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

Chapter 524
Because someone stopped suddenly, Xinjoxiang couldn't help but stop.

"President...?"

She asked a little puzzled, "What's wrong?"

However, the young man remained silent, just staring straight ahead, with an obscure light flashing in his dark eyes.

Follow his gaze.

A solitary and slender figure was squatting under the telephone pole with its knees hugged.

The girl has long black hair, a delicate face and a slender figure, giving people a feeling of fragility.

She was wearing a black sailor suit, a blue scarf on her chest, and a gray cardigan jacket that looked equally thin.

At this time, he was curling up and hugging himself, as if he was using this to resist the chill of the night.

However, although Tokyo in November is not too cold, the average temperature at night is only 10 °C.

Including the action of embracing the knees to keep warm, it is actually just a drop in the bucket for spiritual comfort, and it is of no help to the status quo.

If you really want to talk about the actual effect, you might as well go to a nearby McDonald's restaurant.

For this kind of girls who would rather stand outside in the cold, Xinjoxiang would generally classify them indifferently as those who would take care of their father.

On the streets of Shinjuku, there are countless girls waiting to strike up a conversation like this.

But this raises a new problem.

That is, after all, this place is a secluded place that is inaccessible. If you really want to be approached, you should at least choose lively places like pedestrian streets and in front of the station instead of squatting mushrooms here.

—that's something only a tramp would do.

But if the girl is a tramp, the other party does not have that kind of insensitivity, the hollow feeling of losing hope in life.

Besides, as far as a tramp is concerned, the external conditions of this innocent little white rabbit are too high-quality.

If it were placed in Kabukicho, I am afraid that it would have been tricked into a dangerous job long ago.

"...So you ran away from home?" Xintiaoxiang murmured as if realizing something.

In a sense, this kind of phenomenon is also not uncommon, and there is nothing unusual about it. She really doesn't think there is anything worthy of attention about this kind of person.

However, things developed in an unexpected direction...

After observing the girl in place for a while, Kato Yusuke silently walked up.

"...Hey, that JK over there."

He said so that the other party would be aware of his arrival.

"...?"

The girl raised her face buried between her knees and chest, and looked up blankly.

As if she didn't expect to be approached by someone, she reacted a little slowly, and unconsciously muttered to herself: "...uh, is he a handsome guy...?"

With a pair of very clear, but full of weakness big eyes.The slightly pale complexion looked a little weak, and I don't know if it was from the cold.

"..."

Ignoring her reaction, Kato Yusuke put his hands in the pockets of his jacket and continued to ask condescendingly.

"……What's your name?"

As if being dragged back to reality by his indifferent attitude, the girl blinked nervously twice, her expression tensed unconsciously.

"...Before that, were you a policeman?"

"No."

"Is that so..."

"So, why are you sitting here alone?"

"Um……"

Hearing that he was not a policeman, the other party relaxed a little, then groaned for a while, and replied hesitantly: "Actually... I am very troubled now."

Kato Yusuke looked at her quietly, waiting for the follow-up.

"Well, my name is Xiaoxi...Serizawa Yuu, can you help me?"

"……What help?"

"A week..."

The girl named Serizawa Yuu said hesitantly, "Can you take me in... until the morning of next weekend?"

Kato Yusuke's eyes quietly became much deeper, "...Why don't you go home?"

"You asked me why... there's no big reason. I just... don't feel like going home."

"runaway?"

"...Ahaha, it's almost like that, you understand it very well."

The girl showed a forced smile, and tentatively said, "In return, I will heal you...?"

"cure……?"

"That... yes, I don't live for nothing, I'm good at housework.

If you are willing to take me in, you can leave cooking, cleaning, laundry...all the things at home to me. "

"........."

Hearing this answer, Kato Yusuke couldn't help being silent for a while.

But the girl misunderstood his reaction, thinking that her conditions were not enough to exchange for a shelter.

"In addition...and..."

Serizawa Yu stood up from the ground with her knees propped up, her eyes moved around anxiously, and she said in a low voice with a blushing face.

"Uh... as long as you take proper measures, you can do what you want, you can do anything..."

When he said the last sentence, his voice was almost so weak that Kato Yusuke could hardly hear it.

"... How many times is this the first time you've brought up this kind of thing to someone?"

"Huh? Ah... well, it's my first time... ahaha..."

The girl looked over with embarrassed and pleading eyes while accompanying her smiling face in embarrassment.

"……is this OK?"

Did not wait for an answer.

Silence filled the air, making the already quiet alley even more desolate.

It may have been the past ten seconds, or it may have been a few minutes.

goooo...

A faint but clear belly groan suddenly floated into their ears.

"Ah, this...um...sorry..." Yuki Serizawa faltered, clutching her stomach in embarrassment.

