Chapter 136: Failure

The so-called exquisite appearance can be described specifically as having delicate and smart facial features, and the features and proportions and the lines of the face itself are just right, which makes people feel awe-inspiring at first sight. If the person is taller, people will inevitably think that he has a bad temper.

This does not mean having a "bad" temper, but a "strong" presence.

Hitachiin Kaoru is a person with delicate appearance but good temper.

Under the clear sky, there was a gentle breeze blowing. Suzuki Sonoko walked one step behind the other person, leisurely watching his back.

Although the young master Hitachiin spoke in a very official manner and walked at a rather self-centered pace, Sonoko was in no hurry to catch up. After all, as long as the person was good-looking, even if the person spoke in a sticky way, Sonoko could accept it. However...

Lord Suzuki of the Imperial Pillar Tower, already well-versed in metaphysical knowledge, frowned almost imperceptibly. "Regarding a person's energy (or spiritual pressure, attitude), there should be a baseline, but this beautiful boy's aura is intermittent, flickering..."

She couldn't help but fall back half a step, wondering if this person had been possessed by a ghost recently. While the fluctuations were so violent, even the changes were very regular!

Although this matter was a bit troublesome, based on the basic friendship that everyone would inevitably become partners, Suzuki Sonoko hesitated for a while and decided to take appropriate action to see if she could help him out.

Yuanzi remained silent and followed the other person to the beverage room on the top floor.

The handsome boy with a gentlemanly demeanor suggested going to buy some drinks, and Sonoko nodded and waited there with peace of mind. This was how she spent most of the morning. It was also because Hitachiin Kaoru was so considerate that Sonoko had the urge to do something for someone she had just met for the first time, which had not been felt for a long time.

About five minutes passed.

Sonoko stared straight at the store door, and with her full senses, she discovered that when Hitachiin Kaoru turned the corner of the store, two auras, one bright and one dim, stopped at the same time behind the huge pillar - the one who walked in was the bright one, and the next second the bright and dim alternating, the one who came out from behind the pillar holding two drinks became the dim one.

It's like...

Suddenly a different person appeared.

Ah, now I remember, Sonoko suddenly realized: although it was Hitachiin Kaoru who came to discuss business, the Hitachiin family gave birth to twins!

She looked at the person who was walking in for a long time. There was nothing unusual about his dress and appearance. Even the expression on his face was no different from the person who had just walked in.

Twins...are they such a magical existence?

Hitachiin·The beautiful boy, who was either Guang or Xin, came closer with a drink and asked, "What's wrong?"

Yuanzi instantly retracted her shocked expression and turned away, saying, "Nothing." She calmly took the tea and took a sip. "Next stop, shall we go see the rooftop terrace?"

Hitachiin’s Xin said: “The terrace was originally a coffee bar, but it could also be turned into a greenhouse restaurant. The main design sense comes from all aspects…”

Yuanzi just listened, occasionally asking a vague "Is that so" to keep the topic going, and spent the rest of the time wholeheartedly enjoying the scenery.

Since she knew that the change in the aura was because the two brothers kept changing people, and not because of ghosts, she didn't care at all. She asked for what she wanted and gave whatever opinions she wanted.

It was almost time for dinner after we had been shopping.

The location was the coffee bar on the top floor. When ordering, Chang Luyuan said he wanted to go to the bathroom. Left Yuanzi was having trouble making a choice among the various menus. After a while, someone came over.

Yuanzi didn't even raise his head and asked, "Are you back so soon?"

Before he could finish his words, another identical guy pulled out another chair and sat opposite him.

These are two handsome guys with exactly the same sperm!

Yuanzi closed her eyes subconsciously.

——Why is it that after becoming twice as handsome, he actually started to become dazzling?

The gentleman who had been so gentlemanly all morning suddenly turned sour. The one on the left picked up the ice cream scoop and ate the fruit with a droopy look on his face. "Hey, you haven't figured out what's going on yet, have you?"

Sonoko: “Hmm?”

Hitachiin, probably just a light, said, "Tsk," "Can you tell who I am?"

Yuanzi thought to herself, "I know, you are the brighter one." But she could only tell who was bright and who was dark. However, since she was not sure who the first person she met this morning was, she had no way of matching "bright" and "dark" with their names.

But she was certain of one thing.

These two people deliberately made trouble for her.

As for why...

——I heard Tomoko introduce it earlier. When she heard that Mrs. Hitachiin had twin sons, her first reaction was to go on a blind date and sperm analysis. This stereotype was so strong that it even influenced her.

It turns out she wasn't the only one who thought so.

