What does it have to do with me if they hate vests?

If you only look at the surface, Oosaka Rikuro has a pretty good temperament and can easily win the favor of others.

It's a pity that such one-sided things can't deceive Shiki now. It's better to say that now that he sees the other person in person and his business skills are deeply touched, he realizes how naive and stupid his idea was to just bring this guy to Oosaka Taiga and bring the father and daughter back together.

"Really? Then does Mr. Oosaka like Ohga?" Shiki asked casually.

"Of course I like them. What parent doesn't like their own child?"

Oosaka Rikuro said this righteously, looking like a good father.

The girl looked at this scene, and although she curled her lips in disdain, the hopeful light flashing in her eyes could not be hidden from Si Ji's eyes.

"In that case, why don't we live together?"

Four Seasons asked.

"Of course I don't want to!" Oosaka Taiga jumped up and said.

But Shiki didn't look at her and continued to stare at Oosaka Rikuro.

The latter originally gave a wry smile, and seemed to be planning to use Oosaka Taiga's words to perfunctorily answer Shiki's question, but Shiki's look made him feel uneasy for some reason, so he could only say vaguely: "Actually, there are many reasons..."

Oosaka Taiga sat back in his seat angrily, slurping the juice without even looking at his father again.

"Like a lover?" Si Ji asked suddenly.

"of course not."

Being questioned so bluntly, Oosaka Rikuro almost couldn't keep the smile on his face.

"Let me guess...your lover said that he didn't want to live with Dahe, so you left Dahe in a place like this and let her fend for herself?" Si Ji pressed on step by step.

"...That's enough." The smile on Oosaka Rikuro's face finally faded. He lowered his voice and said solemnly, "Although I admire you, classmate, it is not your turn to interfere in our family affairs."

Shiki glanced at Oosaka Taiga. The girl was still slurping the juice, but she couldn't hide the sadness in her eyes.

Chapter 347 My Promise

"As a friend of Taiga, or as a person with a strong sense of justice and empathy, it's inevitable that you would want to intervene when you encounter something like this."

Perhaps most high school students would have an instinctive fear when faced with condescending accusations from adults.

But obviously this attitude is meaningless to Shiki. He has always been a person who responds to soft words but not to hard words. After triggering the maximum level business skill, he is even less likely to respond to soft words. In his view now, Oosaka Rikuro's behavior is like a giant monkey that has been poked in the butt, dancing around to show how angry and embarrassed he is.

He said with a hint of amazement in his tone, "We usually regard people who abandon their children as scum, but you who have abandoned them several times are undoubtedly the scum of scum. You are really amazing."

It's not that Oosaka Rikuro has never thought about living with Oosaka Taiga.

It would be better to say that he often had similar thoughts on a whim, but every time he thought about it and contacted Dahe for a few days, he would choose to give up because the enthusiasm had passed and there were practical troubles, and he would go back on his word and leave his daughter aside again.

This is undoubtedly a betrayal, which means that Ohga is kind by nature, otherwise she might have become an antisocial personality long ago after being betrayed by her biological father three times.

So Oosaka Rikuro is not a cold-blooded creature without any humanity, he is just an ordinary scum.

After Shiki pointed out the point that he had always wanted to avoid so matter-of-factly, Oosaka Rikuro's expression became extremely ugly.

"Kid, didn't your father teach you how to speak nicely?" He said with a sinister look on his face.

"I'm sorry, but I don't have a dad."

Oosaka Taiga was stunned for a moment.

But Oosaka Rikuro showed a mocking smile: "So it's a single-parent family with only your mother? It's normal for you to have such a twisted personality..."

"What a pity, I don't have a mother either." Si Ji said cheerfully.

Even Oosaka Rikuro couldn't hold it in anymore: "Huh?"

And Oosaka Taiga remembered that there was indeed no trace of his parents in the Washimiya dormitory where Shiki was.

Was he so pitiful in the past?

The girl looked at the young man, whose face was not at all gloomy, and thought about how he never felt sad about his life experience in the apartment, but just cared for other residents of Washimiya Dormitory like the sun. The grievance in her heart disappeared at once, and what was left was only heartache for him.

