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"Yeah," Jiuhuayue replied.
Fujii Itsuki could see that she was pretending nothing was wrong.
After all, she also knew that among the 33 girls in the class, she was the only one who had no one to accompany her.
"Before we officially start the trilateral talks, I would like to say something to you as your uncle. Are you willing to listen?"
".Fujii-sensei?"
"First of all, I want to apologize to you. Sorry, Jiuhua."
"." Jiu Huayue was totally unpredictable, "Why is Mr. Fujii apologizing?"
"I'm apologizing to you for persuading you to return to Tokyo."
"No, it's okay. I don't care about that anymore."
Seeing that she accepted his apology, Fujii Itsuki began to explain:
"The fundamental reason why I said those things to you, Jiuhua, was because I thought that doing so would give you a better future. But I ignored your personal wishes and feelings. You have actually grown up and are very good. You have grown all the way to a national-level troupe actor, and you must have your own independent personality. I ignored this point, and I am really sorry."
"No, it's okay. I misunderstood you, uncle. I thought you were speaking for mom and the others, and you just wanted me to go back to Takarazuka and continue to be an actor."
Jiuhuayue organized her words and responded to him seriously.
"I misunderstood you, uncle. I'm sorry for my cold attitude towards you those days."
Apologies are apologies, but even after apologizing to each other, there is still an inexplicable barrier between the two.
This barrier made the atmosphere awkward.
Jiuhuayue doesn't like this feeling.
This created a greater distance between the two than before.
She hated this feeling of distance.
"Nine flowers——"
"Teacher Fujii——"
They both spoke at the same time and stopped at the same time.
Fujii Itsuki smiled, "Jiuhua, you go first."
"Well can I call you Mr. Fujii?"
"Why did you use that address? Even though we are at school, I was talking to you as an uncle just now."
"Because it's more respectful."
Be more respectful?
Fujii Itsuki probably understood and nodded, "Okay."
Jiuhuayue is brewing.
"I have been thinking about my relationship with Mr. Fujii these days. I was really angry at first. Mr. Fujii, whom I trusted very much, actually wanted to force me to go back to Tokyo. Mr. Fujii didn't understand me, even my best friend didn't understand me.
“I was feeling a bit down, so I cried.
"But later, I felt that I had misunderstood Mr. Fujii, and wanted to ask Mr. Fujii about the matter. But at this time, I suddenly heard that Mr. Fujii was moving."
Fujii Itsuki frowned and asked curiously: "Jiuhua, do you know? Where did you hear it?"
Jiuhuayue looked up at him and said, "At school, when I first arrived at the office, I heard you, Mr. Fujii, talking with Chitose inside."
Fujii Itsuki: “.”
Jiu Huayue lowered her head again, "When I heard that you were leaving, Teacher Fujii, I suddenly felt very uncomfortable.
"Mr. Fujii took so much care of me. I remember it all.
"The incident with the thief three days ago made me think more deeply. I—"
Jiu Huayue bit her lip, knowing that saying this was very abrupt and presumptuous.
But this is what she really thinks in her heart now.
unwilling.
"Teacher Fujii, could you please not move?"
It turns out that this is what Xiao Jiuhua wanted to say.
"Can Jiuhua give me a reason?"
"reason."
Jiu Huayue was speechless. She found that she seemed to have no reason to keep the uncle.
Uncle doesn't really need me.
Even if he wasn't there with me, Chitose was still there with him.
I have been asking for emotional value from the uncle, and the warmth of his care for me.
It's hard for me to leave this feeling.
"It's a request," the girl said in a low voice, lowering her head.
"ask?"
"Well, I'm asking Mr. Fujii if you can please not move out?"
Fujii Itsuki did not expect that Jiuhua, who usually had a tough personality, would actually bow her head in front of him and say such words to him.
I didn't feel comfortable, I just felt sad.
A poor little thing.
Some pity for her.
Fujii Itsuki did not answer, but remained silent.
When Jiuhuayue realized that Fujii Itsuki had not answered her, she already had the answer in her heart.
A sad feeling flows in my heart.
She felt as if she was unloved.
Just like the seat next to her, which originally belonged to her parents but is empty.
Maybe the uncle is tired of himself too?
She dragged him to watch boring movies, asked him to accompany her and kept asking for things, but she had nothing to give him.
Jiu Huayue lowered her head and saw the setting sun shining into the classroom from outside the school, illuminating her little hands tightly clasped in her pleated skirt.
"Cough cough."
At this moment, Fujii Itsuki suddenly cleared his throat.
Jiu Huayue looked up at the sound and saw Fujii Itsuki with his hands crossed and a serious look on his face. His eyes under his half-frame glasses were also so serious.
Jiuhuayue knew what this looked like.
Teacher Fujii in class.
"Jiuhua's father, would you like to hear about your daughter's performance in school?" he said to the empty seat.
".?"
Just when Jiuhuayue was feeling confused, Fujii Shu stood up, walked to the seat next to her, sat down, and immediately changed his expression to a serious attitude.
Fujii Itsuki nodded to the air and smiled: "Of course, Mr. Fujii, please be sure to tell me. I am very concerned about my daughter's condition."
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Jiuhuayue looked at him and went back.
Fujii Itsuki said with a straight face: "Then I will draw a conclusion first. Jiuhua is a bad kid."
Jiuhuayue: “.”
"She was not serious in class and was always distracted. I reminded her several times but she didn't listen. Other students always copied the notes I wrote on the blackboard, but she kept catching up after class.
"She is a loner and rarely interacts with classmates. When get out of class is over, she always takes out her headphones and plugs them into her ears. She either sleeps on the table or looks out the window with her hands on her cheeks.
"It's the same at lunch time. I always go to the cafeteria to eat alone. Oh, and during lunch break I like to go to the library, not to read, but to lie there and listen to music and sleep.
"Sometimes I wonder if this child is really studying in school."
Jiuhuayue lowered her head.
Fujii Itsuki sat next to her again, smiling and apologetically speaking to the air:
"I'm really sorry, Mr. Fujii. I apologize on behalf of my family, Yue!"
Fujii Itsuki went back and became Fujii teacher again:
“Please don’t get me wrong, I’m not criticizing you, Jiuhua’s father. I want to say that although Jiuhua has these little flaws, she is actually a good girl.
"Rather than blaming Jiuhua, I want to know if you, as her father, have given her the proper attention?"
"Sorry, sorry."
Jiu Huayue watched him curiously as he changed his seat and identity.
"Apologizing is useless! Jiuhua's father, you should act like a father and take real actions! You should give her enough attention as a family member. If you can't even care about your own daughter, do you think you are a competent father? Are you qualified?!"
"Sorry, I'm so sorry!" Fujii Itsuki nodded and bowed.
"Jiuhua's father, you should apologize to your daughter!" Fujii Shu said seriously, "You should know that it is often the family environment that causes your child to suffer from autism!"
"Teacher Fujii is right."
Fujii Tree came to Jiuhua Yue and asked her to look at him, with endless apology on his face, "I'm really sorry, what Yue Fujii teacher just said, is it true?"
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Jiuhua Yue didn't react for a moment, but after seeing Fujii Itsuki blink, she replied hesitantly, "Yes"
"Is it because I, as a father, didn't care about you that you are absent-minded in school?"
"I guess so."
"Teacher Fujii said you were a bad kid, but as a father, I don't think so. Yue is my proud daughter! She has become a national-level stage actress at a young age. She is not only beautiful, but also very confident!"