The Hitachiin brothers thought so too.

What made it even worse was that Mrs. Suzuki also explained and comforted her gently. Mrs. Hitachiin herself was in Paris, and the calls were made by her assistant during breaks at work. She was vague about the causes and consequences throughout the process, but she explained them very clearly, such as meeting and communicating with the young lady of the Suzuki family, and trying her best to improve her favorability.

Considering that Ouran already has Feng Jingye and Suou Tamaki, who can barely be considered a half-victim, the Hitachiin brothers immediately followed their fixed logic and thought of the worst possible outcome.

Their mother planned to send them to a blind date with Suzuki.

This was at a time when rumors were swirling that Suzuki was going to marry a commoner.

——Just as Daomingsi and the others had speculated, almost the next second after receiving the relevant news, Hitachiin also followed that line of thought and speculated that Suzuki Sonoko might have promised her parents to have a child with another man whose identity, bloodline, and health level were just right in order to marry her beloved commoner man.

This has nothing to do with love and responsibility, and it's not even worthy of the cold word like marriage.

To young people who still have romantic feelings, to put it bluntly, it is "breeding".

Hitachiin·Probably Xin sighed: "We've already swapped four or five times this morning. Don't you feel disgusted that people who can't tell the difference are still going on a date?"

"To put it bluntly, wouldn't it be awkward if you still couldn't tell the father from the mother after giving birth?"

Suzuki Sonoko suddenly felt that these two people... were a little too malicious towards her.

——She didn't know that this was actually because Feng Jingye was very cautious in his conversations with her, which had an impact on the younger generations in the same department. When someone confronted her like this, her temper flared up.

The eldest lady was too lazy to explain anything and just snorted and laughed. Her sarcastic look was quite lifelike.

Yuanzi said shamelessly that it didn't matter.

"Twins have such high genetic similarity. All I want are good genes. There's not much difference between you two."

The beautiful boys on the opposite side opened their eyes wide.

Sonoko chuckled, "You all thought I couldn't tell people apart this morning, so it was definitely inappropriate. But in my opinion, this morning went quite well. After all, I had a very happy time shopping. Because no matter how many times you changed people, no matter who came to me after the change, you always tried to maintain the rhythm during the date and used the same attitude to make me happy."

"I was just being teased. I was having fun anyway. Those of you who rushed to the bathroom to change clothes or to mess with the waiters were the ones who were tired."

“Why should I have an opinion?

"Besides, there's no pleasure in cheating on twins," Ms. Suzuki smacked her lips exaggeratedly. "Even if you buy two bags, they'll definitely be different styles or colors. Fraternal twins have a bit of a novelty, but identical twins..."

She exclaimed, "I feel like I've oversold everything. The freshness is gone."

This is too malicious.

Sonoko knew clearly that she was hurting others with her words - in fact, she also knew that this behavior was an unhealthy way to vent, and that she had truly relieved the unknown emotions that were squeezing in her heart to a certain extent through hurting others - but she also knew clearly that this was wrong.

People who are under a lot of pressure can smash plates and bowls, and there are even special stress-relieving toys. People should not get pleasure from hurting others, nor should they hurt others just to get a certain pleasure.

She thought I should apologize first...

But suddenly saying sorry without any connection to the previous words seemed a bit unnatural (especially since she still had that mean expression on her face), so I thought about it for a moment, tried to bring the topic back to the original point, and chose a more gentle way of saying it.

She asked, "Tell me, do you two want to be separated, or do you not want to be separated?"

This is not a mild statement at all.

Surprisingly, the Hitachiin brothers showed no sign of getting angry. The one sitting on the left glanced at her gloomily and said, "Whatever you like, you can't even tell the difference now. Why would you want to date us?"

For the first time in a long time, Yuanzi felt choked.

She held her breath and said, "...If you want to be distinguished, then make some marks. Change your hairstyle, dress differently, or at most wear an extra ring."

"If you don't want to be separated, why do you ask this kind of question every time you meet someone?"

"If you want everyone to recognize you without any prompts, then don't deliberately imitate your partner's personality. Even if you say the same thing, there should still be a difference in your tone, right?"

Guang: “Huh?”

"You said you wanted to play with us, but in the end you couldn't even tell who was Guang and who was Xin. How could you be sincere? Even if you did, how much is this sincerity worth?"

Sonoko retorted, "Others have no obligation to tell you apart!"

"Everyone is so busy. The first impression they have of wanting to be friends with you is probably because you're good-looking. Aren't humans, no, all animals, like this from ancient times to the present?"

