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After confirming Yukino's identity, the man immediately bowed and apologized: "I'm sorry, I'm rude. I'm Sano, the discipline director of the junior high school of Sakura Academy. I'm really sorry to make Miss Yukinoshita go all the way because of this kind of prank."
"No, nothing. So why is Director Sano here?"
"It's because of this mischievous rumor that students keep coming here to hang out, and the construction has been delayed. When I saw the door open, I thought a student had pried open the lock. I didn't expect it to be Ms. Yukinoshita."
"I came here to check because of my sister's request. If there are no problems, we at Yukinoshita Construction will start work as soon as possible."
Sano was very respectful to Yukino, and he immediately smiled when he heard Yukino's promise: "I'm really sorry, come on, I'll take Miss Yukinoshita up to have a look."
"Brother, who is that sister? Why is the director so respectful to her?"
Komachi gossiped and asked her brother.
"She is the president of our club, and also the second daughter of the Yukinoshita Company."
Hachiman explained to his sister in the quietest voice possible, but because the environment was too quiet, the people around him still heard what they were talking about.
Saotome pondered over what Hachiman said: "Yukinoshita... I remember the company that contracted the project was..."
"Yes, it's her family's business."
After receiving Hachiman's affirmative answer, Komachi's eyes lit up: "Really?! Isn't that a young lady? Hehe, brother, you don't like her, do you?"
“Are you…are you kidding me?”
Hachiman stole a glance at Yukino at the front of the team, and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that she hadn't noticed what Komachi had just said.
"What on earth are you thinking about, girl?"
Facing Hachiman's criticism, Komachi seemed very unconvinced: "But my brother, who has always been aloof and narcissistic, actually joined a club. There is something wrong no matter how you look at it!"
"I didn't join voluntarily."
Although Hachiman was not very willing at the beginning, he does not have much resistance to the club now. Because you can't find any other club in Sobu High School that has a classroom as good as the Servant Club, not to mention that the people here will not isolate him because of his various problems. Everyone is an equal friend. So except for the occasional dog food that makes him feel a little uncomfortable, Hachiman is still quite satisfied with the Servant Club.
"Besides, I already have someone I like."
Hachiman made a gesture to Kyosuke, and in order to prevent Komachi from holding him back, he decisively betrayed Kyosuke.
"Wait a minute, isn't that big brother with glasses the blonde sister's boyfriend? Is this a love triangle?!"
For Komachi, who is in the third year of junior high school and has no resistance to love gossip, Hachiman's strategy of diverting the blame is quite successful. However, Komachi's next sentence made Hachiman stop laughing immediately: "So, brother, which side are you on? The blonde party or the black-haired party?"
PS: This is a rare 4K chapter. Today, the three chapters combined have a total update volume of nearly 9k6. I am really proud of it. (Chest up)
Chapter 88 An old man who cannot be named: Listen to the bell!
"Hey, Onii-chan~ just tell Komachi~~"
Looking at his sister who was holding onto his arm and shaking constantly, Hachiman felt that Komachi was a little too lively today.
"I won't tell you."
"Tsk~ forget it."
Seeing that her brother was so disrespectful to her, Komachi pouted and turned away. Hachiman felt that his sister was just being coquettish by putting on this "I'm angry (very fierce)~" expression. If there weren't so many people around, Hachiman felt that he might have pounced on her and given her the cutest sister in the world a good love. However, no matter how Hachiman didn't care about the looks of the people around him, being called a pervert was still beyond his bottom line.
"Hee hee~"
Seeing Komachi's frustrated expression, Saotome shook her shoulders and laughed.
Sano, who was talking to Yukino in front, didn't pay any attention to the gossip between the students behind him. For him, being able to meet the second daughter of the Yukinoshita family face to face was a blessing from heaven. If he could catch the eye of this eldest daughter, at least leaving a good impression on her would be quite advantageous for him. You know, in order to convince the Yukinoshita family to operate this project with such a short construction period, the school specially took out a part of the school's shares as payment after the project was completed.
The school did this on the one hand because of a shortage of funds and could not afford the price offered by the Yukinoshita Company, and on the other hand, it was also to attract the Yukinoshita family to join the partnership and use the reputation of the Yukinoshita family to recruit children from other families. At the same time, for Yang No, it is also a good choice to expand the power of the Yukinoshita family into the field of education through this private school. It can be said that this cooperation between the two parties is a win-win deal.
In other words, after the new school building is completed, the Yukinoshita family will become one of the shareholders of the school. Although the proportion of shares held is not very high, it is at least enough to have a certain degree of say in the board of directors. This matter can be said to be a godsend for Sano Lai. Originally, a guy like him who does not have a very deep background could basically sit in the current position, but the current situation is very different. After all, the Yukinoshita family just came to the ramp and they need to recruit troops. If he surrendered to them and became their confidant at the first time, then the Yukinoshita family should also show some return. It is not impossible for him, the dean of discipline of the junior high school, to move up.
So in his attitude towards Yukino, Sano is even more respectful than to his own wife.
“To be honest, I suggested this project to the school board so that more students can enjoy the high-quality education of our school.”
Sano rubbed his hands and gave Yukino a flattering smile, and this expression reminded Kyosuke of those real estate agents.
