I, Kousaka Kyousuke, the Knight of the Helping Table

Bai Mao was stunned for a moment, then she immediately realized what Kyosuke said.

"Kyosuke-sama, are you saying that you have found the person who set up the mischievous mechanism here? Where is he? I must teach that guy a lesson on behalf of the first generation."

How did this bother the old man? Did he feel that his business of ringing bells was being taken away?

Kyousuke didn't understand what the Hundred Faces meant, but he still pointed out who the criminal was. After all, there was no point in hiding it now: "Ahem, anyway, the criminal himself should know that he can't hide anymore. Don't you think so? Saotome-san?"

"Why!!??"

Yui was surprised by Kyosuke's answer. She never thought that it would be this girl who had always had little presence.

"how come?"

Hachiman looked at Saotome squatting in the corner, trying hard not to cry, and he couldn't believe it. He felt that his reasoning was completely different from Kyosuke's: "Shouldn't the culprit be this Kotori classmate who has been pretending to be a charlatan?"

Kyosuke sighed and explained to Hachiman, "Because when Yukinoshita started to expose this trick just now, Saotome-san's expression said it all. If she wasn't the criminal, she wouldn't have made such an expression."

"But... Ms. Kotori isn't..."

Like Hachiman, Yui thought that if the culprit was really among them, it should be the one who had been misleading everyone to believe that ghosts really existed.

"As for her... she should be an accomplice... but judging from Saotome-san's expression, she herself probably doesn't know about it yet." Kyosuke looked at Kotori, who also had a bad look on her face, and found that she was staring at everyone on her side with resentful eyes.

"If the two of them didn't discuss it beforehand, then it must be that Kotori knows why Saotome did this. So she has been helping Saotome cover up. Her so-called ghost curse, the exorcism ritual, and the suggestion not to demolish the clock tower are all to divert other people's attention. After all, if the trick is exposed, she will definitely be the first one to be suspected. But I think Kotori is not aware of the obvious flaw that her friend would leave a cell phone. In this case, no matter how hard she tries, as long as the trick is exposed, Saotome will not be able to avoid being identified anyway."

"but……"

Yui looked at the two people's expressions and still couldn't believe that Saotome, who had acted a little timid before, was the criminal.

Kotori glanced at the distraught Saotome. Although she knew that no matter how she explained the current situation, it would be pale and powerless, she still decided to stand up and cover for her friend for the sake of her friend: "No, the criminal is me. I wanted to deceive everyone that I do have psychic abilities..."

Yukino shook her head at Kotori: "No need to hide it anymore. Like I said just now, there's a call record on the phone... Just call back..."

"Jinglingling~jinglingling~"

"The real criminal's phone will start ringing."

Kyosuke sighed as he looked at the ringing phone in Saotome's hand, and finished what Yukino was saying.

"No... Meiyao was just my assistant. I instructed her to do this. The real mastermind was actually me..."

"Okay."

After being silent for a long time, Saotome finally spoke: "It's enough, Zhiqiu."

After looking around at everyone, Saotome Miyo admitted what she had done to everyone: "That's right... I am the criminal. I did everything."

Komachi looked at Saotome with a sad expression on her face: "Meiyao-chan, how could it be…"

"I'm sorry to cause trouble to everyone...but I really don't want this clock tower to be demolished, because this clock tower is the most precious memory of him and me..."

Saotome lowered her head and shed tears silently. She began to tell everyone her story in a hoarse voice: "He and I have been childhood sweethearts since we were young. Since we went to different junior high schools, we agreed to meet here every day. Because the teachers won't come here for inspection and the scenery is also very good. More importantly, there is a curse legend here and few people will take the initiative to approach here, so we won't be disturbed at all..."

"Sometime in the second year of last year, I made a promise with him—"

Final Chapter: Promise at Sunset

Under the setting sun, a boy was thinking about his work at his easel. Finally, he decided to give his suggestion to the girl in front of him: "Hey, Meiyao. Come over a little bit."

After a while, seeing that the girl still didn't move, the boy held up the paintbrush and said to the girl impatiently: "I can't paint well if you keep doing this."

The girl holding the camera was a little dissatisfied after hearing what the boy said. She turned around and said to the boy with a look of disgust: "There is nothing I can do. This is the best angle to take pictures of the clock tower. You have to be a little patient. I will be done soon."

After saying that, the girl turned around and pressed the shutter button again.

"You did this on purpose, didn't you? We clearly agreed to compete with our own works, but you've been occupying this position. I won't accept my loss then. Don't expect me to fulfill the bet then~"

The boy twirled the paintbrush in his hand and gave the girl a sly smile.

The girl snorted twice, then raised her camera and took a few more pictures before she stood up and gave her seat to the boy to continue painting: "Really... you stingy guy. Okay, now you can paint slowly. It's obviously you who paints too slowly, and you blame me. I had already finished taking pictures."

Seeing that the boy was still drawing, the girl sat next to him.

"I can't help it. After all, this is an oil painting, not a pencil sketch. Besides..." The boy looked up at the clock tower in the sunset with longing, "It would be a waste if you don't observe such a beautiful scenery carefully. I really like this place..."

"Really?" The girl leaned over to look at the boy's canvas, pointed at a spot in the painting and asked with interest, "Who is this figure?"

On the boy's canvas, there is a girl standing in front of a clock tower at sunset.

"Ah! Stop looking!"

