"Hey, what are you looking at here? Do you know anyone who lives here?"
"Then can you tell me who you are first?" Mieko shrank back and asked timidly.
"Who do you think I am? Of course I'm the landlord of this room. That high school student has owed me a month's rent, and this month he pretended to be dead and didn't answer my phone calls. I wonder where he is?!"
The man sneered, spat at the door of the basement, and said more fiercely, "If you can't find anyone today, don't come back. I will find someone to pry the door open and use the things inside to pay off the debt!"
"Wait, wait a minute, I'm the teacher of the high school student you mentioned. I'll be in charge of Shimizu-san's affairs!"
Apart from those believers, Arisu Mieko had never had much interaction with secular men and women, and this was the first time she had seen someone with such a strong sense of hostility.
She always felt that if she said something wrong, she might get beaten. It showed how much fear she had to overcome to stop her legs from shaking.
"Can you take responsibility? Then pay the rent you owe first!"
"Rent? Oh, I get it. I'm rich, rich..."
Mieko quickly took out the money from her bag and without any idea what was going on she just grabbed a handful and stuffed it into the man's pocket.
"Haha, that's good enough, barely enough for the rent for the next two months."
The man stared at the handful of money with a greedy look on his face. Not only did he lie with his eyes open, he also wondered where this stupid woman came from?
The man took the money with satisfaction and didn't get angry anymore, so he just walked away.
Arisu Mieko glanced at the man's back with lingering fear. Thinking that this was the suffering that Shimizu-san had endured, she didn't know if she was scared enough, but her eyes became slightly red.
She walked down the stairs carefully in her high heels. The walls on both sides were covered with mud and weeds, and she had no way to hold on to them. There was also the lingering unpleasant smell in the air...
"Shimizu-san, are you home?"
"I'm the first-year health teacher at Ye High School, and I'm also the teacher in charge of investigating school bullying. I have something I want to talk to you about!"
"And I heard that you haven't been to school for several days. Are you having any difficulties?"
With her hands covering her chest, the woman with a purely friendly look and a noble and gentle temperament stood at the door nervously and stiffly, staring at the wooden door that had not been opened for a long time, and was almost about to go back in disappointment.
However, just as she turned around and was about to leave, the wooden door, which had not moved at all despite the man's beating and scolding, began to make a clattering sound as if it had come alive, followed by an unpleasant rustling sound that came from years of disrepair.
Mieko's back almost straightened at that moment. With her back to the door, she heard a lifeless and hoarse voice passing by her ears. Her nerves were tightly gripped at that moment and her steps stopped abruptly.
"Teacher, have we met somewhere before?"
217. Unbearable to look back & Shimizu Yuuki wants to commit suicide? The brilliant Arisu Mieko!
Hiroki Shimizu opened his eyes while lying on the single bed. The thin sunlight gave some warmth to the damp and closed basement, and happened to fall on his palm which was raised to touch the ceiling, like a butterfly dancing in the darkness.
The beautiful boy suddenly clenched his fist and crushed the butterfly to death, and his dark pupils instantly lost the last bit of light.
He was lying on the bed like a puddle of rotten mud. The clothes he was wearing when he came back were still folded on the bedside. The white shirt was covered with dirty and turbid spots left by the solidification of unknown liquid. The air, which had not had the window opened for several days, was filled with a faint sexual smell, a fusion of honey and heather, a smell that made people dizzy.
Shimizu Yuki almost forgot how he came back from that dark room, and how he got away from that white woman's body and the endless pleasure that made him lose his mind...
But he really begged them, begging them to let him go, but what he got in return was cold-blooded sneers, and the soft and fragrant flesh like cotton candy blocked his mouth, so as not to ruin the evil women's unprecedented and strong sexual interest.
When Hiroki Shimizu finally endured several days of unbridled abuse and humiliation by the evil women, and walked out of the dark room and saw the light again, he was completely desperate.
He suddenly realized that he was just a lonely person, and the land under his feet and even the entire island country were full of their influence and spies. Having lost his noble status that he once was high above but not very concerned about, he was just like an ant living in the back garden built by the evil women for entertainment.
