Tokyo: Restricted Tutor

When Tanaka Taiwa mentioned Hojo Saki Rei, Shiratori Kashi's eyes lit up slightly.

She never expected that Tanaka Taiwa's neighbor would actually be Hojo Saki Rei.

Naturally, she knew who Hojo Saki Rei was.

Whether Hojo Saki Rei knew her, however, was another matter.

After hearing Shiratori Kashi say she knew Hojo Saki Rei, Tanaka Taiwa couldn't help but start talking a lot about Hojo Saki Rei.

However,

The things he spoke about were only those incidents that happened between Hojo Saki Rei and him in the apartment.

After all, other than that, he had no idea what had happened to Hojo Saki Rei.

Since they weren't students from the same school, how could he possibly know what had happened to Hojo Saki Rei?

As for Shiratori Kashi, upon hearing Tanaka Taiwa talk a lot about difficult things, she couldn't help but feel somewhat awkward.

Tanaka Taiwa was actually chatting with her about Hojo Saki Rei.

One should know that she and Hojo Saki Rei were, at best, just unfamiliar classmates.

Shouldn't a brief chat about this situation suffice?

However, seeing how enthusiastically Tanaka Taiwa was chatting, she could only continue to go along with it.

"It seems your neighbor is quite good. I didn't expect that him helping you was the reason you were able to transfer to our school. I'd really like to get to know this person."

After hearing Tanaka Taiwa talk about many things concerning Hojo Saki Rei, combined with the things Hojo Saki Rei had done at school, Shiratori Kashi suddenly developed a strong interest in Hojo Saki Rei.

Thus, Shiratori Kashi made a suggestion at this moment, wanting to use Tanaka Taiwa to get to know Hojo Saki Rei.

Originally, Tanaka Taiwa was talking happily about Hojo Saki Rei, but upon hearing what Shiratori Kashi just said, his face instantly turned a little unpleasant.

Tanaka Taiwa found it hard to believe that Shiratori Kashi would be interested in Hojo Saki Rei.

The most important thing was that the girl in front of him was the girl he liked, and she was actually showing interest in his neighbor?

How could Tanaka Taiwa possibly tolerate this?

"Shiratori Kashiwa, are you full? If you are, shall we go back to the classroom?"

Facing the request made by Shiratori Kashi, Tanaka Taiwa didn't answer at all, but instead said this directly at this moment.

After Tanaka Taiwa said this sentence, Shiratori Kashi's face instantly changed.

At this moment, how could she not see that Tanaka Taiwa was simply afraid of her getting to know Hojo Saki Rei?

However, since Tanaka Taiwa didn't want to help, she naturally didn't bring up the matter again.

"I'm full. If that's the case, let's go back to the classroom first."

Saying that, Shiratori Kashi stood up directly and walked out towards the outside of the cafeteria.

Time quickly reached the weekend.

Over the past few days, Shiratori Kashi and Tanaka Taiwa had become much more familiar with each other as time passed.

It just so happened to be the weekend today, so Tanaka Taiwa naturally wanted to ask Shiratori Kashi out to play, in order to increase the feelings between the two of them.

However, just as he called Shiratori Kashi, she merely casually brushed him off with a few sentences and then hung up the phone.

Facing such a result, Tanaka Taiwa could only shake his head, and then continued to lie sprawled in his apartment.

"Speaking of which... haven't we been chatting quite happily over the past few days?"

"Why did Shiratori Kashiwa directly refuse me just now when I suggested going out to play?"

"Could it be that my previous feelings were wrong, and Shiratori Kashiwa doesn't actually like me or anything?"

"No, no, no! That's not right. If she didn't like me, how could we get along so well?"

"Maybe it's because we just met not long ago, so she's too embarrassed to come out?"

"Yes! It must be like this. As long as I try a little harder, Shiratori Kashiwa will definitely agree to go out on a date with me."

Seeing that Shiratori Kashi had hung up the phone, Tanaka Taiwa couldn't help but start to feel a bit troubled.

