Don't you guys dislike me?

"If you hadn't reminded me, I would have forgotten it."

Yuichi suddenly said such a half-understood sentence that made Murakami Aiko's heart tighten for no reason. She didn't know where the panic came from, but just forced a smile.

Hoshino Yuichi snatched her cell phone and held it in front of her. The cold light made her eyes squint slightly. His fingers touched her again and again, making Murakami Aiko's face darker and darker until her disguised madness broke.

"No...no! Senior, I was wrong. I shouldn't have bullied Amamiya. I shouldn't have stabbed her with a utility knife. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Please don't send it out..."

Her plea received no mercy. Murakami Aiko stared blankly with her eyes wide open. The light shone directly on her pupils, revealing her tears.

Aiko Murakami watched helplessly as her naked video was uploaded to the school forum. The video was like a boulder thrown into a lake, causing waves in the lifeless forum.

Comments popped up in the comment section, faster and faster, more and more, some gloating, some marveling at her misfortune, some even started commenting on her body and criticizing her character.

Every word they said was pushing Murakami Aiko to the brink of collapse bit by bit.

The light from the screen, carrying those comments, forced its way into her eyes. She shook her head and wanted to escape backwards, but there was a wall behind her. Where could she escape to?

Unable to escape, Aiko Murakami finally closed her eyes, tears welling up in her eyes and falling uncontrollably, smudging her makeup.

Yuichi watched quietly as the darkness in Murakami's eyes spread uncontrollably before he let go of his hand.

Unable to hold back any longer, Murakami Aiko hurriedly snatched the phone back from Yuichi, deleted the sent video, and ran towards the exit.

"I hope to see you in school tomorrow, village senior girl."

Murakami Aiko had no time to answer, because she found that even if she deleted the video, it would be useless. Someone had already saved it and it was spreading rapidly at a speed she could not control...

Yuichi watched everything silently. When Murakami escaped from the alley, he looked away and found that Chizuru Amamiya was still naked and pulling at the corner of his clothes.

The girl was shivering, not sure if it was because of the cold or because she was scared.

Yuichi picked up the school uniform and threw it to Chizuru Amamiya, watching her hesitate for a long time before putting the too big uniform loosely on her body, with the hem almost hanging down to her knees.

"Come with me."

Youyi said, and was about to move forward, but the hand that was grabbing his clothes stubbornly stopped in place.

"Senior...the wound on your hand..."

Qianzuru saw drops of blood falling from between the fingers of the big hand from time to time.

"It's okay," You said calmly, but the girl's eyes were fixed on his hand.

"Senior! If you don't stop the bleeding properly, the wound will get infected!"

As she spoke, Chizuru took out a handkerchief from her skirt pocket and tried to bandage Yuichi's wound.

She reached out to grab the bloody hand, but was dodged when she was about to touch it.

"Just consider it as a small return gift to thank you for coming to save Chizuru?" Chizuru Amamiya smiled with curved eyebrows, and her smile seemed to be particularly bright because she took off the mask.

Because she knew that all her bad intentions were exposed by Yuichi, even so, Yuichi was still willing to come and save her. She didn't know whether Yuichi had forgiven her, but she could finally smile from the bottom of her heart in front of him.

Even though there were new bruises and bloody scratches on her body, Chizuru's eyes were as bright as the crescent moon.

Thanks to senior, everything is over...

"Amamiya... you should be thanking me right now, right?"

Hoshino Yuichi glanced at Amemiya Chizuru and asked suddenly.

"Although... I don't quite understand why you said those unpleasant things before, but didn't you come to save me? And since I was injured, Chizuru can forgive me for the past."

The girl lowered her eyebrows slightly with a guilty look, and then raised her smiling face, looking a little naive against the backdrop of her loose school uniform.

"Chizuru Amamiya, I came to save you tonight not for you, but for Kotonoha and myself."

Youyi lowered his head and looked at her, and his heavy gaze lowered the girl's raised lips.

"What did you mean, Senior?"

"To put it simply, I risked my life to save you, not because you were bullied. To be honest, whatever happens to you has nothing to do with me."

