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Hayakawa frowned slightly, picked up his phone, glanced at it, and sighed.

"what happened?"

Fumino Furuhashi asked in confusion, "You've been receiving messages since just now. Is something wrong at home?"

"No, it's just that a new friend keeps sending me strange messages,"

Hayakawa said in distress, "I don't even know what to say."

"Hey? A new friend,"

Gu Qiao became interested and asked curiously, "Is it someone from our school? What did they send you?"

"They're from our school,"

Hayakawa opened her phone's keypad, hesitating about what to reply. She said, puzzled, "I didn't send anything strange, but I don't know why, they keep asking me if I have time during the holidays."

Fumino Furuhashi: "..."

"Seriously, do you even need to ask? There's definitely no time for that."

Hayakawa replied without hesitation, "Two days of vacation isn't even enough time to study."

Chapter 49 Sudden Rainstorm

"Um, Hayakawa-san,"

Fumino Furuhashi narrowed her eyes and said in an unusual tone, "Can you tell me who sent you the message?"

"The sister of Yotsuba, the one you met a couple of days ago, is Nakano Nino, who got lost in the jungle,"

Hayakawa stared at the chat history for a long time, looking troubled as if he had to exert all his strength to reply to a message. Then he looked at Furuhashi and said, "I don't know why, but the day after that night, she suddenly added me on LINE and kept asking me if I was free during the holidays and such. I really don't understand."

"..."

The expression on Fumino Furuhashi's face gradually disappeared.

With her high emotional intelligence and deep understanding of young girls' hearts, she almost instantly grasped what was going on. In short, she was a wayward girl who had been misled by the romantic notion of a prince charming rescuing her. She was so easy to understand and adorable.

but…

Fumino Furuhashi looked somewhat confused, but then suddenly realized what was going on and hurriedly asked Hayakawa, "Reply... reply? What's a reply?"

"Huh? Didn't we just say that?"

Hayakawa looked at Furuhashi with a puzzled expression: "I'm busy studying, so I don't have time."

"call…"

Fumino Furuhashi breathed a sigh of relief, but her pretty face flushed the next second, and she felt extremely ashamed.

Why am I reacting this way? I'm so anxious and insecure.

This isn't me.

"study…"

Fumino Furuhashi suddenly spoke loudly, looking at Hayakawa and saying, "Let's get back to studying!"

"Uh…"

Hayakawa was startled, but nodded anyway: "Okay."

Although I don't know why, I feel relieved that Guqiao is so motivated.

The two began to study seriously, but Furuhashi remained restless and unable to concentrate on the questions. The scene of Hayakawa replying to messages on his phone kept replaying in his mind, as well as the image of Nakano Nino in the jungle that night. Then, the two figures gradually overlapped and slowly disappeared.

The clock ticked away, and time passed second by second. After an unknown amount of time, Fumino Furuhashi suddenly looked up at Hayakawa.

"Hayakawa-san..."

Her voice was soft, as if she were just uttering a sentence unconsciously.

"Ok?"

Hayakawa snapped out of his immersion in the sea of ​​problems: "What's wrong?"

"If my results in this monthly exam aren't good..."

Fumino Furuhashi lowered her head and said softly, "What will you do?"

Hayakawa: "..."

To be honest, it doesn't matter at all.

Your science grades have absolutely nothing to do with me. As long as your humanities grades plummet, I'll be satisfied.

However, I'm still a little angry that you didn't do well on the test despite my hard work teaching you.

Let's answer like that then.

"If you don't do well on the exam, I'll kill you."

Hmm... that kind of answer probably won't work. It needs to be a little gentler, something that can uplift people's spirits.

Hayakawa thought for a moment and said, "If you didn't do well on the test, you didn't do well. Just try harder next time."

Aren't you unhappy?

Fumino Furuhashi said somewhat nervously, "I've been teaching for so long without any results. Not only will I almost certainly be called in for a talk by Mr. Kirisu and the principal, but I'll probably also lose my instructor status and recommendation spot. If that happens..."

I won't be able to face you.

Fumino Furuhashi lowered her head, not daring to utter the next sentence.

"I don't care about the instructor's position or the number of nominations,"

Hayakawa replied without hesitation, "It's okay to be talked to. As long as you're willing, I'll continue to teach you no matter what. As for the results, the school and teachers will only look at your grades to judge whether you've made progress or not. What I want to see is already clear from your usual studies. Do you think I don't know whether you've worked hard or made progress? So don't feel pressured, face the exam happily, and I'll cheer you on."

Hayakawa smiled at Furuhashi, whose face flushed slightly. Furuhashi quickly lowered her head and said, "Thank you, I will do my best!"

"that's it."

Hayakawa nodded, but his phone suddenly rang again, so he reached for it.

"Hayakawa-san!"

Seeing this, Fumino Furuhashi quickly spoke up, "When you're studying, it's better to put your phone on silent and away, as it will disturb the environment."

"Ah...that's true."

Hayakawa paused for a moment, then nodded in realization: "Then I'll turn off my phone."

"No need, no need, just mute it."

With a big smile, Fumino Furuhashi reached out and held out both hands to Hayakawa, cupping them into the shape of a blooming flower: "Let me keep it for you for now."

"sure."

Hayakawa had no objections and handed the phone to Furuhashi.

"Okay~"

Fumino Furuhashi took the phone from Hayakawa's hand. The moment their fingers touched, Fumino felt a tremor in her heart, as if a thunderclap was echoing within her.

It wasn't just a feeling; there really was thunder outside the window.

Fumino Furuhashi glanced out the window instinctively and froze. Hayakawa walked over and looked out the window, frowning. "This is a little scary."

In almost a matter of seconds, accompanied by several rumbles of thunder, the dark clouds, like a herd of wild horses galloping and roaring, rolled over overhead, growing thicker and thicker, pressing down lower and lower. Hayakawa even had the illusion that he could reach out and tear off a piece of it.

A blindingly bright, almost devastating flash of light erupted from the silent clouds, followed by a deafening clap of thunder that echoed long over the city. As the thunder subsided, a thin, jagged bolt of lightning pierced down like a sword from even lower overhead.

The world was pitch black, with only slivers of light striking the cracks in the city as if they were splitting the earth. Hayakawa even saw a thick bolt of lightning strike heavily near an overpass not far from the neighborhood, sparking countless fragments upon contact with the concrete wall.

With the rumble of thunder, a soft pattering sound filled the air; the rain had quietly arrived.

"This is not good..."

Hayakawa frowned and muttered to himself.

"yes,"

Fumino Furuhashi looked out the window with lingering fear and said somewhat frightenedly, "Thank goodness I didn't go for a walk outside now, that was too scary."

"When you went out just now, was there any sign of thunder?"

Hayakawa looked at the old bridge and said.

"No no,"

Fumino Furuhashi quickly shook her head: "When I went out just now, the weather outside was pretty normal, it was just a bit humid."

Hayakawa nodded upon hearing this, and said with a troubled expression, "The weather forecast didn't mention anything about heavy rain at all."

"Weather forecasts are never accurate anyway,"

Fumino Furuhashi offered a word of comfort, then looked at Hayakawa's expression and asked with some confusion, "What's wrong? Hayakawa-san, don't you like the rain?"

Hayakawa shook her head: "No, I actually quite like the rain."

Chapter Fifty: About [X]...

"Then why do you look so troubled?"

Fumino Furuhashi glanced at the gloomy sky outside the window, then at Hayakawa's furrowed brows, somewhat puzzled.

"you do not know,"

Hayakawa explained, “Although the buildings around here are all newly built, the power supply equipment around them hasn’t been updated much. When I first came here, the property management told me that there might be a sudden power outage during thunderstorms and that I should be careful. But I haven’t encountered any thunderstorms since I moved here. But today’s thunderstorm is so strong. I’m afraid that there will be a sudden power outage and I won’t be able to continue studying.”

"How could that be..."

Fumino Furuhashi chuckled dryly: "A sudden power outage or something..."

Before the words were even finished, the incandescent light on the ceiling went out silently, plunging the once bright room into darkness.

"..."

Fumino Furuhashi was startled by the sudden darkness and immediately grabbed Hayakawa's arm, screaming, "Ahhh! Hayakawa-san!"

Hayakawa, expressionless, pulled Furuhashi to his side to prevent her from getting hurt in the dark, muttering, "You jinx."

"It's not my fault!"

Fumino Furuhashi felt the touch in her hand with some fear before calming down a bit. She grabbed Hayakawa's sleeve and whispered, "It's not my fault..."

"Ah ah ah ah ah!!"

At that moment, an even louder scream suddenly came from the room outside the living room.

"Oh no, Ri-chan!"

Fumino Furuhashi was startled, realizing that Riju Ogata was still taking a shower in the bathroom.

"Hayakawa-kun, let's go over there quickly!"

Fumino Furuhashi suddenly stood up, wanting to go over. She knew that Riju Ogata was afraid of the dark. If the bathroom suddenly turned pitch black, she would be so frightened that she would fall. If she bumped into the hard edges of the bathtub or sink, especially if she hit her head, she would definitely get hurt.

"Ok."

Hayakawa had also thought of this, so he turned on his phone's flashlight and rushed towards the bathroom in the dark. He soon arrived at the bathroom door, where Ogata Riju's terrified, tearful voice could be heard.

"Hayakawa-san, Fumino, where are you? Why did it suddenly get dark? Come quick! I'm a little..."

"We're here, Ri-chan."

Upon hearing this, Fumino Furuhashi was heartbroken. Helplessly, she pushed Hayakawa in front of her, urging, "Hurry up and go in!"

Wait, wait, wait, Ogata was just taking a bath.

Hayakawa instinctively tried to stop, but was pushed open by the impatient Fumino Furuhashi and went inside. The only thing he could do was turn off his phone's flashlight to avoid seeing anything he shouldn't have.

"Hayakawa-san!"

The moment she stepped inside, Ogata Rizu, who had been curled up in the corner of the bathtub, jerked her feet up as if grasping at a lifeline. She leaped into Hayakawa's arms, clinging to his waist like a koala, and sobbed incoherently, "Hayakawa, Hayakawa, Hayakawa! I...I..."