"Don't expect too much sincerity from those who admire you based on your looks. After all, based on what you said, that smiling girl who greeted you might be into a dozen or so men at once. In her mind, the label you two are simply the 'Hitachiin brothers'."

Yuanzi even wanted to emphasize loudly again: Maybe there is not even a specific name!

The Hitachiin on the right sneered, "It's your own fault if you can't tell the difference. Don't try to shift the blame. It's not like we haven't encountered people who can tell us apart before."

Yuanzi spread his hands and said, "Then give me an example."

The person on the right said, "I've had it since I was a kid, but—"

At this point he suddenly choked up.

The first person who could tell them apart was an unknown female thief who coveted the property of the Hitachiin family. When she left, she said that no one would ever recognize them in their lifetime.

It sounds like a curse.

Fortunately, Fujioka Haruhi can now recognize them, and the curse is broken.

Hitachiin and his friends did not want to reminisce about their childhood, nor were they interested in analyzing their inner thoughts with the daughter of another chaebol family who was almost a stranger to them. Even though this matter had a huge impact on their lives, when they spoke about it, their sentences were brief and objective, and even the words used for commentary were very few.

They would talk about this incident just like they did countless times when an angry girl asked them loudly, "How could anyone recognize you when you look so much alike?" Faced with an objective fact that seemed destined to make them lonely, they would make some excuses to the best of their ability.

But Miss Suzuki on the opposite side was listening to the story while ordering food, as if she didn't take what they said to heart (in a sense, they were now debating, and her attitude was very contemptuous of her opponent).

But after Hitachiin Kaoru, the one sitting on the right, finished speaking, Miss Suzuki's face became more and more wrinkled, and finally, under the astonished gaze of the two people, she even hit her head against the menu in front of her.

"Why does this story of yours sound so familiar to me..."

That’s right!

Sonoko's eyes lit up instantly: a few days ago, when she was counting the causal lines in her life in the Onishi Tower, she used the archives to recall her childhood, including the kidnapping case involving the death of the Kiryu couple.

Excluding the second half that wanted to describe how Kiryuu Ritu framed the couple Hibiki Kan and Kiryuu, and how she accidentally entered the murder scene, the first half of this file describes in great detail the kidnappers who wanted to take revenge on society and therefore kidnapped her, and how infuriating their deaths were.

Every time she thought of this, she couldn't help but thank Ebisu.

Among them, the criminal record of the female gangster who pretended to be a maid, sneaked into her house and tricked her into the backyard... seemed to include the theft from the Hitachiin family.

How did she die?

Yuanzi recalled carefully and it seemed that he was killed by the accidental discharge of a gun in the dead man's hand after an internal conflict.

On the other side, Hitachiin Hikaru finished explaining with examples and was about to come to a conclusion, saying that now that Kasuga could recognize us, curses and such were totally unreliable, in order to refute the other party's statement, when Miss Suzuki suddenly said "Oh" as if she had suddenly realized something.

Then the woman tapped her palms halfheartedly and said comfortingly, "Let's not talk about anything else for now. You don't have to worry about the curse anymore."

"ha?"

Miss Suzuki paused and said, "If nothing unexpected had happened, that female thief... would have been killed by me ten years ago."

Seeing the Hitachiin brothers' eyes widen in shock for the second time that day, Miss Suzuki, who had been addicted to online games for years, patiently explained, "Don't you know? With curses, you usually either go to great lengths to break the curse, or kill the caster. Movies usually choose the former, then have the protagonists fail unexpectedly and have to choose the latter. And then there's the happy ending after the final battle with the boss."

"You don't have to thank me too much!"

The complacent Miss Suzuki told them that in addition to saving the victim spiritually, there is also the option of physically beating the perpetrator to death!

Hitachiin Mitsuru was so angry that he said, "Who do you think you are?"

The garden is very obscured.

She leaned back subconsciously, still unconvinced: "It's just recognizing someone. Now that you've told me the correct name, I can tell them apart!"

When it comes to identifying people, as long as she finds someone with unusual abilities, it doesn't matter whether they are human or demon - that is, she has been a human for too long and is used to relying on her naked eyes - most people rely on their breath (or spiritual pressure and smell) to identify humans. Telling the two twins apart is like a piece of cake.

Miss Suzuki, completely unaware of her blasphemy, played Sherlock Holmes, smoking a virtual pipe, and concluded:

"This kind of shojo manga cliché is doomed to fail in the world of anime. Why are you two fussing over something else instead of this?"

The author has something to say: The female thief appears in Chapter 31

There might be more later...