After his mother Shimizu Iori passed away, Shimizu Hiroki no longer had any relatives who would care about him because of his disappearance...
As long as the evil women are willing, they can make him disappear from the world at any time in a reasonable way, and no one would dare to interfere and investigate his whereabouts.
It was precisely because of this realization that it was not difficult for Hiroki Shimizu to imagine how dark and dead his future life would be. It was like falling into a quagmire in the abyss. The more he struggled, the deeper he would sink. He was afraid that he would never be able to escape the cage and shadow woven by Mina Sakai and Yukie Kurono in his entire life.
With almost no psychological preparation, he soon inevitably thought of suicide.
[I'm sorry, I can't fulfill my mother's last wish and live a free and happy life. Someone like me who has been tainted to the point of being filthy will never and is not worthy of meeting someone who can truly love me. My life ends here. I, I'm here to accompany my mother now. I'm sorry...]
After writing the letter, Hiroki Shimizu filled in the address to Hoshino Shrine.
Shimizu Iori has always been a believer of the Hoshino Shrine. She once wrote in her suicide note that she hoped her soul could go to the Hoshino Shrine after her death, meet the gods through the guidance of the saint, and finally be led to the other side of the Styx by the power of the gods...
After doing all this, Hiroki Shimizu found a strong hemp rope. Feeling disheartened, he prepared to end this miserable life in this shabby and cramped basement.
However, death is indeed something that requires courage.
Hiroki Shimizu is still just a sophomore in high school, and his desire to survive makes him uncontrollably imagine that maybe things can be turned around, he can escape the manipulation of the evil women and return to his past life.
But if he ended his mother's life so hastily, which had so many expectations for him, then there would really be no hope left.
What if, what if someone really comes to save him?
Shimizu Hiroki suddenly understood why his mother had been so devout in believing in the god enshrined in the Hoshino Shrine throughout her life...
The desire to live finally overcame the despair of death. He cut the rope short and spent the next few days in a daze. He fell into a coma without knowing when.
Occasionally, when he woke up, Shimizu Yuki always felt that everything in front of him was just an illusion, until he saw himself in the mirror with bloodshot eyes, a horribly pale face, and a beautiful body with clear muscle lines covered with kiss marks, nail marks, and bruises left by evil women in order to completely possess him...
It's like a person who is dying, but doesn't have the courage to actually die.
After two days of living a life worse than death, Shimizu Yuuki still did not plan to go to school. He was afraid that once he walked out of this basement, he would have to face the cruel and cold reality again, as well as the evil women's faces that looked delicate and beautiful but were actually extremely disgusting...
In the late night of Monday, Hiroki Shimizu woke up from a daze and forced himself to get out of bed.
He, who always liked cleanliness and tidiness, smelled an unpleasant odor on his body. The air in the room, which had not been ventilated for a long time, was filled with a dull and rotten smell.
He thought about filling his stomach first and then cleaning up the house, but he accidentally stepped on the debris on the ground and hit his head on the corner of the table, causing his hands to bleed.
He had just wrapped himself in a bandage when he passed out due to blood loss. When he woke up, it was already noon the next day.
As soon as Shimizu Hiroki woke up, he felt a sharp pain in the back of his head. The dried blood and hair were stuck together, and it hurt when touched. The room was a mess, with dried black blood and dust everywhere.
With nothing to do, he opened his cell phone. Apart from many messages from Mina Sakai that he didn't want to read, no one had sent him any messages asking about his disappearance and absence from classes during this period.
His heart had long been numb and he could no longer feel any sadness. Shimizu Hiroki couldn't help but laugh at his naivety. How could anyone really come to save him?
If he had been so lucky, his life would not have fallen to such a miserable state.
Sure enough, when he was lying on the bed resting, he heard the landlord banging on the door and cursing outside, and the noise lasted for half an hour.
Hiroki Shimizu didn't want to be seen in such a miserable and miserable state, so he threw away the principles he adhered to and hid in the house, pretending to be dead.
Then, he suddenly heard a timid and gentle woman's voice outside the door. Not only did the other party know him, but she also paid off his rent. Judging from the landlord's cheerful tone, she was probably quite generous.
