Chapter 37 Intelligence Boss Mei Zuo Ling
Rei Kiryu thinks Suzuki Sonoko is a very magical person.
Of course, this might be because he had hardly ever interacted with ordinary human girls, so he didn't know much about the market situation.
When he has nothing to do, he will help Yuuki queue up to buy comics, or clean his gun while watching the melodramatic 8 o'clock drama with the crying Kurozuki. No matter whether it is comics or TV series, the theme is always love.
The hero is responsible for throwing money around, and the heroine is sometimes moved, sometimes insulted, and even cries while holding piles of banknotes: Do you think it’s your money that I’m after?!
Zero Kiryu was too lazy to analyze the character settings of those heroines, so he didn't react to them when people threw money at them. But once the person who threw money became himself...
To be honest, Kiryu-kun, the discipline committee member standing at the gate of Kurozu Academy, sighed tiredly: he was neither moved nor insulted - he sometimes found it funny, sometimes annoyed, and sometimes he had to be patient and comfort the "male protagonist" Miss Suzuki who cried while holding piles of banknotes when she failed to spread money.
But what Kiryu Zero found most amazing was not the way Suzuki Sonoko spent money.
She hired a chef who graduated from Totsuki Academy, just to let him chop vegetables and stew a pot of miso soup. It seemed like she was spending a lot of money.
As Kiryu Rei finished his soup and prepared to go home to sleep, feeling satisfied, Suzuki Sonoko, feeling that the date had gone perfectly, excitedly exclaimed, her eyes sparkling as she exclaimed to him, "I knew this trick would work. After all, I was so happy when Ximen took me to eat some delicious food!"
Ask who Simon is?
The ex-ex-ex-ex-ex-fiancé.
Whenever she had nothing to do, she would think about the miso sauce factory that Zero Kiryu liked. After her acquisition was blocked, she became even more obsessed with it. Later, Zero Kiryu saw her writing a business plan stroke by stroke: she planned to buy a farm first, start by growing beans, and build him a fully automated personal miso sauce brand from production to processing.
Although it's a bit embarrassing, it's very cute.
As a result, when Kiryu Rei took the plan with a look of disgust, flipped through it and found a lot of problems in an attempt to cancel her plan, Miss Suzuki Sonoko, who was holding a stack of planning papers, dejected in disbelief.
"How is that possible? Although I felt a little horrified when Jing Ye did this, and there's a slight difference between a miso sauce factory and a dessert shop..." She said indignantly, "But the idea itself should still be very romantic!"
Ask Jing Ye who is?
Ex-ex's fiancé.
She also once tried to help Zero Kiryu with his studies.
Includes courses in appreciation of modern and contemporary literature, Greek, Italian and music performance.
——However, these things are basically never taught at Kuroshu Academy.
Hit by this cruel reality, Miss Suzuki Sonoko lay dejectedly on the table with a large lesson plan in her arms. Kiryu Zero was so annoyed by her nagging that he was about to suffer a headache. He was at a loss whether to laugh or cry and was ready to promise her that he would take some time to learn the saxophone to satisfy her desire to be a teacher.
"That's not being a good teacher!"
Suzuki Sonoko, clutching her saxophone, was furious. "I'm doing this to make you think I'm good-looking. I was so annoyed by Munakata's homework back then, but when I saw the way he wrote, I forgot all about it. I just thought he was the best-looking person in the world because he knew everything and was willing to teach me so seriously!"
Ask who Munakata is?
The ex-ex-ex-ex's fiancé.
Looking at Suzuki Sonoko, who was lying on the sofa with a saxophone that was said to be a gift from her ex-fiancé, and was questioning her life, Kiryu Rei no longer had any desire to complain about her.
Seriously, is she really trying hard to pursue someone else?
——Not only do I feel like I'm being shown off for no apparent reason, but I also have this unpleasant feeling as if I'm being outdone. What's going on?
Every day, Zero Kiryu is given money by rich people. The rich girl holds a pile of banknotes and happily circles around him like a bee. However, after spending time together day after day, one day when Zero Kiryu walked out of the school gate and saw Suzuki Sonoko standing under the tree-lined avenue and waving to him with her hands, he inexplicably had an urge to knock her on the head.
From then on, whenever he was with Suzuki Sonoko, his eyes would subconsciously glance at the top of her head. This magical focus even completely overwhelmed his LEVEL E instinct, which always wanted to stare at people's shoulders and necks.
Suzuki Sonoko also tried to buy him a house and wrote Kiryu's name on various deeds (mainly the hill where Kiryu's family lived when his parents were alive).