And Oosaka Rikuro finally adjusted himself: "You are an orphan without a father or a mother, and you still want to meddle in other people's business? You might as well think about what to eat for dinner first!"

"Pasta," said Four Seasons.

Oosaka Rikuro: “Ah?”

"Spaghetti Bolognese for dinner."

"..."

No, I don’t really care what you’re going to eat for dinner. You should act a little sad after I mocked you like this!

Oosaka Rikuro roared in his heart.

"This level of ridicule doesn't make me sad." Si Ji said suddenly.

Oosaka Rikuro was stunned: Did I say what I was thinking?

"I didn't say it, but it's not hard to guess what a scumbag is thinking."

Shiki showed an unfathomable smile that showed he was confident of victory, which made Oosaka Rikuro a little frightened: "For example, the next sentence in your mind is..."

For some reason, Oosaka Rikuro felt a sense of fear.

He tried to comfort himself:

This arrogant little brat must be just bluffing...

"This arrogant brat must be just bluffing."

As Oosaka Rikuro's inner thoughts emerged, almost exactly the same words were spoken by Shiki.

Even though Oosaka Taiga didn't know what his father was thinking, seeing how shocked he was, he could naturally understand that Shiki was right.

"That's enough. What on earth do you want to do—"

As if he had witnessed some horrible supernatural event, facing the young man whose background he had no idea of ​​at all, Oosaka Rikuro's inner panic and fear made his voice become timid.

Shiki had a sneer on his face, his hands crossed at his chin, and he looked at Oosaka Rikuro with a playful look.

The reflection from the round lenses blocked most of Shiki's eyes with large patches of white light, so that Oosaka Rikuro was completely unable to detect the emotions expressed in Shiki's eyes. He only saw a hint of... gold that shouldn't be there?

For no reason, Oosaka Rikuro's heart was engulfed by an almost instinctive fear, as if he was being watched by a creature higher up the food chain. Cold sweat kept oozing from his forehead. He subconsciously took out a handkerchief to wipe his face, but his fingers trembled unnaturally and the handkerchief dropped twice.

"Mr. Oosaka, guess how I got the information about you and your lover?"

After estimating that the other party's psychological pressure was almost reaching its limit, Si Ji continued speaking leisurely.

"...Are you following me?" Oosaka Rikuro asked with trembling teeth.

Four Seasons sneered.

"I'm not interested in playing charades with you anymore, so just reveal the answer directly."

Shiki took out a business card, and the maple leaf pattern on the background caught Rikuro Oosaka's attention.

"This, this is..."

He subconsciously reached out to take it, but Si Ji showed a look of disgust and did not give him his business card.

"For some reason, although I am still in high school, I have received an offer from Maple Leaf Technology. After graduation, I will work in the patrol department of Maple Leaf headquarters."

Si Ji said leisurely as he played with the business card in his hand.

Oosaka Rikuro realized something, and his already ugly face suddenly became even uglier, a bit like the color of pickled pork liver.

Although his family's business is not so bad as to pass off inferior products as good ones or inferior goods as duck heads, it is still somewhat shoddy. Although this situation is not uncommon among grassroots small businesses that have connections to supply Maple Leaf Technology, it is still a gray area and cannot withstand scrutiny.

After a long silence, Oosaka Rikuro sighed and said dejectedly, "I understand... I will break up with my lover and live a good life with Taiga..."

"Do you think I would believe this?"

Shiki finished the coffee in his cup in one gulp. "I hope you won't come to see Oosaka again. What choice she makes when she grows up is her own business, but at least during this time in high school, please keep your distance from Taiga, and don't play those tricks of suddenly 'coming to your senses' and 'turning back', and then suddenly disappearing when Taiga softens her heart and wants to accept you as a father again."

Oosaka Rikuro stared at Shiki in amazement: "But, but..."

"There's nothing to worry about. You didn't care about her before anyway."

Shiki put the coffee cup heavily on the saucer. "Leave her to me. Unlike you, from today on, until she comes of age, I will take good care of her. This is my promise."

Chapter 348 Let’s Discuss Our Own Issues

After Shiki clearly expressed his intention to "see you off", Oosaka Rikuro finally left in despair.

Dahe seemed to want to say something to her father, but after hesitating for a while, the girl said nothing in the end. She just silently watched the other person's back disappear at the door.

