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

Regardless of her own will, she, the eldest daughter of the Shinomiya family, did not have the right to control her own future.

Although she is regarded as a thorn in the side by her older brother, Shigong Huangguang, and is actually restricted to some extent in many aspects of her life, the girl is still able to gain a certain degree of precious freedom during her high school years.

However, not long ago, she was suddenly recalled from the villa to her main home, under the pretext of holding a debut party for her to enter the social circle, but in fact this was just an excuse for Sigong Huangguang to hold the party to achieve his own goals.

After that, Shinomiya Kaguya was unable to return to the villa, but was placed under house arrest in the mansion of her family. Neither Shinomiya Yan'an nor Shinomiya Huangguang came to see her again, making her feel as if she might have been forgotten.

Fortunately, Hayasaka Ai, who was able to move freely, would often bring her some news and information from the outside world, letting her know that the Shinomiya family seemed to be targeted by a more powerful group and was facing a very dangerous situation.

Of course, just as she had no idea about the glory of the Shinomiya family, Kaguya Shinomiya did not feel particularly worried about the precarious situation of the Shinomiya family. She just hoped that the man she called father, or the nominal brother, would remember her and let her leave the lifeless main family as soon as possible and return to the annex where she lived before.

But she soon realized that sometimes it was better to be forgotten than to be remembered.

"I'm sorry, I may not understand what you mean, brother."

Shinomiya Kaguya had a stern face, and there was a hint of doubt in her cold voice.

She usually keeps strangers away at school. Due to her background, she doesn't want to interact too closely with others.

As a result, because she had outstanding talents in many areas and had the halo of the Shinomiya family, this attitude not only did not isolate her from other students, but instead she was regarded as an ice beauty and a high-class flower, admired by many people. It was said that she even had a fan club in secret.

But this aloof expression obviously had no effect on her brother.

Shinomiya Huangguang can manipulate the girl's life at will. Even though they are both heirs of the Shinomiya family, the power between them is very different. To him, Shinomiya Kaguya's cold expression is nothing more than a childish and meaningless resistance of the girl.

"In that case, I'll say it again."

Sigong Huangguang looked down at his sister and said, "For the future of the Sigong family, you will be a gift from us to Qiu Ling and Wen Ping."

Shinomiya Kaguya's flat chest rose and fell rapidly a few times. Her face turned pale and she said in disbelief, "I don't understand why..."

But Sigong Huangguang interrupted her impatiently: "You don't need to understand!"

He stared at Shinomiya Kaguya fiercely: "All you have to do is climb onto that guy's bed, coax him into a happy mood, and tell him all the secrets..."

As he spoke, a twisted smile appeared on Sigong Huangguang's face: "Your mother is very good at this. She deceived the old man and made him treat you as his biological daughter... As the flesh and blood of that woman, you must have inherited this talent, right?"

A sickly red flush appeared on Shinomiya Kaguya's originally pale face. She could hardly suppress her anger. However, after noticing the coldness in Shinomiya Huangguang's eyes, she lowered her head, trying not to let the other party notice her anger, and tried to answer in a calm voice: "I'm sorry, brother, all the lessons I have studied so far do not include this kind of thing."

I don’t know if it was because of her boring reaction that Sigong Huangguang felt disappointed, or if he was dissatisfied with her formulaic and perfunctory answer, but Sigong Huangguang blatantly made a clicking sound.

"I don't completely pin my hopes on you. You just need to beat the other 'dogs' on that guy's side and become the most favored one," Sigong Huangguang sneered, "After all, that guy seems to care about his dogs quite a lot."

After all, he is a weirdo who would attend the grand banquet held by the Shinomiya family just to show off his dog.

It was a pity that the few nails he had planted in Maple Leaf Technology were ruthlessly pulled out by the other party after that banquet. Now several confidential departments within Maple Leaf Technology have completely become black boxes that have been cut off from the outside world. Even he has no way of knowing the contents of those confidential documents.

