40 Jinjiang Exclusive
◎“Now we are accomplices.”◎
42
Some words, once spoken, can never be taken back.
Since he had boasted to Pushkin that day that he would personally improve his Japanese to the highest level required to pass the proficiency test, Kawakami Wakai had no choice but to accept this student.
Fortunately, as a senior student who had finished her thesis and earned all her credits, she had plenty of time. From then on, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, she would meet with Pushkin on Zoom and teach him Japanese via video. On Saturdays and Sundays, since she was going to Yokohama for a part-time job, she would find a family-run restaurant near the train station to teach him.
Considering her privacy, she didn't tell Pushkin her real name, which seems to be why Ruoyi couldn't check Pushkin's favorability rating. However, she didn't care about such things, since she didn't intend to have any further private dealings with this person.
Once she actually started teaching, Kawakami Wakai realized that having a skill was one thing, but being able to teach it to others accurately and easily was quite another.
Pushkin was a capable learner, but sometimes he would ask questions that even Kawakami Wakai found difficult to explain.
For example, when Ruoyi taught him how to write the word "toilet paper," Pushkin would ask in confusion, "Letter? Teacher, doesn't that mean toilet paper? Why would it be a letter?"
Kawakami Wakai:?
How could she not know that this meant toilet paper?
Until Pushkin produced a photograph, a picture of a public toilet, with the words written on it—
Please bring your own toilet paper (in Chinese).
Kawakami Ruoyi: "..."
While it does contain Chinese characters, is it possible that this is not Japanese at all?
For example, when helping him summarize the verb conjugations in Japanese, Pushkin would ask, "Teacher, Japanese doesn't have a future tense, so how do you distinguish whether a sentence is about the present or the future?"
Kawakami Ruoyi: "..."
It depends on the content and context, thank you.
As for why Pushkin would see a cartoon with a name written as "Emperor" but pronounced as "Napoleon," she had no idea how to explain it.
Kawakami Ruoyi: "..."
What should she do if she suddenly feels like she doesn't understand her mother tongue at all?
Fortunately, her studies were paying off. By mid-October, Kawakami Wakana could clearly feel that she was using less English or translation software to communicate with Pushkin. This made her feel somewhat smug.
Kawakami Wakai: Huh?
So who was she trying to impress? She didn't even know Pushkin's devilish boss.
With more than a month until the exam, Ruoyi believed she had already convinced her difficult boss, Pushkin, to be ready to pay her a good salary.
So, Kawakami Wakana immediately went to the bookstore and bought him a set of Japanese language practice questions. Although the difficulty was not as high as the formal exam, Pushkin's score was within her expectations.
After marking the paper with red circles, Kawakami Wakana proudly graded it, slapped the paper in front of Pushkin, and told him to show it to the boss and tell the unscrupulous boss to prepare to pay him a good wage.
The test paper was placed right in front of Fyodor, looking fresh and clean.
"You got 87 out of 100 on a test?" Fyodor looked at the score written at the top of the paper. "So what are you trying to say?"
“My Japanese has indeed improved! Because I met a kind person who was willing to teach me Japanese,” Pushkin answered honestly. “She asked me to give this to you.”
She also said that you are a heartless boss and that you should be prepared to pay me a good salary when you see this score.
Fyodor: "..."
His gaze, however, fell on the score given on the test paper.
When Fyodor communicated with his high school friend Wakami Kawakami using the "Jinjiang app," he saw her English test papers a few times.
Although Pushkin didn't write a single English letter on the test paper he gave him, the way he wrote the numbers clearly retained the habits of his high school self.
"..." For some reason, he suddenly felt a stomachache.
During this time, Fyodor had Sigma secretly monitor Kawakami Wakana. Aside from going to school and her part-time job, she didn't make any suspicious outings, and even while working at the Whirlpool Café, she barely interacted with the Armed Detective Agency. He initially thought the kitten had learned her lesson, but unexpectedly, she had secretly contacted Pushkin, a crucial element of his next plan.
Sure enough, wild cats never learn to behave.
Looking at the score on the test paper, Fyodor was not happy at all; in fact, he felt a churning pain in his stomach.
Fyodor was used to irregular eating habits and occasionally suffered from stomach aches. But generally, he could keep a straight face and not even flinch, so much so that even Gogol couldn't tell he was actually uncomfortable. This time, however, he didn't want to endure it. He deliberately acted as if he was in great pain in front of Pushkin, successfully getting into Blackjack's clinic again.
Discovering that Fyodor is a Blackjack so angry he has a stomachache: ?
This gentleman isn't the type to bother him with such a minor ailment.
However, everything was exactly as Fyodor had expected.
Pushkin immediately informed Kawakami Wakai of the news.
Lying in bed, Fyodor unconsciously raised the corners of his mouth.
Since the kitten can't learn its lesson, let it experience firsthand what it feels like to hurt someone with good intentions.
Upon hearing that her "student's" boss was so angry about this surprisingly high score that he was hospitalized: ...Huh?
