How to file a resignation with Gin
Chapter 80 Unfamiliar
Hojo Natsuki choked for a moment.
He asked cautiously: "Mr. Kurosawa, do you like cats?"
With "I don't like it at all" written all over his face, Kurosawa replied, "It's okay."
His acting skills are really touching, or, he doesn't care at all, so he doesn't bother to pretend to be a cat lover.
Hojo Natsuki: "...?"
This……
"Keeping a small animal is very troublesome. Not only do you have to bear financial pressure, but you also have to be prepared psychologically." Natsuki Hojo put the words as tactfully as possible, "Cats are very troublesome, and you may have to keep them. Lose patience, this cat may have been abandoned before, if it is abandoned again, it will be a great harm to it... and it has not been lost for a long time, I am still looking for its original owner, at least a week Later..."
Kurosawa: "Oh."
Natsuki Hojo: "..."
... This person is really not listening!It's just a trance and then just perfunctory!
Fortunately, Kurosawa did not insist on taking the cat away. After hearing his reasons for his refusal, he accepted it, and then said flatly: "If you regret it, you can come to me again."
Hojo Natsuki nodded and said yes, thinking that he would never look for you.
He paid the bill and left with Kurosawa, only to find that Kurosawa was on the first floor of the elevator, not the second floor of the underground garage, and this mall only has an underground parking lot.
Xia Shu asked casually, "Do you have any other appointments?"
Kurosawa: "No."
Xia Shu: "Then why go to the first floor?"
Kuisawa said calmly, "Hail a taxi. I didn't drive."
...Is it because it was sent for repair?
After the other party said so, Hojo Natsuki could only bite the bullet and answer politely: "...Haha, how about this, where do you live, do you want me to give you a ride?"
Kurosawa glanced at him: "Do you still dare to drive?"
"It's not that the weather is starting to get hot." Xia Shu's eyes drifted, "I'm not in good health, and it's uncomfortable to wait for the bus..."
"Don't make excuses." Heisawa interrupted him, "Give me the car keys."
Hojo Natsuki was not convinced: "I can..."
"What can you do?" Kurosawa asked casually, with laziness in his bones, "Let me drive, or explain to the police later?"
Hojo Natsuki kept silent, so he had to obediently hand over the car keys, regretting that he had said such a word in his heart.
He also felt that Kurosawa was waiting for him to ask, but he had no proof.
The elevator stopped at Minus [-], and Hojo Natsuki followed Kurosawa's footsteps and got on the co-pilot.
Kurosawa: "Your home address?"
Xia Shu reported a place name.
Not long after, Kuisawa took him to the gate of the community with ease.
"...But this is my house?" Hojo Natsuki was puzzled, "Mr. Kurosawa, do you want to take a taxi back later?"
Kurosawa replied casually: "I'll drive back."
Xia Shu: "Ah? Then what about my car?"
"Someone will bring it back for you." Kurosawa rested his wrist on the steering wheel and looked up at him, "Why, do you still want to drive secretly? Aren't you afraid of the police?"
Natsuki Hojo: "..."
He was shocked by the other party's robber logic, and was speechless for a while.And why did Mr. Kurosawa keep mentioning the police? He doesn't look like a law-abiding citizen at all...
Then Hojo Natsuki couldn't react for a while, so he had to watch Kurosawa Jin drive his car away.
He was a little dazed, suspecting that he had encountered a liar.
However, Porsche's compensation has not yet been paid, and his car is not expensive at all. If the other party wants to take his car, the big deal is that they won't pay the maintenance fee.In this way, he still earns a little.
But that night, Kurosawa returned the car.
[Mr. Kurosawa: The car is in the garage. 】
[Mr. Kurosawa: The key is under your front tire. 】
Hojo Natsuki went to the garage on purpose.He put away the car keys, feeling a little frightened, always feeling that Mr. Kurosawa was plotting a conspiracy against him, and he couldn't help becoming vigilant.
From school to home at two points and one line, the mechanical days fly by.
A full week passed, and Mr. Kurosawa did not take the initiative to contact him, which made Hojo Natsuki feel that he was too ignorant, imagined people too badly, and even gave birth to a little undetectable guilt.
There is still no news from the owner of the cat, and Natsuki Hojo officially started looking for an adopter for the Maine Coon cat.
With a serious and responsible attitude, he screened out several suitable candidates.
The first was a newly married couple who lived in the apartment building next door.
The Maine Coon cat bared its teeth, and mercilessly attacked her husband with cat cat punches. After being reminded by Hojo Natsuki, the maine coon retracted its claws, but it was almost scratched with blood.
The husband said softly: "It's a pity, it doesn't seem to like us very much."
The second is a female white-collar worker who lives alone and has a good economy. She raised a cat before and sent it back to her hometown because her mother liked it.
The Maine Coon did the same thing, and it took a few minutes to dispel the woman's affection for it.
Hojo Natsuki had no choice but to smile apologetically, send the man out, and then come back and teach the cat with a straight face: "How can you hit someone?"
The Maine Coon flicked its tail slowly and raised its head: "Mi."
This attitude of not admitting his mistakes made Hojo Natsuki helplessly laugh.
"Don't hit people." He warned the cat, "Otherwise I will throw you out to wander."
The cat seemed to understand, and its eyes widened, while Natsuki Hojo stared back at it.
Seeing that Xia Shu's attitude was really firm, it backed down, and reluctantly responded: "Meow."