Whenever he thought about this, Sigong Huangguang would still feel a little regretful that he had been too eager and too high-profile at the banquet before, and he should have been more patient.

"Anyway, the opportunity to repay the Shinomiya family for raising you has come. You should prepare well. I will find a good opportunity to let you contribute to the Shinomiya family."

After saying this, Shinomiya Huangguang quickly left the room where Shinomiya Kaguya was imprisoned, and disappeared leisurely at the door, leaving behind only Shinomiya Kaguya who was in a state of confusion and Hayasaka Ai who was pretending to be invisible in the corner of the room.

"...What should I do?" The coldness on Shinomiya Kaguya's face finally disappeared, and she murmured softly helplessly, as if she was asking her personal maid, but also a little like she was just talking to herself.

"Miss, don't be too panic. There is hope for the current situation," Hayasaka Ai said softly, "I'll make you a cup of black tea and investigate this matter thoroughly."

"Thank you for your help, Hayasaka." Shinomiya Kaguya curled up on the sofa, looking extremely weak and pitiful, making people feel pity for her.

"Don't worry, this is what I'm supposed to do."

Hayasaka Ai spoke softly to her, then excused herself and slowly left the room.

Just a few steps out of the room, she ran into Sigong Huangguang at the corner.

No, perhaps it should be said that he was caught red-handed by Sigong Huangguang who was waiting for him.

"You should go with Kaguya too."

He did not intend to ask the girl's own wishes, but directly ordered the girl with a bad face: "After that, your mission will change from monitoring Kaguya to monitoring Qiu Ling Wenping. Give me all the information related to that guy!"

"Yes." Hayasaka Ai nodded expressionlessly and replied, "I understand."

Sigong Huangguang left contentedly, so he did not see the girl's cold eyes and her silently trembling cherry lips.

If someone knows lip reading, they can easily figure out what the girl said.

"Destroy it quickly."

Chapter 51

Si Ji had no idea that someone was plotting against him.

Although even if he knew, he probably wouldn't care.

Compared with the real sword-fighting battles in the business world, Sigong Huangguang, who only uses such despicable means, is as harmless as a baby holding a rattle.

He is now like a player who is about to complete a game, and has devoted most of his energy to the "game" - this is indeed the case. Excluding Sawamura Eriri, there is only one Shiina Mashiro left.

It is worth mentioning that compared with the several ordinary female high school students investigated previously, Shiina Mashiro is a celebrity in a sense.

She is a mixed-race of English and Japanese. She has attracted much attention in the painting world since she was a child. In addition to her talent for painting, she is also very interested in it. She has invested a lot of time and effort in it over the years. She has achieved great accomplishments in many types of paintings, including oil painting. She is a true genius.

Although some veterans in the painting world commented that it would take time and experience to create a truly masterpiece, he was actually able to hold one-man exhibitions a long time ago, and his paintings could go directly to auction houses, making him a very outstanding painter.

However, for some unknown reason, she suddenly stopped her artistic creation some time ago and came to Japan from the UK. There are also rumors that she seems to have the intention of entering the comics industry, which made many people in the art world who had high expectations of her sigh with regret.

In the eyes of most artists in the art world, drawing comics is not an ambitious act, but a regression in artistic pursuit. They think Shiina Mashiro is wasting her artistic talent.

For Shiki, this is nothing. After all, he is now at level 8 in drawing, and is already a "master" who can draw masterpieces. But doesn't he also draw comics? He even draws books. In a sense, he is more... than Shiina Mashiro...

Most of the information about Shiina Mashiro can actually be obtained directly from the Internet. After all, people like strange stories. News like this, where a genius girl suddenly degenerates into self-degradation for the sake of comics, can just satisfy modern people's curiosity and has been reported extensively by unscrupulous media for quite a long time.

The only information Si Ji carefully checked was the other party's current address.

It was a student dormitory called Sakurasou, which looked very dilapidated and old.

"The people who can become our companions live here?"

