Chapter 354 Undercurrent (Additional Update for Tired Heart)
On the other side, in school.
The rooftop during lunch break.
Two girls were eating lunch in a fixed position.
"Are you still going to Iwanami-san's place today? Sayu-chan."
Sayu nodded slightly and explained: "I just gave him handouts."
Masaka Yuko laughed and said, "Yes~ I know, but that's not what I'm talking about now."
"what is that?"
"I just wanted to ask, should I go with you today?"
"...Yuko, is there anything else?"
"Hmm~Should I say yes or no? After all, Iwanami-san's disappointed look makes me a little bit reluctant to bother him anymore."
"disturb……?"
"Yes~!" Yuko nodded her head repeatedly and teased: "Because——Iwanami-san, he definitely only wants to get along with Sayu-chan~"
Sayu couldn't help but blush slightly, unconsciously clenched the chopsticks in his hand, then took a piece of egg roll and put it into his mouth, chewing it as if to cover it up, and muttered something vaguely.
"What are these words...?"
"God knows, what are you talking about~?" Masaka Yuko smiled even more proudly, and her shoulders were trembling. "It's a pity that Iwanami-san is not here, otherwise I would have seen your cute expression."
"...It's almost time for class. If you keep lingering like this, you won't be able to finish lunch, right?"
"You're changing the subject again. It's time for you to face your own feelings, right? Sayu-chan."
Sayu turned a deaf ear and just ate his lunch silently. The lunch box on his lap returned to its previous small size.
Seeing her reaction, Yuko couldn't help but sigh helplessly, "Iwanami-san, you are so pitiful."
"Really, Yuko is saying this again..."
"It's all because the princess is so dishonest!"
After lunch, the two returned to the classroom from the rooftop.
Different from the usual sleepiness at this time, the class showed an abnormally lively atmosphere.
Yuzuki, Kaga, Ebina, Taniguchi...
Many students were gathered in front of a certain seat, talking about something unknown, exuding a jubilant atmosphere.
Sayu has no interest in this. Although her status in the class is completely different from before, she is still the girl who doesn't like to join in the fun.
Although Yuko Masaka has become a lot more outgoing, she will not take the initiative to get close to you after seeing the figures of Yu Yue and the others.
After returning to her seat, Yuko began to prepare things for the next class.
Take out the math textbook and exercise book from the drawer, and then take out the pencil case.
Just when she was about to check her homework again before class...
"Huh?"
The mechanical pencil in the pencil case disappeared.
Masaka Yuko frowned slightly and began to search carefully inside the pencil case, textbooks, and notebooks. She even didn't miss it in drawers and schoolbags.
However, in the end, nothing was achieved.
This made her confused, and then she turned her body back and asked the girl in the back row: "Chinatsu, have you seen my mechanical pencil?"
The other party was a girl who had a good relationship with her before, and she was also the first group of people to take the initiative to show friendship after she changed her image.
The two of them have also added each other as LINE friends and often chat together. They are considered friends second only to Sayu.
Hearing her question, the girl named Qianxia shook her head first, then turned her head slightly and asked: "I didn't see it, what's wrong?"
"No, it just disappeared suddenly."
"Eh? Have you searched carefully?"
"...Yeah, but it's nowhere."
"Could it be that you forgot to bring it today?"
"No, I don't think there's anything like that. After all, I still used it in the Chinese language class in the morning."
"That's it... I'm sorry, Yuko, I don't have any impression." Chinatsu showed an apologetic expression and analyzed, "Could it have been borrowed by someone?"
"borrow?"
"Yes~ Hasn't anyone said hello to you?"
Yuko smiled bitterly, "I don't remember such a thing."
"Then, do you need me to ask other people for you?"
"No, no need. I'll look for it later. Thank you, Chinatsu."
"No~ tell me if you have anything else."
"Hmm~"
After thanking Yuezi, she straightened her body and temporarily put the matter behind her and didn't take it to heart.
Until the school bell rang, the math teacher walked into the classroom with a lesson plan.
"Stand up and salute."
"Hello teacher."
The deputy squad leader temporarily took over the conductor's job and led the students to greet the teacher.
After going through the process, the math teacher is preparing to teach.
