This time, she finally grasped the wrist of Shimizu Yuuki, who was in agony. A clear tear slid down her beautiful white cheek and fell onto the back of the beautiful boy's hand with bulging veins.
"So now, as a teacher, I will save Shimizu-san who is lost and confused, okay?"
If someone else witnessed this moment with their own eyes, they would mistakenly think that they saw the kind God appear and shed tears for His people who were suffering!
Shimizu Hiroki also felt the tear melting on his skin and seeping into his body. His cold and stiff limbs finally felt the warm breath. The dazzling luster reflected on the teardrop instantly became the only remaining light in his eyes.
However, his rationality did not disappear. Instead, he thought of the terrifying Sakai family and the Kurono Group, two giants. They were like gods in this island country with clear class distinctions. How could a small health teacher like Arisu Mieko be able to deal with them?
If he gave in, he would have wasted the time when he was in the most desperate and painful... the only person who was willing to lend a helping hand to him, Mr. Arisu.
With the stinginess and viciousness of that woman Sakai Mina, and the indifference and cruelty of Kurono Yukie, who looks like she has no brains, and the enthusiasm of Mr. Arisu, wouldn't they destroy her to the point where not even a trace of her remains?
Hiroki Shimizu himself is already stuck in a whirlpool, and he doesn't want to drag down innocent people like Mr. Arisu.
The beautiful boy pulled his wrist away from the warm palm of this woman who was full of love and compassion for all living beings. He pulled the corners of his stiff lips and revealed a smile from the heart.
"I am very grateful to the teacher for talking to me for so long. I will definitely pay you back for the rent you paid for me. And if I really suffered unfair treatment like school bullying, I would certainly contact the teacher.
But nothing really happened here, and I will go to school as usual tomorrow. If there is nothing else, can you leave now, teacher?"
219. Unbearable to look back & too much to describe! Shimizu Hiroki's extremely angry accusation!
Mieko Arisu spent almost all of her twenty years at the Hoshino Shrine, honing her mind and purifying her body. Her lofty and otherworldly status meant that she did not have to linger in the secular world, and she was a mountain flower that was ignorant of worldly affairs.
But this does not mean that she really understands nothing. The long steps of the Hoshino Shrine are crowded with believers coming and going every day. Those who come to pray for the protection of the gods with troubles, sins, and desires often have a secret that cannot be told.
Even the wealthy and powerful island nobles were no exception. The saint Mieko Arisu who lived in seclusion in the mountains was initially frightened by the dirty and ugly human desires, but later, after seeing so many of them, she gradually became numb and it almost became a part of her cognition.
This land is said to be blessed by the gods, but the people who have lived on it for generations do not feel happy. Even she, a saint, has never seen the gods, let alone heard the so-called guidance from the gods.
She also understood that once the shiny and bright outer layer was torn off, the darkness and ugliness of the human heart far surpassed the evil demons from hell that she had seen in the scriptures.
Even so, Mieko still believes in the existence of God, but He is probably lost and is waiting to be found and saved by believers.
During this period of time, which may be very long, Mieko will fulfill her duty and redeem the people whom God loves deeply but are in deep suffering.
And when Arisu Mieko saw the beautiful boy Shimizu Hiroki, who was obviously stuck in the mud but still unwilling to accept her help, his clean and beautiful pure black eyes were already stained with a layer of dark and desperate haze.
Even if there is a ray of light in the despair, there is still a struggling fear and powerlessness, which is undoubtedly a sign of oppression and humiliation!
There was no need to say anything at this moment, Mieko understood everything and knew what she should do.
Her bound, weak body suddenly burst out with unexpected strength and grasped Shimizu Yuki's wrist again.
This time, their palms were pressed together, as if building a bridge connecting each other's hearts. The endless warmth flowing from Mieko's body quickly warmed Shimizu Yuuki's cold and stiff limbs.
The woman's slightly moist eyes were filled with compassion and mercy, and her words hit the nail on the head for Shimizu Hiroki's hesitation and worry.
"Qi Shui-san, are you worried about the teacher? Are you afraid that the teacher will be targeted by those powerful people who are coercing and controlling you behind your back? I was not wrong about you, Qing Shui-san, you really have a very good and obedient child!"
"Since Mr. Arisu has guessed it, don't do those moth-to-flame things anymore. Once they know your existence... they will definitely not let you go." Shimizu Hiroki threatened in a deep voice.
