Chapter 43 Do you think I still have a chance?

The weather was getting hotter and hotter. When Watanabe Toru went to the public swimming pool to swim at night, he found that there were a lot more people. It was no longer realistic to swim 50 meters back and forth without stopping.

He had to give up the free stuff and got a swimming card at the gym.

On the afternoon of Monday, May 26, heavy rain suddenly hit Tokyo.

The originally clear sky was covered with dark clouds in a few seconds, and water droplets covered the entire window glass, making crackling sounds.

Although Toru Watanabe, who was taking a modern society class, did not bring an umbrella, he was in a good mood. He remembered that it had not rained for a long time. It was really a long time since we last saw it.

Mr. Inoue, who teaches modern society, stopped, looked out the window, pushed up his black-framed glasses, and turned on the fluorescent light.

A warm atmosphere permeated the dim classroom.

"This economic phenomenon is not common but it has always existed, for example, on Wall Street in 1994..."

After the course.

"Wow, it's raining really hard."

“This should be the plum rain, right?”

"It could also be just a normal summer rainstorm."

"Idiot! It's only May now, and summer hasn't really arrived yet. How can it be a summer rainstorm?"

Saito Keisuke and Kunii Osamu were arguing over meaningless things by the window.

Watanabe Toru packed his schoolbag and asked, "Are you going or not?"

"Here we come!" The two hurried back to their seats and picked up their schoolbags.

The three of them went to the club building together. On the way, they heard many people talking about the sudden rainstorm. The whole campus was filled with a peaceful and comfortable atmosphere.

After walking through the overhead corridor and arriving at the club building, the three of them each went to their own activity room - before the midterm exam was over, it might be more appropriate to call it a study room.

In the activity classroom of the Human Observation Department on the fifth floor, Miki Kujo fell asleep on the sofa. Estimating the time, she probably didn't go to class in the afternoon.

She usually looks superior, but she is very ordinary when she sleeps, with her whole body curled up and a pillow in her arms.

Brand new comics and light novels were scattered around the sofa, the tea in the cup was still warm, and the ending screen of Mario Kart was playing on the TV.

The game ID named "Kujo Miki" ranked first.

Toru Watanabe walked to his seat while looking around, and the sound of the steel chair being pulled open woke her up.

"Watanabe? I'll kill you if you make another sound." Without opening her eyes, Kujo Miki muttered softly, hugged the pillow even tighter and continued to sleep.

I'm still in a bad mood when I wake up.

Watanabe Toru was decisive and quiet.

Not to mention Kujo Miki, who has a bad temper. Even someone who is usually a good person will have the urge to kill or even destroy the world once she gets angry when she wakes up.

When he took out "Spanish Grammar and Vocabulary" from his schoolbag, Qingye Rin walked in with light steps and frowned slightly when she saw the mess on the floor.

Her movement in pulling open the steel chair was gentler than Watanabe Toru's, and the noise she made was very small, so she didn't wake up Kujo Miki.

After sitting down, Qingye Rin took out a book to read as usual.

This time it is the full English "Animal Encyclopedia: Dolphins".

When Toru Watanabe went to Kinokuniya Bookstore on Sunday, he saw this book, but it was an island language version translated by Toshikazu Ito.

Because he was not interested in dolphins, and "Tokyo Handsome" did not need to know about dolphins, so he did not watch it.

The three of them listened to the sound of rain, read encyclopedias, learned Spanish, and slept soundly, until a deafening thunder woke up Kujo Miki.

She knelt down on the sofa, staring blankly into space, and after a long while she said, "Watanabe, bring me some grapes."

"I'm studying."

"Bang!" Toru Watanabe grabbed the flying pillow, which still had the lingering scent of Miki Kujo on it.

"Go quickly." The girl who threw the pillow ordered while falling down again.

Watanabe Toru put the pillow under his buttocks with dissatisfaction, ready to use it as a cushion.

Steel pipe chairs are not comfortable to sit on anyway, and it’s not too hot even when the air conditioner is on in the summer.

He stood up and walked towards the refrigerator: "I'm working for you, you should at least pay me some wages, not tens of millions of yen, but at least one million yen a month, right?"

Miki Kujo yawned lazily and ignored him.

The luxurious refrigerator door opened, revealing all kinds of freshly washed fruits and desserts that Watanabe Tetsu had never seen before.

He picked up the plate of grapes, walked to the sofa and put it on the small table.

Miki Kujo picked up the grapes, pulled a few from the bottom, and filled her hands with grapes.

"Here, your salary."

Her hands look slender because of their good proportions, but in reality they are just the hands of a little girl. In other words, Watanabe Toru's salary and the number of grapes in her hand only add up to four.

"Miss Kujo, I am also a man with backbone...I'm sorry."

Miki Kujo raised her eyebrows slightly and glanced at Toru Watanabe, so Toru Watanabe obediently took the "salary" from her hand.

Seeing his aggrieved look, Miki Kujo ate grapes happily and played Mario Kart with her feet.

Watanabe Toru held the four juicy grapes and sat angrily on the pillow that Kujo Miki had just been holding.

He imagined himself sitting on Kujo Miki's face to ease the pain and forget the suffering.

'Isn't this Mr. Lu Xun's method of spiritual victory? Now I have become Ah Q, right? No, no!'

Watanabe Toru came to his senses, quickly stuffed a grape into his mouth, and began to study Spanish seriously.

