1986, Create a Miss Tokyo Ichiban

Chapter 55 The disappearing confessor

"Impossible~!"

Sayuri Asano protested loudly.

She had a puffy face and waved her fists in an indignant expression.

"Every day before school, I will clean Qinyin's schoolbag and desk very carefully. How could anything slip through the net?"

"If you don't believe me, ask Nai Xi!"

Gong Jian, who was walking next to him with his schoolbag on his back, looked over in confusion.

"Ah, why are you asking me?"

Sayuri Asano looked aggrieved: "Because I not only clean Kotone-chan, I also clean your schoolbag and desk!"

"Didn't you realize that in the past two months, you have never been bothered by a confession letter?"

Gong Jian's face instantly turned red.

"Ah, thank you very much."

In order to appease Sayuri who was "unjustly accused", the three of them found an oden restaurant and one of them got a squid grill.

With something to eat in her mouth, Sayuri's mind immediately became clear.

"Is it that idiot from the big family?"

Sayuri's mouth was full of oil, and she mumbled a person's name.

But Gong Jian shook his head and denied it.

"Oto-san will only use complaints to attract Kotone-chan's attention. He probably won't be able to write a confession letter. And the handwriting is obviously wrong, right?"

The three primary school students thought hard all the way and finally had to give up.

"Don't worry, Kotone, I will catch the criminal who wrote the confession letter!"

Sayuri is always full of energy after eating snacks.

But the next day, when Kotone put another confession letter with the same handwriting in front of Sayuri with a dark face, the girl almost collapsed.

"Ah, how is it possible!!!"

Gritting her teeth, Sayuri didn't leave the classroom all day, staring at Kotone's schoolbag and desk, so much so that Kotone and Miyama waited for her outside the bathroom for a long time when school was over.

But while doing homework at night, Zhang Yuqinyin saw another letter folded into a heart shape.

Huh?
He and Sayuri had obviously checked it when they left the classroom.

Qin Yin was not a real elementary school student. She would think this was some kind of supernatural incident. She immediately turned her attention to her way home from school.

"If there is a place that I have to pass by and stop at every day after school? Then the only one is Boss Yoshida's manga shop!"

"In other words, the criminal was waiting for an opportunity to commit the crime in the comic book house?" Sayuri's fists waved more and more smoothly, and her indignant look made people want to complain, "It's so cunning!"

After school that day, Kotone and the other three walked into the Yoshida house again.

This time they all looked around the store subconsciously.

Because it was after school, there were both elementary school students and junior high school students in the bookstore. There were quite a few people there, and there were even many adults choosing comic books.

Kotone pretended not to care and started picking out comic books. Sayuri and Naishi deliberately left her for a distance, and then secretly paid attention to Kotone's schoolbag through the gaps in the bookshelf.

"No~!"

At Miyama's house, the three of them rummaged through Kotone's schoolbag, but there was no letter of expression today.

"What a cunning guy~! Could it be that Gong Jian and I are so secretive that he will discover our plan?"

Naiki Miyana, who brought several cups of strong tea, recalled curiously: "I observed carefully, and it seems that no one in the store was secretly watching Sayuri and me? How did he find out?"

Zhang Yu Qinyin took a sip of tea and recalled the layout of the entire comic book house, and soon a light flashed in his mind.

"What if instead of inside the store, you observe us through the window of the comic shop?"

Sayuri's eyes widened: "So the criminal was hiding outside the comic book house to observe secretly? We must catch him tomorrow! Nai Xi, we have to work hard tomorrow~!"

Miyama also excitedly high-fived Sayuri: "Well, let's do our best~!"

Kotone shrugged, she was not optimistic about Sayuri's plan.

If the other party is such a cautious person, then he must have discovered Sayuri and Naiki's actions today.He should be quiet for a while next.

Sure enough, in the next few days, until Sunday (Saturday) when they got home from school, Sayuri and Naiki never caught each other, and the letter of confession never appeared in Kotone's schoolbag again.

