I'm a weird expert in Japan

Lian was actually very clear about this, and the reason was due to himself.

Unlike Abby, who was also a hybrid born of a human and a vampire, Lian was not able to grow as fast as Abby.

A few years ago, six-year-old Abisot already looked like a high school student. Now, just over ten years old, he already looks like an adult.

Lian, whose mother is a vampire, grew up like a normal human.

It's not that he didn't inherit that part of his physique, but that this part of his characteristics was deliberately suppressed, allowing Lian, a hybrid born of a human and a vampire, to grow up like an ordinary human child.

Not only did he never suck blood, he also didn't become a vampire hunter or a weird expert. Instead, he was treated as a talented human child and trained to be a violinist.

This... is exactly the reason why Dark is ready to devour Lian.

But at this moment, the strange feeling brought to him by "darkness" has disappeared.

Because Lian is back on the path he should be on.

After a short silence, Lian reached out and pressed the end of the hilt.

The two-meter-long knife seemed to be swallowed and gradually sank into Lian's palm.

Just like Shinobu Oshino used her body as a scabbard.

Lian, as a mixed-race person, can also do similar things.

only--

"It feels like eating something that is difficult to digest. It's such a strange feeling..." He looked at the empty ground and clasped his palms together.

"I can't help you every time. You are the only one who can help yourself." Araragi Koyomi said.

"Thank you very much, whether it's the veteran police officer, or sister Oshino, or Ms. Senjougahara." Lian bowed deeply.

At this time, the window of the RV was opened.

"Koji, the pocket of my shrine maiden costume is tied in a knot. Can you come in and help me take it off?" Senjougahara leaned over and whispered to Araragi.

However, Lian's excellent hearing allowed him to hear it immediately.

He could only politely pretend not to hear.

"Oh... there's really nothing I can do..."

There was no doubt that Araragi Koyomi's eyes lit up, but he pretended to be serious and opened the door of the RV and went in.

Senjougahara also retreated into the car, closed the window and pulled up the curtain.

When Lian was wondering whether she should drive away first, she heard a rustling sound behind her.

He turned around and saw Kasumigaoka Utaha waking up from the back seat.

"Good evening, how did you sleep?" Lian put her hands on her hips and leaned over to look at Shiyu, "Although it's only been less than half an hour."

"Is that so..." Shiyu pulled on her coat that had slipped down, "By the way... that big crab... that god, what happened to it?"

"Kill it... Oh no, it's more appropriate to use extermination." Lian said nonchalantly, "Don't expect that irresponsible god to listen to your prayers and then fulfill your wishes. The easiest way is to directly exterminate it."

"Is that so?" Shiyu pulled Lian's coat around herself.

The temperature was so low on that early spring evening that it was unbearable. Only Lian could stand there in a shirt as if nothing had happened.

"As for the result, you just defeated the gods who were causing you trouble." Lian crossed his arms. "The dead cannot be resurrected, and lost things cannot be taken back. Even the greatest miracle can only change everything that is still alive. You came to this construction site late at night, but in the end you just threw away the unnecessary things. It can be said that you gained nothing."

"Let's not talk about you using FP's opening remarks to give me chicken soup..." Shiyu held her forehead and sighed, then raised her head, "But at least, it's not all in vain."

"Isn't it? What else can you gain? Take materials?"

Shiyu raised her jade-white face under the moonlight, staring at Lian with her wine-red eyes, "At least I have gained a new friend, an important friend——"

"Stop——!" Lian made a pause gesture.

"Uh..." Shiyu thought that Lian was going to reject her friendship.

Is it true that she is not popular with men?

But this time he was rejected by a violinist with vampire blood.

The differences between them are enough to illustrate the problem.

"Don't make any friendship declarations all of a sudden..." Lian looked shy.

Looks like he's embarrassed.

"If I were to become friends with you—" Lian scratched his cheek and reached out his hand to her.

Is there no way to go further? Shiyu guessed the next line in her mind and prepared to catch that hand.

"How can I have the nerve to ask you for the fee?"

Then, Lian spoke the lines in a very shy tone that didn't match her expression.

"Huh?" Shiyu's hand, which had just been raised, froze there.

"You don't think I'm helping you for free, do you?" Lian looked at Shiyu innocently, "For donuts, clothing, fuel, and other miscellaneous service fees, 500,000 yen isn't too much, right?"

Shiyu then realized that Lian's five fingers were not meant to shake hands with her, but to negotiate the price with her.

"You know, when Inspector Araragi Kojiro was looking for an expert to handle the matter, he was asked for 5 million yen." Lian listed the facts with a sincere face, "I'm not an expert, so I only charge one-tenth of that. Isn't that a good deal?"

At first I was filled with anger, and then in an instant I fell into a state of powerlessness.

Regardless of whether Si Tiao Lian was short of money, Shi Yu had no reason to object to his request to charge a fee.

From the beginning to the end, Lian just said that he could provide help, and whether Shiyu accepted it depended entirely on her attitude.

Lian worked very hard during the treatment process. Even with his super regenerative ability, it was still like dying once.

It's just that negotiating the price after the fact is a bit like forcing a sale.

"I don't have that much money with me now..."

"It's okay, we are all classmates." Lian blinked her bright eyes, "I just want to tell you first, you can give it to me after we return to school."

“……” Shiyu lowered her eyes.

"If you think it's expensive, you can bargain. I don't mind."