The boy panicked and covered his painting with his arms, but it was too late.

"You just want to be with me, right? You're drawing so slowly because you want to stay with me for a while, right?"

"I...I didn't say that!"

Because the boy's whole face turned red, he loudly denied the girl's statement.

"It's okay, because I like being with you too~" The girl hugged the boy from behind, "We will be together forever, right?"

The boy took the girl's arm and swore to her: "Of course... Meiyao...we will be together forever..."

At this time, a gust of wind happened to blow by, and the big bell on the top of the bell tower sounded distantly. The boy laughed after hearing it: "Look, even the bell is blessing us~"

In the setting sun, the boy and the girl held each other tightly, their shadows were stretched very long, warm and beautiful.

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"But last year..." Saotome said in tears, "He was in a car accident...but his painting was not finished yet! That big liar!"

"Meiyao sauce..."

After crying for a while, Saotome calmed down a little. She looked at Yukino with sobs and said, "Senior... will this clock tower... be demolished in the end?"

"This..."

Seeing Saotome's pitiful appearance, Yukino couldn't bear to say that she wanted to tear down the clock tower.

"That's not necessarily the case."

Kyosuke's words gave Saotome hope, and she turned to look at Kyosuke, hoping to get a positive answer from him.

"After all, didn't your director really see the 'ghost'?" Kyosuke rolled his eyes at Baimao beside him, "Next, as long as our report clearly states that this clock tower is indeed haunted and should not be demolished, it will still be preserved. Anyway, judging from the guy's appearance, I guess even if the project is really carried out, he will propose to terminate it because of fear of ghosts. As for the construction party..."

Kyosuke showed Yukino a sly smile: "Anyway, their family is very rich, so even if the business fails this time, it won't be a big problem, right, miss?"

"Hmph~~"

Yukino responded to Kyousuke's teasing with a nasal sound.

"Senior..."

Saotome looked at Kyosuke gratefully.

"But is this really okay?" After teasing Yukino, Kyosuke showed an extremely serious expression to Saotome for the first time, "If you keep going like this, this clock tower and your time will never move forward, right?"

"Senior..."

Saotome lowered her head and said nothing more.

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Looking at Saotome's distraught back, Yui poked Kyosuke's back with her finger and said, "Kyo, you made a girl cry~"

"What does it have to do with me? It's obviously her..."

Kyosuke thought about it and didn't continue with Yui's words. After all, she was already pitiful enough.

"Okay, let's call 120 right away. Otherwise, that horse-faced guy will catch a cold."

Hachiman, who still has some conscience, reminds everyone not to forget the guy who is still sleeping on the top of the attic.

"Don't bother with people like that, Hachiman." Zaimokuza was writing something down in his notebook. "Ah, this was a really rewarding assignment. I got some very good material."

"Where did you come from? I didn't see you just now."

Hachiman just noticed this elusive guy, even though he didn't see him when he went upstairs just now.

Zaimokuza pushed his glasses and said to Hachiman arrogantly: "As a bystander and recorder of the story, I certainly cannot be discovered by you."

He would never tell Hachiman that he had just been pushed to the ground and stepped on several times by several girls.

Although Hachiman didn't know the details, he guessed a little bit from the shoe prints on Zaimokuza's white shirt. However, for the sake of the fat man's face, he just sneered twice and didn't expose it.

Miura gave Kyosuke a thumbs up, her eyes full of admiration: "But... Kyosuke, your last sentence was very cool~"

"Well, after all, she has been learning from a certain prince charming for a while, so it's okay to give her some chicken soup. I just hope that what I said can be of some use to her. After all, it's not okay to always live in the past."

Kyosuke nodded to accept Miura's praise, then he reached out and grabbed the horse's long hair that Baimao wanted to sneak away: "Next, Baimao, can you explain why you are here at this time."

"Um... I was asked to pick up little Jack today. If I don't leave now, it will be too late..."

"Jack always answered quietly. I remember it very clearly."

Kyosuke ruthlessly shattered Baimao's fantasy.

"Kyosuke-sama, I'm so sorry!"

Bai Mao directly bowed 90 degrees to ask for Kyosuke's forgiveness. If she just admitted her mistake when being questioned by Lord Kyosuke, he would not hold her responsible for anything. This was the only way that Juwan taught her to deal with a Kyosuke who lost his temper.

"Tell me what's going on first."

Sure enough, Kyosuke's expression relaxed as Baimao's attitude softened.

"Actually... it was the First-generation Master who asked me to come."

"Clam?"

What does this have to do with the old man?

"The first-generation master likes to stand on the top of this clock tower and admire the sunset. Sometimes, when he is in the mood, he will ring the big bell to compose music while admiring the scenery. But recently, for some unknown reason, there are suddenly more students coming to the clock tower in the evening. Now it seems that the young lady who left just now spread the rumors. Anyway, the first-generation master felt very unhappy that his interest was disturbed, so he asked us to investigate what happened."

Can't you heroes have some normal hobbies? The earliest rumor about the cursed bell was spread because you rang the bell randomly.

Kyosuke suddenly felt very tired.

"Compared to Saotome, who has his reasons, your adult is really boring."

Yukino looked at Baimao with disdain. She felt that the first-generation adult she mentioned was really the typical old man who had nothing to do and could only wander around the streets.

"How can you say that about the First Generation Master? The First Generation Master is a very, very great being!"

However, he is also a senior lolita lover.