"Ms. Nagata, please wait a moment."
Out of understanding for the security guard, Kiba Yuji did not pursue him into the school, but he did not leave either. He returned to the side of the school gate where he was waiting before and continued to wait for Yuka Nagata's arrival.
Fortunately, before experiencing those things, his luck seemed to have finally begun to fluctuate upwards. Even so, he still waited until the afternoon to see Nagata Yuka.
Thinking of this, Kiba Yuji smiled wryly at himself, but these expressions were not shown on his face.
After hearing Kiba Yuji's voice, Nagata Yuka, who had lowered her head, suddenly raised her head, and a light seemed to light up when she looked at Kiba Yuji's eyes.
"Who are you……"
She let out a low cry of surprise and surprise, but quickly stopped her voice and lowered her head again. She grabbed her semi-wet sleeves uneasily, and water droplets dripped down her hair to the ground.
Her body was trembling slightly, uneasy, cold... maybe both.
Kiba Yuji looked at Nagata Yuka and guessed.
He kept a polite and safe distance and did not ask harshly why she walked out without wiping her hair after washing it.
"My name is Kiba, Yuuji Kiba."
he introduced himself.
"We met yesterday, do you still remember it?"
"Um……"
Nagata Yuka nodded as lowly as a mosquito.
"Mr. Kiba, thank you very much for your help yesterday."
"No, it's nothing. I think other people will not hesitate to reach out when they see that situation."
"Maybe……"
Hearing Nagata Yuka's answer, Kiba Yuji once again confirmed his previous guess.
'Bullying...'
If we were not surrounded by ill will, who would doubt the possibility of kindness extended by strangers?
He was silent for a moment, then took off his coat and handed it to Nagata Yuka.
"Well, if you don't mind..."
"--Thanks!"
Nagata Yuka stared blankly for a while at the coat handed over by Kiba Yuji. Her face suddenly turned bright red, and a smile finally appeared on her face that had always only had a sad expression.
She smiled and said words of thanks, and then when she took Kiba Yuji's coat and brought it to her face, the muscles at the corners of her mouth couldn't help but twitch twice.
'It stinks! '
Although it smelled bad, Yuka Nagata laughed out loud, and at the same time, a very reassuring feeling surged from the bottom of her heart.
'In two days, my body will probably smell like this too, right? '
As a person who had been kicked out of her home by her adoptive parents and only had a few secretly saved coins in her pocket, and with the living examples in front of her as a reference, she could easily imagine her subsequent wandering life.
"Thank you, Mr. Kiba!"
She shook off her coat and put it on, and thanked Kiba Yuuji again, her expression looking much brighter.
However, this series of changes in her expressions made Kiba Yuji feel a little embarrassed and confused.
He could still understand the micro-expression at the beginning. He also remembered that he hadn't showered for several days and had been exposed to rain once. There was nothing he could do about the smell. It was understandable that girls couldn't accept it. It was indeed something he didn't think carefully before handing over the coat... But what were the reactions after that?
Why did this girl not only thank him again, but her mood actually improved a lot! ?
I don’t understand, I don’t understand…
Kiba Yuji scratched his head and said: "...As long as you don't dislike it."
After speaking, he added.
"Ah, by the way, the schoolbag you left behind that day was taken away by some girls in the morning. They said they were your sister's friends and would pass the schoolbag to you. Do you know them?"
Sister...sister's friends...schoolbag...pass on...
There was no need for Yuji Kiba to describe the appearance of those girls in detail. Yuka Nagata's face turned pale instantly.
She only has one sister in this women's high school, and the only people who will mind her business and are her sister's friends are only a few people in the women's basketball club, so there is absolutely nothing wrong with her.
After realizing this fact, her ears suddenly heard voices speaking somewhere inside the teaching building just like last night.
"That little bitch is so quiet. I didn't expect that she has a pretty handsome boyfriend."
"Oh, what's the point of being handsome? Don't you smell it? That man smells so bad. He probably hasn't taken a shower or changed clothes for several days, right? He looks like a poor man at first glance!"
"Yes, but it's the same. Suddenly, I feel like the two of them are quite compatible. That little bitch is pretty good-looking too."
"Humph, that's all she can see."
"Then will this bag be returned to her then?"
"Repay it, why not? I heard that she has been kicked out of the house by Daozi's father. How about we do something more interesting this time?"
"What? Have you thought of anything interesting again?"
"As a reward for us delivering her schoolbag, what do you think if we want the school uniform she is wearing?"
"Oh, how bad are you? What if that is the only piece of clothing that she can wear out? After all, didn't she get kicked out of the house?"
"Hmph, wouldn't that be better?"
"That's right, hehe."
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha……"
Those words were like countless needles piercing her heart. Amidst the harsh laughter, she covered her ears tightly, turned around and ran away.
"Miss Nagata!"
Seeing Yuuka Nagata fleeing in panic like an injured bird after being frightened, Yuji Kiba shouted quickly, but received no response.
Thinking of the crane feather, Kiba Yuji frowned tightly.
Sure enough, she also became...
So, what did she just hear?
Kiba Yuji turned his gaze to the campus and took a deep breath.
Then,
Periods of noisy sounds rang in my ears.
The sounds of walking, talking and laughing, lectures... Finally, he focused on the girls he had met in the morning who were talking in the corridor.
"...When the time comes, you look at my eyes and just go up and hold Nagata Yuuka down, and then the others will take off her school uniform. Do you understand?"
"Don't worry, Minister. With that little bitch's size, she definitely won't be able to break free."
"That's right, Minister, just feel free to record the video..."
Those bastards! !
Kiba Yuuji, an outsider, was furious when he heard it, let alone the person involved who heard it with his own ears.
…
…
night.
Not waiting for Nagata Yuka, several people in the women's basketball club felt very disappointed. They changed out of their sportswear in the changing room and left the school.
On the road, several people who were talking and laughing suddenly stopped talking.
They looked with some fear at the shadows coming towards them from the darkness, and gathered together tremblingly.
"what is that?"
"Is it a ghost?"
However, when they saw the shadow walking into the light, revealing the appearance of Nagata Yuka, the fear on their faces suddenly turned into anger.
"You bastard, how dare you scare us—"
It's just that the sentence stopped abruptly in the middle of saying it, just like the expressions on their faces turned to fear again at this time.
Because in their eyes, Nagata Yuka flashed twice in the human form and the crane-shaped Ofirno, and then stabilized into the form of the crane-shaped Oferno with its wings spread out and pure white crane feathers raised.
At the same time, the gray-white centaurs came behind them with swords and sent out the blades.
