Tokyo Rebirth: Start From Picking Up Sayu

The day after I went shopping in Ikebukuro.

Toyosaki Academy, the student council room after school.

After finishing their work, Megumi and Shinjoka left first, leaving Yusuke and Shiwa alone in the room.

Kato Yusuke didn't care about this and just drew the original manga of "Chainsaw Man" by himself.

In silence.

Shiyu, who didn't know why he hadn't left yet, took the initiative to speak.

"By the way, didn't Sawamura come today?"

"She has to prepare works for the art exhibition and will be in the art department these two days."

"That's what I said, but didn't she always come here to have afternoon tea every day, so it's still the same, right? Anyway, I won this time, as always~"

"Senior, why do you always mess with Yinglili?"

"If anything, don't you think that crying face is very masochistic? It looks like she is begging me to abuse her~"

Shiyu explained with a smile at first, and then changed his words, "So? I heard that you went on a date with a girl yesterday?"

"?"

"Isn't it? I saw Kato-san's post on Moments. You guys look very happy~ Yuu-chan."

"Just going shopping with friends."

"Going out with other girls behind your girlfriend's back, do you think you can get away with that kind of casual excuse?"

The subtle tone made Kato Yusuke couldn't help but look up at the sofa and asked: "The person who asked me to go was a friend I have known since the beginning of school. Is this something that I must report to my senior?"

"So, what would Yusuke think if I went out with other people in the class without you knowing?"

"I don't think much about it. After all, by definition, we are not a couple, so I won't ask you to do anything in the name of my boyfriend."

"...Promise." A hint of darkness flashed in Shiyu's eyes, but he immediately said: "Then if I just want to know these things, are you willing to tell me?"

"What do these things mean?"

"Every little bit of your life, no matter how big or small, interests me."

"That would be boring."

Shiyu shook his head slightly and looked at him straightly.

"Maybe it is like this for others, but you are different, Yusuke. If you are willing to tell me, I will be very happy."

Kato Yusuke paused for a moment, lowered his head to avoid her gaze, "...Does it also include things like Shinjoka?"

When Shiyu heard this, he shrank slightly, then pursed his lips, and said angrily: "As long as you say it, I will listen!"

Kato Yusuke said nothing about this and just drew the manuscript quietly.

Shiyu calmed down and said slowly: "I hate you like this..."

"Um."

"I hate that you never come to me."

"..."

"I hate it when you treat Sawamura and I the same."

"..."

"I hate that you keep refusing to take action on me."

"...I said, senior sister can regret our affairs at any time."

Shiyu ignored this sentence and continued: "...But, even so, I still like you the most."

"..."

Kato Yusuke was silent, as if he didn't hear.

Seeing this, Shiyu curled up the corners of his mouth slightly in displeasure, and then opened his lips lightly: "...Also, it was my fault for making a scene in the student union yesterday. I apologize for making you angry. I'm sorry."

The originally smooth writing sound paused for a moment.

"...It's nothing. I wasn't right yesterday either. Senior sister, don't worry about it."

"So~ I thought of a way for us to get back together and at the same time compensate me."

The girl walked over from the sofa with light steps, walked around the table, and sat down on the table to the left of Kato Yusuke.

"So come on a date with me? Just the two of us??. I've already told Ms. Machida that I won't take any jobs tomorrow. Do you think that's okay? Yu-chan."

As Shiyu spoke, he leaned down and looked down at him mischievously, with an expectant and excited smile on his face.

The inky hair fell down from above, falling on Kato Yusuke's arm, and gently slid across the back of the hand with the owner's movements, causing an itch.

The girl has an exciting fragrance on her body, with a very unique smell that makes people feel excited.

face this invitation.

Kato Yusuke was silent for a moment, and then replied in a clear voice: "I have to rush to finish the manuscript, so I'm sorry."

Considered a rejection.