The silence of the scene was thus broken.

Kato Yusuke closed his lips tightly, took out the wallet from his trousers pocket, took out all the cash of about 9 yen inside, and handed it over.

"...The money is for you, it is enough for you to get through tonight, and then go home."

"Eh--?"

With the girl's stunned expression, he just stuffed the money into her hand, then turned around and walked towards the brightly lit station.

"Let's go, Xintiao."

"Ah~ I'll come, President."

Xinjoxiang, who had been silently observing from behind, trotted up to him, and looked back curiously at Serizawa Yu who was staring blankly at the money in his hand, and then turned her face back to normal.

"Hey, President, do you know her?"

"do not know."

"Do you believe what she said? It means that there are quite a lot of girls who take advantage of other people's kindness to cheat?"

"It doesn't matter."

"Hee hee, that's it~ The president is sometimes unexpectedly gentle."

"Enough said?"

The indifferent voice sounded, making Xinjoxiang's footsteps stagnant.

"... Ah, um... I was wrong."

"..."

Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap.

In the silent atmosphere, the two walked forward one after the other.

After walking like this for a while...

dong dong dong-

A rush of footsteps sounded from behind them.

"that--"

A girl's voice yelled, "Wait a minute... you guys!"

Serizawa Yu ran to catch up, put her hand on the boy's back, and stopped them.

"Please, please wait a moment... Huh... Huh... Excuse me, wait a moment..."

She first leaned on her knees and bent over to pant for a while, and only raised her head after she recovered a little.

"That... the extra will be returned to you!"

She said out of breath, "I just need to leave [-] yen... that's fine..."

Facing the eyes of the two, Serizawa Yu just took out a piece of cash from a stack of cash, and handed the rest of the money to herself.

Xinjoxiang's eyes suddenly became weird, and he looked at the girl with interest.

"..."

Kato Yusuke looked at the money sent to him, but he didn't reach out to take it, but said, "I told you, you can use the money."

"Yeah~ so I took one, this already gives me a place to sleep, hehehe..."

"...Then what are you going to do next?"

"This is..."

Serizawa Yu hesitated at first, and then forced a smile and said: "It's okay, there will always be a way anyway. Thank you for your help, but this is too much, so I will return it to you...!"

Just like his previous behavior, the girl grabbed his hand, forced the money into his hand, and bowed seriously.

"Thank you very much! Big brother, you are a good person, I will remember this kindness well, then goodbye~"

After speaking, he straightened his body, chose a direction at random, and walked forward aimlessly.

In the unconscious, the lonely figure exudes a kind of abandoned confusion...

Two steps, three steps, four steps, the young man frowned and remained silent.

Five steps, six steps, seven steps, the girl kept walking.

Until the frail figure was about to disappear into the crowd, Kato Yusuke frowned and then loosened, and finally spoke.

"You wait a minute-"

"...?"

The girl stopped in a daze and looked back.

"—Um, what else can I do—hajiu...!"

"New article..."

Kato Yusuke asked in a low voice without looking sideways: "Do you think there are any artificial traces or something wrong here?"

"Hmm...it's hard to say now~"

Xintiaoxiang's eyes flickered slightly, and he looked around intentionally or unintentionally, and replied:

"At least there seems to be nothing suspicious at the moment, but the information is still too little. It would be great if we could learn more."

"Is that so..."

Kato Yusuke nodded, and asked without emotion: "Do you mind having one more roommate?"

"If you really want to say something, people don't mind!"

Xintiaoxiang said it with great resistance at first, then changed the subject and smiled at him.

"However, the president's words are everything to me, so the answer is completely ok~~?"

"...Go and bring her over and have dinner together."

"Follow orders~"

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10 minutes later.

Diagonally opposite Takadanobaba Station, inside a barbecue shop called "Nanwa Yakiniku Anan".

In the noisy atmosphere, the sounds of drinking and drinking came one after another.

The smell of charcoal fire and oily smoke is intertwined, and the air is filled with the aroma of food.

It was in such an environment that the three of them sat down at a table.

sizzle sizzle~

On the burning stove, the sliced ​​meat is performing the most primitive Maillard reaction wantonly on the iron grid, playing a beautiful and melodious melody.

The rich meaty aroma is tangy, as if trying to lure the gluttons in people's stomachs, it goes straight to the depths of the nasal cavity.

gudu~

Serizawa stared intently at the barbecue in front of him, and swallowed a mouthful of saliva for the first time.

As a girl, such behavior is not only not ladylike, but also very impolite.

She is well aware of this, but the hunger in her stomach is like a monster.

No matter how much she endured, the appetite that had been neglected for a day was not under her control at all, and she just wanted to eat it impatiently.

