Chapter 278, Towel

"If you have a child, can you recognize me as the godfather?" Kanda Tomokazu sounded like he was talking in his sleep.

Utsunomiya Shuo looked around, glanced at the math teacher on the podium, and reminded: "The class is in session."

"Zhuo, you are no longer from the same world as us," Kanda Tomokazu said indifferently, then shook his head, "I always thought we would all grow up in college."

"what?"

"I haven't realized I've been left far behind," said Tomokazu Kanda.

By the way, the other one of "them" mentioned by Kanda is now sitting on the left hand side of Zhuo, and Kanda Tomokazu is sitting behind him; in fact, even if they are not so close, Her Highness the Princess may be able to hear his gossip, but I don't know if Her Highness the Princess is willing to waste some of her precious time to silence this gossip.

Considering that Kanda acted like this because of what happened between her and Zero, Her Highness probably wouldn't hold it against him.

congratulations.

"Can't understand."

“Empathy! The most important thing to understand other people’s thoughts is empathy!” Kanda Tomokazu suddenly clenched his fists, and he looked as if he was stimulated.

"You are talking incoherently now. I suggest you go see a doctor." Utsunomiya Zhuo sat down and added softly, "Also, the teacher is here."

Tomokazu Kanda poked his head out from behind him and saw the math teacher's cold face.

Utsunomiya Shuo yawned, then supported his head with one hand, faced left and began to look at the beautiful girl.

Tomokazu Kanda was caught by the math teacher and made to stand in the corner as punishment.

In the eyes of the math teacher, Kanda Tomokazu relied on his handsome appearance, good academic performance, and relatively wealthy family background to deliberately give him a hard time! He deliberately disrupted the class order in every math class!

I really don't know what it is about me that makes him dislike me!

The math teacher touched his bald head and continued to teach indignantly. It turned out that the answer seemed wrong, so he checked it on the blackboard, tapping on the asphalt blackboard and touching the back of his head from time to time.

Some students began to doze off in class and became listless.

……

"Do you find it troublesome?"

After eating at home, Utsunomiya Zhuo was washing dishes in the kitchen. He heard Zero's question in the living room behind him and smiled bitterly.

"Rather than being a nuisance, I'd like to ask if it's really okay for you to leave your classmates alone halfway."

Ling knew that everything that happened today was caused by her, and Zhuo also understood that Ling had restrained herself a lot in school in order not to upset him.

Even so, it was still very abrupt for Zero, who had always been alone, to approach someone so obviously, so it was inevitable. But at this point, Zhuo would not say anything about being afraid of trouble, so he should not do that again.

"It's not a problem now, but it feels good to be looked at by those envious eyes."

Zhuo smiled to himself, he didn't want Ling to blame himself too much. Ling still saw through him sharply, "... Don't you hate it?" She seemed to still care about Zhuo's reluctance at the beginning.

"Don't worry. After all, I don't communicate with others much. Besides, it's not good to exclude your friends. You will be lonely, right? Blood Sorrow and all that."

"……friend."

"Uh...I mean Bloodsorrow."

"..."

There was a sudden silence behind me.

After Zhuo turned his head, he saw Ling slightly tilted her head. Zhuo realized that something made her feel bad, so he wiped his hands with a towel, walked over and touched her head first.

Although Zhuo was very concerned that Ling might suddenly express some dissatisfaction, she didn't seem to intend to say it out loud.

"...You don't think that everything can be solved just by patting the head."

"No, but I think you'll be happy."

"Yes...but please don't do this when you are trying to fool someone else."

"How could I do that? I wouldn't do that to anyone else except you..." After all, there were only a few girls that Zhuo had a good relationship with, and among them, Yurina was the one he had the best relationship with. Zhuo was keeping a distance from her and treating her coldly. He simply couldn't do that to other girls, and he didn't think other girls would let him touch them like that.

In this way, Zhuo would only do this to Ling.

Although what Zhuo just said could not be considered a lie, Ling turned her face completely away so that Zhuo could not see her eyes - Ling's facial expressions always changed very little, or even not at all, and Zhuo observed her emotions through her eyes.

Although Ling knew that Zhuo liked to look into her eyes and confirmed her mood by observing her eyes, he still turned his head away. It seemed that the words just now did not make her feel better.

Thinking that it might be better to stop, Zhuo stopped what he was doing, but then Ling pushed his head against his arm.

Although it didn't hurt at all, Zhuo couldn't help feeling confused because it had become a little aggressive recently.

"Простофиля."

“That again!!”

"Since you know it's the same sentence, why don't you look it up, Простофиля."

"..."

Although Zhuo didn't refute Ling because he seemed unhappy, he still had a lot of complaints in his heart: How great must one be to be able to look up the original meaning of Russian just by listening to it once? It's not like it's written in words and can be searched on Google.

"What should I do?"

"If you have any troubles, tell me," Zhuo paused and continued, "We can solve it together."

Her Royal Highness the Princess sighed softly, turned her head, and her dark blue eyes in the shadows followed Utsunomiya Shuo.

"I try my best, but sometimes I get a little shy," she said in a flat tone, with no expression on her face, as polite as if she were conducting a business negotiation. "You may regret what you said today later."

"How is that possible?" Utsunomiya Zhuo took a sip of the water glass on the table.

"You'll regret saying this, too."

"hehe."

"I'm going to take a shower now, can you bring me some of your clothes?"

"Oh."

Utsunomiya Shuo returned to his bedroom, took out a brand new turtleneck sweater and a pair of his own shorts from the closet, and handed them to Zero.

Turn on the bathroom light and return to the embrace of light.

Ling stood up with his clothes and the hair dryer he had just found, walked into the bathroom and closed the door. Soon after, the sound of hot water spurting out was heard.

Utsunomiya Sho returned to the bedroom and awkwardly tidied the sheets and pillows, gently smoothing them out with his hands.

Two beds.

Normally these things are done by Zero.

But she is taking a bath now... taking a bath! taking a bath! taking a bath! taking a bath!!!
Zhuo felt that he needed to do something urgently to wake himself up from the slightly weird fantasy of "I'm about to take a bath in water that has never been used before." So he went to make the bed.

While I was tidying up, I heard a gentle knock on the bathroom door.

Utsunomiya Shuo opened the bedroom door, but did not say anything. He just looked over there and concentrated his attention.

"Towel." As if knowing he was waiting outside, Zero's voice came from behind the door.

"Hold on."

Utsunomiya Shuo turned around and took out a new light blue towel from the storage room. He unpacked it and walked to the bathroom door and knocked gently.

After a while, the sound of wet footsteps was heard, and the door opened. A pair of white little hands stretched out from inside, with bursts of hot air coming out around the hands.

The towel was handed out and the door closed with a click.

(End of this chapter)