Chapter 302

Price!

Natsume Chikage shrugged, his tone carrying the same confusion.

"I want to know even more myself."

Hanyu Jianghui's brows furrowed tightly, staring at him for a long time, as if wanting to find flaws in his face.

Finally, he took a deep breath, lowered his voice, and tried to give advice:

"Regardless."

"You..."

However, his words had just started—

A figure appeared beside the two without warning.

Jinweitong tilted her head slightly, her eyes, as clear as glass but without ripples, quietly watching them.

Her voice was flat, with no emotion:

"What are you talking about?"

Her appearance was so abrupt that Natsume Chikage couldn't help but be startled.

He considered his five senses to be enhanced and far beyond ordinary people, yet he didn't notice Jinweitong's approach at all.

Hanyu Jianghui reacted very quickly.

Almost the moment Jinweitong's voice fell, he had already switched his expression and tone.

The solemn look just now disappeared without a trace, replaced by the calm of a student council cadre doing official business.

He followed the interrupted topic and naturally connected it, as if he only wanted to say these things from the beginning:

"Regardless, you'd better not cause trouble like you just did, you know?"

His voice returned to the seriousness with a sense of distance.

Natsume Chikage vaguely felt that what Hanyu Jianghui originally wanted to say was probably not just this superficial warning.

But Jinweitong's sudden appearance had clearly completely blocked the possibility of further deep conversation.

Since that was the case, they could only have a tacit understanding.

He nodded in cooperation:

"Mm, I won't."

Hanyu Jianghui nodded faintly and said no more:

"That's good."

Jinweitong's face still had no expression, but her tone seemed to carry a trace of extremely subtle exploration:

"What matter... is the 'matter just now'?"

Her gaze turned to Natsume Chikage.

"Natsume-kun, can you tell me?"

Natsume Chikage was silent for a moment.

"It was just a very boring thing," he weighed his words, "are you sure you want to hear it?"

Jinweitong nodded gently, the range small but certain:

"Sure."

Natsume Chikage had to briefly recount the conflict with Nakajima Satoshi of the baseball club before.

After Jinweitong finished listening, her face was still that inorganic look.

"I see."

Her evaluation was short and direct.

"It is indeed a boring conflict that will appear in high school."

She paused, her gaze falling on Natsume Chikage's face, as if evaluating something.

"Can you solve this matter yourself, Natsume-kun?"

Before Natsume Chikage could answer, she added, her tone as flat as if she were stating the weather:

"If not, I can help you solve it here."

"Of course, if you gain something, you have to pay the corresponding price."

Natsume Chikage shook his head and refused:

"No, I can solve it myself."

Jinweitong said indifferently:

"You have my contact information on your phone; if you need it, you can send me a message at any time."

"Even if it's other troublesome things, it's the same."

"Of course..."

"These all require paying a price."

These words, in Natsume Chikage's ears, were like whispers from the darkness, full of temptation.

It was as if as long as he nodded, he would fall into an invisible and dangerous net.

He clearly knew that if he didn't know what the price was, he must not easily agree.

Jinweitong looked at Natsume Chikage, waiting for a reply.

"Reply?"

"Not needed."

"You will have a time when you need it."

"..."

"Then, I'll go change my shoes first."

After Jinweitong finished speaking, she didn't look at the two anymore and turned to walk towards another shoe cabinet.

Her steps were light and silent.

Until her figure disappeared, Natsume Chikage turned to Hanyu Jianghui and asked in a low voice:

"Vice President Hanyu, just now... what did you want to say to me?"

Hanyu Jianghui quickly returned to normal, shook his head, his tone decisive:

"Just the words I said to you just now."

He moved his gaze away, and while walking towards his shoe cabinet, he added in a flat tone:

"Besides that, there is no other meaning."

After the words fell, he didn't give Natsume Chikage a chance to pursue, quickly changed into indoor shoes, and walked away quickly without looking back.

Natsume Chikage looked at his back, thoughtful.

And just as he was about to walk towards his shoe cabinet—

He found that Jinweitong had changed her shoes at some point and was standing quietly a few steps ahead, as if she had been waiting for him.