Seeing her reaction, Xinjoxiang joked: "Even if you keep staring at it like this, the meat won't cook faster, okay? Miss Serizawa."

"Ah, yes! Sorry...that..."

"Xintiaoxiang, you can call me Xintiao, but you don't need to add an honorific title."

"...That's it~ um, then it's the same on my side, just call me Xiao Xi."

It should have been a kind of personality that is relatively close to people, the girl responded politely and cheerfully, then blushed slightly, and involuntarily cast her gaze on the face of the boy next to her.

"Then... what's the name of the big brother?"

"Kato Yusuke."

"Brother Yusuke..."

"There is no need to add honorifics, just Kato."

"Then... Brother Yu?"

"........."

Kato Yusuke couldn't help but paused, after all, he still didn't say anything, and acquiesced to the title.

"As you like."

"hey-hey……"

The girl showed a soft and shy smile, and said with a little anxiety:
"Well, is it really okay to say that? Not only give me money, but also treat people with unknown background like me to dinner..."

"Don't worry about little things."

Kato Yusuke glanced at her and said, "Also, what we ordered is a buffet (buffet), you can eat whatever you want."

"Uh...thank you, ahaha..."

"It's about you, Xiao Xi." Xinjo Xiang smiled and took over the topic, "Is God treating girls~?"

"God treats a girl..."

Serizawa Yu blinked her eyes in a daze, then immediately shook her head left and right in denial: "That's not true, really! I'm still a high school student, and I'm not doing that kind of thing."

"Hey~ But you clearly said "Yes" to the president earlier? "

"That...that's because..."

The girl lowered her head in shame and whispered:

"I'm sorry... I just... don't want to go home, but I have nowhere to go. I'm sorry... I said that to your boyfriend without authorization."

"Don't worry about it, and the president is not my boyfriend. And then~ How old are you? Where are you from? Why did you run away from home?"

Facing a lot of questions that Xintiaoxiang asked one after another, Serizawa Yu was a bit embarrassed, but she still opened her mouth to respond.

"Well... I'm 18 this year, and I'm a native of Tokyo. As for the reason for running away from home..."

She said apologetically, "About the last one, can I not say...?"

Xintiaoxiang didn't force this too much, but asked in a different way: "From your tone, it should be more than a simple reason like quarreling with your parents, right?"

"Hmm...not..." Serizawa Yu slowly shook her head, her expression became a little sad.

Such a change did not escape Xinjoxiang's observation, but she did not point it out, but asked nonchalantly: "You said before that you wanted to find a place to stay for a week, right?"

"Um...that's right..."

"In that case, would you like to come and live with me?"

"---Eh?"

The girl couldn't help but let out a bewildered cry, and froze in place for a moment.

It just so happened that the barbecue on the stove was ready at this moment.

Ignoring her reaction, Xinjoxiang first used a tong to hold a piece of meat for Kato Yusuke, then took another piece for herself, and finally put all the remaining pieces on the girl's plate.

"Well~ Anyway, the meat is already roasted, let's talk while we eat."

Slowly, Serizawa Yu finally came back to his senses.

First, he glanced at the barbecue on the plate, and then immediately looked across.

"That... Sister Xintiao..."

She sat up unconsciously, and even the feeling of hunger faded for a while, and asked anxiously:

"Is what you just said true... are you willing to take me in...?"

"Yes~"

Xinjoxiang said with a relaxed face: "However, the president will sometimes come here to guide my homework, and the time is not sure, can you accept this?"

Serizawa Yu was slightly taken aback for a moment, and immediately nodded her head hastily.

"Yes, I am willing to accept! So Brother Yu and Sister Xintiao are also students? I won't bother you, and I can also help with housework!"

As she spoke, she took a deep breath and put her palms together in front of her face.

"As long as it's until next Sunday, I will definitely leave, so... During this week, please let me stay, please...!"

"Well, yes, I mean, I've already said it."

"...That's great, I was still thinking about what to do if I was rejected." Serizawa Yuu breathed a sigh of relief, her eyes lit up with hope.

"..."

Kato Yusuke watched all this in silence, and understood that the reason why Xinjoxiang said that was because he had not fully trusted the other party and was on guard, so he didn't say much.

After that, the girl who was relaxed probably because her troubles were solved, also started to eat food.

Seeing the other party's almost swallowing action of eating, Kato Yusuke took the initiative to give her the barbecue on his plate.

Although the girl was a little embarrassed about his behavior, she didn't think too much about it and accepted it so happily.

However, switching to Xinjoxiang who has a little understanding of his personality, the shock in his heart is almost no less than a tsunami!
Feeling deeply astonished and full of suspicion, Xinjoxiang finished the meal absent-mindedly...

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(Underwriting progress 3/5)

　Thank you [Tired Heart] for your reward.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)