The next day, Beichuan Si opened his eyes and turned to look at Shen Gu Mirai, who was sleeping next to him.

After Shen Gu Mirai returned yesterday, she insisted on squeezing into the same bed space with him, leaving Beichuan Si with no choice but to make do and sleep on half the bed... But...

"This sleeping posture is quite interesting."

Beichuan Si tried to climb out of the bed space but found that Shen Gu Mirai's body was clinging tightly to him, holding onto him without letting go.

The way she used all her strength made Beichuan Si raise his eyebrows.

He turned his head again to look at Shen Gu Mirai.

She was sleeping sweetly, her peaceful face contrasting starkly with her absolutely not peaceful sleeping posture.

Seeing Shen Gu Mirai like this, Beichuan Si remained silent.

He just reached out his hand and—

placed it on Shen Gu Mirai's face, beginning to rub it vigorously.

First, he raised his hand and pulled Shen Gu Mirai's face wider, then brought his hands together and pressed her face inward.

Sensing Beichuan Si's increasingly presumptuous actions, the "sleeping" Shen Gu Mirai's expression changed abruptly as she opened her eyes in a panic, "Mr. Temple! What are you doing all of a sudden?!"

Beichuan Si, holding her fair cheeks, said nonchalantly,

"I wanted to see how long you could pretend to be asleep."

"Pretend to be asleep?"

Shen Gu Mirai glanced sideways guiltily.

She was indeed pretending to be asleep just now, as she had intentionally hugged Beichuan Si tightly to see his reaction.

However, Shen Gu Mirai didn't expect that Beichuan Si would see through it immediately and even pinch her face in retaliation.

But to admit her fault just like that...

It made her somewhat unwilling.

So, Shen Gu Mirai turned her big eyes and spoke righteously, "Honestly, I don't know what Mr. Temple means by 'pretending to be asleep'... Ouch, ouch, wait... Stop! Don't pinch my face... I was wrong, Mr. Temple!"

Upon hearing this, Beichuan Si also loosened the hand pinching her cheeks and reached beside the pillow for his cellphone.

He glanced at the time and then said,

"It's already 7:30, Mirai, we should get up now."

As Beichuan Si said this, he was about to get up.

But, the next moment, Shen Gu Mirai tugged at the sleeve of his robe.

Hmm?

Beichuan Si turned back, not understanding.

He saw Shen Gu Mirai with her arms outstretched, her crystal clear big eyes blinking at him, and her cheeks, which had been pinched by him, puffed up: "Mr. Temple, hug."

"...," Beichuan Si.

Beichuan Si looked at Shen Gu Mirai expressionlessly.

"Hug!"

Seeing Beichuan Si's unwillingness to reach out, Shen Gu Mirai showed an insistent look.

It was as if she would stay in the blankets forever if Beichuan Si didn't pull her out.

As the person in question, Beichuan Si couldn't help but rub his temple and finally reached out and lifted Shen Gu Mirai out of the blankets.

Beichuan Si ignored her silly smiling face and after lifting her up, he said, "I'm going down now to ask the lady boss to prepare breakfast. Tidy up a bit and come down. That should be no problem, right?"

"No problem... but, Mr. Temple..." Shen Gu Mirai turned her head towards the laptop on the small round table, "that thing you asked Kelian to do... it looks like she has already done it."

Hearing this, Beichuan Si's gaze flickered and he immediately went to the laptop.

At that moment, Nishijou Kurenai was lying on the laptop's touchpad, dozing off and occasionally turning over, with a light gold 'ZZZ' pattern continuously floating from her head.

Seeing this, Beichuan Si said nothing and waved the floating 'ZZZ' away, then picked up the still-sleeping Nishijou Kurenai and placed her on his shoulder.

After doing all this, he looked at the content on the computer screen.

Beside him, Shen Gu Mirai also leaned over without a word, and then showed an unsurprised expression:

"Just as I thought."

"Yep." Beichuan Si nodded, closed the browser page and the laptop screen thoughtfully and said,

"So now we'll see how the other party responds to what comes next."

Indeed, now that they had figured out this person's background, it was more or less time to see what the other party intended to do.

...

After breakfast, Beichuan Si took Shen Gu Mirai back to the construction site near Hirakawa High School from the day before.

This time, he didn't bring along Inuzuka Youka and Otomoto Ai, because their roles were just as tools to show the way... friends, and getting them too involved in this calamity box incident was somewhat inappropriate.

But—

Facing the delinquent students standing neatly in front of him, Beichuan Si raised an eyebrow.

Before he could speak, the delinquent students shouted loudly, "Good morning, Brother Beichuan!"

Their voices were neat... and somewhat resonant? It felt rehearsed.

"Yep."

Beichuan Si, the same as yesterday, replied coolly and looked at the leader Nakamashima, asking, "How's the investigation I asked you to do yesterday coming along?"

Hearing Beichuan Si say this, Nakamashima's face stiffened, then he stuttered, "Brother Beichuan, you asked us to investigate Fukuda's friends... We did investigate. But after a thorough investigation, we found out that Fukuda himself really doesn't have any particularly close friends. Although he has some friends, their relationships are just average."

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