After drawing Zhongye SSR

"I don't know," Maki said, "I don't know."

She blinked in confusion, looking at the big black dog.The big dog looked into the yard a few times, probably because he didn't see any food, so he barked and walked away resentfully.

Dazai stared into her eyes for a few seconds.There seemed to be a thin layer of mist in the girl's iris-colored eyes, making it difficult to see the emotions inside.

He stretched out a hand and gently placed it on Maki's neck: "Really?"

His hands were cold, like ice cubes just taken out of the freezer.

Maki subconsciously wanted to shrink her head, but failed.

She sighed and said, "Really."

...respiratory rate and swallowing rate did not increase.

She didn't lie.

Osamu Dazai shrugged, put down his hands and said, "Alright then."

Zhen Ji glanced at him suspiciously, but seeing that he didn't intend to ask more questions, he was also relieved, and changed the topic: "So why did you come here?"

Dazai Osamu said with a smile: "Can't you come and see my lovely sister if you have nothing to do?"

Maki pursed her lips and said coldly, "Don't be kidding."

In the past two months, she has also got a little understanding of Osamu Dazai—her cheap brother seems to be frivolous, but in fact, Maki always feels that he is no better than the port Mafia leader Mori Ogai whom she met before. Simple.

At least eight out of ten sentences that this person spits out are false, and Maki is used to automatic filtering of what he says.

Osamu Dazai was not annoyed, and went to the kitchen to pour a cup of tea: "I heard that the two heroes have been made public—your voluntary labor has finally yielded results. Let me congratulate you."

Maki said, "Thank you. By the way, I've said it many times, it's not voluntary labor—"

System: [Obviously just now the host was still regretting that this loss-making business was too worthless. 】

Maki became angry from embarrassment: "Shut up!"

"Besides," she tried to argue, "how can a long-term consideration be called a loss, and making money must be done step by step—"

System: [What the host says is what it is:)]

Maki: "..."

...Maki really wanted to drag the system out and beat him up.

She wasn't consoling herself.

In fact, shortly after Mountain Woman's popularity began to rise, some heroic firms approached her and wanted to work with her.

This time, she is not asking her to help figure out how to disclose the relationship with the least harm, but to increase the popularity of the hero himself.

Of course, no cooperation has been successfully negotiated so far-no one else, the price offered by the other party is too low.

Maki knows that most hero firms should still be on the sidelines.

If Mountain Girl's popularity continues to rise after she stops marketing—it doesn't even need to go higher, just stay where it is now.

Then the follow-up benefits brought to her by this incident will definitely not disappoint.

I don't know if it's because he thought of this a long time ago, so Osamu Dazai didn't say much.He sat down on the sofa with a teacup in his hand, and saw the box of chocolates on the glass table.

Because it is a "giri chocolate" for friends and relatives, the packaging is very low-key, just a black box with a gold and red ribbon tied on it.

Osamu Dazai picked up the box and weighed it: "Is it for Chuya?"

"It was intended for him."

Maki paused, thinking that Zhongya hadn't called back in the past week, and the last time she called was to tell her that her business trip would be extended again.

...Maybe he is too busy to have time to eat the chocolates.Besides, even if he eats it, he won't be able to remember to return the gift until White Day, and when he thinks about it, he will have to wait a whole day with anxiety.

Maki suddenly felt that it was meaningless.

So she said, "But forget it—you can eat it if you want it, and I'll throw it away if you don't."

Osamu Dazai said, "That's such a waste." He stuffed the chocolate into his pocket.

He glanced at the time and said, "It's getting late, so I'll go first."

Maki let out an "oh" and was stunned for a while: "So what exactly is he here for?"

System: [It can't be for the sake of making chocolates, can it? 】

... Osamu Dazai certainly didn't come here to make chocolates.

It’s just that every Valentine’s Day, the detective agency is in chaos—not to mention him who is merciless, the president of the detective agency Yukichi Fukuzawa and several members are actually quite popular.He thought about it, probably the safest place of refuge is here.

He didn't hate chocolate, of course - but he'd much rather have it handed to him properly than slammed on the floor by girls arguing over who should give it first.

Osamu Dazai grabbed one end of the gold-red ribbon and was about to pull it away, but he hesitated in the end.

never mind.He thought, for the sake of the good weather today, let's do a good deed.

*****

Maki felt that it was right not to send the chocolate to Zhong.

In order to prepare for Xiongying's special move, she spent all her time outside of part-time work brushing up questions, and she really didn't have time to think about it—if she really sent it, she suspected that she would start to feel anxious since the beginning of March.

Besides, there are more important things ahead.

For example, after her great cause of leveling up to LV.4 with great difficulty, she suddenly stagnated.

Previously, the experience value difference between each level was basically progressive, but after LV.4, the experience value required for upgrading suddenly became 10000.

It took Maki several months, and there was still a difference of two or three thousand.Seeing that the five months that are limited to the main task are still a few weeks away, Maki doesn't even bother to care about the lengthening of Chuya's business trip again, and is even a little thankful for it.

After all, she can increase her working hours at the bar.

Although Chuya doesn't usually talk, but when he was at home, Maki never dared not go home all night.

It wasn't until the end of the summer vacation that Maki barely made up the last bit of experience points - there was still a shortfall of more than 200, and he would definitely be able to make up before the deadline.

