My youth story cannot be a knight war

[Zaimokuza was stunned for a few seconds, and then he realized what she was asking when Tsurumi Rumi nodded, and smiled gently.]

[“Don’t worry. Although those guys are very difficult to deal with, I don’t have to suffer as much as before now with Mr. Kosaka’s help.”]

"Mr. Kosaka? Are you talking about that G on TV—the police officer who often appears on TV shows and likes model figures?"

[“Yes! It’s him. With the model and figurine funding provided by Mr. Kosaka, my part-time job is much easier now.”]

[Looking around at the girls who kept glancing at them, the two of them tacitly omitted the key words in their conversation and communicated with each other in riddles that no one could understand.]

[“That’s good… That’s right!”]

[After hearing Zaimokuza's answer, Tsurumi Rumi's eyes softened a bit, but she suddenly seemed to remember something, and asked with a little bit of imperceptible nervousness amidst her confusion.]

[“Yihui…where is the windbreaker you always wear? Why haven’t I seen it hanging on the hanger in the past few days?”]

[“That one? I’ll put it——”]

【Click.】

[Just when Zaimokuza was about to tell her that he had lent his windbreaker to someone else, the sound of a door being pushed open behind him interrupted what he was about to say, causing Zaimokuza to reflexively smile at his business and turn around.]

[“Welcome! Excuse me——eh?”]

[The words he wanted to say got stuck in his throat, and Zaimokuza looked at the new guests in front of him, his eyes gradually widening.]

[“Hello! Brother Yihui!”]

Hirasawa Yui, as energetic as ever, maintains a (*^ω^*) expression and reaches out to Zaimokuza, whose eyes are dull, to wave hello.

[Behind her, the leader, there was another group of people. They were all the members of the light music club that he had met last time. Akiyama Mio, who was only one step behind him, had a red face and lowered her head, not daring to look at him. She held a plastic bag in front of her chest with both hands.]

[“How…how did you know this place?”]

【Looking at Hirasawa Yui and the girls behind her, especially the tomboy with a sly smile on her face, Zaimokuza's eyes twitched fiercely, and he asked with a forced smile.】

[Looking at the members of the Light Music Club, he felt the pain in his body from being cut by No. 23's knife and hit by No. 24's truck. Zaimokuza subconsciously wanted to turn around and run away.]

[“Well, of course I have to ask that cute bassist who works part-time as a detective in our department! Hey?!”]

[“Wow! Ritsu!?”]

[As Akiyama Mio screamed in panic, Tianzhong Ritsu smiled maliciously and pushed her hard from behind, causing her to stumble and fall towards the Zaimokuza. He quickly grabbed her arms and stabilized her body.]

【“!——That, that!”】

[“Are you okay? Xiao Mio?”]

【Looking at the girl in front of him who was being supported by his hands, she broke away from his hands as if struck by lightning and backed away, even stuttering when she spoke, Zaimokuza asked with some concern.】

[He was also a little confused. When he saved them by chance at the crime scene No. 24 for the third time, Akiyama Mio's attitude towards him was quite normal. But why did she seem to be upset with him this time?]

[Come to think of it, ever since I fished out Akiyama Mio who had fallen into the water and fainted during the last battle, and then used the artificial respiration method I had learned before to revive her and then said goodbye to her, she has looked a little strange. Did something happen during that time? ]

【Zaimokuza thought about it for a while, but when he realized that he couldn't figure out the reason, he simply stopped thinking about it and looked at her with a genuinely worried look.】

[Looking at Zaimokuza's gaze, Akiyama Mio's sight would always unconsciously move towards his lips, and then she would unconsciously recall what happened last time, when she woke up from the suffocation and coma, and saw that close face and clear black eyes.]

[——And the warm touch on my lips. ]

[The more she recalled, the redder her face became, and her eyes almost turned into mosquito coils.]

【“——That’s it! Mr. Zaimokuza!”】

[“Oh? Oh! What’s wrong?”]

[With white steam rising faintly above her head, Akiyama Mio, driven by the last bit of rationality in her heart, stepped forward with stiff steps like a military salute, and suddenly handed over the plastic bag in front of her chest while Zaimokuza kept blinking. Her momentum was as fierce as declaring war, which made him subconsciously serious.]

[“You, the windbreaker you lent me last time——I, I have already washed it! Now I’m returning it to you! Thank you very much for your help!!!”]