Shiyu thought for a while and then said: "... Then it's okay on weekends. Before you go to teach outside the school, I want to have a good date with you and do some things that couples would do."

Before one party finished speaking, the other party's voice rang out.

"It still doesn't work. Senior should focus more on animation now. Besides, we are not that kind of couple." Kato Yusuke said.

This time the answer was much faster and more decisive than last time.

The determination in his tone seemed to freeze time.

Shiyu looked at him dumbfounded, the excitement in his eyes was frozen, without any emotion or look.

Kato Yusuke's words entered from her left ear and floated out from her right ear.

Her lips opened and closed, a feeling of suffocation surged in her chest, and then she lowered her eyes slightly to cover up the loss in her eyes.

After a while, Shiyu raised his head again, a gentle smile of understanding appeared on his face, and he hummed softly.

"...I know, it doesn't matter. Yu-chan, you've been having a hard time catching up on manuscripts lately. I understand. Our date..."

She took a deep breath when she said this, and her voice became a little soft, "Anyway, when you are not busy anymore, just tell me, I will always be here."

Kato Yusuke did not respond, just stared at the table, the black dip pen inadvertently stopped somewhere, and the ink seeping from the tip of the pen condensed into a small black ink dot on the white drawing paper.

Shiyu got off the table gently and glanced at the time.

"Okay, it's almost time for me to go home. See you tomorrow, Yuu-chan."

After finishing speaking, he took his own, opened the door and walked out of the room.

The moment he closed the door behind him, Shiyu couldn't help but feel a flash of pain in his eyes.

His cold and indifferent rejection still lingered in his mind, like condensed ice stuck in his heart, and his hands and feet were also cold.

Shiyu leaned against the door weakly, her head lowered, her black hair covering her face, making it difficult to see her face clearly.

The emotions she had been holding back surged up from the bottom of her heart like a turbid current, swallowing her up.

What made her sad was not his rejection, but that he didn't even give her a chance to ask for the next time.

The cruel reality was like a slap on the face, with bright red finger marks clearly visible.

However, this is the path she chose.

Including Shinjoka's matter, Kato Yusuke never hid anything from her, and he said on the day they agreed to date that she would not be his girlfriend.

Shiyu understood all this very well and was mentally prepared, so he pretended not to care, and would endure it no matter how sad he was.

In order not to embarrass him, she could take the initiative to give him the steps.

In order not to make herself too sad, she can also find reasons to convince herself.

Just, just...

Shiyu took out his mobile phone from his pocket and looked at the wallpaper displayed on the screen, feeling a sour feeling in his nose.

"Love makes people blind." - Shakespeare has already told the truth.

If the time went back half a year, if someone told her that one day she would become inseparable from a boy, then she would definitely treat it as a joke, sneer at it, and say this without mercy. People scolded him like crazy.

She is Kasumigaoka Shiyu! Even if you have some romantic fantasies, you will not lose your mind under the sweet talk of a man.

But now, her heart has a name.

And the other party never even said a word of love to her.

If only I could bear to just be friends, but how could I bear it?

"You've obviously already dated me..." Shiyu bit her lower lip tightly and muttered to herself.

His vision became blurred unconsciously.

When she noticed, tears were already running down her cheeks.

At this moment, a voice full of impatience and disgust suddenly sounded.

"——Tsk! It's already been this long, why are you still here? Are you waiting for someone to go home with you?"

"...!"

Shiyu was shocked when he heard this, then wiped away his tears with his sleeves, and then raised his head as if nothing had happened.

The two sides' eyes met in the air.

One meter away, Yinglili stood there with her arms folded, her frowning expression just turned to astonishment, and she was staring at her dumbfounded, as if she had been greatly shocked.

"…………you."

"...What are you doing? So you are still interested in spying on others, Sawamura? It's such a bad hobby that people can't praise." Shiyu tried his best to mock in the same style as usual, but it was difficult to hide that he was still angry. Red eyes.

"W-I didn't do this on purpose! You just stood there and didn't know what to think so you didn't notice it!"