She once booked a private theater to watch a blockbuster movie, but not only did she waste her reservation because she went to the wrong theater, she also walked into a theater showing a horror movie in the dark, which scared her so much that she had nightmares for several nights.
Zero Kiryu endured the throbbing veins on his forehead as he boiled milk, hoping that the sleeping effect of milk, as experts said, could be comparable to that of tranquilizers.
In the plot of the TV series, the rich are responsible for doing whatever they want, and the person being pursued is responsible for remaining indifferent.
In reality, the rich person is only responsible for sudden whims, and the person being pursued is responsible for cleaning up the mess.
But Zero Kiryu wasn't actually that angry.
However, that night, the rich man who only had sudden ideas actually demonstrated that money could do whatever it wanted.
When Suzuki Sonoko invited him to dinner, she brought a particularly thick file bag.
The stuff in this bag is really powerful. Since the autonomous Hui Yan started using his current identity, even the funding channels when he registered for the Heizhu Academy have been completely exposed.
Including Heizhu Huiyan's personal relationships, as well as subtle details such as old surveillance footage from many years ago, or a sketch made intentionally or unintentionally by a passing sketch artist, all were listed in detail as clues.
There are three specific demonstrable results.
First of all, it is very likely that Zero Kiryu is not a scheming guy who wants to hook up with a rich man, but a rich second-generation with a large inheritance.
Secondly, the couple named Jiulan who left a huge inheritance once bought bird food to feed pigeons at XXX Square. The scene was captured by a photographer who was on a field trip. The developed photos were included in an album of three sample volumes published at the photographer's own expense.
What is even more surprising is that the girl held in the arms of the Kuran couple and feeding the pigeons is a little girl who looks exactly like the young daughter of the Kuroshu family, Hime Yushi.
Third, on the night when the Kiryu couple were attacked, there was a record of emergency fault repair on the road leading to the Kiryu family's house.
The traffic regulatory department once closed the mountain road for a period of time under complete procedures, preventing vehicles and pedestrians from passing near the hill. Until the Suzuki family used more connections to let the police fly a helicopter to rescue people, the hill and the large wilderness nearby became a man-made "silent place".
The minister who provided this fault repair form was once the brother-in-law of the second-in-command of the exclusive partner of a consortium.
Attached below is a list and several photos, which even include several lovers that this brother-in-law once had.
In addition to these, there is a series of information found along the consortium, ranging from small discrepancies between working capital and accounts to big things like the annual reporting of casualties by a consortium that seems to secretly support human experiments. It is impossible to generalize all of these.
Zero Kiryu looked at the file papers covering the table and temporarily lost the ability to speak.
Suzuki Sonoko didn't notice anything wrong with him, and in line with the ancient tradition of bloody conspiracies among wealthy families, she tried to make up a dramatic story.
"From this perspective, it's very likely that Kurosuki Huiyan's adoption of Kurosuki Yuuki was premeditated!"
Sonoko slammed her hand on the table like a professional storyteller. "After the death of the Kuran couple, he wanted to embezzle the Kuran family's property under the pretext of adoption. However, although the Kuran couple died, the Kuran family's eldest son survived!"
"Ten years later, Zero Kiryu has grown into an independent adult. He endures his anger and enters the school step by step. It seems that he wants to use his relationship with the chairman's adopted daughter as a pretext to rise to the top, but in fact, he wants to take care of his sister nearby, kill his enemies and take back his own property!"
Zero Kiryu's ears have lost the ability to absorb information. He leaned his elbows on the glass coffee table, and his mind flashed with the headquarters of the Hunter Association, his smiling adoptive father, occasionally the jumping Yuuki, and the roar of those blood-feeding beasts.
At the very end, the scene froze in the dark of the night. Kyousaki Hime Feiyingxian pinched his neck and lifted him up with an indifferent expression. Wherever he couldn't see, humans with some connection to the Ichijo Consortium were putting a no-entry sign on the road where they could survive.
"How did you think of looking for this..."
When the words left his mouth, he sounded much calmer than Zero himself had imagined.
He seemed to be flipping through the documents at ease, suppressing his instinct and not looking up in shock - his eyes now might be filled with malice that would make one's scalp tingle, and Sonoko was still enthusiastically making up a story for herself, so there was no need to scare her.
At this moment, Suzuki Sonoko has extended the tragic experience of the Kuran family to the Kiryu family, and began to analyze: Did the Kiryu couple leave some rare treasures for Zero, which led to Kurozushi Huiyan using the same trick again and wanting to take it for himself by adopting an orphan again?
