Chapter 225: 221 Takayama Keika

"Why didn't you say anything? Isn't this aiding and abetting?" Naomi Misaki was somewhat angry.

"Hmm, that's why he naturally received a 'friendly welcome' from his classmates." He Jia'an shoved the notebook into Naomi Misaki's hands, letting her flip through it carefully herself, while he swapped it for Ju Xiuyi's graduation intent survey form to take another close look.

Ju Xiuyi, Grade 3 Class A, previous grade ranking eighth, graduation intent is to get into Tokyo University...

It was clear that Ju Xiuyi was a student with good grades, and in the reasons written later by the other party for choosing to apply to Tokyo University, the reasons were filled to the brim, the rhetoric was impassioned, and the lines were filled with intense longing.

But within such full text, He Jia'an felt a pathetic kind of despair, as if Ju Xiuyi had not considered anything else besides getting into Tokyo University, like a gambler staking everything on one throw.

If he failed to get into Tokyo University, He Jia'an thought to himself, perhaps Ju Xiuyi would walk down a path of self-abandonment in his desolation, without having considered the plan to try again, or if he couldn't get into Tokyo University, to settle for the next best thing and choose another university, or simply embark on the path of employment.

Continuing to look down, He Jia'an saw the comments and remarks written by the homeroom teacher Maso Shintaro for Ju Xiuyi: Xiuyi-kun is a diligent and hardworking child, and his grades are also very excellent, but as Tokyo University is a world-renowned institution, I am afraid that if you insist on wanting to get into Tokyo University, the road ahead will be long and difficult, but the teacher is willing to place trust in you, believing that you can create a miracle. But another thing to say is, besides learning knowledge in life, there are many other things to learn; usually, you should still pay attention to the interpersonal relationships around you and actively communicate with everyone.

"The homeroom teacher's evaluation of him is not bad." He Jia'an flipped to the back of the survey form, which was blank, and flipped it back, "However, one can also roughly imagine from this passage written by the homeroom teacher that Ju Xiuyi is a loner in the class, the kind of person who is introverted and has few friends."

"This type of person is quite classic; there is probably such a person in every class." Naomi Misaki seemed to understand very well; she pursed her lips and nodded slightly, "In that case, it's actually not hard to understand why Ju Xiuyi would choose to help the bad guy keep a secret. After all, it's almost time for further education, and at this critical moment, he wouldn't want to drop the ball because of such a thing, heh, it can also be considered as having lost basic morality and emotions from studying so much."

Although He Jia'an also agreed with part of Naomi Misaki's views, he could actually see more, "I think besides being afraid of affecting his studies, there should be other reasons. He might truly be afraid of death. As the sole eyewitness to that incident, he was later discovered by that perverted school janitor, so it is possible that he received life threats."

"Afraid of death and spineless, this person is really..." Naomi Misaki shook her head repeatedly.

Hearing this, He Jia'an calmly glanced at her.

Feeling the gaze, Naomi Misaki immediately shrank her neck and gave a silent, dry laugh. On the point of being afraid of death, she actually didn't seem much better than Ju Xiuyi.

Naomi Misaki lowered her head and quickly flipped the notebook back and forth again, then her eyes caught that there was actually text on one of the pages amidst the large blank pages of the notebook, so she immediately flipped back and found that side, "Hey, there is a hidden page here."

"Let me see." There were times when He Jia'an hadn't noticed things either; he moved closer to Naomi Misaki to share the text on that page.

The hidden content read: Perhaps I should have paid more attention to that child; perhaps then he wouldn't have been taken away by Hanako...

"Does this 'he' refer to Ju Xiuyi?" Naomi Misaki guessed, and she was almost certain, "This should have been written in the time after Ju Xiuyi mysteriously disappeared."

She raised her head, wanting to ask for He Jia'an's opinion, but discovered that without her noticing, He Jia'an was no longer by her side, but had turned to another teacher's desk in the blink of an eye.

Naomi Misaki hurriedly followed, muttering: "Don't walk so fast, at least pull me along with you..."

"It's you who didn't keep up with the pace." He Jia'an glanced at the young girl, then pointed at the photograph on the desk. The frame was damaged, and a large crack had allowed dark blue ink, stained from who knows where, to seep into the photo, causing the other half of the photo to be completely contaminated, making it impossible to even see clearly. One could only see in the other small half of the image a fairly pretty female teacher smiling gently at the camera, "This person is Takayama Keika, and this ink-contaminated part should be her daughter, Hanako."

"She is really pretty, and Hanako must be very cute too." Naomi Misaki sighed.

"Yeah, a cute loli who will indiscriminately attack humans." He Jia'an nodded solemnly, as if agreeing, which made Naomi Misaki somewhat embarrassed and angry, and she couldn't help but punch his arm.

He Jia'an remained unmoved, flipping through Takayama Keika's personal belongings, wanting to find some clues from the things the other party left behind.

Takayama Keika was the subject teacher in charge of biology for the third year, and was probably also a conscientious and responsible teacher, and was serious to the point of making people feel terrified.

"Check when the date of Hanako's death recorded in Maso Shintaro's notebook is?" He Jia'an had a sudden inspiration and asked Naomi Misaki.

Naomi Misaki immediately flipped through the notebook and quickly found it: "It is September 22nd, Showa 32."

"Hmm, the grading of this assignment was on September 25th." He Jia'an flipped Ju Xiuyi's biology workbook to the page corresponding to the date; this was the closest assignment grading time after the date of Takayama Keika's daughter's death.

Afraid that it wasn't intuitive enough, He Jia'an flipped through a few other students' workbooks. The assignment grading situation on the same date made Naomi Misaki feel a bit hair-raising.

It was seen that the remarks on Ju Xiuyi's assignment that day read: Xiuyi-kun's foundation in the biology subject is very solid, but the arithmetic content regarding the Separation Law could be expanded a bit more. I recommend you try doing these exercises...

Looking at the assignment remarks for other students, the messages left by teacher Takayama Keika were equally serious and precise, almost hitting the weak points of the students' knowledge directly. However, compared to the remarks for Ju Xiuyi, teacher Takayama Keika was clearly "excessively attentive" to Ju Xiuyi.

"Ho... how could this be? She just lost her daughter." Naomi Misaki was very shocked, and she was somewhat incredulous, "She actually still had the mood to work, and even graded it so seriously."

"Look at when Ju Xiuyi's scandal was exposed." He Jia'an asked again.

Naomi Misaki flipped through Maso Shintaro's notebook again and confirmed the time again: "It is October 28th."

He Jia'an then flipped through Ju Xiuyi's workbook page by page until the assignment grading date of October 28th. Teacher Takayama Keika remained as steady as ever, seriously and responsibly grading assignments for Ju Xiuyi, and looking all the way through, teacher Takayama Keika was always exceptionally "caring" toward Ju Xiuyi.

In Naomi Misaki's terrified gaze, He Jia'an flipped the assignment grading date back to before September 22nd. Naomi Misaki tremblingly covered her mouth and said in a dry voice: "She... Takayama Keika actually knew that Ju Xiuyi was the witness who saw the school janitor's crime, very early, very early... earlier than everyone else knew about this matter."