So when the next adopter came to see the cat, the Maine Coon hid directly, causing Hojo Natsuki to search for the cat for half an hour in front of the adopter, and finally had to apologize embarrassingly and send the person away.
After the man left, the Maine Coon cat appeared out of nowhere and stood on the sofa staring at him.
The scene just now was too suffocating, Hojo Natsuki got angry no matter what he thought, ignored the rebellious cat, and locked himself back in the bedroom.
Realizing that he was upset, the Maine Coon followed to the bedroom door, only to be met with a merciless slam.
It paced anxiously in front of the door, changed its previous silent style, and kept making "mi" and "mi" calls, trying to ask for peace from the angry Natsuki in the room.
After ten minutes, Hojo Natsuki stopped being angry and opened the door for the cat.
"You're too much." He hugged the cat that was jumping straight up, and taught him a lesson, "You're not good at all, so why would anyone want to adopt you?"
Then Xia Shu thought of Kurosawa's proposal before, couldn't help laughing, pressed the cat's meat pad, and said: "If this continues, I can only give you to Mr. Kurosawa, he told me he would support you."
The Maine Coon froze, looked up at him sensitively, and slowly widened its eyes, as if it had heard some unbelievable bad news.
It couldn't believe that Xia Shu's 37-degree lips could spit out such cold words.
Hojo Natsuki found it funny when he saw its reaction, and teased: "What? I'm so happy that I can't recover? Then I'll call Kurosawa-san now..."
The Maine Coon protested loudly: "Mi!!"
I really don't know why it has such hostility towards a man who has only met once, but cats are always difficult to understand, and maybe it can only be simply attributed to the disharmony in the aura.
"Don't be so excited."
The cat called out coldly: "Mi."
"I promise you not."
The Maine Coon relaxed.
……
Kudo Shinichi relished: "Then, is it a failure to find an adopter? Don't you think about that Mr. Kurosawa?"
"No, I don't think it's so guilty." Hojo Natsuki glanced at the other party helplessly, and couldn't help sighing, "What should I do, it doesn't get close to anyone except me at all..."
Kudo Shinichi asked calmly, "It's very simple, so why don't you just adopt it?"
"Not good." Hojo Natsuki frowned, "I don't think I have the consciousness to be responsible for a life."
Kudo sneered ruthlessly: "It's as if you are going to become a father. Anyway, you can afford it and have time. Why don't you raise a cat to accompany you?"
"...that's true."
"And to be honest, I don't think it looks like a cat at all." Kudo twitched his lips, "This is the first time I've heard that a cat will wait for the owner to leave school... Wait, it will come to pick you up, which means it has already Treat you as the master."
"If you don't want it...do you really have the heart to abandon it? How pitiful."
This sentence undoubtedly expressed Hojo Natsuki's thoughts, he opened his mouth and was speechless for a while.
For a long time, he rested his chin on his palm, feeling extremely disappointed.
"Well, you're right." Xia Shu said frankly, "I have to keep it."
After officially making this decision, Natsuki Hojo suddenly felt relieved, perhaps he should have done so earlier.
After returning home, he faced the Maine Coon and began to think about crucial issues.
"I've got to give you a name," he said. "What do you want to be called?"
The cat yawned, drowsy, and didn't seem to care what Natsuki called him.
Hojo Natsuki had difficulty choosing a name, and after searching over and over again, he was still dissatisfied, so he simply gave up, and it was better to just call it 'cat'.
Other cats have names, but his doesn't. Isn't that a kind of maverick?
...Anyway, let's wait until we think of a suitable name.
The next day was Saturday, and Natsuki Hojo took the Maine Coon cat out for vaccinations, and it was still the same pet hospital.
He was parking in the underground garage of a nearby shopping mall, and just as he unbuckled his seat belt, he turned his head and found a flash of light in the gap between the seats, as if something had fallen there.
So Hojo Natsuki stretched out his hand, and his fingertips touched the cold shell, maybe it was made of silver.
He struggled to fish it out, and found that it was a silver lighter with exquisite workmanship and a few embellished gemstones on it, which looked quite expensive at first glance.
People who have been in the driver's seat of this car recently and smoked... This is too easy to target.
Natsuki Hojo took a photo and sent it to Jin Kurosawa.
[Xia Shu: [picture.jpg]]
[Xia Shu: Mr. Kurosawa, is this your lighter?It landed on my car. 】
The other party didn't reply, probably busy.
Hojo Natsuki carried the cat bag and walked towards the pet hospital.
There are not many 'patients' in the hospital today, and it will be his and his cat's turn soon.
Xia Shu was a little worried that the cat would be aggressive again when it saw strangers. Just now, he repeatedly said "don't hit the doctor later, it will be fine soon, just be patient." It probably understood the meaning and cooperated very much. It is also very quiet when it is pressed, no one needs to hold it down, and there is no struggle at all.
The nurse lady praised: "Such a well-behaved cat is really rare."
The Maine Coon wagged its tail and raised its head to claim credit: "Mi."
After the injection, Natsuki Hojo walked back to the shopping mall. Just as he was about to get into the elevator, his phone suddenly rang.
"It's me." Kurosawa Jin asked, "Is my lighter in your car?"
Xia Shu replied: "Well, yes. When is it convenient for you to pick it up? Or should I give it to you?"
Kurosawa said softly, "You're driving again."
Natsuki Hojo: "..."
