Faced with the blackened heroine, they actually stopped time

Her blazing eyes are like the stars above her head that are so bright that they can be misunderstood.

Chapter 30: Break into my heart (Additional chapter 14!)

Shallow breathing can make white mist come out of your mouth.

Oreki Gen looked at the other person and found his words somewhat funny.

How should I put it? It's like when both parties know something clearly, but still say something that the other party doesn't believe.

Oreki Gen smiled. He didn't think it was a good idea to continue to dwell on this matter.

Especially this kind of topic that can easily go off track was not the purpose of his coming here.

"Senior, aren't you going home yet? My mission is to take you home."

Sayuri Yukino looked at Oreki Gen curiously, blinking her eyes which were sometimes bright and sometimes gloomy.

“Does Oreki-kun really want me to go home?”

Oreki Gen smiled bitterly.

"Senior, please stop teasing me. It's already this late, and you've drunk so much. It's not safe for you to do anything other than go home."

Sayuri Yukino thought about it for a moment.

"But going home hastily after drinking is like being abandoned like a dog. Don't you feel sorry for him?"

"How could it be...Don't I still have you?"

“That’s two!”

"Senior, I don't have such a fetish."

"Hey, just kidding. How about taking a walk? Once I'm a little more sober, I might not feel so lost when I get home."

"Yeah, no problem."

Anyway, Oreki Gen didn't have any strict rules for when he had to go back tonight, and he didn't think anything special would happen between him and this girl tonight.

For two relatively rational men and women, some impulses are not so easy to happen even if they have drunk a little alcohol.

Besides, it's just a walk.

Oreki Gen and she walked down the street, the street lights lengthening their silhouettes.

As the cold wind blew, the few remaining traces of alcohol seemed to disappear. Oreki Gen was hardly drunk to begin with, so he became even more sober and just looked at the girl next to him.

"Senior, aren't you cold?"

Sayuri Yukino smiled and shook her head.

"It's okay, mainly because you don't have any extra clothes for me to wear."

"Eh? I didn't say I wanted to put clothes on Senior, did I?"

Sayuri Yukino said with a smile.

"Isn't this the gentlemanly behavior?"

Oreki Gen said with a smile: "I'm not an old gentleman, I'm just a not-so-considerate high school student."

Sayuri Yukino said with a smile.

"No, Oreki-kun is the most attentive, considerate, and gentle boy I have ever met."

Oreki thought for a moment and said, "There seem to be too many flags, but this isn't an anime."

"That's right. There's a park up ahead. Do you want to go for a walk?"

"Hmm? Is this near the senior's house?"

"Do you remember?"

Sayuri Yukino asked in surprise.

Oreki Gen often visits this area of ​​the city. It is a relatively safe and prosperous area in Sakura City, suitable for students who like lively atmosphere. Although the consumption is not low, there are options.

And on several occasions of the farewells, Sayuri Yukino went back by herself, and they were all in this vicinity, so it is not that difficult to conclude this point.

Oreki Gen nodded.

"Some impression."

“Yes, that’s true, but I don’t want to go home for the time being, so I want to go for a walk in the park. If Oreki-kun doesn’t want to, then you can go back first. It’s okay.”

It is another clever move of retreating to advance.

Oreki Gen saw through the opponent's plan at a glance, mainly because the beautiful girl who said this was looking at him with her big watery eyes.

If a normal boy sees such a look, hears such words, and really decides to go back... then he is not a straight guy, he simply has no interest in girls at all. Even if this girl is an existence that makes it impossible for you to have too many fantasies, you will definitely not refuse to get closer to her, even if it is just a little bit.

"It has come to this, so there is no need to waste a little time."

Sayuri Yukino looked at Oreki Gen with some pretended anger.

"Oreki-san, don't you know that pretending to be embarrassed like this will make girls very unhappy?"

Oreki Gen blinked his eyes and said, "I know, I did it on purpose."

"Eh? Why?"

The two walked towards the park.

Oreki Gen said as he walked.

"Because it's popular to get along with the opposite sex this way now. Don't be too nice, otherwise your bottom line will be infinitely lowered in front of that person, making you lose face."

The park is densely wooded, and the bushes and tall trees on both sides seem to be a natural barrier, not only isolating the surrounding light pollution, but also blocking a lot of noise from the road.

Sayuri Yukino smiled and said, "So Oreki-san still cares about these issues?"

"Why not care? Communicating with people is a science."

"That seems too impure. What if the girl you are talking to doesn't think that much?"

"But people take it for granted. It's an instinct, right? Just like wages. As a boss, if you increase your employees' wages by tens of thousands, they may not feel anything. But if you reduce their wages by a few thousand, they may hate you for a long time. It's the same principle."

"It seems that Oreki-san is really pessimistic about human nature."

Sayuri Yukino sighed.

She stopped beside a bench and sat down lightly.

Oreki Gen thought about it for a moment and decided to sit next to her, a little distance away.

"After all, I don't have the ability to read minds like my senior sister, otherwise I wouldn't have to consider these things. In fact, most people will consider this kind of thing to some extent, right?"

"Can you sit closer? It's a bit cold."

She looked at Oreki Ken and said that. Oreki Ken was suddenly a little embarrassed, but still moved closer to the other party.

The body temperatures were getting closer, and Sayuri Yukino was more direct and bold than Oreki had expected.