"Then does Shimizu-san know the identity of the teacher? How can you be so sure that I can't save you from the clutches of those people behind you?"
The beautiful boy was stunned for a moment. He widened his bloodshot eyes and looked carefully at Arisu Mieko who was extremely calm and composed. His heart couldn't help but beat fast.
How can there be such a good thing in this world?
Just when he was most desperate and helpless, someone happened to claim that he had enough power to save him and bring him out of his suffering?
Even though this was the scene he had longed for the most in the past two days when he was living a life worse than death, he still found it a little hard to believe when it really happened before his eyes.
Hiroki Shimizu never believed in gods, so he wondered if it was his mother's spirit in heaven that was protecting him?
But when he thought about the dirty things he had suffered being seen by his mother in heaven, his desire to die became stronger again.
"Teacher, since you can work in Yegao, you must be from a wealthy family. But if you want to fight against the real powerful people, and there are more than one family, I'm afraid you will be powerless to save the situation."
After thinking for a long time, Shimizu Hiroki smiled bitterly and shook his head, unwilling to let the kind-hearted teacher Arisu get involved in this mess.
"There are more than one family? Then what on earth did they do to Shimizu-san..."
Mieko's face turned pale and she didn't dare to think any further.
Such a strong and brave student like Shimizu could be persecuted into this state. It must be a terrible thing that is condemned by both humans and gods.
She raised her head and said sternly, "No matter how arrogant those people are, even if they treat human life as worthless, the teacher does not intend to give up Qingshui-san!"
"Arisu-sensei, you..."
"At this point, I won't hide it from Qingshui-san anymore, but I still ask you to keep it a secret for the teacher and not let anyone else know my identity."
"I-I understand."
Yuuki Shimizu's breathing suddenly became rapid. He licked his dry and chapped lips, and actually began to believe that perhaps his life might not have really reached the end of the road.
"Does Shimizu-san know about Hoshino Shrine?"
"Of course I know. My mother has always been a believer of this shrine. Even when she was seriously ill, she would climb the mountain to participate in the annual prayer ceremony."
Shimizu Hiroki nodded. If it were someone else... he would never reveal anything about his mother, but he still felt that Arisu-sensei seemed different.
That day, he met the unconscious Mieko Arisu in the corridor. When he pushed aside the scattered hair covering her cheeks and saw the woman's face, he felt an inexplicable sense of warmth and closeness.
It was like drinking a handful of sweet spring water. All the restless thoughts in my heart were washed away in that instant. It was a very magical and strange experience.
When I saw Arisu Michiko again, this feeling did not disappear, nor did it change at all.
"Is that so? Maybe I have even met Shimizu-san's mother!" Mieko pursed her lips and chuckled. Her beautiful and clean face made people feel very friendly.
"What do you mean? Is Arisu-sensei also a believer of Hoshino Shrine? My mother goes to the shrine every year to pray for me. One time, she even met the saint who is said to be able to hear the guidance of the gods but rarely goes out. After returning home, she was so happy that she couldn't sleep for several days."
Mieko's tone was calm, as if she was talking about a very trivial matter.
"What if the teacher tells you that this saint girl... is actually me?"
"This... How is this possible! Arisu-sensei, are you making fun of me as revenge for me kicking you out?"
"Teacher, this is not funny."
The hope that Shimizu Yuki had finally ignited in his heart was shattered, and the expression on his face was visibly disappointed.
"Teacher will not be so presumptuous as to make fun of something that concerns the gods, and will not take Qingshui-san's trust in me as a joke!
Didn't Shimizu hear that the Saint of the Hoshino Shrine was going to retreat to the secular world to practice, and even this year's prayer ceremony was cancelled because of this? And I happened to be an inexperienced teacher entering the extremely strict and harsh examination of the Noboru High School at this time. Doesn't this explain something?"
"This could just be a coincidence. He was able to join Nodaka so easily. What if Arisu-sensei is the son of some powerful family..."
Shimizu Hiroki's voice suddenly stopped, and he suddenly realized that among the famous families that can be compared with the Sakai family and the Kurono family, there is no family name like "Arisu"?
He then recalled a secret his mother had told him that very few people knew, and that was something that only the Qingshui family knew before it fell into decline.
