Chapter 72

"Achoo-- achoo-- achoo--"

Eriri suddenly sneezed several times in a row, leaned against the back seat of the taxi, and closed her eyes very uncomfortably.

Her forehead was very hot, but her body was very cold; she couldn't feel a trace of temperature.

The taxi driver turned up the air conditioning and drove out with the fog lights on.

Eriri, whose little head was frozen stiff, seemed to have forgotten an important thing, or rather, she was completely frozen stupid.

On the other side.

Kitakami Yoru squatted in the corner where Eriri had been, put his hands into his school uniform to keep himself warm.

"So cold, why hasn't Sawamura-san come back yet..."

"The sky is almost dark..."

Kitakami Yoru found that it was the first time his thick fat hadn't worked.

He took out his phone, which had no signal, and looked at the time; it was just past five o'clock.

But the sky had turned as dark as seven o'clock in the evening, and visibility was getting lower and lower.

After waiting for another ten minutes, Kitakami Yoru felt that Eriri should have returned.

Waiting expectantly while being freezing cold, he started doing warm-up exercises.

"Phew~"

"The culprit isn't Eriri, then who else could the culprit be?"

"Previously, I guessed that the one with the golden treasure chest on her head was a bad woman, so I thought Eriri was the culprit."

"But Kato-san and Hayasaka-san, whom I'm completely unfamiliar with, also have them, so this inference is cancelled."

"Phew~ so conflicted!"

Kitakami Yoru muttered to pass the time, while doing mountain climbers on the ground to warm himself up.

The sky darkened bit by bit.

The rainstorm showed no signs of subsiding...

Ten minutes later, Kitakami Yoru couldn't sit still anymore.

He stood up from the ground, gazed in the direction Eriri had left, and his expression slowly became solemn.

"Did something happen to her?"

"Or did she play me for a fool!"

Once this thought appeared in his heart, Kitakami Yoru became increasingly suspicious.

Eriri had been gone for more than twenty minutes and hadn't returned.

Usually, if you walk a bit faster, you can get to the station in about ten minutes.

"She played me?!"

Kitakami Yoru took a step forward; the wind blew the rain, and a chill rushed onto his body.

His fat body trembled non-stop from the cold, and he subconsciously took a step back.

"Why hasn't she come back yet?"

Kitakami Yoru estimated that if it were any slower, the sky would be completely dark.

He kept hoping in his heart that Eriri had already returned and would appear in the next second.

Holding this thought, Kitakami Yoru waited for a few more minutes, his face looking extremely ugly.

Was I played by Eriri?

Kitakami Yoru struggled in his heart for a while, knowing he couldn't wait any longer.

With the heavy rainstorm, visibility had already been greatly affected.

If it were any later, it would be completely dark.

He couldn't go home in the dark, could he?

"Damn it!"

Kitakami Yoru thought of Eriri, who looked at him with her nostrils, cursed, and tentatively reached his hand out.

Raindrops hit his palm, and he even felt pain.

If he rushed out in the rain, he would be soaked through in less than ten seconds.

But he couldn't wait any longer.

Kitakami Yoru gritted his teeth at Eriri while hurriedly going upstairs with his school bag.

He came to the front of the Service Club.

He put his school bag at the door, put his phone inside, held a stack of money in his hand, and left his school bag there.

"I don't know if the station has stopped running..."

Kitakami Yoru accelerated his pace, walking back and forth in the club building, looking for items that could shelter him from the rain, while being furious at Eriri's lack of credibility.

Making him have to brave the rainstorm and rush home in the dark!

A few minutes later.

Kitakami Yoru found a piece of discarded cardboard, held it over his head with both hands, gritted his teeth, and rushed out.

The ideal was beautiful, but the reality was very skinny.

He thought it would have at least some effect.

63: None left

The cardboard didn't even last ten seconds.

Once the rain hit it and the wind blew, it became soggy.

Besides hindering Kitakami Yoru's progress, it had no effect and couldn't block the rainstorm at all.

In a few seconds, Kitakami Yoru felt he was soaked through.

The cold raindrops were like steel needles, constantly stabbing at his body.

It was painfully cold, and his whole body was shivering non-stop.

But the difficulties didn't end there.

That was the air.

In the rainstorm, the oxygen was thin; Kitakami Yoru hadn't walked a few steps before he felt breathing was difficult and he was out of breath.

What was even more fatal was the rainstorm smashing down crazily.

Countless rainwater slid down from the top of his head, pouring into Kitakami Yoru's eyes and nose; it was very uncomfortable, and he couldn't open his eyes at all.

He could only stare at the feeling of rain in his eyes and squint into a slit.

His nose was also particularly uncomfortable, unable to breathe, so he could only open his mouth to assist breathing.

But as soon as he opened his mouth, the rain drifted into his mouth, and he would be choked with a mouthful of water!

The sky was also dark...

Kitakami Yoru had never felt so uncomfortable; even breathing freely was a luxury.

A double torture of body and spirit.

Suddenly, his foot slipped, and he fell onto the hard ground full of cold rainwater again.

He didn't know if it was rain or tears, desperately sliding down his cheeks...

Eriri woke up slowly in the taxi.

"Achoo--"

She sneezed, subconsciously hugged her arms, and her brain was a bit confused.

She was in a taxi?

Umbrella?

Eriri suddenly remembered Kitakami Yoru's umbrella and widened her eyes.

"Oh no, I forgot!"

Eriri exclaimed again.

"Hello, we're almost at the destination."

The taxi driver made a turn.

Eriri heard this and hurriedly moved her little butt to the window; a very familiar street appeared in her line of sight.

She was right near home!

Eriri, who was a bit flustered in her heart, hurriedly took out her phone.