the capital, and it can't be wantonly depleted, these things can be done slowly." ”

"Hmm..."Shunji Kawano felt the concern in Saionji Akino's eyes, and nodded with emotion.

——

resplendent living room.

"Miss Xida, we have leaked the information, and I believe that the Fujiwara family will soon notice the existence of that young man." A middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes bowed ninety degrees and faced the white-haired girl sitting in front of the piano.

The girl looked at the piano score and said in a light tone: "Pay more attention to his movements in the future, and if you have the opportunity, you can teach him a lesson in time." ”

"Stand down."

"Yes."

After the man left, the white-haired girl happily played the piano.

Her piano skills are so superb that she seems to be able to bring the notes to life and imbue them with the emotional expression she wants, as in the case now, she expresses a playful mood.

After the music ended, the girl slowly got up, gracefully lifted the hem of the gray dress, and then smiled sarcastically.

"Fujiwara Nagi, I gave you a gift, I hope you don't thank me too much?"

——

Ask for a recommended ticket commuter pass.

(End of chapter)