Chapter 386: Green Tea, But With A Boyfriend At The Start
For students and salarymen, weekends always have a different sense of ease and beauty, laid-back; even sleeping from morning to night without doing anything is a happy moment of stolen leisure from a hardworking life.
And on this afternoon when even the gentle breeze felt leisurely and comfortable, the short, petite black-haired young girl was uncharacteristically standing in front of the mirror on the washbasin, grooming herself. Her fair hands skillfully moved among the few sparse bottles and jars beside her, picking up a viscous white emulsion with her fingertips and applying it evenly to her indifferent and cold face as she looked in the mirror.
Her cold face was tinged with faint water droplets, and the tips of her small bangs were stuck to the sides as they were wet. The white emulsion applied to the girl’s fair cheeks, however, concealed her almost sickly skin, adding a bit of healthy complexion called “humanity.”
Her slightly worn black mobile phone lay lazily on the washbasin. The bright screen and the rambling tone emanating from the phone’s speaker proved that the girl seemed to be talking to someone at the moment.
“…So Kazumi, why don’t I come with you today? It’s your first time going somewhere so far, I’m really quite worried, and I’m also currently…”
The continuous, nagging words finally had a slight pause, but the concluding remark caused the originally indifferent girl to break her composure. She impatiently patted her forehead with the back of her hand, too lazy to even spread the primer on her forehead evenly.
She turned around, moved closer to the washbasin where the phone was, and spoke with a hint of anger in her tone.
“Shinichi Sato!”
“Mhm mhm.”
“Are you an idiot?”
“I… I might be…”
A timid voice came from the other end of the phone. Perhaps it was because Kazumi had called him an idiot too many times, the boy almost suspected himself of being an idiot, and answered with some uncertainty.
“…”
Shinichi Sato’s sudden act of giving up completely left Kazumi at a loss, not knowing how to continue the conversation. However, thinking of his pathetic tone and his original intention to care for her, her dissatisfaction significantly diminished, and she replied with a slightly softer tone.
“Didn’t we agree on this earlier? Your current matters are also very important, and I can go by myself without any problems. Besides, people from the agency will accompany me, so safety is definitely not an issue.”
“But you…”
Listening to his girlfriend’s previous words, the boy on the other end of the call hesitated for a moment, but he still reluctantly continued hesitantly.
“Please, care more about yourself! You only saw the news from Takara Office yesterday, and the on-site assessment is the day after tomorrow. Have you finished reading the information I found for you? I remember this is the only agency that replied to you among the ones you applied to. If you don’t prepare properly, are you planning to intern at an agency in another city?”
A ‘#’ symbol couldn’t help but appear on her smooth forehead. It could only be said that teenage boys, no matter what, still had a lingering trace of childishness. Even though his own matters were this urgent, he was still so love-struck that he cared about his little girlfriend. Moreover, she had made it clear to him a long time ago, and yet he was still worried about this and that.
Although Kazumi, as the person involved, enjoyed this care quite a bit, but out of a different “motherly” mindset, Kazumi spoke with considerable disappointment, saying.
“Um… actually, I’ve almost finished reading it… I…”
The girl’s concern left the boy on the other end of the phone speechless. Shinichi Sato was also aware of his situation. Even during his previous professional hero internship, Hamano Tsukasa had arranged for people he trusted to look after him, and this kind of holiday internship would absolutely not be allowed to leave Kyoto.
But for Shinichi Sato, even if he missed the internship opportunity and stayed home to train during the holiday, he wouldn’t want his girlfriend to go on a long trip alone. Although he said that this long trip was actually not even leaving Kyoto.
Kyoto is quite large, isn’t it?
“Alright, alright, I know you’re worried about me. But in my opinion, what you have to do now is more important to me than I am. Otherwise, I won’t have a chance for an internship this holiday. This is for academic credit, and it’s very important for joining an agency in the future.”
“Besides, I’m just going for an assessment. Whether I pass or not is unknown. Even if I pass, it’s only for half a month of internship. I can video call you in the evening, so don’t worry too much. You first focus on your own matters.”
As if sensing the boy’s somewhat dejected tone, Kazumi’s words became gentle, and she patiently held her phone, explaining carefully.
“Kazumi…”
Shinichi Sato sat solemnly at his desk in his room, looking at the only standing mobile phone screen on the clean desktop with a moved expression. Even though it was just a regular voice call, the boy treated it like an online interview for a master’s degree, sitting seriously and looking at the familiar little skull avatar.
