After rebirth, I became Tokyo Sentimental

Chapter 121 120. What you carry on your shoulders is not necessarily your responsibility
At the exit of the underground garage of the Westin Hotel, a silver Lexus started and quietly parked on the side of the road.

The car door was quickly opened.

A familiar figure then sat down.

"Why did you take so long?" Suzumiya Saka turned off the screen of her phone that she had long been bored of playing with, turned sideways to the left and looked at Harano Tsukasa who was fastening his seat belt and asked with a frown.

"There's a little more to talk about."

"Everything..."

"Boom boom boom——"

The dull sound of knocking on the glass interrupted Suzumiya Saka who was not yet finished speaking. Harano Tsukasa pressed the electric button to lower the glass, revealing the face of Shimizu Yuko who was half bent with a smile in her eyes.

"Aunt Shimizu, then Saeka and I will go back to Tokyo first. I will transfer the money to you at the bank as soon as possible."

Harano Tsukasa's tone sounded normal.

"Don't worry about the money. Come to Yokohama again when you are free. I was really pressed for time this time and couldn't properly entertain you two. I will invite you again when I am not too busy. I will express my apologies next time."

Seeing Shimizu Yuko's eyes looking at her past Harano Tsukasa, Suzumiya Saka held the steering wheel with a fake smile on her face: "You are too polite."

"Why are you being so polite? I'm still waiting to attend your wedding. Didn't you agree that I would be the witness?"

Yuko Shimizu stroked her drooping hair and smiled.

"She was joking." Harano Tsukasa responded.

"So you are really being polite to me? I took it seriously yesterday, and this will make Auntie sad."

"I didn't mean that."

"Just kidding. You must be careful on your way back. It's rush hour on the expressway right now."

"clear."

"Then let's go back first."

"Bon Voyage."

The glass window slowly closed, blocking out the noise from the outside world. Suzumiya Saka glanced at the increasingly distant figure of Shimizu Yuko in the rearview mirror, as well as the waving and smile she could still vaguely see. The strange feeling she had during dinner last night surged up in her heart again.

Something was too wrong.

This time it's not an illusion.

But something is really wrong.

Just now when he was having breakfast in the hotel restaurant, his face was gloomy and listless, as if he would faint at any moment. But as soon as the two of them were talking, his face became as radiant as if it had been moistened by the rain.

My legs don’t hurt anymore, and my waist doesn’t feel sore anymore.

The warm smiles are back.

Could it be that Harano Tsukasa has the same magical power as Fukuzawa Yukichi, making anyone happy just by his presence?
Even so.

This contrast is too weird.

After turning on the left turn signal and waiting until the car was safely in the driving lane, Suzumiya Saka frowned and asked, "What did you say to Aunt Shimizu...? Why did she suddenly become so happy?"

"Comfort her and don't let her feel guilty about spending the money. After all, her current factory is indeed developing well, and she won't lose money by investing the money."

"and then?"

"Gone."

"Is this gone?"

"Correct."

"then you…"

Before Suzumiya Saka finished speaking, Harano Tsukasa, who was fiddling with his phone, interrupted her and raised his head to ask, "Are you going home or going to work after arriving in Tokyo?"

Seeing that he didn't mean to say more and seemed to be very busy, Suzumiya Saka suppressed her fear and doubt for the time being: "I'll go to work tomorrow. There are still a lot of things to be done at the district office. In addition, people from the National Public Service Ethics Review Committee of the Cabinet Personnel Authority will come to conduct an inspection and democratic evaluation. I have to go back and prepare the materials. I guess I will have to rest in the office or a nearby hotel for the next few days."

"Inspection? For you?"

"Not me, but you?" Suzumiya Saka asked back, "Maybe I'll be transferred to the Metropolitan Government Office next month."

"Promoted?" Yuan Ye Si asked in surprise.

"It should be the position of deputy director of the Personnel and Welfare Department of the Metropolitan Government." Suzumiya Saka's tone was calm and relaxed.