She breathed a sigh of relief, took a rare slack, and chatted with Hitomi Mishima about the previous Valentine's Day.

Hitomi Mishima listened, and realized something was wrong: "But, on White Valentine's Day, don't you return Giri's gift of chocolate?"

"Huh?" Maki was surprised, "No way?"

Hitomi Mishima sighed, "How ignorant are you?"

"White Valentine's Day return gifts are generally pleasing to each other, it would be bad if the other party really returns the gift—"

After all, that Mr. Chuya Nakahara is Maki's guardian.

Logically speaking, Maki cannot fall in love with him.

Hitomi Mishima raised his head, and saw his friend frowning, not sure if it was disappointment or something.

Suddenly, her heart skipped a beat.

She said slowly: "You tell me the truth, maybe—"

"Could it be possible that Miss Mai likes that 'Mr. Chuya'?"

Kiyoshi Baba, who was listening to them, interjected.

Maki turned back to look at him in a daze, the fat gang boss raised his glass to her, stood up unsteadily, and patted Maki on the shoulder: "If you like it, grab it - a beauty like you must no problem!"

Maki opened her mouth and was about to say "That's not the case".

The door of the bar was suddenly opened.

Maki hadn't said "Welcome" yet.

Ma Changqing, who was still resting one hand on her shoulder, was suddenly sent flying by a dark and familiar figure.

......

Nakahara didn't tell Maki in advance that his half-year business trip was finally coming to an end.

Mainly because of a guilty conscience.

A certain mackerel reminded him that receiving chocolates—giri or not—in return was basic courtesy.

However, on White Valentine's Day, he was busy destroying a certain hostile organization, and he was never free afterwards.

Although he was very reluctant, Chuya, who had absolutely no common sense about such things, first approached Dazai Osamu and asked him what he should give in return.

Osamu Dazai looked at him delicately: "It's been four months, isn't it too late?"

Chuya: "...that's better than nothing."

Osamu Dazai almost blurted out that Maki didn't know that her chocolate was delivered to Chuya, and there was no need for Chuya to return the gift.

But when the words came to his lips, he swallowed them back.

He thought for a while, pointed to the products displayed in the window of a nearby shop, and said solemnly: "If you want to make amends, you still have to buy that."

Zhong Ye blinked and hesitated, "Is that too exaggerated?"

"It's only exaggeration that shows sincerity, Chuya."

Osamu Dazai smiled, watched Zhongya finish paying, and casually asked: "It's better to hurry up, and give it to Maki now. Maki should be at home at this time, right?"

Zhong also glanced at today's date, hesitantly said: "On weekdays, she should work in a bar—"

Osamu Dazai raised his eyebrows: "A bar?"

Zhong Ye: "?"

Chuya: "Is there a problem?"

Osamu Dazai knew that due to various reasons, he actually had no common sense—but he didn’t expect him to be so ignorant: “It’s not a good thing for a girl to work in a bar. Being sexually|harassed|harassed by the greasy uncle—"

Chuya's eyes were suddenly wary.

Although he had been to the bar where Maki worked before, he felt that the atmosphere there was not too bad.

But just in case.

So I shifted the gear of the locomotive, let Osamu Dazai sit in the back seat, and it didn't take long to drive to LOSTSONG.

He opened the bar door with one hand.

Then at a glance - Kiyoshi Baba's hand was resting on Maki's shoulder.

Zhong Ye: "..."

Before he could react, he almost involuntarily used his supernatural power to jump up, soared through the air, and then pushed Ma Changqing to the ground.

Ba Changqing recovered from the severe pain, and saw in panic that the young man with orange hair was looking at him unkindly.

Another brown-haired, taller, thin man put his hands in his pockets, and said casually, "Look, I'll just say it—Greasy Uncle."

Baba Qing's pupils constricted.

A person of his status can naturally know some things that others don't.

For example, there used to be a duo known as the "Double Blacks" active in Yokohama who destroyed a medium-sized organization in one night.

The description of the appearance of the two people seems to be completely consistent with the two people in front of them.

Although he didn't know when he offended them, he still got up from the ground in a panic, wanting to run away immediately.

But before fleeing, in the spirit of humanitarianism, he still shouted: "Miss Mai, run!"

Maki: "...?"

... What are you running?

Before she could react, Zhong suddenly walked up to her.

"Mr. Nakaya?" Maki's head was full of question marks, "When did you come back? And why did you fight Mr. Baba—"

Before she could finish.

Suddenly, a large bouquet of fragrant roses was stuffed into her arms.

Maki paused.

The iris eyes widened slightly in surprise.

The roses were bright red, fresh as if they had just been picked from the flower garden. In the middle of each flower, there was a piece of chocolate inlaid, which was her favorite flavor.

Nakahara also looked at her, with a slightly uncomfortable expression: "It was Dazai who asked me to buy this—as a return gift for White Valentine's Day, which was a few months late—is it too exaggerated?"

Standing behind Nakaya, Osamu Dazai winked at Maki.

Maki hugged the bouquet of roses blankly, raised her head, and stared at Chuya intently.Probably because of the long journey, his hair was a bit messy, and his blue eyes were like a sea, which could drown her in it.

Maki hugged the bouquet of roses tightly, tightly.

She felt like her heart was about to rush out of her chest, and it was beating like a "thump, bang, bang".