After she finished telling the long story in her mind, Zero silently pushed the teacup to her hand. After she gulped down all the juice, he repeated the previous question in a voice that seemed flawless but was actually terribly suppressed.
"Why would Sonoko think of looking into this?"
Suzuki Sonoko sat cross-legged on the sofa, holding a teacup with a bewildered look on her face: "Isn't this something that must be investigated? Otherwise, what if Kurozuki Haiyan embezzles your inheritance? What if Kuran Shu tries to seize your inheritance rights by marrying Yuuki? Only by knowing yourself and your enemy can you win every battle~"
Miss Suzuki, who particularly likes to be praised, blinked her eyes, and text bubbles appeared one after another on the top of her head, all filled with emoticons such as "Praise me", "Praise me quickly", and "Why don't you praise me".
Rei Kiryu still kept his head down reading the documents. He could clearly feel the soft urging floating in the air, but he was not sure whether his blank brain had the ability to organize words.
He just calmly took out a few pieces of chocolate candies from the wicker basket under the coffee table, and gently placed them in the teacup held by Yuanzi through the narrow glass panel.
Following the crisp jingle sounds, Miss Suzuki nodded in satisfaction. As she peeled off the candy wrapper, she added, "However, the information on the Ichitsu family's involvement with the underworld cannot be exposed casually. The underworld has its own unspoken rules. Some things can be investigated, but what we find must not be exposed to the public, otherwise we will become the public enemy of the industry and be hunted down by everyone."
She chewed the candy and said with a rare sense of conscience, "It's not easy for him to do a favor. Don't cause him unnecessary trouble."
From a long distance, Mei Zuo Ling, who was watching the quarrel between the grumpy rich boy and the common girl, inexplicably felt a sense of sweet relief.
He couldn't help but touch his chest and felt that his blood pressure should be normal...
Then he yawned on the spot, and when he glanced at Ximen Sojiro's bored profile, he turned his head away with an indescribable expression.
How to say it, Mei Zuo Ling curled her hair. She once thought that Suzuki Sonoko was a carnivorous woman with great means. Based on the mentality of same-sex repulsion, she openly hated him.
Later, he found out that this was a silly and innocent girl with the same style as Asi, and was being stared at by Ximen, so he couldn't help but feel some subtle sympathy for her.
When Ximen watched for several years without seeing any improvement, his sympathy turned into subtle admiration.
Until he received a call from Suzuki Sonoko for no reason.
The lady seemed to be eating while she was on the phone. Mei Zuoling had only ever felt the hot and seductive female voices blowing on his earlobes, but this was the first time he had heard such a crunching sound or a sticky chewing sound that it made his earlobes numb.
"What do you want from me, Suzuki-san?"
Are you trying to find out about Simon?
He just recently met that girl named Yuuki...
Ms. Suzuki smacked her lips and said, "I want you to help me check something."
Mei Zuoxin said, "Do we know each other very well? You made requests without even saying hello. Do you really think I'm Ximen?"
"Hey?" On the surface, he still smiled gracefully and said, "If you have anything, you can call Ximen first."
Suzuki Sonoko was stunned: "But didn't Ximen come to find you in the end? Didn't you help find the information about the Kurosaki family last time?"
Mei Zuo sighed, "That's right—"
"That's it," Miss Suzuki asked him, puzzled. "It's not like I don't have your phone number. If I can just call you directly, why would I bother calling Sojiro and then having him call you?"
Isn't this a waste of resources?
Mei Zuoling's first reaction was that what she said made a lot of sense, and her second reaction was "Pooh."
He helped Ximen for his friend, because he was helping his friend’s ex-fiancée... What was going on?
"But my last name is Suzuki," the young lady said, even more perplexed. She almost began to suspect that Mei Zuoling's thinking was flawed. "You're helping Ximen out of friendship, and you're helping me out of a favor to the Suzuki family. Is there anything worth hesitating about between these two choices?"
It's just a matter of tit-for-tat. Yuanzi bit her popsicle and wondered: It's just a transaction, what does it have to do with Ximen?
——Meizao felt that what she said made a lot of sense, and it didn’t sound like she was trying to steal her brother’s girlfriend at all.
Because the silence was a bit long, Yuanzi thought he had something to hide, so she gave in and said, "If you really feel embarrassed and don't want to tell Ximen, then just don't say it. I can promise that I won't leak the secret!"
The more Mei Zuoling listened, the more she felt that something was wrong with this statement, and she could only add in her heart: Except for this last inexplicable assurance, the rest of it really doesn't sound like he's trying to steal her brother's girl.
