Chapter 137: Empathy and Sadness
The air was silent for a moment.
Hitachiin Kaoru finally interrupted, saying, "You're still angry, pretending to be unmoved. You spoke to us with such malice."
Yuanzi reflected on this for a moment.
"All right."
She said, "I've been in a bad mood lately, so I took advantage of the situation to vent my anger. I'm sorry if I accidentally irritated you."
"But aside from the malicious intent, what I said was genuine," Suzuki Sonoko thought for a moment and offered them sincere advice. "Things you can buy with money don't need to be taken too seriously, but when it comes to things money can't control, I won't take myself too seriously either."
"Let's encourage each other."
Hitachiin Hikaru had absolutely no intention of encouraging her. He listened thoughtfully for a moment, then spoke after a moment, "You sound so sentimental... Why do I feel like you're living a pretty miserable life?"
Speaking of this, Yuanzi wanted to sigh. She recalled the past with a distant look, sighing from time to time.
The expression is very strange.
Hitachi Inoue felt like he was going to get goosebumps if he continued to be so annoyed. The debate wasn't over yet, and they'd even shared their childhood traumas. Since there was always a give and take, he shrugged and said, "Give me an example, then."
Yuanzi said, "Let me think about it first."
In fact, there is no need to think about it. The most ready-made and typical example is the current unlucky guy, the former annoying guy - Kudo Shinichi.
Their first meeting, like Xiaolan's, was in the kindergarten department of Teitan.
At that time, Sonoko was about to graduate from her childhood middle school syndrome because of Ran, but most of the time she was still an idiot who ignored everyone. Sometimes she couldn't control her emotions and would even force her way in when Ran was talking to others. She would not be happy until Ran played with her.
In theory, he's a very annoying kid.
Fortunately, Xiaolan has a good temper.
So, under this kind of absolutely innocent kindness and tolerance that almost all children can give, Yuanzi gradually learned to try to understand things.
Before, she thought she would be happy if she was close to Xiaolan, so she domineeringly demanded that Xiaolan must sit next to her.
After that, she gradually wanted to make Xiaolan happy, so she would try to get in touch with Xiaolan's other friends during certain activities, and even restrained herself from losing her temper because of what others said.
For a philosopher who has been in a middle school state since birth, this is almost a life-changing change.
Even when the change happened, she was only four or five years old.
When Kudo Shinichi transferred to the school, Suzuki Sonoko was actually not so nervous anymore, but after all, their two families knew each other before.
Because Xiaolan said that she knew the transfer student, and also said a long string of words like "My mother asked me to take care of Shinichi", which very clearly separated Kudo Shinichi from the other "ordinary friends" who took handicraft classes together in kindergarten, so Sonoko's sensitive nerves were instantly exposed.
Sonoko gave that guy a handsome (?) show of force.
This is an important life challenge!
It is used to determine the eternal opposition relationship at the moment of spiritual collision!
——No matter how serious it is, it’s just a prank.
It was so simple that when the other person stood up, you could just quietly pull out his stool to embarrass him.
Not only did she get the better of her (Kudo Shinichi deliberately stepped on her foot when dragging the stool back), but that guy had received a lot of corrosive education early on, and not to mention the bonus of acquired experience, his emotional intelligence at that time was already enough to understand the logical core of most melodramatic TV dramas.
Kudo Shinichi believed in the saying that "kids will only bully whoever they like". Somehow he understood it, but he distorted her passion for challenge unilaterally. He always acted like "Don't like me. Even if you want to like me, don't do it in such a childish way. I see through you!" to her.
No respect for the opponent at all!
Suzuki Sonoko is clearly a soldier who goes into battle with dignity, but his actions in all aspects make him look like a mentally retarded and noisy little nymphomaniac.
What's the worst thing?
The worst thing is that once Yuanzi finds time to be obsessed with someone else, he actually gets angry!
There was talk of an emergency battle to decide the winner. The provocation made her blood boil. She left her idol behind and went to fight with a broom in her hand. However, the other party stood on the second floor and didn't come down at all. When he saw her coming, he showed a smug smile without any reason, then put his hands in the pockets of his children's overalls, turned around and walked out of another door happily.
Whenever Yuanzi tried to press on and hit him from behind, he would run away to tell the teacher.
It took Sonoko six full years to realize that even though she felt that she was the world's enemy in Kudo Shinichi's eyes, this was actually just a part of the other person's gaming life.
Kudo Shinichi's sharp response was never what she had imagined. She had been trying to be the one for so many years, but it was all in vain.
She would hate this man, and hated him for a full ten years, just because of Kudo Shinichi's frivolous behavior, which made it seem as if even her feelings for Xiaolan were treated as a joke.
But when you think about it carefully, the fact that she likes Xiaolan is really irrelevant to Kudo Shinichi.
No matter how much she thinks she is serious, it does not prevent Kudo Shinichi from easily making fun of her for more than ten years. Some things are your own business. Even if you regard it as more important than anything else, it is still nothing in the eyes of another person.
Uncle Jirokichi always said that money can buy everything.
But there are some things that money cannot influence.
Thanks to the annoying Kudo, Suzuki Sonoko has deeply understood this truth since she was five years old, so she did not grow up to be a young girl version of Uncle Suzuki, who was self-centered and arrogant. Even in her seventies, she has not been able to make a few close friends.
"Same with you two."
Sonoko pointed at the twins across from her.
"I get so angry when I can't be recognized, and I try to make trouble for them when they can't recognize me—what's that look in your eyes? I'm talking about me, am I wrong? I've been fooled by you all morning, am I innocent?!"
"But you think that being alone and alone is just for two people in the world, but from my perspective, isn't it boring?"
