Chapter 354: Kazumi Shimizu only needs an obedient dog
“Go, go, go play with them. I want to be alone for a while.”
In the indoor corridor of the villa, Kazumi reached out and stroked the boy’s soft golden hair, gently sending Sato Shinichi away, and came to the railing by the entrance alone.
Raising her head, she gazed at the dark night sky and the bright crescent moon in the vast environment, feeling a sense of speechlessness.
Finally, she let out a long sigh.
The courage-testing event was merely a small interlude during their vacation for these brats staying at the beach villa. Energetic boys ran around in a panic under the fright of shikigami and ghosts, while boys and girls who liked each other hugged each other fearfully, feeling each other’s body heat and leaving behind a beautiful memory unique to summer.
But for Kazumi, this kind gesture of accompanying Sato Shinichi during her leisure time made her realize that something was not quite right.
The dog
had started to become disobedient.
Perhaps using the word “disobedient” to describe Sato Shinichi, such an exceptionally good boyfriend who was almost obedient to her, was a bit cruel. However, everything that had happened between them before, the boy’s somewhat forceful refusal of her actions, his posture of protecting her behind him, all of it had been gradually confirming the girl’s thoughts at this moment.
Looking at the surging waves outside the corridor, which gleamed under the moonlight and reflected the starlight, Kazumi shook her head with a low mood, as if regretting the decision she had already made.
She should have noticed it much earlier, whether it was the time he took the initiative to lightly kiss her cheek to chase after Mai Shinomiyai, or everything he did to her now at the courage-testing event.
This seemingly foolish boy, who treated her words and feelings as divine, actually had the strength and maturity of a boy beyond his age when he had his own decisions.
“When facing this moment, I still hesitate…”
She let out another faint sigh. Even Kazumi had to admit that perhaps it was due to busyness, or perhaps some loss of control over her emotions due to a lack of abilities.
During this period, she seemed to have truly gotten passively lost in this emotional game with this young boy. After all, being cared for so earnestly and wholeheartedly by someone like him, it was indeed easy to get lost at times.
But a pet is just a pet, only needing to obediently follow its owner’s commands to complete them. And when a pet truly starts to care for its owner in earnest, can a dog that has its own thoughts still be called a pet?
A sense of control was something the young girl valued highly, and it was also the most important source of her inner sense of security.
Kazumi could frankly enjoy Sato Shinichi’s attentiveness, and react according to her preferences and words. But she could not accept the boy opening his heart to accept everything about her, and proactively wanting to bear the burdens behind her.
Because in her heart, her relationship with the boy had always been that of a master and a pet, not a parallel boyfriend-girlfriend relationship.
Kazumi Shimizu only needed an obedient dog, not someone to help her shoulder anything.
She only believed in herself, as always.
She scratched the back of her hand with some annoyance. The decision in her heart at this moment also gave rise to a reluctance in the young girl’s heart.
But Kazumi also knew that this was just the body’s spontaneous emotions warring against her consciousness, and as her abilities gradually recovered, these superfluous emotions could be suppressed.
Her original purpose was exactly this: to maintain her original identity, handle the surrounding emotions properly, and then, after using up Sato Shinichi, her original boyfriend, she would find a reason that was not entirely reasonable to break up smoothly.
After all, women have the right to be unreasonable, don’t they? (Smile)
In fact, the development of the story was also within Kazumi’s original plan. Especially after learning that Sato Shinichi was adopted and not her biological son, the ending of the story moved two steps faster towards its conclusion.
The legitimate heir of a prominent family with blood ties and an adopted son were two completely different concepts, especially given that the boy was a non-psychic. Although Grandpa Sato, a veteran hero, seemed very powerful in terms of connections, his own abilities were not particularly strong.
The strength she controlled and the so-called connections that relied on looking at others’ faces, the difference between the two was clear at a glance.
Connections were the easiest to inherit. By creating a scenario where the other party betrayed her through small means, not only would the other party’s elders not lose favor with her because of their breakup, but they would even give her more care and compensation due to guilt. These were actually enough.
After passing the initial danger period, the only valuable thing about Sato Shinichi was his connections with his elders.
As for her next move, there was no need to mention it. Whether it was to defect to her boss, [Shell], within the organization and honestly work and fight for him, or to rely on the highly potential and easier-to-control hero scientist Noyoru Yokota, both were better choices.
As for Sato Shinichi, the trouble he was causing her now was gradually exceeding the benefits.
It was time to make a decision.
“What are you thinking about?”
Just as the young girl was contemplating the exact breakup plan, a voice came from behind her. Before Kazumi could turn her head, she found that familiar golden-haired figure had already walked up to her.
“Daydreaming.”
Habitually making space for the boy, Kazumi leaned her hand on the railing and replied faintly. She looked at the boy standing there watching her and couldn’t help but ask.
“Why did you come over?”
“I don’t know why, but I felt like Kazumi you were in a bad mood.”
With a look of mild concern on his face, Sato Shinichi followed the girl’s example, leaning his hand on the railing, and looked at the distant sea.
“Aren’t they calling you to play over there?”
Sato Shinichi’s answer made Kazumi raise her eyebrows. Logically speaking, her emotions had never been revealed, and her personality was also like that. From another perspective, even she herself would find it difficult to notice.
Without answering the question, she threw out a new one and said.
“There were too many people playing, so one person was missing, and I said I wasn’t playing anymore. Hehe.”
The boy scratched his head, saying a lie that only he himself would believe with an embarrassed expression.
“Then stay with me and watch the moon for a while.
Looking at the boy’s awkward appearance, Kazumi’s initially solemn mood seemed to relax. The words of refusal she had on her lips ultimately did not come out. She just awkwardly looked up at the moon hanging high in the night sky.
“Okay.”
The boy nodded obediently and looked up at the moon in the sky like Kazumi. Although he didn’t know his girlfriend’s intentions, as long as it was what his Kazumi said, it must be right.
The faint night breeze blew away the thin clouds in the night sky, rustling the green plants around the entrance. The boy and girl leaned against the railing of the corridor shoulder to shoulder, their heads raised, silently watching the pure white bright moon in the night sky.
“Kazumi.”
“Mm.”
“Tonight… the moonlight is beautiful.”
“Yes, it’s beautiful.”