Hiroki Shimizu's first reaction was fear, thinking that Mina Sakai had become impatient and came to see him.
But thinking that the style of the woman outside the door was completely different from the ugly inner self of Mina Sakai that was revealed after the falling out, he chose to wait and see for the time being.
After the landlord left, there was a knock on the door, and the woman clearly stated her identity and the purpose of her visit as a teacher.
Shimizu Hiroki walked to the door half-believing and half-doubting, and looked out through an inconspicuous gap at the edge of the wooden door. He saw the woman outside the door shrouded in the dazzling sunlight. She had a compassionate and gentle face, and her clear and shallow eyes were filled with anxiety and worry without any other thoughts.
At that moment, Shimizu Hiroki felt an inexplicable vitality flowing out from the depths of his numb and dying soul, nourishing and filling his scarred body bit by bit.
A blush like the reflection of rejuvenation emerged from his pale, sickly cheeks. His hand trembled and placed it on the door handle. Then he suddenly woke up and took several steps back.
The lessons that Mina Sakai and Yukie Kurono had taught him were still vivid in his mind, and Shimizu Hiroki quickly suppressed the violent throbbing in his chest.
When he looked out the door again, he realized that the woman who claimed to be Teacher Ye Gao seemed familiar, very much like a teacher who had fainted he had run into in a corridor leading to the classroom some time ago.
The vague memory slowly revived, and Shimizu Hiroki was almost certain that this woman was the teacher who he asked his female classmates to send to the infirmary.
It seemed that the other party was not lying, and his guard was lowered again. He heard the woman outside the door say again.
"Last time the teacher fainted in the corridor, I heard that it was Qingshui who asked someone to send the teacher to the infirmary. I have always wanted to thank Qingshui in person, so... could you please open the door?"
Standing in the room without saying a word, Shimizu Hiroki watched the woman wait patiently for a long time, and then his face slowly revealed an expression of extreme disappointment, guilt and self-blame that did not seem fake.
Just as the other party turned around to leave, the almost desperate Shimizu Hiroki really couldn't bear to watch what might really be his hope of survival slip away from his fingertips.
Although he didn't think that an ordinary teacher could fight against behemoths like the Sakai Group and the Kurono Group, his body was too cold and he suddenly wanted to talk to someone...
Then, he suddenly pressed down his hand that was on the door handle, and warm and dazzling sunlight instantly poured into the house, completely drowning the beautiful boy who had one foot halfway into the abyss.
218. Unable to bear the recollection & closing the door to see the guests off, was Shimizu Hiroki moved?
"As the teacher in charge of Nogao, I came to visit Shimizu-san, who seems to have been treated unfairly in school and has not been to school for several days. I hope Shimizu-san can cooperate with the teacher's work."
Before entering the door, Arisu Mieko once again emphasized the purpose of her trip, and her tone of voice was as free of any subjective emotions as possible, including the compassion that had been growing in her through her explorations in the school and along the way, which was deeply buried in her heart.
"I understand. Please come in, Mr. Arisu. You don't need to change your shoes."
After opening the door, Hiroki Shimizu couldn't help but look back at the messy house behind him. He had just cleaned it up in a hurry, but it was still a drop in the bucket.
When the beautiful boy thought about being stared at by a strange woman in such a miserable state in private, he felt his cheeks getting hot and he regretted letting the person in.
"Shimizu-san's home...is really different from what I imagined."
Mieko frowned as she entered the house. Not to mention the debris scattered all over the floor, the air was filled with a stuffy and humid smell that was really unpleasant.
"Has Shimizu-san not been out these days?"
"I... I wasn't feeling well, so I didn't go to school." Hiroki Shimizu couldn't find a suitable excuse for a moment, so he gave a perfunctory explanation.
"It seems that Qingshui-san doesn't trust the teacher very much, but it doesn't matter. The teacher has learned a lot of rumors about Qingshui-san..."
Mieko looked back and smiled softly. She seemed to be a gentle and easy-going person, but in fact she could not deny Shimizu Hiroki's lies.
As a priestess chosen by the gods, she possesses an innate delicate mind and a very sharp sixth sense. Coupled with her years of practice and experience, she can easily detect the indescribable subtle emotions in the atmosphere.
