After breaking up, my ex asked me to win her back-Chapter 239 - 238 The Man with Deep Sins

The next day at Haneoka Private High School.

A black Audi stopped a hundred meters away from the school gates—any closer and it would get stopped, as parking was not allowed near the school’s main entrance.

"Are you sure you’ll be okay by yourself, should I walk you there?" Kiryu Masaki turned around, his face etched with worry, as he asked his daughter who was sitting in the passenger seat.

Kiryu Hina shook her head and smiled at her father, "It’s fine, I’m much better now, I can walk on my own."

"Is that so... be careful, okay?"

"I know, and dad, you be careful on the road too."

Kiryu Masaki raised his eyebrows in surprise.

Ever since his daughter had started junior high, it had been a long time since he had heard words like these.

His child had grown up.

He smiled with a touch of contentment, "Thank you, I will."

"Alright, I’m off."

Kiryu Hina opened the car door, waved through the window, and then started limping towards the school gate.

Her ankle sprain wasn’t severe, and after a night’s rest, she could already walk, but a normal gait was out of the question.

As she walked, some people recognized her.

Many students who realized who she was wanted to approach and ask, but they hesitated and stopped in their tracks.

Kiryu Hina had changed and was no longer the gentle and polite Student Council President of the past. Countless people had been turned away by her so far, leading many to stop supporting her.

Having shed that divine glow that seemed to tolerate everything, Kiryu Hina now appeared to be just a slightly more attractive but hard-to-approach acerbic student, quickly overshadowed by the charms of Ayakoji Chiyoko and Kohinata Motoyo.

The students who passed her ultimately chose to keep their distance, pretending not to see her as they hurried by.

Only a third-year girl didn’t hesitate and jogged over upon seeing her.

"President Kiriyu!"

Kiryu Hina turned around to see a petite girl with glasses.

It was Hosaka Yui.

"Classmate Hosaka, it’s been a while."

"President, what happened to you? Did Ayakoji Chiyoko sabotage you?!"

Hosaka Yui frantically circled around her like a bomb-sniffing dog that had discovered explosives but didn’t know how to defuse them.

"I’m not the President anymore, Classmate Hosaka. If you keep calling me that, I’ll be a laughing-stock along with you," Kiryu Hina sighed, "I simply had a fall yesterday, it’s nothing serious."

"So you sprained your ankle?" Hosaka Yui volunteered with false bravado, bending her thin arms to show off her strength, "Then let me carry you to school, President! Come on, please hold onto my neck—"

"Shut up, do you want to get me on the news tomorrow, you idiot," Kiryu Hina rebuked mercilessly, "Just go away, or be quiet!"

"Oh..."

Hosaka Yui’s face fell.

If she had been sporting animal ears rather than glasses, they would have surely drooped down by now.

Kiryu Hina observed her, then looked away and asked, "I already made it clear to you before, Hosaka, to stop following me, didn’t I? Why did you still talk to me? You could’ve done like the others, pretended not to see anything and left."

"The President is my benefactor. How could I ignore my benefactor’s difficulties!"

"I told you to stop calling me President."

"Then... older sister?"

"Aren’t you a year older than me!" Kiryu Hina retorted irritably, "Just call me Classmate Kiriyu normally."

The two passed through the school gates.

Just like last year, there were Discipline Committee members lined up at the entrance, checking the discipline.

They obviously still remembered Kiryu Hina.

However, unlike the past when each time she passed they would glare, now the Discipline Committee members only gave her looks of cold indifference reserved for the defeated.

Hosaka Yui bared her teeth in a grimace, glaring back at them one by one, like a loyal but dimwitted guard dog by the side of a mob boss.

It was too embarrassing; Kiryu Hina couldn’t help but cover her face.

Compared to the gaze of the Discipline Committee member, Hosaka Yui’s seemed more like a punishment she had left for herself from the past.

Was it because she had been too cold to her lately? This time, when they met again, Yui seemed eager to flaunt her loyalty in front of her, to the point of going overboard.

Kiryu Hina fell silent for a moment, then asked, "Hosaka, what have you been up to lately? Have you returned to the Kendo Club?"

"No, there’s no place for me there anymore," Hosaka Yui shook her head.

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"Don’t you want to find a new club?"

"I have no intention of doing so, unless my older sister commands it!"

"... I think you’d better focus on your studies and aim for the University of Tsukuba," Kiryu Hina said with a hint of disdain.

Hosaka Yui perked up, "Yes! Since it’s an order from older sister, I will definitely get in!"

"Don’t make me sound like someone into SM," she said.

Hosaka Yui knew she was being cutesy, and scratching her fluffy hair embarrassingly, she sneaked a few glances at Kiryu Hina and cautiously said, "Older sister, can I still come to see you after this, just like before... Of course, I won’t cause any trouble for older sister!"

Kiryu Hina glanced at her sideways.

Hosaka Yui’s condition, after a period of not seeing her, couldn’t be said to be good.

Although she appeared spirited in front of her, the dark circles under her eyes were heavy, and her fidgety behavior was remarkably like that of someone with anxiety.

Her own changes had such a heavy impact on another person.

She had always disdained the circle of acquaintances she built with fake kindness and warmth, thinking they were just tricked by her deceptions, and as soon as she reverted to her true nature, they would leave her.

And indeed, as she thought, hardly anyone came to see her now, no one regarded her as a friend anymore, as they’d all gone over to Kohinata Motoyo’s side.

Except for Hosaka Yui.

Her spirit still remained in those past times.

Such loyalty, wasted on someone as excessive as herself.

Feeling a pang of compassion, Kiryu Hina let out a small sigh and hesitated before saying, ".... If I have time..."

"Really?!" Hosaka Yui visibly brightened up, "Then, can I come to see older sister during lunchtime, so we can eat together?"

"I can’t do lunchtime," Kiryu Hina shook her head, "I already have plans then."

After parting ways with Hosaka Yui in the classroom corridor, Kiryu Hina headed towards the classroom of second year Class A.

Upon entering, she immediately ran into Ayakoji Chiyoko, who was standing by the door talking to others, seemingly discussing Student Council affairs.

The Student Council President was sure handling it with ease, this person was.

Compared to how she used to manipulate schemes, Ayakoji Chiyoko was more serious by nature, and should manage the Student Council even better.

Ayakoji Chiyoko noticed her, and their eyes met, each holding a different emotion, for two seconds.

Kiryu Hina nodded at her expressionlessly and walked to her seat.

Kagura Hikaru was already at his desk, looking down at a novel.

Dressed in a white school uniform, sitting in front of the window, his handsome face seemed to be coated with a layer of light.

The gaze of the girls in the classroom was occasionally drawn to him.

While the desire to appreciate beauty was the same for everyone, if possible, Kiryu Hina still wished they’d restrain themselves a bit.

Such a man, deep with sin, she thought to herself with a wry smile.

"Good morning, Mister Hikaru," Kiryu Hina greeted.

His response was silence.

Kagura Hikaru calmly turned a page in his book, as if her words were just a breeze that had blown past his ear.

Kiryu Hina pressed her lips together and sat down, placing her handbag aside.

The tears that were to be shed had long dried up, and she certainly wouldn’t be discouraged by his neglect now, of all times.

Kiryu Hina looked up as Ayakoji Chiyoko approached, her gaze deepening.

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I won’t give you the chance to act first, Mister Hikaru.

If there has to be someone to take the wrong step, it will definitely be me.