Tokyo Psychic

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Regardless, the result is that Iori Niina has reached a point where she no longer has the courage to continue living in Tokyo without Kurusu Akira.

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Finally, Akira Kurusu shamelessly slapped the drink away.

Unscrew the can, and the chilled green tea drink immediately delivers a subtle bitterness followed by a sweet aftertaste from the honey flavoring.

Jing Qinrencai blinked beside her, "Is it really that good?"

"Why don't you try a sip?" Lai Xixiao handed the jar to Jing Qinrencai, deliberately pointing the side of the jar she had just drunk from towards Jing Qinrencai.

Izuru seemed completely unaware of the sensitive topic of "indirect kissing" among middle school students. She naturally took the metal can, exclaimed softly, "So cold!" and took a small sip from the spot that Akira Kurusu had handed her.

"It's delicious!" the girl said, her eyes sparkling as she looked at Akira Kurusu. "Can I have some more?"

"The rest is all yours."

Akira Kurusu waved generously—after all, it was bought by Serina Iori with her own pocket money.

Jingqin Rencai actually wanted to thank Kurusu Akira repeatedly.

My God, how could they be so cheesy... An and Subaru walked behind the two of them, stopping and starting, as if they wanted to take out their phones and record every single moment they spent together, and then show it all to them at a suitable time.

Finally, unable to bear it any longer, she decided to give Serina a little push...

"Class is about to start. Also, when sharing drinks, you should be careful to reduce saliva intake~" Anwa Subaru patted Iori Jinna on the shoulder, then walked past them with light steps.

Jingqin Rencai, her face as red as a boiled crab, stood there dumbfounded, holding up her drink can and looking at the spot where her lips had just met Kurusu Akira's at the edge of the can, her face showing utter bewilderment.

Looking at An and Subaru's slender figures behind her, Lai Xixiao thought to herself that she had really gone a bit too far with that push.

"What should we do?" Jingqin Rencai asked, her voice sounding as if she was about to cry.

Akira patted her head, her gaze becoming increasingly pitying. "Isn't it normal for friends to share food and drinks? Nina just shared mineral water with Shoko on the beach a few days ago during our training camp."

"Ah..." Once again, Igarashi Nina successfully convinced herself by agreeing with Kurusu Akira's words, "After all, they're best friends, so it's okay to have a little drink..."

Her voice trailed off, clearly indicating that she herself couldn't quite understand why friends could casually "indirectly kiss" each other, transcending the boundaries of romantic relationships.

So for the rest of the morning, Ishigami Renna didn't dare to take the initiative to talk to Raiki Akira.

When they met in the club activity room during lunch break, Lai Xixiao snatched the cardboard box from her hand and, without saying a word, drank all the remaining milk inside by biting the straw.

Facing the teary-eyed Jingqin Rencai, the phantom thief casually said, "We're all friends, it's normal to have a drink."

"Really......"

Seeing the tearful expression on Izanagi's face, Akira Kurusu lied and said, "It's true."

"So we're still best friends?"

"currently."

"The same goes for the future!" Jingqin Rencai glared fiercely at the shrunken cardboard box in Laixi Xiao's hand.

"No one can predict what will happen in the future..."

Lai Xixiao threw the cardboard box into the trash can next to her. "No matter how much you glare at me, I've already finished the milk."

Jingqinrencai pounced on Laixixiao with a "whoosh," scratching and yelling things like "Hurry up and pay me back."

"Your test scores have improved, so why hasn't your allowance increased at all?"

Akira Kurusu couldn't help but complain.

“My family keeps telling me not to be complacent because of temporary progress! They even said something like, ‘If you want money, do part-time work!’” Jing Qinren was furious. They were the ones who told her to focus all her attention on her studies, but in the end, they wanted her to waste her study time working.

She also wants more pocket money so she can buy some of her favorite snacks.

Taking advantage of the moment, Akira Kurusu grabbed Nina Izare's arm. "Thinking about it, Nina is really thin... Is there any snack you want to eat? I'll take you to the student supermarket to buy some... Hmm, it's on me."

"really?"

"It's true."

Iori Rina was happy because Kurusu Akira could always accurately read her needs, but she also felt inferior because she was too dependent on Kurusu Akira.

Little girls without income are particularly sensitive to topics involving money.

After they had walked quite a distance from the music classroom, she cautiously asked for Akira's opinion.

"Can I work at STARRY after school?"

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(There's also a bonus chapter, which I wasn't entirely satisfied with, so I've rewritten it. I'll release it along with tonight's update.)

168. Yes! Principal Tsurumaki! (Two-in-one)

Akira Kurusu has been missing more and more classes lately.

So much so that when he rarely accompanied Igarashi Ren to school and sat at the desk in the classroom, the surrounding classmates focused on him as if he were a rare animal.

