Restarting life, starting from bullying Pochi-chan

Kitahara Makoto didn't chase after him because he had a daily task that needed someone else's help to complete.

"Xiao Deng, are there any club activities today?"

Kitahara Makoto took out his cell phone and sent a message to Takamatsu Deng.

Gao Songdeng quickly replied: "There are no club activities."

Kitahara Makoto: "No, we have to make one."

Gao Songdeng: “Huh?”

Kitahara Makoto: "A club without activities is an incomplete club."

Takamatsu Deng: "Since Kitahara-san said so... let's make one."

Kitahara Makoto waited for a while, and the Emperor of Lights soon sent a message:

"Kitahara-san, come to the back garden?"

Kitahara Makoto: "Wait a minute, it'll be there soon."

A few minutes later.

Kitahara Makoto came to the back garden and soon saw a girl with short brown hair squatting next to the flowers, with her butt sticking out and her head down, looking for something.

"Good morning, Xiaodeng." Kitahara Makoto stepped forward and greeted him.

Takamatsu Deng looked up, with the same expressionless face as Yamada Ryo: "Good morning, Kitahara-san."

Kitahara Makoto asked curiously:

"What is Xiao Deng looking for?"

Gao Songdeng said calmly: "Looking for bugs."

"Wait." Kitahara Makoto felt a bad premonition coming over him, "Why are you looking for bugs?"

"The video Kitahara posted last time was very interesting." Takamatsu Deng deadpanned, "So I wanted to try it. Today's club activity is to catch bugs and fry them ourselves."

Kitahara Makoto: “…”

As I guessed, you still can’t forget the fried insect skewers!

If she were an ordinary girl, she would definitely avoid insects and would not want to eat them, but Gao Songdeng is different.

As a girl of the radio style, Takamatsu Deng's interests and hobbies have been out of tune with those of her peers since she was a child. When she was a child, she even had the habit of collecting watermelon worms, which scared other elementary school students.

Now, if you want to eat fried insects, it won’t be hard to accept…

Kitahara Makoto coughed twice and said, "How about changing to another club activity?"

"Is it not possible?" Gao Songdeng's eyes dimmed slightly, "Then I won't participate in club activities..."

"No, we can't stop club activities." Kitahara Makoto took a deep breath, "Fried bugs, right? Let's eat them!"

"Is it really possible?"

Gao Songdeng's eyes brightened again.

"Of course you can, but forget about catching bugs yourself." Kitahara Makoto nodded and couldn't help but complain, "Those fried bugs in the video are all specially selected species. They are 'delicacies' that have been identified by countless people. The bugs you catch yourself are probably not edible. Even if they are not poisonous, their liquid must be unpalatable, otherwise they would have been on the table long ago... Throw away the bugs you caught first."

"Oh."

Gao Songdeng obeyed, threw away the insect in his hand, and stood up quietly.

"Let me think about it..."

Kitahara Makoto began to think about how to handle today's club activities.

I thought that buttoning the chest was the most difficult task of the day, but I didn’t expect that the real challenge was what was in front of me.

Do Japanese people eat bugs?

Of course.

However, this thing, like freshwater fish, will only appear in the diet of a small number of people. Most Japanese people will not eat it. For example, Nagano Prefecture in Japan has launched vending machines selling insect food, which sells common insects such as crickets, grasshoppers, and silkworm pupae, but outside of Nagano, they are basically not seen.

"I want to eat fried bug skewers in Tokyo..." Kitahara Makoto thought for a moment, took out his phone and searched, and soon his eyes lit up, "I got it, Xiaodeng, do you have time after school this afternoon?"

Gao Songdeng nodded: "There is time."

Kitahara Makoto snapped his fingers and said, "If you want to know where to eat authentic insect cuisine, it must be Ikebukuro."

Chapter 73 Pull up my Italian cannon quickly!

After making an appointment with Deng Takamatsu to go to Ikebukuro together in the afternoon, Kitahara Makoto waved his hand and turned to go to the classroom.

There was still half an hour before class started and quite a few classmates had already arrived in the classroom. Kitahara Makoto glanced around and soon saw the customer service Xiaoxiang sitting in her seat, staring out the window in a daze. The girl's profile was quiet and beautiful.

"Good morning, Xiangzi."

Kitahara Makoto walked over to say hello, then sat down in front of Toyokawa Shoko.

Toyokawa Shoko blinked her bright eyes, turned her head and looked over, and said softly:

"……Good morning."

I haven't seen customer service Xiaoxiang for two days, and I actually miss him for some reason. Kitahara Makoto leaned over to chat:

"The other world is too dangerous. I almost couldn't see Xiangzi anymore."

Toyokawa Shoko pursed her lips slightly, her tone somewhat doubtful: "...Has Kitahara really entered a strange otherworld?"

"It's so sad." Kitahara Makoto sighed, "It turns out that Xiangzi's trust in me is so low. Suddenly, I feel that my whole life is dark."

"It would be fine as long as Ichiri-san has high trust in us, right?" Toyokawa Shoko said calmly, "Besides, Kitahara-san's description sounds too much like a plot from a light novel. Anyone would be suspicious."

You have even seen ghosts, so what else can't you believe?

Kitahara Makoto frowned and said:

"Stop talking, and don't leave after school this afternoon."