Is it time to pay attention to this!Why does this person have to make trouble with this matter!
"This..." he stammered.
Kurosawa asked, "Where are you?"
Natsuki Hojo reported the name of the shopping mall.
"I'm nearby." Kurosawa said, "Wait for me."
After he finished speaking, he hung up the phone.
It's better to meet at the mall than to go directly to the door, and this is obviously a logical excuse to visit, but the other party has no such intention.
"Probably misunderstood him." Hojo Natsuki murmured, "I'm so sorry."
After all, he is just an ordinary male high school student, and he has nothing to look forward to. Before, he was too nervous and imagined him too badly.
While waiting for someone, he bought a drink, wandered around the first floor of the mall, and then was attracted by a drone concept store of a well-known brand.
The starting point of the friendship between Natsuki Hojo and Shinichi Kudo (plastic) was a drone—the kind he made himself.
He made a drone and encountered some small bottlenecks in the load-bearing breakthrough, so he took it to Dr. Ali's house for discussion, and finally met Kudo Shinichi.
Kudo saw the unusualness of the drone at a glance, and sighed: "Did you make this? It's amazing. I feel... can it be loaded with weapons?"
Xia Shu nodded: "Yes. The current thinking is..."
He eloquently talked about a bunch of ideas, and at first he gained Kudo's appreciation.
As a result, while talking, Kudo became confused: "It seems to have completely broken through the category of drones and turned into a fighter jet...? Is this really not illegal?"
Xia Shu choked, he thought for a while, and said solemnly: "If you don't get caught, you won't break the law."
Kudo Shinichi: "?"
Kudou's eyes suddenly became sharp, this person looked so gentle and handsome, he did not expect to be a re-education prisoner.He cautiously asked Hojo Natsuki's name, and decided that he must keep an eye on this person in the future, to prevent another terrorist from Mihua Town.
——It's all out of a mentality of guarding against future criminals...but from the results, it's not bad.
……
The sample drone placed on the central booth, bathed in spotlights, has a simple shape and smooth lines, obviously from the hands of a certain industrial design master.
Its promotional videos are played in a loop on two large screens, and its functions have also made new breakthroughs.
I really want to buy it back and take it apart to see...
Hojo Natsuki was heartbroken for a few seconds, then looked down at the price.
Oh, that's fine.
The trust fund pays him money every month, so he doesn't have much cash on hand.
Originally prepared a down payment for a new house, and planned to sell the old apartment before paying the final payment, but hit Mr. Kurosawa's car, and the consumption of more than 200 million yen could not be considered for the time being.
More than half a month has passed since that day, and Mr. Kurosawa still hasn't sent him the bill.
Hojo Natsuki looked at it reluctantly for a while, and the phone rang in due course.
"Hello?" Kurosawa asked, "Where are you?"
Xia Shu walked out: "I'm..."
While recalling whether he was in the West District or the East District, he looked left and right, and happened to see a tall figure, so he hung up the phone, stood on tiptoe, and waved to Heisawa.
In this country where the average male height is only 170, Kurosawa Jin is too tall, walking with wind, and quickly stood in front of him.
Hojo Natsuki handed over the silver lighter: "Here you are."
The originally peaceful cat struggled in the bag, with such strength that Natsuki Hojo suspected that the strap would be torn off.
He put the bag in front of him and took the cat out: "What's wrong?"
The Maine Coon cat grinned, with a fierce and injured expression, and the dark green eyes of the cat were filled with "how dare you do this to me".
Hojo Natsuki was confused: "?"
what has he done?
He looked up at Kurosawa who was playing with the lighter, and suddenly understood what the cat meant.
"What, did you misunderstand?" Xia Shu couldn't laugh or cry, "I won't hand you over to Mr. Kurosawa..." He immediately changed his words, "I won't give you to someone else."
The Maine Coon was staring at him, quite wary, as if trying to tell from his expression if he was lying.A few seconds later, the cat turned its head and grudgingly "Mi" to indicate that it understood, and shrank back into the bag.
Kurosawa: "What do you mean by 'Mr. Kurosawa'?"
Xia Shu felt guilty: "...you heard wrong."
Kurosawa remained silent, his cold eyes fell on him.
In desperation, Hojo Natsuki's mind turned quickly, and finally found a topic: "By the way, did you send your car for repair? Why haven't you sent me the bill yet?"
He even dug out the checkbook from the cat bag - it's a good habit to carry around.
Xia Shu asked sincerely, "How much?"
Kurosawa said coldly: "No need, not much."
"No way, it should be very expensive?" He muttered to himself and asked repeatedly, "How much is it?"
Kurosawa glanced at him: "I don't have to worry about children."
Xia Shu shot back dissatisfied: "I'm almost an adult."
Hearing this, Kurosawa smiled casually: "Oh? Really?"
Hojo Natsuki: "...?"
...What a dangerous tone.He shivered.
Under the playful eyes of the other party, Xia Shu drew his attention back.
The things with clearly marked prices are not expensive, and instead of paying compensation, they owe Kurosawa's favor.
He firmly believes that there is nothing more expensive in the world than unclear favors.
Hojo Natsuki thought for a while, and said frankly: "We don't know each other well, and I don't want to take advantage of you. You can make a price."
And Kurosawa Zhen originally took out the cigarette case, but when he heard his words, he stopped and put it back.
