Reborn in Tokyo after picking up Sayu who ran away from home

Chapter 376 Untimely Meeting

in the apartment.

Facing Kei who suddenly appeared outside the door, Kato Yusuke was at a loss for a moment.

He put his right hand in the pocket of his shorts, and his left hand was holding a plastic bag that was intended to be used for garbage, and he just froze in place.

"... Yusuke?"

Hui looked away from the figure who had left the apartment, walked into the entrance naturally, closed the door behind his back, took off his shoes, and walked towards the living room.

"Good morning, um~ I brought you this week's handout...?"

She stopped here, her eyes fell from Kato Yusuke's face to the low table on the ground, and she suddenly fell into silence.

Two 2-liter exquisite wine bottles are lying on the table one upright and one down, next to two empty glasses, surrounded by various snacks, and a bottle with thick cigarette ash and many Boxes of cigarette butts.

The tabletops piled up randomly looked like a mess, like the scene of a down-and-out middle-aged man drinking away his sorrows.

She sniffed her nose slightly, smelling the lingering smell of smoke and strong alcohol in the air, mixed with some of the same perfume smell as the person who had just left.

Then he raised his head slightly, fixed his eyes on the young man in front of him, and asked in a calm but uneven tone: "Yusuke, do you smoke?"

There is an inexplicable seriousness and seriousness in his expression.

Kato Yusuke suddenly came back to his senses, and the negative words blurted out before thinking: "I didn't smoke, I just drank a little rice wine brought by Ms. Kosaka."

A brief silence.

"That's right~~..."

Hui's eyes fluctuated imperceptibly, and his eyes softened a little, and then he said: "However, if this kind of thing is known by the school, it will be very troublesome, okay?"

Kato Yusuke nodded and remained silent.

"Anyway, I'll help clean it up too."

"?"

"Anyway, there's still some time before school starts. It will be faster for the two of you to clean up. I'll wash the cups." Hui said, putting down her schoolbag, walking to the kitchen to fetch a tray, and putting the wine bottles and empty glasses on the table. , and returned to the kitchen with the tray.

So Yusuke followed suit and packed up, while watching the girl's reaction with his eyes.

The other party first picked up the wine bottle and poured it into the sink twice to make sure there was no residue in it, then rolled up the sleeves of his shirt and began to wash the cup.

"Speaking of which, Yusuke."

"Ok?"

"There are sandwiches and handouts for you in my school bag, can you take them yourself?"

"……it is good."

Crash, gurgle, squeak.

Kei, who flushed the glass through the water, squeezed a little detergent on her hand, rubbed the glass with her fingers, and asked nonchalantly, "Miss Kosaka you mentioned, is that the one just now?"

"...Well, it's her." Kato Yusuke thought for a while, and added: "Her pen name is Benizaka Akane, and she has a high achievement and status in the fandom."

"Well~~Then the lipstick on this cup belongs to Ms. Kosaka too, right?"

The soft voice spread, making the room suddenly quiet.

"So, she spent the night here?" The girl continued, her tone not a little aggressive, as if she was talking about everyday topics.

Kato Yusuke was silent for a while, then hummed in a muffled voice, his voice was a little erratic, "I drank all night and had a fight."

"fight……?"

The sound of rubbing the cup stopped, but it started again immediately.

"...That's it." Hui nodded her head lightly, then turned on the faucet to rinse the foam from the glass, making the sound of splashing water.

"Actually, you don't have to explain anything to me, just like you did to Kasumigaoka-senpai and Eiriri, it doesn't matter if you don't say anything, although that would be an excessive behavior."

The indifferent tone was so strange that there was a little irritation, but it made people feel a little uncertain.

Kato Yusuke couldn't help raising his eyes, observed her for a while, trying to figure out her expression in his heart, but he could only see the beautiful back of the girl.

"……Feel sorry."

"So, do you feel better?" The girl turned her head and stared at him with peaceful eyes.

Kato Yusuke paused for a moment before replying in a low voice, "...I'm going back to school on Monday."

"Well, I see."

