I'm a weird expert in Japan

"Uh... Kojiki Kojiki... ah, got it."

Taking advantage of the time after school on Friday when Mr. Hanekawa cancelled his tutoring session, Lian ran to the library.

He didn't have the habit of looking at information, but given what Teacher Hanekawa mentioned a few days ago, he wanted to look for something for no reason.

As a result, as he struggled to pull the book out from the tightly packed bookshelf, several more books fell down.

"Ah this..."

Lian could only squat down to pick it up, and then a light voice sounded in her ears.

"Let me do it."

I looked up and found that Setsuna Ogiso was here.

"Xiao Musou..." Lian was stunned for a moment, then greeted, "Thank you."

"It's okay. The class library committee member has been feeling a little unwell these past two days, so I'm here to take over." After picking up the book, Xue Cai was about to put it back.

However, the place where Lian took out the book was a bit high, and when she stretched out her hand, her fingertips could only touch the partition of the bookshelf.

"Let me do it..." Lian smiled helplessly.

He raised his hand to pick up the fallen books, and then put them back one by one.

"I feel like I'm causing trouble for Shijo-kun." Setsuna smiled a little awkwardly.

"I think so too." Lian patted the spines of the books on the shelf, "The library committee should be someone who is taller."

Xue Cai smiled bitterly, "Girls who are 1.8 meters tall...are hard to find."

"Is it hard to find? Then there's nothing we can do." Lian held the book.

"Want to borrow a book?" Setsuna asked, "Do you know where to register?"

"It seems like this is my first day here?" Lian pursed her lips.

Setsuna smiled and said, "I don't know. Anyway, I haven't heard anyone say that Shijo-kun will come to the library."

"It's the final exam..." Lian Xin said, "Teacher Hanekawa asked me to find some reference books--"

Before he could finish his words, Xue Cai took advantage of his unpreparedness and snatched the book from his drooping right hand.

"Huh? The final exam is going to be on 'Kojiki'? Mr. Hanekawa really likes to give weird questions." Setsuna looked at the cover of the book in surprise.

"Uh..." Lian was speechless. After a while, she finally said what happened. "Well, actually I borrowed it to read it myself."

"I see, it's almost the final exam, and you're still reading extracurricular books. Shijo-kun must be fine, right?" Setsuna naturally admired him. "I was worried that my final exam results would drop, and my pocket money would be reduced again."

"Aren't you working anyway?" Lian said casually.

"Shh!" Xue Cai hurriedly made a gesture to silence her, "Don't be so loud... No one knows that I'm working part-time."

"Why?" Lian felt strange, "Teacher Hanekawa also knows..."

In his impression, working part-time is not shameful at all, but Ogiso Setsuna looked as if she was afraid of being mentioned by others.

"Ah, really..."

Xuecai glanced at the library. It was a Friday and only students with good grades were concentrating on reviewing. No one noticed the remote corner.

She then waved to Lian and took him to the door of the library. To the right of the door was the staircase leading to the second floor. The corner, where no one passed by at the moment, was less conspicuous.

"It's actually quite embarrassing to say the least..." Setsuna looked at Ren, "Especially in front of someone like Shijo-kun..."

"Isn't the purpose of working just to earn money? What else?"

"No..." Xue Cai now knew that Ren really didn't care about the things around her, "Because that... everyone in school thinks I'm... the big..."

"big?"

"Miss..." Xuecai rarely felt embarrassed to the point where the soles of her feet could have scratched a sand pit in the ground.

Because of her glamorous appearance and decent manners, the students in the school thought that Xuecai was the eldest daughter of a wealthy family.

Especially since she is listed alongside a true lady like Eriri, her credibility seems to be even higher.

However, in fact, Xuecai's family is just an ordinary working-class family. Their family is well-off, but not to the point where they can let their children spend money lavishly.

She just kind of liked the feeling of misunderstanding, so she secretly worked in a rustic outfit to hide her identity and earn some pocket money to maintain her image as a high-class beauty.

But this image is almost worthless in front of Lian.

When a fake thing faces a real thing, it will naturally become vulnerable.

"Oh, no wonder." Lian didn't actually understand the inside story, but just felt that knowing this much was enough, "It's not easy for you either...making money and so on. Compared to this, some people are--"

He began to laugh dryly.

"what?"

"I'm talking about some young masters." Lian shrugged and teased.

"Does Shijo-kun mean the second-year prince and emperor?"

"Huh?" Lian was dumbfounded. "What? There are members of the royal family in the school?"

"No, no, no, I mean..." Setsuna waved her hands, "It's the second graders Shinomiya Shiju and Shijo Tei. Because the former has the same name as the Shiju Prince from The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, and the latter's name means emperor, so everyone calls them that in private."

Lian began to laugh strangely, "I feel like I heard something very interesting. Thank you."

He had material again with which to tease the two men.

"Ah, come to think of it, Shijo-kun's last name is Shijo..." Setsuna suddenly realized the problem, "You guys..."

"Di is my younger brother. He and my father are brothers." Lian waved her hand. "Shizhu... is our great-uncle."

"Oh...eh?"

Xuecai felt as if she heard something very extraordinary, but she must have heard it wrong.

She decided to forget it immediately, thinking it would be rude to ask the same question again, so she changed the subject.

"It's been a while since we last met." Xiao Mu Zeng twirled his hair with his fingers.

"We are not in the same class, so it's normal that we can't see each other." Lian didn't care.

They were just a weird relationship between the victim and the exterminator, and he agreed to Yukina's request for help only for the sake of his parents.