At this moment, the front door of the classroom suddenly opened with a loud bang.
The teacher, who thought it was a student who was late, cast a displeased look, but the next second he saw the person clearly, he turned to doubt.
"It turns out to be Mr. Shibata. What can I do?"
Mr. Shibata, who was standing at the door, nodded with a smile and said, "Sorry, there is another student here who is in a special situation. I brought him here."
"Students with special circumstances?"
"Yes, you go back to your seat first, Saito."
As he said this, he turned his body sideways and let out the boy behind him whose right hand was bandaged.
There was a slight commotion in the class.
"It's actually Saito...?"
"Didn't he get suspended from school?"
“Why can you come back??”
"That Yanbo..."
"Quiet." Teacher Shibata said in a serious tone, suppressing the commotion.
Saito, on the other hand, returned to his seat without saying a word.
See the situation.
"Teacher Shibata." The math teacher on the podium couldn't help but ask: "I remember, wasn't this student suspended from class? What on earth is this..."
"Well, I have already asked the principal for permission on this matter." Teacher Shibata explained: "Because he is currently injured and cannot participate in the basketball club's training, let's let him follow the lessons in the classroom."
"Is that so?" The math teacher nodded with understanding and said nothing more.
only……
Roon, roam, roam.
"--teacher!"
Along with the sound of the chair being dragged, a solemn voice rang out.
"Now that Saito-san can come to school, what should Iwanami-san do?"
The students who heard this had different expressions, and they all cast a prying glance at the figure.
Teacher Shibata made a serious face and said in a deep voice: "This is not something you should consider, Ogiwara-san, sit down quickly."
Sayu seemed very stubborn about this, and seemed to be sticking to the bottom line, looking straight at him with a stubbornness in his eyes.
Feeling provoked, Teacher Shibata frowned deeply, looked around the classroom, and then said angrily: "We will discuss this matter later. If you don't sit down, I will ask your family to come over."
Sayu's face turned pale instantly, and his eyes wavered violently. This unreasonable threat was completely unfair, but it was also irresistible.
The powerful party obviously knows how to use its power to suppress the voices of resistance.
Faced with this situation.
Putting aside the fact that this matter was decided by the principal, even Teacher Shibata cannot be influenced by her as a student.
For a moment, Sayu wanted to complain loudly about this injustice, but when she thought of her mother at home, a deep feeling of powerlessness arose spontaneously.
What would you do if that person were here?
The girl lowered her head silently, holding back the tears in her eyes, and sat down on her seat.
Seeing this, Mr. Shibata nodded, said hello to his colleagues on the podium, and then turned around and left the classroom as if nothing happened.
The math class that had been delayed for a while just started.
Sayu suddenly heard several malicious chuckles coming from around him.
It was as if he was mocking her overestimating behavior.
…
Wait until after class.
Masaka Yuko ran over immediately and asked with concern: "Sayu-chan, are you okay?"
Sayu nodded silently, closed the notebook with Juanxiu's handwriting, and looked at the back door of the classroom, where Saito was surrounded by many people and looked very lively.
"Sorry, Yuko, I have to go find Mr. Shibata."
"Then I'll go with you!"
There were waves in Sayu's eyes, and a faint light shone in her originally gloomy eyes, but she shook her head and rejected the proposal.
"No, Yuezi will stay here. This matter has nothing to do with you."
"How is this possible...!"
"There's nothing wrong with it. It's better to say that even if the two of us work together, it won't make any difference, right?"
Masaka Yuko hesitated for a moment, but then asked immediately: "If that's the case, why does Sayu-chan still want to go?"
"Why..." Sayu murmured, his eyes slightly absent-minded, "Because Iwanami-san has helped me a lot, and I can't stand myself just looking at him like this but doing nothing."
She stopped here, her eyes showing a thoughtful emotion, and then said slowly: "So even if it's just a little bit, I want to do something for him."
After hearing this, Yuezi suddenly showed a surprised expression, as if speechless.
The pale yellow sunlight shines in from the window, draping over the girl's body, lightly outlining her lonely outline.
Staring at Sayu in front of him.