The coldness in Yuichi's words seemed to lack any human touch:

"I came to save you just so that Kotonoha wouldn't be sad about losing a friend. I came to save you so that you would be Kotonoha's friend sincerely, and also so that you would stand by my side in the speech in a few days."

"Everything I said at your house that day was true. I am a complete scumbag who played with your feelings."

"So I don't need or deserve your gratitude. Let's just treat it as a deal. I'll save you from long-term bullying, and you'll be Kotonoha's friend. At the speech the day after tomorrow, stand by me and speak for me."

"I believe you won't refuse something that is mutually beneficial."

Hoshino Yuichi explained coldly that what should have been a romantic event like a prince saving a princess turned out to be so cold and indifferent, turning the girl's poetic and beautiful love into an inhuman transaction.

No...it's not that there is no human touch, it just doesn't belong to her...

She is just an ordinary girl that the prince rescued when he wanted to get a gift for the princess. Maybe... it would sound better if she is the gift?

It turns out that the stage did not belong to her. She was just a supporting role who was complacent about getting a little spotlight.

Chizuru Amemiya lowered her head silently, as if she was digesting what Yuichi said, or as if she was speechless after accepting the fact.

170. Scammer

The night was as dark as ink. Youyi could not see the expression on Chizuru Amamiya's lowered face. He only felt the corner of her clothes lighten.

He said nothing more and walked towards the alley, with Chizuru following closely.

Stepping over Yamamoto, Yuichi stopped in front of the unconscious Tsukino. Under the warm yellow light, Tsukino's slightly pale face was covered with blood from his nose and bruises, showing his miserable condition. The culprit who caused all this was unconscious not far from him.

Yuichi squatted down, searched Tsukino's body for the phone, grabbed his hand and unlocked the fingerprint lock.

His purple eyes scanned the screen back and forth, and soon he stood up, carried the thin Yue Ye on his shoulders, and walked towards the school gate.

"Senior...it's better to take care of the wound on your hand."

Chizuru's timid voice came from behind him, and Yuichi couldn't help but raise his hand to look.

The knife marks were still stained with blood, and the pain of the cut seemed to spread throughout the palm as the blood flowed out. The blood had not yet stopped, and there were still a few strands of hair on it, which belonged to Murakami Aiko.

“Do you have any tissues or something?” After I calmed down, the pain in my palms became too intense to ignore.

"Have."

Chizuru responded and took out the light pink handkerchief from her skirt.

"Without a handkerchief..."

Yuichi's retracted hand was snatched away by Chizuru Amamiya.

"it does not matter."

The girl's tender white hands were covered in dust, and the red marks left by the dust in the shape of shoe prints must have been caused by being stepped on, right?

She grabbed Yuichi's ring finger with one hand and used the other hand to wipe away the dust on a clean part of her school uniform skirt. She repeated this process as if she was afraid that Yuichi would pull his hand away.

The handkerchief was not big but just enough to wrap around Youichi's hand. Chizuru tied a knot carefully, taking into account his reaction in great detail.

"Did you guys plan in advance to stand in front of Tsukino and protect him that day?"

As soon as she said this, her little hand holding his palm trembled in vain, and she almost lost it. Then she anxiously explained:

"Of course, of course not! At that time, Senior told me those words, and I had always wanted to have a good talk with you, so I followed you and suddenly encountered you two having a conflict. At that time, I leaned in and heard a little bit of what was said, and my emotions got a little out of control. I thought he was pushed down by Senior because of me, so..."

Chizuru panicked to defend Yuichi and put all the blame on herself for that day's mistakes, even though the cause and effect of the incident pointed the finger at Yuichi Hoshino who took the first step.

"No need to explain anymore. It's fine as long as there is no collusion. Even if there is collusion, it doesn't matter. It's reasonable for you to want to retaliate against me. Just be a good friend of Kotonoha."

Youyi withdrew his hand. He asked the question just now to confirm something.

Yuichi's calm and even indifferent attitude could not make Chizuru feel at ease. Her heart, which had been hanging high due to her eagerness to explain, could not be put down at all and just hung there in that position.

