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He could develop quietly, but that didn't stop him from secretly plotting something big.
"He saw me, but he could never say it. May he go to hell with his last despair," Mu Xiaoxiao smiled, in a good mood. "Five lottery coins? The initial gift pack only gave me one. Is it because of the S-level completion?"
It's probably because he brutally killed Dong Gang that he got an S rating. If he had just taught him a lesson, he definitely wouldn't have gotten such a high rating. He really needs to be ruthless.
Speaking of which, shouldn't we work harder on Hiiragi Kanana's wish list? Sigh, I've really fallen into this trap~.
Just as Mu Xiaoxiao was happily taking stock of her gains, a graceful and tall figure appeared behind her without her noticing.
"Did you do what happened below?" A calm yet slightly cold female voice sounded in my ear.
Damn it!
Mu Xiaoxiao was so startled he almost swore. He quickly turned around and saw a beautiful, aloof girl with long, flowing hair standing behind him. Mu Xiaoxiao had no idea when she had appeared!
Wait a minute, isn't this the famous senior student, Tohsaka Touka, whom I saw this morning?
When did this person appear at the old school building?
Chapter Eleven: Tohsaka-senpai, you're putting me in a difficult position.
"Tohsaka-senpai, you scared me to death," Mu Xiaoxiao said, clutching her chest with teary eyes. "As for what happened below, I don't know anything about it. It has nothing to do with me. I only saw it just now."
He shook his head frantically, "I heard there were rumors of ghosts around the old school building, so I came to check it out out of curiosity. I never expected to encounter such a scary thing, and then you suddenly appeared behind me, senior, which frightened me."
Mu Xiaoxiao looked shaken. "That was terrifying. A stray dog biting someone to death at school. It'll cause a huge uproar in society, won't it?"
His tone and expression made it seem as if he were truly just an innocent passerby.
The tall, beautiful senior student sized up the boy for a few moments, seemingly believing him, and nodded. "You know me?"
"My senior is very famous, of course I know her."
Touka Tohsaka walked to the window and looked down. Her beautiful face remained as cool and calm as ever, which amazed Mu Xiaoxiao beside her.
Most girls would have screamed in terror at the sight of that bloody scene. Even if they weren't panicked, they would at least be tense and fearful. How come Tohsaka Touka remained calm and composed? This senior is truly remarkable.
"brute."
Tohsaka Touka suddenly uttered a sentence.
Mu Xiaoxiao was stunned. She looked at her expressionless senior, then at the corpse below, and cautiously asked, "Senior Tohsaka, who are you referring to as the beast?"
The beautiful girl with long, straight black hair turned her head and met Mu Xiaoxiao's gaze. Her big eyes were full of doubt. "Of course it's those stray dogs. Are there other animals? Attacking students and biting teachers to death, how can there be such dangerous animals in the school?"
Mu Xiaoxiao blinked her eyelashes, then nodded in deep agreement, "Senior is right, but that person wasn't a teacher, just a club coach. I know Coach Dong Gang, he was a responsible and good person. I never thought he would die in a place like this while protecting his students. It's true, why do good people always die young? Sigh."
"..."
Upon hearing this, Touka Tohsaka's expression subtly changed, as if she had been struck by a chord. She pursed her lips, her face complex, and said, "I'll go down and help."
Mu Xiaoxiao then noticed that she was holding a wooden knife.
Does she know kendo?
"Too dangerous?"
Before Mu Xiaoxiao could finish her hypocritical words, an exclamation mark appeared above Tohsaka Touka's head, and then the system's wish list appeared. Sure enough, what she saw in the morning was not an illusion; this Tohsaka-senpai was indeed her target.
Unlike Akane Nanao's, it directly reveals the contents, without playing riddles.
After just one glance, Mu Xiaoxiao fell silent.
[Wishlist (Touka Tohsaka): I long for death; perhaps those vicious wild dogs can end my life.]
Mu Xiaoxiao: "???"
What's wrong with you women?! Hiiragi Kanna is one thing, but how come this guy is even worse? Are there no normal people left? I know there are many suicides in Japan, but I've only been here for two days!
This is what happened?
Can you please stop making things difficult for me, Little A-Dream?
