"I……"
Ichinose was silent for a moment, then slowly gave the final answer.
"I'm planning on... dropping out of school on my own."
"Isn't that possible?"
Wu Yi glanced at the girl.
"It's no use if you want to drop out of school on your own. You need someone else to write your name on it. If you drop out of school on your own, it will only increase the loss. It's just an escape at best."
"Then consider it an escape..."
Ichinose smiled sadly and shook his head.
"So tough?"
This time it was Wu Yi's turn to be shocked.
But then again, it's like a family of four is kidnapped by a murderer, who points a gun at the heads of the father, mother and brother and asks the youngest sister which one she wants to die. As long as she makes a choice, the others can survive.
If it was Wu Yi, he would calmly break the rope on his body, and then push the murderer's head back into his chest with his backhand.
But for Ichinose in the same situation, she could neither resist nor make a choice. She could only pray desperately to be replaced by the living sacrifice in exchange for the lives of other family members.
"We broke our promise to work together to get into Class A and no one should fall behind. There is no other way to go except dropping out, right?"
As Ichinose spoke, he cast his gaze toward the black sea that was rising and falling in the night not far away, with a hint of sadness in his expression, like a devout martyr.
Wu Yi looked at it for a while, then looked away and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Four million points, it's not that I can't lend it to you."
"……Eh?"
Suspecting that there was something wrong with his ears, Ichinose suddenly turned his head to look over.
Wu Yi continued.
"But the prerequisite is that you have to tell me why you are unwilling to report Longyuan's rumors to the school."
"This……"
After hesitating for a while, Ichinose Honami gave a helpless smile.
"Student Wu Yi is really cunning. She chose this topic for sure."
"I think it's okay."
Wu Yi didn't care.
"That's four million, girl. At least I won't charge you interest, right?"
"Do not……"
Ichinose's wry smile deepened.
"It's not a question of interest or not, it's just that this is the only thing I don't want to tell you, classmate Wu Yi."
"Oh, that's great, then the four million is even more worth borrowing."
Wu Yi made a statement without any conscience in a casual manner.
As if accepting his fate, Ichinose took a deep breath.
Yes, it’s very simple. You just need to speak out the secret that has been hidden in your heart.
As long as you speak out, you can get 4 million points of assistance, which will not only help you get through this difficult time, but also save your classmates who might be expelled.
Besides, if you miss this opportunity, you will never have it again, so it’s all worth it.
Ichinose Honami kept hypnotizing herself like this in her mind.
But...she just couldn't bring herself to say it.
That was the one thing she least wanted Wu Yi to know.
"You would rather drop out of school for your classmates, but you just don't want to tell me the reason."
Wu Yi drank the remaining slightly cold Ovaltine in his hand, then turned around and threw the empty can accurately into a trash can in the distance.
"Well, in fact, in my opinion, there is no difference in the essence of the results. I have always believed that school is a place where peers from different classes can get together regardless of all obstacles. After graduation, due to various reasons, it is very likely that we will never meet again in this life."
"So, whether you choose to drop out of school and escape here, or whether your image will be ruined immediately if you tell me the truth as you think, the final result will most likely be that we will never see each other again in this life."
"Since we are going to never see each other again anyway, why not try to save our classmates?"
Wu Yi shrugged meaninglessly.
"You must learn to maximize your benefits, Cheka."
"No...that's not the case..."
Especially when he heard the words "we will never see each other again until we die", Ichinose's body shook violently.
She tightened her grip on the can and curled up her body little by little, almost burying her face in her knees.
After a long time, the sound of sobbing could be heard faintly.
"Yes, the crime I concealed was... theft."
Volume 261: Chapter : Ichinose's Past
Ichinose, who is considered an excellent student by everyone, actually steals things.
No one could have imagined this.
If it happened in the entertainment industry, it would probably be enough to make an unknown fourth, fifth or sixth-tier celebrity suddenly become the hottest news on the headlines this week.
The so-called black and red is also red. As long as the hype is good, it is not impossible for it to soar to the sky.
Unfortunately, however, there is only one person who can be called a listener at the moment, and he is a very qualified listener.
There were no flowers, no applause or whistles. Wu Yi just leaned against the back of a park bench, looked up at the starry sky above, and gently exhaled a puff of white mist.
"Oh, yes."
"……Um."
Not daring to look at the expression on the former's face, Ichinose just curled up his legs, wrapped his arms around himself and buried his face in them, and began to speak like an ostrich.
"I come from a single-parent family. I live with my mother and my sister who is two years younger than me. Although we are not rich, I never feel that I am unfortunate."
"Because I have to raise two children and work at the same time, it's always hard for me as a mother."
"So I decided when I was in primary school that I would go out to work after I graduated from junior high school, because going to high school would cost a lot of money, and I wanted to start making money as early as possible to reduce my mother's burden."
