Chapter 140-30: Kondo Saki wants to know

[Sorry, Xingzi, my phone was stolen yesterday.]

[So that's how it is. I'm glad you're alright. The thief is so despicable! ]

After lunch.

Shirai breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the message from his mother on LINE.

Although having her cell phone stolen was not a good thing, it was better than anything she had imagined.

She was tense all day and finally relaxed.

"Do we want to take the bus today?" Hirosue asked after class.

"No, no, I have enough time to take the train. I can't trouble you too much." Shirai refused.

Guangsue didn't force it. He nodded, said hello to a few classmates, and left the classroom.

Without paying attention to the strange looks from others, Shirai packed up his things and left the school.

Work as usual and return home as usual.

At school, she and Hirosue Yoshimiya began to get closer and closer, and they communicated more and more with each other.

These were the happiest days for her since she came here to study.

She thought this peace would continue forever.

But today, the peace was broken.

She stood in the corridor of her apartment, looking curiously at the "guests" standing in front of her door.

"You must be Miss Shirai, right? Nice to meet you. I'm Kenji Nakagawa."

A man in a suit saw Shirai Anko and greeted her with a smile.

Shirai looked at the people in front of her. She only knew her father, the man who was trapped and had a bruised face.

Holding the phone tightly, she asked carefully, "What do you want?"

Nakagawa glanced at her hand and smiled: "Don't worry, we are a legal company and we don't do anything illegal. Now it's mainly because your father owes us a large debt. In order to keep our company alive, we have to resort to some tricks."

Shirai glanced at his father, who had his head lowered and his body trembling.

"How much do you owe?"

"We don't want to drive a customer like Mr. Shirai to his death, so we only need to pay back 2 million yen."

Shirai lowered his eyes, his face turned pale, and he shook his head in despair: "I don't have that much money."

"Is that so?" Nakagawa nodded without surprise, took out a business card from his pocket and presented it with both hands, "This is my business card, it is valid for three days, after three days, please throw the business card into the sea."

"You, you are breaking the law by doing this!" Shirai understood his hint and said anxiously.

Nakagawa showed a puzzled expression: "What did I do? Are you talking about your father's injuries? We saw him being beaten on the road and we kindly rescued him, don't you think? Mr. Shirai, please don't let good people like us be wrongly accused."

"Yes, yes," Shirai's father said with difficulty in his hoarse voice.

"Then we won't bother you anymore. You can contact me anytime within three days. That's it, Shirai--"

"Wait!" Shirai interrupted him, silently took out his wallet, carefully poured out all the change inside, and held it in his palm, "These are all I have. Can you let my father go first?"

Nakagawa glanced at the scattered banknotes in her hand and shook his head slowly: "I'm sorry, but if you still have no solution after three days, you can call me and maybe I can show you a way."

They left, leaving Shirai alone, standing there blankly, clutching the scattered money.

late at night.

Shirai lay on the dining table, staring at the money neatly stacked on the table and counted several times, in a daze.

"Meow~"

"Hmm? Are you comforting me?"

"Meow."

"I have 2 million yen"

She took out her cell phone, looked at her mother's chat box, typed and deleted, and after a long time, she finally sent a message.

[Mom, are you free these two days? ]

After a while.

[I'm free at 5 o'clock tomorrow, see you at Hidaka-ya?] [Yeah, ok, good night, mom]

【Good night】

After asking for leave from the convenience store owner, Shirai had trouble falling asleep with a lot on his mind.

The next day.

"Did the destination of this autumn outing change temporarily?"

"Of course. Who wouldn't want to go to Gaul and see the giant hand of Wanta now?"

In early October, autumn has quietly arrived.

But Tokyo still seems hot.

The students in Shirai's class were all discussing the destination of this autumn outing.

During the break, Guangsue was surrounded by a lot of people as usual, discussing the current society or things around them.

Autumn outing is undoubtedly the highlight.

Even if they are the sons and daughters of some conglomerate, at this age, only a very few can participate in family affairs. The suffocating elite education and the leisure and entertainment that provide a break constitute the main theme of their lives.

"Shirai, are you going?"

Hirosue suddenly asked Shirai, who was sitting diagonally opposite him and doing his homework.

The discussion around her stopped abruptly.

Everyone looked at Shirai Anko who had just raised her head.

She forced a smile and said, "No, it's too expensive."

"Don't worry, Shirai. Aren't there any leftover money from previous activities that can be used as class fees? There will be subsidies for students with deviations. Everyone agrees." A girl said kindly.

"Yeah, let's go together. Isn't it hard to do homework every day?"

“That’s right, we are all a collective.”

Guangsue looked at Shirai, whose face was getting darker and darker, clapped her hands, and showed her standard smile: "Okay, everyone, stop talking. However, are there any of you who don't want to go to Gaul? You can also ask the teacher to see if you want to make a new decision. The change I mentioned last time was a bit hasty."

Her words brought the discussion back to the topic and no one continued to discuss Shirai.

Shirai gave Hirosue a grateful look.

Even though this topic was clearly brought up by Hirosue.

During lunch break, they still eat together.

"Hirosue-san, I, I didn't mean to reject you, it's just that something happened at home recently, and I'm not in the mood. I'm sorry!" Shirai looked at Hirosue with some worry, afraid that she would be angry.

Guang Mo's expression remained calm: "I understand you. Don't you still consider me a friend?"

Shirai breathed a sigh of relief and said with a relieved smile: "Yes, we are friends!"

"If you have any difficulties, you can tell me."

"Yes! I will"

Teaching building.

With a gloomy face, Saki Kondo crossed her arms and looked coldly at the two people sitting in the garden in the distance, wondering what she was thinking.

Garden, Guangsue felt something and looked up.

There were only a few people walking or chatting in the corridor of the teaching building, and there was nothing unusual.

"What's wrong?" Shirai also looked over there, but didn't see anything special.

"It's okay, I just felt like someone was peeking at me just now." Guangsue didn't take it to heart. There were many people who secretly watched her every day. If she had to pay attention to every one of them, there would be no point in living.

After chatting with Hirosue for a while, although she didn't say anything, she felt a lot more relaxed.

In the past year since she came to school, as a deviant student, she has always been like an outlier. She probably doesn’t talk as much in school as she does with her little honey at home.

Now there is someone who actively accepts her as a friend
She is very happy.

This offset a lot of the negative sentiment that was built up yesterday.

(End of this chapter)