This very common word seemed to have angered him somewhere, Kurosawa crushed it on the tip of his teeth, and then spit it out clearly.
He repeated: "Unfamiliar?"
Seeing the other party's unpredictable expression, Hojo Natsuki became frightened again, and quietly clenched the backpack strap tightly.
"Okay." Kurosawa reported a number, "...just give this much."
He inquired about the maintenance cost, and the price range was similar to what Kurosawa said.
Hojo Natsuki decisively signed the check book, tore it off and handed it to him.
Kurosawa held the check with one hand, flicked the check, folded it in half, and stuffed it into his pocket.
But Natsuki Hojo breathed a sigh of relief quietly, turned around and left, and within a few steps, was stopped by the other party.
"Kid," he said, "I'm not driving, give me a ride."
Hojo Natsuki could only stop, turn around, and replied submissively, "...Okay."
They walked towards the elevator together.
It wasn't until he put on his seat belt that Hojo Natsuki confirmed that Mr. Kurosawa was not going to grab the steering wheel this time... probably because he realized that he was really a stubborn outlaw and was not going to continue preaching.
The car is so quiet that even the cat is nestled in the cat bag in the back seat and does not move.
Xia Shu asked: "Mr. Kurosawa, what kind of work do you do?"
"What do you think."
Xia Shu: "..."
Extreme killers, terrorists, mercenaries... can they really speak their minds?This is too impolite...
He chose to joke: "You always use the police to intimidate me, you can't be a policeman."
A trace of disgust appeared on Kurosawa's face: "It's kind of like it, but it's not."
Xia Shu turned pale with shock: "??"
isn't it?
Mr. Kurosawa seems to have nothing to do with the word "good guy" at all!
He was too shocked for a while, and didn't know what to reply, so he smiled without embarrassment: "...haha, is it?"
Fortunately, Mr. Kurosawa lives in a high-end apartment not far from the mall, and the torture did not last long.
Hojo Natsuki finally sent Kurosawa Jin back, but a little accident happened.
When he was about to drive out of the underground garage, the car suddenly turned off before it started climbing the hill.
He opened the hood of the car and found that the oil circuit was clogged. It seemed that the fuel tank was leaking... It's so strange, the car was inspected only last month, and everything was normal.
But since it happened, let's call a tow truck and send it in for repairs.
"Boom—"
A muffled thunder came from the garage entrance.
Natsuki Hojo: "...?!"
He walked a few steps outside, when he heard the sound of pattering, he felt a little desperate at once--people's luck is indeed very mysterious, unfortunate things always come one after another, and people are caught off guard.
The shower came unexpectedly, but Tokyo's summer weather is so crazy that he's used to it.
Hojo Natsuki resigned himself to returning to the car to find an umbrella, and was going to go to the gate of the community to call a taxi.
...the result is that the umbrella in the trunk is gone!
He closed his eyes in despair, and he didn't want to bother Dr. Ali for such a trivial matter, so he hesitated to choose the most convenient and least willing way: call Kurosawa for help.
The other party connected almost instantly, as if waiting for him to call.
And Natsuki Hojo was hit by this series of bad luck, and the underground garage was sultry and humid, which made him sluggish, and he had no energy to delve into this bizarre coincidence.
"Hey, Mr. Kurosawa, it's me..." Xia Shu said, "My car broke down and it's raining outside, can I borrow an umbrella from you?"
"The car broke down?" Kurosawa said in a casual tone, with a low laugh, "Where are you?"
Xia Shu: "It's in the underground garage."
Kurosawa: "Understood, wait."
After a while, Kurosawa Jin came down with a toolbox, but he didn't bring anything else, and he didn't have the umbrella that Natsuki had mentioned.
"The car crashed a few days ago, and it broke down today." He glanced at Xia Shu and said flatly, "How can you be so stupid?"
Hojo Natsuki retorted: "I'm very smart."
"The car won't even drive."
Xia Shu lowered his voice, trying to argue: "Accident, accident, this is not what I thought..."
Kurosawa: "You don't want to go to MIT, don't you want to?"
Xia Shu was lost in thought, and replied seriously: "Um... yes."
He thought that the kid was really smart, and raised his eyebrows slightly: "Then why don't you go?"
Xia Shu said sincerely, "I like California."
"Oh."
Kurosawa opened the hood of the car, inspected it decently, and finally came to a conclusion: "The fuel tank needs to be replaced, and it has to be sent to the store."
Natsuki Hojo: "?"
That's it?That's it?
He wanted to laugh, but he didn't dare, he could only laugh secretly with his eyes.
"It can't be repaired." Kurosawa held his pocket in one hand and the toolbox in his left, "Follow me up to get the umbrella."
Hojo Natsuki: "Huh?...Oh."
He followed the other person for two steps, then came back and took the cat bag with him, for fear that his cat would feel abandoned again.
Standing in the elevator, looking at the gradually changing numbers on the LCD screen, Xia Shu suddenly felt something was wrong.
...is it an illusion?
There is a subtle premonition that Mr. Kurosawa did not carry an umbrella on purpose, and brought a toolbox just for show...
He tilted his head slightly, Kurosawa's side face was relaxed, his expression was flat, his cold white skin seemed to be able to reflect light, and there was a sense of alienation lingering all over his body.
Kurosawa was very keen, looked over, and said in a low voice, "What's wrong?"
Xia Shu blinked and looked away: "...it's nothing."
He thought that Mr. Kurosawa didn't seem like a person with such strange thoughts.
