Chapter 33: The Beautiful Girl’s Offensive

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“How boring.”

Tsukimi Ryuune slowly set down her knife and fork.

The dinner on the table had only been tasted a little before she lost all appetite.

“Hm? Does it not suit your taste? I think it tastes pretty good.”

Kagami Yuto still did not realize he had misunderstood her meaning, focused only on trying not to waste food as much as possible.

“Whatever. I’m not that hungry anyway. If you like it, you can eat my portion too.”

“Eh…”

Tsukimi Ryuune paid no attention to his surprised expression and instead picked up the wine glass containing red wine on her own.

“Ryuune, minors cannot drink alcohol.”

“None of your business.”

“Because I saw it. The duties a teacher must shoulder are not limited to inside the school.”

“Give it to me.”

Upon hearing that, she looked at him in a bit of a daze as he took the wine glass from her hand.

Tsukimi Ryuune stopped speaking, her entire being seeming to sulk because of it.

“I’m sorry. If my actions made you unhappy, Ryuune, then I apologize to you here.”

Kagami Yuto noticed the change in her expression and spoke with some complexity.

Hearing these words, Tsukimi Ryuune’s expression shifted slightly, and she retorted in a somewhat displeased tone.

“I’m just annoyed that there’s always someone trying to discipline me. Sensei, you’re even more long-winded than my parents.”

Kagami Yuto rubbed his nose.

Ever since before he had even become a teacher, he had heard that disciplining students itself was a thankless task.

Being disliked by students was the norm.

In the past he had even rebutted this, but now he finally understood.

Forget it. You’ve already been hated by her for a long time anyway.

After finishing dinner, he was thinking about whether to part ways with the girl in front of him.

After confirming that she truly had no difficulties in her daily life, the worry in his heart had honestly lessened quite a bit.

The only thing he still worried about was things like what had happened earlier.

“Where are you living now? How about I take you there?”

Kagami Yuto glanced at the time as he spoke.

It was already late at night, and he really was not at ease with her walking home alone.

Tsukimi Ryuune raised her head a little, her gaze meeting those eyes of his that were full of concern.

Although as a god she knew how ridiculous this kind of worry was for her, she still instinctively wanted to obtain the attention of his heart by displaying weakness.

After all, she could feel from the bottom of her heart that he was currently gradually producing a sense of relief toward her.

And she was also very clear why she had been able to keep receiving this man’s attention from the beginning.

If she truly displayed too strong and independent a personality, including a psyche that no longer had any major problems, then she might truly lose his concern.

Thinking of this, her heart could not help but become a little irritable and uneasy.

“Whatever you want.”

“But I don’t want to go back that quickly yet.”

She turned around so as not to look at him and instead walked toward the distant glittering lights.

“Why? It’s already very late, and it’s not safe outside either.”

Kagami Yuto followed after her, yet always maintained a certain distance.

Like a righteous knight, loyal yet also restrained.

“I’m not afraid.”

She said faintly.

Upon hearing that, he had just wanted to say she was being a bit too stubborn, but suddenly heard her add,

“Just don’t walk through alleys and it’ll be fine. It’s not like there are no police on the streets.”

“But…”

“Forget it. Just treat your teacher as an annoying stink bug.”

As the words fell, he did not notice that her footsteps had suddenly stopped.

Tsukimi Ryuune looked at him with those golden eyes, her cherry lips parting slightly then closing again…

“So, Sensei, do you think I’m reassuring enough now?”

“? What.”

“In your view, do you think the current me still qualifies as your patient? Or rather… your salvation target.”

“After all, I’ve already shown you so much.”

His throat rolled slightly.

Looking at the girl in front of him who was as bright and flawless as the moon, he was also struggling with this question in his heart.

He mistakenly believed that she was tired of this kind of entanglement from him, which was why she asked this.

“I think you shouldn’t ask me this question.”

“If you feel you no longer have problems or places that need help, then of course I will follow your wishes.”

Tsukimi Ryuune was a little surprised that he did not answer directly.

This was a bit different from what she had imagined.

“That’s true, when you put it that way…”

“After all, it was indeed me who actively sought you out at the beginning.”

“Mm, I still remember the question you asked me at the start, Ryuune.”

“After possessing everything, inevitably feeling empty and lost toward everything, feeling that life is becoming less and less interesting.”

Kagami Yuto looked up at the sky, as if sinking into a certain sentiment.

“I’ve thought about it for you in private for a long time, but unfortunately, with my experience, I still cannot fully understand such a feeling.”

“After all, I’m just an ordinary person. There are too many goals in life that I need to chase and achieve.”

“But I still feel that if you think the root of everything and your troubles is that you possess too much, then why not try returning yourself to the initial state and try establishing some challenge goals for yourself that can be achieved without relying on external force.”

“Perhaps this can fill the hole in your heart to a certain extent.”

He turned his head and spoke to the girl beside him, his entire being unusually serious from expression to tone.

Tsukimi Ryuune had not expected that he would actually take her matters so to heart.

At the time, her words would have seemed like the most extreme chuunibyou-style humblebrag to anyone who did not know the truth.

It was because she understood this that she had never spoken of her troubles to anyone.

But the man in front of her had truly listened to her words and treated them seriously.

Although the result he finally obtained was no different from what she herself had thought of, this attitude did indeed produce a slight change in her impression of him.

“In the end it’s still just empty words…”

“You wouldn’t think I hadn’t thought of these things, would you, Sensei?”

“Eh…”

“I-is that so? Sorry, but right now this is all I can think of. Um… have you tried looking for people who are in the same situation as you? Maybe you can ask them how they solved it?”

“We’ll talk about it later.”

“I want to go shopping now. Do you want to come along, Sensei?”

“What, shopping?”

“Yeah, otherwise what did I come to the city center for?”

This put Kagami Yuto in a bit of a difficult position.

As a single male teacher full of principles, going shopping together with his beautiful girl student or anything like that completely stood at the edge of his rationality.

If too many ambiguous things were done, it would inevitably make a person no longer keep their reason.

It was true that he had principles in his heart, but that did not mean he would not be eroded by anything.

After all, he was still a person with feelings, not a machine.

“Didn’t you say you were going to take me home?”

Tsukimi Ryuune blinked playfully, as if she had seen that he was having difficulty with this.

After a long while, he still sighed helplessly.