Chapter 323 Ten Sweethearts

In fact, both Hagiwara Kenji and others and Akae Nazuki herself were well aware that the latter knew what they were thinking.

Chi Jiang Na Yue knew how careful his friends were about his affairs. He knew they didn't want him to make this choice, but some things could not be pretended not to exist and meant they had never happened.

It's like... before they parted at noon, Akae Nazuki had already learned from Kenji that twelve-year-old Kou and Kenji were classmates, but Kenji, who was very popular in the school, firmly stated that twelve-year-old Morofushi Kagemitsu did not study in their school.

The fact that they were in the same school was the strangest thing; it would have been normal for Xiao Jingguang not to be there.

However, this is not a world that can be measured by common sense. When everything becomes abnormal, the "normal" things will become the biggest abnormality.

Chi Jiang Na Yue knew that he had a very simple way to prove whether the vague guess in his heart was correct. He just turned his body back into a child, but the knowledge in his head was not reduced at all. As long as he wanted, he could find Xiao Jingguang's whereabouts at any time.

However, just like Morobushi Kagemitsu and the others didn't want him to make that choice and tried to remove him from the script, Akae Nazuki didn't want to take the initiative to bring up this matter for the time being.

Even though he thought - maybe Morobushi Jingguang had already guessed it.

The black-haired, red-eyed transfer student held his face with one hand and scribbled meaningless lines on the notebook.

Let him keep the secret for a while longer. At least he shouldn't go looking for Jingguang right now. Give him and Hiro some more time.

After the confession meeting at noon, Chijiang Nayue finished his class safely in the afternoon. Xiaoling did not test him again. When in front of him, he no longer pretended to be a good student to deceive the teacher. Although his attitude was still a little awkward, it was much more natural than before.

Akae Nazuki was delighted to hear this, and was very satisfied to ask Morobushi Jingguang to use the magical device he brought with him as a guardian sweetheart to record Xiaoling's cute performance.

"Give me a copy when you get back." Matsuda Jinpei came over and muttered secretly.

"Hey, I can hear you." Furiya Rei stared at the back of Curly's head unhappily, then smiled maliciously, "You don't think Hiro only took pictures of me, do you?"

Morofushi Jingguang blinked innocently: "Hmm?"

He just smiled, neither confirming nor denying what Furuya Rei said, but in a sense this represented tacit approval. Matsuda Jinpei really didn't care. He put his hands on his hips and smiled arrogantly at Furuya Rei: "So what? I'm definitely more photogenic than you. Even when I was twelve years old, I looked handsome in photos!"

This quarrel happened just a few minutes before the end of the last class. Akae Nazuki sat upright and looked straight ahead, listening to the class very attentively. Only Hagiwara Kenji, who was sitting on his left shoulder, swung his legs and said with a smile: "Nazuki's eyes are completely blank. It's too obvious that you're in a daze."

"It's only obvious to us, after all, we've known each other for so long." Idahang sat on the right, holding his chin up and said seriously, "But children still have to listen to the class carefully, Nayue!"

If he hadn't laughed so hard that his whole body was shaking when he said this, and finally fell into Chijiang's shoulder with a plop.

Chijiang Nayue kept a cold face and was unexpectedly poked by Xiaoling beside her. Then she saw the latter handing her a note.

[Are they always this lively? ]

The transfer student lowered his eyes and looked calm. Only Xiao Ling, who received the note back a while later, knew how strong the murderous intent was between the lines.

[You can just say 'noisy' without being euphemistic. Thank you.]

When he was finally able to leave after school, Chijiang Nayue slowly exhaled a breath of air, and his complexion warmed up a lot. After all, he was a freshman and did not join any clubs, so now he could go home directly.

Thinking of this, Chijiang Nayue packed her things more quickly.

Go home... This word was such a cold word to him before he met Zero and the others. After all, he didn't have a home at that time. It was just a cold house to him.

It should be explained that Akae had just moved before attending the police academy, and his current Akae residence near Professor Agasa and Kudo Shinji's family was purchased at that time. He is only ten years old now, and the "home" he is going back to later naturally cannot be the later one, but his old home that he has been away from for ten years.

Chi Jiang easily found the route home from the beautiful memories that he had carefully maintained deep in the memory palace. As he picked up his bag and left his seat, he couldn't help but feel excited and expectant, and even relaxed his expression. Before leaving, he said see you tomorrow to Xiao Ling.

Let's talk about other things later, now he just wants to go back to that home as soon as possible.

