After rebirth, I became Tokyo Sentimental

Chapter 78 77. I'm from Sapporo

I remember it was a winter year. The sky was as dark as evening. A cold wind blew tiny snowflakes towards me, piercing me like countless broken needles.

The ultramarine forest was covered with white snow.

The white snow and wind were like a thick fog, almost covering Sapporo Station, and people were shivering from the cold.

It was in such bad weather that the short Kurosaki Orizuki, carrying a blue cloth package with white chrysanthemums and a height almost as tall as a person, walked forward with one foot deep and one foot shallow in the snow that covered her ankles every time she stepped, until she reached the edge of the platform where the train was parked.

On the platform covered with a layer of hard snow, countless relatives and friends said goodbye before the train started.

Kurosaki Oritsuki is no exception.

But compared to other men carrying their luggage, their wives holding their children with tears in their eyes, and the young but adult children being seen off by their parents, only her mother accompanied her to the station.

But she didn't blame her mother.

Because she was the only one who came to see me off.

Moreover, after the long and intermittent whistle of the train sounded, Kurosaki Orizuki still remembers clearly the few words her mother said to her before leaving.

"Zhiyue, remember not to cause trouble when you get to Tokyo. We are from a small place and cannot afford to offend the locals there, otherwise they will bully you."

"If you suffer a loss, you just need to endure it and it will pass."

"It's my fault that I couldn't keep you here, but luckily you worked hard and got into a high school with free admission."

"I heard there are many places for students to work over there, and the hourly wages are high. You must remember to pay attention to part-time jobs that require less physical effort, and you must study hard so that you can get scholarships from the school. Although my mother is not well educated, she knows that only by going to school can you have a future, otherwise you will end up like me."

"I've put your asthma spray in the package. When you get there, remember to buy a few more bottles. This money is what mom has secretly saved over the past few years. Take it. Mom is sorry for you..."

"Zhiyue, my daughter, please let me take a good look at you. The snow is so heavy that I can't see you clearly."

"If I can survive..."

"Don't ever come back here again."

With tears welling up in her mother's eyes and her mother unable to see clearly no matter how hard she rubbed her eyes, Kurosaki Oritsuki boarded the train to Tokyo, clutching a pile of banknotes and a dozen hundred-dollar coins in her hands.

She was only fifteen years old that year.

The train, wrapped in a layer of silver by the wind and snow, blew a long whistle and thick black smoke came out of the locomotive.

Under the action of the boiler, steam pushes the piston to move in a straight line, which in turn pushes the crankshaft to rotate. The sound of pedaling on the track becomes more and more frequent, and the carriage is dragged forward.

The train passed through a long, dark tunnel at the border of Hokkaido, and Kurosaki Orizuki could no longer see her mother. In the dim carriage filled with all kinds of unpleasant smells, the only thing that could accompany her was her luggage that was as tall as a person, and the banknotes and coins tightly clenched in her palms.

And later.

She saw Tokyo.

Unlike Hokkaido, which is often hit by snow and wind, although Tokyo has a fixed rainy season every year, you don’t have to shiver from the cold anymore.

She also has congenital asthma.

Without the strong winds in Hokkaido, my physical condition is much better than before, and I have less frequent experiences of feeling like someone is pinching my throat and I can't breathe.

Kurosaki Oritsuki has two younger brothers.

My father favors boys over girls.

In fact, this situation is very normal.

But in that poor little mountain village under the town of Kohei in Yoichi County, she would have died long ago if she hadn't been smart enough to be noticed by a private high school in Tokyo based on her test scores.

After all, she was sick, and even if she was sold like a commodity to marry, no one would be willing to marry her.

Because you might not even be able to have a child.

But after arriving in Tokyo.

She felt as if her life had regained its color.

The streets were clean, passers-by were wearing fashionable and new clothes, the buildings were so tall that she couldn't see the tops when she looked up, everything was so new, as if it had opened the door to a new world for her, and she really escaped from that desperate village and family.

But many of the things my mother said on the platform that day didn’t seem to make sense in this place.

Japan is a place that respects the strong. Even if you do something wrong, as long as you have enough ability or strength, you will be respected by others even if you say something wrong. The weak are tools used by those who are neither strong nor weak to bully the weak and satisfy their selfish desires.

Naturally, she is a weak person because she suffers from an illness, has no parents, and dares not offend anyone.

Therefore, they became the target of bullying.

Just be patient and it will pass.

Kurosaki Orizuki always reminds himself this.

However, her repeated tolerance did not bring her a peaceful life. Instead, she was bullied even more severely, and those people had no intention of stopping.

