I am a teacher at a girls' school in Tokyo

“There is only one disease in the world, and that is poverty.”

This statement is of course extreme, but it must be admitted that, at least for Ye Yue, this statement is correct. If they had enough money, their family would never be in the situation they are in today.

……

After everything was over, Tetsufumi Hirakawa and Reiya Hazuki walked out of the hospital.

The two arrived at Uji River together, a place they were quite familiar with.

Ye Yue Li Ya wanted to relax, and Hirakawa Tetsufumi accompanied her, just like the girl accompanied him in the past.

But it was summer then, and now it's December and winter. Time flies.

With such emotion, the two of them continued to move forward along the Uji River, and the one who broke the harmonious footsteps was Reiya Hazuki.

"Pingchuan." The girl next to him spoke.

"Yes, I'm here." Hirakawa Tetsufumi moved his gaze back from the still smoothly flowing Uji River, "What's wrong?"

"Do you know..." Amid the gentle and quiet sound of flowing water, Ye Yue Liya's voice was very soft, "Why do I want my mother to forget this matter?"

"I should be able to guess a little."

"Can you guess it?"

"Ah."

"..."

"..."

There are roughly two kinds of people in this world.

There is a type of person who, if they do something that hurts others, will constantly make efforts to get closer to the other person and repair the relationship in order to make up for their mistake out of guilt.

The other type of people are different. When they do something that makes them feel guilty about others, their choice in the feeling of guilt is... to escape.

Escape in order to appease your own heart. As long as you can't see the mistakes, then there are no mistakes.

Some even go to extremes and further hurt the other person to prove that their previous behavior was not wrong.

Hirakawa Tetsufumi actually didn’t know what kind of person Ye Yue’s mother was… However, based on her personality, a childish person would be more likely to choose the second approach.

What Ye Yue Li Ya said next confirmed his guess.

"As long as mother still remembers, this matter will never end."

"Yeah." Hirakawa Tetsufumi responded.

——Forgetting is the beginning of new life.

He suddenly recalled this sentence.

Therefore, Ye Yue Li Ya still cannot give up this relationship after all...but in fact, who can give up easily?

The mother who was a little willful and childish before her father fell ill, who accompanied her and said that she was "the best braggart in the world"... did exist after all.

Exists in her memory.

"What about you?" asked Tetsufumi Hirakawa.

"I?"

"Ah."

"I will remember."

"..."

It is not a good thing to remember such sad memories.

After all, scars can never be completely healed, and what has happened cannot be erased, so Ye Yue Li Ya decided to bear it herself.

"Okay, stop looking at me like that."

After being silent for a long time, Ye Yue Li Ya suddenly raised her face, looked back at him, and a slight smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.

"It's really no big deal."

"Anyway..."

"I'm going to college...aren't I?"

"...Yeah." Facing the girl with red eyes but a smile, Hirakawa Tetsufumi could only nod.

Hazuki Reiya's tone became even more relaxed.

"It'll be fine after that. I'm probably going to go home less often after college anyway."

"Besides, Father needs Mother."

"They have a really good relationship..."

"After father recovers, they will both be able to live well even if I am not at home, right?"

"So, as long as I remember, it's fine... Mother doesn't have to remember."

"If she remembers this incident, she might still feel guilty when she faces her father in the future, right?"

"And what if my father finds out about this..."

"That way, there will be a crack in the relationship between them."

"I don't want to be the sinner."

"Right?"

"..."

"I'm talking to you, why don't you reply me?"

"..."

Hirakawa Tetsufumi stopped and stared at Hazuki Reiya in silence.

"What? You've been staring at me. Are you going to take this opportunity to do something to me?"

"..."

As the girl asked with a smile, Tetsufumi Hirakawa reached out his hand and gently wiped away the tears that were flowing down the girl's cheeks.

"Hey - it's not okay to touch a high school girl without her permission."

Ye Yue Li Ya wrinkled her nose in dissatisfaction.

"Be careful or I'll call the police to arrest you."

Chapter 268 Give Me a Reason to Dislike You (Part )

Ye Yue Li Ya might not know that when she said she would "call the police to arrest him", it had no deterrent effect at all.

"Call the police to arrest me?" Hirakawa Tetsufumi showed no intention of taking his hand away.

Ye Yue Liya immediately nodded with certainty: "Yes, of course, the perverted pervert who casually touches high school girls should be arrested."

"That's it."

"So you're not taking it away?"

"..."

"..."

"Hey."

In his silence, he seemed to be really dissatisfied and raised his voice.

"You finally couldn't control yourself in front of the cute girl? You stretched out your evil hand, and decided to satisfy your perverted desires even if it meant committing crimes - you are really a hentai, right?"

"..."

"You haven't taken it away even after talking to this point. Do you think my face is that comfortable?"

"..."

"You are really hopeless." The corners of Ye Yue Li Mi's mouth were still curved, and her eyebrows and eyes were full of smiles.

It's just...

Tetsufumi Hirakawa looked at her quietly and gently rubbed his hands on her soft face.

The girl was obviously smiling, but she couldn't stop the tears from flowing out of her eyes. The more she wiped them away, the more they came, and drops of them flowed out and dripped onto the ground.

"Ye Yue." He finally stopped his useless efforts and spoke softly.

"What?" The voice was soft but the tone was very impolite.

"It's okay to cry loudly if you're sad."

"Crying, who is crying, where?" Ye Yue Li Ya looked around in a pretentious manner.

"..."

"..."

Hirakawa Tetsufumi said nothing.

"You're not talking about me, are you?" As if she had finally realized it, the girl pointed at herself, then immediately denied it with a smile, "I'm not."

"No."

"Now the doctor has said that with sufficient treatment funds, my father may finally be cured. I should be happy, right?"

She asked back, as if she had convinced herself, and her smile became more obvious.

"Besides, once father recovers from his illness, there won't be any problem."

"There won't be any problems."

"Now this mother who has become like this because of her father's illness will no longer exist."

"She'll go back to the way she was before, the way I remember her."

"She would cling to her father and throw tantrums at him, but her father would love her very much and never leave her."

"Their relationship may get better and better."

“This is a good thing no matter how you look at it, right?”

Tears continued to flow, but the smile remained on her face.

Ye Yue Li Ya asked and answered his own questions.

“It’s just a very good thing.”

"So, there's no need to let mother remember this incident. Just pretend it never happened."

"I'll just pretend it never happened."

"no problem."

"Don't let it affect their feelings."

"Like I just said, I'm going to college soon anyway."

"The one who can always stay with father is mother."

"As long as it's like this...as ......"

"..."

As she spoke, Hazuki Reiya's voice became smaller and smaller, until she lost her voice completely.

Amid the endless tears, the smile on her face became increasingly difficult to maintain, and finally, in a moment, it collapsed.

She suddenly threw herself into Tetsuo Hirakawa's arms and buried her face in them.

She could no longer stop crying, tears streaming down her face.

"Even though I say that, but, but, Pingchuan..."

"But no, it really can't!"

"I still can't convince myself, no matter what I do!"

"How to do?"