Tokyo: The Beginning of the Gauze Female Devil

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"Can't chocolate satisfy you?"

Shimizu Ai held her hands together and hung them in front of her hips, with a standard "Shimizu Ai style" fake smile on her face.

"What do you want to eat, Onii-chan?"

"Let's have beef bowl."

"What a coincidence! Ai also wants to eat beef bowl."

"Um……"

Fujii Itsuki hummed softly and glanced at Shimizu Ai.

Seeing that she stayed where she was without any next move, but just looked at him expectantly, he understood what he meant.

"The money is under the pillow, take it yourself."

This kid has always been a moonlighter, and people have even targeted him many times. Now that it's almost the end of the month, his wallet is probably empty.

"Why is this so embarrassing?"

Shimizu Ai politely declined, but her body moved closer honestly, and she reached under the pillow and pulled out Fujii Itsuki's wallet.

"You can't catch a wolf without sacrificing a lamb. The sacrifice of "Chocolate-kun" was not in vain!"

"Brother Trash actually told me where he hid his secret money!"

"This trust is really... wonderful!"

"Ai will never betray the trust of a small fry brother... I don't think so!"

The villain in Shimizu Ai's heart laughed wildly with her hands on her hips. She used her index finger and thumb to pull out a note of Fukuzawa Yukichi, and then reluctantly stuffed the wallet back under the pillow.

"Onii-chan, I'm going."

"Well, leave early and come back early."

Seeing that Shimizu Ai's eyes were full of desire for the wallet, Fujii Itsuki was not surprised.

The Fujii family adopted a laissez-faire education style.

Aunt Momonogi Eiko is the head of the Fujii family and holds sole financial power.

The eldest daughter, Shimizu Rin, has excellent grades and attends a prestigious private university. She is a boarding student and only lives at home on weekends and holidays. She has a living expense of 5 yen (≈2400 RMB) per week.

Although the youngest daughter, Shimizu Ai, is only in her third year of high school, she also has 5 yen in pocket money every month. Moreover, her mother Momonogi Eiko prepares breakfast and lunch boxes early in the morning, so she only needs to solve the daily dinner.

As for the only male in the family, Fujii Itsuki, not only does he have to take care of his own three meals a day, but his monthly living expenses are only a pitiful 5 yen (≈240 RMB).

An average of 8 dollars a day is equivalent to Bear Grylls' wilderness survival level in bustling Tokyo where every inch of land is valuable and material desires are rampant.

So although the original owner was only about 1.7 meters tall, he always gave people the feeling that he was so weak that he would fall down with a slight push.

Nonsense, eating rice balls and discounted bento every day and still not being able to fill your stomach, how can you not be weak?

In order to make a living, Fujii Itsuki had to find a part-time job to earn money. Even so, he was blackmailed by the little devil Shimizu Ai for half of his salary every month.

Chapter 17 You can’t bear it

Oh, working?

Fujii Itsuki raised his eyebrows, feeling as if he had forgotten something.

“…It’s over!”

I still have to work at night!

But it's almost six o'clock now.

Besides, in his current state, it is questionable whether he can take a bus to a convenience store.

With no other options, Fujii Itsuki endured the pain in his body, picked up the phone, and called Sakura Yuko who was on duty that day.

"Moshimoshi, Fujii, what's the matter?"

The call was quickly connected, and Sakura Yuko's pleasant voice came from it.

"Ah, Yuko-senpai, it's like this, I'm not feeling well today, could you help cover for me tonight?"

"Please, I'll give it back next week!"

Sakura Yuko on the other end of the phone was silent for a few seconds.

Fujii Itsuki originally thought that she would decline or reject it outright, because she was essentially a playful girl who punched out on time every day and went straight to the nightclub after work.

He is totally on a different wavelength from an ordinary, honest, and ordinary short-term college student like him.

"Okay, no problem." Sakura Yuko agreed very readily.

Fujii Itsuki was naturally very grateful for this and didn't think much about it.

"Thank you for your help, Yuko-senpai!"

"Many thanks."

"Oh, it's just a small matter..." Sakura Yuko said politely.

"Fujii, take a rest. I'm going to hang up now."

"Well, thank you for your concern, Yuko-senpai."

