Life never follows a predetermined track in a straight line to the end. Perhaps it is because of this that people have expectations while living.
But if there were no expectations in the first place, then the current reunion would be a "lost and found" surprise for Higashinohara.
He stared into those sapphire-clear eyes, with a smile on his face, and his heart suddenly felt warm under the midday sun.
In the six months since his soul traveled to this world, this little soul who relied on him when he was lonely and confused was, in a sense, more like his relative in this world.
The two people, one large and one small, looked at each other like this.
Higashinohara looked at Nishimaru Miri in front of him, and found that although she miraculously returned, she had become the daughter of a certain big shot among others, the brightest star of Takehara Minami Private Academy...
But when facing herself, nothing changed. She was still the little girl squatting in front of the small shack in the corridor, taking out mineral water from her small schoolbag and treating herself to "drink tea". She smiled with sweet dimples on her cheeks, and her heart suddenly melted.
Softer.
There were many doubts in his mind.
But when the words come to my lips,
He didn't ask what was going on.
Nor did he ask whether he had disclosed anything about him to the Metropolitan Police.
He just lowered his head and stared for a moment, raised his hand to rub her silky light golden hair, and asked with a smile:
"Why did you come to school?"
Nishimaru Miria also felt Higashinohara's joy, and the smile on her little face became even brighter. She rubbed Higashinohara's palm happily and said, "I came to see big brother. From now on, big brother and I will be in the same school."
, we can see each other every day.”
After experiencing such hardship at such a young age, she seems to have matured a lot.
In front of everyone, she didn't mention anything else at all, but she expressed childishly how happy and excited she was to be reunited with Higashinohara.
"..."
"Big brother, Hanamaru and the others..."
Nishimaru Miria asked about the three little kittens.
"Don't worry, Hanamaru and the others are very good, and their food is better than before." Higashinohara said with a smile. The one feeding them now is Charlie. That foodie is pretty good to his 'distant relatives'.
"Hmm, I know the eldest brother is the most reliable." Nishimaru Miria's little face showed her dimples again.
"..."
The Hohoin Kaguya, Futaki Yu and others, who were standing there and being ignored, were immediately stunned.
Phoenix Academy Kaguya even slightly closed the gilt bone fan in her hand, the corners of her eyes were raised slightly, and her pair of obviously very charming fox eyes seemed to cast a haze on the lake.
As the eldest daughter of the Phoenix-in family, Phoenix-in is one of the top super-rich people in New Tokyo, just like Tadokawa. People around her have been cautious about her since she was a child, and her family also takes good care of her. Even the academy
One of the two vice-presidents of the Trinity Association was a peer specially sent by her family to the school to assist her in managing the Trinity Association.
From the first moment she saw Miria Nishimaru, she was filled with protective desire towards this little girl with dazzling talent and sweet smile.
The pearl is covered in dust.
She's the one wiping the dust.
That's why he broke through the complicated procedures of the Trinity Association's annual assessments and found out about the other party's movements at noon. He didn't even have time to eat the lunch prepared by the chef at home and went straight to the school cafeteria to look for him.
So full of enthusiasm and sincerity... and it was personally invited by her, the distinguished president of the Trinity Association, so no one at Takehara Minami Private Academy would refuse.
The little girl in front of me did not refuse.
Because her eyes never fell on them from the beginning to the end. It seemed that she had cast her eyes on the boy sitting in the corner from the moment she entered the restaurant door.
Big brother?
Haven't you heard that the Tokugawa family has an eldest son?
Next to her, the Vice President Mari Haida, who was arranged by the Phoenix-in family to assist her in the academy, calmly took out the tablet in her hand and skillfully entered the internal network of the school student union. She quickly found Higashinohara on the roster through portrait comparison.
data of.
First year class F...
Hokkaido fishing village...
Stage 2, Stage 1...
The gray ability of talent sequence 98...
Repeated a grade for the third consecutive year...
Phoenix-in Kaguya looked at the information on the tablet in his hand, and the further down he looked, the deeper his frown deepened.
To her, who was born into a wealthy family that respected the meritocracy, such people were out-and-out weeds among weeds, and it was probably impossible for her to interact with corollas like them in her lifetime.
But she...
Why do you know him?
Miria Nishimaru was adopted as the adopted daughter by Tokugawa Ritora, the famous tiger in New Tokyo. This news was known to many aristocratic families in New Tokyo.
But the specific origin of Nishimaru Miria is unclear and can only be guessed. After all, the tiger is famous for being cold and resolute, but not many people dare to go up and stroke its "tiger beard".
