The three of them arrived at Yueshui's house.
Koji Ohba did not stay in the reception room and waited, but actively helped deliver the ingredients to the kitchen.
Koshimizu Nanatsuki was glad that he had just bought tea at the convenience store. He found the tea leaves in the bag that Chi Feichi brought back and turned around to boil the kettle and fill it with water.
Chi Feichi put the red wine and bottled drinks on the cooking table. He saw Feichi crawling outside the door, stretching his neck to look inside the house, and then walked to the door to pick up Feichi.
Koji Ohba stood next to the cooking table. When he saw Chi Fei arriving at the door late, his expression immediately became tense. He lowered his voice and called Koshizu Nanatsuki, "Hey, Koshizu..."
"Ah?" Koshizui Nanatsuki turned to look at Ohba Koji in confusion.
Koji Ohba raised his finger and made a silent gesture towards Nanatsuki Koshizui. He quickly turned his head and glanced at Chi Feichi who was squatting down to pick something up outside the door. He whispered nervously, "You don't need to risk speaking. I Come on, have you been kidnapped? If you have been kidnapped, just blink."
"Kidnapping?" Koshisui Nanatsuki was confused. He looked at Chi Feichi outside the door and tried not to blink. "No, did you have any misunderstanding?"
Ohba Koji stared at Koshizui Nanatsuki's eyes, making sure that Koshizui Nanatsuki didn't blink. He was stunned for a moment, and found that Chi Feichi had stood up and was about to come back outside the door. He frowned anxiously and said softly, "You have always been there before. He said that he didn’t want to fall in love, and he had rejected more than one person in high school. How could he suddenly fall in love? It was less than half a year after Mizuguchi’s death, and he was still the kind of guy who... didn’t seem quite right..."
"Is something not right?" Yuesui Nanatsuki looked at Chi Feichi who was walking over and looked him up and down. "You think he looks like a bad guy, so you suspect that he kidnapped me and threatened me temporarily. Be his girlfriend?"
Ohba Koji: "..."
That's it.
He's already mentioned kidnapping, isn't it obvious enough?
And it's not surprising that he thinks so. That guy really doesn't feel right. He doesn't look like a gangster, but like a dangerous person who wants to secretly carry out a revenge plan.
Thinking about it, Oba Koji whispered, "You are a detective and may investigate some dangerous cases. It is not impossible to be kidnapped..."
Chi Feichi carried Feichi not far behind Oba Koji and asked aloud, "What are you talking about?"
Thinking of the two people chatting face to face in the kitchen after he went out, he suddenly felt that his mentality might not always be stable.
Is it better to send Koji Ohba away as soon as possible?
Koji Ohba was thinking about how to fool him, "We are talking about..."
"Dacha suspected that when I went to investigate a certain incident, I was kidnapped by you, a dangerous person related to the incident. Then you threatened me to be your girlfriend and help cover up your criminal behavior. That's probably it," Yueshui After Nanatsuki explained, he said to the stunned Ohba Koji, "Oba, although you did misunderstand, I still thank you for taking my safety into consideration."
Seeing Koshizui Nanatsuki confessing, Ohba Koji also understood that this would not be a kidnapping situation. After regaining consciousness, he smiled awkwardly and said, "I'm really sorry. I watched a similar movie recently, so I always... He would think of kidnapping."
"No wonder, your mind was very active and your imagination was very rich when you were in high school. During a certain period of time, you would be addicted to any TV series you saw," Koshikoshi Nanatsuki saw the dirty Feichi in Chi Feichi's hands. He walked aside to get out of the way of the sink, "Fei Chi is so dirty. Just help him wash it here."
Koji Oba heard Koshizui Nanatsuki mention his high school life, and just as his expression relaxed, he saw Chi Feichi stepping forward and putting a live snake into the vegetable sink, and his expression became tense again.
"This is Mr. Chi's pet," Koshizui Nanatsuki said, "Don't worry, it's very well-behaved and won't bite anyone casually."
"Yes, really?" Koji Oba forced a smile.
Hey, hey, is this man really okay?
Even if you are not a bad person, liking reptile pets is still very niche, right? Coupled with the cold feeling it gives people, are you sure there are no psychological problems or bad habits?
…
After the water boiled, the three of them moved to the reception room, each holding a cup of hot tea, and sat chatting in the room.
Koshimi Nanatsuki and Ohba Koji were in the same class for three years in high school, but they didn't see each other for two years. When they reunited again, they inevitably talked about themselves and other classmates.
"You came back to help my aunt sweep her grave," Oba Koji said with emotion. "I just heard that you were back yesterday, and I wanted to come see you. But in the morning, my dad asked me to go to the industrial area to help, and when I was about to come over, I I heard someone say that you went to the abandoned stadium, so I wanted to look for you there. When I got to the food street, I happened to see you. You also know what happened after that... But it’s true that you came back for several days. , Why didn't you contact me... What about us? I was originally studying in Fukuoka. If I hadn't gone on exchange study, I would have been in Fukuoka. And Ogasawara, she went to Osaka to study, but she will come back during the holidays... "
"Because Ayusa stayed in Osaka for the summer vacation in the past two years, so I didn't know that she would come back to Fukuoka during the winter vacation," Koshimizu Nanatsuki explained with some surprise, "I asked her last summer Do you want to go to Shikoku to visit Kana? She said that her mother was transferred to Osaka for work and had just settled down. She wanted to help pack up the new home during the holidays. She also agreed to work as a temporary receptionist at the airport in Osaka, so she didn't have time. , I thought she rarely returns to Fukuoka now."