"Being promoted directly from the district office to the metropolitan government office is a qualitative leap. From now on, I will be responsible for communicating information up and down. Although it will be very busy, there should be fewer trivial matters." Harano Tsukasa had worked in the district office, so he certainly knew how troublesome the grassroots level was.

Even if Suzumiya Saka is the section chief, it won't work.

People nowadays are very smart and know that they cannot blame the subordinates, so they report many problems directly to the management. Just like when there was an old lady who went to the district office to make a scene a while ago, they only blamed her if she was mentioned by name.

Moreover, dealing with such matters is not only troublesome, but also easy to take responsibility, not to mention what results can be achieved.

Although Suzumiya Saka is a workaholic, it doesn't mean that she likes to stay in the grassroots district office and shine, so she also wants to continue to improve and move up the ladder.

"Maybe."

"Congratulations."

"What is there to congratulate? Even my former subordinates are under me. Is it strange that I got promoted?" Suzumiya Saka responded with a sneer.

Then the car fell silent.

Suzumiya Saka frowned slightly.

Not hearing any response from Harano Tsukasa, she glanced to the left in confusion, only to see him staring at her with an expression that was both strange and surprised.

"That doesn't sound like something you would say."

Yuan Ye Si said with a smile.

Suzumiya Saka was stunned for a moment.

After she reminded me, I immediately realized that there was ambiguity in what I had just said.

Suzumiya Saka subconsciously thought of the strange scenes in her words just now, and her body suddenly tensed up, but then she angrily cursed: "Asshole! I just said that you are a member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Council, what else are you thinking about?"

"So that's what it meant."

Yuan Ye Si said with a funny expression.

"Disgusting thing." Suzumiya Saka couldn't help but spit, with a disgusting expression on her face.

Although the curse was very dirty.

But her earlobes were completely red.

Pretending not to want to pay attention to him, Suzumiya Saka drove all the way onto the highway. It was still the Yokohama Yokosuka Expressway, but there was no wind or rain today.

Suzumiya Saka is a good driver.

It's just that this car is a little old, and the noise inside the car is a bit loud when driving faster.

This reminded Yuanye Si that he had ordered a Porsche for her before, and it was about time to arrive. However, since the sales lady who had made up a rumor didn't call at that time, it was probably still in transit or being prepared.

Just when he was considering whether to make a phone call to urge them, Suzumiya Saka's voice rang out again.

"The wilderness."

"what happened?"

"If, I mean if, we get married, do you want me to stay at home and take care of the kids?"

"What do you think?"

"I'm asking you now."

When asked about this, Yuanye Si organized her words and said, "I respect your own wishes. If you feel that you want to accompany your child throughout his growth as a mother, then resign. If you think that your career and interpersonal relationships cannot be abandoned, or if you still have the ambition to continue working, then hire a maid with good character to help us take care of the child."

"You still have some conscience." Suzumiya Saka breathed a sigh of relief and loosened her grip on the steering wheel slightly.

"So you don't want to be a full-time wife?"

"What's wrong? Isn't it possible?"

"Of course." Yuanye Si pressed the electric button on the left side of the seat, adjusted the backrest to a comfortable position, squinted his eyes and said, "In fact, I don't approve of women being full-time housewives after marriage. After all, if you don't have a job and stay at home to take care of children, to some extent, you are cut off from the outside world. Entertainment is fun only when you have some free time in your busy schedule. If you play all the time, I'm afraid everyone will get bored."

Essentially, Harano Tsukasa is a person who has only received nine years of compulsory education, but the environment he experienced over the previous twenty years has made his mentality incompatible with the Japanese environment.

Again.

For example, men here think it is a shame for their wives to go out to work in public, which is a wrong idea.

It's obviously a form of male chauvinism.

If the wife is willing and the man can give enough pocket money every month and there is no pressure in life, then this kind of machismo is fine.