She leaned her body gently towards Oreki Ken, almost resting her entire body on Oreki Ken's arm. The momentary contact made Oreki Ken hesitate.

"Senior?"

In the interactions between men and women, without physical contact, there will be no accelerated heartbeat. How can communication through words alone convey the throbbing that touches the soul?

He didn't know, maybe there was such a possibility, such as online love, or long-distance relationship.

But often, this is more likely.

So he was a little wary, or rather, a little uneasy.

Sayuri Yukino continued this action, as if she regarded this young man as her only support.

On this bleak winter night, although the whole world is not covered with ice and snow, there seems to be no particularly warm place either. It is just the arms of this young man that make people feel particularly reliable.

"Why do you think I have this ability, Oreki-san?"

She suddenly brought up the subject.

Oreki Gen thought about it, shook his head, and did not change his position. He let the other person's warmth lean on his arms and let the fragrance of her hair penetrate into his nostrils.

"I don't know... It shouldn't be a wish or something like that, right?"

I think of Momiji Amemiya.

Sayuri Yukino smiled.

“That’s not the case, but what do you think of me, Oreki-san?”

"It's hard to describe and hard to evaluate. Because in my impression, senior sisters can be anything, can do anything, and get along with any different people. So I feel that senior sisters are very multifaceted."

"Are you saying that I'm a complicated person, a very scheming person?"

Sayuri Yukino seemed a little dissatisfied.

Oreki Gen smiled and said, "Perhaps the phrase 'newly scheming' doesn't sound like a very good evaluation, but the difficulty lies in how to be scheming in a way that makes people feel comfortable. Senior sister has done it. I think you are very smart and know how to treat different people and what to do. This can't be considered a negative evaluation, it should be a compliment."

Although she has such a powerful auxiliary ability as mind reading, it must be said that her reaction is sufficient, and the disguise during this period was not discovered until now.

Sayuri Yukino sighed.

"Then you would never imagine what kind of person I was from childhood to high school."

"...What kind of person?"

"A person who...can't read the atmosphere, doesn't understand other people's sarcastic taunts, and isn't well-received."

“How could…?”

Oreki Gen didn't think that Sayuri Yukino had ever been such a person. Even if she only had the appearance and didn't have the ability to read minds, and was a little bit normal, it would be difficult for her to completely blend in with the environment around her.

But Sayuri Yukino said with a smile.

"My parents are lawyers. They used to be...well-known in my hometown. But they fought a not-so-glorious case. In general, they helped a person with a shady background who was involved in fraud, threats and other crimes escape the punishment of the law. So actually, since I was a child, the kids in the neighborhood and my classmates at school would call me the daughter of a liar, the daughter of a bad guy."

Oreki Gen was stunned.

"This kind of thing... I really don't know how to comment on it."

Sayuri Yukino smiled and shook her head.

"It doesn't matter. You know, sometimes as a lawyer, even for the sake of one's own reputation and position in the industry, as long as one accepts the employment, one must be responsible for his or her client. As long as it does not involve things like perjury, it can be said that one has a clear conscience. But the situation at the time... there was really no way to convict him."

"But just because of something like this, you shouldn't have to spend so much time..."

"Well, so the biggest problem is actually with me. I don't know how to deal with people. My parents are very busy, so I have a nanny who takes care of me. It's just ordinary care, the kind that takes money, does the work, and then goes home. There are not many classmates around me who are willing to communicate with me. I also try to integrate into their group, but..."

"I didn't know how to answer any random question they asked. Sometimes they even told jokes, but I didn't realize they were mocking me. I just laughed along with them foolishly, not knowing that in their eyes, I was just a clown."

Oreki Gen said with some difficulty in explaining.

"Teacher or something...didn't anyone else tell you about this?"

"No."

"how come?"

"Maybe it's because our teacher happened to be one of the victims of the fraud? I remember she came to me and asked me to go home and say something nice to my parents, saying that we should stick to justice instead of supporting evil for profit... But I didn't understand anything."

She even looked up at Oreki Gen as she said this.

However, Oreki Gen could see her heartbreak from her pretending to be playful eyes.

Oreki Gen let out a sigh.

"It's not your fault. At your age, it's normal for you not to understand these things..."

"But the more I got into high school, the more I realized that I didn't have any true friends around me, and I couldn't really fit in with anyone's group. Even...anything I tried to do would fail. Many people said that this was a punishment from my overly smart parents, who were destined to give birth to a heartless child."

"Isn't it too much to say you have no heart?"

"But I was just like that at the time...So after entering high school, I left my hometown and came to Sakura City, wanting to start all over again. It was also at this time that I was extremely eager and hoped that I could be smarter, understand the atmosphere better, and understand what other people were thinking, so that maybe I could live a normal life."

"Is that why... you gained super powers?"

Oreki Gen looked down at her beautiful profile in confusion.

She nodded.

"That's about it. One day, I forgot the exact day, I was standing in front of others, and I suddenly heard two girls in my class say something clearly without opening their mouths. They said: Hey... She's so pretty, she must be someone who's hard to get along with, right? It would be very stressful to get along with such a girl in the new semester... I don't like pretty girls of the same sex. Then, at that time, I began to understand how to get along with others."

Oreki Gen thought about it for a moment.

"Senior, do you think it was this ability that saved your life? Rather than your own growth and change?"