It was at this moment that Akira noticed that the boy in the seat in front of her had been replaced by a beautiful girl with golden twin ponytails and a slender yet voluptuous figure that resembled a cover model for a foreign fashion magazine.

"When did the seats change?" Akira Kurusu quickly scribbled on the note, then crumpled it up and tossed it to Serenai Izakura.

Izakura took the note, unfolded it, and then wrote her reply carefully, “Right after we returned from the study tour, Kawakami-sensei rearranged our seats, but Amamiya happened to be absent.”

Akira waited patiently for several minutes before the note was finally passed back.

The blonde girl sitting in front of Akira Kurusu was completely distracted by the commotion behind her—she had no interest in the boring civics class to begin with, and there was no atmosphere around her that was conducive to listening to the lesson, so she really couldn't learn anything.

Although she wasn't very familiar with Akira Kurusu, this girl named Ann Takamaki, a Japanese-American mixed-race, was very popular at school because of her beautiful appearance and hot figure; it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call her a "star".

In a sense, because of her foreign heritage, Ann Takamaki received more praise and compliments from the boys on a "Top 100 Most Beautiful Girls" list created by some random person, than the new transfer student, Subaru An. She took first place by a very small margin... Of course, the main reason was that Subaru An was already taken, so everyone was more willing to vote for other girls when they only had one vote.

At this point, it's worth mentioning that although "Amamiya Ren" has held the number one spot on the "This Scoundrel Must Be Killed - Top-Tier Popularity Ranking" on the school forum for a long time, his votes are already more than the combined votes of everyone from second to twentieth place. Moreover, he is constantly drawing votes from others with a siphon effect, showing the potential to become the "King of Popularity Show-offs".

He openly juggled two... no, three relationships at school, including a club full of beautiful girls, and even played in a band with those girls, spending all his time in the recording studio living the life every teenage boy dreams of.

Not to mention boys, girls are envious too... Ann Takamaki also wants to be like Akira Kurusu, skipping school every day, playing on her phone in class, playing in a band after school, playing video games and writing novels at night, and still being able to easily get first place in her grade.

He spent so much time daydreaming that even the civics teacher on the podium cast a sharp glance at him.

His gaze expertly swept past Akira Kurusu, who was blatantly tapping away on her phone on the table, and landed on Nina Izayoi, who was diligently taking notes. He then nodded in satisfaction... He looked around the classroom, and finally settled his gaze on Ann Takamaki, who was still lost in thought, his expression becoming increasingly hostile and angry.

I gave you a chance, but you ignored it...

Then don't blame me for being ruthless.

The capable teacher picked up a half-burnt piece of chalk from the edge of the blackboard and made a gesture that sent shivers down the spines of all the students in the classroom who were dozing off.

From the shoulders to the elbows to the fingertips, and even the waist and abdomen, the middle-aged man, who was once a pitcher on the school baseball team, threw that piece of chalk, a symbol of knowledge, towards Ann Takamaki by the window.

The pale pen tip arrived in an instant, leaving a faint white mark on Takamaki An's forehead with a crisp "snap".

"Ouch!" Ann Takamaki covered her forehead, groaned, and slumped onto the table.

"Gao Juan, can you tell me where we were in our conversation?"

"The construction of a society governed by the rule of law requires..." Gao Juanxing hadn't been paying attention in class, so she couldn't answer the question and could only stubbornly ramble on.

The middle-aged man on the podium wore an expression of exasperation, as if he were about to throw chalk at his students again...

"Page 54, paragraph 3," someone whispered to Ann Takamaki.

"Oh, oh..." Ann Takamaki did as instructed somewhat slowly, only then realizing that it wasn't the teacher on the podium who reminded her, but Akira Kurusu, who was playing on her phone behind her.

But there was only a cell phone on his table, and the Line chat page was still lit up on the screen...

Out of respect for the top student in the grade, Ann Takamaki reluctantly turned to the corresponding page in her book and began to answer the question again.

"Pay attention! It's only the first class of the morning, and you look like you're about to fall asleep... That's unacceptable." The teacher grumbled, then let Takamaki An let it go.

Actually, I was thinking that if I continued to press her for answers, following the usual roll call method, the next student to be called on would be Akira Kurusu, who was behind Ann Takamaki.

At the same time, the boy sitting next to the podium looked at Ann Takamaki with envy—ever since he lost the noble seat of "Ren Amamiya's front row", he could no longer enjoy the wonderful feeling of being feared by the teacher for dozing off in class.

He was even moved to the front row, the seat most likely to attract the teacher's attention...

This envy reached its peak during the second period of math class in the morning, when that "devil Ito" stood on the podium with a ruler in his hand, and it even started to veer towards "jealousy"... Damn it, I want to sit in front of Ren Amamiya too!

Halfway through math class, Akira Kurusu, who was chatting with Kasumi Yoshizawa on Line, suddenly stood up and said, "Teacher Ito, I have something to do."