Guang sneered.
"Is it appropriate to say that others are self-pitying when it doesn't matter?"
Yuanzi asked, "What are you laughing at?"
"Self-pity is a good habit. It only makes you feel bad, and at best, it makes you look a little more negative, but it doesn't pollute the environment. If your loneliness is just between the two of you, I have no objection. If you want to find someone you can clearly distinguish with, and therefore require your partner to be able to recognize you before agreeing, I have no objection either."
"But you've implicated innocent people and wasted my time. Am I not allowed to offer my opinion?"
"This is a job after all."
"My previous blind dates and relationships were essentially social activities with specific targets. When we met, it was also a social activity that required reaching a certain consensus."
"You have to be professional at work. I was clearly very sleepy, but I still stayed at my post to chat with you two. Instead, you tried to tease the people you were working for. Isn't that a bit childish and a waste of time?"
Hitachiin Hikaru and Hitachiin Kaoru fell silent for the third time today.
"We underestimated you."
The handsome boy relaxed his tense shoulders, leaned lazily on the table, and stared at Suzuki Sonoko with bright eyes.
"You are the most deserving person I have ever met to be called a family creature."
Suzuki Sonoko: “Ah?”
After arguing for a long time, she was suddenly praised. She felt a little embarrassed and said modestly: "Actually, my performance was not very professional. I took my anger out on people, deliberately touched your sore spots, said unpleasant things, and criticized you. My social skills were not very good..."
After saying that, she comforted herself in her heart: You see, he has not been in good health recently, and he was suddenly shocked to hear the bad news that he has a terminal illness (in the metaphysical sense). It is understandable that he can't control his temper and delays his work!
After complaining in his mind, he felt that it was perfect, so he raised his head with satisfaction.
Opposite were two identical shocked and handsome faces.
Amidst the shock, there was also a hint of inexplicable admiration.
"For you," Hitachiin, the man who was probably Hikari, licked his lips and paused before asking, "are getting along with strangers and deciding whether to have children only considered 'social activities'?"
"You are much more dedicated than Jing Ye."
After he finished speaking, Xin added, "Especially when you're about to marry the person you love."
Suzuki Sonoko: ...
Suzuki Sonoko: What are you talking about?
"Wait a minute," she said, finally realizing what was going on. "Do you think we're meeting this time just to get sperm?"
——Because he felt that his mother had betrayed him physically and emotionally, he rushed to tease her, the "adulterer"?
Hitachiin Kaoru: "Do you think we are free?"
"It's tiring to change clothes in the bathroom, okay? It would be best if you could get angry and give up in the morning..."
Yuanzi chuckled perfunctorily.
"Let's not talk about where the rumor about [someone I like] came from. How did you know I would find someone else to have children with after I got married?"
When Emiya Kiritsugu was still in seclusion, no one could find out who she was going to marry!
As for sperm, there is no need to mention it.
It was obvious that even the selection of candidates was done through the back door of the Yuzhu Tower, and the archival data was obtained in a black box to screen them - she hadn't even gone to the infertility clinic for treatment. Even if Feng Jingye wanted to spread gossip and slander her, there was no source of supply!
Xin said no.
He relaxed now, and was more interested in picking out the snacks on the table. He chewed a strawberry and replied, "It was just a rumor before, and it was 50-50 whether I believed it or not, but now..."
He raised his fork and nodded at Suzuki Sonoko from a distance: "Your first reaction was not to refute this, but to find out how we knew it - that would directly confirm that this is true."
Guang immediately raised his hand and said firmly: "Anyway, no matter what, we will not have children with you."
Sonoko: “Huh?”
Now she not only felt that she was provoked, but also that she was inexplicably dumped. Why was this feeling?
The eldest lady refused to budge, raised her hand and slammed the table angrily: "I won't come to you even if I want to give birth to a child!"
"Just talking about sperm quality, that unlucky guy I mentioned earlier had a higher overall score than both of you, okay?!"
She blurted out without thinking: "I would rather look for him than you!"
For Suzuki Sonoko, Kudo Shinichi is the root of all evil: like the empty box seen by a foodie, the ugly monster encountered by a beauty lover, and the bowl of sweet tofu pudding unexpectedly tasted by a salty-tasting person.
So this sentence can be replaced with: [I would rather gnaw on the corner of the table than eat your dish!]
——Kudo Shinichi is that [table leg].
But to those who don't understand this logic, this sentence can be said to be full of pink.
At the corner where the seats were 90 degrees opposite each other, that is, at another table separated by a partition where they were almost back to back, Conan Edogawa and Heiji Hattori listened to the entire conversation passively.
The veins on the forehead of a six-year-old child are throbbing.
Hattori Heiji was trying to hold back his laughter.
"Hey, there's a girl next door who wants to continue your genes."
"You're overthinking it."
Kudo Shinichi sighed. As one of the few people who could truly understand the substitution standards in her mind, the young detective rolled his eyes tiredly: "[Go to hell] or [me], she chose [me]."
"[Go to hell] or [those two people], she chose [Go to hell]."
Because the option "Go to hell" that appeared out of nowhere was so prominent and became a substitute, Hattori Heiji was a little surprised.
He said, "I didn't realize, this girl has such a strong character."
Iron-willed ghost...
Edogawa Conan rolled his eyes again and said, "She's only loud when she's talking, but when she's really on the verge of death, she'll get scared and do whatever you ask her to do."
What a pity.
The famous high school detective hidden in this childish shell sighed deeply: Suzuki Sonoko is unlikely to face the emergency situation of "dying" in her life, so there is no chance for her to choose him between "dying" and "him".
——It’s so terrible.
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