For no reason, Masaka Yuko thought of another boy, and gradually overlaid the two figures together in her mind.
"So handsome..." She murmured in a daze, with a hint of longing in her tone.
"Huh……?"
Sayu blinked his eyes, a little confused.
"Ah, no...it's okay." Yuuko waved her hands repeatedly after coming back to her senses, and then said: "Anyway, if there is anything I can do, Sayu-chan must tell me, okay?"
Sayu nodded lightly and said, "I will do it." Then he stood up and walked outside, his steps full of determination.
Watching her friend leave the classroom, Yuko Masaka also returned to her seat.
I turned back and glanced at Saito's seat. The top students in the class were gathered there, bursting out with hearty laughter. It looked very lively.
Those who have made mistakes can come to school freely, but those who have made no mistakes are ordered to stay at home and are not allowed to go to school.
This made her feel very angry.
But immediately, she was startled by her arrogant thoughts, and all kinds of thoughts surged in her heart.
As a marginalized figure in the class for a long time, the words "rustic" and "gloomy" have always been labels attached to her.
Facing the residents of Saito and Yuyue's shining world, she could only look up at them with admiration and envy, and occasionally fantasized that she could become one of them.
However, only a little over a week has passed since the day of the golf tournament.
Her status in the class has undergone earth-shaking changes.
Not only did she have many friends, but even some people who could only look up to her at first showed kindness to her and generously accepted her into the circle of the glittering world.
This feeling of reaching the sky in one step was very good, and it also gave her some courage to show her anger towards those in Youyue.
Although I just thought about it in my heart, if it were placed in the mind of Yuko Masaka in the past, this kind of thought would never have occurred to her.
After all, the gap between the two sides was so huge that they were completely different from each other. It was so big that just one word from the other party could make it difficult for her to move forward in the class.
This made her dare not raise any resistance, so she could only bear it cautiously and silently.
But now, everything is different.
She is surrounded by not only Iwanami and Sayu, but also friends including Chinatsu and those from the football club.
Yuko Masaka is recognized by everyone, she can express her own voice, and her words will be respected by others.
Thinking of this, Yuko's inner panic gradually disappeared and she began to become calm.
After thinking about it, she felt that she needed to tell the young man who had brought changes to her about what happened in the class, so she took out her mobile phone.
At this moment, a message suddenly popped up on the screen of the mobile phone.
That was a new message from a section she followed in the 2ch forum.
Yuko Masaka subconsciously clicked in and successfully entered the forum section of "Asahikawa Sixth High School".
A brand new post is listed at the top.
——[Lost and Found].
Click the screen again to enter it.
A picture appeared on the screen, which was a mechanical pencil that she was very familiar with.
Yuezi couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, then hurriedly slid the screen to the bottom.
A line of text came into view.
"I picked up a mechanical pencil among the flowers in the atrium. Does anyone know who it belongs to? - Anonymous."
There are a few more replies below.
"It's so funny, who on earth would buy such tacky stationery? It's so ugly."
"I remember that girl M from Class 2, Class 3, seemed to have one."
"It definitely belongs to her. It has terrible taste."
"I found you, goldfish poop (laughing)."
Yuko's pupils dilated instantly, and his brain went blank.
The black devil grinned evilly, as if waving his hands on the screen.
——Crack.
The mobile phone in his hand fell to the ground.
"don't want--!"
She screamed and jumped up from her seat, as if she had been greatly shocked, with panic written on her face.
The noisy classroom suddenly became quiet.
Everyone who was startled turned their attention to her, and they were a little confused.
"Yuko?" Chinatsu, who was sitting in the back row, broke the silence and walked to her side with concern, "What's wrong with you? Are you okay?"
Concerned words drifted into Masaka Yuko's ears, and she gradually came back to her senses.
"...Chinatsu." Yuko murmured, opening and closing her mouth, then took a deep breath and forced a smile.
"Sorry, I accidentally saw a prank picture just now. It's okay now."
"That's it." Qianxia nodded in understanding and patted her back gently in comfort.
As Yuko Masaka bent down to pick up her phone, she bowed her head apologetically to the class.
That's how things went...
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Note: Masaka, the spelling of this Roman pronunciation is really weird...