Chapter 42

"I've washed and dried your raincoat and that towel."

"I didn't bring them to school now; I'll bring them to return to you after school later."

"Okay." Kitakami Yoru replied casually.

"Then sorry to bother you, goodbye."

Aoyama Nanami observed Kitakami Yoru, watching his reaction as she replied.

"Kitakami-san just looks a bit chubby, he doesn't look disgusting at all~"

"On the contrary, he's quite nice; without him, I would definitely have caught a cold or fever..."

"I looked at him through colored glasses before and even showed that kind of expression; I'm really sorry, I'll apologize seriously this afternoon."

The brief conversation ended, and Aoyama Nanami thought while running up to the teaching building.

Behind the two.

Kanda Sorata was walking alone, very slowly, looking at everything that had just happened in surprise, unable to believe it.

"That's Aoyama-san from the same class, right? I didn't see wrong, did I?!"

"How could she be talking to that otaku who stole a third-year senior's personal items?"

Kanda Sorata's first reaction at this moment was that Kitakami Yoru was pestering and harassing Aoyama Nanami.

After all, even boys didn't like Kitakami Yoru, let alone a pretty beauty like Aoyama Nanami.

He had always secretly had a tiny bit of good feelings for Aoyama Nanami.

Kanda Sorata hesitated, wondering if he should go ask?

Maybe he could help Aoyama Nanami.

39: Absolutely No Backdoor

Saying goodbye to Aoyama Nanami, with about ten minutes left in morning reading, Kitakami Yoru arrived at the classroom.

Entering from the back door, Miura Yumiko's popular group members were chatting together, just like usual.

Putting down his school bag, he sat down.

Glancing at Miura Yumiko, Kitakami Yoru looked out the window.

To be honest, he felt Miura Yumiko was quite scary.

Not only did she look like someone not to be trifled with, but her looks could also be described as overbearing and strong.

Of course, she was truly pretty.

"Yui, a new KTV opened on the shopping street; are we going together after school?"

"I'm not going, I have club activities."

"Yukinoshita's club? If you're fast, we can wait for you."

"By the way, Yui, what does Yukinoshita's club do? Tell me about it."

Kitakami Yoru listened to the popular kids' conversation, waiting until the morning reading bell rang.

During morning reading, Hiratsuka Shizuka came over once.

She called Kitakami Yoru out alone and told him that the matter of finding someone to tutor him was settled, and he should find her at the teacher's office building after school.

Kitakami Yoru, who returned to the classroom and sat down, was slightly surprised and curious, and expressed deep gratitude for Hiratsuka Shizuka's care.

Lunch break.

Kitakami Yoru was bored, holding his phone, chatting with Kato Megumi while going out to buy black coffee.

The weather today was nice.

The sun wasn't harsh, and the breeze was just right.

"Maybe at noon, I can invite Kato-san to sit together and have lunch..."

Kitakami Yoru took a sip of the bitter black coffee.

He had already gotten used to this taste.

There were only two classes in the afternoon.

One of them was Kirisu Mafuyu's world history class.

Whenever this class came, Kitakami Yoru would be restless, connecting things together.

He wasn't in the mood to listen to the class at all, so he just took notes, planning to review them properly when he got home.

After school.

Kitakami Yoru glanced at the duty roster and left the classroom.

It wasn't his turn to be on duty today, but it was almost his turn.

He headed straight for the club complex building, inevitably bumping into a group of students leaving school, receiving a round of eye-rolling and whispering.

Kitakami Yoru ran to the teacher's office building and found Hiratsuka Shizuka.

"Wait a moment, I'll tidy up the things on the desk." Hiratsuka Shizuka pointed to a chair and got busy with her own things.

Kitakami Yoru sat quietly to one side, full of questions he wanted to ask Hiratsuka Shizuka.

But he still obediently kept his mouth shut, waiting for Hiratsuka Shizuka to tidy up.

During this time, a matchmaking phone call even came in.

Hiratsuka Shizuka didn't deliberately hide her privacy, or maybe it was her carefree personality that didn't care, and she started chatting in front of Kitakami Yoru.

Listening, Kitakami Yoru's expression gradually became strange.

"Speaking of which, I don't know Hiratsuka-sensei at all."

"Looking at her age, she's actually not married yet; I always thought she had children..."

"She went on so many blind dates and none of them succeeded... no way..."

"I really envy that man who can marry Hiratsuka-sensei."

Someone was thinking silently in their heart.

After a while.

Hiratsuka Shizuka finished her work, stood up, and stretched lazily, her perfect figure hidden under her white lab coat appearing and disappearing.

Kitakami Yoru had already turned his head to the side.

In his heart, he respected Hiratsuka Shizuka very much.

Whatever Hiratsuka Shizuka told him to do, he would do.

If she told him to go through the front door, he would absolutely not go through the back door.

"Hiratsuka-sensei, who did you find to tutor me?"

A moment later, Kitakami Yoru finally found an opportunity to ask.

"Not who, it's a club that can help you tutor..."

Hiratsuka Shizuka looked at Kitakami Yoru and skillfully took out a pack of cigarettes from her lab coat.

When answering Kitakami Yoru, she seemed a bit conflicted and hesitant, not saying everything.

Kitakami Yoru signaled with his eyes.

"Aha... nothing... nothing..."

Hiratsuka Shizuka laughed vaguely.

Vaguely imagining the expression Yukinoshita Yukino would show when seeing Kitakami Yoru, she rarely even felt a bit of a bad taste.

When she found Yukinoshita Yukino and proposed sending someone from her class with poor grades to be tutored, she didn't specifically say who it was.

Kitakami Yoru was slightly special at Shuchiin.

Hiratsuka Shizuka wasn't worried that Yukinoshita Yukino would go back on her word after knowing that person was Kitakami Yoru.

She understood and knew Yukinoshita Yukino's personality.

She was just afraid that Yukinoshita Yukino, whose personality was actually very twisted and who wasn't good at getting along with others, would meet Kitakami Yoru.

Definitely, there would be no lack of poisonous tongue mockery and cold eye-rolling.

"Alright then." Kitakami Yoru looked at Hiratsuka Shizuka and felt embarrassed to ask further.

"It's fine, but you have to prepare your mindset and let me see your efforts." Hiratsuka Shizuka extinguished the cigarette in her hand and stuffed the butt into the iron box she carried with her.

After finishing everything, Hiratsuka Shizuka signaled Kitakami Yoru to follow.

After dawdling in the teacher's office for nearly ten minutes.

Kitakami Yoru followed Hiratsuka Shizuka to the club complex building, guessing secretly.

"Is it the Reading Club? Literature Club?"

All the way up. ===== CHAPTER 44 =====