"Huh, isn't your excuse too lame? Basically, the place you should be in now is the art department, not here, right?

"I'm just staying in the art department! It's just that I left some painting supplies here, so I came to get them."

Yinglili responded habitually, her eyes lingering on her face for a moment, and then asked suspiciously: "Then, why are you crying here?"

"Crying? Sorry, I don't know what you are talking about. Is your myopia getting worse?"

"It's not heightening! And I'm wearing contact lenses now! So I can see clearly, you were crying just now!"

"I said I didn't, but you were wrong!" Shiyu replied coldly.

The two were in a stalemate for a while.

Yingli snorted coldly and said sarcastically: "I saw it anyway, so that's the one, right? I long thought it was strange that Yusuke agreed to date you, but now he has really been dumped, right?"

"...!"

Shiyu's eyes became sharp in an instant, and his whole body exuded a bone-chilling aura, and he said coldly:

"What do you know about him? Sawamura. Even if it is what you said, I am willing to wait until the day when he looks at me. This is my own choice. It has nothing to do with you, and there is no need for you to comment."

She stopped when she said this, a thin layer of sadness emerged from her eyes, and then she let out a deep breath, holding back the soreness in her nose.

As if trying to suppress something, he began to pinch his arm again and again. The pain was so intense that it seemed that nothing was enough.

Yinglili seemed to be caught by her aura, her eyes widened and she stopped talking instantly.

She was sarcasm casually, but she saw a fleeting sadness in the other person's eyes, which caused the subsequent words to suddenly get stuck in her throat and she couldn't say them out for a while.

Although the attitude of the person in front of me is tough, it gives people a feeling of being strong on the outside and strong on the inside, as if it will be broken if I poke it, which is completely different from the usual arrogance.

This feeling was very unreal and inexplicable, but it was Ying Lili's true feeling in her heart.

This is Kasumigaoka Shiyu!

Not to mention seeing her cry, Yinglili had never seen her show any weakness at all.

The huge contrast brings a strong impact.

Seeing Shiyu like this, she murmured for a long time, and then another strange emotion surged in her heart, and she started talking angrily.

"What the hell is going on! It's just baffling. Did Yusuke bully you? If so, just scold me! Just like you usually do to me, why are you crying here? It's not like you at all. !”

However, Shiyu ignored her, just took a deep breath, stood up straight, then lowered his head and walked forward without saying a word.

When the two passed by each other, a slightly hoarse blank voice floated into Ying Lili's ears.

"——I said, this is my own choice, you don't have to worry about it."

When Yinglili heard this, she couldn't help being slightly stunned. When she reacted, she found that Shiyu had disappeared around the corner of the stairs.

Her eyes wandered between the stairs and the door of the student union. Finally, she stamped her feet angrily and strode towards one of them.

——Click, bang!

The sound of the door colliding seemed to shake the whole room, breaking the original silence.

Behind the desk belonging to the student council president, Kato Yusuke is still sitting there, focusing on his work as if he is integrated with the desk.

"Yusuke!"

Eirili raised a finger and pointed at him sharply, shouting loudly: "What did you do to Kasumigaoka...that scheming girl! Why is she crying!"

There was a brief moment of silence.

Kato Yusuke asked without raising his head: "Why are you here? Are you finished with the art department?"

The elder-like tone made Yinglili stunned. The momentum she had accumulated suddenly weakened, and then she shook her head hard after reacting and asked:

"Now is not the time to talk about this! Let me ask you, what is going on between you and that Kasumigaoka Shiu!?"

"I don't know what you're talking about."

"Don't be pretentious! I just saw her crying outside the door. Something must have happened between you, right?"

"In what capacity are you asking this now?"

"Huh?" Yinglili was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and then immediately replied:

"That kind of thing is fine anyway! But as the president of the club, I have to tell you that men who make girls cry are the worst -!"

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(Plot description included.)