But soon, he had already been self-persuaded.

After all, in his opinion, if Shiratori Kashi really didn't have any feelings for him, it would be impossible for her to chat with him so happily.

He believed that as long as he tried a little harder, Shiratori Kashiwa would agree to go on a date with him sooner or later.

Meanwhile, while Tanaka Taiwa was still thinking this, over on Shiratori Kashi's side.

After hanging up the phone, Shiratori Kashi's face looked extremely unpleasant.

"He's like a toad wanting to eat swan meat. We've only just met for a few days and he already wants to go on a date with me. Am I that kind of casual girl?"

"If I were that easy to get, I would have already had a boyfriend long ago. How could it be his turn? Besides, I don't like guys like him anyway."

Recalling the time spent with Tanaka Taiwa over the past few days, Shiratori Kashi suddenly felt extremely speechless.

After spending time together these past few days, Shiratori Kashi had also come to realize that Tanaka Taiwa was just a straight-laced guy.

And not only was he straight-laced, but he also seemed somewhat uninteresting.

Going on a date with such a guy was something Shiratori Kashi absolutely did not want to do.

Thinking of how Tanaka Taiwa presumptuously wanted to go on a date with her just now, Shiratori Kashi couldn't help but show a look of disdain.

"Forget it. Although such guys are indeed very uninteresting, they are also very sincere towards people. At least, this classmate Tanaka Taiwa should be very good to me for the next period of time."

Although she didn't have any feelings for Tanaka Taiwa at all, thinking of how generous Tanaka Taiwa had been over the past few days and how he had helped her everywhere.

Shiratori Kashi decided to continue leading him on!

Just like she did with her other classmates!

As for Hojo Saki Rei's side.

It was only early in the morning, and he had already received a call from Asahi Rinka.

When he learned that Asahi Rinka wanted to invite him to her home, Hojo Saki Rei refused without hesitation.

Just as Hojo Saki Rei finished hanging up the phone, Tomoda Minako had already called him.

"Minako-neechan, what's wrong? Why are you calling me on the weekend? Are you missing me?"

Since his relationship with Tomoda Minako had deepened, Hojo Saki Rei was no longer as polite towards her as before.

So, he spoke very directly.

Hearing Hojo Saki Rei ask such a question, Tomoda Minako on the other end of the phone rolled her eyes directly.

She was indeed missing Hojo Saki Rei, but hearing Hojo Saki Rei say it like that instantly took away that romantic feeling.

"Are you busy today? If you're not busy, want to go out and have some fun with me?"

Facing the question Hojo Saki Rei asked, Tomoda Minako didn't answer directly, but instead brought up another matter at this moment.

"I should be busy today."

"So, Minako-neechan, if you want to go out and play, can we arrange it for another day?"

Although Hojo Saki Rei also knew that Tomoda Minako was missing him and wanted to go out and have fun with him or something, he indeed had something to do today, so he could only refuse Tomoda Minako.

"What is it? Didn't you finish your previous part-time jobs? And you shouldn't be short on money now, so you shouldn't have taken on any other part-time jobs, right? What could you possibly have to do?"

"Is it a homework problem?"

"No, that's not right. You never listened carefully in class normally, so how could you be doing homework now?"

After hearing Hojo Saki Rei's answer, Tomoda Minako directly laid the matter out frankly at this moment.

"Minako-neechan, could you please not be so blunt when you speak? Although that is indeed a fact, I am still a good student, at least I didn't affect other classmates during class."

Facing the words spoken by Tomoda Minako, Hojo Saki Rei also felt somewhat ashamed. He had indeed never listened carefully in class even once.

"Then tell me, what else do you have to do, or are you just saying you don't want to see me?"

Tomoda Minako asked directly after hearing Hojo Saki Rei's words.

"That's even less likely."

"Although those previous tutoring jobs are indeed finished, I recently took on another tutoring job, which is to help Asuka practice martial arts."

Facing Tomoda Minako's question, Hojo Saki Rei directly told her what he was going to do next.