Probably just bad luck.
He asked cautiously: "Mr. Kurosawa, do you like cats?"
With "I don't like it at all" written all over his face, Kurosawa replied, "It's okay."
His acting skills are really touching, or, he doesn't care at all, so he doesn't bother to pretend to be a cat lover.
Hojo Natsuki: "...?"
This……
"Keeping a small animal is very troublesome. Not only do you have to bear financial pressure, but you also have to be prepared psychologically." Natsuki Hojo put the words as tactfully as possible, "Cats are very troublesome, and you may have to keep them. Lose patience, this cat may have been abandoned before, if it is abandoned again, it will be a great harm to it... and it has not been lost for a long time, I am still looking for its original owner, at least a week Later..."
Kurosawa: "Oh."
Natsuki Hojo: "..."
... This person is really not listening!It's just a trance and then just perfunctory!
Fortunately, Kurosawa did not insist on taking the cat away. After hearing his reasons for his refusal, he accepted it, and then said flatly: "If you regret it, you can come to me again."
Hojo Natsuki nodded and said yes, thinking that he would never look for you.
He paid the bill and left with Kurosawa, only to find that Kurosawa was on the first floor of the elevator, not the second floor of the underground garage, and this mall only has an underground parking lot.
Xia Shu asked casually, "Do you have any other appointments?"
Kurosawa: "No."
Xia Shu: "Then why go to the first floor?"
Kuisawa said calmly, "Hail a taxi. I didn't drive."
...Is it because it was sent for repair?
After the other party said so, Hojo Natsuki could only bite the bullet and answer politely: "...Haha, how about this, where do you live, do you want me to give you a ride?"
Kurosawa glanced at him: "Do you still dare to drive?"
"It's not that the weather is starting to get hot." Xia Shu's eyes drifted, "I'm not in good health, and it's uncomfortable to wait for the bus..."
"Don't make excuses." Heisawa interrupted him, "Give me the car keys."
Hojo Natsuki was not convinced: "I can..."
"What can you do?" Kurosawa asked casually, with laziness in his bones, "Let me drive, or explain to the police later?"
Hojo Natsuki kept silent, so he had to obediently hand over the car keys, regretting that he had said such a word in his heart.
He also felt that Kurosawa was waiting for him to ask, but he had no proof.
The elevator stopped at Minus [-], and Hojo Natsuki followed Kurosawa's footsteps and got on the co-pilot.
Kurosawa: "Your home address?"
Xia Shu reported a place name.
Not long after, Kuisawa took him to the gate of the community with ease.
"...But this is my house?" Hojo Natsuki was puzzled, "Mr. Kurosawa, do you want to take a taxi back later?"
Kurosawa replied casually: "I'll drive back."
Xia Shu: "Ah? Then what about my car?"
"Someone will bring it back for you." Kurosawa rested his wrist on the steering wheel and looked up at him, "Why, do you still want to drive secretly? Aren't you afraid of the police?"
Natsuki Hojo: "..."
He was shocked by the other party's robber logic, and was speechless for a while.And why did Mr. Kurosawa keep mentioning the police? He doesn't look like a law-abiding citizen at all...
Then Hojo Natsuki couldn't react for a while, so he had to watch Kurosawa Jin drive his car away.
He was a little dazed, suspecting that he had encountered a liar.
However, Porsche's compensation has not yet been paid, and his car is not expensive at all. If the other party wants to take his car, the big deal is that they won't pay the maintenance fee.In this way, he still earns a little.
But that night, Kurosawa returned the car.
[Mr. Kurosawa: The car is in the garage. 】
[Mr. Kurosawa: The key is under your front tire. 】
Hojo Natsuki went to the garage on purpose.He put away the car keys, feeling a little frightened, always feeling that Mr. Kurosawa was plotting a conspiracy against him, and he couldn't help becoming vigilant.
From school to home at two points and one line, the mechanical days fly by.
A full week passed, and Mr. Kurosawa did not take the initiative to contact him, which made Hojo Natsuki feel that he was too ignorant, imagined people too badly, and even gave birth to a little undetectable guilt.
There is still no news from the owner of the cat, and Natsuki Hojo officially started looking for an adopter for the Maine Coon cat.
With a serious and responsible attitude, he screened out several suitable candidates.
The first was a newly married couple who lived in the apartment building next door.
The Maine Coon cat bared its teeth, and mercilessly attacked her husband with cat cat punches. After being reminded by Hojo Natsuki, the maine coon retracted its claws, but it was almost scratched with blood.
The husband said softly: "It's a pity, it doesn't seem to like us very much."
The second is a female white-collar worker who lives alone and has a good economy. She raised a cat before and sent it back to her hometown because her mother liked it.
The Maine Coon did the same thing, and it took a few minutes to dispel the woman's affection for it.
Hojo Natsuki had no choice but to smile apologetically, send the man out, and then come back and teach the cat with a straight face: "How can you hit someone?"
The Maine Coon flicked its tail slowly and raised its head: "Mi."
This attitude of not admitting his mistakes made Hojo Natsuki helplessly laugh.
"Don't hit people." He warned the cat, "Otherwise I will throw you out to wander."
The cat seemed to understand, and its eyes widened, while Natsuki Hojo stared back at it.
Seeing that Xia Shu's attitude was really firm, it backed down, and reluctantly responded: "Meow."
