Why are you messing with him? All the animals in Tokyo are his minions.

He simply found it amusing to see the panicked expressions of strangers.

Anyway, the dead were people he didn't know, so he didn't care at all.

So what if I burn those strangers?

But why burn him?

Sugita Kaoru was filled with endless resentment, and his mind was filled not with regret but resentment.

Under a resentful look, the wooden beam that collapsed due to the fire hit him hard on the head.

Soon, he also became flammable...

The entire long house was engulfed in flames, leaving no gap.

……

Shuyue returned home early today.

The first thing to do is go to the kitchen to cook rice.

Shuyue was sitting by the narrow corridor picking vegetables.

A jackdaw flew from afar, circled above Shuyue's head for a while, and then landed on his slender little shoulder.

“…Chichichichi…”

Shuyue's expression was calm. He reached out and tapped the top of Jackdaw's head. "It's time for dinner. You've worked hard. The mealworms are over there. Go and have some."

The jackdaw rubbed Shuyue's cheek, then spread its wings and flew away.

Shuyue raised her head and looked at the sky filled with sunset glow, a kind smile appearing on her lips.

Chapter 056: Wrong person arrested?

It's another sunny morning.

Shuyue comes to school very early every day, but the time is not fixed.

Shuyue came to the entrance on the first floor of the teaching building as usual.

But I didn't expect it so early in the morning.

Kanda Yui changed her shoes and waited by the shoe cabinet of Shuyue's class.

"Good morning, Shuyue."

Kanda Yui smiled brightly.

"Good morning, Kanda-senpai."

Shuyue glanced at her with a half-smile, then stopped in front of his shoe cabinet.

The moment he opened the shoe cabinet, Shuyue saw a pink piece of letter lying on the shoe surface in the cabinet.

Shuyue rolled her eyes and glanced at Kanda Yui, "Love letter?"

Kanda Yui said with a grin, "You'll have to experience this sooner or later anyway. I'll be the first one to do it. It will leave a deep impression on you, right?"

"No, I'm just a first-grade student." Shuyue casually took out the piece of letter paper.

He took a look at the contents above, then calmly put the letter into Kanda Yui's shirt pocket.

Then, Shuyue said slowly while changing her shoes: "...Be careful..."

Kanda Yui smiled but said nothing.

Shuyue's classroom is not on the same floor as Kanda Yui's classroom.

Kanda Yui just wanted to talk to him, so she was waiting for him at the entrance.

The two parted ways at the stairs.

The first class just started.

There was a loud noise outside the classroom.

"Hurry up and tell Konno, the fourth grader from your school, to get out of here!"

“—What’s going on!? Who are you?! What are you talking about?”

"I don't have time to waste with you guys, hand over that little bitch!"

"ah--"

……

The sounds of motorcycle engines, insults, heavy objects falling, and fighting were heard everywhere.

All the children sitting by the window couldn't help but look out.

Shuyue is no exception.

A group of men in champagne-colored suits embroidered with gentian patterns rushed into the school playground on motorcycles.

There were no less than dozens of people in this convoy, all holding various cold weapons in their hands, and they looked very aggressive.

The students who were still on the playground were panicked and the teachers were trying to protect them.

The teacher hurried to the classroom window, took a look outside, and said to the children in the class: "Don't go out, study in the classroom."

After the teacher finished his instructions, he left the classroom in a hurry.

As soon as the teacher stepped out of the door, everyone in the classroom stood up and crowded to the window to watch the fun.

Only Shuyue gave up his seat to let others watch the fun.

Shuyue folded his arms, his expression unchanged.

He recalled the pink letter from Kanda Yui today. There were only a few words on it: "Konno Sho doesn't need help."

Shuyue thought unhappily, "Is this a deliberate attempt to leave someone vulnerable during the operation, or is it a consequence of the measures taken to conceal his identity, Kanda..."

The group of motorcyclists on the playground were wearing the iconic uniforms of the Juju Club.

A champagne-colored suit with a blood-red gentian pattern.

It's flashy, but extremely bright.

Walking down a crowded street, you can recognize them at a glance.

I think when Kanda Yui took action before, she used the pseudonym Konno Saki.