"Damn it, he just escaped like that?"

In recent days, Sayuri no longer even tastes her favorite squid.

Kotone rolled over on the sofa at Miyoma's house and read comic books indifferently, because she already knew who the other party was.

Many comic shops will register books when they sell them. This is to facilitate after-sales service if comic books have quality problems, or to provide gifts to customers who purchase them continuously.

Yoshidaya has this habit.

Kotone found Boss Yoshida and looked through his recent records. She only needed to find customers who had stopped appearing since that day and who were also her acquaintances.

Qin Yin actually felt strange.

Because this person is not a boy from Fanno Elementary School.

Kotone, who was reading the manga, was a little distracted when she thought of the boy who had given her a confession letter.

"Strange, isn't he a student of Noble Primary School? How come he appears on our rural street?"

"But people from Noble Elementary School are really precocious!"

Judging from the modus operandi and confessional behavior, both are! ——
Since December, it has started to snow heavily in Shimono.

At this time in previous years, the number of people coming to Xiaye has almost disappeared, but today there are signs that the heavier the snow, the more tourists there will be.

The local governor has been on the streets for three consecutive days.

On the one hand, he visited these tourists, and on the other hand, he persuaded the industry players to entertain them attentively, and promised to increase support for the tourism industry starting next spring.

In Zhang Yu's store, the governor always comes to sit and sit.

Of course, even if he wanted to drink milk tea, he would have to queue up.

(Zhang Yu’s family was planning to move to Tokyo, so they weren’t too worried about other things.)
The cunning governor published the story of him obediently lining up to buy Miss Milk Tea in several well-known newspapers the next day, earning a lot of votes and eyeballs.

There was heavy snowfall on the streets. Some young tourists stood in twos and threes under the eaves of street merchants, holding milk tea in their hands and looking at the heavy snowfall. They seemed to be caught in a certain mood.

Schools in island countries usually start their holidays in late December, but some schools will also adjust the holiday time based on the situation of the year.

For example, Baiyuri Academy is one of the top three high schools for girls in the island country.

Because this year’s Kyushu region’s central examination (island college entrance examination) will be held next month, that is, in January.

This well-known girls' school located in Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyushu Island, this year's third-year high school girls completed their studies in early December and went on vacation.

The majority of the month set aside is for students to review or relax before exams.

Of course, except for some girls from well-off families who have no plans to take the central examination, they have started their own graduation trips.

Even students from well-off families mostly choose to work part-time during their graduation trips.

On the streets of Xiaye, there was a girl carrying a bag, hiding under the eaves of Zhang Yu's house with a smile, looking up at the heavy snow in the sky, the milk tea in her hand seemed to be particularly sweet.

"Guest, why don't you please come in and sit down?"

Due to the heavy snow, Zhang Yuwu has temporarily closed its business to the public, but some regular customers sometimes stay here to chat and sit in the expanded store.

The seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl thanked her, walked into the store, carefully put down her bags, and sat in a corner.

The girls quickly discovered that the decoration in the Miss Milk Tea Shop was very interesting, with a perfect combination of modern simple beauty and retro meaning.

Then she saw a notice for temporary employees at the milk tea shop.

The girl's eyes suddenly lit up after reading the notice. Speaking of which, her travel expenses just happened to be gone!

And when I tell my friends in the future that I once worked in the Miss Milk Tea Shop, I will definitely envy them to death.

Haruko had no intention of discriminating against the temporary workers who came to her door. She interviewed the girls seriously.

"Because we opened a branch in Tokyo, many old employees went to Tokyo to make preparations. Now there is a shortage of delivery people and assistants in the store."

"Let me introduce myself first."

The girl sat upright, showing her excellent upbringing: "I, Miki Miyagawa, come from Kumamoto Prefecture this year and graduated from Baiyuri Academy. I am currently on a graduation trip."

　Miki Miyagawa = Yui Natsukawa, I just finished typing today before going out.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)