"Fujii-kun, am I really boring?"
After a few seconds of silence, Saki's voice, mixed with grievance and inferiority, reached Itsuki's ears through the phone.
"Why do you think so? I think Ogiwara-san is a very interesting person, more interesting than anyone I've ever met."
He replied softly.
This straightforward statement made her heart flutter.
"More interesting than everyone else?"
The warm feeling extends from the heart, she was touched.
"Fujii-kun is joking again." She said in a small voice.
"This is not a joke." He said it seriously.
He has traveled to this world for so long, and the people around him are either vicious and hateful bxtches like Ai, or arrogant and unpleasant girls like Shinoko.
It is like a nest of bad women, and there are evil women everywhere.
Only Saki remained untainted by the mud.
Although she was just a member of the lowest class like him, she was able to speak up for justice in times of crisis.
Good things and bad things can sometimes be distinguished through comparison.
The same goes for people.
In this society, Itsuki knew how rare it was to meet a simple and gentle girl like Saki.
"Ogiwara, can you see the moon from where you are?"
He asked softly, looking through the window at the round moon outside.
"Ah, wait a minute."
Lifting the quilt, she looked out the window. Without even putting on her slippers, she walked to the window on the floor with her bare feet.
After opening the window, the cool night breeze blew in her face, and she shivered subconsciously.
"I can see it, Fujii-kun."
"What's wrong?"
She raised her eyes to the silver moon hanging high in the sky, as if she had a premonition of something.
She pressed her cheek tightly against the phone, her heart pounding like an excited deer.
"It's okay. Thank you for sending me home today and giving me medicine."
"This is what I should do, Fujii-kun."
She responded softly, her expression visibly disappointed.
She thought...
The atmosphere fell silent again.
This time, the one who broke the silence first was Saki, who was usually not good at expressing herself.
"Um, Fujii-kun."
She mustered up her courage and said, "Let's go to school together tomorrow."
"Your injury hasn't healed yet. I'll pick you up on my bike tomorrow morning."
For the first time, she plucked up the courage to ask someone of the opposite sex such a thing.
The air was fresh, and the night breeze was cool. The feeling was better than she had imagined.
"Okay, thank you for your help then."
He agreed without any hesitation.
"Goodnight, Ogiwara; see you tomorrow."
"Good night, Fujii-kun."
Facing the breeze, Ogihara Saki smiled brightly, her heart still beating wildly.
"You actually offered to go to school with Fujii-kun."
"Saki, you're amazing."
She closed the window, lay down on the bed, clamped the quilt tightly with her legs, and rolled back and forth like a caterpillar while talking to herself.
"Hehe." She raised the corners of her mouth, smiled foolishly, and held the phone high above her head.
"Saki, are you asleep?"
The sound coming from outside the door immediately extinguished all of her enthusiasm, and she almost lost her grip on the phone, and it hit her face.
"Mom, I'm going to sleep soon."
She guiltily turned off her phone and stuffed it under her pillow.
"Go to bed early; you have classes tomorrow morning."
"Got it, Mom."
When the footsteps gradually faded away, she breathed a sigh of relief.
She took out her cell phone again and set an alarm half an hour earlier than usual.
After doing all this, Saki put her cell phone next to her pillow, lay on her side, and prepared to fall asleep.
Closing her eyes, and everything that happened today, one by one, scene by scene, slowly appears in your mind like a slideshow.
She couldn't help but smile sweetly.
"Today's best MVP is "Key-kun."
"No, I should have pinched my right hand out of curiosity!"
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At Fujii's house.
After hanging up the phone, Itsuki yawned loudly.
*Beep*
Just as he was about to draw the curtains and go to sleep, two car horns suddenly sounded downstairs.
He looked in the direction of the sound and saw a white Honda car slowly backing into his garage.
That was the car his dead father bought before his death, so it goes without saying who is driving it now.
Not long after, a woman wearing an OL business suit and her legs wrapped in black stockings walked out of the cab.
She had a plump figure, a nice hip, and a slim waist, and her cleavage is even more impressive.
She has an oval face that is somewhat similar to Ai and wears thin-framed glasses.
This was the "head" of the Fujii family, the mother of Shimizu Rin and Shimizu Ai, and the guardian of Fujii Itsuki, Momonogi Eiko.
Momonogi Eiko is 38 years old this year and has two daughters, Shimizu Rin and Shimizu Ai. Both daughters take their biological father's surname.
As for herself, according to Japanese tradition, she should take her husband's surname and be called Shimizu Eiko.
However, after her ex-husband died, she changed back to her original surname.
He only glanced a few times and then looked away.
It would be a lie for him to say that he had no hatred towards this woman whom he was entrusted to by his father but had no blood relationship with him.
Not only did she occupy the family's home, seize the family property, and bring her two daughters to exclude and isolate him, the only bloodline of the Fujii family.
The most important thing is that she is blatantly partial to his two daughters, and he also has to give him 5,000 yen a month for living expenses to keep him hanging.
Although the Fujii family is not a rich family, the car and house left by his dead father, as well as the savings he saved after twenty years of hard work, are worth at least 10 million yen.
Eiko only gave him 8 yuan a day on average, which was barely enough to buy a rice ball at a 7-11 convenience store.
Isn't this forcing him, a student, to give up his studies and go out to work part-time?
To speculate a little more maliciously, she probably didn't want him to continue studying.
After all, she had two daughters with excellent grades and looked down on him..
"Ai, I'm back."
Her voice was heard from the living room on the first floor.
The light in the living room went on.
She took off her high heels at the entrance, and changed into cotton slippers.
"Ai, are you asleep?"
She threw her bag on the coffee table, leaned over the sofa in her tight skirt, then picked up the kettle on the coffee table and poured herself a glass of water.
"Mom, you're back."
Ai, wearing cool mint-colored pajamas, stuck her head out from the stairs on the second floor and looked down.
"Are you still awake? I just happened to bring you some yakitori from the pub. Come down and eat."
"Yeah, okay."
Hearing this, she immediately went downstairs.
Seeing this, Eiko also took out the packaged yakitori skewers from her bag.
Picking up a string of chicken hearts, when Ai was about to take a bite, she subconsciously thought of Itsuki upstairs.
"If I send a midnight snack to him at this time, his trust and good impression of me will definitely increase dramatically."
She thought to herself.
"What's wrong? Not to your liking?"
Looking at her daughter's hesitant movements as she wanted to eat, Eiko asked gently.
"No, I want to give a few skewers to Onii-chan as well."
"Hmm? What did you call him?"
"Um... Onii-chan?"
"You don't have to call him so affectionately. Besides, he's only a few months older than you."
"Oh, I see."
Ai ate the yakitori in small bites, and it was unclear whether she heard it or not.
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Drop those power stones; the story becomes even more exciting in the upcoming chapters, and Itsuki will soon lose his V-card.