"Although I am a little reluctant to demolish this historic building, I can only say sorry for the future development of the school. In any case, it is time to say goodbye to this clock tower."
Sano deliberately showed a sad expression, as if he wanted to impress Yukino. But Kyosuke found that when Sano said this, the expressions of the three girls from Sakura Academy became very serious, as if they were very dissatisfied with Sano's behavior.
"That's interesting..."
Kyosuke rubbed his chin and looked at the expressions of several people. It seemed that everyone had something to hide.
"This is it."
Sano led Yukino to an attic, which was right below the big clock, and there was a staircase leading directly to the top of the clock.
"Aren't you going to keep going up?"
Yukino found it a little strange that Sano didn't continue to go up.
Sano quickly stopped Yukino from going up: "That staircase is too dangerous. It may collapse at any time. Miss Yukinoshita, you just need to stay here and watch."
"Is it..."
Yukino didn't insist any more and she began to look at the attic carefully.
"I mean, if it's not too much trouble...how about having afternoon tea together later?"
"Let's talk about it later..."
Of course, Yukino knew why Sano was so polite to her. Although she didn't like this guy with a horse face at all, as the daughter of the Yukinoshita family and the Minamoto family, she still had some social skills. At worst, she could just finish her tea and leave early.
"Cough cough."
"San...Yumiko, are you okay?"
Kyosuke has been coughing since he saw Miura coming up.
"It's too dusty here, but it's okay."
Miura enjoyed the way Kyosuke cared about her, and she took this opportunity to lean her head on Kyosuke's shoulder.
"Cut~"
Hachiman was pleased to see these two dogs showing off their affection again and spat in dissatisfaction.
Seeing Hachiman's expression, Komachi smiled cunningly: "Brother, you don't like that older sister, do you?"
"..."
Sister, do you really want your dear brother to offend both Queens?
Hachiman looked at Komachi speechlessly: "I don't think I taught you to be such a gossipy person, did I? Where did you learn all this?"
"After all, I'm in a girls' school, so this kind of thing is rare. So I'm particularly interested in it. If Komachi has a boyfriend in the future, she probably won't be interested in this aspect of her brother~"
"Don't even think about it. It's impossible for you to have a boyfriend in your life!"
Hachiman directly refuted his sister and told her not to let her imagination run wild. If she really found a boyfriend and came home, he would probably go crazy. But he wouldn't need to do anything at that time, because his father would probably beat the man to death first.
"Tsk, that's boring. I was just joking~"
Seeing that Hachiman was really angry, Komachi quickly changed her tone. She said that it was too smart to offend the ATM for her boyfriend who was not even marital.
"The time is almost up."
Kyosuke glanced at the time on his phone and found that it was already 4:40.
Sano waved his hands at Kyosuke and said, "My classmate, this kind of thing is completely fictitious. You are too nervous. You see, nothing happened, so this kind of thing was just a joke. Ms. Yukinoshita, now that you have finished the examination, right..."
Ding! Ding! Ding!
Before Sano could finish his words, the big bell above everyone's heads really rang. The continuous ringing of the bell made everyone's scalp tingle.
The cursed bells rang.
Chapter 89: Women have privileges wherever they go
“Ahh! —”
"Appeared!!"
"It's a curse!!!"
Several girls screamed at this sudden strange scene, but what surprised Kyosuke the most was that the one who screamed the loudest among all the people was not the most timid Yui nor any other girl, but Sano, the only adult present (on the surface).
"Ghost!——"
Sano was so scared that he lay on the ground and tried to crawl to the stairs using his limbs. Suddenly, he felt his feet were entangled by something, so he kicked his legs hard. As a result, some things fell from his head. He stretched out a hand and touched it, and found that his hand was full of long black hair. So Sano immediately cosplayed "The Scream" again.
“Head…hair!!”
Sano couldn't bear it any longer, he rolled over and tried to leave as soon as possible, not caring about his neatly dressed suit getting dirty. But someone stopped him at the stairs.
"Hey! Classmate! Run!!!"
Kyosuke looked at him as if he were an idiot: "Mr. Sano, you are too ugly for an adult."
"But...but...there really is a ghost!!"
Seeing that Sano was so scared that he became insane, Kyosuke covered his face in despair.
In fact, Kyosuke was also startled by the bell at first, but he quickly calmed down because he found that Mordred didn't show any surprise at all, but looked at the top of the head with a bored face. Through Mordred's gaze, Kyosuke also saw the small mechanism on the beam.
It is precisely because of this that Kyosuke is certain that this so-called "curse" is not a supernatural event at all, but just a simple prank by someone.
After the bell stopped ringing, Mordred looked at the panicked crowd with a bored expression.
"What's there to be afraid of? It's just ringing a bell."
"This...senior sister, aren't you afraid?"
Saotome, huddled in the corner, couldn't even hold the camera steadily. She held the camera with one hand and hugged her body tightly with the other.
"This is a curse from a female ghost! Look, even her hair is falling down. This is her warning to us!"
"What! Is this true?!"
Sano, who was lying on the ground, had calmed down somewhat after being comforted by Kyosuke, but he started screaming again after hearing Saotome's words. This tone made Kyosuke feel that it was a pity that he did not participate in the soprano competition.
"Yes... The ghost feels that we have disturbed her peace. She is... very angry..."