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She held the cold glass cup, and the coldness and bitterness seemed to have penetrated through the thin wall into her blood vessels in advance.

"Ah, it seems Megumi can't drink bitter things."

Emi Eura clapped her hands as if she suddenly remembered something, which made Karuizawa Megumi stop for a moment.

"Sorry sorry."

She clasped her hands together and apologized to Karuizawa Megumi with a smile on her lips, looking both sincere and guilty.

"If you don't like it, why don't you exchange your iced American style with mine?"

Emi Eura kindly pushed the drink in front of her in the direction of the other party.

"Oh, okay, but is Emi used to drinking like this?"

Of course, Karuizawa Megumi was extremely happy. She agreed almost immediately, but she soon felt something was wrong and just stared at Emi Eura.

"It's really hard to get used to it. To be honest, I don't think it tastes good."

As if Emi suddenly changed her face, she tapped her long nails on the table and looked at Karuizawa Megumi with raised eyebrows.

Karuizawa Megumi felt her whole body suddenly become cold. The glass of iced Americano she was about to push towards Emi Eura was swallowing her like a frozen river. She quickly trembled and replied:

"Yes, it's best for me to drink it myself."

Karuizawa Megumi quickly bit the straw into her mouth and took two big sips, as if she was eager to show that her previous actions were just fake and she had absolutely no intention of handing this to Emi Eura.

"It actually tastes pretty good."

Karuizawa Megumi replied like this.

"Really? Then I'll try it too."

"...I've already drank, so let's forget it."

Emi Eura seemed to be a little dissatisfied with Karuizawa Megumi's somewhat condescending behavior. She took the initiative to straighten up and lean out towards Karuizawa Megumi, as if she wanted to go directly to get the glass of iced Americano.

But when her fingers touched the glass of iced Americano with more than half of it left, Emi Eura's hand pushed it inadvertently, and the entire glass with the dark brown liquid rushed back towards Karuizawa Megumi. .

"Clang."

It was the sound of a falling glass hitting the table.

Transparent ice cubes rolled onto the hand, and the gurgling coffee stained the seat's cushions brown.

Karuizawa Megumi was pulled away. Although the person who pulled her away moved quickly enough, a little bit of coffee still splashed onto the hem of her white skirt.

Kitagawa Ryo stood in front of her.

His dark pupils reflected the shadow of Emi Eura, and his lips formed a hard line, and then the line quickly broke. Kitagawa Ryo smiled at her, showing his white teeth.

His left hand was now tightly holding Karuizawa Megumi's arm, while his right hand turned into a sword and slowly raised it.

Then, he made a gesture of wiping his neck.

"You are dead".

Kitagawa Ryo declared this silently.

ps: The second update of the bounty, thank you for subscribing and reading.

ps2: The image of Karuizawa Megumi is too complicated. She has gone through a major psychological change process, so I will write it in four chapters. Many people say that Megumi doesn't have the feeling of a heroine, right? Anyone named "Hui" has the attributes of a passerby heroine_(:з」∠)_

The Lies of Autumn by Megumi Karuizawa: Chapter 9: Will Ryo still leave?

After Karuizawa Megumi moved, she lost contact with Kitagawa Ryo. This process lasted about half a year. The photo of Karuizawa Megumi and Kitagawa Ryo was put into a photo frame and placed on the desk in the room. A group photo of people at the elementary school graduation ceremony. They were all wearing black and white uniforms.

About two months ago, Karuizawa Megumi moved this group photo from her desk to her bedside. Even during the period when campus bullying was the most serious, she almost looked at or even fell asleep holding this group photo. The Kitagawa Ryo became a sculpture or a city wall in the long night, and he stayed there, silently protecting Karuizawa Megumi day after day.

The past two months were almost longer than any period in Karuizawa Megumi's past, so much so that within a few seconds of being splashed on her head by the cold water in the bucket, the water droplets rolled from the tips of her hair to the soles of her feet. All of a sudden, she recalled all the past elementary school days, as if the scene when Kitagawa Ryo was still by her side half a year ago was already like an old road that had gradually become deserted a long time ago.

Karuizawa Megumi felt as if he had once held Kitagawa Ryo's hand on this road, but it has now been completely submerged. The moss of time has firmly filled all the gaps in his memory, and they have been separated. into one fragment after another.

Until now, Kitagawa Ryo stood in front of Karuizawa Megumi again.

As always, long time no see.

"Emi Emi, I remember you."

Kitagawa Ryo bent down, and his back and shadow obscured Emi Eura's figure. He lowered his voice:

"I will come back to you after I understand what happened between you and Hui."

The sound of the glass cup falling here has attracted the attention of many customers and waiters in the coffee shop. No matter how angry Kitagawa Ryo is, it is impossible for him to explode in public here. After all, in the eyes of others who do not understand the inside story, this seems to be just An accident of accidentally spilling a drink.