So when the next adopter came to see the cat, the Maine Coon hid directly, causing Hojo Natsuki to search for the cat for half an hour in front of the adopter, and finally had to apologize embarrassingly and send the person away.
After the man left, the Maine Coon cat appeared out of nowhere and stood on the sofa staring at him.
The scene just now was too suffocating, Hojo Natsuki got angry no matter what he thought, ignored the rebellious cat, and locked himself back in the bedroom.
Realizing that he was upset, the Maine Coon followed to the bedroom door, only to be met with a merciless slam.
It paced anxiously in front of the door, changed its previous silent style, and kept making "mi" and "mi" calls, trying to ask for peace from the angry Natsuki in the room.
After ten minutes, Hojo Natsuki stopped being angry and opened the door for the cat.
"You're too much." He hugged the cat that was jumping straight up, and taught him a lesson, "You're not good at all, so why would anyone want to adopt you?"
Then Xia Shu thought of Kurosawa's proposal before, couldn't help laughing, pressed the cat's meat pad, and said: "If this continues, I can only give you to Mr. Kurosawa, he told me he would support you."
The Maine Coon froze, looked up at him sensitively, and slowly widened its eyes, as if it had heard some unbelievable bad news.
It couldn't believe that Xia Shu's 37-degree lips could spit out such cold words.
Hojo Natsuki found it funny when he saw its reaction, and teased: "What? I'm so happy that I can't recover? Then I'll call Kurosawa-san now..."
The Maine Coon protested loudly: "Mi!!"
I really don't know why it has such hostility towards a man who has only met once, but cats are always difficult to understand, and maybe it can only be simply attributed to the disharmony in the aura.
"Don't be so excited."
The cat called out coldly: "Mi."
"I promise you not."
The Maine Coon relaxed.
……
Kudo Shinichi relished: "Then, is it a failure to find an adopter? Don't you think about that Mr. Kurosawa?"
"No, I don't think it's so guilty." Hojo Natsuki glanced at the other party helplessly, and couldn't help sighing, "What should I do, it doesn't get close to anyone except me at all..."
Kudo Shinichi asked calmly, "It's very simple, so why don't you just adopt it?"
"Not good." Hojo Natsuki frowned, "I don't think I have the consciousness to be responsible for a life."
Kudo sneered ruthlessly: "It's as if you are going to become a father. Anyway, you can afford it and have time. Why don't you raise a cat to accompany you?"
"...that's true."
"And to be honest, I don't think it looks like a cat at all." Kudo twitched his lips, "This is the first time I've heard that a cat will wait for the owner to leave school... Wait, it will come to pick you up, which means it has already Treat you as the master."
"If you don't want it...do you really have the heart to abandon it? How pitiful."
This sentence undoubtedly expressed Hojo Natsuki's thoughts, he opened his mouth and was speechless for a while.
For a long time, he rested his chin on his palm, feeling extremely disappointed.
"Well, you're right." Xia Shu said frankly, "I have to keep it."
After officially making this decision, Natsuki Hojo suddenly felt relieved, perhaps he should have done so earlier.
After returning home, he faced the Maine Coon and began to think about crucial issues.
"I've got to give you a name," he said. "What do you want to be called?"
The cat yawned, drowsy, and didn't seem to care what Natsuki called him.
Hojo Natsuki had difficulty choosing a name, and after searching over and over again, he was still dissatisfied, so he simply gave up, and it was better to just call it 'cat'.
Other cats have names, but his doesn't. Isn't that a kind of maverick?
...Anyway, let's wait until we think of a suitable name.
The next day was Saturday, and Natsuki Hojo took the Maine Coon cat out for vaccinations, and it was still the same pet hospital.
He was parking in the underground garage of a nearby shopping mall, and just as he unbuckled his seat belt, he turned his head and found a flash of light in the gap between the seats, as if something had fallen there.
So Hojo Natsuki stretched out his hand, and his fingertips touched the cold shell, maybe it was made of silver.
He struggled to fish it out, and found that it was a silver lighter with exquisite workmanship and a few embellished gemstones on it, which looked quite expensive at first glance.
People who have been in the driver's seat of this car recently and smoked... This is too easy to target.
Natsuki Hojo took a photo and sent it to Jin Kurosawa.
[Xia Shu: [picture.jpg]]
[Xia Shu: Mr. Kurosawa, is this your lighter?It landed on my car. 】
The other party didn't reply, probably busy.
Hojo Natsuki carried the cat bag and walked towards the pet hospital.
There are not many 'patients' in the hospital today, and it will be his and his cat's turn soon.
Xia Shu was a little worried that the cat would be aggressive again when it saw strangers. Just now, he repeatedly said "don't hit the doctor later, it will be fine soon, just be patient." It probably understood the meaning and cooperated very much. It is also very quiet when it is pressed, no one needs to hold it down, and there is no struggle at all.
The nurse lady praised: "Such a well-behaved cat is really rare."
The Maine Coon wagged its tail and raised its head to claim credit: "Mi."
After the injection, Natsuki Hojo walked back to the shopping mall. Just as he was about to get into the elevator, his phone suddenly rang.
"It's me." Kurosawa Jin asked, "Is my lighter in your car?"
Xia Shu replied: "Well, yes. When is it convenient for you to pick it up? Or should I give it to you?"
Kurosawa said softly, "You're driving again."
Natsuki Hojo: "..."
Is it time to pay attention to this!Why does this person have to make trouble with this matter!