Under the moonlight, Chijiang consciously avoided the thoughts about his parents and only focused on the word "home". Then he was blocked when he was leaving the classroom door.

"Here they come! Are you the transfer student that Matsuda is waiting for?" Classmate A outside the door started to make a noise when he saw Akae's moon rising. "You're actually a short guy?"

Classmate B next to him pouted and reached out to push Chijiang Nayue's shoulder with ill intentions: "Little shorty, you just transferred here and you're already friends with Matsuda? You probably don't know that this guy is the child of a murderer. You'd better stay away from him."

The expression of the black-haired transfer student had turned cold when they stopped him. When they mentioned the 'dwarf', even Zhen Ping, who was clenching his fist and looking fierce, felt the chill. Not to mention, when the word "murderer" came out, the transfer student's eyes changed.

If he had ignored the other person before simply because he was too lazy to compete with his elementary school peers, now he looked like he was ready to throw down the stairs at any time, classmates A and B whose names he didn't even bother to know.

Matsuda Jinpei was shocked, and he fell on his friend's head and kept stroking his soft black hair, trying to comfort Akae Nayue: "Aka, I'm fine, they just said something annoying, it's not a crime punishable by death!"

Zhen Ping, who was standing next to him, quickly stepped forward and opened Classmate B's hand before it touched Chijiang Nayue. At this time, he was standing in front of Chijiang Nayue and glaring at the person opposite. When he heard a voice unexpectedly, he nodded subconsciously.

Wait, what does it mean that the crime is not punishable by death? It's not like a transfer student would kill anyone...

After hearing these words, the anger that Chi Jiangnan had accumulated instantly deflated like a balloon being punctured.

What is he doing? He just wants to teach these idiots who came here to ask for a beating a lesson. He doesn't plan to kill them. It's okay for a small battle, but what kind of image does this big battle think of him?

Jinpei Matsuda didn't care about all that. He was just joking around to make his friend relax a little, and it was enough that his goal was achieved.

And to be honest, he really didn't think there was any problem with these people other than their bad mouthing. After all, he was already thirty years old, and he didn't think it was necessary for him to get involved with a bunch of little brats.

However, Hagiwara Kenji stopped Matsuda Jinpei who was about to say something, shook his head at him, and turned his gaze to the curly-haired child in front of Akae Nanazuki.

Jinpei Matsuda was stunned: Yes, he has already gotten over what happened back then and can ignore what others say, but there is still a twelve-year-old him here.

From their angle they couldn't see the child's expression, but they could clearly see the child's slightly trembling shoulders.

…

Um?

The group of guardian sweethearts and Akae Nazuki, who were very familiar with Matsuda Jinpei, all showed subtle looks.

Student A wanted to say something but lost the chance to speak because the curly-haired kid with a defiant look on his face punched him in the face. Student A staggered back two steps with a dazed look on his face.

"Don't get it wrong." He tutted his tongue and looked at them impatiently. "Who I meet and who I make friends with has nothing to do with you... Don't say those things to irrelevant people, or I don't mind teaching you how to keep your mouth shut on behalf of your parents."

——Apparently, without Kenji Hagiwara as his childhood mentor to teach him the art of speaking, the young Zhenping successfully taught himself the two courses of "How to talk trash calmly" and "How to taunt effectively".

Does his poor speaking skills only show up in positive relationships? Chi Jiang Na Yue thought: It seems that this kid is very good at dealing with this kind of guy who is looking for trouble, but not good at dealing with other people's kindness.

Thinking of this, he suddenly felt even more unhappy.

When Zhen Ping was swinging his fist, some students were already running to find their teachers. Zhen Ping obviously didn't want to stay here any longer. He glanced at the transfer student and had forgotten his original purpose of looking for him. The curly-haired kid pursed his lips, wondering if the transfer student would be willing to say a few words to him after seeing this scene...

Chijiang Nayue walked past him and came up to the two people who were glaring at them.

Because of his lack of height, when a 1.3-meter-tall child stood in front of two tall and strong sixth-grade students, the former would usually look more vulnerable. But I don’t know if it was because of that look or because of that cold expression, at this time, it was the two people opposite him who were shaking uncontrollably.

"Are you scared? Of the murderer's child." The transfer student who looked like a perfect student asked softly, "No, it's jealousy. You are jealous of him because he is smarter and more spiritual than you. That's why you are jealous."

