I save a pathological girl with a twisted love story.

"Really." Aoi Asahi walked in helplessly and patted Natsugiri Kai on the shoulder. "Natsugiri, I asked you to help out today. I didn't expect you to have Tokisaka-senpai do everything. You didn't just sit here all afternoon watching Tokisaka-senpai work, did you?"

“No,” Xia Wuzhao said seriously, “two other people were registered to borrow books.”

"Oh? Do you still want me to praise you?"

Asahi Aoi turned her head to look at Natsugiri Kai.

"No need for that."

Xia Wuzhao stood beside the counter, showing no sign of remorse.

"The two people who borrowed the books were only allowed to operate the computer because Xia Wu wanted to demonstrate how to use it to me."

Chiharu Tokisaka walked over and added insult to injury with a smile.

"Then nothing was done, wasn't it?"

Aoi Asahi sighed helplessly, and then said to Chiharu Tokisaka, "Senpai, thank you so much for your help today."

"No trouble at all, just ordinary work." Chiharu Tokisaka laughed, hands on her hips. "Compared to my previous job, this one can be considered a vacation."

But Aoi Asahi said very seriously, "You didn't need to do this, so thank you so much. Please give me a chance to thank you."

Chiharu Tokisaka looked at the earnest Aoi Asahi and said somewhat helplessly, "Then treat me to a home-cooked meal, but it's fine as long as we eat at home. There's no need to spend money outside. Your lives aren't very wealthy, are they?"

She said, as if she were really thinking about Asahi Aoi, "Besides, I've heard that your cooking skills are really, really good, so I want to see for myself."

Asahi Aoi looked at Tokisaka Chiharu, and she readily agreed.

“Okay, Tokisaka-senpai, let’s go back together today. However, I’m currently staying at Natsugiri’s house, so we can only go there.”

"It's okay, it's okay," Chiharu Tokisaka said with a smile.

Chapter 248 The Brilliant Happiness That Almost Burned the Eyes

After school, the three of them took the tram together and went home together.

Because this was a thank-you gift, Aoi Asahi planned to buy some new ingredients. However, Chiharu Tokisaka stopped her, feeling guilty.

"Asahi, there's no need to buy new ingredients. The usual ones are fine."

She said, "If you spend a lot of money to entertain me, I'll feel a little guilty. I'm just helping out with a small favor. If you do too much, I'll feel embarrassed."

Asahi Aoi had no choice but to give up her idea of ​​going to buy groceries.

After getting off the tram, it's still a bit of a walk to get to Xia Wuzhao's house.

Chiharu Tokisaka looked around, secretly sizing him up.

"What's wrong, senior?"

Asahi asked Tokisaka Chiharu.

"It's nothing, I've just never been here before."

Chiharu Tokisaka smiled and asked, "May I take a picture?"

"Of course you can, but what's so interesting about taking pictures here?" Aoi Asahi wondered.

“Because my hometown is in the countryside in the mountains, houses like this are very rare. I can take pictures to show my parents,” Chiharu Tokisaka said with a smile. “My parents are quite vain. When I got a job, they went out and showed it off quite a bit.”

Her smile made Aoi feel envious.

"You have a really good relationship with your parents, Tokisaka-senpai."

Asahi said, "I'm so envious."

Chiharu Tokisaka laughed and said, "After all, I'm a child from the mountains, so my relationship with my parents is naturally better. But they've really had a tough time too. So, I never tell them any bad news about my life."

"After all, even if they knew, there's nothing they could do to help; they'd just be worrying for nothing. So it's better not to tell them. Anyway, I can handle any problems that arise."

She picked up her phone and started snapping photos, especially of Xia Wu's house, which she photographed very carefully.

Then I put it in the email and clicked send.

"Can I see how the photos turned out?" Aoi said. "Maybe I could have taken even better ones."

pat.

Chiharu Tokisaka closed her phone, laughing heartily. "Only if the photos are bad will they look like they were taken by me. If they're too perfect, people will wonder if they're fake."

"Is that so?" Aoi Asahi thought so too.

She chatted with Xia Wuzhao again: "I have to go to class again tomorrow."

"Ah."

Xia Wuzhao walked beside him, looking at the houses next to him. They seemed to be copied and pasted one-to-one, the only difference being the different flowers and plants in the yard.

"Tomorrow will probably be quite lively, as everyone will be bringing something to school."

Asahi Aoi and Natsugiri Kai chatted casually, and she talked to Natsugiri Kai about grades, asking how her studies were going recently.

Xia Wuzhao said, "It's alright, I guess."

"But the teachers have been very relaxed lately, and the learning progress seems to have slowed down a bit."

She said with some concern, "I don't know if this will cause me to fall behind in my studies."

"It's probably possible," Xia Wuzhao said. "There's a cultural festival every year, and I've never seen any other students complain about not being able to keep up with the learning progress."

"If only that were true."