【“Uh…Nothing, you’re welcome.”】

【“Mio, are you really——eh?”】

【After watching Akiyama Mio, whose face was almost red enough to bleed, say thank you and then immediately flee behind Tianzhong Ritsu, who was speechless and covering her face with her hands and sighing, Zaimokuza finally put aside his worries about her possibly fainting and turned his attention to the plastic bag in his hand.】

[“Oh! It’s so beautifully washed, just like new!”]

[Taking out the brown windbreaker he hadn't worn for a long time from the plastic bag, looking at the almost brand new luster and texture on the fabric, Zaimokuza said happily. ]

[“I was planning to clean it, thank you——”]

【“——Yihui.”】

[A calm voice that contained an inexplicable huge pressure came from behind Zaimokuza. The pressure in the voice instantly suppressed the noisy atmosphere here, and the temperature of the air suddenly dropped sharply.]

[“Hmm!? Liu, Liu Mei?”]

[Zaimokuza's entire body shook involuntarily, like a rabbit being targeted by a predator, and his hair stood up under the pressure.]

[He turned around in surprise and saw Tsurumi Rumi, who was originally sitting at the table eating, standing quietly behind him, looking up at him calmly.]

[The expression in those eyes was calm, but Zaimokuza's intuitive radar for danger began to sound an intense alarm.]

[“Who are they?”]

[“I, I met these kids last time when I was working part-time. What, what happened?”]

【Gudong～】

[Zaimokuza swallowed hard, he felt that the current situation was really wrong! ]

[“Really? Then——”]

[Tsurumi Rumi tilted her head, her long hair cascading down her pretty face, her black pupils so deep that they were beyond words, like cracks in the ground that led straight to the center of the earth, so dark that Zaimokuza's scalp went numb when he looked directly at them.]

[“You lent your windbreaker… to someone else?”]

[“Uh, yes, what’s the problem—”]

[Before he could finish his words, a white fist approached rapidly in his field of vision. The vision in his left eye suddenly went black the next second, followed by a sharp pain.]

【boom!!!】

【"Mr. Zaimokuza!?"】

[A dull sound accompanied by Akiyama Mio's scream echoed in the store, attracting everyone's attention. ]

【"Yihui, you are a traitor and a liar."】

[Tsurumi Rumi said coldly after retracting her fist, and took a step forward. At the same time, she stepped over the fallen Zaimokuza as if by accident, leaving a dark shoe print on his clothes on his chest and on his side face.]

[When the girls in the light music club saw her approaching, they were forced to make way for her unconsciously by the overwhelming cold aura of Tsurumi Rumi. No one dared to block her way, and they all watched her back with fear as she walked towards the counter.]

[After she walked away, the members of the light music club finally reacted and surrounded the white-haired rabbit lying on the ground, looking at him worriedly.]

[“Mr. Zaimokuza, are you okay!?”]

[Akiyama Mio no longer cared about being shy, and pushed the seat with her hand in worry, but the other party did not respond to him. ]

[Zaimokuza fell to the ground with a look of death. He covered his left eye socket which was hit hard. A tear flowed from the corner of his right eye, passing across the side of his face with the black footprints. He said with a look of despair.]

[“Why… why???”]

5. Vicious Evil (Two-in-One)

Chiba Prefecture, Sobu High School, health room.

stare--

After seeing the flashing scenes from "Akiyama Mio's" memories on the screen, everyone was silent for a moment, and then made their own actions.

Beep-beep.

"Hello, hello, is this the police station?"

Yukinoshita Yukino's white fingers tapped the phone screen at a speed that left an afterimage, dialed the police station's emergency number, put it to her ear and spoke expressionlessly.

"Here an adult molested an underage girl. People all over the world have witnessed it. The suspect's name is Zaimokuza Yoshiteru."

"Yes, you heard it right. It's the 'protagonist' displayed on the screen you are looking at now. Based on the age difference between his current self and his future self, I have reason to believe that he has the bad sign of molesting underage girls. His address is -"

"Minister! What are you doing!? Minister!"

Seeing this, Zaimokuza was scared to death. He immediately stood up and pounced in front of Yukinoshita Yukino and snatched her cell phone. After falling to the ground, he picked up the phone and looked at it, and cold sweat flowed down his forehead.

The phone screen showed 110, with “Connected” below.

This woman actually called the police! ?