"No, five hundred thousand yen is five hundred thousand yen." Shiyu felt that a larger loss would be easier to remember.

Lian glanced at the motionless RV and got into the cab. "Then we are going to go back. I will take you there. This is considered after-sales service."

"Thank you for your help." Shiyu took a deep breath, "And——"

"what?"

"I lied to you about something."

"You mean something about the 'feather crab'?"

"No, I mean--" Shiyu hesitated for a second before saying, "I actually knew you earlier than Shijo-kun knew."

Chapter 28 Interlude: Destiny (1)

That happened about half a year ago, near the end of November, when Kasumigaoka Utaha was still a second-year student at the private Toyosaki Academy.

It was the afternoon of the first day of the school festival at the private Toyonosaki Academy.

After watching "Harmony Rhapsody" which was written by herself and starred by the drama department, Shiyu walked alone in the corridor leading to the teaching building from the gymnasium.

Suddenly, she was bumped on the shoulder by a girl running behind her, and she almost lost her balance.

"Ah, I'm sorry..."

"fine."

Shiyu was too lazy to care about this unintentional mistake.

After the other party bowed slightly to apologize, he and the girls who were traveling with him quickened their pace and ran up the stairs in front. A few short sentences came out of their mouths.

"Hurry up, hurry up", "There will be no seats if you go too late", and so on.

Shiyu thought that if it was a school beauty pageant, then it wouldn't have started yet. The school festival had only just opened for half a day, so which class had come up with something new?

Anyway, Shiyu didn't care about the other girls' interest, but when she walked up the stairs and was about to go back to her classroom, she saw more and more students running out in one direction.

The special building where the cultural clubs are located has various special classrooms.

Such as home economics classroom, physics classroom, chemistry classroom, and biology classroom.

Of course, there are also music classrooms and art classrooms.

The school festival is the stage for cultural clubs, and these classrooms have long been occupied by cultural clubs.

It's just this kind of scene where everyone is flocking to it, regardless of what the project is.

The fact that other students were running towards the same place with great interest was enough reason for Shiyu to move over and watch.

Mixed in the crowd that was walking quickly past her, Shiyu followed everyone to the third music room.

That is the new music classroom built by the school two years ago. It is as big as two and a half ordinary classrooms and is usually used for teaching musical instruments to music students.

Shiyu, who studies general subjects, has never been involved in this subject and has no interest in it.

When she arrived, there were too many people, so Shiyu could only move to the side and finally stand at the edge of the crowd. She could barely see the situation inside from between other people's shoulders.

There were two pianos placed head to head, with a person sitting at each seat.

The person closer to Shiyu was a girl with long hair. She tilted her head and recognized the other person through his profile.

Winter horse and yarn.

It is said that she is the daughter of the famous pianist Touma Yoko. When Yoko was revealed to have a daughter a few years ago, it also caused a sensation.

In Fengzhizaki, he is known throughout the school as a problem student.

Of course, she is also famous for being one of the four most beautiful girls along with Shiha, Eriri and another girl.

Shiyu heard that Touma Kazusa had a bad temper, but she had never met him, so she didn't know whether it was true or not.

I don't think Touma Kazusa has ever performed publicly at school.

Thinking casually like this, Shiyu's eyes wandered among the crowd.

Unexpectedly, there were quite a lot of students here, and there were even a few familiar faces that even Shiyu could recognize.

A little to the left, the "other girl" Setsuna Ogiso was surrounded by several girls, pointing and talking at the piano area in front.

About one step away from Shiyu, there was a golden head with hair as delicate as a work of art.

You can recognize her without looking closely, she is Sawamura Spencer Eriri.

The four most famous girls in the school gathered in one place, and it was all because of the beauty pageant at the school festival...

Shiyu couldn't help but laugh at herself at this lively situation.

Especially since no one has paid attention to them yet.

Although only Setsuna, Eriri and other girls participate in the beauty pageant at the school festival every year.

The person who was talking to Eriri was a handsome boy who was slightly taller than the blonde girl but a little shorter than Shiyu.

He looks more delicate than a girl, with red eyes like gems. He doesn't look weak at all, but instead exudes a tenacious temperament.

Shiyu also knows this boy.

Four Palace Dianthus.

That person was there when she and Sawamura Spencer Eriri had a private argument after school in late September.

He seemed to be Eriri's tranquilizer. Whenever Eriri was about to "go wild", he could calm the blonde girl down with just a small gesture.

At this time, Shinomiya Shizhu smiled and made an "OK" gesture to Eriri, then walked out of the crowd and stood next to the piano.

"Welcome everyone to the third music room." Shizhu bowed gracefully, without making people feel that he was pretending. "The reason why I have troubled you all to come together today is, of course, because of a trivial matter. My good friend is new here and doesn't know much about the school. She wanted to use the second music room, but was rejected by Touma Kazusa-senpai there."

Having said that, Shiyu and everyone else's eyes fell on Kazusa.

Touma Kazusa just snorted, turned her head away and ignored him.

"So in order to get permission, my friend challenged Touma-san." Shizhu said sincerely, "If he wins the next piano duel, he must be allowed to use the Second Music Room in the future. Do you have any objection to this, Touma-san?"

And Touma simply responded to this fact with silence, expressing his agreement with this condition.

"Everyone is familiar with Touma-senpai, so I won't waste my words on this." Shizhu stretched out his right hand, "Then let me introduce my good friend who challenged Touma-senpai."