"But my mother didn't agree with me doing this. Just as I, as an older sister, sincerely hope that my younger sister will be happy, as a mother, she also hopes that both of her daughters can be happy."
"Later, I learned about the system of honors students, which allowed students with excellent grades to go to a good high school for free, even if they had no money. So I studied day and night and became the best in the school. But in the summer of my third year of junior high school... my mother passed away."
Wu Yi didn't say anything, so Ichinose continued talking. It was as if she was performing a monologue, bringing her entire past to the stage.
"Because my sister's birthday was coming up, she had never asked my mother or me for a gift. She was only in the first year of the new year, so she should have been more childish. But she had been restraining herself. She didn't buy the clothes she liked, and she didn't go out with her friends. She just endured it, endured it..."
"This time, my sister got what she wanted for the first time. It was a hairpin that was popular last year and worn by an artist my sister particularly liked. In order to buy this hairpin for my sister, my mother increased her work schedule and eventually collapsed due to overwork... Of course, she didn't get to buy the hairpin."
Having said this, the girl took a deep breath, her voice trembling slightly.
"As a sister...I had to do something to help my sister fulfill her only birthday wish, so I went to the department store after school on her birthday."
Then I stole a hairpin, right?
In fact, even if you didn't listen to what was said afterwards, you would have roughly known what was going on. However, Wu Yi remained silent and let the girl continue talking.
Ichinose laughed at himself: "I must have been confused at that time. I thought that doing such a bad thing for my sister was not a big deal. There are countless people who do bad things in this world. We who have endured until now should not be blamed. This kind of behavior is allowed... I was so selfish and willful at that time. I... finally chose to steal the hairpin that my sister wanted... worth more than 10,000 yen."
More than 10,000 yen is almost the daily salary of a normal Japanese worker.
It is a bit outrageous to use a day's salary to buy a hairpin, but when you think about it being the same style as celebrities, it doesn't seem so strange... After all, faith is priceless.
Harvest, harvest whatever you want, harvest hard.
Ichinose of course had no idea about Wu Yi's rich inner thoughts, so she continued to tell the story.
"When no one was paying attention, I secretly put the hairpin into my bag and left the mall."
"Because it was stolen, there was no packaging box and it was very simple, but my sister was very happy to receive the gift... Seeing the smile on my sister's face at that time, the guilt in my heart was relieved a lot."
"In order to hide it from my mother, I tricked my sister into thinking that this gift should be a secret between her and me, but my sister took it to visit my mother... That time, I saw my mother who was really angry..."
"My mother beat me severely and pulled the hairpin off my sister's head. My sister was sobbing and had no idea what was going on. My mother had to be hospitalized, but she took me to the store and knelt down to ask for forgiveness."
"That was the first time I realized the gravity of the sin I had committed. No matter what excuse I made, I should not steal."
"For the next six months, I locked myself in my room and didn't go out until my teacher told me about the existence of this school..."
This is Ichinose's past, a past that has been hidden until now.
It wasn't earth-shattering, nor was it as sinful as she said. To others, it might even be a little touching.
Wu Yi dug his eyes without any emotion.
"that's it?"
"Yes, that's it."
As if he had finally let go of the heavy burden that had been weighing on his heart, Ichinose finally raised his head and revealed a relaxed smile that came from the bottom of his heart.
No, it’s more of a relief than a relief.
She had completely exposed her deepest secrets to Wu Yi.
From then on, whether the latter accepted it or despised it, Ichinose would accept it all calmly.
But unexpectedly, Wu Yi did not immediately express his opinion on the girl's past behavior, but just made a light sound.
"What a strict mother..."
"Eh?"
Ichinose was slightly stunned and subconsciously turned his head to look over.
Wu Yi waved her hand to clarify.
"Of course, I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with what your mother did, Ichinose. In fact, for ordinary people who are preparing to live a peaceful life as legal citizens, there is really nothing wrong with instilling such moral concepts from a young age."
"However, it seems that this moral concept seems to have caused too much mental pressure on you."
Excessive mental stress? What does that mean?
Ichinose didn't quite understand.
"Let me ask you a question first, Ichinose."
Wu Yi raised his index finger and spoke word by word.
"Why do you think people cannot steal?"
"Because... because it's immoral."
The girl hesitated for a moment before answering.
"Sorry, wrong."
Wu Yi raised his other index finger and crossed his fingers to form an X shape.
"It's not because it's against morality that we can't do it, it's because it's against the law that we can't do it."
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It's time to happily teach Ichinose bad things (funny)
Volume 262: Chapter : The greater the ability, the less responsible ()
It is not because it is immoral that we cannot do it, but because it is illegal that we cannot do it.
Is there a difference between the two?
The girl couldn't understand.
"I don't understand..."
Ichinose answered honestly.
Wu Yi put down his crossed index fingers and spread his hands.
"I know, I just said it in general terms. I will explain it to you slowly."