"As you can see, I am just fulfilling my civic duty, which is to inform the police when I encounter something that damages the city's appearance."

Yukinoshita Yukino put down her hands and answered calmly. Yuigahama Yui and Hiratsuka Shizuka, who were standing next to her, stared at Zaimokuza with indescribable eyes.

"I never thought that you, Zaimokuza, would have the heart to attack a little girl who is so much younger than you... You damned lolita! You are a human scum who deserves to be chemically castrated!"

"Zaimokuza, it was my negligence. As a teacher, I failed to teach you the correct concept of gender. As a result, you became a scumbag who harmed the pillars of the country in the future... You are a disgrace to the world! I am ashamed to be associated with you!"

"That was done by my future self! Not my current self, okay? Even if it was done, it was to save people!"

"And Mr. Hiratsuka, didn't you pat my shoulder with pride and say that I was your pride before? Why have you become a disgrace to the world now?!"

Looking at their disdainful eyes and listening to the cold words around his ear, Zaimokuza felt as if a mouthful of blood was stuck in his throat and he couldn't spit it out. He felt even more wronged than Dou E, as he had inexplicably been made to bear the blame for his future self.

Feeling all the strange looks around him, the dull pain in his heart made him unable to help but put his hand over his left chest, and he felt his blood pressure rising sharply.

He turned to look at Hikigaya Hachiman who was squatting next to him, and there was hope in his eyes as he looked at his best friend.

"Hachiman, I believe you are different from them! I am definitely not that kind of person, you must understand that, right!?"

"Don't worry. I know you're not the kind of scum who would attack a young girl. Even though your future self took away her first kiss, your original intention was actually good, so..."

Hikigaya reached out and patted Zaimokuza's shoulder with a kind expression, took a deep breath at the other's moved gaze, and then uttered his iconic words in the gentlest tone of his life.

"——Freshmen, explode!"

Akiyama family, Toyosato town, Shiga Prefecture.

"——Woo!"

boom--

Watching the memory fragments switching on the screen, Akiyama Mio, who had just woken up, had a stream of scorching steam gushing out from her head. Her whole body turned red like a boiled shrimp, and her eyes rolled back. She fainted for the third time onto her childhood sweetheart sitting next to her.

"Mio!? Wake up! Don't be unconscious anymore!"

"——Little——Mio——!!!"

Ritsu Tainanaka held his best friend who had fainted three times in his arms, shaking her with tears in his eyes and shouting from the bottom of his heart.

The unconscious little girl's eyes rolled back and white mist emanated from all seven orifices on her face, making her look like a steamer filled with boiling buns.

I... don't want to be a human being in my next life.

Whenever she thought about her future self losing her first kiss to a man in front of the whole world, the desperate Akiyama Mio just wanted to remake her life like this, unwilling to face this world that was too cruel to the socially anxious.

【Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, bellissimo ricordo restaurant.】

09:17 AM

[“Um… Mr. Zaimokuza, are you really okay?”]

【Looking at the face in the distance that was further injured, the left eye that was blackened by a punch closed, and only one eye was left to see, Zaimokuza continued to stick to his job to entertain customers and Asahina Mikuru who was helping him, Akiyama Mio, who was sitting at the counter drinking lemon tea, asked with a bit of pity.】

[“Don’t worry? To borrow the words of that guy Yukinoshita, the idiot’s vitality is comparable to that of a cockroach. This level of injury is just a small matter for him, shiz?”]

[Kawasaki Saki said calmly while drinking the coffee she brewed herself.]

[“Since Sister Saki has said so, then Yoshiki will definitely be fine.”]

[Tsurumi Rumi calmly agreed, while making herself another cup of lemon tea.]

[“And just asking him to work with an injury, a punishment of this magnitude…”]

[Speaking of this, the girl who was drinking from the cup opened her eyes, and a cold light flashed across her clear eyes.]

[“——Yihui brought this upon himself. As a punishment for breaking the agreement, not stoning him is already a generous move.”]

【"Well……"】

"Senpai, this girl is so scaryヽ(*。>Д<)o゜……!"

"Don't, don't be afraid! Ah Zi, meow, I'm here! o((⊙﹏⊙))o. (Trembling)"

[Feeling the sword-like sharpness in Tsurumi Rumi's voice, the girls in the light music club couldn't help but tremble all over. Nakano Azusa and Hirasawa Yui even hugged each other with tears in their eyes and trembled like frightened little rabbits.]