After hanging up the phone, he belatedly held his forehead and poured himself a glass of wine.
Is Suzuki Sonoko a poisonous person?
——When did he express that he didn’t want Simon to know?
You made a ridiculous oath out of nothing, and you acted like there was something wrong...
Mei Zuo raised his head and drank the wine, thinking that Ximen had previously said shamelessly that he would make this girl learn to be dependent, but now look, this girl is obviously very good at adapting herself.
Meanwhile, Sonoko was chewing candy and swinging her legs while thinking about how she was going to repay the favor owed to a gangster like Mimasaka Rei.
Then she was brought back to her senses by a loud noise.
Kiryu Zero's gaze lingered for a long time on the information about the road closure to the Kiryu family. He felt an emptiness in his chest, and even the tiny breath he exhaled could pierce through his heart like a biting cold wind, freezing half of his body.
It was premeditated.
Zero Kiryu's soul was completely separated from his body, and he thought calmly: It was not that his parents were retaliated against for hunting vampires - but someone had planned it and wanted the Kiryu family to be retaliated against for hunting vampires.
And Yuuki...
Yuuki, and Kuran.
The information given by Sonoko was written like an obscure yet story-filled memoir of a wealthy family feud, but this information that examined the vampire world from another dimension made him feel a sense of panic and confusion.
Xiqi's fingers began to feel numb. He wanted to sneer, but he couldn't.
As if he had suddenly lost control of his body, Sonoko saw Kiryu Rei curled up and fell on the coffee table, and then slid to the ground along with the papers covering the table due to the smooth texture of the glass.
His cheek was buried in the thick carpet, and from the angle where Yuanzi was sitting, he could only see the back of his head with messy silver hair.
There were intermittent sounds of rapid breathing and suppressed growls. Lingka's calf, which was stuck on the side of the coffee table, twitched nervously. Even through the thick clothes, the muscles contracted and stretched, and the tightness as if the nerves were being pulled was so visible that it made people feel a chill on the back of their neck.
Suzuki Sonoko was stunned on the spot.
Is this... what's going on?
She subconsciously reached out to grab her cell phone. She had been taught from childhood not to be touchy or act rashly. When faced with such a situation, she would either call the police or an ambulance.
However, Zero Kiryu stood up on his own.
Every time he moved, his body twitched as if it was broken. His long hair covered his eyes and he slowly crawled up with an unclear expression.
Sonoko blinked at him, then, prompted by some strange intuition, suddenly asked him, "Do you need me to help you?"
Kiryu Zero paused as he climbed up. He shook his head almost imperceptibly and said in a hoarse voice, "No need."
"Okay."
Sonoko's bright warm brown eyes reflected his somewhat funny movements, and she looked at him for a long time with a thoughtful look, as if it was reflected in her heart. Then she gently moved her eyelids, driving away the image of Kiryu Rei from the mist, turned her head away as if nothing had happened, and was once again stunned by the question of returning the favor to Mimasaka Rei.
Kiryu Zero knew clearly that his current urge to thirst for blood was due to psychological factors driving physiological factors - his mind was out of control, and his suppressed instincts would naturally emerge.
At this time, even if I took blood sediment, it wouldn't have much effect, but it's better than nothing...
Apparently noticing he hadn't moved for too long, Suzuki Sonoko poked her head in and knocked on the door. She stood cautiously by the door and asked tentatively, "Are you feeling better?"
As soon as she finished speaking, she saw the iron box in Ling's hand, and the scattered white pills rolled on the floor in twos and threes. At first glance, it looked quite real.
"...So he's just sick?"
Zero Kiryu heard her sighing softly.
Yuanzi breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he was really unwell, but she waved her hand generously: "Wait, I'll call a doctor!"
The depths of Zero's pupils were tinged with a faint, dark red. He waved his hand and whispered, "It's just a minor illness. There's no point in going to the hospital. I'll just go to the clinic and find a doctor I know and get some medicine."
When she heard the words "hospitals are useless", Miss Suzuki subconsciously took a step back. She looked at Kiryu Zero for a long time with an increasingly indecipherable expression, like a cat observing birds on a branch. Then she tilted her head as if she had figured something out, and her whole body relaxed.
“What can a small clinic do?”
Sonoko, who quickly recovered, shook her head and proudly said, "My ex-fiancé is one of the heirs of a first-class medical family. But if Kagamiya, who specializes in the development of medical equipment, is unreliable... isn't there still Oshitachi, the Osaka family that specializes in producing famous doctors?"
