Chapter 7 Rumors
August 4, early morning.
In an apartment in Nerima Ward, Tokyo.
Luo Shu, who was resting on the sofa, heard the sound of the shower door opening. He turned his head and saw Kasumigaoka Utaha coming out wrapped in a bath towel and wiping her hair.
While looking for a hair dryer, the girl, who looked like a lotus emerging from water, said calmly:
"So, the reason you came to my house late at night to find me was because you wanted to 'go to school together'?"
Hearing this, Luo Shu suddenly became embarrassed, leaned back on the sofa cushion helplessly, and complained:
"Why do you say that as if I'm some kind of 'socially anxious and school-hating student'?"
"I'm just too busy to go to school, not that I'm afraid of going to school, okay?"
"I know." Kasumigaoka Utaha took out a hair dryer from under the TV cabinet and turned to look at Luo Shu: "But this is what is spread in the school."
"Ah?" Luo Shu was stunned for a moment: "Why are people in school talking about me?"
"Don't you think you're normal?"
Kasumigaoka Utaha said with contempt, as if asking, "Why are you making such a fuss?"
She stood up, holding a hair dryer and walked towards Luo Shu, while explaining:
"You've always been a hot topic in school. You haven't been seen for half a month since the beginning of the school year. As time goes by, everyone is guessing what happened to you. Even I, a sophomore, have heard about it."
Hearing this, Luo Shu was speechless, yet curious. He tilted his head and looked at Kasumigaoka Utaha and said:
"How did they spread it?"
Kasumigaoka Utaha's lips curled up slightly, and she smiled:
"There are many ways to tell how it was spread."
"Someone said that you offended a gang outside of school and had your leg broken. You are now in hospital recuperating."
"Some people also said that you got a certain young lady pregnant, and in order to avoid trouble from her family, you fled back to China overnight."
"In addition, those seniors who were beaten by you in the past took advantage of their graduation and were no longer under the school's control to challenge you outside the school. In the end, both of them were hospitalized. Because this matter was not glorious, the school suppressed the news."
"There are many different opinions, but the mainstream ones are these three."
After hearing Kasumigaoka Utaha's explanation, Luo Shu was stunned and couldn't help asking:
"Don't these people have any logic when spreading rumors? They are gangsters and trying to conceive a girl. The only thing that seems plausible is a fight between classmates."
"Is that reliable?" Kasumigaoka Utaha was startled and asked in surprise, "Did those graduates really cause you trouble?"
Kasumigaoka Utaha also knew that Luo Shu had had conflicts with students in the school, and she even went to investigate afterwards.
According to her understanding, the cause was that the senior students in the school saw that Luo Shu was good-looking and attracted the attention of the girls in the class. They also saw that he was a foreign student who was unfamiliar with the place and was weak and easy to bully, so the conflict arose.
However, this conflict disappeared after Luo Shu immediately complained with his fists, and later spent money to find the clan gangs in his hometown on the island country to warn those seniors.
It is natural that serious students will be afraid when facing legal violent groups. Of course, while they are afraid, they will inevitably take advantage of the situation secretly.
Kasumigaoka Utaha had hypnotized several seniors who deliberately spread the news in school, causing them to become socially dead in front of the people they liked. However, the seniors who had already graduated were not in the school, so she naturally didn't know the situation.
"I did cause trouble, but I only found fault at the place where I worked and was scolded away by the store manager."
Luo Shu thought about it and realized that he had not yet awakened his 'memories of his previous life'. When he was working in a bookstore, there had indeed been incidents of graduates causing trouble.
However, the students who ganged up to bully their classmates in school were very timid outside of school. They would run away when they were scared, so he didn't care much.
After all, the students of Toyonosaki come from families with some background, and the most important thing for graduates after graduation is to face the entrance examinations of various universities.
For university admission in the island country, each school releases its own examination plan. High school students can only be admitted if they participate in the examinations of these schools and pass the exams.
Therefore, those "seniors" who graduated only caused trouble a few days before and after graduation. After being warned, they were immersed in various exams and there was no follow-up.