Shoes often disappeared from the shoe cabinet, clothes in the locker suddenly became dirty, I often bumped into them when I turned a corner in the corridor and tried to scare me, I was forced to queue for a long time to buy several different meals with my already uncomfortable body...

It’s really frustrating.

So where does this frustration come from?

It’s the sick self.

Or is it because of the lack of parents?
The feeling is even more frustrating than when I was stuck in that small mountain village in Hokkaido with no future in sight.

why?
Why exactly?
Why did he have to be bullied by so many people for no reason, and why couldn't he wear beautiful new clothes every week like others, and why couldn't he be picked up by a luxury car every time after school instead of working in those izakayas where the smoke of fireworks made his lungs hurt? Kurosaki Orizuki thought about this question for a long time.

It all comes down to the word "origin".

She got the answer, but like a student who had already handed in the paper, she could only hold the pen in her hand, helpless.

As she was exposed to more information and learned that there was such a thing as computers in the world, she began to frantically absorb all unknown information, including other people's concepts and things that were not in the textbooks.

However, the more contact she had, the more powerless she became.

The feeling is worse than the suffocation from asthma.

Because we can clearly feel the existence of clear class divisions in school, then what the adults on the Internet say, that even if you go to the best university, you can only end up working like a corpse and falling asleep due to exhaustion, how good can that be?
But over time, through observing her classmates, she discovered that what determines the so-called class is apparently background, but in fact it is called resources.

The parents are awesome.

This is also because they have more resources.

The student who can bully his classmates without any scruples and is not afraid of being scolded by the teacher is because his parents have the resources that prevent the teacher from scolding him.

What about yourself?

Nothing at all.

She's just a country girl from Sapporo.

but.

Why can't I have it?
Lying in the cramped rental house, Kurosaki Orizuki had this thought for the first time when she smelled the musty smell that could not be dissipated even with the windows opened.

This thought, like the weeds that were withered by the wind and sand in the desert, began to spread its roots madly after a long rain, and took root deeply in her heart, constantly absorbing nutrients and growing.

So the problem of stealing other people's resources.

How to solve it?

She thought about it and felt that the most valuable things in her student days that others were willing to pay for were probably the loyalty between boys, the friendship between girls, and the ridiculous love between boys and girls.

Japan starts education in this area very early, and it is even popularized in elementary school.

Therefore, when some high school students are still secretly rolling up their pleated skirts a few centimeters, her classmates may have already dropped out of school and returned to their hometown to get married.

You can gain a lot by giving of your body.

But Kurosaki Oritsuki can't.

Not to mention normal exercises that require high heart rate and rapid breathing, even simple warm-up exercises in physical education class can make her breathless from time to time.

If you were in love...

Might die.

But if you are not in a relationship, and just rely on friendships that can collapse at any time, there is really very little you can ask for. It is also easy to owe favors to others, be criticized, and your external reputation will also become worse and worse.

Therefore, if she wanted to achieve her goal, it seemed that she only had another different way left.

Fall in love with girls.

There are many benefits to this approach.

Because the students who can attend this private high school originally have better family conditions, and Kurosaki Orizuki can clearly feel that girls can control more pocket money than boys, plus there is no need to suffer physical torture, this is already the best option.

But you can't really turn your fake play into reality.

After all, when girls are in love, they can be crazy enough to help each other with their hands and mouths, but she is not interested in that.

So she is both a friend and a wife.

This method is undoubtedly more appropriate.

Their relationship goes beyond friendship and they have feelings for each other that transcend worldly matters. They just cannot be together because of society's views and they keep their distance and respect each other.

This special relationship, if handled well, may not be as intimate as that of a couple, but they may be more willing to spend money than a couple.

Although this approach also has risks.

But she wants both!

Only such a double binding can make their relationship more stable, and allow her to pay more when she uses Suzumiya Saka!
Now that the path to take has been determined, the next issue is the choice of person. Kurosaki Orizuki did not act rashly, but observed quietly for a long time, intending to find a relationship that could sustain him for a long time.

But it's a pity.

Due to her reputation as a transfer student and a weak person who had been bullied for a long time, few people were willing to interact with her for fear of being labeled as the same kind of person and then being bullied together.

So forget about planning who to choose to suck blood from, the plan is stillborn if there is no qualification to choose.

A way to break the deadlock.

It seemed that the only option left was to transfer schools and start over.

But she was a special admissions student and had signed a three-year agreement with the school. She also had to make a bet on academic ability assessment and grade ranking. It was a pipe dream for her to leave the school, and she simply couldn't afford to go to another high school.

Just when she was at a loss and feeling increasingly depressed, another transfer student appeared.

(End of this chapter)