Shimizu Iori told him that the surname of the current chief priest who has been in charge of Hoshino Shrine for more than seventy years is Arisu, and the children she adopted from the mountain to train as shrine maidens will be named accordingly.
However, there are many people with the surname "Arisu" in the local area and even in the island country. The lofty Hoshino Shrine does not strictly prohibit the appearance of people with the same surname. It is said that this is to protect the saints who have emerged from the shrine maidens in successive generations so that they can better retreat from the world and gain experience.
All these coincidences seemed to be explained little by little. Hiroki Shimizu raised his head and looked at the woman in front of him with a special temperament and a smile on her face.
“If Qingshui-san still doesn’t believe me, I can take off my clothes right now and show you the cinnabar mark on my back that symbolizes my status as a saint. This is the mark that appeared spontaneously after I reproduced the miracle of the past and was chosen as a saint…”
Seeing that Arisu Mieko unbuttoned a button on her chest without saying a word, Shimizu Hiroki was shocked and grabbed the woman's hand to stop this overly impulsive behavior.
"So, Shimizu-san believes me?" Arisu Mieko stared straight at Shimizu Hiroki with her watery eyes.
The beautiful boy suddenly realized that he was actually holding the hand of the saint who was worshipped by countless believers in the island country and had an extremely high status and identity. Even the chosen ones like Sakai Mina and Kurono Yukie could not be compared with her!
He quickly let go of his hand, Shimizu Hiroki still had some doubts. He really couldn't understand why Arisu-sensei went through so much trouble just to help him and die.
"Does Arisu-sensei have any other evidence? Forget about this kind of evidence that is too private..."
"I wonder if this will work?"
Shimizu Hiroki looked up and saw Mieko showing the new mobile phone she had bought before going down the mountain. There was a photo of her kneeling on a cushion and chanting a prayer saved in the mobile phone.
But this time she was not wearing a white veil to cover her figure, nor was she wearing a mask. Her plump figure was fully revealed in the photo, which was indeed not like what people imagined a saint to look like.
This is also why Mieko would rather lower half of her shoulders to reveal her beautiful back than show this somewhat embarrassing photo to Hiroki Shimizu.
Fortunately, Shimizu Hiroki did not notice these details at all, but was attracted by the ancient and charming shrine layout around him. With the strength of the Shimizu family at that time, he could of course see the interior of the shrine that many ordinary believers could not see, and every brick and tile in the photo was almost exactly the same as what he remembered.
It’s a pity that he had only been to the Hoshino Shrine once and had never seen the so-called saint.
But everything he saw before his eyes was enough to prove that what Arisu Mieko said was true. She really was the contemporary saint of Hoshino Shrine, a woman who was rumored to be able to listen to the guidance of gods and even lead miracles to happen!
"I, I believe Arisu-sensei. No, I should call you..."
"It doesn't matter. Just call me by my secular identity."
Seeing that Shimizu Hiroki had agreed, Mieko immediately turned off her phone screen to prevent Shimizu Hiroki from noticing that she looked the same in the photo as she does now, but her figure is completely different.
Would she have to untie the white ribbons and show her whole body to Shimizu-san?
Just thinking about it made Arisu Mieko feel guilty. Her legs unconsciously clamped together, her breathing became slightly hot, but soon she calmed down again.
"Since Qingshui-san believes my identity, can you tell me how the teacher oppressed and controlled you from behind? Where did the black car take Qingshui-san that evening? Why did it torture Qingshui-san into this pitiful state?"
Hiroki Shimizu took a deep breath, his thoughts returned to that unbearable memory, and then his voice trembled slightly because of pain.
"Teacher, they... one of them is from the Sakai family, and the other is from the Kurono group. They are giants that almost monopolize the black and white worlds. Since that evening..."
Halfway through his words, Shimizu Hiroki suppressed his voice that was about to become choked with sobs and could not say a single word about the countless evil deeds committed by these two evil women.
"And I was deceived and lied to by the eldest daughter of the Sakai family, Mina Sakai, and ended up in this state. She even teamed up with the young master of the Kurono Group, Yukie Kurono, to carry out an inhumane act against me..."
220. Unbearable to look back & Shimizu Yuki's escape plan
When she heard Shimizu-san finally opening his heart to her, he almost choked up. He then told her everything that had happened to him in the past few days. Arisu Mieko, who had just walked out of the mountains, was so shocked that she covered her mouth for a long time without saying a word.