Furthermore, he also told her that he had been hired by Asuka as a martial arts teacher.

"What???"

"Are you saying Asuka wants to learn martial arts from you?"

"Such a delicate girl actually wants to learn martial arts?"

After hearing Hojo Saki Rei's explanation, Tomoda Minako on the other end of the phone was clearly shocked by what Hojo Saki Rei had said. At this moment, she looked incredibly surprised.

After all, in her impression, Asuka was a very delicate girl.

That such a girl would want to learn martial arts was something she had never imagined.

"Is there a problem?"

"Besides, we've already signed the contract, so it's not like we can stand someone up at this point, right?"

Facing Tomoda Minako's question, Hojo Saki Rei answered without hesitation.

"Since you're busy today, then forget it. Are you free tomorrow? You're not going to her place to teach her martial arts or something tomorrow too, are you?"

Tomoda Minako continued to ask at this moment.

Since being with Hojo Saki Rei, Tomoda Minako had also somewhat developed a taste for it.

So, as soon as she was free, her mind unconsciously replayed everything that had happened between Hojo Saki Rei and her.

At this moment, while asking this question, Tomoda Minako felt a wave of worry in her heart, deeply afraid that Hojo Saki Rei would directly say that he was indeed going to Asuka's home.

"That's not the case. I'm just going for one day today. As for tomorrow, she can practice on her own."

"After all, martial arts takes a considerable amount of time, and her basic skills also need a long time to practice. I don't need to constantly supervise her."

Facing Tomoda Minako's inquiry, Hojo Saki Rei answered directly.

Hearing Hojo Saki Rei say this, Tomoda Minako at this moment also secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Then tomorrow..."

Tomoda Minako stopped speaking after saying this.

But Hojo Saki Rei, upon hearing her words, immediately knew what she wanted to say.

However, how could Hojo Saki Rei agree directly? Instead, he asked with a smile, "Tomorrow what?"

"Hmph hmph, Saki Rei-kun, you're so bad. Didn't I just say?"

"So, can you come over to my place tomorrow? I'll make you something delicious?"

Hearing Hojo Saki Rei's words, Tomoda Minako immediately said without hesitation.

Originally, she had been thinking of letting Hojo Saki Rei say it, but seeing Hojo Saki Rei like this, she knew that Hojo Saki Rei was doing it on purpose.

He clearly wanted her to say it, so if that was the case, Tomoda Minako could only cooperate with him.

"Something delicious? Of course, no problem."

Hearing Tomoda Minako say this, Hojo Saki Rei also readily agreed.

He had also heard just now that Tomoda Minako was still somewhat embarrassed, which was why he intended to make Tomoda Minako say it again.

But he also knew that too much was as bad as too little.

After arranging the time with Tomoda Minako, the phone rang at this moment.

"Saki Rei-kun, are you up now?"

The phone had just connected when Asuka's voice came from the other end. From the voice, Hojo Saki Rei could tell that Asuka was in a very good mood at this moment.

"I'm up. You're up so early too."

Upon hearing Asuka's voice, Hojo Saki Rei immediately responded.

"That's right. Uncle Chiyo should have already arrived at your place. Saki Rei-kun, if you haven't eaten breakfast yet, just come over with Uncle Chiyo. We'll eat breakfast together then."

There was a hint of excitement and enthusiasm in Asuka's voice.

Clearly, Asuka was very much looking forward to and happy about being able to learn martial arts from Hojo Saki Rei.

That's why she called Hojo Saki Rei so early and had her family's driver come to pick Hojo Saki Rei up.

"Okay, I'll be there in a bit. I'm already ready here too."

Hearing Asuka say this, Hojo Saki Rei also answered directly.

After hanging up the phone, Hojo Saki Rei finally started brushing his teeth.

Saying he was ready was just talk.

In fact,

If he hadn't been woken up by the calls from Asahi Rinka and Tomoda Minako, Hojo Saki Rei would probably still be sleeping right now.