Asami's skirt, which started leaning next to Sayu while listening to her talk, suddenly became filthy.
"Sorry...skirt...!"
Even though his face was extremely pale, he still prioritized worrying about soiling other people's clothes.
Facing Sayu like this, Asami seemed to turn a blind eye to the dirt on her skirt. She didn't move at all and just patted her back gently with her hand.
"It's okay, Sayu-chan... Just wash your clothes and stuff and it'll be fine, but if Sayu-chan doesn't vomit it out now, it's definitely not going to work."
"Thank you... ugh..."
As if recalling the previous scene, Sayu, who had just relaxed a little, vomited on the carpet again.
After glancing at Sayu who was leaning on Asami, Kato Yusuke silently went to the bathroom to get a rag and drank a glass of water in a mug from the kitchen.
"This piece is new, use this to wipe your clothes."
Yusuke said as he handed the rag to Asami, then handed the mug to Sayu, and started cleaning the carpet.
"Thanks……"
"It doesn't have to be like this."
After drinking the water, Sayu breathed a sigh of relief, relaxed his expression slightly, and then turned his attention to Asami.
"I'm sorry, Asami, I'll get you the laundry."
With that said, she immediately led Asami towards the closet.
Considering that the two of them had to change clothes next, Kato Yusuke said hello and walked to the balcony alone to give them some time to clean up.
From Yi Sa's door-to-door visit to now.
Before I knew it, night had fallen.
Looking up, a cold jade bow is hanging high in the night sky.
Thinking back to what Sayu said just now, Kato Yusuke couldn't help but feel a little heavy in his heart.
The biggest barrier between people is their inability to empathize.
He couldn't be as sad as the girl, nor could he bear the pain for her.
Looking back at the drawn curtains, Yusuke took out his mobile phone from his pocket and started to make a call.
First, I called Masaru Nakamura.
After a few seconds of waiting, the call was quickly connected.
"Hello, Kato?"
"Good evening, Mr. Nakamura."
Kato Yusuke went straight to the topic, "I'm sorry to bother you with a sudden phone call. I have something to tell you."
"Thing? What's the matter?"
"Starting from the day after tomorrow, I want to take some time off."
"A period of time?" Nakamura Masaru paused and continued to ask: "I'm telling you, what's going on with this ambiguous statement? At least explain the time and reason clearly!"
"I have some things at home that need to be dealt with. As for time... a month will do..."
"Huh? A month? There must be a limit to joking."
Katsu Nakamura interrupted him and said: "Besides, you are still the student council president. Even the sports festival will be over in a month. What are you going to do?"
"Then how long can you approve it?" Yusuke asked thoughtfully.
"I'll give you up to two weeks, and there must be a valid reason."
"I have something going on at home."
"You just said this, so what is it? Is your family sick?"
"No, it's just that this matter is important to me."
"It's very important, but I can't tell the teacher. Is this what you want to say?"
"Um."
Nakamura Katsu couldn't help but let out a sigh, and said helplessly: "...I understand, then it will only be two weeks, and the reason is just physical discomfort, right?"
"Well, thank you." After hearing this, Kato Yusuke nodded and thanked him seriously.
"There's no need for this. You'll be back when the time comes."
"knew."
"That's it, remember not to do anything dangerous."
Nakamura Masaru hung up the call impatiently.
Yusuke looked at the phone screen and smiled, then started to make the second call.
After a brief blind tone...
"Hello……?"
Ying Lili's voice came through the receiver.
"Good evening, are you busy?"
"You're taking a shower, what's wrong?"
"I can't go to the event in Ikebukuro tomorrow, sorry."
"ha--!?"
The other party's voice suddenly rose twice, and accompanied by the sound of splashing water, he seemed to stand up from the bath.
"Wait a minute, what do you mean by this? Didn't you say it well before?"
"Well, I'm sorry, I encountered something, including having to take leave from school." Yusuke Kato explained in an apologetic tone.
"I actually said that the school also needs to ask for leave..."
Yinglili was stunned for a moment, and then asked carefully: "Is it something very important...?"
"yes."
"Aha……"
A gentle echo floated into my ears.
The other end of the phone suddenly became quiet. For a long time, the only sound was the girl's weak breathing, as if she was thinking seriously about something.
After a few seconds, Yinglili said: "I know, I will take care of things here, you... just go and do your work."
"Well, thank you."
"Well...after all, I am the founder of the club, so it is my necessary duty to help you solve your problems."
"Then it's up to you."
"I can do it without you asking, just leave it to me."
After ending the call, Asami and the others also changed their clothes and called Yusuke Kato back to the room on the balcony.
Sayu changed into the uniform from when they first met, while Asami changed into a home clothes that belonged to Sayu.
Saw him walk into the room.
Asami asked casually: "Katozai, were you on the phone outside just now?"
"Well, I contacted the school."
"Hey..." the other party responded vaguely. Although it seemed to be normal on the surface, you could still feel the uneasiness in the other party's heart through the way he glanced at Sayu from time to time.
Yusuke then turned his attention to Sayu, and the girl gave him a soft smile.
While he was on the phone, the two women seemed to chat about something. Sayu's mood obviously calmed down a lot, and he took the initiative to say: "Then, let's continue."
"Are you okay?" Asami asked in a gentle voice after hearing this.
"Well, I've calmed down."
"That's it."
After being quiet for a while, Sayu gently pressed his chest with his hand, took a deep breath slowly, and then continued speaking.
"After what happened with Yuko..."
…
After Yuko committed suicide, I fell into an abyss of sadness and despair.
Not only that, as I was in the same place when she jumped from the building, I became the first object of suspicion.