Kiryu Rei's vision was distorted to a certain extent. He tried hard to listen to Sonoko and stay rational: "I always thought you had five ex-fiancés. Where did this Oshitari come from?"
Yuanzi curled her lips and said regretfully, "Isn't it because he wanted to marry you? That's why he killed her after just meeting her once."
She waved her hand nonchalantly: "But after all, it's a blind date, asking him for help should be a piece of cake."
Zero felt that she might have a little misunderstanding about the status of the fiancée's breakup.
"I'm telling you," he said, his voice almost whispered due to exhaustion, "Why do you think that after breaking up, engaged couples can still intimately ask for this kind of help?"
Suzuki Sonoko wasn't at all taken aback by the question. She asked as a matter of course, "Isn't this about helping each other? If they need my help, I will definitely help them. Blind dates are actually just like making friends. It's also a way to develop a network, but..."
At this point, she frowned in distress: "None of the six of them actually asked me for help..."
After saying that, she prepared to call Feng Jingye.
Kiryu Zero threw the iron box in his hand to her feet, picked up two white pills at random and put them into his mouth. Sonoko puffed up her cheeks and looked at the box, which fell right next to her shoe although it didn't have much force. She didn't make any phone calls, but stared at him while he took the pills.
Ten seconds later, Miss Suzuki Sonoko, who had put down her phone, walked up to him with a serious expression, picked up a pill from beside him and smelled it.
Then, her brows furrowed.
——In fact, she couldn’t even smell the hair, but according to the way it was performed in TV dramas, at a moment like this, she should have put on a face full of bitterness and hatred as if she had discovered something!
She was filled with deep resentment for a long time, then adjusted her expression to one of grief and sorrow, raised her head and asked, "Do you know what's wrong with your body?"
Kiryu Zero lowered his head.
Yuanzi pursed her lips and continued, "You said you could find a doctor you know, which means this situation has actually been around for a long time."
Zero Kiryu tried hard to suppress the dizziness and shook his head. His overly long silver hair half-covered his eyes of unusual color.
But the next second, Miss Suzuki, who was deeply immersed in the melodrama, sighed deeply and said earnestly, "Are you... suffering from some terminal illness?"
Zero was taken aback by her sudden change of topic.
Meanwhile, Ms. Suzuki, already addicted to acting, was heartbroken and lamenting silently: A few days ago, we encountered the "Obviously in love (…) but can't be together" plot, and this time we encountered "Obviously in love (…) but have a terminal illness" plot!
Wow, all the separations of life and death are here!
wrong.
Sonoko straightened her expression and mentality, thinking, could this be the fulfillment of Osorezan's prophecy?
Because she couldn't be with a man, the man she was so eager to pursue turned out to be someone who had already received a death number...
It was half true and half false, and she couldn't help feeling sad, puffing her cheeks and wanting to cry.
Because it's half true and half false, this expression is more like someone who is angry and acting spoiled after being bullied, rather than crying. He squats there whining and refusing to get up.
It was rare for Kiryu Zero to remain sane. Although he was surprised by Sonoko's rich emotional changes, when he saw her humming happily, he suddenly felt that this was not bad.
He never thought that Suzuki Sonoko's superficial understanding of vampires was ridiculous. After all, this was something the vampires themselves wanted to keep secret.
He also didn't think that Yuanzi's previous bizarre and bloody speculations were an offense, because her intentions had always been good.
——As long as the emotion is sincere and moving enough, even an invisible touch can make people feel warm. For people in his situation, whether he can wear it on his body becomes unimportant.
If she cared about him, she shouldn't be treated like a clown by those vampires.
She should never have been dragged into this world where wild beasts danced in human skins just because of a chance encounter in the past and her childish way of being nice to people now.
Kiryu Zero was silent for a long time, then nodded and said, "Yes, I am sick, a terminal illness."
——The word "terminal illness" is actually not deceptive.
The author has something to say: Sonoko hasn't learned how to chase people yet, but she has learned how to be jealous first:-D
Regarding Sonoko's abnormal expression during the episode where Zero had an attack, those who don't quite understand can go and read Chapter 18 and see what Shizuka was thinking before he was about to kidnap someone. Remember that the premise of the heroine's attribute of [not taking things to heart] is that she knows everything clearly.
She later dared to indulge in her acting addiction without any worries, only because of a misjudgment.
The vampire will definitely fight back, but fighting back does not conflict with the strategy. This time, let’s expose the truth first, and Meizu Ling gets an assist again!
Although it’s past midnight, I still want to lament that the update is so early today. What’s going on?
Finally, as usual, please leave a message. Good night everyone (づ￣ 3￣)づ
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