Don’t worry, the one in trouble wasn’t a girl.
It was Jiang Jian Yue, that indecisive person who kept hesitating to make decisions.
At that time, Jiang Jian Yue was pushed off the sixth floor, but luckily, she landed on an air conditioner unit and an awning on the way down.
Miraculously, she only suffered a broken arm and multiple surface wounds.
Yuki Asahi didn’t seem like the kind of person who would impulsively push someone, but Jiang Jian Yue was more afraid he’d jump himself.
Her fist clenched tightly, forcibly suppressing the fear brought by the memory.
Yuki Asahi was different; he wouldn’t become the girl from back then, and she herself was no longer the old Jiang Jian Yue.
If the same scene happened again, she would never let things fall apart!
Jiang Jian Yue spoke with difficulty.
“Even though… for now… I don’t have those kinds of feelings…”
Afraid her language system would go haywire and say something outrageous, Jiang Jian Yue pronounced each syllable slowly, pondering for a long time before finally speaking.
“But… I… will try… to like you.”
Yuki Asahi lifted his face, tears still streaking his cheeks.
Looking at Jiang Jian Yue clumsily trying to speak, the usual coldness he carried dissolved into the awkwardness that belonged to someone his age.
He had never seen his senpai like this before.
That always-calm, always-mature senpai… so she had this side, too.
He liked her even more.
No matter what kind of senpai she was, he liked her very much.
Then, his vision went dark as the clothing wrapped around him was gently removed and pressed beneath his eyes, softly wiping away his tears.
A girl’s warm breath brushed past his ear, her voice soothing.
“So don’t cry anymore.”
Sensing Yuki Asahi’s tense body relax instantly, Jiang Jian Yue’s heart finally settled for a moment.
Turbulent thoughts tangled inside her; after saying those words, her heart tightened inexplicably, as if secretly hoping for something.
“Trying to like you.”
–These words were not a lie.
She was so sincere and serious that it couldn’t possibly be deceit; she wasn’t that ruthless.
But it wasn’t completely genuine, either.
As an adult, she would keep her promise and try to like him.
But in two lifetimes combined, she had never experienced what it meant to ‘like’ someone of the opposite sex.
What did ‘like’ mean?
Jiang Jian Yue had only experienced being loved. In her past life, and in this one—she had never entrusted her heart to anyone else. In a way, she considered herself rather cold-blooded.
With a blank resume in this area, what was there to even try?
So, as long as she made Yuki Asahi fall for someone else before she herself liked him, wouldn’t that solve everything?
As long as Kaori Onishi made a move, everything would work out.
The girl chose the same words once more, uncertain whether what awaited her was deeper hatred or surrender before then.
***
Suddenly, a faint argument erupted outside the car.
Someone seemed to have walked to the back of the vehicle, trying to open the door!
Jiang Jian Yue was startled.
Right now, the two of them together had only one piece of clothing!
Grr—
The rear door of the car was yanked open.
Koji Hattori couldn’t see anything; his vision suddenly filled with a mosaic.
“Ah! I’m blind!”
Koji Hattori panicked and collapsed onto the floor, clutching his eyes in confusion.
“Missy! Where are you?”
Idiot.
Jiang Jian Yue’s right hand, trembling slightly, pointed toward the outside of the car, an eye in the crack of her palm glowing faint red.
She blushed as she saw the crowd outside the vehicle collectively fall into visual impairment.
Even though she knew they couldn’t see, the shame still surged through her body.
Only then did the dazed Yuki Asahi snap back to reality, tearing the clothing from his face and hurriedly wrapping it around the girl.
In his haste, his entire body pressed down on her.
Hey! I didn’t refuse you, but don’t be so impatient!
Points will be deducted! So many, many points will be deducted in the notebook!
Jiang Jian Yue admitted she was a little panicked.
But when she saw Yuki Asahi’s face, her anxiety was replaced by amusement—she had been so focused on wiping away his tears that she didn’t notice how dirty the uniform was. Combined with his tears, it smeared two huge panda eyes across his face.
She’d made the same mistake as Kaori Onishi.
“Hattori-san, we don’t have any clothes!”
Yuki Asahi stood up and blocked the doorway, shouting.
“Oh, oh, oh!”
Koji Hattori instantly understood, flailing his arms behind him.
“Everyone get back! Don’t defile Princess Yue’s body with your eyes, kora!”
Of course, the people crowding behind him were also blinded, resulting in hands colliding, heads bumping, and complete chaos.
Yuki Asahi hurriedly shut the rear door and turned around, asking in surprise.
“Is that your ability, senpai?”
He had read a little about the Mind Bug System in GPRI’s files.
He knew about the existence of Dual-core Cicada Molt Bodies that could possess both Parasite and Cicada Shell Host abilities.
But thinking more deeply, he’d seen at least four types of abilities on Jiang Jian Yue alone.
“Mm.”
Jiang Jian Yue clutched the clothing to her chest, knowing what he was thinking.
However, she had no intention of telling Yuki Asahi about her abilities.
As a girl, can’t I have a few secrets of my own?
Jiang Jian Yue only considered herself a girl when it benefited her.
Yuki Asahi recalled the time Kuninori Tsuruoka used the GPRI Personal Terminal to scan—negative one hundred.
But it was just a fleeting thought; he didn’t pay it much mind.
He’d once heard Takashi Taguchi say there was someone whose ability was simply to summon a giant mirror—and that was it, just a huge mirror.
With such bizarre and comical powers existing, it wasn’t strange for Jiang senpai to have a few more.
The car interior fell silent once again.
A minute later, a girl knocked on the window, tossed in a piece of clothing, and glanced several times at Yuki Asahi’s body, her face bright red.
Ha!
…Pervert! What are you looking at!
The two of them, not avoiding each other in the slightest, quickly dressed, and the tension in the car eased a little.
“Senpai, I’ll do my best to make you like me.”
After experiencing Jiang Jian Yue’s sincerity, Yuki Asahi smiled more confidently and relaxed than ever.
Jeez… We finally stopped talking about this topic, and you drag it back again!
What else am I supposed to say?
“Good luck.”
Jiang Jian Yue returned to her usual icy expression, but the tiny fist she waved in front of her chest revealed an unexpectedly cute side.
After changing clothes, the two got off the medical van, one after the other.
Instantly, all kinds of gazes closed in on them, crushing Yuki Asahi’s confidence and turning his cheeks scarlet as he lowered his head.
So many people are looking at me… So uncomfortable…
Jiang Jian Yue’s skin was much thicker, having been through the grind of society for so many years; the first thing she’d abandoned was her own pride.
She glanced at the line of people sitting on the ground with their eyes covered, Koji Hattori among them.
The upgraded visual impairment, with duration determined by output—she’d accidentally overdone it just now.
Sorry!
Morita Ao approached quietly.
“Missy, are you alright?”
There wasn’t much wrong—just Yuki Asahi’s careful love.
Even Jiang Jian Yue felt a bit cold herself this time.
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