[Successfully launched revenge against Chiba Shinoko]
[Reward: 100 Revenge Points! ]
[Character: Chiba Shinoko]
[Age: 19]
[Tag: Delinquent Girl]
[Revenge Progress: 30%]
[Host: Fujii Itsuki]
[Age: 18 years old]
[Revenge Points: 700]
[Available cash: 110,000 yen]
[Skills: 1. Enraged punch; 2. Recording; 3. Mastery of basic professional knowledge]
[Props: None]
[Target of revenge: 1. Shimizu Ai, 2. Chiba Shinoko]
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Parking shed
Saki swiftly unlocked the chains and walked out of the parking shed, pushing a maple-colored women's bicycle.
"Ogiwara-san, where is your home?"
Itsuki glanced at her long bangs with some surprise and asked softly.
"Kita... Kita Senju..." Saki still looked weak, and her voice was still low.
"Do you need me to take you home?"
"Ah? This..."
"Forget it if you don't need it."
"No, I..."
She explained hurriedly, her voice even getting louder.
"Will this be too much trouble for Fujii-kun?"
She lowered her head timidly, and a pair of slightly hopeful eyes behind her round-frame glasses were secretly glancing at his face.
"No trouble at all; it's just on the way."
He said nonchalantly, took off his school bag and stuffed it into her arms, then took the initiative and rode her bicycle.
"Come on up, I'll take you home."
"Ah? Okay..."
Hearing Itsuki's voice, she sat in the back seat.
This was the same bike she had ridden for two or three years, but today she unexpectedly felt a sense of strangeness.
Looking at the boy's back, Saki's heartbeat quickened.
*Jingle*
He rang the bicycle bell and pedaled hard.
Accompanied by the crisp sound of bells, the bicycle chain began to turn in the slightly hot September evening.
Strictly speaking, it is not allowed to carry passengers on the back of a bicycle in Japan, but just like the identification required when buying alcohol, few people follow the rules.
They rode along the bank of the Sumida River, enjoying the gentle breeze and the perfect sunset.
He turned around and asked in a somewhat disappointing tone, "Ogiwara-san, why didn't you choose to leave the bathroom just now?"
"Um, this..." she thought for a few seconds, as if she were being asked an embarrassing question by the host during a street interview, and finally said ambiguously, "Actually, I can't explain it clearly myself."
"I just feel like I can't leave Fujii-kun there alone."
"I see..." Itsuki slowed down the bicycle.
"But don't you know that doing this will get you into trouble?"
"Chiba Shinoko is not a broad-minded person. She will most likely take revenge on you afterwards."
Hearing the seriousness in his tone, which seemed to reveal a hint of concern, Saki felt a bit touched.
"I know."
"But it should be me who caused trouble for Fujii-kun."
"Fujii-kun just happened to be passing by on his way to the toilet. It was because of me that you suffered this misfortune."
"You can't say that." He pedaled and controlled the bicycle to cross the traffic light.
"The school is so small, sooner or later Shinoko will bully me."
"Besides, I've been bullied by her before."
"Anyway..." She grabbed the edge of his school uniform. "I'm sorry, Fujii-kun."
"Why are you so stubborn? It's none of your business." He said unhappily.
"Ah, never mind."
"Whatever you think."
Some people are born to be stubborn.
He was too lazy to explain further and just pedaled the bike a little faster.
The breeze blew her bangs, and Ogihara Saki's gaze fell on Itsuki's handsome face through the mirror of the bike.
Her thoughts floated, and her mind gradually became absent-minded.
After sending her back home, he took the Toden Arakawa Line at the station.
But he was not going home but to work part-time at the convenience store.
For a hard-working worker in Tokyo, he is rarely even late for work every month, let alone taking leave.
The place where he works is a 24-hour convenience store located at the beginning of a commercial street.
It is adjacent to the bustling commercial district of Machiya in the east, Nishi-Nippori and Kita-ku in the south, and Nishioku in the west.
It has a large flow of people and a very advantageous geographical location.
Of course, the rent must be very expensive.
However, it is said that the store manager, Yuriko Matsumoto, owns an entire apartment building in Taito District and receives a lot of rent every month.
The rent of a convenience store is naturally not a problem for her.
Moreover, for a wealthy person like Yuriko, opening a convenience store in Higashio and becoming the store manager herself might just be a way to add some color to her boring life as a rich woman.
*Ding*
The automatic sensor door made a slight sound.
The waiter at the cashier counter shouted reflexively, "Welcome."
"Hey, it's Fujii."
"Yuko-senpai, I'm here to take over."
Walking into the convenience store, he looked up at the woman at the front desk.
Yuko Sakura, a colleague who was on duty on the same day as him.
She just turned 20 this year and is a student at a nearby university.
Tuition fees at national universities in Japan are high. A slightly better national university costs upwards of 800,000 yen per year, and private universities are even more expensive, starting at 1 million yen.
Ordinary families simply cannot afford it.
Therefore, many students in Japanese universities take out student loans while working part-time to earn money for their studies.
Yuko Sakura is one of them.
"You're almost half an hour later than usual. This is not like you at all." Sakura Yuko glanced at the screen of her mobile phone and said to him.
"Oh, sorry, I got delayed by something on the way."
In the past, Fujii Itsuki would always arrive for his shift ten minutes to half an hour early, but today he was unusually late.
"It's okay. There are still a few minutes before the end of work anyway."
"Go change your clothes first."
Sakura Yuko said indifferently, and Itsuki nodded slightly and walked into the employee rest area behind the convenience store.
Taking off his casual jacket and changing into a rustic brown-green convenience store uniform, he put on a mask and a baseball cap, stuffed his clothes and school bag into the closet, and locked it.
After doing all this, he left the rest area and walked towards the cashier counter of the convenience store.
He Picked up the basket next to the cash register, which is filled with things that customers have given up on or that they found were out of their budget when checking out.
The items need to be put back on the shelves.
"Fujii, help me look after the front desk. I'm going to change my clothes."
"Oh, okay, Yuko-senpai."