Chapter 14 I Just Want to Sleep with You
Fujii Itsuki stood at the door waiting for her to come closer, but the girl didn't even look up at the road, and just as she reached the door, she bumped straight into Fujii Itsuki's chest.

His forehead hit his chin.

"pain--"

She covered her head and saw Fujii Itsuki standing at the door.

She was probably in a bad mood, so she was not very polite to Fujii Itsuki.

"Step aside"

Seeing her appear in front of him, Fujii Itsuki relaxed a little, "Why didn't you answer the phone?"

“I didn’t hear it,” the girl turned her face away.

Fujii Itsuki was not polite to her and said bluntly: "I hope you know the contractual relationship between us."

"Of course I know that."

Fujii Itsuki retorted, "It's obvious that you don't know. After all, I was entrusted by the dean to look after you. If something happens to you, how can I report to the dean? Or do you want me to directly tell the dean what you were going to do in the past two days and let her convey it to your parents?"

Jiu Huayue stared at him and pursed her lips, as if she wanted to say something in rebuttal, but after seeing his serious face, she chose to remain silent.

The atmosphere suddenly froze.

Fujii Itsuki did not speak on his own initiative, and Jiuhuayue did not speak on her own initiative either.

Time passed by little by little in this inexplicable stalemate.
Fujii Itsuki sighed:
"Why are you back so late?"

"None of your business."

"It's really none of my business, and I don't really want to care about you."

Fujii Itsuki couldn't see her lowered face, and seeing that she was still depressed, he lowered his voice and asked:
"But as I said just now, due to the contractual relationship between us, I need to ask you what you did."

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Fujii Itsuki lowered his voice to a calm, concerned tone, "What did you do during the day? What happened?"

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"Why don't you speak?"

Jiu Huayue then noticed his going-out outfit, "Uncle, are you here to look for me?"

"Otherwise? Miss, think about how old you are. It's already so late and you haven't come home yet. If I were your parent, I would definitely lock you in your room and let you reflect on yourself all night."

Jiu Huayue raised her head and stared at Fujii Itsuki's serious expression for a long time, then lowered her head and whispered, "I didn't expect that the first person to ask me what I was going to do today would be a perverted uncle like you."

"How about you tell me what happened?"

"It's none of your business." Jiu Huayue lowered her head so low that her face couldn't be seen, her voice as thin as a mosquito, "I went out because of work. Also, don't call me that, I'm not some young lady."

"Work? Are you working part-time?"

"Anyway, it's not what you think. It's none of your business, don't ask. Just move aside and let me in."

It was obvious that something had happened to this child.

But he had no intention of asking about her personal life, and there was no necessary relationship between him and this girl.

He is just a temporary landlord who will cut off contact with me after a few days when he finds a job.

Since she didn't want to say, he didn't bother to ask more.

After being a teacher for three years, the most important lesson he learned was: never meddle in other people's affairs.

Fujii Itsuki planned to let her go, look away and ignore her.

Just when he turned his head, he happened to see the little snowman beside the path in the courtyard.

The little snowman still faced the iron gate in the snow, waving his dry branch arms at night.

Fujii Itsuki immediately recalled the snowman's cute smiling face.

This reminded him of something.

It welcomes itself, and naturally welcomes everyone who enters this house.

The girl has no family, no friends, and no classmates here.

This snowman could only be made by her for herself.

That is to say - she welcomes herself home every day
Fujii Itsuki was silent.

He thought of someone.

A person who works as a teacher in Tokyo, who comes home exhausted at night and often says "I'm back" to the empty house.

That person understood this feeling very well.
The reason why I often say that sentence is just that I am looking forward to it. I am looking forward to someone responding to me one day when I return home exhausted. I am looking forward to someone at home silently waiting for me to come home and leaving a light on for me.

"Have you eaten yet?"

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Silence.

"You came home in the snow late at night, without anything on your hands, and your phone was out of battery. You must have missed your meal. Are you hungry?"

"He is indeed a perverted uncle. He has only lived in my house for one day, and he is already thinking of doing something bad to me and sleeping with me." The girl muttered softly.