After hanging up the phone, Fujii Itsuki breathed a sigh of relief.

He lay flat on his back in bed, looking up at the ceiling.

When will I be able to get rid of the identity of a hard-working worker?

It is only the second semester of his freshman year, and there are still more than two years before graduation. How can he support himself if he doesn't work?

With that meager living allowance, it would be a miracle if I didn't starve to death.

The more Fujii Itsuki thought about it, the more confused he became. Why didn't his damn father leave some money for his wife for his biological son before making his will?

Now, all the family property is in the hands of Momonogi Eiko, a woman from another family.

Not to mention getting married, it was even a question whether his biological son could guarantee that he would not starve to death. Even his home was occupied by those three women.

"never mind……"

He couldn't summon his dead father through the Impure World Reincarnation. Even if he did, it would be useless, as he might even be biased towards the mother and daughter.

It’s better to save money and leave this family as soon as possible.

"Alas..." Fujii Itsuki sighed.

Or you could defeat Momonogi Eiko and the other two one by one and regain control of the Fujii family!

Thinking of this, Fujii Itsuki was thoughtful.

…………

10pm, Ogiwara's house.

After taking a shower and changing into light pink pajamas, Ogihara Saki glanced towards her mother's room, then returned to the bedroom and quickly got into bed.

"Click."

Turning off the lights, the room instantly fell into darkness.

After a few seconds, a white light appeared faintly in the darkness and shone on Ogihara Saki's face.

Ogihara Saki lay on her side, holding the phone in both hands, adjusted the screen brightness, and opened Line.

Finding Fujii Itsuki's profile picture among her few friends, Ogihara Saki clicked on the chat box, her finger hovering over the phone keyboard, thinking about how to start the conversation.

[Are you there, Fujii-kun? ]

After typing a line and quickly deleting it, Ogihara Saki felt that her way of chatting up people seemed a bit too old-fashioned.

【Fujii-kun, are you asleep? 】

She typed a new line, even considering whether to add punctuation marks, bit her lip, and clicked send nervously.

Half a minute later, the message status changed from [Delivered] to [Read].

"not yet."

At the same time, in the bedroom on the second floor of Fujii's house, the lights had already been turned off. With the moonlight outside the windowsill, Fujii Itsuki pressed the send button.

"Fujii-kun replied to me!"

Staring at the words on the phone screen, Ogihara Saki's heart leaped with joy, and she quickly continued typing and asked, "Fujii-kun, are you feeling better?"

"Yeah, much better. It doesn't hurt anymore."

This statement is true, and Fujii Itsuki is not just trying to show off.

The debuff time of the potion has passed now. He is not as energetic and refreshed as before, but his spirit and energy have undoubtedly improved, and only a few superficial injuries remain on his body.

From this point of view, the medicine produced by the system is definitely stronger than adrenaline.

【That's good……】

Ogihara Saki felt relieved for Fujii Itsuki in her heart.

Her fingers tapped the screen, her eyes wandering, and for a moment she didn't know what topic to talk about.

After holding it in for a long time, Ogiwara Saki wrote down a sentence: What did Fujii-kun eat in the evening?

When she typed the words, she was a little stunned. She was as embarrassed as a groundhog who could only dig holes, shrinking her neck, trying to tear open the quilt cover and get into the cotton core of the quilt.

"Stupid Ogihara Saki, what on earth do you want to do?"

"Why do you always ask Fujii-kun some boring questions!"

God has mercy on her. She has had very limited interactions with the opposite sex in the past 18 years of her life. The most recent one was two months ago when her Chinese teacher praised her for her excellent writing skills. She replied, "Thank you, teacher."

Due to the influence of her mother, Ogihara Saki not only has never been in a relationship, but she doesn't even have a single friend of the opposite sex.

Except for Fujii Itsuki who was chatting with her on Line.

【I ate beef donburi, what happened? 】

[No, nothing...]

【What's up? 】

【fine. 】

[Are you really alright? ]

【Um. 】

【Then I slept? 】

【Don't……】

The atmosphere fell into an eerie silence as the two of them asked and answered each other.

Compared to the quiet, shy and even embarrassed Ogiwara Saki, Fujii Itsuki on the other end of the phone had a look of confusion.

"This guy, did he grow up eating cuteness?"