"This..." he stammered.
Kurosawa asked, "Where are you?"
Natsuki Hojo reported the name of the shopping mall.
"I'm nearby." Kurosawa said, "Wait for me."
After he finished speaking, he hung up the phone.
It's better to meet at the mall than to go directly to the door, and this is obviously a logical excuse to visit, but the other party has no such intention.
"Probably misunderstood him." Hojo Natsuki murmured, "I'm so sorry."
After all, he is just an ordinary male high school student, and he has nothing to look forward to. Before, he was too nervous and imagined him too badly.
While waiting for someone, he bought a drink, wandered around the first floor of the mall, and then was attracted by a drone concept store of a well-known brand.
The starting point of the friendship between Natsuki Hojo and Shinichi Kudo (plastic) was a drone—the kind he made himself.
He made a drone and encountered some small bottlenecks in the load-bearing breakthrough, so he took it to Dr. Ali's house for discussion, and finally met Kudo Shinichi.
Kudo saw the unusualness of the drone at a glance, and sighed: "Did you make this? It's amazing. I feel... can it be loaded with weapons?"
Xia Shu nodded: "Yes. The current thinking is..."
He eloquently talked about a bunch of ideas, and at first he gained Kudo's appreciation.
As a result, while talking, Kudo became confused: "It seems to have completely broken through the category of drones and turned into a fighter jet...? Is this really not illegal?"
Xia Shu choked, he thought for a while, and said solemnly: "If you don't get caught, you won't break the law."
Kudo Shinichi: "?"
Kudou's eyes suddenly became sharp, this person looked so gentle and handsome, he did not expect to be a re-education prisoner.He cautiously asked Hojo Natsuki's name, and decided that he must keep an eye on this person in the future, to prevent another terrorist from Mihua Town.
——It's all out of a mentality of guarding against future criminals...but from the results, it's not bad.
……
The sample drone placed on the central booth, bathed in spotlights, has a simple shape and smooth lines, obviously from the hands of a certain industrial design master.
Its promotional videos are played in a loop on two large screens, and its functions have also made new breakthroughs.
I really want to buy it back and take it apart to see...
Hojo Natsuki was heartbroken for a few seconds, then looked down at the price.
Oh, that's fine.
The trust fund pays him money every month, so he doesn't have much cash on hand.
Originally prepared a down payment for a new house, and planned to sell the old apartment before paying the final payment, but hit Mr. Kurosawa's car, and the consumption of more than 200 million yen could not be considered for the time being.
More than half a month has passed since that day, and Mr. Kurosawa still hasn't sent him the bill.
Hojo Natsuki looked at it reluctantly for a while, and the phone rang in due course.
"Hello?" Kurosawa asked, "Where are you?"
Xia Shu walked out: "I'm..."
While recalling whether he was in the West District or the East District, he looked left and right, and happened to see a tall figure, so he hung up the phone, stood on tiptoe, and waved to Heisawa.
In this country where the average male height is only 170, Kurosawa Jin is too tall, walking with wind, and quickly stood in front of him.
Hojo Natsuki handed over the silver lighter: "Here you are."
The originally peaceful cat struggled in the bag, with such strength that Natsuki Hojo suspected that the strap would be torn off.
He put the bag in front of him and took the cat out: "What's wrong?"
The Maine Coon cat grinned, with a fierce and injured expression, and the dark green eyes of the cat were filled with "how dare you do this to me".
Hojo Natsuki was confused: "?"
what has he done?
He looked up at Kurosawa who was playing with the lighter, and suddenly understood what the cat meant.
"What, did you misunderstand?" Xia Shu couldn't laugh or cry, "I won't hand you over to Mr. Kurosawa..." He immediately changed his words, "I won't give you to someone else."
The Maine Coon was staring at him, quite wary, as if trying to tell from his expression if he was lying.A few seconds later, the cat turned its head and grudgingly "Mi" to indicate that it understood, and shrank back into the bag.
Kurosawa: "What do you mean by 'Mr. Kurosawa'?"
Xia Shu felt guilty: "...you heard wrong."
Kurosawa remained silent, his cold eyes fell on him.
In desperation, Hojo Natsuki's mind turned quickly, and finally found a topic: "By the way, did you send your car for repair? Why haven't you sent me the bill yet?"
He even dug out the checkbook from the cat bag - it's a good habit to carry around.
Xia Shu asked sincerely, "How much?"
Kurosawa said coldly: "No need, not much."
"No way, it should be very expensive?" He muttered to himself and asked repeatedly, "How much is it?"
Kurosawa glanced at him: "I don't have to worry about children."
Xia Shu shot back dissatisfied: "I'm almost an adult."
Hearing this, Kurosawa smiled casually: "Oh? Really?"
Hojo Natsuki: "...?"
...What a dangerous tone.He shivered.
Under the playful eyes of the other party, Xia Shu drew his attention back.
The things with clearly marked prices are not expensive, and instead of paying compensation, they owe Kurosawa's favor.
He firmly believes that there is nothing more expensive in the world than unclear favors.
Hojo Natsuki thought for a while, and said frankly: "We don't know each other well, and I don't want to take advantage of you. You can make a price."
And Kurosawa Zhen originally took out the cigarette case, but when he heard his words, he stopped and put it back.
This very common word seemed to have angered him somewhere, Kurosawa crushed it on the tip of his teeth, and then spit it out clearly.