This is normal. After all, Oosaka Taiga is a typical tsundere. People with this kind of personality are not good at expressing their own thoughts - so in most anime works where giving oneself away has become the mainstream, tsundere characters can only become losers.

"Do you want anything else?" Shiki picked up the menu beside him. "Although I only ordered this out of curiosity, the coffee in the pub is really terrible... Happy water is more suitable for me."

The girl looked at him as if nothing had happened and muttered softly, "You are just talking nonsense. I clearly didn't agree to anything..."

"Don't worry about it. My house is pretty big, so it's no problem to raise a little tiger."

Shiki smiled happily and said, "Look at this, how about rice cake cooked with miso? I have only eaten rice cake in Korean fried chicken and red bean rice cake soup since I was a child."

"I want to eat meat!"

Oosaka Taiga said dissatisfiedly.

I don’t know if she was just dissatisfied with Siji’s order or dissatisfied with the other party’s perfunctory attitude.

So Shiki pointed at the menu again and said, "Then let's have ginger pork teriyaki... Deep-fried pork cutlet and Fukujin pickles are also good. After all, we have to go back to school to participate in the sports meet later, and deep-fried pork cutlet represents victory."

"Don't you think the tonkatsu is lenient if you confess and severe if you resist..." the girl complained, then touched her belly, "As for me... what?"

"what happened?"

Four Seasons asked hurriedly.

"My stomach... doesn't seem so hungry anymore."

Oosaka Taiga said in surprise.

"Really? That must be because you no longer need so much food to fill the void in your heart."

Si Ji said seriously.

"I always feel like you're in a yin-yang relationship and I'm lonely. Is it my illusion?"

Oosaka Taiga looked at Shiki with an unfriendly look.

"Nothing happened."

Si Ji answered with great righteousness.

Then, while the girl was ordering drinks from a passing waiter, he flipped through the adolescent syndrome notes in the system inventory.

[Infinite Syndrome: The girl who lacks a sense of security finally chooses to believe in her own strength. As long as the loneliness and loss in her heart do not disappear, she will continue to become stronger. But strength cannot be obtained out of thin air. While becoming stronger, she also needs to eat more food. Once the speed of eating is not fast enough to consume, she will become the firewood of this unlimited power and burn out. ]

【Prescription for the sick: Oosaka Taiga】

[Treatment plan: When she has a place that can make her feel at ease, an existence that can make her feel safe, and is no longer surrounded by a sense of loss, she will naturally no longer need the power that will make her infinitely powerful.]

[Treatment effect: cured]

Sure enough, after he vowed to take good care of Oosaka Taiga, the girl didn't say anything, but she chose to believe Shiki, and as a result she gained enough security and her adolescent syndrome was cured.

Si Ji breathed a sigh of relief imperceptibly.

In this way, all adolescent syndromes will be cured, there will be no such supernatural phenomena in this world, and I can finally return to my peaceful daily life.

Since Oosaka Taiga was right next to him, Shiki naturally did not choose to open the last skill treasure chest immediately - there were obviously a lot of strange things in this thing, and if something that made a lot of noise came out, then the daily life that had finally calmed down would probably develop into a bad and troublesome direction again.

"that……"

The girl sipped the juice for a while, then glanced at Siji secretly, and then said hesitantly: "Since you have told my father that you want him to hand me over to you, then can we change our names?"

Eating the aralia buds in the assorted wild vegetable tempura all year round - spring is the best time to eat wild vegetable tempura, you can't eat these wild delicacies after this time - after listening to the girl's words, he thought for a moment and nodded.

"No problem, these are all trivial matters, don't worry about it."

As a time traveler, Shiki does not actually have the Japanese habit of paying great attention to how others address him. To him, it makes no difference whether someone calls him by his surname or his given name.

"If that doesn't work, let's just go our separate ways. I'll call you Oosaka and you'll call me dad... Puga?!"

Before Shiki could finish his words, the girl threw a friendly punch and knocked him down onto the tatami.

"Whose father do you want to be?" The girl stood up on the cushion, looked down at Si Ji and said with a forced smile.

Si Ji looked at her, then put his hands together and said, "Thank you for the hospitality..."