Chapter 472: Miss Shimizu’s Unfathomable Behavior
“What’s wrong again?”
After school, in the back row of the classroom, a black-haired young girl wearing a uniform sat in the only empty seat on the far right. Her short shoulder bag was placed on the desk, and one hand propped up her chin. Her slender fingers idly toyed with her cheek, her cold expression now filled with a look of confusion as she gazed at Mutsumi beside her.
Mutsumi gazed at her with confusion.
Sato Shin’ichi’s condition hadn’t seemed good lately. Was it a lingering effect from his body being entwined with death, or the aftereffects of energy infiltration, or perhaps an error in Onmyoji Yuyo Asahina’s treatment that caused it?
However, the results of Shin’ichi’s hospital check-up showed no problems. This made Mutsumi, who had been worried about him, breathe a sigh of relief for the time being, secretly thinking of using her abilities to check his body. She simply attributed it to the trauma from his injury preventing him from fully recovering.
But it wasn’t until after school that Mutsumi realized the seriousness of the situation.
Sato Shin’ichi wasn’t going home with her.
Although he had said, “I have something urgent to handle today, so I need to leave a little early,” Mutsumi, who knew Sato Shin’ichi well, could tell at a glance whether he was lying.
However, Mutsumi did not expose him. It wasn’t that the young girl had extreme tolerance for her boyfriend’s lies; it was simply that in Mutsumi’s opinion…
If the other party had already voluntarily revealed their deception, then actively exposing it wouldn’t yield much.
On the other hand, compared to exposing him just for the sake of Mutsumi’s verbal advantage, Mutsumi preferred to cooperate with the act and be an understanding spectator who knew without speaking.
At least she knew he was lying, didn’t she?
The reflection on the matter of lying came to an end. Mutsumi tidied the bangs that had fallen to the corner of her eye, causing a slight itch, and let out a helpless sigh.
Mutsumi was not the type of person to get angry over such trivial matters. It was just that compared to the matter of being deceived,
The young girl was more worried that there might be something wrong with his body again, or that he was hiding something from her, not to mention that the real cause of the harm was still herself.
“I don’t have Shimiya’s contact information.”
Subconsciously, she took out her phone to consult “friend” Shimiya Mai about the previous scattering and treatment issue, only to realize she didn’t have any contact information for Shimiya Mai at all. She had to temporarily abandon this less-than-ideal plan.
Mutsumi did have Auntie Taki’s phone number saved on her mobile phone, but she was a busy professional hero. Shin’ichi’s current condition was unclear, and what if she made a mistake and
called her, ruining her good impression in the future? These were all connections she could use in the future and shouldn’t be wasted on such a small matter.
Several different methods flashed through her mind, but they were quickly dismissed by the young girl. Mutsumi suddenly realized that their connection with Sato Shin’ichi seemed quite flimsy. It was as if if something like this happened,
there wasn’t even a single person who knew the specific details of his deep feelings.
“Trouble…”
The young girl pouted her lips unintentionally, annoyed by the feeling of her mood changing because of someone else,
as if she couldn’t control herself. That feeling of powerlessness
made her feel even worse.
Not to mention that the young girl’s mood was already exceptionally good today. Emotions were already rare for a spirit, but lately,
so many things had happened. The investments that had previously been cut off had inexplicably resumed,
and there were also prospects for acquiring some scarce resources. The development of the territory had also
gradually begun. The problem with her body that she had previously worried about, the dog cage, had also
been resolved.
It could be said that Mutsumi, who had always been unlucky, had never experienced so many things going smoothly. She had even planned to take her dog cage to a restaurant today, as she had just been paid, to treat it.
But she didn’t expect such a thing to happen again.
In an instant, her good mood for the entire day was gone.
“Classmate Shimizu, did you have a disagreement with Classmate Sato?”
Just as the young girl was tilting her head and grumbling in her heart, a soft voice suddenly sounded in the now empty classroom,
startling Mutsumi, who was lost in thought. She sharply turned her head.
The scene that greeted her, with tangled eyelashes, was a cute short-haired girl recoiling several steps back, frightened.
“Hmm? Is there something, Nakamura Yu?”
Seeing the appearance of the person who had arrived,
Mutsumi retracted her potentially murderous abilities, quietly observing the other girl, who was cowering against the wall like a frightened rabbit. Mutsumi
softened her tone and asked,
“Hoo… hoo… Classmate Shimizu, you’re so scary…”
She took two exaggerated breaths, Nakamura Yu. One hand patted her developing chest,
and she looked fearfully at Mutsumi, who was lying on the desk in the distance.
Although she wanted to ask about Mutsumi’s condition,
the young girl still mustered her courage and walked towards
Mutsumi, asking with concern.
“I was a little worried about you, Classmate Shimizu, that’s why I came back to check on you. You’ve been sitting here since school ended.”
“Has it been a long time?”
Hearing the other person’s words,
Mutsumi only then belatedly looked up at the sky outside the window.
The dim evening sun seemed to confirm
that quite some time had passed.
“Thank you,
Classmate Nakamura Yu.
I was just lost in thought.”
After all, the other party had come with the intention of showing concern. Although
Mutsumi didn’t want to have any pointless interactions with these boring humans,
as part of her
publicly maintained facade,
she still needed to maintain it.
The young girl nodded and,
after saying goodbye to this classmate she barely remembered,
picked up her school bag and phone that were lying beside her,
stood up, and prepared to head out of the classroom.
“That, Classmate Shimizu, you’re thinking about Classmate Sato, aren’t you?”
As Mutsumi stepped out of the classroom and reached to close the door, Nakamura Yu’s voice
again came from behind her. The action of closing the door suddenly intensified,
and with a “bang,” the classroom door was shut forcefully.
“Yes, and what if?”
Staring expressionlessly at the overly meddlesome female classmate behind her, Mutsumi began to consider the locations of the school’s surveillance cameras that she had previously recorded.
The other party had clearly come to find her on a whim. If her motives were unclear, it would be impossible to track her. As long as
she could deal with her before she reached the first surveillance camera outside the school building,
then no one would be able to prove that she had been seen with Nakamura Yu.
“I think I know the reason why Classmate Sato is in low spirits.”
“What is it?”
A black shadow flashed before Nakamura Yu’s eyes. Before the
young girl could react,
she was pinned to the corridor wall by two slender arms. The deep, dark eyes of the slender girl opposite her seemed to carry a hint of cold ferocity,
as if she would die on the spot if she didn’t say something.
“Hmm… As a bystander, perhaps I can see it more clearly than you, classmate Shimizu. If I’m not mistaken, the reason Classmate Sato is unhappy
should be because of the two upperclassmen who came to see you in class this morning?”
Nakamura Yu did not react much to Mutsumi’s actions. She only thought that as Mutsumi’s friend, she was having an emotional outburst due to personal feelings,
and that the other party had also controlled her strength and did not harm her.
Scratching her head,
looking at the gloomy Mutsumi, Nakamura Yu organized her thoughts and slowly stated
everything she had observed as a bystander.
Her indifferent expression was instantly replaced by various other emotions:
surprise, confusion, realization, and disbelief. It could be said that even the young girl’s innate personality was stripped away at this moment,
finally converging into an exclamation that contained a multitude of meanings and perfectly matched her current state of mind.
“Ah?”