But the key is that in many families, because only the husband goes out to work, the income and expenditure of the entire family are either not enough to make ends meet or barely enough to support themselves. This causes the husband to be under great pressure, and he can only vent his emotions on the people who are easiest to bully, while the wife is also extremely depressed.

This is why Japan's suicide and domestic violence rates are extremely high, and as social pressure continues to increase, this phenomenon is still worsening.

of course.

Yuanye Si is rich.

Suzumiya Saka is currently richer.

Although being poor will definitely make you unhappy, being rich does not necessarily mean you will always be happy. After all, people's greed and emotions will be reset to zero after being satisfied at a certain stage.

Even if full-time housewives do not need to do anything and just go shopping and play around every day, they will feel extremely empty inside because of long periods of time without work and abnormal interpersonal relationships.

Otherwise, where would the business of the gigolo club come from?

What's more, it's a good thing that Suzumiya Saka is working, otherwise Harano Tsukasa would be really worried that he wouldn't have enough time.

Suzumiya Saka got a satisfactory answer, and her heart was filled with sweetness. She couldn't help but curl up the corners of her bright red lips and whispered, "That's more like it..."

"What did you say?"

"Nothing." Suzumiya Saka suddenly remembered something else: "There's something else I want to ask you recently."

"What's the matter?" Yuanye Si raised his eyebrows.

"Zhiyue is going back to Hokkaido in two days. I am worried and I can't spare the time. If you are free, can you take my place and accompany her back?"

"..."

"Why don't you speak?"

"Are you so confident?" Yuan Ye Si turned his head to the side, opened his eyes, and asked in a faint voice.

Suzumiya Saka was stunned for a moment, then she understood what he meant. Her eyebrows slightly frowned and then relaxed. She glanced at him and asked with a disdainful tone: "What? Can't I satisfy you?"

Yuanye Si was speechless for a moment.

I don't know where she gets her confidence from.

He is both bad and likes to show off.

"Even so, do you dare to let your best friend stay with me without worry? We have had precedent before." Harano Tsukasa didn't really want to see Kurosaki Orizuki, mainly because what he did last time was too tasteless, so tasteless that he was embarrassed to see people.

It's okay to do it in front of others.

And let others push it.

Fortunately, Suzumiya Saka didn't know, and didn't say anything about his lack of strength, otherwise I don't know how heartbreaking it would have been.

Even if it wasn't.

I guess the shadow it left on her is not small.

"She was testing you." At this moment, Suzumiya Saka didn't know where the mysterious confidence came from.

"is it?"

"Why are you staring at me?"

"I always feel that you have bad intentions. You two can't really have some unbearable secret that you can't tell anyone?" Yuan Ye Si asked with a suspicious look in his eyes. "How is that possible!"

"Then I don't understand."

"Is it hard to understand? I don't have many friends to begin with, and now I'm busy and can't get away. You're the only person I can trust the most, and you two are familiar with each other. Last time you helped her so much. It takes two to tango. I don't believe that you can turn a bad thing into a good one if she didn't mean to do so. To put it bluntly, that's the only thing on your mind."

"It takes two to tango."

Harano Tsukasa pondered for a moment, raised his hand and gently patted Suzumiya Saka's arm: "Does it make a sound?"

There was indeed a sound.

Not big though.

However, after he used this method to refute her previous reason, Suzumiya Saka's beautiful eyes suddenly widened, and she turned her head to the side and said angrily: "You dare to hit me!?"

"I didn't use any force."

"Do you know this is a freeway? I was driving over 100 mph. If there was even a slight impact, two people could be killed. Can you please have some common sense and a sense of responsibility? Is this something you can joke about?"

This time, Suzumiya Saka looked very serious when she was angry.

"One corpse and two lives."

Yuanye Si's expression became serious.

Hearing him say this word, Suzumiya Saka's anger that had risen in her heart suddenly disappeared without a trace, and she replied with an evasive look: "I was wrong."

"you are pregnant?"

"No."

"Then why do you say one body, two lives?"

