Chapter 241: Should I be responsible for Shiori?
After putting away all the books, Sawayama Haruno sat in front of the coffee and asked curiously, "Is Shiori still staying at Miss Morikawa's house these days?"
"Well, we'll have to move out tomorrow morning."
Morikawa Riho happily looked at the two books in her hands and said without raising her head: "She told me that she has already contacted the next apartment to rent. It should be where you used to live."
"Yeah."
"What?" Morikawa Riho raised her head and teased, "Teacher Kiriyama wants to show off in front of the other party and help with the move?"
"It's not a big deal, it's just normal mutual help between friends."
Sawayama Haruno felt a little helpless.
Moving in an island country is very troublesome.
If you want to move large items such as mattresses and furniture, you still need to find a way to move them into your home yourself, even if you hire a truck from outside.
After all, they are only responsible for transporting to the designated location, which does not include helping you move furniture and other things there.
It is impossible to move everything away intact during the move, after all, the workload would be too huge and there would definitely be some older "items" that need to be discarded.
In an island country, garbage cannot be thrown away randomly and must be disposed of according to designated categories.
If you want to throw away something like a mattress, not only do you have to find a way to disassemble the mattress yourself, you also have to contact the mattress recycling staff yourself, and you may even have to pay them money.
This is particularly different from the country where Sawayama Haruno lived in his previous life.
It was precisely because these steps were too troublesome that Sawayama Haruno, who had two moving experiences, thought of helping Mine Shiori.
Otherwise, considering the petite figure's body shape, moving house would probably be very tiring.
"Anyway, tell Shiori that I'll be here tomorrow morning?"
“I’m sorry.”
Morikawa Riho supported her chin and said with a smile.
"I'm afraid you will be disappointed, Mr. Kiriyama, because I have already contacted the moving company in advance. When the time comes, a special person will come to help Shiori move all her things away. They will also be responsible for handling the remaining garbage."
"You are really willing to give up."
"After all, Shiori is my junior assistant." Morikawa Riho stretched and said with a smile, "I plan to cultivate her as soon as possible. After all, after getting promoted, I have to have a few trusted generals of my own."
"It's a small matter like this. I would have taken the initiative to help her without you telling me. But there is something I want to ask you here."
Morikawa Riho suddenly paused and stared at Sawayama Haruno with some curiosity.
"It may be a little presumptuous to say this, so I'd like to explain in advance that I'm just curious. Please don't blame me if you hear that, Mr. Kiriyama," she added.
"If you knew I would blame you, you shouldn't have said it in the first place."
Sawayama Haruno rubbed his brows and sighed.
"Forget it, just ask."
"How exactly are you going to handle your relationship with Mine-Shiori?"
Morikawa Riho tapped her cheek with her index finger from time to time and couldn't help asking, "At first I thought you were just normal friends, but when you came to my house a few days ago, I noticed that the way that kid looked at you was not right."
"It's not hard to see that Mr. Kiriyama can write such a book. He doesn't seem to want to distance himself from you now. Does that mean there's still a possibility of a relationship in the future?"
"You're suddenly asking me this." Sawayama Haruno touched the handle of his coffee cup and sighed, "To be honest, I don't know either."
"The situation between Shiori and me is a little more complicated than you think. For some reasons that are not easy to explain, I helped Shiori to resolve her emotional issues before, and we have maintained our current relationship ever since," he said simply.
At first, he wanted to complete the system task, and then Mine Shiori approached him in the name of repaying a favor, and the relationship between the two gradually changed from strangers to friends.
Later, in order to understand the truth about why Miyazawa Mana broke up with him, he further developed a relationship with Mine Shiori and learned about her past knot.
In order to resolve the crisis that might arise in his future, he spared no effort to help the other party untie the knot in his heart, and in the process, he naturally understood the feelings that the other party still had for him.
However, since things would not always wait for him to solve one by one, by the time he realized that this part had been delayed to the point where it had to be solved, Miyazawa Maki and Esaki Suguha had already occupied most of his "position".
Therefore, having come to this point, Sawayama Haruno doesn't know how to deal with the relationship between himself and Mine Shiori.
To say that he was responsible was too heavy a word, as their relationship had not yet reached that stage.
But if I just leave and no longer care about the other person, not to mention the existence of the system task, what if Mine Shiori falls into the same autistic ending as before?