He repeated: "Unfamiliar?"
Seeing the other party's unpredictable expression, Hojo Natsuki became frightened again, and quietly clenched the backpack strap tightly.
"Okay." Kurosawa reported a number, "...just give this much."
He inquired about the maintenance cost, and the price range was similar to what Kurosawa said.
Hojo Natsuki decisively signed the check book, tore it off and handed it to him.
Kurosawa held the check with one hand, flicked the check, folded it in half, and stuffed it into his pocket.
But Natsuki Hojo breathed a sigh of relief quietly, turned around and left, and within a few steps, was stopped by the other party.
"Kid," he said, "I'm not driving, give me a ride."
Hojo Natsuki could only stop, turn around, and replied submissively, "...Okay."
They walked towards the elevator together.
It wasn't until he put on his seat belt that Hojo Natsuki confirmed that Mr. Kurosawa was not going to grab the steering wheel this time... probably because he realized that he was really a stubborn outlaw and was not going to continue preaching.
The car is so quiet that even the cat is nestled in the cat bag in the back seat and does not move.
Xia Shu asked: "Mr. Kurosawa, what kind of work do you do?"
"What do you think."
Xia Shu: "..."
Extreme killers, terrorists, mercenaries... can they really speak their minds?This is too impolite...
He chose to joke: "You always use the police to intimidate me, you can't be a policeman."
A trace of disgust appeared on Kurosawa's face: "It's kind of like it, but it's not."
Xia Shu turned pale with shock: "??"
isn't it?
Mr. Kurosawa seems to have nothing to do with the word "good guy" at all!
He was too shocked for a while, and didn't know what to reply, so he smiled without embarrassment: "...haha, is it?"
Fortunately, Mr. Kurosawa lives in a high-end apartment not far from the mall, and the torture did not last long.
Hojo Natsuki finally sent Kurosawa Jin back, but a little accident happened.
When he was about to drive out of the underground garage, the car suddenly turned off before it started climbing the hill.
He opened the hood of the car and found that the oil circuit was clogged. It seemed that the fuel tank was leaking... It's so strange, the car was inspected only last month, and everything was normal.
But since it happened, let's call a tow truck and send it in for repairs.
"Boom—"
A muffled thunder came from the garage entrance.
Natsuki Hojo: "...?!"
He walked a few steps outside, when he heard the sound of pattering, he felt a little desperate at once--people's luck is indeed very mysterious, unfortunate things always come one after another, and people are caught off guard.
The shower came unexpectedly, but Tokyo's summer weather is so crazy that he's used to it.
Hojo Natsuki resigned himself to returning to the car to find an umbrella, and was going to go to the gate of the community to call a taxi.
...the result is that the umbrella in the trunk is gone!
He closed his eyes in despair, and he didn't want to bother Dr. Ali for such a trivial matter, so he hesitated to choose the most convenient and least willing way: call Kurosawa for help.
The other party connected almost instantly, as if waiting for him to call.
And Natsuki Hojo was hit by this series of bad luck, and the underground garage was sultry and humid, which made him sluggish, and he had no energy to delve into this bizarre coincidence.
"Hey, Mr. Kurosawa, it's me..." Xia Shu said, "My car broke down and it's raining outside, can I borrow an umbrella from you?"
"The car broke down?" Kurosawa said in a casual tone, with a low laugh, "Where are you?"
Xia Shu: "It's in the underground garage."
Kurosawa: "Understood, wait."
After a while, Kurosawa Jin came down with a toolbox, but he didn't bring anything else, and he didn't have the umbrella that Natsuki had mentioned.
"The car crashed a few days ago, and it broke down today." He glanced at Xia Shu and said flatly, "How can you be so stupid?"
Hojo Natsuki retorted: "I'm very smart."
"The car won't even drive."
Xia Shu lowered his voice, trying to argue: "Accident, accident, this is not what I thought..."
Kurosawa: "You don't want to go to MIT, don't you want to?"
Xia Shu was lost in thought, and replied seriously: "Um... yes."
He thought that the kid was really smart, and raised his eyebrows slightly: "Then why don't you go?"
Xia Shu said sincerely, "I like California."
"Oh."
Kurosawa opened the hood of the car, inspected it decently, and finally came to a conclusion: "The fuel tank needs to be replaced, and it has to be sent to the store."
Natsuki Hojo: "?"
That's it?That's it?
He wanted to laugh, but he didn't dare, he could only laugh secretly with his eyes.
"It can't be repaired." Kurosawa held his pocket in one hand and the toolbox in his left, "Follow me up to get the umbrella."
Hojo Natsuki: "Huh?...Oh."
He followed the other person for two steps, then came back and took the cat bag with him, for fear that his cat would feel abandoned again.
Standing in the elevator, looking at the gradually changing numbers on the LCD screen, Xia Shu suddenly felt something was wrong.
...is it an illusion?
There is a subtle premonition that Mr. Kurosawa did not carry an umbrella on purpose, and brought a toolbox just for show...
He tilted his head slightly, Kurosawa's side face was relaxed, his expression was flat, his cold white skin seemed to be able to reflect light, and there was a sense of alienation lingering all over his body.
Kurosawa was very keen, looked over, and said in a low voice, "What's wrong?"
Xia Shu blinked and looked away: "...it's nothing."
He thought that Mr. Kurosawa didn't seem like a person with such strange thoughts.
Probably just bad luck.
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