"What if there is?" Seeing him asking non-stop, Suzumiya Saka was annoyed and said unhappily: "I can also say that one corpse has three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten lives!"

Yuanye Si frowned and didn't let go.

It's a matter of life and death.

He still thought about it and unfolded a light red curtain of light.

[Wish object: Suzumiya Saka]

[The wish list is as follows]

[1. If I really have a child, I will not tell this bastard until I am pregnant (blue)]

[2. I want to be teased again (white)]

[3. Before Yuanye and Zhiyue go to Hokkaido together, I will put a long-lasting recorder on each of them, so that I can know whether they are having an affair or not (Blue)]

Yuanye Si clapped his hands in his heart.

can.

Did not see it.

It turns out you are also a veteran actor.

The evasive look just now really made him feel that it was real, but it turned out to be superb acting.

Think about it too.

It has actually been less than half a month since my first experience, and I have been traveling to three places. Although the pregnancy can be tested at this time, there should be no obvious pregnancy reaction. I can only get the result if I am free enough to go for a blood test, and the result is not very accurate.

But this is hard to say.

After all, they never wear them.

But I still want to be teased again...

Yuanye Si Ke remembered that when he saw this wish yesterday, it was still at the blue level, but today it has reached the white level. It is obvious that the degree of the wish has been reduced due to difficulty.

This is also normal.

The reason why it was difficult to lower her desire was that Yuanye Si doted on her too much and he had to taste her first every time.

But when he looked at the third wish, seeing so many of Suzumiya Saka's mental activities, he found the reason why he should accompany Kurosaki Orizuki back to Hokkaido.

This is the normal logical development.

After these three times of knowing each other well, Harano Tsukasa doesn't think Suzumiya Saka really has any special feelings for Kurosaki Orizuki. If there is anything wrong, it's at most that the feelings have deepened over time and she is more tolerant.

It's not good enough for them to become a real family.

Even find a single woman for your man.

Shaking his head to clear his thoughts, Harano Tsukasa looked at the reward for fulfilling Suzumiya Saka's wish yesterday.

[Reward: Skill Mastery Card (Mastery)]

[Skill: Firearms Shooting (Proficiency)]

[Skill reward memory and body synchronization infusion]

The principles of various firearms and shooting postures have been engraved in his mind. Although he has never touched a gun, Yuanye Si feels that he is definitely better than ordinary policemen.

After all, this skill not only instills a bunch of related mental memories, but also gives muscle memory.

I don't feel anything usually.

But when you really touch the gun, a lot of familiarity will come over you. Although you have never tried it, Harano Tsukasa has a strong feeling in his heart.

And this skill is also very practical.

Even in the country with the second highest crime rate and gun ban in the world, gun battles are still inevitable, and people who master carbon-based biological calming devices are often able to better defend themselves in many cases.

There is just one problem.

Where can I get the gun?

If the gun in this skill refers to the one on your body, it can indeed be used in life.

But if carbon-based organisms are in a cooling-off period...

He can't get this thing.

It is indeed important to have a gun, especially after the reminder of the Sato Mie incident. If you offend such a person, you really don't know to what extent the other party will go to retaliate. Moreover, even if you don't have a gun, it doesn't mean that others don't have it or know how to use it.

Thinking of this, he frowned again.

At this moment, Suzumiya Saka, who had been silent for a while, said, "We're getting off the highway now."

"When are you planning on moving in?"

Harano Tsukasa glanced at the Tokyo city warning sign on the right side of the road, then looked away and suddenly asked.

Suzumiya Saka was stunned for a moment, and suddenly a surge of joy surged in her heart, and even her breathing became a little rapid. She felt that the surprise came too suddenly, but she still forced herself to be calm and hummed: "Who wants to move over?"

"Don't want to?"

"Who said yes?"

"If you miss it, there's no regret medicine to take."

"..."

"The apartment I rented is quite big. You should know that since you've been there. You just said that you'll probably be working at the Metropolitan Government Office soon. The Council Hall, which I occasionally go to, is in the same building as the Metropolitan Government Office. The apartment I rented is very close to the building, so it's inconvenient for you to live in your original place."

