After rebirth, I became Tokyo Sentimental

Chapter 12. No Morality, No Kidnapping
Takashimaya Department Store, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo.

A window seat in a creative coffee shop.

Hoshino Ryuka lowered her head slightly, and her fair right hand was holding a slender coffee spoon, stirring the coffee in front of her, making the ice cubes in the cup rotate as she stirred.

Opposite her, Yuan Ye Si was looking at his phone calmly, and seemed to have no intention of talking.

But the more this kind of attitude and posture, which was somewhat coercive and not in a hurry to say anything after calling her out, the more flustered Hoshino Ryuka felt. Her mind was filled with all kinds of messy guesses, but to sum it up, she felt it was very tricky.

Under normal circumstances, she would never easily accept an invitation to go out from someone she didn't communicate with much on a daily basis.

But the reason why he was sitting here was that when he arrived at the street near Takashimaya Department Store, he happened to see Harano Tsukasa driving a Mercedes Benz and rolling down the window to ask him to wait for a moment, and also because two days ago, due to his own reasons, Harano Tsukasa seemed to be resigning.

She doesn't understand.

Why could a simple false accusation of being late result in one having to resign?

Was the section chief in a bad mood that day?
Or is there another reason?

Hoshino Ryuka didn't know, and didn't want to find out the reason now. She just wanted to figure out what the underlying meaning was when Harano Tsukasa suddenly asked her to come out and meet him today.

When people are pushed into a hurry, they can do anything.

She believed this.

The more she believed it, the more unsure she became about Harano Tsukasa's abnormal behavior. She didn't know whether he was provoked and was planning to use extreme means to retaliate against her. This was very likely to happen.

There are many rich people in Tokyo.

But there are more office workers.

Hoshino Rika's stereotype of Harano Tsukasa is that he is honest. Based on her experience with bullying from junior high school to the years when she entered the workplace, this kind of person will not have any problem if they are bullied a little, they will just swallow their anger, but if they are bullied too hard, they are more likely to do something extreme. On the contrary, people like Takizawa Ryouta, although they may appear to be powerful on the surface, will not behave excessively.

Originally, he just wanted to use the false accusation as a warning to others so that they would not do anything small, and then he could smoothly become the department head. Unexpectedly, he ended up making things worse.

And Yuanye Si is not as simple as he looks.

Even though everyone in Tokyo has several credit cards and a high standard of living, even if she grits her teeth and buys some luxury goods for a few months, it is impossible for her to bear the pressure of a loan in order to drive a luxury car, or to save money to buy a car by lowering her living standards.

That's why she had the patience to sit here and think about how to resolve the misunderstanding. At least she didn't want someone who hated her to be watching her in the dark every day.

"What's the matter, Director Hoshino? Are you not used to going out with strangers, or are you feeling unwell today?"

Yuanye Si's voice was very abrupt.

Hoshino Ryuka was stunned for a moment, and paused stirring her coffee. She forced a smile on her pretty face: "We are not strangers, right?"

"It's not really. After all, we have worked together for two years. Of course, Director Hoshino is my senior."

Harano Tsukasa smiled as he put down his phone.

He looked at the woman in front of him.

Hoshino Ryuka seemed to be only one year older than him. She had brown hair pinned up behind her head with a hairpin, an oval face and fair skin. She wore light makeup today, which made her beautiful facial features look even more delicate. The bright lipstick on her lips looked radiant under the soft light of the cafe.

She wore a white tight-sleeved top with a coffee cardigan on the outside, which showed off her charming chest to the fullest. She had square brick-like earrings on her crystal-clear and small earlobes. Her figure was slender but very well-proportioned.

In the Health and Welfare Section of the District Office, some people would chew the base of Ryuka Hoshino's tongue, but no one would ever say that she was ugly.

It's just a simple outfit, and it's almost impossible to find anything wrong with it. At least for people with normal aesthetic taste, Hoshino Rika is indeed beautiful.

Just from the way she repeatedly kneaded the coffee stirring spoon, it seemed that Director Hoshino, who was well-known in the district office, was not as calm as he seemed. And when Harano Tsukasa took a look at her wish list, it could only be said that she was worthy of being called a famous green tea.

[Wish target: Hoshino Ryuka]

[The wish list is as follows]

[1. It would be nice if Harano Tsukasa died (purple)]

[2. Don’t take revenge on me, Harano Tsukasa (blue)]

[3. The bag of the person sitting next to me seems to be a new model of Louis Vuitton. It would be great if someone could give it to me as a gift (blue)]

"Yuanye-kun, I'm sorry." Hoshino Ryuka let go of the coffee spoon, stroked the hair around her ears and said softly.

"Sorry?" Harano Tsukasa moved his gaze away from the light blue screen of the wish list and looked at Hoshino Rika, who looked sad and apologetic, and asked, "I don't quite understand why Director Hoshino wants to apologize to me?"

I was clearly thinking about my death in my heart.

But he said he was sorry.

This is how you bully honest people, right?

Based on this point alone, it is impossible for Yuanye Si to do things without limits just to fulfill his wish and get rewards.

In his plan to be a gold digger, this is actually a win-win solution. After all, to get the reward, you have to fulfill her wish, and to fulfill her wish, you have to spend money. This is a kind of alternative equivalent exchange, but Harano Si did not rush to spend money on others when others were talking about his death.

