Chapter 225, Uesugi Eriya (Update )
The weather was gloomy.

The air smelled of moist earth.

The rain was falling steadily, splashing water with every step, soaking my trouser legs bit by bit.

I could hear the sound of a car's wheels, getting closer and closer, and then gradually going away.

The only constant is the sound of raindrops.

The red-haired girl gently leaned the transparent umbrella against her shoulder, with the umbrella tilted backwards - she was almost only concerned about protecting herself from the rain... Although her height was outstanding among the neon lights, Utsunomiya Shuo still had to bend down.

But even so, half of the body was still left outside.

Utsunomiya Shuo once suggested that he take the umbrella, but the girl refused.

The girl held the umbrella between her neck and wrote the reason on a piece of paper.

【You will get what you pay for. 】

Although I don't understand what "gain" is, I can see that the girl includes holding an umbrella in her efforts.

Never mind, let her do whatever she wants.

"Uesugi Erie?"

Utsunomiya Shuo simply supported her shoulders with his fingertips, looked at the water on the road, and asked calmly.

The steps didn't stop.

I saw her nod from the corner of my eye.

"Oh...I'm Utsunomiya Zhuo." Zhuo introduced himself.

This is probably something that was difficult for those students to believe.

One person was waiting in the rain at the school gate to take her off after school; another person naturally put his arm around her shoulders and walked into the rain after school...but they only introduced themselves now.

It was indeed the first time we met.

"How did you get into the school?"

Utsunomiya Shuo walked in silence for a while and suddenly asked.

Normally, the security guard would not let any suspicious guy in...even if the suspicious guy is good-looking.

And didn’t Mr. Hejian say ‘waiting at the door’ and ‘without an umbrella’?

Why did you let her in again after school?

Uesugi Eriya stopped and started writing on the paper with the umbrella clamped around her neck.

[I told the security guard that I was here to pick up Santa Claus and he came in.]

Uesugi Eri held up the notebook with both hands and showed it to him.

Head tilted.

Because I was holding an umbrella.

Why not hold the umbrella in one hand first and then hold the notebook with the other hand?

Zhuo didn't ask, but nodded and commented: "Why are you so capricious? You clearly didn't let us in before it rained."

"Anyone would be heartless to let a cute girl wait for someone in the rain at the school gate. Only Zhuo Jun could be so cruel."

A black Hummer slowly stopped on the side of the road, the window rolled down, and the laughter of Fengjian Liuli was heard.

The car was slowing down at a steady pace and no water splashed on anyone.

Zhuo looked inside the car.

"Hey, don't make me sound like a bad person. I didn't ask her to wait in the rain." Utsunomiya asked with empty eyes, "Why did you come to school?"

Zhuo was not at all surprised at the arrival of Fengjian Liuli.

The last time I met Feng Jianli was more than a month ago. After such a long time, there was no news at all. Now there was no news about Feng Jianli, but a little mute appeared out of nowhere... Although I couldn't guess why the little mute called him "Christmas brother", it was impossible for the little mute to run away from Genji Heavy Industries alone.

Rather than being surprised, Zhuo was actually thinking, "Why did you show up so late?"

"A surprise for you?"

"Why is that a question?"

Feng Jian Liuli put away her smile and said, "I'll give you a surprise."

"……Oh."

"Get in the car?" Fengjian Liuli shook her head towards the rear door of the Hummer.

A light drizzle fell on my head, and soon, tiny beads of water condensed and fell down my forehead... wait, fell?

Zhuo wiped his face and looked up, but the transparent umbrella was gone.

Turning back, he could only see a streak of red hair hiding on the other side of the Hummer, and then got into the car. Zhuo looked up at the gray sky, and the dense raindrops hit his face, sticky, as if covered with a layer of membrane.

“……”What about the promised contribution?

"Don't blame me, Zhuojun. She doesn't have any thoughts. She has the mentality of a child."

Fengjian Liuli held back her laughter and smiled at Utsunomiya Shuo who was left alone in the wind and rain.

Zhuo looked down at him and replied calmly, "I know."

"Send you back first?" Fengjian Liuli asked again.

"I have someone who picked me up."

"Romanov?"

"Yeah." Zhuo nodded.

It's been a while now, why haven't I seen Zero yet?

It's raining today, and if you just stand in the rain for a while, you'll end up looking wet like this. And if you're weak, you might even catch a cold.

"If Zhuojun doesn't have any other alternative plan, then he must take my car today," Fengjian Liuli smiled, "I saw that Aston Martin leave before. It left from that side five minutes ago."

Fengjian Liuli pointed to the west. Ling had indeed come from that direction in the past.

Is there an emergency?
Although Zhuo wanted to, he did not regard Ling as someone who lived around him all day. Ling also had his own things to do. Even if he could not imagine what they were, he should understand them.

"...Oh." Zhuo didn't know what to say.

"send you home?"

"it is good."

……

"Zhuojun's new mobile phone?"

Utsunomiya Shuo was sitting on the left side of the back seat of the Hummer, leaning against the door; Uesugi Erii was sitting on the right side, leaning against the door.

Fengjian Liuli was sitting in the front driver's seat. She saw through the rearview mirror that Zhuo had been looking down at his phone from time to time since he got in the car. She smiled and asked.

"what."

Zhuo lowered his head and tapped his fingers on the iPhone screen.

He was texting Zero, but he hadn't received any notification text messages from Zero until now, and the text messages he sent to him hadn't received any replies, and all of them were "read" but not replied to.

"looking at what?"

"News," Zhuo lied, "Watch your way and stop spying on me."

Feng Jian Liuli smiled and said, "It's so unfair. I'm not the only one peeping. Why don't you tell her?"

Zhuo looked up when he heard that, and a bunch of hair as bright as blood passed before his eyes.

Turning around, he happened to meet Uesugi Eri's eyes closely, as she had just turned her gaze away from the phone screen.

The pupils are the same bright red.

This eye color is rare.

Almost none at all.

She is very beautiful, but dull, numb and drowsy, like a dark girl in an anime without the highlights.

That’s amazing, it turns out there really is such a look in the eyes.

Looking at such eyes, no matter how beautiful the girl in front of him is, Zhuo can hardly feel any emotion. Looking at her, it's as if looking at a moving doll. Eri's eyes are like this. They are a pair of eyes drawn by the best painter in the world, but she is dead.

It's like a life-size doll with an exquisitely painted face, very beautiful, delicate and lifelike.

Even the eyes blink.

But you just can't fall in love with those eyes.

"……too close."

Zhuo thought for a moment and said expressionlessly - the distance was indeed too close, and every breath exhaled by Uesugi Eri sprayed on his face.

Uesugi Eri blinked in confusion but didn't move.

　Hey?

　　I was upset when I wrote Eriri in the last book, but how come this book is so smooth?

　　So strange~
　　I feel like compared to Zero, Eri is easier to write~
　　Of course, Xia Mi is easier to write.

　　I found that I am good at writing about lively girls. Maybe it’s because I have never met a truly three-no girl in life.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)