The grapes were delicious, sweet but not overpowering, and very juicy. Watanabe Toru couldn't help but eat the second one.

As he was putting it into his mouth, he noticed Kiyono Rin's gaze.

"Do you want to eat?" Watanabe Toru handed over the grapes in his hand.

Just as the words fell, the voice of Kujo Miki came along with the sound of rain outside the window: "If you dare to give the things I gave you to others, I will let you jump from here."

“This is the fifth floor.”

"Too low? How high a building do you want to jump from? I can build it for you."

"…Your generosity is misplaced."

"The relocation allowance for the deceased is always very high." The game character controlled by Kujo Miki was far ahead and kept throwing banana peels at the back. "We can also take this opportunity to sponsor Kamikawa High School, on the condition that the school rules that students must participate in clubs be changed."

Watanabe Toru looked at Kiyono Rin and said, "I'm sorry, I have to eat these grapes by myself."

Qingye Rin put down the book and sighed: "Watanabe-san, how did you know that I wanted to eat grapes?"

"Then why are you looking at me?"

"I just feel like you seem to enjoy the nine orders you receive. Do you like this? Did I use the wrong method before?"

Seeing Kiyono Rin start to think seriously, Watanabe Toru was frowning.

Who likes to be ordered around? If he didn't have parents, he would have killed Kujo Miki and left!

"This is work, and obeying orders is the subordinates' duty," he said unhappily.

"I see. I won't deny that I like being ordered around."

"I have nothing to say to you."

Toru Watanabe stuffed the two grapes in his hand into his mouth, and his cheeks puffed up like a squirrel.

After a brief and unpleasant chat, the classroom returned to silence, with only the exceptionally loud sound of rain outside the window.

When it was time to go home from school, even though the summer had already begun and the days were long and the nights were short, the corridor and the sky outside the window were dark.

The sharp rain of arrows shot towards the ground, making a cold sound.

There was a chill in the air.

Toru Watanabe stood in the lobby on the first floor, thinking about how to get back, and also about Tamamo Yoshimi's sign-in - today was exactly one month.

"What should I do?"

"It has been raining non-stop. I should have known not to bring my musical instrument to school."

"Should we ask our family to pick us up?"

"My parents won't be home until late."

"Me too."

"Then let my father give you a ride?"

"Senior is the best~~"

Three girls holding musical instruments walked over to the shoe cabinet behind me .

Toru Watanabe looked at one of the petite girls and saw the name "Hanada Asako" on the case containing the cello.

This must be the girl that Kunii Osamu likes, he thought to himself.

The three of them walked closer, saw Watanabe Toru through the dim light, and subconsciously lowered their voices.

The little girl named Hanada Asako seemed a little shy because of Watanabe Toru's gaze and blocked his view with a cello case.

Toru Watanabe turned his head to look at the rain, fearing that he would be misunderstood.

After a while, Qingye Rin, who went to return the key to the activity room, also changed her shoes and walked under the eaves.

"You didn't bring an umbrella either?"

"It was stolen." Qingye Rin's tone was a little angry.

"Stole it?"

Qing Ye Lin said unwillingly: "I left an umbrella at the place where I put umbrellas in school for a long time, and it disappeared."

“Ahahaha.”

Watanabe Toru's hearty laughter attracted the students around who were waiting for the rain. He was very happy because it was rare for Kiyono Rin to suffer a loss.

Qingye Rin glared at him and helplessly watched the heavy rain that showed no sign of stopping.

Because he had nothing to do, Toru Watanabe, who was in a good mood, started chatting with her, showing off that he knew the cause of the plum rain.

"The cold air from the north meets the warm air from the south in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in China, forming a lingering quasi-stationary front. This quasi-stationary front rain belt extends eastward from the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in China to the island countries. This precipitation that lasts for a month or even longer is the Meiyu."

Qingye Rin pressed his temples with a headache.

"I really admire your ability to repeat textbook knowledge in a smug tone. Also, I'm tired of the rain, please stop talking about the rain."

“It’s called being in tune with the situation.”

"People usually call this 'not being able to read the air.'"

"is that so?"

"Watanabe-san, I suggest you cut your hair shorter."

"It's very long?" Watanabe Toru smoothed his bangs between his eyebrows, which were still not longer than his eyebrows.

"No, it makes you look smart."

“…”

"Hehehe." The clear and musical laughter of the three members of the wind band came from the side.

Watanabe Toru said unhappily: "I am already smart enough and have no intention of becoming smarter."

"To say something like that proves that you are not smart enough."

【You have a new email】

Watanabe Toru was silent. It was not because he could not argue with Kiyono Rin, but the monthly sign-in gift was very important. After all, it was related to whether they could defeat the Kujo family with trillions of assets.

Once again, he is not a coward.

But if you have to say that he was a coward, Watanabe Toru admitted it.

After all, everyone, please think about it carefully, sometimes being able to be cowardly when you need to is also a kind of talent.

[Sign-in days: Tamamo Yoshimi · 30 days]

[Players get sign-in gift packs]

【Points · 5,000】

【Money: 1 million yen】

[Charm discount coupon (30% off for players with less than 10 points of charm, 30% off for players with more than 10 points of charm)]

integral?

And it’s exactly five thousand?

The same points as those awarded when conquering Tamamo Yoshimi!

Toru Watanabe picked up his cell phone and dialed Kujo Miki's number - the number he had answered on Saturday and saved.