Kitagawa Ryo looked at the girl who was particularly surprised by his arrival again. Emi Emi's eyes were full of disbelief. She waited for a whole semester before confirming that there was no one named "Kitagawa Ryo" next to Karuizawa Megumi. "If he is really still alive, it would be impossible for him to remain indifferent while watching Megumi Karuizawa being bullied on campus for about a month.

Emi Emi subconsciously put her left hand on her shoulder bag, and she was even a little lucky that Kitagawa Ryo appeared before her action. If it had been another hour or two at night, she would have gone as planned...

After Kitagawa Ryo said this, he took the still dizzy Hui and walked out of the store, leaving only three girls who were a little overwhelmed.

As soon as he walked out of the coffee shop, Kitagawa Ryo felt Karuizawa Megumi hugging him.

When she raised her head, Kitagawa Ryo saw drops of water gathering in Karuizawa Megumi's blue pupils, as if a devout believer had seen his Lord. Karuizawa Megumi lay on Kitagawa Ryo's side. A soft sob rose in my chest.

Kitagawa Ryo had seen Megumi Karuizawa cry when she was six or seven years old before. At that time, she was a child who shed tears very easily. Even if there was sand in her shoes, she would subconsciously pout and cry because she was afraid of being told by her mother. Cry last time.

When people are happy, they only need to smile and control the muscles at the corners of the mouth to raise upwards. This is an action that does not require any effort. Many people have even developed the habit of smiling, but no one will keep crying. Hanging in the corner of my eyes, because crying is a thousand times harder than laughing.

So Kitagawa Ryo could only hold Karuizawa Megumi in his arms. For the first time, he felt that Megumi was still a child. Even her sobbing on his shoulder was a little childish, but it was this childishness that made Kitagawa Ryo both Feeling a little distressed and a little sad, he could only maintain this posture.

At this moment, Kitagawa Ryo seemed to be no longer Karuizawa Megumi's childhood sweetheart. His status was suddenly elevated. After realizing this, Kitagawa Ryo quickly took out a tissue from his pocket and held Qingqiu in his hand. Izawa Kei's face wiped away her tears.

[It's okay, it's okay, I'm back. ]

He almost subconsciously planned to use this coaxing tone again, but Kitagawa Ryo finally held back. He took Karuizawa Megumi and sat on a bench nearby. There were two couples of high school students nearby. , but it seemed that he had seen this kind of situation too many times, so he just glanced twice and then continued to talk affectionately between you and me.

"Can you tell me about Kei?"

Kitagawa Ryo waited for a while, until Hui's mood calmed down completely before asking.

"...Ryo shouldn't come up and ask questions like this."

Karuizawa Megumi, who barely stopped crying but still had red eyes, sniffed. Her right hand still held Kitagawa Ryo's left hand tightly.

"Ryo should say 'I'm back' first, and then I should say 'welcome back'."

"Is it true that Hui is someone who values ​​ritual so much?"

Kitagawa Ryo stretched out his hand to straighten her messy hair. Just when he was about to pull back after finishing, Karuizawa Megumi's left hand held his hand:

"Keep touching."

Karuizawa Megumi leaned completely on Kitagawa Ryo's shoulders, and she laid her head on Kitagawa Ryo's chest:

"You can't stop until I say stop."

Kitagawa Ryo didn't remember that Karuizawa Megumi had such a clingy character before. He only thought that Karuizawa Megumi had not seen him for half a year, so he continued to caress her hair helplessly, as if Stroking a docile large dog.

"cold."

"Um."

"You can't say um, you have to say I'm here."

"I am here."

"cold."

"I am here."

"That's good."

Karuizawa Megumi closed her eyes and curled up into a small ball like a baby. She hid in Kitagawa Ryo's arms and didn't want to move or get out.

"Liang, I really want to grow up quickly and become an adult. I don't want to stay in school anymore."

She was just daydreaming like a child.

Kitagawa Ryo had already guessed that Karuizawa Megumi had probably been bullied on campus in the past six months as before. He pursed his lips and listened to Karuizawa Megumi's words.

"School is so annoying, and social interactions are so annoying. I just don't want to be bullied, but I'm going to get bullied in the end whether I want to or not."

"If Liang hadn't come back, I would have been bullied for more than two years. What would have happened when I graduated and went to high school?"

"I don't know. I'm so scared. I don't dare to think about it."

Karuizawa Megumi's eyes were a little blurry, as if she remembered some bad memory again. She looked directly at Kitagawa Ryo unsteadily, and then hugged him again.

"sorry."

She said in Kitagawa Ryo's ear, and then, Karuizawa Megumi kissed Kitagawa Ryo's neck.

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At seven o'clock in the afternoon, Kitagawa Ryo sat on the hotel bed and used his laptop to read through the information that Mr. Isaki had compiled for him, including the school life of Karuizawa Megumi in the past six months and the information of Emi Eura and other bullies. Family and personal circumstances.