"How could such a ridiculous and horrible thing happen in this world? And it happened in this land blessed by the gods. Aren't they afraid of being punished by the gods?"
Mieko Arisu had thought long ago that it would not be a good thing. Over the years, she had sung prayers, preached and answered questions for the wealthy and powerful, and she had also witnessed the intrigues and despicable deeds of these nobles who seemed glamorous on the surface.
But she never imagined that Shimizu Hiroki, who was innocent from beginning to end, would be treated so inhumanely. He simply did not care about human life and treated the world under the care of God as his own playground!
Even with the good temper that Miezi had developed through years of self-cultivation, she couldn't help but look furious and clench her white and tender fists.
She finally understood the stern warnings that the palace master had given her before she went down the mountain, telling her to stay true to her heart and not get lost in the troubled world down the mountain, otherwise she would surely fall into an irretrievable doom.
This... is this the world below the mountain?
"Teacher? Arisu-sensei! Are you...are you sure you can get away with offending them?"
Seeing that Arisu Mieko couldn't speak for a long time, Shimizu Hiroki couldn't help but feel a little panicked.
If even the saint in front of him, whose status and position are second only to God in the island country, cannot defeat the two women, Sakai and Kurono, then he has no choice but to accept his fate. It is better to just harden his heart and end it all to avoid enduring this humiliation and pain in the future!
"Don't worry, Mr. Qingshui. I usually deal with the real leaders of these families. I am not familiar with these juniors, and I don't know their respective identities and status in the family. But to say that they can do anything to me... is undoubtedly a pipe dream!"
"Is this real? It feels like a dream!"
Even though the huge gap from hell to heaven is really unbelievable, it's like living in an illusory dream.
Shimizu Hiroki still suppressed the relaxation in his heart. He looked at the shrine maiden in front of him who had a compassionate face but hated evil, and lowered his voice to confirm again.
"Then, teacher, are you really willing to go against these two families for the sake of me, your student?"
Mieko curled her lips and chuckled, her tone without any personal opinion or subjective consciousness showing sympathy and pity for all poor living beings.
"Whether as a messenger chosen by the gods to watch over and guide this land, or as a teacher who teaches and educates people, this is my responsibility. Not just for Shimizu-san, I would do the same for anyone else."
My mother said that from the moment the clergy of Hoshino Shrine decided to serve the god, they must abide by the rules and regulations of the shrine. One of the rules is to be sincere... and not to tell lies, let alone Mieko Arisu, who is a saint!
Now that he had received such a solemn promise, Shimizu Hiroki finally breathed a sigh of relief. After experiencing so many ups and downs, his body was filled with adrenaline. The wound on the back of his head began to ache.
"I feel relieved to hear these words from the teacher."
"In that case, if you have any ideas or requests, please feel free to speak up. I will do my best to help you."
The pale-faced handsome boy was completely unaware of anything unusual in his body. He just lowered his head and pondered for a long time.
His cold, aloof brows and eyes, tightly twisted together, looked quite graceful and handsome. It seemed that he could be redeemed and escape from the sea of suffering with great difficulty, but he seemed to be in great entanglement and hesitation, unable to let go for a long time.
"Teacher, I've thought it through." Yuki Shimizu raised his head and met the woman's concerned gaze, and he almost gritted his teeth before making up his mind.
"Since my mother passed away, I have been alone, with no relatives or friends to talk to. With the help of my teacher, I can change my identity and go to a new city to start a new life. But those evil women committed such an unforgivable and terrible crime against me, and I don't know when I can get rid of this shadow.
The island country is really too small. Just thinking about having to live in this land that is involved with those two evil women in the future, and perhaps seeing them appear in front of the TV screen in their glamorous appearance every day, I am afraid that I will be consumed by the hatred in my heart and do something irrational.
I am very happy that the teacher is willing to stand on the side of the students. I will no longer expect the teacher to make these evil people get the punishment they deserve, so as not to implicate the teacher. So I want to leave this country where I have lived for more than ten years. As for where to go... I think China next door may be a good choice. This is my decision!"
"Is that all?"
Mieko was stunned for a moment. If she hadn't seen that Shimizu Hiroki's bloodshot eyes had actually gradually regained clarity and temporarily broken free from the extremely strong hatred, she would never have believed that a boy of this age could have such an extraordinary mentality and cognition.
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