Even though Sugita Kaoru's parents are often not at home.

But in fact, there were other gang members guarding the next door from a distance. However, unless there was a gunfight or something, they basically ignored Sugita Kaoru.

I guess these people were helping Sugita Fumio take out the trash at first.

But he couldn't keep up with the speed at which Sugita Fumio produced garbage, so he just gave it up and didn't throw it away.

Because Kanda Yui was delivering snacks at the time, and she even made a toast gesture at the door.

The people from the Jujube Society who were protecting Sugita Kaoru didn't take it seriously at the time.

Later, when the longhouse caught fire, there was too much combustible garbage in the room and the fire spread quickly.

By the time they discovered the fire, it was too late to rescue.

Although the police determined after investigation that the fire was caused by ignited garbage, there was too much garbage in the house.

However, in order to shirk responsibility for dereliction of duty.

Those who were originally responsible for guarding naturally had to find a scapegoat to vent their anger.

The only thing they can say is that "a little girl went to see Sugita Kaoru when the fire started."

The girl didn't deliberately lower her voice when she spoke.

So they could hear the syllables of "fourth grade", "Konno Smirk", and "arson".

Although it seems unlikely that a fourth grader would be the arsonist.

But they couldn't find any other more reasonable prisoners.

The result is a lot of trouble.

The teachers in the school were powerless to resist dozens of thugs.

Some teachers have reported the incident to the police.

In this day and age... I'm afraid it's of no use.

Finally, the girls from third to sixth grade were forced to come to the playground, where they stood in rows trembling with fear.

These members of the Orange Society eliminated girls who were too tall or too short.

There are still about a dozen girls left.

The people living in the Orange Club asked them to recite the sentence "I am Konno Saki from the fourth grade" one by one.

They wanted to determine by their voices whether any of them were the girls who had visited them on the day Sugita Kaoru met with disaster.

Shuyue looked through the crack in the window.

What surprised him was that... Kanda Yui was not among the girls who were forced to recite the words. Instead, she was excluded from the very beginning.

Of course, this is not funny at all.

Because these members of the Orange Society are just going through the motions here to make trouble.

Regardless of whether there was a criminal among the dozen or so girls, they had to identify someone to be the criminal.

Finally, a girl with contempt in her eyes was forcibly dragged away by the people living in the Orange Club because she refused to recite the words.

Only after this group of biker gangs on motorcycles left the campus in a mighty procession did the police chief from Tokyo Port Ward finally arrive.

Noon.

Shuyue, carrying a lunch box, met Kanda Yui on the rooftop of the teaching building.

The two found a deserted, shady spot and sat down.

As usual, Kanda Yui took out a picnic tablecloth and placed it on the ground.

The two of them sat on the tablecloth, leaning against the wall of the rooftop.

Even though there was no one in sight.

But they couldn't be too clear.

When Shuyue opened his lunch box, he saw Kanda Yui putting the tamagoyaki from her own box into the box for him.

Shuyue glanced at Kanda Yui and said, "...You don't look scared at all, Kanda-senpai."

"The other party is the criminal." Kanda Yui lowered her eyes and said, "To the victim, there is only an enemy. He is just receiving retribution."

Kanda Yui's response was about Sugita Kaoru.

She believes that Sugita Kaoru is getting her comeuppance.

Shuyue certainly understood, but he added, "But what if this isn't the real criminal, but someone who was mistakenly identified as the criminal?"

This is a hint of what happened in the playground this morning.

Kanda Yui looked at Shuyue and said, "Perhaps it's some kind of retribution for someone to be so unlucky. However, she was able to do evil in the past probably because her parents were so powerful."

Shuyue's lips twitched, and she said, "Have you ever worn high heels?"

Kanda Yui nodded. "Yeah, I tried to wear my mom's platform shoes secretly. It was like stepping on two bricks."

Let’s get to the point here.

Shuyue already understood the whole story.

Chapter 057 For You, I Will Live

The people living in the Orange Club found female students from third to sixth grade for comparison.

But Kanda Yui was eliminated.

It was because Kanda Yui was wearing platform shoes on the day she went to see Sugita Kaoru.

Today, she wore flat shoes.