She felt suffocated in vain. It would be great if the senior was furious with her. Even if he cursed at her, it would be much better than not caring about her now...

"At that time, it was because my senior lied to me that I was so angry that I said those words." The girl lowered her head, fiddling with her fingers, and muttering to herself.

"I didn't lie to you. After I knew your purpose, I was never tempted."

Yuichi explained it over and over again, patiently.

It looked like he couldn't wait to cut off ties with her and stop her from having wild thoughts, that's why he was so patient, right?

Why? Aren't you lazy? Why don't you leave me some thoughts at this time? Even just a little bit would be fine... so that I can hold on to that little bit of fantasy to keep warm...

Even this insignificant wish is not allowed?

Senior...that’s too much!

"You're lying! You said you wouldn't come to save me! But you came to the school in the middle of the night to save me, so what you said about never having feelings for me was all lies! All of it was lies..."

The pleasant voice rose high, revealing her stubborn thoughts and telling wishful stories, until the last rising tone became weaker and weaker, as if it was a curtain call, and there was even a faint sob.

It was like she herself didn't believe it, it was like... a beautiful dream was shattered.

Yuichi looked down at the light pink handkerchief in his hand, slowly clenched his fist, hiding the last bit of pink in his heart, and mechanically repeated the words several times:

"I told you, I came here for Kotonoha and myself. It has nothing to do with you."

Again.

"fraud……"

……

……

Chizuru Amemiya didn't say anything else and followed Yuichi Hoshino in the campus at night.

She didn't ask why Yuichi was carrying Tsukino, and just followed him like a puppet with its soul extracted.

Perhaps because of the protection of the night, Yuichi was not discovered by the security guards when he was carrying Tsukino out of the campus, but he was blocked by a familiar bicycle.

With her arms folded, Kasumigaoka Utaha leaned on the bicycle, as if she had been waiting for him at the door for a long time.

The wine-red eyes looked at Youyi quietly, with questions and worries that he didn't want to reveal in his gaze:

"Asshole brother! I thought you had something important to go back to school for, but it turns out you were having a tryst with a school girl in the middle of the night?!"

Kasumigaoka Utaha came closer to Yuichi, and beneath the superficial mockery there was a certain color that was about to emerge. As for the Tsukino on Yuichi's shoulder, it was obviously not enough to attract her attention.

"Sister, please help me take her home." But Youyi had no time to care.

His indifference to her almost made Kasumigaoka Utaha's resentment overflow:

"How dare you say such things? I was worried that something might happen to you, so I rode my bike back to see you late at night. And you asked me to send another woman home?"

Youyi paused, his shoulders twitched slightly a few times before returning to calm.

"I can only trouble my sister. I don't feel comfortable with other people sending her."

Yuichi didn't think much about it and just responded casually, his thoughts drifting away.

""

171. Let him know the direction of the wind, and he will fall back on his own

Kasumigaoka Utaha noticed Chizuru Amamiya's curious gaze almost the moment she looked up. After all, a large part of her confused mood at the moment was caused by this secretive junior schoolmate.

Kasumigaoka Utaha took a deep breath, forced herself to calm down, and suppressed too many questions and confusions, and of course the little emotions that were rampant.

"Huh - forget it, I'll just take her home."

There was still some tension in her tone as she gave up struggling, and when she glanced at Chizuru Amamiya behind Yuichi seemingly inadvertently, the timid schoolgirl was so scared that she hid her eyes.

"Excuse me, I'll explain the situation to you when we get home, or you'll know when the news gets out at school tomorrow."

"Is it related to that video?" Kasumigaoka Utaha looked at him suspiciously.

"You'll find out tomorrow."

Youyi raised the corner of his mouth.

Perhaps it was to get back at her schoolmate, or perhaps it was because those little emotions that were hard to guard against made her mind confused, Kasumigaoka Utaha spoke ambiguous words in a tone that made people think about things.

This was not what she had promised Youyi, and it was not what a sister should do, but she couldn't help it and couldn't swallow this:

"No! I want you to tell me in person!"

She stepped closer and poked Yuichi's chest hard with her finger.

"Well...be careful on the road."