What a satisfying plot!
the next day.
As soon as Kawakami Wakana met Pushkin, she started complaining: "I say, is your heartless boss faking illness on purpose so that he can withhold your salary even if you do well on the exam?"
Pushkin wanted to say that it was not that serious, but the girl smiled and took out a large bag of colored cardstock.
"Today I'll teach you something special. In Japan, people fold origami cranes to give to sick people, hoping they'll recover quickly. Let's fold a few origami cranes for your heartless boss too; it'll surely infuriate him!"
As he spoke, he began demonstrating how to fold a paper crane.
Soon, a green paper crane appeared vividly on the table.
Her student's eyes lit up, and with great interest, he picked up a piece of black cardstock and clumsily copied the pattern from before, folding it up. In no time, the small dining table was covered with countless origami cranes.
“There’s no need to fold a thousand.” Kawakami Wakana gathered the paper cranes together. “As long as your boss understands what they mean, these are enough to make him furious.”
Pushkin: "..."
He unconsciously pictured Fyodor's nose twisted in anger—
very good.
I simply can't think of anything.
"Thank you, teacher." He scratched his head sheepishly. "I'll hand all of these over to the boss."
However, Kawakami Wakana did not see the wicked smile on Pushkin's lips, nor the figure wearing a white hat who silently left after finishing the last origami crane.
…………
Originally, Kawakami Wakana was happily waiting to hear Pushkin recount the "heartless boss's" reaction to seeing the origami cranes, but she never expected that day would be the last time she saw Pushkin.
After that, for several days in a row, Pushkin did not log on at the agreed-upon study time.
Kawakami Ruoyi: "..."
Could it be that Pushkin's unscrupulous boss was so angered by those origami cranes that he simply stopped letting him teach?
One day, after waiting all afternoon without being able to contact Pushkin, Kawakami Wakana simply put down her tablet and went out to buy groceries.
While selecting ingredients for dinner at the supermarket, she began to complain:
"They really don't understand flexibility. Even the most ruthless boss can control whether an adult is online during their free time, let alone their work hours."
A shadow suddenly loomed over her, and a cold, emotionless male voice rang out: "Having fun?"
Kawakami Wakai:!
She turned her head instinctively.
Come to think of it, it had been almost a month since she had last seen Feda since she personally stormed the Port Mafia building. Hearing his voice out of the blue, and even finding him standing behind her with 80% killing intent, she instinctively took a few steps back.
"Was it fun?" Fyodor asked again. "A teacher-student game."
Kawakami Ruoyi: "...?"
A possibility she had previously overlooked finally surfaced in her mind.
After all, Fyodor and Pushkin came from the same country.
"Are you that heartless boss?" she questioned.
"You're really something else! Why don't you ever pay your subordinates? You even get so angry when they do well on tests that they get stomach aches!"
“Heartless?” Fyodor found the title assigned to him quite novel. “I was just putting some pressure on him to study.”
"However, Neko, I also want to thank you for teaching my subordinate Japanese and how to fold origami cranes."
"..."
Seeing that the kitten didn't answer, he continued, "Why don't you guess what would happen if the head of the Armed Detective Agency and the leader of the Port Mafia were infected with a virus that only one of them could survive?"
"...?" The girl's pupils dilated for a moment.
This reaction pleased Fyodor greatly.
"That's right. In order to protect their own boss, they will definitely clash over killing the other's leader."
“Coincidentally, Pushkin, the superpower of my subordinates is viral. Creating such a virus is not a difficult task for him.”
"Thanks to your willingness to teach Pushkin, and because you were familiar with Dazai and the others while working at the café downstairs from the detective agency, he was able to meet the agency's president through you. And your origami cranes made it convenient for me to have Pushkin use his special ability to spread the virus to those two people."
"..."
“So, Neko,” Fyodor said with a smile, “in a sense, you and I are now accomplices in disrupting the already stable relationship between the Armed Detective Agency and the Port Mafia.”
"So, as an accomplice, let me give you a heads-up. Next time you teach Russians Japanese, remember to check their student IDs first."
"..."
Kawakami Wakana couldn't quite describe her feelings; her mind was buzzing, and she felt somewhat disoriented.
But she quickly realized something—
Given Fedia's abilities, she wouldn't need Pushkin to use her, nor would she need origami cranes; she could still infect the leaders of the detective agency and the Mafia with a virus.
Is this also one of Fedia's tactics? To make her feel guilty.
We must... retaliate.
[Author's Note]
Happy birthday, Mom!
There's a red envelope in this chapter.
Small Theater
Today's segment isn't really a mini-drama; it's just about Ruoyi's hairstyle design.
The person involved in the high school car accident always had short hair; when they were younger, they wouldn't have bangs and would tie that part of their hair up.
Later came the character card featuring Ruoyi from high school.
After the car accident, I started growing my hair out. At first, it was a small ponytail, sometimes pigtails, and later, when it got a little longer, it became braids.
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