When they didn't know each other before, he wouldn't have thought it was a big deal even if he saw it; now that the two of them have such a good relationship and Mine Shiori has helped him a lot, he certainly can't bear to see her being gloomy all day long.
"Yeah."
Looking at the somewhat helpless Sawayama Haruno, Morikawa Riho felt a little emotional.
"But it doesn't matter, right?"
"what?"
Sawayama Haruno looked up in confusion.
"I say, it doesn't matter if Mr. Kiriyama is dating her, right?" Morikawa Riho repeated what she just said, and then asked in confusion, "Is it because the girl named Ezaki doesn't agree?"
"I don't think she's that kind of person, and she has a good relationship with Shiori, right?"
Morikawa Riho grumbled, "Besides that, I can't think of any other reason that could make Kiriyama-sensei so hesitant. Shiori is pretty cute, isn't there a lot of men who like girls who look younger in age and appearance?"
“It’s not the same thing.”
Sawayama Haruno rubbed his brows.
"Besides, I have a girlfriend. Didn't I tell you about it before I left for Kyoto?" "Yes."
Morikawa Riho suddenly realized.
She almost forgot about it.
In other words, the girl who was openly dating Sawayama Haruno was another girl she didn't know.
And both Esaki Suguha and Mine Shiori are in the stage of secretly loving Sawayama Haruno?
"What about being an underground lover?"
After pondering for a moment, Morikawa Riho gave her opinion without hesitation.
"Given Shiori's personality, even if it's an underground relationship, the child will be happy to accept it, right?"
"Don't be ridiculous, secret lover or something like that."
“This is not a joke.”
Morikawa Riho crossed her hands, rested her chin on her fingers, and said seriously, "Don't you know, Mr. Kiriyama?"
"There are also many seniors in the industry who secretly support girls who are just college students."
". Of course I have heard of this kind of thing, but it can't be discussed together with the actual situation, right?"
"What can't we talk about together?"
"I want to treat them as fairly as possible?"
"hiss"
Morikawa Riho stroked her chin and said in distress, "This is a bit troublesome. Although there are precedents for obtaining multiple certificates in other countries, it is too troublesome to transfer them out."
"It won't get to that point."
Sawayama Haruno looked at her helplessly.
"I understand what Ms. Morikawa means, so we can't rush this matter. I plan to put it off until later. After all, I don't have enough "capital" to discuss these things right now."
"It won't be too far."
Morikawa Riho smiled and said, "That's why I suggest you think it through now."
"I think your girlfriend doesn't know yet?"
"Uh, she knows." Sawayama Haruno coughed a few times and explained vaguely, "That is, the person named Jiang Qi you just mentioned actually knows her."
"Eh?!"
A raging flame called "gossip" instantly burned in Morikawa Riho's eyes.
"What do you mean, are they still friends?"
"Um"
"As expected of you, Mr. Kiriyama."
Morikawa Riho looked at him in amazement.
"No wonder you were able to write a book like Norwegian Wood. It turns out that part of it was based on your own experiences?"
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Sawayama Haruno felt a little embarrassed.
It would be disastrous if Ms. Morikawa knew about Miyazawa Mana.
Most of the places can be matched with the book, but some characters and plots need to be deleted, and some places need to be viewed from a different angle.
At least the sense of guilt can be felt from it.
Even when he was writing his own book, when he thought back to what happened between Miyazawa Maki and Miyazawa Mana, he couldn't help but bring that feeling of guilt into his own writing.
"Anyway, it's enough for Kiriyama-sensei to know the situation."
Seeing that Haruno Sawayama seemed unwilling to talk too much about this topic, Riho Morikawa smiled and changed the subject.
"Don't worry, once you become famous, you will find that today's troubles are actually not a problem."
She joked: "Everyone is very tolerant of talented people."
"The more famous you are, the more people will defend you. These things are actually nothing. You have to know that writers and entertainment stars are not on the same level, especially for someone with potential like you."
".I still know this."
Sawayama Haruno smiled helplessly.
I had almost finished my coffee, and seeing Morikawa Riho like this, I probably wanted to leave too.
So Zeshan Haruno picked up the bag and said, "Let's stop here for today. If you need anything else about moving, please remember to send me a message at any time."
"You should tell Shiori this in person."
Morikawa Riho also drank the last bit of coffee.
When she put down the cup, she smiled and said, "That's it."
"First of all, I wish Mr. Kiriyama a happy vacation."
(End of this chapter)