He frowned and recounted everything that had happened in the past six months, from the incident where Karuizawa Megumi unexpectedly became the center of girls in the class because of him, to the incident surrounding Wakata, and finally Wakata's own suicide and Karuizawa Megumi being accused of being the murderer. Charged with school violence.

"First is Wakata."

Kitagawa Ryo pulled out the information about the other party and saw at a glance the information that the other party's father had to flee to Hokkaido three months ago to avoid debt collection by loan sharks because he owed huge gambling debts. And one month after that, that is, In the month before Ruota committed suicide, she and her mother had been harassed by loan sharks. For example, they would knock on the door hard in the middle of the night, and when they opened the door in the morning, they would find the body of a dead dog hanging in front of the door. The incident forced the landlord of the apartment where they lived to terminate the rental contract for other tenants.

Then, on the last day before moving out, this desperate mother took her daughter to burn coal and died at home. However, because the dosage of sleeping pills she had given Wakata before was not enough, Wakata even woke up in the middle of burning coal and fell into a coma. The incident of crawling to the door of the house in a daze and knocking open the door.

It was precisely because Wakata himself broke open the door that her and her mother's suicide behavior was discovered immediately. Moreover, because Wakata herself had a small amount of inhalation, she even saved her life after timely rescue, but was temporarily brain dead. She was in a vegetative state, and her absconding father only returned to his hometown to raise funds. In the end, he sold the old house and a famous heirloom sword before returning to Tokyo with the money.

The result is that his pride, which has been unwilling to speak to his wife, has led to the current tragedy. After paying off all the loan sharks, the father invested the remaining property in his daughter's medical care.

"...So Ruoda himself is not dead at all?"

Kitagawa Ryo typed on the keyboard and collected another round of the day's news, and indeed found out about this case.

"Then Ruoda committed suicide because of school bullying. It's just a false rumor."

After discovering this fact, Kitagawa Ryo even saw it in Mr. Izaki's note:

[According to feedback from the hospital, the patient is currently recovering well and is expected to wake up. ]

"Then how did this rumor spread?"

Kitagawa Ryo clicked on the next page of information, and the name "Emi Eura" caught his eye.

He knew this girl, on the one hand, because she and he were from the same elementary school, and on the other hand, Emi Eura had already shown an extremely bad character at that time. Kitagawa Ryo once saw the girl behave without any scruples. I can still recall the scene of skinning a live frog with a toothpick.

Emi Emi is a girl who is extremely indifferent to life.

Kitagawa Ryo opened her detailed information:

"A native of Tokyo Island, fourteen years old. His father is Tadashi Eura, a former worker at Chiba Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., now unemployed. His mother Yuko Eura is a housewife. The family owes a total of 21 million yen in debt. all."

[Ruota's rumors are most likely spread secretly by her. ]

Mr. Izaki said so.

During the half-year trip to the UK with his parents, Kitagawa Ryo learned a lot. When his father learned that he had transferred schools for his friends when he was a child and had a fight with a bully, he once said to him, "Violence is sometimes not the best option." The best way."

At that time, Kitagawa Ryo contradicted his father with some dissatisfaction:

"But this is the most direct, powerful, and satisfying way."

The father nodded and acknowledged his statement, but then he said:

"Perhaps Liang will encounter such a situation in the future. You can use violence to stop and threaten as before, but those people may agree for a moment, or even apologize, but they will never give up and will continue unwillingly. Find someone to take revenge."

"Look for the gangsters in the class, the big brother in the school, or even someone in the underworld. Just find a fight one by one. Even if you can win every time, they won't be afraid. At most, they will just I think you are a good fighter, and if you are really ruthless, they can counterattack."

"And in the end, if there is nothing you can do, you can also attack the person you are protecting. If something really happens, no matter how much you retaliate afterwards or retaliate in kind, it will not change the fact that she was injured or even more serious."

Kitagawa Liang nodded thoughtfully:

"Does father want me to directly solve the root cause of the problem?"

Father patted Kitagawa Ryo's head appreciatively:

"Ryo, you have to remember that you can just break out of the rules set for you by the campus circle."

"Because your last name is Beichuan."

Violence is the rule that humans are best at. My fists are bigger than yours and I can fight better than you, so I can make you surrender.

But modern society cannot take this rule to the extreme, because it is illegal to cause serious injury or even death. With this restriction, Kitagawa Ryo would beat bullies down again and again and make them kneel in front of the bullied one. Begging for mercy is just an act within the rules that students have encountered. As long as it is within the rules that they know, even if it can deter them for a while, it will not make them give up bullying permanently.

Therefore, it is necessary to break out of this rule and directly defeat their consistent cognition in higher rules.

Kitagawa Ryo recalled his father's words while doing a good job in categorizing and coordinating the personnel.