"Eh?"

Toyokawa Shoko tilted her head slightly.

Kitahara Makoto crossed his fingers and said, "Come with me to the other world after school. I want to prove my innocence to Xiangzi."

"I'm sorry, I'm very busy lately and don't have time." Toyokawa Shoko refused three times in a row.

Kitahara Makoto was speechless:

"Why does Xiangzi-san look so skilled?"

"Because I've been confessed to many people since I transferred here." Toyokawa Shoko raised her hand to tuck the black hair by her ears. "I've become more skilled at rejecting people so many times."

"what?"

Kitahara Makoto's eyes narrowed slightly and fell on the girl's right hand. He saw several band-aids on it and asked:

"What happened to your hand?"

"…It was just an accident."

Toyokawa Shoko silently put her hands back under the table, obviously not wanting to say more.

Kitahara Makoto frowned slightly, then said:

"When I got home last night and was cleaning, I saw a few dark red spots on the windowsill. I didn't understand what was going on..."

After a pause, Kitahara Makoto looked at the slightly changing expression of the customer service Xiaoxiang and sighed:

"You can actually hurt your hand just by climbing through a window. Isn't Xiangzi too clumsy?"

"..."

Hearing the comment of "clumsy", Toyokawa Shoko couldn't help but bite her lower lip and glared at him with an embarrassed look.

I'm so sorry for being so clumsy!

I will never worry about you getting into danger alone again!

Kitahara Makoto said softly:

"Is the injury serious?"

"It has nothing to do with Kitahara-san." Toyokawa Shoko turned her pretty face away and looked out the window. "It will be fine in a few days."

Even though you say it’s okay, don’t puff up your cheeks!

Kitahara Makoto did not continue to ask about what happened, lest the customer service Xiaoxiang get angry and embarrassed, and changed the subject:

"But I still want to thank Xiangzi-san."

"Ok?"

Toyokawa Shoko glanced over slightly.

"Although I didn't help and broke the window, at least I know that there are still people in this world who care about me..." Kitahara Makoto thanked him earnestly, "But don't climb through the window next time. I put the spare key under the flower bed at the door. You can just use the key to open the door next time you come."

"There won't be a next time." Toyokawa Shoko snorted softly, "I'm just a clumsy girl anyway."

"..."

After complaining to each other, Toyokawa Shoko lowered her voice and said:

"Since Kitahara-san is back safely, he should be free this afternoon, right?"

Kitahara Makoto said casually:

"There is one more small matter..."

Seeing Toyokawa Shoko narrow her eyes, Kitahara Makoto quickly said:

"But it can be done before evening, so it won't interfere with the evening's business."

Ikebukuro is in Tokyo, and it doesn’t take much time to go there.

Toyokawa Shoko said softly:

"During the past two days when Kitahara-san was out of contact, Ghost-senpai missed you so much."

Thinking of me is not true, the real thing is that you want to go out and play!

Kitahara Makoto suddenly remembered something: "By the way, how is the case going?"

"No progress." Toyokawa Shoko exhaled lightly and whispered, "After all, the crime was committed ten years ago, and many clues have been lost... But I heard that Mr. Fukada hired a detective named Maori from the agency yesterday and asked him to sneak into the man's home to look for clues."

"Wait." Kitahara Makoto was startled and couldn't help but complain, "Is that private detective called Maori Kogoro? Does he have a daughter who is really good at karate?"

"Of course not." Toyokawa Shoko looked at me with bright eyes, "I'm just an ordinary private detective. I have nothing to do with comics."

Kitahara Makoto breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good, you almost scared me."

Toyokawa Shoko: “…”

When he first came here, Kitahara Makoto didn't encounter any supernatural events for half a month, nor did he see any related news on the Internet, so he thought it was just an ordinary everyday world.

As a result, since bullying Pochi-chan that morning, in just one week, he not only saw the ghost senior, but also entered the mysterious other world. Only then did he realize that the other side of the world is unfathomable, so he must be vigilant to avoid provoking messy existences.

"There is one more thing..." Toyokawa Shoko hesitated for two seconds, then whispered, "My father has a friend whose daughter is mentally ill. She often says that she can see terrible evil spirits and has been hiding at home. The doctor has examined her body, but everything is normal. My father's friend also found an exorcist, but unfortunately those people are all charlatans..."

Kitahara Makoto understood the implication of Xiaoxiang's words:

"Student Xiangzi wants me to help?"

"It's not a favor." Who knows that Toyokawa Shoko shook her head gently, "It's to accept the exorcism commission."

Kitahara Makoto raised an eyebrow: "Is there a difference?"

"I'm helping from a friend's perspective," Toyokawa Shoko said softly, "and the exorcism commission is a business one... I've asked, and if the exorcism is successful, the reward is 20 million yen."

"Sigh~"

Kitahara Makoto took a deep breath and said in surprise:

"Exorcist is such a lucrative profession?"

"Of course it's not that profitable. Those exorcists on the Internet will help you with exorcism for just 100,000 yen." Toyokawa Shoko shook her head slightly. "No matter what industry you are in, connections are one of the most important things. In fact, I have been busy with this for the past two days. In the end, it was with the help of Mr. Fukada that I was able to gain his trust... What do you think, Kitahara-kun?"

How to say?