After they exchanged numbers, Haruna put away her phone and was not in a hurry to leave. Instead, she asked sympathetically, "Are you locked up here by my father because of the fight? Do you want me to find some comic books for you?"
There was a room full of books here! Kazuya weakly lowered his head, "No, your father lent me this place to study."
"Do you read the books here? Many books here are not in Japanese. Can you understand them?"
Don't talk in circles when talking to Haruna, let alone be humble, otherwise it will be extremely troublesome. Kazuya nodded directly, "I can!"
"Wait!" Haruna got up and ran away. In the blink of an eye, she ran back with a book and handed it to Kazuya. She asked expectantly: "Can you read this book?"
Kazuya took the book strangely and took a look. It was a collection of ancient stories "Nanshan Night Talk" in Traditional Chinese. He had no problem reading, but he didn't quite understand what Haruna wanted to do.
"Do you want to hear a story?" Would it be better to tell this girl a fairy tale? Isn't this kind of gossip among ancient Chinese literati appropriate? It's hard for a Chinese like me to understand this.
"I want to hear you read this. My dad used to read these books to me." She said with a child-like smile on her innocent and pure face. "He loved me the most when I was a child. He stayed with me every day to play and read stories like this to me. My sister was so angry at that time that she even went on hunger strike several times because of this. My mother coaxed her for a long time before she would eat."
She pointed to the door of the library and laughed:, "I still remember one time I rode on my dad's neck, but my dad came in and I hit the door beam. Now I feel so warm thinking about it."
You shouldn't become stupid from that time. Kazuya murmured in his stomach and flipped through the book in his hand. He glanced at it and found that it was quite boring. But since Haruna wanted to hear it, there was no harm in reading it to her. After all, she was punished to kneel down because of himself just now. Maybe she would fall asleep after listening to a few sentences.
He asked, "Then I start to recite?"
"Can you really read it?" Haruna sat upright with a look of admiration on her face, "I didn't expect you to know Chinese, you are really amazing!"
"It's nothing, Chinese is not a minority language." Kazuya moved his butt unnaturally, feeling a little embarrassed and guilty for deceiving this innocent girl. He didn't think speaking Chinese was anything special. Unexpectedly, it became an advantage after coming to Japan.
He quickly started reading, read a sentence in Chinese and then explained the meaning to Haruna in Japanese. Haruna listened very seriously, but after listening for a while, she lowered her head and started mumbling.
Kazuya was a little strange. He listened through the gap in the paragraph and found that Haruna was vaguely repeating a word he had just read in his mouth, "Wolf-hearted and dog-lunged, wolf-hearted and dog-lunged..."
Kazuya's face was about to burst. Is the way how you learned those messy idioms?
He had an ominous premonition that the phrase "wolf-hearted and dog-lunged" might one day fall on his head. "Wow, you are so wolf-hearted and dog-lunged!"
But this situation would happen in the future. He put his thoughts aside and read to Haruna while he savored the meaning of this book. For a moment, his slightly hoarse voice was the only one in the room, while Haruna listened quietly like a virtuous and elegant girl. Even if she lower her head occasionally and murmured, it was still beautiful.
Gradually the sun set, and the pale orange afterglow shone slantingly into the room, making the two people's bodies rimmed with gold.
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From then on, Kazuya went to the study every afternoon after school to read miscellaneous books for about an hour, learning how to cultivate his temperament and improve his personal cultivation. He sometimes would chat and drink with Naotaka and listen to him talk about social "funny issues".
Naotaka didn't receive high education, but he was very knowledgeable, especially good at some of the clandestine things in society. He was familiar with the evil tricks in the dark corners of all walks of life in Japan. Kazuya heard a lot of things from him. He have heard of at least thirty types of common deceptions and tricks.
Of course, Naotaka didn't want Kazuya to become a liar or criminal in the future, but just told him to prevent him from being confused and suffering a big loss when he was young and had no social experience.
When this one-hour relaxation time was over, Kazuya just stayed at the Pure Flavor House to work part-time. Naotaka didn't mention recruiting new people, and Kazuya also didn't mention the resignation again. Apart from working, he was immersed in studying.
The peaceful days passed day by day, and time flew by to the beginning of June, ushering in Hope's Peak Academy's first academic assessment of the year, and the weather was getting muggier.
The super cheap apartment that Kazuya rented only had a fan and no windows. It was like a steamer. Not only did Toratoro stick out his tongue all day long, but his tongue was almost sticking out.
When he woke up in the morning, he was sweating profusely and felt sticky and uncomfortable. He simply stripped off his clothes and went straight to the shower. After he felt refreshed, he changed into his school uniform and tie, then picked up his bag and prepared to go to school.
He must get the first today. In order to ensure his energy, he stopped going to morning exercises and went to school instead to review for a while.
As soon as he opened the door, the door at the end of the corridor opened immediately. Yoko stuck out her little head and took a look. She was very happy to see that it was him and ran over quickly. She raised her face and clenched her little fists seriously : "Onisan, come on!"
Kazuya rubbed her little head, "Don't be in a hurry to eat tonight. Let's celebrate with me after I finishes the exam."
"Onisan is so confident?" Yoko was a little surprised.
"Of course!" Kazuya smiled and waved his hand, "I won't work tonight. Wait for me when you get back from school."
After saying that, he left directly. He was a very planning person. The tram timetable was fixed, so he couldn't waste much time.
Yoko reluctantly watched Kazuya leave and made a wish, "Hope Onisan can get good grades!" Then she looked down at the dog squatting at her feet with its tongue hanging out. After thinking for a while, she went directly to Kazuya's room and started looking around to see if there was any work to do.
Onisan loves to be clean so much. She could do just some housework, but she couldn't find anything here she could do. It would be nice if Onisan was a little sloppier, so that she could still be of some use.
Not to mention that Yoko was distressed in the apartment, Kazuya arrived at school and sharpened his gun repeatedly before the battle. Then he ushered in the first academic evaluation. This was related to whether he can be admitted to the special class. There would be another time before the summer vacation.
Hope Peak Industrial is a new consortium that has just been integrated for less than ten years, focusing on the textile and shipping industries. Of course, as a large consortium, the core is still the bank, and there are also many institutions related to the financial industry. There are countless trading companies and department stores as tentacles, occupying 10% of the Japanese textile industry and controlling the retail here, whcih is a veritable overlord in Chubu region.
The Hope Peak Academy, which has been established for more than seven years, should be regarded as an affiliated department of this emerging consortium. Although it is young, it is ambitious. It wants to fight for the qualifications of being a famous school in the Chubu area, and used money to kidnap a large number of top students from all over the country and prepared to beat other schools in college entrance exam.
So the competition in this academic assessment was still very fierce. This kind of academic assessment is very short for each subject, with almost no rest time in between. One test takes one day. Of course, there is still lunch at noon, but each subject only lasts about 40 minutes on average and it didn't care whether you could finish it or not.
Kazuya calmed down and raised his brain power to the highest level, immersed himself in answering the questions and writing furiously. However, given his level, he could only barely complete the answers, and there was no time to check at all.
After the morning exam was over, Yuma immediately invited them to go to lunch. Along the way, he saw that Kazuya and Shin didn't speak, so he exclaimed with surprise, "Isn't it just a test? It's not important, why are you putting on such a dead face?"