So Hui turned his head back, reached out and took a clean scouring pad to wipe the water droplets on the cup, and started the finishing work.

And he also silently sorted the garbage, and found the handouts and sandwiches from the shoulder bag that the girl put on the ground, feeling a little complicated.

He couldn't tell if it was guilt towards the people around him, or regret for the impulsive behavior he made last night, or pleasure in the sensual stimulation.

But no matter what, at least after what happened last night, a small part of the depression and darkness in his body was vented.

It was as if the hole in his heart had been temporarily filled, and the process of frenzied plunder and possession made him feel a little obsessed, and also faintly satisfied, and therefore wanted more.

He looked at his left palm silently, the scar on it still seemed to be aching.

Before he knew it, he became a little lost in thought, and the expression on his face became gloomy.

Until the girl suddenly called out softly, waking him up...

"... Yusuke?"

It was only after Kato Yusuke came back to his senses that his eyes gradually regained focus.

He raised his head, only to see Huizheng resting his hands on his slightly bent knees, and looking at him with his head tilted.

The morning sun came in from the window and shone on the girl, as if she had been covered with a layer of tulle, drawing her outline with clear and moving light, making her look radiant.

However, Kato Yusuke seemed to be stabbed by this dazzling scene, and instinctively turned his gaze away, letting his gaze fall into the deep shadow on the ground, before responding.

"...Well, what's the matter?"

"Cup, have you washed it? Give me the trash, and I'll throw it away for you on the way to the station."

"Okay, thank you……"

"You don't have to be polite, I have to go to school anyway, so you have a good rest, see you on Monday, bye~" Hui reached out to take the trash he handed over, walked lightly, turned and left the apartment.

As the metal door was knocked lightly, the room returned to silence.

Kato Yusuke sat in the living room for a while, then walked to the bathroom and began to wash his face and brush his teeth.

In the process of washing up, he looked at himself in the mirror, only to realize that the length of his bangs had grown unknowingly to the point that it was a bit of a hindrance.

While brushing his teeth, he rubbed the ends of the snow-white hair with his fingers. He wanted to use the scissors to deal with it casually, but changed his mind in the next second.

"Let's go to the barber shop..." He muttered to himself, then quickly finished brushing his teeth, took the clothes in the washing machine to dry on the balcony, and walked out of the apartment after changing into casual clothes.

……

Asahikawa City in Hokkaido.

Asahikawa Sixth High School, Class 3 for three years.

The atmosphere in the class changed from the usual hard study and became more active than usual.

Probably because the sports meeting is approaching, the topics of the students' recent chats have also shifted from heavy things such as entrance exams and deviation values ​​towards the sports meeting, enjoying a rare relaxation.

Yuko Masaka came to the last row during the break and stopped next to the window seat.

A girl with long brown hair was sitting there quietly, holding a book in her hand, her cute little face was slightly tensed, exuding a sense of concentration.

If she hadn't seen the word "Marsh Man" prominently on the cover, Yuko might have thought that the other party was working hard and retreated temporarily, but now that she knew that was not the case, she also greeted him naturally.

"Sayu-chan?"

"..."

"Sha~you~ sauce?"

"……what?"

"Wow, you read the book so seriously that you didn't even respond when I called you."

Facing her friend who looked up in a daze, Masaka Yuko couldn't help but sat down on the empty seat in front of her while complaining.

"Uh, um... sorry, accidentally..." Sayu smiled apologetically, carefully inserted the page of the novel she was reading in her hand into a bookmark, and then asked.

"What's wrong? Knot."

"Which team do you want for the team relay in the sports meeting?"

"what?"

"Student Taniguchi took the initiative to take the lead, and the candidates in the middle have also been decided. The question is who will be in charge of the finale. Everyone seems to be under some pressure. Can you continue?"

"That's it... well, then you write my name."

"Hee hee~ As expected of Sayu-chan, so reliable."

Masaka Yuko first laughed and joked, and then asked curiously: "Speaking of which, is the novel you are reading now interesting?"