"She will also come back during the winter vacation. After all, her father is still working in Fukuoka. It seems that she has agreed to stay with her mother in Osaka in the summer and get acquainted with airport jobs, so that she can quickly find a suitable job after graduation. Her own post, and she will go back to Fukuoka to stay with her father in the winter..." Koji Ohba smiled, and the smile on his face suddenly solidified again. He lowered his head and sighed, and his tone lowered, "She met her two days ago. As for me, I told you that I didn’t accompany you to Shikoku to see Mizuguchi-san last year. She is still sad when she thinks about it now. After hearing about Mizuguchi’s accident, because she heard that Mizuguchi’s suicide was involved in the case, she was only surprised and did not arrive in time. I went to Shikoku. Although I wanted to call you and ask about your situation, I couldn't contact you. In the end, I couldn't go to Mizuguchi. I really didn't have the nerve to see you again. I think she should have known about you this time when you came back. She was just worried about you. Angry with her.”
"I'm not angry," Koshimizu Nanatsuki explained. "At that time last summer, she didn't know that something like that would happen to Kana..."
Chi Feichi sat aside, drinking tea quietly, listening to the two of them talking about the current situation and going back to the past.
In high school, Nanatsuki Koshimizu and Kana Mizuguchi were the best friends. Arisa Ogasawara often played with them, and Koji Ohba was the kind of person who had a lively and cheerful personality and could hang out with both male and female classmates. He has a good relationship with everyone.
Although they were in the same class in high school, the four of them took different paths after graduation.
Going to college in Japan requires a large amount of tuition. If your family is not well-off and you want to go to college, most people will choose to take out loans.
Working part-time while studying is not uncommon. Many people start working and going to school in high school. However, they can only earn some pocket money. Unless some people take the path of assisted dating, they can only earn enough for living expenses at most. Pay tuition.
If you can pass the exam and enter a national university, that would be better. If you enter a private university and study for three or four years, the tuition will be much more than that of a national university. After graduation, you will have to work as a social worker for several years in order to pay off the loan as soon as possible. hard working.
The banks that lend money to students are opened by consortiums. After graduation, students are likely to work in the consortium, receive a salary from the consortium, and save the money and return it to the banks under the consortium.
Even the Yan Consortium that merged into Umbrella is among them. The Field Group has had similar financial institutions in Japan in recent years. He is someone who does not need to be squeezed, but he can't help but sigh in his heart that Japan is already terminally ill.
In this case, some people will not choose to go to college after graduating from high school.
Kana Mizuguchi is one of those people whose family has difficulty affording college tuition. She is not sure that she will get a place in a national university, and she is not sure that she will be able to graduate successfully when she goes to university. Therefore, she does not want to go into debt and gamble on an uncertain future, so she is in high school. After graduation, she chose to work and worked as a maid for a wealthy family in Shikoku.
Yueshui's grandfather was a capable man. After his death, he left some property to Yueshui. He did not ask about it in detail, but Yueshui had mentioned to him before that in addition to the real estate, the old man also left some deposits that were withdrawn regularly.
If Yueshui wants to go to university, he will most likely be able to enroll in a national university. In that case, the money he can withdraw every year will be almost enough to pay for tuition, but he will usually have to rely on working or accepting commissions to earn living expenses.
In fact, if you don't want to work in Yueshui, you can rent out part of the spare room at home. It is close to the Tenjin business district and many people are willing to rent a house here. You can also hire people to run it as a B&B, so that you can make a stable income. Income.
However, Yueshui was taught to be too casual by his old man. He had dabbled in a wide range of subjects since he was a child, but did not know which major he wanted to specialize in. He was interested in detective affairs, and was already well-known in Kyushu when he graduated from high school. , Koshisui is not in a hurry to go to university, and plans to travel around Japan more, and then go to university when he feels the need to go to university.
And judging from some of Koshisui's actions in the first two years, Koshisui had been to many universities in Tokyo, but had never thought about taking the entrance exam. He suspected that Koshisui wanted to find him first and then decide where to go to school.
In short, during the two years after graduating from high school, Yueshui wandered around various places and made money doing detective work.
Arisa Ogasawara is the type of person who goes to college step by step. Her mother did not choose to become a housewife, but worked outside the home. Together with her husband, they provided all the expenses for Arisa Ogasawara's schooling. The couple even guaranteed to provide for Arisa Ogasawara. After going to graduate school, the couple's expectations also put a lot of pressure on Arisa Ogasawara.
I heard from Koshizui and Ohba Koji that if Ogasawara Arisa didn't work hard enough, Ogasawara Arisa's mother would talk about how hard she worked and how difficult the working environment was after getting married.
Arisa Ogasawara also knew that it was not easy for her parents, so she acted a little cautiously. After hearing that Kana Mizuguchi committed suicide, she did not go to Shikoku in time. This was also because Kana Mizuguchi was deemed to have committed suicide due to fear of crime at that time. Most people in Japan would not treat criminals. Tolerance, as well as people related to criminals, are inevitably ostracized and isolated. Considering his life in college and his future, Arisa Ogasawara retreated.
This is the real reason why Arisa Ogasawara thinks that crossing the water will make her angry.
Regarding this, Koshizui knew it, and Ohba Koji knew it, but the two of them stopped talking about it.
He could guess it from the few words spoken between the two, but he also didn't say what Ogasawara Arisa was thinking, and he didn't mention any related topics.
(End of chapter)