“That’s right, hahaha…” Setsuna became more and more helpless and tried to maintain a smile.

"What happened?" Lian saw it at a glance.

"No, no, no, nothing."

"Really? Anyway, Di sometimes makes this kind of expression, and I thought you were similar." Lian said, "I was wrong, forget it."

"Eh...ah..." Xuecai couldn't keep up with Lian's way of thinking. "Nothing. Didn't we have a dinner party before?"

"My parents are not in Japan at the moment. If you want to get together again, I can help contact them and see when they will return." Lian thought that it was Xue Cai's parents who had this idea, but they were not sure.

After all, Ogiso Jin looks like a very serious and old-fashioned man, and he has to abide by the rules even when facing old friends.

It is a common practice to let the younger generation test the waters first.

"It's not that serious. It's just that my family has been asking me recently... whether I have any... contact with Shijo-kun or something like that." Setsuna said awkwardly, "After all, the adults said so at the dinner party before."

Chapter 187 Chapter 2 I Want to Read Some Miscellaneous Books Before the Exam ()

"Hmm..." Lian crossed her arms, "I remember my dad mentioned this to me..."

He immediately checked his phone for emails.

"Really? How come it's blocked by spam..." Lian tilted her head, "Every time he asks me for something."

"Spam..." Xuecai felt that the amount of information was a bit too much.

How could a child send his father's email to spam?

"It's because my dad always asks me to buy him this and that..." Lian pouted, "A while ago he suddenly said he wanted a handmade violin... He plays it like a saw."

"Huh?" It took Xuecai a long time to digest this information.

Lian's family was well-off. He was a student and a successful violinist at the same time, earning a good income.

So it is reasonable to buy things for parents from time to time, or when parents ask for things.

"Oh wow, there really is..." Lian raised his eyebrows, and he casually turned the phone towards Ogiso Setsuna.

Lian's father actually expressed his concern about this matter in the email.

Unfortunately, it seems that Lian didn’t even see it because it was judged as spam.

"But if I block my father...won't there be no way to contact him?" Xue Cai asked with a wry smile.

"No, I can still contact my mother." Lian shook her phone. "My father always sends me meaningless emails. If there is something, he will call me."

"What a unique father..." Setsuna managed to come up with a nice word.

She was blocked by her own son just because she talks too much. How good must she be at sending emails?

"Anyway, don't be fooled by how serious he was at that time. He was just pretending." Lian flipped through the email, shook his head and exited the interface.

"Shijo-kun doesn't seem to like interacting with people." Setsuna said tentatively.

Lian always has a place in the topics of conversation among the girls in the class, but the topics are mostly about how difficult it is to approach Lian, and it is impossible to find an opportunity to start talking.

Thinking of this, Xuecai felt that she was quite impressive for being able to talk to him for so long.

"Ah, never mind. It's nothing." Lian put away her phone and said with a smile, "Anyway, it's just the adults who think young people must have common topics without permission. Don't take it personally."

"Well..." Setsuna remained noncommittal.

"If necessary, you can tell your parents about it. You can even say something bad about me." Lian raised her finger and gave Setsuna some advice in a serious tone: "For example, Shijo-kun is a weirdo who likes weird things. For example, I am arrogant and always have a lot of fans around me at school. It's easy to make up stories, right?"

"Pfft..." Setsuna was amused, "Is it okay to say bad things about yourself like this?"

"Why don't you just tell the truth, 'Shijo-kun is a weird expert who specializes in dealing with strange things'?" Lian raised his third finger, "I guarantee that your illness will be cured."

"Uh..." Xuecai suddenly couldn't laugh anymore.

Lian is no ordinary human.

She had learned this fact from her own experience.

"Yes, Shijo-kun is not an ordinary person." Setsuna nodded apologetically, "I was inconsiderate."

"Nothing." Lian didn't care. "Come to think of it, you haven't encountered a similar situation since then, right?"

"That's not the case." Setsuna rubbed her arms unconsciously.

She thought of the snake-like patterns again. If it weren't for Lian, she might still be enduring the heat and wearing her winter uniform, looking like an alien.

"Anyway, if that kind of thing appears, you can always come to me," Lian said.

Since you are still in this school, at least you should take responsibility for any abnormalities here.

Human life does not need the spice of weirdness.

"Yeah." Xue Cai nodded and agreed, and found Lian looking at her strangely, "What's wrong?"

She twisted her body and checked her arms and calves to see if there was anything strange.

"Normally, shouldn't you say something like 'never do it again' when I said that?" Lian was surprised. "You're quite brave..."

"Ah, this..." Xue Cai didn't know why, but she wasn't very scared, nor did she resist politely.

It was as natural as if you had encountered a common problem and needed help from someone.

"To be on the safe side, I'd like to remind you that if you had been a day or two later when the snake cut the rope last time, you would have died." Lian sighed, "So don't think it's only troublesome when you're trying to defeat it. It's already troublesome when you're entangled."

“Will I die…?” Setsuna’s breath was choked.

"Finally, a somewhat normal expression."

Lian finally determined that it was because she had not fully informed her of the situation that she lacked basic vigilance.

"Did Shijo-kun say that on purpose?" Setsuna thought Ren was trying to scare her.

"No, I'm serious." Lian answered calmly, "I didn't say it before because I thought it was unnecessary. After all, if a person is killed, he will die. It sounds scary, right?"

"Yeah..." Setsuna was indeed scared, "I was too careless. I have to trouble Shijo-kun to remind me."

"It's okay." Lian shook her head. "I should go too. If you stay out like this, will your work as a library committee member be okay?"