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"Toki??"
In a hurry, the curly-haired boy only had time to warm up briefly, move his wrists and ankles, then ran over in three or two steps, and pulled him back to the shore with the strength he had learned from boxing training since childhood.
The noise finally alerted the teacher who was on guard. He had to take responsibility for the accident of his students, so he had to ask what happened.
The boy who pushed Shi Ting Shu was also scared, and stammered, "He, he said he was curious about the water, so he went over to take a look, but he accidentally fell in... Yes, he was just naughty and didn't pay attention to his feet!!! He fell in by accident, it absolutely, absolutely has nothing to do with us!!!"
The teacher seemed to be greatly relieved, and his whole body seemed to relax, and he regained his calm yet impatient demeanor, seeming to care about the students seriously but not much.
"Since it was Shi who fell by himself, then don't take up our class time. All right, students, since everyone is here, let's start the class now." The teacher in charge of the swimming class clapped his hands and gave a few pretentious instructions, looking like he was wholeheartedly doing the best for the students. "Everyone, please don't play in the water like Shi Ting Shu did. You see, this is the result of him leaving the team without permission."
As he spoke, he pressed the keyboard of his mobile phone and sent a text message to the teacher in the infirmary, just as if he had fulfilled his duty.
As he spoke, the students gathered and lined up in front of him. After a while, the teacher sent the message and looked up, checking the team. He frowned and looked at Matsuda Jinpei, who was struggling to support Tokiwa Shuu, and Yueyuan Qing, who was walking towards his friends to check on the situation: "Matsuda-san, Yueyuan-san, please return to the team. I have notified the teacher in the infirmary, he will be here soon, and then..."
"Can't you see?" Jinpei Matsuda raised his head angrily, interrupting the teacher's words. He raised his voice and said, "Toki has fainted."
He was very worried about his friend. If he hadn't known that his friend was still breathing and that he couldn't perform perfect CPR, and was worried that something might happen if he used too much force, he would have started pressing right away.
"Student Shi was not paying attention. This is not the teacher's fault. It has nothing to do with the teacher." The teacher spoke very quickly, perfectly showing how worried he was about being implicated, but his tone was earnest, as if he was teaching a disobedient student a lesson. "Student Matsuda, I know you care about your friends, but don't let your own learning progress be delayed because of a disobedient student who left the team without permission..."
Matsuda Jinpei was not a particularly obedient child. He gritted his teeth, picked up his friend and walked towards the infirmary. Yueyuan Qing glanced at the teacher and followed.
Shi Ting Shu's pupils were still dilated, as if he had seen something extremely terrifying, his eyes were full of fear and panic.
In order to ensure the safety of the children, the swimming pool is not far from the infirmary. They were quickly sent to the infirmary, and the teacher in the infirmary had just packed his medical kit and was about to rush to the swimming pool.
After he found out that the student in front of him was the one who was drowning, he put down the medical kit and quickly performed first aid. Fortunately, Shi Ting Shu was not drowning for a long time and was soon placed in a good place.
The teacher in the infirmary was different from the teacher in charge of the swimming pool. He was a responsible person. After making sure that the chestnut-haired child in front of him was safe, he finally relaxed and said jokingly:
"If I didn't know that he was just an elementary school student and had never encountered anything bad before, I would have thought he had PTSD."
"…What is that?" Jinpei Matsuda looked at the teacher in the infirmary.
Perhaps it was because it was a rare occasion for an elementary school student to talk to him, the teacher in front of him seemed to have opened up a chatterbox and began to talk.
"It's called something like post-traumatic stress, I can't remember. I have a classmate who does psychological counseling for police officers, and he has seen a lot of cases like this. Body tremors, pupil dilation, loss of proper response to external stimuli, very similar to what he described. I remember this trauma... um, it's probably a much more serious psychological problem than psychological trauma."
It was obvious that although the infirmary teacher was responsible, he was a complete layman. He said a lot of vague words but there was no important content.
That makes sense, after all, not every doctor in the school clinic is a new doctor.
Matsuda Jinpei and Tsukizono Kiyoshi looked at each other.
The teacher changed Tokiwa Shuu's clothes, making sure he wouldn't catch a cold from being soaked all over, and then left quickly. Before leaving, he asked them to keep an eye on Tokiwa Shuu and let him have a good rest.
The two of them naturally agreed.
The walls and ceiling of the infirmary are pure white. To be exact, the entire swimming pool is almost white, except for the blue patterns on the tiles on the floor.
However, since Tokiwa Hiiragi was lying on his back, he couldn't see the tiles on the ground.