"You are so young, what nonsense are you talking about?"

"Why else would you care about me so abruptly?" Jiu Huayue's expression turned back to disgust. "I understand what you're thinking, uncle. You've never had a girlfriend, so you want to take advantage of her. I advise you to give up this idea as soon as possible, because no matter what the situation is, I will never accept a perverted uncle like you."

"Dead?"

"I won't let you sleep even if I die!"

How insecure is this child? He has all kinds of crazy thoughts all day long.

Fujii Itsuki admitted that she was indeed stunningly beautiful.

But she was not Fujii Itsuki's type. She was only sixteen, too young, a little kid whose hair had not even fully grown.

"You're already dead, it's not up to you."

Jiu Huayue was stunned for a moment, then glared at him, "You - pervert!"

Fujii Itsuki sighed, "It was just a joke, but you really took it seriously. I cared about whether you had eaten or not because of the snowman you built."

".What's wrong?"

"It welcomed me when I first came here, and it welcomed me home this afternoon, too. So I like it very much, and it was you who made it. So, does this count as a favor from you?"

"Your reason is too far-fetched!" Jiu Huayue didn't believe it at all.

Fujii Itsuki had no intention of explaining, "It is what it is, and I like it very much."

"You just want to sleep with me!"

"Okay, I just want to sleep with you. I care about you so that you, a suicidal girl, can take the opportunity to fall in love with me, and then I can sleep with you legitimately. After all, you are a young girl who is ten years younger than me. You are tall, have long legs, a nice butt, and are very beautiful. Which man wouldn't love you?"

"Sure enough..." Jiuhuayue took two steps back.

Fujii was too lazy to argue with this girl. "Alright, alright, aren't you cold standing outside talking all the time? Go inside first, forget about what happened today for now, be happy, and have a meal first. What's with that look in your eyes?"

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"Do you want a bento? I bought a lot."

"No, thanks."

"You hungry?"

".I ate before returning home."

"When I first came in, I asked you if you had eaten. Why didn't you say anything back?"

".There is no need to refute, and I will answer all your questions."

This girl is too defensive.

Fujii Itsuki didn't care. Since she didn't want it, he could just keep it for himself.

Fujii Itsuki has the habit of reading at night.

This caused him to eat a little slowly, and because Jiuhuayue came home too late, he was delayed and went to bed at one o'clock.

At 2:30, I was half asleep and half awake. I got up to go to the bathroom, put on my slippers and left the room.

Unexpectedly, I ran into Jiu Huayue who was tossing around in the open kitchen.

Fujii Itsuki crossed his arms over his chest and watched the girl looking for food with interest in the light of the outdoor street lamp.

She searched the cupboard, but nothing was there.

She rummaged through the refrigerator and found only her lunch box. She subconsciously reached out her hand but ultimately chose not to take it.

Seeing this, Fujii Itsuki reached out and knocked on the dining table beside him, scaring the girl in front of him so much that she shuddered.

"Why did you get up in the middle of the night to steal things?" "Who! Who stole it? I didn't take your lunch box."

"You haven't confessed yet."

Fujii Itsuki showed no mercy to her and exposed her directly:
"hungry?"

".No. No, not hungry."

"If you're not hungry, why are you getting up in the middle of the night?"

"Uncle, you don't get up in the middle of the night, do you?"

"I'm going to the bathroom."

".Me too."

Fujii Itsuki didn't say anything, but pointed to where she was.

What I mean is that you went to the toilet and came to the kitchen.

The deliberately cold expression on the eldest lady's face could no longer be maintained.

"I, this is."

"If you're hungry, just tell me. I have bento and instant noodles."

".Not hungry."

"Are you worried that eating my food will be bad?"

"I ate something—"

Before she could finish her sentence, her stomach growled.

Jiu Huayue was now completely embarrassed.

Fujii Itsuki knew that this girl was very proud and was not in a good mood today, so he continued, "It's because you ate too little last time, so you were hungry in the middle of the night."

"Ah? Hmm." Jiuhuayue didn't react for a moment why he said that.

"How long ago did you eat? Even if you ate very little at noon, you wouldn't be this hungry."