Even after being together for so long, the boy was always touched by his girlfriend’s gentleness and thoughtfulness. Low emotional intelligence just means not knowing how to express one’s feelings, but Shinichi Sato could truly feel Kazumi’s kindness towards him.
Compared to the passionate love he saw in others, his and Kazumi’s love was more like a steady stream of mutual support. And this petite girl, who looked difficult to get along with, was as mature as an older sister, never throwing tantrums or acting out with him, but tenderly tolerating all his childishness and immaturity.
It’s just… the kind of love that makes you want to get married!
With a smile, he accepted his girlfriend’s nagging concern, and Shinichi Sato nodded fiercely, reaffirming the vow he had made countless times in his heart. Finally, he picked up his phone and said earnestly.
“Mhm, I understand. Kazumi, I will definitely pass this test!!”
The boy’s sudden high-pitched tone startled Kazumi a bit, but she quickly realized that this guy, whose brain was developed to a certain extent, seemed to have imagined some strange things again. Kazumi finally breathed a sigh of relief and quickly followed up.
“Okay, prepare well for these two days. I also need to get ready to go there for the assessment. I’ll contact you after the exam.”
“Okay, Kazumi, you have to work hard too! I’ll come to your agency to see you then!”
“……”
Rubbing his forehead, Kazumi placed the darkened phone on the coffee table in the living room. She had finally managed to settle down her restless puppy. Speaking of which, it’s true. When chatting intimately normally, you don’t feel it, but when you really want to coax someone with a purpose, the overwhelming headache feeling really brings back the past life when she coaxed her angry girlfriend.
In fact, the reason Kazumi didn’t want Shinichi Sato to see her off wasn’t really about the content of their conversation. Or, to be more direct, it was because of the “backup” she was currently keeping an eye on – Noyoru Yokota.
After all, considering Shinichi Sato’s family background, there was really no need to care about so-called holiday internships. Just like when Ryuji said he could arrange a holiday internship for her before, for Shinichi Sato, having such a resume was just a matter of a word. Moreover, his family situation should be so affluent that they wouldn’t care about such resumes.
It was only a pure and simpleton like Shinichi Sato who would be foolish enough to rely on his own abilities to apply to agencies, and the results proved that ordinary outstanding civilians could still not compete with those with connections.
However, thanks to the foolish actions of this goofy guy, she now had a legitimate basis for reasoning. Otherwise, persuading him not to see her off would probably only leave her with the potentially endless option of throwing a tantrum.
It wasn’t that Kazumi was unwilling to have Shinichi Sato see her off for the assessment, but rather that the line she was currently dangling with Noyoru Yokota was not yet very stable. Given the other party’s personality, if Shinichi Sato, her boyfriend, appeared in a very intimate manner, he would undoubtedly lose all favorability and withdraw.
And the fact that the senior from the Hero Department, whom she only got to know through some help at school, surprisingly had the strength to become a top-tier hero made Kazumi reluctant to give up, not to mention that the other party’s purity was almost equivalent to Shinichi Sato’s difficulty in winning over.
If it weren’t for the damned golden-haired guy that came with the start, she probably would have captured him long ago. Why would she still be racking her brains to constantly engage in this kind of tug-of-war?
Therefore, even for her, the “green tea” act with a boyfriend was a hellish nightmare!
Well, even at this level, our Kazumi already had a preliminary plan, a plan that would still make him like her even if he knew she had a boyfriend. However, the specific details still needed to be carefully polished, so for now, she had to maintain the delicate ambiguous feeling between the two.
Thinking of this, the girl picked up her phone and looked at the exquisite face reflected in the phone screen, which was lightly adorned with makeup. After simple grooming, her cold features exuded an even more ethereal and proud temperament. Her fair, almost sickly skin gave her a delicate and protective aura that evoked pity.
She lightly poked her plump skin, filled with youth and juvenescence, and the girl casually wore a faint smile, like a pure lotus at the peak of a snow mountain, or the first tender tea of an early spring morning, unscrupulously emitting a sweet beauty and fragrance.
Reaching out, she opened the communication software, found the first message below the pinned contact, and clicked on the chat window without even looking. She quickly typed a message and sent it.
[Senior, I’m about to go out /cute]
