This Japanese Monogatari Isn't Lame
Chapter 254 - 203: Some People Take Life Too Seriously (5000 words!)_2

Chapter 254: Chapter 203: Some People Take Life Too Seriously (5000 words!)_2

Beichuan Si set aside the matters concerning Nakajima Michika and Dubian Kyoko and picked up the phone from Hirasaka Ichiro: "Hello?"

"Is this Beichuan Master?" the other party asked respectfully.

"....." Beichuan Si.

After a moment of silence, he spoke, "What does Mr. Hirasaka need from me?"

"Ah... To be honest, Beichuan Master, there is indeed a matter that needs to be dealt with here, uh... I was wondering if there might be a chance to have a face-to-face talk with you?"

Relaxation activities now?

Beichuan Si’s face twitched slightly, and he responded, "I happen to have some time available this Saturday and Sunday."

Qianye Yuki’s legs were almost fully healed, and what followed was up to her own rehabilitation. With Nakajima Michika under the watch of Dubian Kyoko, Beichuan Si was in no rush. After all, he still had half a year to squander.

"This Saturday... Sunday... that is, in two days? Okay, I understand. Then I will trouble Beichuan Master to make a trip here, and as for the compensation, we definitely won’t disappoint you, alright?"

Beichuan Master...

Beichuan Si agreed expressionlessly.

He hung up the phone, set it down, and already had a guess in his mind.

The kinds of problems that Hirasaka Ichiro would ask him to help solve were usually of only one kind—

Paranormal events.

This was something Beichuan Si also sought after.

Taking care of Nakajima Michika lately had added quite a bit of pressure on himself, and now with no troublemakers coming to bother them, going to Ibaraki Prefecture to relax was understandably a reasonable thing to do.

Beichuan Si made up his mind and decided to make a trip to Ibaraki Prefecture over the weekend.

...

After school, Beichuan Si returned home.

"I’m back?" Nakajima Michika from the other side of the living room ran over, her complexion somewhat strange, and said upon seeing Beichuan Si: "Um, Mr. Beichuan, do you think I might be a bit abnormal?"

Hm?

Beichuan Si was changing his slippers, lifted his head after hearing this, and asked indifferently, "Miss Nakajima, do you think asking others ’whether you’re abnormal’ is a normal thing to do?"

Uh—

Nakajima Michika was choked by these words, and after quite a while, she retorted unhappily, "I’m asking you seriously!"

She felt that the pressure had been too much lately, with both auditory and visual hallucinations occurring.

"You should be aware of whether what you’re seeing is fake, whether what you’re hearing is fake, Miss Nakajima."

After changing into his slippers, Beichuan Si went upstairs, not forgetting to give a concise reply to Nakajima Michika below.

"Uh..."

Nakajima Michika looked at Beichuan Si who had gone upstairs and then at Dubian Kyoko who followed her, and said with an extremely complicated expression:

"I think I really should go see a psychologist..."

"Shihua, I think it’s about time for you to accept the result."

"...But... but but but..." Nakajima Michika stammered, "Mr. Beichuan told me that you are still alive, now lying in the ICU, but now you’ve turned into a Spiritual Body..."

As she spoke, Nakajima Michika began to feel guilty again.

But compared to Nakajima Michika’s guilty expression, Dubian Kyoko at her side was much more cheerful.

As said before, she was a girl so optimistic that it scared even Beichuan Si.

"No matter what the result is, all I can do now is stay by your side, Shihua." Dubian Kyoko looked at Nakajima Michika with a bright and genuine smile.

"...I suppose so." Nakajima Michika reluctantly accepted the reality and returned to her own room.

Nakajima Michika’s room remained the same, with simple furniture and a silver, slim notebook computer on the desk.

Nakajima Michika walked in, then turned to look back at Dubian Kyoko, feeling as though she was in a dream.

But there were things that still had to be done.

She owed her an apology.

Nakajima Michika turned back, straightened her clothes, and bowed deeply to Dubian Kyoko to apologize: "I’m sorry, Sakura."

She bowed down, lowering her head, hoping for the other’s forgiveness.

Ten seconds passed, then a minute...

Dubian Kyoko chuckled.

Nakajima Michika, confused, raised her head and looked at Dubian Kyoko:

"Sakura...?"

Why laugh?

She couldn’t quite understand.

"Your body is still lying in the hospital, uncertain between life and death, why can you still laugh, Miss Dubian?"

The situation was already so serious.

Nakajima Michika couldn’t make any sense of it.

Just as she was about to question further, Dubian Kyoko laughingly and confidently responded:

"Besides, it’s not like you were the one who drove and got me into the hospital, why are you being so hard on yourself? I think it’s funny to see you like this, Shihua, so I laughed."

"Shihua, you kindly paid my medical expenses in advance, which is the most anyone could do, what’s wrong with me smiling because I met a good person like you?"

"This..." Nakajima Michika meant to argue, but couldn’t find anything in the other’s words to refute.

"Also, just because of some misfortunes in life, should I not laugh anymore? I’m still alive, aren’t I? My body is still alive, I’m still here, able to talk with you, Shihua, isn’t that enough? Shouldn’t I be grateful instead that I could survive being hit by such a truck? Shouldn’t I be smiling?"

"Rather, I should be thanking you, Shihua, for lending a hand these past few days, my grandparents certainly couldn’t have afforded to pay for my treatment."