"Well... Is it interesting or strange? Maybe it's interesting." Sayu hesitated for a while and smiled wryly.

"Why did you answer so nonchalantly?"

"Hmm~~...Because the story inside is really strange?"

"Hey...you can actually make Sayu-chan show such an expression." Yuko blinked in surprise, put her arms on the table, and became interested.

"Hey, can you tell me what's in it?"

"Yes, yes, but I don't think you will be interested in this kind of story."

"Hey~~ How do I know if you don't tell me? Tell me~"

"I get it, so stop shaking me, please."

Seeing her insistence, Sayu didn't procrastinate any longer, and started talking after sighing slightly.

The story of "Swamp Man" takes place on a fictional island. The protagonists of the story are a pair of siblings who live on Rito Island in Wakayama City.

This is an island away from the city, mainly relying on tourism and fishing to maintain its economy.The resident population is about 700 people, and the specialties are Qingtuan and salted squid.

The transportation method for landing and outlying islands is mainly by cruise ship. Although it is not isolated from the world, it will take a long time to go to the city.

It is on such a small island that there is a disease that is said to have existed hundreds of years ago. People of the older generation call it shadow disease.

People who see their own shadows will be killed by the shadows and replaced by them, but few people can detect the abnormality.

……

"...Shadow disease." Hearing this, Yuzi murmured, and then asked, "Why can no one find the abnormality?"

"Well..." Sayu nodded and explained: "Because the shadow is not only the same as the original body, but also the memory is the same, so even relatives cannot distinguish it."

"Hey~ So that's how it is...then what then?"

"do not know."

"Huh?"

"I haven't seen the rest of it yet."

"What's this, it's anticlimactic." Yuzi muttered with a pouted mouth.

Sayu smiled at this, and then asked suddenly: "Speaking of which, Yuko."

"Ok?"

"That incident a year ago... that is, when we were sophomores in high school, do you still remember?"

"...Eh? What do you mean?"

"No, I just remembered it suddenly, so I want to ask, sorry, did it bother you?"

"No, but why bring that up?"

Sayu hesitated for a moment, "Well, although it may be strange for me to say that, do you still remember what happened when we were on the TV station that day?"

Yuko Masaka stopped talking, her eyes slowly moved to her face, and then said in a low voice: "...Well, how could I forget that kind of thing..."

"Can I trouble you to say it again?"

"what?"

"..."

"Well, let me think about it..."

Yuko looked up at the ceiling and began to recall.

"I asked for leave from school that day, and then took a taxi to Sapporo by myself. I called you almost after your visit, and then Sayu-chan ran to the roof and rescued me..."

"Sorry, but how did I save you?"

"That's right, you ran up and saved me."

"What else? Like some other details, your mood at that time... Do you remember?"

"My mood... I'm scared and depressed, and I feel regretful after being rescued by you, but because of Sayu-chan's encouragement, I'm no longer confused~"

"My...encouragement?"

"Yeah~ What's the problem?"

Sayu couldn't help frowning, and was about to ask in detail.

— Jingle bell!
The class bell rang.

"Ah~ Not good, it's time for class, I'll go back first, Sayu-chan."

"Eh? Ah, um... go slowly."

Sayu stretched out her hand to say hello ignorantly, watched her friend trot back to her seat, and then hurriedly picked up the novel on the table.

Without giving her much time to think, Misaki-sensei walked into the classroom in the next second.

"...stand up and salute."

"""""Hello teacher."""""

"sit down."

The students in the class walked through the process under her leadership and started class.

Facing the pressure of entering a higher school that will come soon, except for those students who have already prepared other ways, almost no one will be distracted in class during the third grade.

Naturally, Sayu was also included, so she also listened to the class very seriously, putting aside some doubts in her mind for the time being.

……

(Schrödinger's update, late but arrived...)
　Thanks to the leader of [Kelsala].

　　Thanks to [Tired Heart Sauce], [Meow Sauce Doesn’t Stay Up All Night], [Someone in Qingcheng Mountain Next Week] for their rewards.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)