Aoi fiddled with her sideburns.

The two talked as if they were close friends or lovers.

"I'm so envious."

Chiharu Tokisaka looked at Aoi Asahi and Kai Natsugiri with envy.

"This feeling of happiness is wonderful. It's truly enviable."

She was clutching her phone, almost with an urge to run away.

"She and he are so happy, it feels like I'm going to get burned if I get close to them."

The girl thought to herself.

She really wanted to say that the learning progress would never fall behind, because the teachers would frantically try to catch up at the very end.

She even had a plan in mind for how to make the sentence more interesting.

How can I tell this as a joke, while also imagining that both of us will burst out laughing after hearing it?

But—in the end, nothing was said.

I just watched the two of them chatting and laughing silently.

Perhaps it was because the light of this happiness was too dazzling, or perhaps it was because it was about to burn.

Chiharu Tokisaka was unusually silent; even after entering Natsugiri Kai's house, she couldn't see anything else clearly.

They didn't even understand how the meal was eaten or how it ended.

I only remember hurriedly rejecting Asahi Aoi's offer to stay, and leaving Natsugiri Kai's house immediately after finishing my meal.

When I stood outside Xia Wuzhao's house, it was already dark, with only the streetlights on both sides illuminating the scene.

The autumn wind chills the heart, causing all the body heat to dissipate rapidly.

She took a few steps in the darkness, walking down the road.

Chiharu Tokisaka wasn't in a hurry, since the train wouldn't be back for quite a while.

While on her way to work, she would often pay attention to the tram schedule, deciding how many minutes early to leave and what time to arrive.

These are all things to be careful about, especially when you work multiple jobs a day and travel to multiple places.

Her time management skills were honed during that time.

"call--"

She took a few deep breaths and then took out her phone.

"At least I completed the task, and at least I got paid."

"Well, at least I'm working."

"Happiness is not a necessity of life."

She comforted herself and dialed Chiho's number.

"Hello, hello, this is Chiho."

Chiho's voice came through the phone.

Good evening, Chiho.

Chiharu Tokisaka smiled energetically, but for some reason, there was a hint of humility in her expression.

"Ah, it's you, senior." Chiho chuckled. "I've already received the photos you sent me. You're really capable, senior; you even know the address clearly."

"Thank you so much, senior."

"Ah, it's nothing serious," Chiharu Tokisaka said with an upturned tone; "After all, it was found quickly."

"That's true, but it's based on your abilities, so the money will definitely be substantial."

Chiho said, "How about you come to my doorstep tomorrow?"

"Can't we do it at school?" Chiharu Tokisaka asked, somewhat puzzled.

"Ah, I need to ask for leave tomorrow," Chiho said. "I won't be able to go to school."

"I see."

Chiharu Tokisaka hesitated for a moment, then sighed and said, "Okay, I'll go tomorrow."

Chiho smiled and said, "Senior, how did you and Natsume get home? I'm very curious."

"It was just ordinary help," Chiharu Tokisaka said, a little puzzled. "Nothing special."

Chiho said, "If you don't mind the trouble, could you tell me everything completely?"

Although Chiharu Tokisaka found it troublesome, she still said, "Of course, I happen to be free right now."

After she finished speaking, she still smiled energetically.

"How despicable I am. I lied to Xia Wu, yet I treated it as something to brag about."

She thought about it, and her mood became slightly depressed.

"But as long as I get paid, that's all that matters."

As the girl thought this, she began to repeat to Chiho the events of the day.

Chiharu Tokisaka also hesitated, wondering whether she should tell the story about the stairs.

"Perhaps it's better not to say it."

"But even if Chiho wants to hear it, I'll just tell her myself."

"Xia Wuzhao got angry when we were moving things today." She laughed as if she were telling a joke.

It seemed as if they didn't care at all.

"Oh?" Chiho, who had been lying on the bed, immediately sat up. "Could you explain in detail?"

“I was just asking if you and him were a couple,” Chiharu Tokisaka said, looking at the small flying insects under the streetlight. “But he kept denying it. Maybe I pressed him too hard, so he got angry.”

"Oh, it really startled me at the time."

She laughed and said, "But have you two been arguing lately?"

Chiho was pondering this matter when she heard Chiharu Tokisaka's question, and a thought struck her: "Why do you think we had a fight?"

Chiharu Tokisaka, however, didn't seem to have much of an opinion. She said, "Because I said you two are dating. If you really have nothing going on, you shouldn't be so angry."

"Shouldn't a normal person's reaction be to feel ashamed or uneasy?"

"Moreover, he seemed impatient, almost as if he was trying to hide something."

Chiharu Tokisaka said, "That's why I'm the one who thinks you two had a fight."

"Oh." Chiho seemed to be deep in thought. After exchanging pleasantries with Chiharu Tokisaka for a while, she finally hung up the phone.

She quickly went to her desk, picked up a notebook, and began to write and draw on it.