For Xiao Karasuma, who has followed the boy to the scene of the crime for several years, investigated various cases, met various people in society, and experienced various darkness of human nature.
At only nineteen years old, she has actually accumulated quite a wealth of social experience, such as experience in life, perspective on people, ways of thinking about things, etc...
It can be said that, at least in these aspects, Karasuma was almost a "dimensionality-reducing blow" to her classmates in school. The two were not on the same level at all.
Although Hatoyama Keiko and the boy still habitually regard Karasuma as an immature "little sister", in fact, Karasuma probably has a similar mentality when looking at the classmates in his school.
This is an instinctive thought, rather than Karasuma's deliberate intention to use this vision.
To give the most vivid example, take the boy who Karasuma often accompanied to investigate cases in recent years.
In the past case investigations, Xiao Karasuma had long been accustomed to the boy's capable and decisive acting style. He was accustomed to the boy's excellent character of being able to think calmly and carefully search for solutions no matter what crisis he encountered.
The image of the boy was deeply reflected in Karasuma's heart, causing her to instinctively have the idea that people like boys are a measure of "ordinary", and only those who are better than boys are Okay, that can be called excellent.
When Karasuma brought this standard into school and applied it to her naive classmates who had not had much life experience yet, it naturally troubled her.
On one side is an excellent young police officer who is close to him, and on the other side is a naughty classmate who plays around all day long and always wants to tease you. This will inadvertently create a certain gap in Karasuma's heart.
Especially when these classmates went off the beaten track and tried to attract her attention and win her favor using various methods that seemed childish to Karasuma, the trouble in her heart would only become deeper.
Originally, he just wanted to divert Karasuma's attention from him, but now it bothered Keiko Hatoyama.
Because she felt that the reason for Xiao Karasuma's mentality was also a part of her that she could not shirk.
"Even if I want to fall in love, I will definitely find someone who is not so naive, find someone who can understand me, and can stay with me all day long..."
Not knowing what Hatoyama Keiko was thinking at this time, Karasuma suddenly had a blushing and shy expression on her face and whispered.
When she said these words, the girl looked a little dazed, as if she had fallen into some kind of beautiful fantasy.
Looking at her appearance, Hatoyama Keiko didn't know what she had guessed, and a narrow smile gradually appeared on her somewhat pale face.
"For example?" Instantly throwing away all the guilt in her heart, she came over and whispered in Karasuma's ear.
"At least he must be more powerful than that wooden man..."
Karasumaru said it without thinking, his brain still immersed in the fantasy of his own bright future.
Perhaps in her opinion, the boy is the most powerful person in the world.
"No, that wooden man is too powerful. He is as smart as a ghost. It is too difficult to find someone more powerful than him. Besides, for marriage and other things, it doesn't matter if he is a little worse in these aspects...
The main thing is to be able to understand each other, tolerate each other, be considerate and gentle, and not be chauvinistic and think that men should do what women can only do. If we encounter any difficulties in life, we as husband and wife should discuss it together and overcome the difficulties.
Then we need to have the same interests. If we want to go somewhere we want to play, we can go together. We can also have many common topics with each other, and we will never feel tired of it...
We also do housework together. We don't discuss who will be responsible for what and who will clean it. Instead, we do it together, work together, and have fun together...
There is also the matter of having children. We will definitely have two children by then, one is a boy and the other is a girl. In this way, we can enjoy the joy of raising a boy and the joy of raising a girl, hehehe...
Ah, but when the children grow up, they will definitely leave home, so when the two children are about the same age, we will have another child. By then, our husband and wife will definitely not be young anymore. The house is deserted and deserted. We can also have a little cutie to accompany us..."
"That's it, that's it."
After quietly listening to Karasumaru's beautiful vision of her future life, Hatoyama Keiko nodded vigorously, and at the same time deliberately raised her voice a little louder to break Karasumaru's consciousness out of her fantasy.
"Eh? Uh-"
He blinked doubtfully at Keiko Hatoyama, who had a narrow smile. Only then did Kokarasuma realize what he had just said. He immediately screamed and stepped back several steps, then unsteadily sat back on the ground.
[I, what on earth did I just say? ! 】
"Sister Keiko! You, you, you... I, I just..."
"What's wrong? You look so panicked all of a sudden?"
Keiko Hatoyama knelt down, tilted her head, and looked at Kokarasuma's pale and panic-stricken face with a smile.
"Sitting on the ground in such a disgraceful manner is not what a good and virtuous wife should do~"
As she spoke, Keiko Hatoyama imitated her previous appearance, closed her eyes, clasped her hands together, and said in a very exaggerated tone:
"Ah~ My future husband must be a gentle and considerate perfect man~ Ah~ I want to give him three children~ Ah~ Our family of five will definitely..."
"Wow wow wow——"
His sanity immediately returned to zero. Xiao Karasuma was teased so much that he waved his hands and feet on the ground. Finally, he jumped up with a red face and ran away at the speed of light.
"Sister Keiko, I hate you!"
"Huh? Watch your step, don't run around with your head held high..."
In this extremely embarrassing situation, Kokarasuma didn't notice the flash of apology deep in Hatoyama Keiko's eyes.
【sorry……】
There was a moment of sadness in her expression, and Hatoyama Keiko's face showed a smile again.
"Okay~ don't run away, sister Keiko won't tell anyone..."
With that said, she stood up from the ground, shouting while trying to catch up with Xiao Karasuma who was running wildly in front of her.
"This is not a bad thing that cannot be said. Rather, sister Keiko, I envy you, Karasumaru-chan, for being so optimistic about your future..."
"Boom!"
"I can't hear it! I can't hear anything!"
Karasuma lowered his head and covered his ears, completely ignoring the sounds behind him, and kept racing until he ran past the corner at the end of the corridor, and finally stopped against the wall.
"Huh...huh..."
It was only then that her overloaded brain managed to calm down. She raised her hand and patted her cheeks that were so red that they were about to smoke, and then took a deep breath.
"Sister Keiko really likes to tease me with these things. Hmm, just wait, I will find opportunities to tease me back in the future..."
After muttering something softly, Karasumaru noticed that Hatoyama Keiko's voice was no longer behind him.
So she turned back and walked around the corner behind her, put her hands on her hips, deliberately turned her head, and said in a arrogant tone:
"Let's talk first. You can't tell anyone about Sister Keiko that I just mentioned! Anyone! Otherwise, I will ignore you from now on...!"
At this point, Karasumaru's voice suddenly stopped.
The expression on her face froze at this moment, and she froze in place, her pupils shrank suddenly, and she looked at the floor in the corridor ahead in disbelief.
Keiko Hatoyama fell there.
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(End of chapter)