Could it be a former friend?
Phoenix-in Kaguya narrowed her narrow fox eyes and thought about this. Next to her, the orientation director Futaki Yu, who was rarely praised by the president of the Phoenix-in today, felt very embarrassed and walked over with a cold face.
He didn't dare to get angry at Nishimaru Miria, this was a girl that the president valued.
He could only look at Higashinohara, who was sitting there wearing a first-year uniform, with a bowl of cheap ramen that was even drained of soup, and raised his eyebrows and said reservedly:
"What do you call this junior?"
Higashinohara was stunned for a moment, glanced at the other party's second-grade uniform, and replied out of politeness, "My name is Higashinohara, hello, senior."
The senior system in schools and workplaces in Wano was a bit exaggerated, so Higashinohara tried his best to follow the locals and avoid unnecessary trouble.
But Futaki Yu doesn't think so.
Be polite first and then fight.
He immediately scolded with a straight face, "Haha, when the seniors are talking, the first-year juniors can interrupt at will, right? It's really..."
"I want to talk to big brother."
At this time, Nishimaru Miria suddenly turned around, stubbornly raised her little head and looked directly at Futaki Yu, exuding an aura like a little tiger guarding its territory.
Higashinohara looked at Nishimaru Miria's back and was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but smile on his face. It seemed that the little back squatting in the small shack in the corridor on a rainy day and stroking the little kitten had grown a lot.
Futaki Yu was a little dumbfounded when such a young girl talked back to him, and he felt the urge to reprimand him, but as a proud member of the Trinity Society, he could not bully a child.
But if you don't speak...
It seems that in the eyes of others, he is worse than a child.
Blue and thin!
"Ah..."
When we were in a dilemma, the chuckle of Kaguya from the Phoenix Institute came from behind, "We are the ones who are rude today, let Miss Nishimaru think about it carefully."
Futaki Yu immediately turned around after reaching the next level.
Phoenix-in Kaguya glanced at Higashinohara.
This guy is really weird and handsome,
But what's the use?
She said calmly, "The person hiding behind the little girl...is not really a big brother. I hope to see you again in the academy this time next year."
Higashinohara glanced at Phoenix-in Kaguya's noble dress and smiled in his heart, but said seriously, "Thank you, I will try my best."
After hearing this, Phoenix Academy Kaguya paused and glanced at Higashinohara indifferently.
"You misunderstood me... No matter how hard we try, weeds cannot become corollas. For ordinary people, choice is sometimes more important than hard work."
After saying that, she felt free and easy, turned around and left the campus restaurant with the two people from the Trinity Club.
Trinity Club has a dedicated restaurant for members.
Higashinohara looked at the other party's leaving figure and silently complained in his heart.
I don’t want to work hard, but there is no powerful rich woman to make me eat soft rice.
...
In the afternoon, Tenjin Hotel in Chiyoda District, New Tokyo.
In the top suite on the top floor, the burgundy marble floor tiles reflect the light golden citrine chandelier overhead. There is also a luxurious pool in the middle of the suite with a bronze statue of a black wolf looking at the moon.
Senator Hope was wearing a bathrobe, sitting on the edge of the steaming pool, shaking a crystal cup filled with bright red liquid in his hand.
Huh-huh-huh-!
The water in the pool next to it slowly dropped.
After a while, when the water level dropped to the bottom, the body of a girl emerged from the steaming pool. She was lying face down at the bottom of the pool. Her dark hair was scattered like seaweed in the pool. The skin on her back was frighteningly pale. It looked like
It looked like he had lost a lot of blood.
Councilor Hope calmly rang the call bell next to the pool. After a while, the elevator dinged, the entrance-style elevator door opened, and two people walked out.
One was a middle-aged man in charge of cleaning the guest rooms. He glanced at the body in the pool, trembled slightly, gritted his teeth, and carried the girl's body in a body bag with difficulty. After bowing, he turned around and carried it into the elevator.
.
The other man who came up together wearing black sunglasses was named Joshua. He was holding a trolley suitcase in his hand and watched all this silently. It was not until the elevator door closed that he put down the trolley suitcase and opened it, with a cruel look on his lips.
smile.
Gulu gulu—!
Amidst a rolling sound, several men's and women's heads with frightened faces fell onto the carpet of the suite. They were not stained with blood and seemed to have been frozen.
But if you look carefully at the faces, you will find that these faces are clearly the "familiar faces" posted on the car windows when Congressman Hope's motorcade entered the Erzhong Bridge and was stopped by the public in the morning.