The moment she entered the basement, Mieko was almost strangled by the extremely sticky and desperate deathly aura. Her whole body felt suffocated and uncomfortable in this thick negative emotion, as if she had fallen into an abyss of hell from which she could not escape.
Then, her attention was quickly attracted by the pool of blood-red bandage and the blood stains on the ground. She was frightened by the huge amount of bleeding and covered her mouth with her hands, speaking in a trembling voice.
"Why... why is there so much blood? Is this Shimizu-san's blood? We need to go to the hospital for bandaging!"
"Arisu-sensei? Don't be nervous, it was just an accident. I'm fine now."
"If you don't take this kind of wound seriously, the consequences will be very serious. Where are you hurt? Let the teacher bandage you!"
In a moment of panic, Arisu Mieko ignored the difference between men and women and grabbed Shimizu Hiroki's wrist.
The beautiful boy reacted quickly and dodged with some resistance. "No, Arisu-sensei, it really doesn't hurt anymore."
"You are such a jerk... Shimizu-san, no matter what, the teacher wants to have a serious talk with you now!"
The woman who looked like she was ignorant of the ways of the world and even more naive and gullible than the high school student Shimizu Hiroki clenched her fists. Her originally non-aggressive face turned quite serious at the moment, staring at Shimizu Hiroki who had seemed nonchalant from the beginning.
It was difficult to refuse this serious and responsible female teacher, so Shimizu Yuuki pointed to the relatively clean small sofa that could accommodate three people, and the two of them sat at one end each.
Naturally, it was Arisu Mieko who was in charge of the investigation who asked the first question: "I want to know what happened to Shimizu-san these days? Were these serious injuries on your body caused by the bad students who bullied you in school?"
“Am I being bullied?”
Shimizu Hiroki was stunned for a moment, and soon thought of his classmates who were forced to turn a deaf ear and dumb and use cold violence against him due to Mina Sakai's private threats and oppression.
Although he was used to being alone at that time, he was indeed greatly affected and felt very lost. That was why he so quickly fell in love with the great tenderness shown to him by Mina Sakai.
He would not blame those classmates who had no choice but to do what they wanted. The culprit who ruined his bright and sunny college life should all be pointed at the vicious and cruel woman Mina Sakai!
"I don't know where Mr. Arisu heard this news, but as the school's discipline officer who supervises violations of rules and regulations, how could I be bullied by other students?"
"Even if that's the case, it's not impossible. These are things that the teacher heard and saw personally."
"What did Mr. Arisu see?" asked Shimizu Yuki suddenly.
"Of course I saw it after school that day..."
Mieko suddenly stopped talking, and her momentum stagnated. Her tightly bound chest rose and fell, showing signs of breaking free.
At this point, how could she remain out of it and turn a blind eye?
This land is bathed in the blessings of God, and as God's messenger, she should take care of and care for every citizen living here!
If she had not backed down that evening, but had chased after him and investigated thoroughly, perhaps the Shimizu-san she met today would be a completely different Shimizu Yuki.
"That night, the teacher saw Qingshui get into the black car at the school gate, and you disappeared for five days after that.
As far as I know, this is not something that the bright and positive Qingshui Discipline Director would do! "
"Teacher, how do you know..."
Shimizu Hiroki's heart was pounding, and the dull and numb expression on his face became distorted, as if he was recalling those painful and dirty memories that were buried deep in his heart.
"It doesn't matter, I just know that as a teacher, I can't watch my students have those bad experiences in or out of school."
"Qi Shui, can you trust the teacher? No matter how terrible the difficulties you encounter, the teacher will find a way to help you solve them..."
"I also know that Shimizu has no relatives around him and has been living alone. Even so, he often helps bullied students who have also been treated unfairly. He is really a very brave and kind child."
Mieko Arisu is worthy of being the shrine maiden chosen by the gods. She stands out from the many girls at the Hoshino Shrine and becomes another saint who has caused miracles in hundreds of years.
She was born with the ability to love, just as she now felt great empathy and pity for the beautiful young man in front of her who she had mistaken for a god who had wandered to the human world at first sight.
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