Chapter 353

"Is everything alright with Eriri?"

Troubled, he completely failed to notice the stunning beauty with full, silk-clad thighs behind him, whose facial expression had long since gone blank.

Silly, stiff, disappointed, resentful, regretful, jealous...

Aki Tomoya just kept grabbing his hair, refusing to turn around and look.

"Huu..."

Taking a gentle, deep breath, Kasumigaoka Utaha's chest rose and fell, and with a cold face, she began to slowly back away.

Her footsteps were extremely light, very light...

Maintaining this posture, she retreated to the shoe lockers of the third-year teaching building.

"You can't go three sentences without mentioning Eriri, can you?"

"Rinri-kun, you disappoint me so much..."

Squatting on the ground, Kasumigaoka Utaha suddenly didn't want to stay with Aki Tomoya anymore; she just wanted to be alone for a while.

"Didn't you say you'd be down soon?"

Aki Tomoya had been silently counting the time, and when he lifted his phone to look, he let out a wail.

"If Utaha-senpai is busy, I probably won't be able to wait for Eriri today."

Holding onto this thought, Aki Tomoya sent a message to urge her.

"Senpai, haven't you come down yet?"

"I have something else to do temporarily, forget it... no need."

Attaching a yellow bean smiling emoji, which had recently been used for complaining and scolding, Kasumigaoka Utaha tapped her finger and chose to send.

"Nothing's wrong?"

Aki Tomoya was stunned, forcefully grabbing his hair and letting it go, the words on his lips stuck.

He stood in place for a while before quickly typing a reply.

"Alright, Utaha-senpai, so what was it you wanted to see me about?"

"Ding-dong..."

On the other side, Kasumigaoka Utaha completely didn't want to pay attention to Aki Tomoya's message, but in this era where people never leave their phones behind—

When the phone rings, everyone subconsciously takes it out to look.

Including Kasumigaoka Utaha.

"Accompany me home."

Kasumigaoka Utaha replied, holding onto a final shred of hope, her hands cupping the phone against her full chest.

"Just... just for this?"

Seeing this message, Aki Tomoya almost jumped up.

Can't she go home by herself?

She didn't say it directly, delaying him from going to find Eriri.

"Utaha-senpai, you can totally go home by yourself, why look for me?"

Aki Tomoya then thought that perhaps Kasumigaoka Utaha wasn't feeling well.

Maybe she was on her period, or had a fever, or something.

The weather had been cool lately, making it easy to catch a cold or fever, and the news even said the flu was starting to spread.

"It's about the stalker."

Kasumigaoka Utaha replied.

Instantly.

Aki Tomoya was taken aback, kicked a large tree nearby in utter frustration, and simply stopped typing.

He used voice message.

"Utaha-senpai, the stalker is just your imagination, a fantasy!"

"It's because you let Kitakami Yoru steal your panties and stockings, causing psychological trauma and high stress, which is why you're having these feelings!"

"Listen to the doctor, what would happen if you took some medicine? What would happen?"

The more Aki Tomoya spoke, the more anxious he became, and in the end, his voice was as loud as a roar.

On one side was his concern for Kasumigaoka Utaha, and on the other was a tiny bit of resentment toward this.

The meaning behind it could be heard by anyone who wasn't a fool.

"Rinri-kun, it's real, someone is really stalking me, hiding in the crowd!"

"Really, why don't you believe me?"

Kasumigaoka Utaha also replied with a voice message, her voice trembling and very agitated.

"On this point, I believe the doctor!"

"Utaha-senpai, you say every day that someone is stalking you, your sixth sense is as developed as a superhero's, you feel someone is stalking you, but have you found the person?"

"So many times, and you still can't find them?"

"You don't even have a single suspect?"

"Not a single clue, isn't that an illness? Utaha-senpai?!"

Aki Tomoya stood under the tree and roared back.

A single voice message, he roared for a full minute.

When it was sent, a server processing circle prompt even popped up.

Kasumigaoka Utaha turned on the speakerphone and listened.

At first, she frowned and recalled, could she really be wrong?

Hearing halfway through, she chose to believe her intuition even more, enduring the anger and pain to finish listening to the paragraph Aki Tomoya had roared!

"Rinri-kun, you don't believe me?"

Once she finished listening, the speed at which Kasumigaoka Utaha pressed the voice recording button was like the speed of humans frantically fleeing when an earthquake arrives.

Nervous and ridiculously fast!

She sent a question!

"Why, Rinri-kun, don't you believe me? And why don't you support me?"

"He wasn't like this before, Eriri... Eriri every single day..."

"Eriri is the real criminal who stole my stockings and panties, that kind of person..."

Regardless of Aki Tomoya, Kasumigaoka Utaha's nose felt sore.

Her wine-red beautiful eyes were slightly red, looking aggrieved.

She urgently needed strong comfort.

Aki Tomoya, on his side, forcibly inhaled and exhaled, calming his tone and his impending anger, clutching his hair tightly.

Racking his brains!

How could he convince Kasumigaoka Utaha?

Having pulled out several strands of hair, Aki Tomoya tried hard to recall.

The first time, when he accompanied Kasumigaoka Utaha to the hospital for a diagnosis.

Aki Tomoya had found a case online.

A patient with anxiety, autonomic nervous system disorder, and inexplicable leg pain.

All the top neurosurgery, internal medicine, hematology, orthopedics, dermatology departments nationwide...

They ran to countless hospitals and saw countless experts, but they just couldn't find the cause of the illness.

In the end, a psychiatrist diagnosed it as mental illness.

Hey, guess what?

They prescribed some medicine, and they were cured in a month!

The human body is truly amazing.

Kasumigaoka Utaha's delusion, on the other hand, was the most common type of mental illness; even an ordinary person could guess it.

Yet, people suffering from mental illness don't believe they have a mental illness, thinking they are very normal and that there is nothing wrong with their mind.

With a flash of inspiration, Aki Tomoya used a browser to search according to keywords.

On the first page, he found this news story.

Burden interview.

Relieved, he forwarded it directly to Kasumigaoka Utaha.