Chapter 66 The Dead Can't Laugh
"Indeed, I also attended a private school in Morishima."
Mine Shiori drooped her eyes and looked very sleepy.
She slowly admitted the fact in the calmest tone.
But this was not the ending that Sawayama Haruno wanted. He wanted to know why the other party kept it from him.
"Why didn't you tell me we knew each other before?"
Sawayama Haruno couldn't help but ask.
“Because we didn’t know each other.”
Mine Shiori lowered her head and said, "I know Haruno, but Haruno doesn't know me. This can't be called acquaintance, right?"
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What the other party said made sense, at least it made Sawayama Haruno unable to find a reasonable answer.
Just at this time, the dishes they ordered were served.
So their conversation was forced to interrupt for a while.
Perhaps it was because the conversation was interrupted, or perhaps it was because Mine Shiori admitted the private school incident.
Sawayama Haruno, who was still thinking about how to continue asking questions in the previous second, suddenly felt his eyes blur and a large number of text subtitles began to appear in front of him.
The system has once again started a new task.
[The progress was unexpectedly smooth, you found Mine Shiori who was very close to you, and laid the groundwork for "saving" the bad situation in the future]
[You and Mine Shiori meet up at a restaurant outside the school to have dinner together. During the meal, you can't help but ask her about the past and the Golden Week. Although Mine Shiori looks a little uncomfortable, you don't intend to stop, but have your own plans.]
[You know, after asking the truth, Shiori will definitely fall into a special period of autism because of her gloomy personality, and you, as the "culprit", also think it is necessary to help untie the knot in her heart (reward body parts slightly strengthened)]
".Untie the knot in your heart?"
Sawayama Haruno's eyes moved slightly.
The rewards this time seem equally generous.
Last time it was the strengthening of physical fitness, this time it is the strengthening of body parts, that is to say, one’s own internal organs?
The heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys should be included, but I don't know if the brain is included.
"Haruno."
Just when Sawayama Haruno was still secretly thinking about the system reward, Mine Shiori spoke again.
She called Sawayama Haruno's name softly, and the latter subconsciously looked up at her, only to find that Mine Shiori's complexion seemed to have returned to normal.
It should be recovered, right?
"I'm sorry I lied to you about this."
Mine Shiori tried hard to force a smile and said, "Actually, I have my own reasons, so I don't want to tell Haruno."
"this."
As she spoke, she reached into the collar of her shirt and took out the old necklace.
"What Haruno picked up was actually my mother's relic."
She traced the chain of the old necklace with her fingers and showed it to Sawayama Haruno across the dining table.
As he showed it off, he whispered, "It's the only thing my mother left me, so after losing it and finding it again, I was so obsessed with thanking Haruno."
“So that’s how it is”
Sawayama Haruno's eyes were slightly complicated. He had known this for a long time, and he also inferred from Jise Nazuko that what happened to Mine Shiori during the Golden Week incident was related to her mother.
If that’s the case, then the other party will tell the “truth” next, right?
"Haruno, you know what?"
Mine Shiori just hung the necklace quietly in front of her.
She rested her hands on the soft leather sofa seat, turned her head, stared at the neat floor tiles not far away, and said softly:
"Dead people don't laugh."
".What's the meaning?"
"I once had a crush on Haruno because of a small matter. I don't need to tell you about it. Haruno will definitely not remember it if I tell you. Anyway, there was such a thing."
Mine Shiori's expression became a little strange, but she still insisted on finishing what she had to say.
"My mother at the time, I don't know how she could see some of my thoughts. She was obviously hospitalized for a long time at that time, but she could find out from some of her daughter's small actions that she had a crush on someone else. Is this what a mother is like?"
What she said was a little confusing, but Sawayama Haruno could still roughly understand what she meant.
It would be wrong if it wasn't messy, because it seemed like this was too much for Mine Shiori to bear.
The other person's expression just now can only be described as scary.
Sawayama Haruno had mixed feelings.
But Mine Shiori was still talking about the past.
"The mother is like most parents. After discovering her daughter's little thoughts, she will think about how to encourage her, even though what she said was not very nice."
"What did your mother say?" Zeshan Haruno couldn't help but ask.
"I said something, probably as a joke."
Mine Shiori said lightly: "My mother said, 'If little Shiori can't catch up with the boy who makes her dream, I won't be happy even if I die.' It's weird, isn't it? How can a mother say such a thing?"
"You can't be happy even if you die. How can you just say that? Especially since my mother was sick at the time."
Mine Shiori paused, then gave a somewhat forced smile and said, "But now, I can probably understand how my mother feels. She probably wanted to encourage me in this way."
"It is also to help me understand how to accept her death in the future."
"But, Haruno."
Her tone gradually lost its usual calmness, and her expression started to look increasingly strange.
It's like something is about to break.
“I don’t know where the problem lies.”
"During the Golden Week last year, I asked my friends to find out about you, Haruno, but I heard that you already had a girlfriend."
"I was very sad at the time, but then I changed my mind and thought that even if I couldn't confess, I had to express something like 'gratitude', so one day I changed my mind and decided to change the confession letter I had prepared into a thank you letter."
"On the second day after I finished school and was about to go to a private school for tutoring, I received a call."
Sawayama Haruno's heart skipped a beat.
He seemed to realize something.
Mine Shiori said in a cold tone: "My mother passed away the day after I changed my mind, the day after I gave up pursuing Haruno."
"After that, I spent several days in a daze. Finally, at the memorial service, I saw my mother lying in the cardboard box again."
"There really is no smile on my mother's face. She really won't be happy even if she dies."
(End of this chapter)