The school teachers, principal and police all came to question me many times.
Being suspected of killing my friend made me feel exhausted. Fortunately, my mother agreed to my request not to go to school temporarily because of this incident.
In the next few days, the media began to flock to my home like crazy.
Rumors in such a small place always spread very quickly.
As a superfluous person, I brought trouble home with me.
My mother also felt helpless about this.
My brother, who was always very busy, started to come home every day, and while comforting my hysterical mother, he took the time to visit me.
Because of this incident, the three people in the Ogihara family became increasingly tired.
Then one day, our family relationship was like a dam that burst and finally collapsed.
"It's all your fault...!"
Mom stared at me fiercely and said, this is a line she often talks about.
Although I don't know the details, it seems that my mother divorced my father because of giving birth to me.
"Why do other people's suicides torment us... Do you really have friends? You obviously don't have any feelings at all!"
"……sorry."
Faced with my mother's emotional venting, I could only choose to apologize, and I was used to apologizing. As long as I endured it, she would fall asleep contentedly because she was exhausted from scolding her.
However, my mother didn’t know what happened that day, and suddenly she opened her eyes wide and looked at me in horror.
Just when I was confused about this...
"Could it be...that you really killed the person?"
This sentence ran through my whole body.
"This is impossible!! Stop joking!!"
As soon as I came to my senses, I slapped her hard. This was the first time in my life that I used violence.
"It's the first time I have a friend I can be close to, but how I feel when the other person dies because of me... Mom will never know!!"
"you……"
"If I'm such an eyesore, just disappear from your presence. I've had enough of you saying those heartless words!!"
After a big fight with my mother, I went back to the room to pack my luggage, but on the way out, I bumped into my brother who was just coming home.
After explaining what happened.
Unlike my cold-blooded mother, my brother not only comforted me, but also gave me a large amount of money and told me to come home after calming down outside.
…
"...It was under such circumstances that I began to run away from home for a long time for the first time in my life."
Sayu spoke slowly, while Kato Yusuke and Asami listened intently.
"Because I wanted to escape that home as much as possible, I flew directly to Tokyo."
"It is obviously the first time in my life that I have gained "freedom", but I only feel empty.
During that period, I kept thinking about the meaning of my existence, but I couldn't get the answer."
"My mother did not welcome my birth. Although my brother cared about me very much, I could feel that his tenderness contained compassion."
"With the idea of giving it all, I didn't keep the promise of regular contact with my brother. Even my cell phone was thrown away after the battery ran out."
"I ran out of money and didn't even have the energy to think. Just when I didn't know what to do next and was wandering on the street at night, I was accosted by a drunk man who said...
Can you provide me with a place to stay?"
Sayu stopped here.
"Then what?" Asami couldn't help but feel nervous and asked immediately.
Just hearing that this situation was very dangerous, and the man obviously didn't have any good intentions, Asami didn't dare to think about it further.
"Then……"
Sayu turned his attention to Kato Yusuke, then sniffed his red nose hard and laughed softly.
"In the end, Yusuke came out of nowhere and beat the man up without any explanation. After that, he took me home."
"Huh...it's Katozai..." Asami showed an expression of relief, and in a tone about to cry, she leaned forward and said, "What, don't scare me, Sayu-chan."
"I'm sorry, Asami." Sayu responded softly, crystal tears slowly sliding down her smooth face.
"This is all my experiences from Hokkaido to Tokyo, and since I met Yusuke. Thank you for listening to me."
As she slowly uttered these words, the girl's expression seemed to become a little more relaxed, and even the heavy aura that was originally wrapped around her body dissipated.
No matter how it started, at least in the end, she still met the redemption that belonged to her.
Asami thought as she looked at Sayu, and then slowly hugged this distressed girl.
"Sayu-chan, you...have worked very hard."
"I've just been escaping..."
"It's not like that——!"
Asami first interrupted her loudly, and then said intermittently: "Even if you are escaping, at least you still have us, right? No matter whether it is Katozai or me, we will never betray you.
, so it doesn’t matter.”
As if he was infected by her tone, Sayu's eyes showed a wavering look, and tears accumulated in his eyes bit by bit, but he nodded his head desperately.
"...Well, thank you."
After saying that, he put his hand around Asami's back and hugged her behind his back.
First she sobbed quietly, then cried loudly.
The depression buried deep in my heart began to be released little by little.
Looking at the face that was gradually becoming more beautiful, Kato Yusuke couldn't even tell whether those were tears of pain or happiness.
While he was thinking about these things, Asami suddenly turned her head and looked at him.
"Katozai."
"Um?"
Looking up in confusion, he saw Asami looking straight at him with serious and eager eyes, and said in a trembling voice: "Please, we must bring Sayu-chan back...!"
"Um."
"I'll wait for you in Tokyo!"
"good."
"Then when you guys come back..." Asami smiled, "Can I still come to disturb you again? Just like usual, I eat Sayu-chan's cooking every day, go to and from get off work with her, and study together."
"It's hard to talk about this kind of thing..." Kato Yusuke, who looked like Sayu, kept a secretive expression on his face, then shook his head and said, "It doesn't matter if my girlfriend agrees."
"Idiot, how could you disagree? Have you forgotten that we are close friends with the same heart? Right, Sayu-chan?"
"Asami..."
Looking at Asami who was laughing and scolding, Sayu couldn't help but bury his face in her chest and nodded vigorously.
"Well, we are close friends."
"Look?" Asami cast a proud look at Yusuke, her eyes also red.
Kato Yusuke smiled noncommittally, but his thoughts gradually became firmer.
It would be fine if everything goes well this time.
If not, he would snatch Sayu back even if he robbed him...