The flashbacks had almost exhausted him.
Although he had only been immersed in a water tank once and escaped in time before being further hurt, that situation still constituted a nightmare for him every night. The feeling of suffocation entangled him, and even after leaving the water, the subconscious psychological suggestion to himself had not been lifted, and he still felt that he could not breathe.
And Matsuda Jinpei's holding of his hand did not succeed in making him feel safe. Instead, it made him suddenly feel that he was about to suffocate, being taken out of the water tank by German beer for interrogation, and was about to enter the water tank again.
He struggled to open his eyes, and the white walls and white ceiling in front of him once again made him mistakenly think that he had entered the nightmarish experimental area again.
He murmured unconsciously: "...I can't speak...Germany, beer..."
The voice was faint and intermittent. If it weren't for Tsukizono Kiyoshi and Matsuda Jinpei who were standing beside him and paying attention to him, they probably wouldn't have noticed it.
The two of them fell silent at the same time, and chose to try their best to listen to what their friends were saying.
Shi Ting Shu's face was pale, and his chestnut hair was wet and stuck to his cheeks. His lips were pale, but they moved slightly, and his face revealed fear, stubbornness, and determination that the two people beside him had never seen before.
Jinhei Matsuda heard a few words clearly.
"...I don't know, I can't say..." Yue Yuanqing whispered beside him.
He frowned and muttered his guess, "What is that...? What Toki experienced..."
The curly-haired boy made a reasonable guess based on what he had just heard: "Interrogation?"
"Could it be that, like in spy movies, he was discovered while lurking in a dark organization as a righteous person?" Yue Yuanqing racked his brains to think of something related to "interrogation". "Or maybe he has something important in his hands or knows some important secret, and others want to pry this secret out of him?"
"My dad was only six years old when he met Toki. All these things must have happened before he was six years old." Matsuda Jinpei shook his head, frowning, "No official would allow a child under six to go to a dangerous place, and no one would let a child under six master a secret that would attract so many people without giving him enough protection."
At this moment, Tokiwa Hiiragi suddenly struggled violently.
Matsuda Jinpei and Tsukizono Kiyoshi were startled and hurried to check on him.
At this moment, Shi Ting Shu barely opened his eyes.
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After hearing his friend's story to this point, Kenji Hagiwara couldn't help but interrupt and frowned.
"I don't think that given Toki's personality, he would reveal all of his psychological trauma." He frowned, "Based on what I know about you - you must have completely understood and even contacted the people who were involved in his previous experiments, otherwise you wouldn't have shown any desire to investigate further."
He paused and gave a "kind" smile.
"You and Kiyoshi didn't even mention anything to Kenji-chan—"
The young man with purple eyes clasped his hands together and slowly put away his smile: "...Xiao Zhenping, I don't think you should do this..."
Matsuda Jinpei pinched his brows and shook his head: "We just... want to protect you, Hagi."
The curly-haired young man took off his sunglasses and pinned them on the collar of his suit, and said slowly:
"You were reluctant to tell me the clues at first, weren't you trying to protect me in a similar way, Hagi?"
Tokiwa Hiiragi wanted to protect his close friends, so he never spoke about his dark past.
In order to protect his close friends, Jinpei Matsuda concealed the fact that he had met with people involved in the experiment studying Tokiwa Hiiragi alone.
Tsukizono Kiyoshi wanted to protect his close friends, so he left alone and deceived the remaining two friends to let them stay in Kanagawa.
Kenji Hagiwara wanted to protect his close friends, so he secretly investigated information about Tokiwa Hiiragi without telling anyone.
In short, no one should blame anyone else, as everyone is equally self-righteous.
Hagiwara Kenji: “…”
Matsuda Jinpei: “…”
The latter looked away and sighed.
"Okay, hagi, keep listening to me. I'll tell you everything, including how I met that...Chivas."
Hagiwara Kenji curved his purple eyes again: "Let me guess - the teacher in the infirmary is not an ordinary person, right?"
Matsuda Jinpei paused, then said helplessly, "As expected of you, Hagi."
"Because it's obvious."
The young man with semi-long hair leaned forward, resting his chin on his clasped hands, and explained.
"It's really obvious - the timing of bringing up PTSD and the vagueness of the words seem to be luring you, Jinpei-chan, to check it out."
Matsuda now: No official would allow a six-year-old child to go to a place that is too dangerous, and no one would let a child under six years old master a secret that is attractive enough to attract people without giving him enough protection.
Matsuda in the future: Wow, it really exists. (The secret here refers to Tokiwa Hiiragi's ability to read minds)
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