Three-legged frogs are hard to find, but two-legged money-worshiping ladies are everywhere in Tokyo.

However, compared to how to maximize the benefits of the money spent, in addition to obtaining the rewards on the wish list, there are some things that Yuanye Si is not responsible for but still wants to get, so the scope is smaller.

As to whether doing so would be unethical.

His moral boundaries are flexible.

Without morality, you won’t be kidnapped.

Besides, talking about morality with women like Hoshino Ryuka and Kato Masami will only get you stabbed a few more times.

"Is it because of what happened a few days ago when Director Hoshino reported to the section chief? If so, you don't have to take it to heart. After all, there are colleagues like this everywhere in the workplace. Even if they lost their jobs or were exiled, it's not a deep hatred. It's not to the point of killing people out of hatred and revenge as often reported on TV."

Harano Tsukasa took a sip of coffee, and there seemed to be no resentment or threat in his voice, but when these words fell into Hoshino Ryuka's ears, her heart sank to the bottom.

"If you think I invited you out today to call you to task, that's not necessary. Although I'm not very magnanimous, I won't do anything stupid that would ruin my life. Even if I really want to retaliate, there's no need to invite Director Hoshino to come out and make a meaningless show of force. It's just that I've worked at the Bunkyo Ward Office for two years, and I've always had a good impression of you, Director Hoshino. Now that I'm leaving, I invited Director Hoshino out for a walk. This logic should be barely justifiable, what do you think?"

How does this logic make sense?
Resisting the urge to ask, Hoshino Ryuka calmed her breathing. She was now basically certain that Harano Tsukasa obviously hated her because of this incident.

They barely spoke to each other during the two years they worked together.

Now that I am about to resign because of the slander in my back, if you suddenly invite me out, no one will believe me if I say I don't want revenge.

Moreover, today's Harano Tsukasa was obviously very different from her impression of him as a quiet and invisible person. It was like a completely different person. Every word he said was full of deep meaning, and there was nothing wrong with him.

Maybe I could pick it out, but I couldn't say it out loud because of something I had in my heart and the car I just saw.

Hoshino Rika knew that she couldn't continue to lose the initiative in the conversation like this, so she lied with her eyes open and explained softly: "Although Hara-kun didn't misunderstand me this time, I still have to explain clearly that I was wrong the day before yesterday. My watch was not calibrated at the time, and the inspection by the Metropolitan Government Office, so..."

She deliberately didn't finish her words, not because she couldn't continue her story, but to highlight that she didn't do it on purpose.

Although considering that Harano Tsukasa was completely different from usual, the possibility of him believing it was almost zero, but an explanation was better than no explanation.

"It turns out it's the watch that's the problem..."

Harano Tsukasa's expression suddenly became clear: "It seems that I was overthinking it, and Director Hoshino is excusable."

And you said you weren't holding a grudge and planning to take revenge on me!

She bit her lower lip and wanted to say a few more words.

But as soon as he raised his head, he met Yuan Ye Si's smiling eyes and was instantly speechless.

After a long silence, she really couldn't figure out what the reason was for Harano Tsukasa to call her out today. As he said just now, if he really wanted to retaliate, he wouldn't have made a few meaningless threats first. And if the car just now was really his, he shouldn't have done anything too outrageous like an ordinary office worker.

and so…

What on earth does he want to do?
Hoshino Rika was wondering this and was about to ask directly, but Harano Tsukasa spoke up.

"Actually, the main reason I came here today is because I heard that Director Hoshino has great taste in clothes. I've also run into him a few times when he's not wearing formal clothes. Besides being pretty, he does have a good taste in clothes. It just so happens that I'm also about to resign and start a new life, but my taste is not good, so I wanted to ask Director Hoshino to help me pick out some clothes and clear up the misunderstanding between us."

"Just picking out clothes for you, Hara-no-kun?"

Hoshino Ryuka widened her eyes slightly.

Harano Tsukasa put down his coffee cup and asked with a smile, "What else? Didn't we just talk it out? Even if it weren't for Director Hoshino, I was planning to resign."

Hoshino Ryuka was stunned for a while before she responded: "So...are you planning to do something else?"

"I have this plan. I failed in starting a business during my internship in my senior year, so I found this job out of frustration. But now I plan to pick it up again."

When Hoshino Rika heard his words, her heart moved.

A lot of information is revealed here.

You have to know that in this era, starting a business, no matter which country you are in, requires a certain financial foundation, otherwise you will basically fail.

And the fact that Yuanye Si could say this so calmly and was going to continue, unless he was lying from beginning to end, proved that his family background was very wealthy, which was totally different from what we usually see.

Thinking of this, she pursed her lips and said, "Past failures are not a bad thing. Just consider it as accumulating experience. I believe Yuanye-kun will succeed this time."

"Then I will accept Director Hoshino's good words."

"Yuanye-san, since you are leaving, you don't have to call me Director anymore. Just call me Xingye."

It seemed that the only purpose of calling her out after the conversation was really ridiculous. Harano Tsukasa did not mention the false accusation made by Hoshino Rika before. Instead, he talked about entrepreneurship for a few more words. After the atmosphere gradually eased, Harano Tsukasa smiled and asked, "Then let's go to another place?"

"Okay." Hoshino Ryuka agreed.

(End of this chapter)