From the angle of the formation, he could just see the complete profile of the transfer student, and also see the inorganic appearance of those watery red eyes when they looked at the opposite side.

...This feeling is very strange. Zhen Ping thought about it and subconsciously wanted to step back, but he didn't do it.

Even though the transfer student seemed to be defending him, he didn't look very happy, and his gaze was more complicated than before.

[Jinpei Matsuda] This individual has always had sufficient insight into people's hearts and minds, and has never been a character with low emotional intelligence. Not to mention that in this timeline where he and Hagiwara did not become childhood friends, if Jinpei wants to protect himself, he must retain the ability to discern the emotions of others.

Even though he was not good at socializing with others, it did not mean that he was an ignorant idiot. He could feel that although the transfer student looked cold and indifferent, he had never harbored any ill will towards him. Even when he was blocked at the door of the classroom and had some harsh words said to him and even heard that word, the transfer student did not have any negative emotions towards him.

That's why the formation is even more incomprehensible.

Why?

Zhenping has been a loner for so many years...it's hard to say whether he is really excluded or he is not interested in communicating with others.

During the investigation during the break that afternoon in Akae, it was easy to find that the situations of Zhenping and Ling were similar but different. The similarity was that they were both special people in the class and were both used to being alone, while the difference was that Ling was actually maintaining normal social interactions.

Although he was distant to others, at least a year ago, Zero would not refuse his classmates' initiative to communicate. Just like Sato's memory, there were many classmates in the class who actually admired Zero as a good student.

But Zhen Ping is not like that. He is a loner in the literal sense. He hardly has any meaningless communication with people around him except necessary ones. He doesn't care at all about how other people talk about him. He lives his elementary school life as he pleases, with a persistent goal in his heart.

Rather than spending a lot of time on useless socializing with others, Zhen Ping seemed to be more willing to study his mechanical parts. As a result, he was even more excluded by his classmates, who thought he was a weirdo. The teachers turned a blind eye to his behavior because of his excellent grades, but they did not stop the cold violence of his classmates.

Zhen Ping doesn't care, or rather, he tells himself not to care.

Making friends? That was just a child's play. He had his own goals to achieve. He had no interest in playing friendship games with other children. He didn't need friends. It was just an accident that he took the initiative to give change in the morning. Now he came to talk to the transfer student about other things.

"You fear his excellence because you can never surpass him no matter what you do. This fear lasts long enough and you begin to resent him."

The transfer student looked at the two calmly and said, "You hate him for being so great, resent him for not being surpassed, and hate his eccentricity - 'Why should you be treated special? You are obviously the child of a murderer!' Is this what you really think?"

He saw the guilt and fear of being targeted on the two faces.

"Yes, you do think so. Not only do you feel resentment, you also feel jealous." The transfer student blinked his red eyes, and the frost on his face melted. He tilted his eyes to reveal a cute, innocent smile, and said, "How pitiful."

He had already turned into a little devil in the eyes of the two, and he sighed with a sympathetic tone, as if he really thought so: "Isn't this very pitiful? You can only constantly emphasize the only stain you can find on Matsuda-kun to relieve the jealousy that is about to drive you crazy... It's really too pitiful."

The person involved, Zhen Ping, looked confused: ...

What?

"This classmate is right!" Another righteous voice was heard in the corridor. A group of people looked over and saw a young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes and a crew cut standing there with his arms crossed, staring at the two people opposite Chi Jiang and Na Yue. "This is outrageous! The guy who did that to his classmates should not be in school!"

Zhen Ping was confused again: Who is this person? Does he know him?

Then, another head popped out from behind the buzz-cut boy. A boy with half-long black hair and purple droopy eyes smiled and waved at Zhen Ping, saying hello: "Hey, little Zhen Ping!"

Zhen Ping nodded subconsciously, then realized something was wrong - what the hell was that sticky name?

Xiao Yaner, who brought his classmate Hang over, smiled but said nothing.

"If I remember correctly, this is my class." A blond figure finally walked out of the classroom, with the same cold expression as Chijiang Nayue before, "You are blocking my way."

Classmate Fūya, whose name was privately spread because he beat up a lot of people, looked over coldly. The two classmates A and B were finally broken by the last straw, and the expressions on their faces became even more frightened.

The students around them didn't dare to watch the excitement up close and stood relatively far away, which just made room for them. Yan'er and Hang finally came over to their side and stood at the edge of the formation without much hesitation.

The curly-haired kid fell into deep thought.

He doesn't need friends...so what on earth do they want?!