Harano Tsukasa knew that Suzumiya Saka was not simply a donkey who went against the grain, and sometimes stroking in the right direction was quite effective.

"So? So you're planning to trick me into living with you? So you can fulfill your wishes every night?"

"My wish? I guess so."

"That's a nice thought."

Suzumiya Saka curled her lips, but she was actually very happy in her heart. She didn't expect that Harano Tsukasa would give her a surprise so suddenly, but she was not instantly overwhelmed by the surprise. She still adhered to the principle of refusing and giving in three times, and wanted to remain reserved for a while.

However, when Yuanye Si saw that she still refused to leave after being given the chance, he said with a smile, "Still unwilling? Forget it, it's fine for me to live there by myself. It's quiet and peaceful."

"Did I say I don't want to?!"

Suzumiya Saka, who had been planning to sit tight, saw that he wanted to withdraw the invitation, and immediately honked the horn in a hurry, but she soon realized that her behavior was a bit obvious, and she gritted her teeth and snorted as little as possible, "Since you have begged me many times, I will reluctantly satisfy you, but after I move in, I have to set rules. First of all..."

Yuan Ye Si interrupted her directly: "Wait, don't tell me those bullshit treaties, that's my home."

If I move in, will it no longer be my home?

She was so angry that her lungs were about to explode.

Suzumiya Saka was so angry that her teeth were itching, but she was afraid that if she quit again, she would really quit. So she hardened her heart and planned to punish him with a dark face: "Well, I don't have so many rules! There is only one rule, you are not allowed to touch my body without my consent, this rule is okay, right?"

"can."

"And I want to sleep in separate beds!"

"no problem."

"We have to sleep in separate rooms!"

“No problem at all.”

Just on the urban road after getting off the Yokohama Yokosuka Expressway, Suzumiya Saka left these words.

During this time, he didn't say a word to Yuanye Si.

Even when eating, he was silent.

Even though they had tacitly agreed not to go home, after following Harano Tsukasa back to the Toranomon residential building, they went into the room where they had stayed when they had come before.

The time soon came into the night.

After replying to Yuko Shimizu's message, Harano Tsukasa adjusted his pillow and prepared to turn off the lights and rest.

But at this time there was a knock on the door.

When Harano Tsukasa got out of bed and opened the door, he saw Suzumiya Saka standing in front of the door in silk pajamas with a pillow in front of her chest. The coldness she had during the day was completely gone from her beautiful face. Instead, she blushed and lowered her head slightly, and looked at him with embarrassment.

"I was going to talk to you."

"To the living room."

"Why aren't you in the room?"

"We need to keep our distance, just like you said during the day, separate beds and rooms, and I'm afraid of touching you."

"Asshole!" Seeing that he was still blocking the door and pretending to be stupid, Suzumiya Saka suddenly felt embarrassed for triggering the True Fragrance Theorem and disappeared without a trace.

"You can come in." Yuanye Si squeezed her fist and said with a smile: "But you have to tie your hair into a ponytail."

"Why?" Suzumiya Saka asked subconsciously.

"I like the idea of a small move affecting the whole body."

"Disgusting!" She hugged the pillow tighter against her chest and couldn't help but accuse him, but her steps were more loyal than her words. She turned around and went back to her room, and came back with her hair tied in a ponytail half a minute later.

"Aren't you upper-class?"

"I can bleed however I want. I promised you, but you're not willing to do it? Believe it or not, I'll beat you to death with one punch!"

"Believe."

"Then what should I do..."

"First of all, you have to know that for the person you trust the most, you should trust him/her with confidence, and then hold his/her hand tightly. No matter what happens, you should never give up. It's that simple."

After all, you don't have to use reins to ride a horse.

What you carry on your shoulders is not necessarily responsibility.

It is not necessarily the sun that can melt the iceberg.

　Two chapters in one
　　
　
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