Rikka Takanashi, who had come here with Shiki, looked cautiously in the direction of the overgrown dormitory entrance: "It feels more run-down than my home... ahem, it's even more messy than the disguised place I'm staying in for the time being."

Si Ji's behavior along the way made the girl feel more and more like a towering figure. Not to mention the aura that comes with his white hair and red eyes, just the fact that he looks sickly but seems to be stronger than the average person, and can easily take out things that he obviously cannot carry with him, and his words and actions reveal that he has some mysterious purpose, makes people inexplicably feel that their second year disease has been satisfied.

So the girl's obedience increased along the way, gradually improving a lot, and now it has reached 71 points. But judging from the girl's behavior pattern, she has completely become Shi Ji's errand boy... uh, sister?

"This is a building that is about to reach the end of its lifespan. It's actually a violation of the real estate safety law that it hasn't been demolished yet."

Four Seasons said casually.

But this time he did not go directly to Goto's house like he did before. Instead, he chose a small roadside park some distance away from the student apartment. He sat on a park bench as if nothing had happened, looking at the entrance of the student apartment from afar.

After all, the Goto family is just an ordinary salaryman, and Goto Ichiri is also socially anxious, so it is unlikely that he knows who is in the student union. However, there are many students with special circumstances in this apartment, and they have more or less dealt with the student union. If he visits with that identity, he will only be exposed and become wary.

In addition, Shiina Mashiro is a celebrity and has been forced to be interviewed by unscrupulous reporters before. Therefore, she must be very wary of strangers. If she goes to Zhiqiu and says she wants to find Shiina Mashiro, there is an 80% chance that she will not see her.

So Si Ji plans to observe for a while and then decide what to do.

Rikka Takanashi sat obediently beside Shiki, the aho hair on her head shaking constantly. She seemed to want to ask something, but was worried that if she asked too much, Shiki would be annoyed.

"Here." Si Ji suddenly handed a bulging plastic bag to the girl.

"What is this?" Rikka Takanashi subconsciously took the plastic bag.

"Red bean bread." Si Ji answered concisely.

"Oh!"

Rikka's eyes lit up, and she immediately felt like she was watching someone.

However, unlike the tense surveillance in TV dramas, surveillance in reality is boring and wastes a considerable amount of time. Perhaps for a guy like Si Ji, who looks like a teenager but has a mentality close to that of an old man who has already given up, this leisurely behavior has a certain fun, but for real young people, it is simply torture.

Rikka Takanashi was quite interested at the beginning, but she became a little restless halfway through.

After Si Ji taught her a few magic tricks, she managed to control her temper. But after a while, she couldn't sit still anymore and ran around the park to play by herself.

After that, the tired girl returned to the bench, felt her eyelids getting heavier, and fell asleep.

"Wake up quickly."

After an unknown amount of time, Rika heard a low male voice calling her and she woke up with a start. She found that she had fallen asleep without knowing when and it was completely dark. However, her clothes and everything were normal and nothing strange had happened.

"Magician of Cangyin, what happened?" So she also answered in a deep voice like Si Ji, and at the same time calmed down and looked at Si Ji, only to find that the other party's shoulder area was wet with a large area of ​​unknown liquid.

After a few seconds of hesitation, the girl realized what it was and her face suddenly turned red.

"In short, I have a general understanding of the situation in this student dormitory." Si Ji didn't seem to care that part of his clothes was wet by the girl's saliva. He said calmly, "Let's stop here."

"Is that all?"

It's about to end...

Rikka Takanashi suddenly felt a sense of emptiness in her heart.

It’s not that I have any attachment to the person who was just a stranger not long ago, but I simply have an inexplicable sense of loss.

But at this time she heard the other party continue: "Yes, the final decision will be made tomorrow. We will meet here at 1pm."

Suddenly, the gloom on the girl's face disappeared, revealing a bright smile.

She nodded vigorously and responded, "Yeah!"