After Luo Shu awakened, he quit his job and joined SDS, and they completely lost contact.
"Is that so..." Kasumigaoka Utaha said in a daze, but in her heart she was thinking about who on the list of graduates and seniors she had got had caused trouble for Luo Shu?
Forget it, it’s too troublesome to find them. Let’s just include all graduates who have conflicts with Luo Shu in the scope of crackdown.
The man who dared to bully her, is he tired of living?
"But then again, why are the rumors in school so outrageous?"
When Luo Shu thought about those rumors, his face became depressed:
"I don't have many friends in school. Apart from the conflict that occurred when I first entered school, there are no other conflicts. I just haven't been to elementary school for a while. How did it spread like this?"
Kasumigaoka Utaha was also shocked when she heard this. Don’t you know the truth about this matter?
"As soon as I entered school, I had a conflict with my seniors, and even got into a fight with them. I also found a violent group outside the school to threaten me. Do you think you have a good reputation?"
"Even the teachers at school secretly suspect that you might be a member of a legally violent group. Do you think you have no problem?"
"Uh..." Luo Shu stared at Kasumigaoka Utaha in a daze: "There is such a thing? Even the teacher doubts me?"
Seeing his expression, Kasumigaoka Utaha was convinced and sighed speechlessly:
"Yes, I doubted it in my heart, so I was so polite to you. After all, in their opinion, no one in the school who was bullied by seniors would resist. They either stick together or wait until they become seniors themselves."
"You are the only one who started to resist as soon as school started and even sought help from the public."
Luo Shu was also confused when he heard it: "What the hell, being picked on for no reason, not fighting back? Being surrounded by people, not calling the police or calling for help, isn't that a coward?"
Kasumigaoka Utaha was silent for a moment after hearing this:
"I suddenly understand why the country across the sea has such strict controls."
How can it be easy to manage guys with personalities like Luo Shu?
Kasumigaoka Utaha sighed, then handed the hair dryer to Luo Shu:
"As payment for accompanying you to school, help me blow dry my hair."
"Oh." Luo Shu took the silent hair dryer without thinking, stood up, and started blowing the hair of Kasumigaoka Utaha who was sitting down.
As he was blowing, he suddenly felt that he seemed to have forgotten something.
I forgot something...
Chapter 8 Kasumigaoka Utaha's Doubts
With his palm gently stroking the smooth black hair of Kasumigaoka Utaha, Luo Shu clumsily imitated the movements of a hairdresser he had seen blow-drying the hair of a girl with long hair, and blow-dried the girl's hair.
When the blowing was almost over, Kasumigaoka Utaha turned her back to Luo Shu and looked at herself in a small mirror before muttering:
"That's a terrible blow."
Seeing this, Luo Shu was speechless and said, "I can't help it if it's bad, I don't have any experience. But then again, why are you smiling so happily if it's bad?"
"Because it's a good thing." Kasumigaoka Utaha nodded seriously.
The blow-drying is bad, which means she has never blown the hair of several girls, which means she is the first one.
Kasumigaoka Utaha’s logic is just that simple.
"Is it a good thing that the hair dryer is bad?" Luo Shu turned off the hair dryer, his mind confused.
Of course, since he couldn't understand what Kasumigaoka Utaha was thinking, he was too lazy to bother thinking about it anymore. After all, he still had important things to do.
"Come to think of it, I was so confused by your phone call just now that I forgot about the important matter."
Kasumigaoka Utaha picked up the comb on the glass table in front of her and was about to tidy herself up when she heard this and turned her head:
"Business?"
"Shouldn't the real business be to go to school with you and ask Mr. Nazuki to investigate the abnormal space above Tokyo?"
Luo Shu rolled his eyes at her, put the hair dryer in the cabinet under the TV, and stood up:
"That's one of the important things, but it's not enough for me to come all the way to you."