"Senior! Wait, wait a minute—"
Logically speaking, as the limited edition Doraemon from the other world, he should fulfill her wish, but Mu Xiaoxiao still grabbed the girl's arm and suddenly felt that it was really not easy to get a reward, and he even needed psychological counseling.
"It's too dangerous. Um, let's go and notify the teacher."
"That girl is in danger."
Are you going to rescue people? You're clearly just going to get yourself killed.
"Senior, those stray dogs didn't attack her; they ran away."
Seeing the stray dogs flee in panic and disappear in the blink of an eye, Touka Tohsaka's expression showed a slight disappointment, which made Mu Xiaoxiao unable to remain calm. Wait! You sighed, didn't you? You definitely sighed!
"Is there something you need from the old school building, Senior Tohsaka?" Mu Xiaoxiao asked casually.
Touka Tohsaka did not answer. After a long while, the aloof girl said softly, "Just came here to take a look."
Deceiving.
Mu Xiaoxiao didn't expose her lie, but she felt it was a tricky situation. She couldn't really send her on her way, could she?
Tohsaka-senpai, you're putting me in a difficult position.
However, as long as there is a strong emotional influence, the desire will change. Although Touka Tohsaka did not seem to have intense emotions, Mu Xiaoxiao guessed that she was just more reserved. If she really had no feelings, she would not think of committing suicide.
So, I'm not just doing this for the system's mission, but also saving a lost girl.
"Qian, have some water."
In the infirmary, Akane Nanao sat on the edge of the bed, her face pale, seemingly still recovering from the shock. Kanana Hiiragi came in with a glass of water and sighed as she looked at her haggard friend.
She couldn't believe it when Qian called.
Akane Nanao didn't go to the teacher, and she didn't go to anyone except her good friend Kanna Hiiragi, nor did she tell anyone else.
"Dong Gang's body has been found. I just heard a lot of students talking about it in the hallway. It was Tohsaka, a second-year student, who found it," Hiiragi Kanna sat down on the edge of the bed. She had been vomiting in the bathroom for a long time, but Hiiragi Kanna had no sympathy for that bastard at all.
She was just worried.
"Everyone's talking about this. The teachers have all gone over, and the police and reporters are here too. There are so many people," Kanna Hiiragi quickly comforted her friend when she saw she didn't say anything. "It's okay. Nobody will connect him with you, Akane. Besides, you're the victim! That guy deserved to die!!!"
But Hiiragi Kanna didn't seem to know, except for Touka Tohsaka and Mu Xiaoxiao, there was one other person who did.
Just as Akane Nanao managed to force a smile, it was shattered by a voice.
"Akane!!!"
Katase Shoya rushed over, demanding, "What happened? What happened? Why is Coach Higashi Tsuyoshi dead in the old school building? Didn't you meet there? Why—"
He was struck dumb upon hearing the news of Coach Dong Gang's death.
Akane Nanao didn't explain. She sat on the bed, looking at Katase-kun with a complicated expression. Especially when she saw his questioning tone, the girl's mouth became more and more bitter, and her heart was completely silent.
Shoya-kun, the boy I used to like, no longer makes my heart flutter.
"Hey! Katase Shoya, what do you mean? Do you think Akane killed that scumbag? Besides, Akane is the victim. Do you know that she was almost defiled by that bastard Higashi Tsuyoshi? If this hadn't happened, would you still be questioning her? Are you still her lover?"
Hiragana asked angrily.
"What? Defilement? This, this kind of thing..."
Faced with his incredulous expression, Nanao Akane said calmly, "Kana, stop talking. Katase-kun didn't know about this at all, and it has nothing to do with him. Besides, we weren't dating in the first place."
"Akane?"
Katase Shoya stared blankly at her. This was the first time she had spoken to her in such a cold tone. Katase felt as if something was slipping away from him.
"Alright, Akane needs to rest. If you have any conscience, don't bother her at a time like this," Hiiragi Kanna shooed Katase Sho out as well. When she returned to her friend's side, she saw that Nanao Akane was still looking listless, so she took the initiative to change the subject.
"Speaking of which, it's hard to believe that Dong Gang was actually bitten to death by a pack of wild dogs."
Akane Nanao's attention was indeed diverted. "Kana, I think so too, back then..."
She didn't know how to explain it; it was just a gut feeling that someone had heard her prayers and her wish had been granted.
This feeling is very strong.
"Perhaps, Tohsaka-senpai knows the answer."
Chapter Twelve: Qian Has Changed
"Hey, really? Someone died in the old school building? This can't be some kind of hellish joke, can it?"
Students gathered on the playground and in the corridors, all discussing the matter. The news spread like wildfire throughout the school. Some students didn't believe it, but were soon shocked by the reality.
“Even the police have come, so it can’t be fake. The old school building is now off-limits and fenced off. The school’s chairman and teachers are all gathered there.”
Who died? A student?
"If it were a student, it would have been a huge scandal, and our school's reputation would have been affected. Fortunately, it was just a contracted coach. But in the end, the school has to take responsibility for what happened."
"Breaking news! The baseball coach was eaten alive by stray dogs! It's horrific; I heard there wasn't a single intact piece of flesh on his body!"
"So terrifying? Is it a wild dog, a lion, or a tiger?"
Katase Sho, who was passing by in a hurry, listened to everyone's conversation and remained silent. He found it hard to accept this. He knew that Akane and the coach did not get along, so he followed the coach's advice and hoped that they could get along well, but this was the result he was greeted with.
The coach's death traumatized the girl he liked.
He couldn't forget the look in Nanao Akane's eyes when she looked at him just now—a calm look tinged with sadness, a look devoid of any light, which pierced his heart.
If Coach Dong Gang really had ulterior motives towards Qian, wouldn't that mean he personally pushed her into the fire? But Dong Gang is dead, and he can't even question him. He only feels a knot of resentment in his chest, unable to let go of it.
"Akane..."
Katase Shoya suddenly stopped walking. Many students, like him, looked towards the playground. Not only had the police arrived, but reporters were also there, holding microphones and interviewing students. Was this a live broadcast?
In the infirmary, an interview was playing on the television screen, but the two beautiful girls, Akane Nanao and Kanna Hiiragi, weren't paying attention to the TV because they hadn't gone to find their senior yet. Instead, Touka Tohsaka came to find them.
"Tohsaka-senpai?!"
“You look like you were quite frightened,” Touka Tohsaka nodded. “But it’s good that you’re alright. I didn’t mention your existence to the police. It’s better to avoid trouble. Get some rest.”
Tohsaka Touka's expression was complicated. She had originally thought that the old school building was a quiet place, a good place to end her life, but who knew she would run into this kind of thing, and her suicide plan had to be abandoned.
"Senior, were you there back then?" Akane Nanao's eyes widened, her heart pounding. "Were you in the old school building back then?"
"Ah."
She admitted it! Akane's heart raced, and if she remembered correctly, that scumbag coach had been staring upstairs before he died. Could it be that he was looking at Tohsaka-senpai at that time?
Tohsaka-senpai saved me
"I was there at the time, and I'm sorry I couldn't save the coach."
Akane was bewildered. "Huh? I'm...sorry?"
"Although I heard that coach wasn't a teacher at the school, you two must have been close, and he just died right in front of me..."
I can understand it now.
“Um, Tohsaka-senpai,” Hiiragi Kanna smiled stiffly, as if she had realized something, “we don’t get along with that pervert at all. That guy even tried to bully Akane. If it weren’t for those stray dogs, Akane would have escaped unscathed.”
Touka Tohsaka: "???"
what?
“In other words, that person wasn’t Tohsaka-senpai,” Nanao Akane said with a weak smile, understanding. “At first, I thought it was Tohsaka-senpai who saved me, but since it wasn’t, it was probably just a coincidence. After all, there was only senpai in the old school building.”
Moreover, the fact that my senior took the initiative to visit me shows that she is also a gentle person.
I just don't know the true face of that scumbag.
Tohsaka Touka's mind was a bit muddled at the moment. When she heard Nanao Akane say that, she instinctively replied, "There's one more person."
"Eh?"
“I wasn’t the only one in the old school building at the time; there was another person there as well.”
"..."
"..."
There's another person?! Akane's heart suddenly raced, goosebumps rose all over her body, and she had a gut feeling that the person her senior was talking about was someone whose voice trembled slightly, "Tohsaka-senpai, who is it? Who is that person?!"
Is Akane's reaction a bit too intense? Although Hiiragi Kanna is also grateful to that person and curious about his identity, Akane is even more excited than when she saw Katase Shoya.
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