"Now, wake up, miss, wake up, are you okay?"
When I woke up from the darkness, a strange man's call was ringing in my ears.
who is it?
Nagata Yuka thought doubtfully.
Is there anyone who cares about me in this place?
The vision in front of her gradually became clearer. Nagata Yuka opened her eyes and saw the strange man's face clearly.
A face she had never seen before.
"Great, you woke up...how do you feel? Are you feeling uncomfortable anywhere? Can you still stand up?"
"I...I'm okay!"
Completely awake, Yuka Nagata's cheeks were instantly blushed. Apart from Keitaro, who had been texting online, this was the first time she had received friendly attention from a man. The gratitude and shyness that filled her heart made her realize that she While still lying in the other person's arms, he quickly struggled to stand up and bowed to express his gratitude to the other person.
"Thank you very much for your help! I'm fine!"
After saying that, she turned around and walked away quickly, forgetting to pick up the schoolbag on the ground.
By the time Kiba Yuji found out, Nagata Yuka had already run away, and even her back had gradually disappeared from his eyes.
Kiba Yuji sighed softly and picked up the black handbag on the ground along with a pure white crane feather covering it. However, when he saw the scratches on the schoolbags, he couldn't help but frown. Bad guesses took shape in his mind.
It was precisely because of this bad guess that he did not choose to catch up with the other party now and return the schoolbag to the girl. Instead, he chose to open the schoolbag to further verify his guess.
While seeing the student ID card, he also flipped through the girl's old books.
As expected, it was full of nasty graffiti, and only in a few relatively clean places could one see the careful and neat handwriting of the girl covered in graffiti.
"Sakurarin Girls' High School, Yuka Nagata...?"
After whispering the two names on the student ID card, Kiba Yuji finally focused his attention on the crane feather.
"This is……"
…
…
"I'm back."
Opening the door with the key, Nagata Yuka finished speaking and looked inside the house for a moment before quickly looking back.
As always, I didn't get the response I deserved.
On the contrary, because her stepsister has not returned yet, her adoptive parents, who heard the sound of opening the door but found out that it was actually her, cast an extremely dissatisfied look at her.
Time passed little by little, and it was getting later and later, but my stepsister still didn't come home.
But at this moment, Yuka Nagata suddenly heard her stepsister's cry for help.
She looked around, wondering why her stepsister hadn't come back yet, but she could hear her calling for help.
This obviously unreasonable thing made her look at her adoptive parents hesitantly, but in the end she chose to tell the truth frankly.
Yuka Nagata took her adoptive parents to search in the direction where the sound came from, and finally found her stepsister next to a big tree under the road.
The stepsister's leg was injured and she was leaning against a tree trunk. After discovering her adoptive parents, she immediately showed a "saved" look and cried with joy.
But after seeing her, that expression instantly turned into anger, jealousy, and accusation.
"——She was the one who pushed me down!"
The adoptive parents believed what her stepsister said without any doubt, because she could not explain why she could hear her stepsister calling for help while she was at home.
So far away, is she a monster?
But why did she fall into this situation so easily?
She really couldn't explain her hearing.
However, even if the stepsister doesn't know who pushed her down, doesn't she know that that person couldn't be her?
'Why do you say that? '
'I obviously saved you! '
She doesn't understand...
and,
There is no need to understand it anymore.
Because of this matter,
she……
Kicked out of home by his adoptive father.
forever!
…
…
The night was cold, not only the temperature, but also that terrible feeling of loneliness.
Yuka Nagata took out her phone and wanted to send a text message to Keitaro, but the phone was turned off due to low battery.
She also wondered if she would meet the gentle man during the day if she was wandering nearby like this.
Her thoughts began to wander, unwilling to gather together.
She thought about everything she could think of, her dreams, her future...
Because she has no past to cherish.
The night was very cold, so she hugged her shoulders tightly and wandered on the road until dawn, unwilling to stop even though her legs were already so heavy that she could hardly move.
The sun rose and gradually moved to the sky, and Nagata Yuka returned to that home again.
She only took out some coins she had secretly accumulated from under the bed, put them in her pocket, and put the key to the door on the table in the living room. Nagata Yuka turned around and left here in silence.
No one knows better than she does when that home will be empty.
That's why she chose this time to say her final farewell to this family.
But if she leaves here, where can she go?
Nagata Yuka looked up, and the dazzling sunlight made her unable to help but close her eyes, causing uncontrollable tears to fall from her eyes.
"Going to school?"
Her palms tightly grasped the coins in her pocket.
After a moment, I suddenly remembered...
"Where's my schoolbag?"
At home? No...she didn't seem to have one when she got home last night.
so……
Did it fall when she fell? So, will she be with the gentleman who helped her now?
Despite this speculation, she still went back to the steps of the overpass to look for it.
No……
No……
Nagata Yuka sighed and pursed her lips.
Her student ID card is still in her bag, so if that gentleman is as gentle as she thought, will he be sent to school?
"-Can I trust him?"
Only then, she would have to go to school.
Nagata Yuuka frowned and thought for a moment, gritted her teeth, wiped her face twice, and walked towards the school.
…
…
Sakurarin Girls' High School.
Kiba Yuji was waiting at the school gate with Yuka Nagata's schoolbag. However, from the time students began to enter the school gate, there were gradually no students entering the school gate, and the girl was nowhere to be seen.
"Could it be that she won't go to school today?"
At this moment, a few more girls who were chatting and laughing came from the road outside the school gate.
Then he took a few steps back before entering the school gate, and gathered around Kiba Yuuji who was standing by the school gate.
"I said, this Nissan, the schoolbag in your hand, could it be Yuka Nagata's?"
Kiba Yuji looked around at the girls surrounding him, couldn't help but frown, and asked doubtfully: "Do you know her?"
The girls looked at each other and laughed, but in their laughter they denied his guess.
"We don't know her. That guy is not only withdrawn, but also very strange. He will suddenly do some very eye-catching things. Nissan, did you see the scratches on those schoolbags? Yes, they were scratches by herself! "
"Is that so?"
In my first impression, the girl didn't look like the kind of person these girls said she was.
But while he was still hesitating, the girls had already taken Yuka Nagata's schoolbag from his hands.
They very boldly stretched out their arms, and their tender white hands reached towards his hand holding the school bag, which made him step back. He was a little distracted, and then they took the school bag.
"you--"
"Don't worry, although we don't know Yuka Nagata, we are good friends with her sister. If you leave this schoolbag to us, we will definitely pass it on to her in the end."
One of the girls finished speaking with a sweet smile, raised her hand, and entered the campus with her companions.
Kiba Yuji subconsciously took two steps to pursue him, but was stopped by the security guard.
"Sir, this is a women's college. Unrelated men are not allowed to enter. I'm sorry."