Chapter 52: Pufferfish

On the computer screen, accompanied by the flashing of the cursor and the crisp sound of keyboard typing, densely packed words continue to appear, occupying the white document.

suddenly.

"Ugh……"

A distressed voice came out from the girl's cherry lips.

Emily Granger...or rather, the flying fingers of the fairy Yamada stopped on the keyboard, and the adventure story of the protagonist on the screen, which was full of strange encounters, also came to a temporary end.

The girl at this moment was completely different from her usual delicate and lovely appearance outside. The not-so-obvious dark circles made her bare face look very sleepy. It was obvious that she had not eaten on time, and there were some stains on her face that were unique to low blood sugar.

She had cooling patches on her forehead and wrists to relieve dizziness from overuse of the brain, soothe pain and prevent tendonitis. Although it was quite effective, she looked like an old person with a weak body and plasters all over her body, which made her look subtly rustic and funny.

The girl lay on the table, her long hair falling like flowing gold. She fiddled with her cell phone next to the computer and muttered self-pityingly, "Although I asked you to go find teacher Kashiwagi Eri, you could call me once in a while and talk to me..."

Yamada Fairy didn't notice that her tone sounded like that of a woman who had been abandoned. She just grumbled aggrievedly, "Wouldn't it seem like I was an idiot for waiting for you after exchanging contact information?"

As if in response to her complaint, the girl's cell phone suddenly lit up, followed by a burst of powerful music.

Yamada Fairy immediately grabbed the phone, but when she saw the caller's name displayed on the screen, her mood suddenly dropped again.

"Hey, bro, what can I do for you? Confirmation of publishing intention? Aren't you the one who usually helps with this kind of thing? I'm super busy right now, so I'll hang up if you have nothing else."

"Eh? Food? I've got to eat on time. Don't worry. You're not my mother... No, my mother never cared about me!"

"Landlord? I don't care about that kind of guy! Just like that, I'm dead!"

The girl hung up the phone, put the phone back on the table, hugged her calves, buried her face in her knees, curled up into a small ball in the spacious and soft chair, and fell into self-loathing.

Why couldn't I be more straightforward? I knew that my brother called me because he cared about me, and I knew that the landlord was busy running around for my commission.

But she still couldn't express her gratitude frankly, and even felt dissatisfied about small emotions that she couldn't even understand.

"It doesn't matter... Yamada Fairy was never a child loved by anyone anyway."

she muttered.

Yamada Fairy is a problem child.

This is no secret in the industry. In contrast to her talent is her difficult personality - it's not quite right to say that she is difficult to get along with. The girl herself is not that eccentric. It's just that people who meet her for the first time find it difficult to have a positive impression of her who seems arrogant and disrespectful.

This is the girl's means of self-protection. She will puff herself up like a pufferfish and point the spikes on her body at anyone who wants to get close to her.

Those who have no patience, are afraid of being pricked, hate the way she looks, or have schemes against her will all stay away from her.

Even those who truly want to be friends with her will probably be driven away because of her attitude.

But for Yamada Fairy, this is the purpose.

As a light novel author who can argue with readers on message boards, the prickly Yamada Fairy can sneer at other people's opinions, but she will reveal her soft side to those who are recognized as friends, showing her true self.

It is precisely because she is really fragile that she pretends to be cold and arrogant. Only those who see her like a pufferfish but are still able to tolerate her and will not abandon her even if they are stabbed will be recognized by her as a friend.

And Washimiya Shiki is such a person.

Although it's not nice to say this, Yamada Fairy sometimes feels that this guy is just like a vulture. He is so sensitive that he can easily distinguish the lies and the truth in his words. He will just ignore the unpleasant words he said pretentiously as a joke, and will take the words he said sincerely seriously.

He was the first person who easily saw through my bluffing when we first met, and we usually got along very easily and happily. He would neither fawn on me as I was a rich woman in some sense, nor look down on me because of my age and education.

So even though we've only known each other for a few days, I trust him so much and even have a certain degree of dependence on him.