Kasumigaoka Shiyu was stunned for a moment, then suddenly thought of something, clutched the white towel on her body, her face slightly red, and said in embarrassment:
"You've been tossing me around for half the night, and you're still not satisfied?"
"Forget it, forget it. I'm afraid of you. Can we wait until tonight? You can't ask me to help you solve it now? Wait, do you want to do it in school?"
"...This kind of thing is not a serious matter, right?" Luo Shu's mouth twitched a few times when he heard this, and he said it very naturally.
By the way, how did you say such vicious words?
Still in school? You are awesome!
"Neither?" When Kasumigaoka Utaha heard Luo Shu say this, she realized that she had misunderstood.
But although she was embarrassed, she didn't care much. After all, both parties knew each other's strengths and weaknesses. Could anything be more embarrassing than when she couldn't let go of Luo Shu last night?
"You don't really want to talk about something serious?"
Seeing Kasumigaoka Utaha's surprised expression, Luo Shu said with a little displeasure: "Why? In your opinion, I am not a serious person?"
"Not really." Kasumigaoka Utaha shook her head, and then said, "It's just that from what I know, you should be the kind of person who can integrate erotic things into serious matters."
"For example, like before, asking Yue-chan for help to find a harem for you."
"What the hell is looking for a harem?" Luo Shu complained.
Kasumigaoka Utaha smiled and said to Luo Shu, "Then let's put it more tactfully, 'find a family.'"
"You are making a veiled accusation, right? Absolutely!" Luo Shu's face was almost too thick to bear such a 'blow'.
"Oh my, you've already done it, but you're still afraid of what I'll say~"
Kasumigaoka Utaha teased Luo Shu sarcastically, then said with a smile:
"But then again, what do you have to do?"
Luo Shu was silent for a moment, then said, "It's a problem of improving ability."
"Because of this promotion trip to Kyoto, I got a lot of information, including a method to consume points and quickly help people get promoted to the top hero level."
"I thought about it and came to you first."
"The first one?" Kasumigaoka Utaha's eyes lit up, but then she asked nervously, "Are you sure you are the first one to come to me?"
Luo Shu glanced at her and saw that she looked like she was about to drift away. He immediately said unhappily:
"You are the first one to hear about this, but don't be silly and smile. There is a deep reason why you are not the first one."
Originally, Luo Shu actually wanted to find Kisaragi first, and Kasumigaoka Utaha second, but Kisaragi, as a pure-blooded demon, is already a top-level hero, but he lacks practical experience, so he automatically excluded her and found Kasumigaoka Utaha first.
"A deep reason?"
Kasumigaoka Utaha was stunned for a moment, then she looked down at her belly, her face flushed, and she spat softly:
"I knew you would always mix this kind of bad stuff into serious matters!"
"So this is your ranking method?"
"..." Luo Shu was speechless. He wanted to pry open Kasumigaoka Utaha's brain to see if it was filled with pure yellow waste.
This brain is amazing!
Seeing Luo Shu's expression, Kasumigaoka Utaha snorted in dissatisfaction:
"Don't look so contemptuous. Can you guarantee that the reason you came to me first wasn't because we swapped our first times?"
It was you who gave it to me the first time, not me who gave it to you. It was obviously Kisara who exchanged first... Luo Shu complained in his heart, but did not ask Kasumigaoka Utaha to change his words.
There is no benefit in forcing the other party to change his words, so why is he looking for trouble?
"So, do you have any ideas?"
"I have ideas, of course I have ideas."
It is natural that Kasumigaoka Utaha would not miss the opportunity to become stronger. Just like what happened in Kyoto this time, compared to hiding in the safety of Tokyo, she would rather stand beside Luo Shu and become the "male and female thief".
However, in the face of the increase in strength, Kasumigaoka Utaha still suppressed her thoughts:
"But the premise is that it has no effect on you!"
"Don't forget, the main task of the Secret Management Department right now is to improve your status!!"
"Points are of the highest value to you, right?"
Hearing what Kasumigaoka Utaha said, Luo Shu felt warm in his heart, and then said with a smile:
