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But the unease in her heart still lingered. This was just the fox's affection for him, and did not mean that she had affection for anyone else.
"No, it won't." Shirakawa Natsu shook her head. Foxes don't easily make friends with humans.
After leaving school, he didn't go straight home, but wandered around the streets. He knew that Fox had already occupied a place in his heart, which was why he had this feeling of gain and loss. Given Fox's personality, it was impossible for her to have anything with Qing Shangqiu.
The summer evening was still sweltering, but the evening breeze brought a slight coolness to my face.
The bustling shops on both sides of the street, the young women handing out flyers, the tired office workers, the students chatting and laughing together, the hooligans squatting in the corner of the intersection smoking, all kinds of people on the same street, a lively scene.
"Brother, brother." A clear voice rang out beside her. It was a girl in a JK uniform. She had a youthful face and a slender, petite figure. Her two fingers were nervously intertwined.
Shirakawa Natsu looked around, saw no one else, and pointed at herself: "Are you calling me?"
"Mmm." The girl nodded quickly, her face slightly flushed, and she covered her stomach with both hands. "I haven't eaten since noon. Can you treat me to a meal?"
She seemed afraid of being rejected, and her voice grew softer and softer: "I'll just have the cheapest bread."
"What's your name?" Shirakawa Natsu bowed slightly. The girl in front of him looked to be only 15 or 16 years old, about 1.5 meters tall, and her looks were at least 85 points. She was pure and cute, with some baby fat on her cheeks.
At this moment, he looked pitiful, like a little kitten.
Of course, he had seen the beautiful Shirakawa Natsumi before, but what caught his attention was the outline of the girl's face, which had a strange sense of familiarity.
"Meiyu, my friends call me Xiaoyu," Meiyu said timidly.
"Okay, come with me." Shirakawa Natsumi didn't ask any more questions and led her to a tea restaurant next door.
He handed her the menu: "Order whatever you want, I'll pay."
"Thank you, brother!" Xiaoyu blushed as she took the menu, carefully looked at each dish, and finally ordered the cheapest set meal before handing the menu back, not daring to meet Bai Chuanxia's eyes: "I'll eat this."
"Hmm." Shirakawa Natsu didn't say anything, but called over a waiter and ordered the same set meal for himself.
The fox had gone off to do something, and he wasn't in a hurry to go back.
After ordering, Xiaoyu lowered her head, appearing quite reserved.
Soon, the delicious-smelling food was served.
"I'm starting to eat." Xiaoyu carefully observed Bai Chuanxia's expression before picking up her spoon and wolfing down her food.
While eating, Shirakawa Natsu handed him a glass of water.
"Thank you." Xiaoyu took it and looked him up and down with curious eyes.
"Is there something strange about me?" Shirakawa Natsu asked.
"No, hehe, brother is a good person." Xiaoyu smiled sweetly and continued eating.
The two did not speak until they finished their meal.
After finishing their meal and leaving the tea restaurant, Shirakawa Natsumi said, "Where do you live? I'll take you home."
Xiaoyu lowered her head and then shook her head: "I...I don't want to go home. My mom will bring strange boys back, which is dangerous."
"I'll take you to your relative's house," Shirakawa Natsumi said, taking out her phone. "Do you have their contact information?"
Xiaoyu just shook her head, clutching the hem of his clothes tightly.
The two stood there for a full ten minutes. Xiaoyu's head was almost down to her chest, and her voice was so soft that only the two of them could hear: "Can I go to my brother's house?"
Under Shirakawa Natsu’s strange gaze, Xiaoyu raised her head and pleaded, “I will do housework and will definitely not cause trouble for my brother. I can sleep on the floor or in a corner.”
"Why?" Shirakawa Natsu asked with a strange expression.
“Because…because…” Xiaoyu lowered her head again: “Because my brother is a good person, and there is no danger when I am with him.”
Shirakawa Natsu's expression changed several times before she nodded: "Okay, wait a moment, I'll make a call."
"Is it a call to your girlfriend?" Xiaoyu asked quickly.
“No.” Shirakawa Natsu shook her head and quickly dialed the number.
Hearing his denial, Xiaoyu blushed slightly and moved closer to him.
The two stood by the roadside for about ten minutes when a police car pulled up beside them.
Hojo Maki pushed open the door and got out of the car. She and Xiaoyu looked at each other for a second, and both of them were stunned.
Meiyu turned and ran away immediately.
"Grab her!" Hojo Maki shouted, and Shirakawa Natsu reacted quickly, grabbing her by the back of her collar.
"You idiot, let go! @#￥%!" Xiaoyu, who had been grabbed by the back of her collar, abandoned her timid little sister persona and started cursing loudly.
He didn't care that he was on the street and started to take off his coat.
Hojo Maki rushed over, grabbed her arm, and pinned her down.
"Let go, old lady!" Xiaoyu opened her mouth as if to bite.
"What's going on?" Shirakawa Natsu asked.
“Theft, fraud.” Hojo Maki restrained Xiaoyu, who was still cursing, “You’re a repeat offender, a regular at our station.”
Chapter 239 is about minors.
"Hey, I'll remember you!" Xiaoyu was left in the passenger seat by Hojo Maki, who continued to curse and threaten.
His dark eyes glared at Shirakawa Natsu, and he gritted his teeth to make himself look more ferocious.
"I need to give a statement. Do you have time?" Hojo Maki fastened her seatbelt, and Shirakawa Natsumi said in a businesslike tone, devoid of personal feelings.
“Okay.” Shirakawa Natsu nodded, then looked at Xiaoyu, who immediately glared at him.
He felt that the facial features of the person named Xiaoyu looked familiar, and he also wanted to go to the police station to find out more.
"Sister, I just asked someone to treat us to a meal. It was all voluntary on both sides. I didn't commit any crime." Seeing that Shirakawa Natsumi paid attention to her, Xiaoyu then tentatively struck up a conversation with Hojo Maki.
Hojo Maki was focused on driving and completely ignored her.
"Sister, even if you take me back, you can't do anything to me. Why don't you let me go?" Xiaoyu squirmed restlessly. "How about I give you clues about the other guys? There's nothing in this area that I don't know?"
"Heh." Shirakawa Natsu found it amusing. This little girl really has no morals. Just a moment ago she was an old aunt, and now she's suddenly become a big sister, and she's even going to betray her companion.
"What are you laughing at!" Xiaoyu turned her head away, glared at him angrily, opened her mouth, and made a fierce face: "Pretty boy, you just wait, I'll stuff your snitching mouth into your ass sooner or later."
"Shut up." Hojo Maki snorted, and Xiaoyu immediately shut up, pleading, "Sister, I really have an important clue, I want to be an informant."
"This is a police matter, not something you should get involved in." After saying that, Hojo Maki stopped talking and drove quietly, letting Xiaoyu keep babbling on the side.
The police car entered the police station, and Hojo Maki forced Xiaoyu out of the car. Seeing that she couldn't change the outcome, she turned to cursing: "Old lady, you've lost your chance to get clues, you'll regret it!"
"Little Rain's here again." A police officer approached with a smile, skillfully dragging the grumbling Little Rain away, while asking, "Want some juice?"
"She seems to know you guys quite well." Shirakawa Natsu walked into the interrogation room and sat down.
“Hmm.” Hojo Maki sat down opposite her and explained, “Tachibana Miu, 13 years old, is currently out of school and can’t work at this age. She doesn’t want to stay in the orphanage either. She’s active around the University of Tokyo campus, doing things like theft and fraud. I didn’t expect her to target you today.”
"Only 13 years old?" Shirakawa Natsu was surprised. Xiaoyu was 152 cm tall, slender, and her chest was already slightly protruding.
He had initially thought she was a 15 or 6-year-old girl.
"What do you plan to do with her?"
“Send her back to the orphanage.” Hojo Maki put down the statement record, looked up, and said with a helpless expression, “She is under 14 years old, so we can only send her to the child counseling center. Her crime is not serious, and the child counseling center will send her back to the orphanage. However, she will run away again soon, which is a headache for us.”
"Doesn't she have parents?" Shirakawa Natsu frowned. "There should be a family willing to adopt her."
Although Xiaoyu swears a lot and is a tomboy, she's pretty and has the makings of a beauty even at such a young age. She should be easy to adopt.
“She was abandoned at the orphanage.” Hojo Maki sighed helplessly. “Yes, but she didn’t want to. Adoption requires the consent of both parties.”
"Is she so determined to run away because she was ostracized at the orphanage?" Shirakawa Natsu frowned.
“No, I investigated that orphanage.” Hojo Maki sighed. “The director is a very good person and treats her extremely well. As for bullying, she would never do that. She is the leader of the children in the orphanage, and it’s good enough if she doesn’t bully others.”
“I also asked her why she insisted on running away. She said she didn’t like it there, but I could tell she had a secret. However, she was very wary and didn’t trust anyone. I tried to take her home, but she ran away again in the blink of an eye.”
"There's nothing we can do about it." Shirakawa Natsu shook her head, it was clear that Hojo Maki cared a lot about this girl.
However, there was nothing she could do, and Shirakawa Natsu wouldn't do anything unnecessary.
Unable to prove that she attempted theft or fraud, Aunt Mafei only asked a couple of questions before closing the notebook.
The interrogation room fell silent.
Shirakawa Natsu glanced at Aunt Maki out of the corner of her eye; she didn't look like a mother of two at all.
Wearing a police uniform couldn't hide her mature and voluptuous figure, or rather, it added to her allure.
From the moment she entered, Hojo Maki maintained a completely businesslike expression, showing no signs of the past friendship between the two.
Just as Shirakawa Natsu thought the questioning was over, Aunt Mahi suddenly said, "Hanahi, thank you for taking care of me."
"Yes." Shirakawa Natsu nodded. Inagawa Hanahi filled the power vacuum left by Yamagishi Hikaru's departure.
It wasn't that she had any special abilities; it was simply that when the three of them hid together, Yamagishi Hikaru saw that she was easier to control and handed over her power.
However, with Yuzuriha Yu watching over things, it's impossible for them to grow bigger. The Inagawa-kai is now full of Yamagishi family members, but at least on the surface, the Inagawa-kai has achieved a revival.
"I'll take you back," Hojo Maki said, standing up.
"Just a thank you?" Shirakawa Natsu said jokingly, looking at Hojo Maki.
He really wanted to get along well with Hojo Maki, and after the last incident, he also realized the benefits of having a police officer friend.
Since he's already said that, we're just waiting for Aunt Mafei to ask what you want.
"Yes." Hojo Maki nodded, looking at him like he was a child, and then turned and walked out of the interrogation room.
Shirakawa Natsumi was disappointed. Looking at her shapely back, he realized that when he tried to penetrate her from behind, she felt it was too tight and he was afraid of hurting her, so he didn't force it. Next time, he would definitely let her experience the real deal.
As he came out of the interrogation room, he saw Meiyu sitting in the lobby. Upon seeing him, she immediately gave him the middle finger in a provocative gesture.
Shirakawa Natsu was too lazy to argue with this loudmouth, so she smiled, waved her hand, and turned to leave.
Back at the apartment, Mi Zhi Shi didn't see her. She had been training with Genki lately, leaving early and returning late, and hadn't brought a woman home in a long time.
When I chatted with her yesterday, she said she was planning to become a combat athlete.
When he spoke, his eyes shone with light, as if he had found something he truly wanted to do. His brother's sudden seriousness made Shirakawa Natsu feel very uncomfortable.
Shirakawa Natsu is quite worried about Genki's fighting style, which is too wild.
I stayed home for a while, then went to Fox Apartment, but she hadn't returned yet.
"Strange, when did Kiyokami Aki get so close to the fox?" Shirakawa Natsu sat on the sofa, tapping his fingers incessantly, feeling inexplicably like he was waiting for his wife, who was having fun outside, to come home.
As he was lost in thought, the apartment door was pushed open, and Kimura Momo returned from outside, carrying a paper bag.
Shirakawa Natsu didn't know what to say for a moment. This was the first time he had waited for the fox to come home. After a long while, he managed to say, "Good evening."
"Hmm." The fox nodded, took off his shoes, sat back on the sofa, and opened the paper bag.
Shirakawa Natsu glanced over and saw a stack of women's magazines, all about horoscopes, gossip, food, and travel.
She picked up the magazine and began to read it carefully.
Shirakawa Natsu frowned. Why did the fox and Kiyokami Aki go out together, and it seems like a women's magazine has arrived?
He really wanted to ask the fox what he and Qing Shangqiu had done today, but he couldn't bring himself to ask.
He felt like the two of them were a couple who had passed the passionate phase.
On the same night as usual, the next day, his favorability rating rose from 75 to 76, which put his mind at ease.
The day's classes ended quickly, and Shirakawa Natsu saw the fox and Kiyokami Aki leaving together again.
"Xia Xia." Kiyosami Aki winked at him, "I have some things to take care of with Kimura-sensei."
"Uh, okay." Shirakawa Natsu was speechless. This was a school, and he couldn't do anything rash.
Since foxes can interfere with a person's five senses, it was inconvenient for him to use the surreptitious photography ability brought by the yellow-haired photographer to track them, so he could only watch them leave.
"What is this woman thinking?" Shirakawa Natsu frowned. After staying at the school for a while, she didn't come back. Instead, she went to the spot she had been at yesterday and sat down on the street.
As the sun set, the number of pedestrians around gradually increased.
A small figure darted out and grabbed a student dressed as a college student: "Brother, I'm a little hungry."
Seeing the pitiful look on the JK girl's face, the college student blushed for no reason and instinctively turned his head away: "What do you want to eat?"
As he spoke, he began to take out his wallet.
"Excuse me, classmate." Shirakawa Natsu walked over with a smile and said, "This is my sister. She's run away from home."