Ito Sansui, who was usually taciturn, forced a kind smile and nodded to his capable assistant, "If you feel tired, you can rest for a while before coming back."

It means you can go wherever you want, just don't worry about classroom discipline.

In the Line chat window, there was a message from Yoshizawa Kasumi, who had been away from school for half a month.

[My goal is to become the national gymnastics champion! (Yoshizawa Kasumi): Senior! It's been so long since we last met!]

[Three Jumps (Kurasu Akatsuki): It's been a long time, after all, Kasumi and Sumire have been busy with the national tournament qualifiers lately... Although I've mentioned it before, I still want to congratulate you sisters on advancing together.]

[My goal is to become the national gymnastics champion! : Hehe... I'm so glad that you, senior, are paying attention to my and my sister's achievements!]

【...】

(The message was posted one minute ago.)

[Our goal is the national gymnastics championship! Senior! Are you really coming to pick us up?!]

[Three Leaps: Since we're just killing time anyway... instead of sitting in the classroom listening to those already-familiar facts, why not go out and chat with the future national gymnastics champion?]

[The goal is the national gymnastics championship! : National championship... let's wait until we actually win it before we praise him!]

[Three ships jumping: Well, let me put it another way. A cute female student is always more pleasing to the eye than a balding middle-aged man.]

[Our goal is the national gymnastics championship! : Coach Ito will cry!!!]

Akira Kurusu tapped on her phone screen as she walked into the stairwell.

The open space outside the teaching building was noisier than ever before.

As he was changing his shoes on the porch, he noticed many of the leaders and instructors he had seen at the opening ceremony bowing deeply in the direction obscured by the crowd.

"Is Xiujin finally about to welcome its new principal?"

After all, it's a private school; as long as you're willing to spend money, you can always get a seat as the chairman of the board.

As the phantom thief thought this, he couldn't help but silently mourn for a few seconds the enormous workload that the newly appointed chairman of the board would face... This school had experienced a series of heinous incidents during the tenures of the previous two principals, including "major political crime conspiracy" and "large-scale human trafficking and OO crime conspiracy".

Although it is a school with a high level of academic training, it is extremely difficult to restore its former prosperity.

I heard from Mr. Ito that the new principal probably won't have the surname Toyokawa...

Akira put her indoor shoes into the shoe cabinet, casually took the love letter from the bottom shelf, and then walked out into the porch.

I'm really curious which brilliant and ambitious person has the skills and confidence to take over such a tainted university as chairman. Thinking back, when Xinma Xiaolian first took office as a "renowned educator," these old men never showed such a humble demeanor.

The phantom thief passed by the obsequious, bowing old men, then subtly glanced in the direction they were bowing...

A girl, shimmering in the sunlight as if cast in gold, smiled radiantly and waved to them, like an imperial princess responding to the cheers of her loyal and humble subjects on her way to the throne... no, she should be called a "queen" now.

Akira's memory suddenly froze on the day before yesterday in the conference room of DB Library.

The eldest daughter of the Tsurumaki family suddenly appeared and became the chairperson?

Aren't you a high school student?

He rose to the position of chairman of the board through part-time work?!

Thinking about it carefully, the other party already seems to be the boss of a large library, so taking over a college entrance exam preparation school doesn't seem too exaggerated.

Upon noticing Akira Kurusu's appearance, the elderly people who recognized him well began to introduce him to the noble-looking heir of the Tsurumaki Group as "the legendary Black Dragon." Their previously arrogant demeanor, which had gradually become arrogant amidst the flattery of students and teachers, seemed to instantly transform back into the enthusiastic and sincere manner they used to when sharing anecdotes about school with their elders decades ago, and they described it in vivid detail.

Then, Kokoro saw Akira Kurusu, her eyes filled with even more curiosity.

Ignoring the surrounding noise, she quickly stepped out of the crowd and blocked the way for Akira Kurusu.

"Amamiya-san! We meet again!"

"Hello, Chairman Tsurumaki." Akira Kurusu addressed him respectfully as "Principal," and immediately realized that a pitiful barrier had formed between him and Tsurumaki Shin—no, he was the son-in-law of the Toyokawa family, and the Toyokawa family seemed to be competitors with the Tsurumaki family in the field of cognitive science research.

The so-called barriers have always existed.

Kokoro was amused by Akira Kurusu's feigned respect and said happily, "I bought this school for you, Amamiya-kun."

Lai Xixiao's respectful expression froze instantly, but she still forced herself to remain calm and composed, while also appearing extremely apprehensive. "Chairman, please don't make such a joke."

"Hmm? That's the truth," Kokoro Tsurumaki said with a slightly mischievous smile, quickly approaching Akira Kurusu.

The golden, noble girl said in a voice only Akira Kurusu could hear, "Because of that 'Akechi Goro,' during the family research, it was discovered... that his brain, which had lost its normal functioning, could still read the command 'Kill Amamiya Ren.'"

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