".Nine o'clock in the morning." The girl's voice became much softer.

"No wonder, then you sit down for a while."

"what?"

"What? Isn't it good to get you something to eat?"

Fujii Itsuki turned on the light in the living room, went back to his room, took out the instant noodles, and took out the lunch box from the refrigerator.

Heat the bento in the microwave.

I boiled some hot water and put the ingredients packet away for her, and told her that if the lunch box was not enough, she could just pour some hot water and eat the instant noodles.

During this time, Jiu Huayue was watching him prepare from behind. When the two items were placed in front of her, she looked at the two foods in silence.

"Not hungry yet?"

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Fujii Itsuki knew that she was resisting him, so he added, "It's just instant noodles and bento. Nothing will happen if you eat them. I didn't put any drugs in them."

".Didn't you say you wanted to sleep with me? Maybe there was drug in it."

"That was a joke."

"Please respect yourself," Jiu Huayue said seriously, "No one in Huihui would joke like this!"

"I was trying to save you at the station. You were the first one to say those words just now. I was just following your words and making a joke."

"Sorry! I'm not that familiar with you. What I said was my reasonable guess about you. And your words are no different from hooliganism to me. Even if you are really joking, I have reason to believe that this is something that may happen in the future."

Jiuhuayue's attitude was both cold and serious.

This girl appears to be cold as ice, but she is actually very sensitive and timid.

The relationship between her and me is almost like that between strangers.

It's really inappropriate to joke like that.

Even a joke that went along with what she was saying would provoke her inner resistance and disgust.

Realizing this, Fujii Itsuki became more serious, cleared his throat and said:

"Well, I understand. I'm sorry. Since you care so much about those words, I won't joke with you like this again in the future."

Fujii Itsuki's sudden apology caught Jiuhuayue off guard, and she was two or three seconds late in reacting.

".No. It's okay. Thank you for apologizing."

"I am, thank you for your forgiveness."

They were still confronting each other one second ago, and the next second they accepted each other's words as if they had reconciled.

This made Jiuhuayue seem very embarrassed, but Fujii Itsuki didn't think it was a big deal.

Before becoming a teacher, humbly apologizing to students or juniors is one of the compulsory courses.

If you make a mistake, just admit it. There's nothing to be embarrassed about.

Of course, there are also quite a few teachers who completely forget about this after getting the certificate, and always maintain their teacher's airs.

"Besides, don't worry, I haven't left the house since you came back, so I don't have time to buy things like that."

".It is also possible that you bought it in advance and then waited for the opportunity to feed it to me." Jiu Huayue's words were obviously not as strong as before.

"You hungry?"

“Still hungry”

"Then why don't you eat it? Don't say you're worried that I drugged you. I know you're just making excuses for yourself."

“.”Jiuhuayue did not answer.

Fujii Itsuki knew that she was very proud, and figured out why she was unwilling to accept it, so he said:

"It's not the food I made myself, so there's no need to take it so seriously. You don't have to feel like you owe me a favor for doing this. At most, you can deduct the money from my rent and count it as buying it from me. Is that okay?"

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Seeing that she was still hesitant, Fujii Itsuki softened his voice, like a teacher educating a student:

"Jiuhua, I don't know what you went through today, but I don't think it was a good thing, otherwise you wouldn't have kept your head down when you went home today. You don't want to tell me, and I respect your choice and won't ask too much. However, if others let you down, don't let yourself down, and learn to take care of your body. Eat something if you're hungry. It's not good food, but at least it can fill your stomach."

Jiuhuayue had never heard him speak in that voice before and gave him a curious look.

But I am still hesitant whether to accept it.

The boiled water has gone cold.

She was still standing there stupidly, and Fujii Itsuki was also standing there stupidly with her.

This girl is really not frank at all.

Don’t you feel cold?
Anyway, Fujii Itsuki was already beginning to feel the air was freezing cold.

He didn't want to waste his time in this meaningless confrontation, so he helped the girl heat up the lunch box again, boiled the water, and prepared to leave the living room.

"I'll leave the lunch box and instant noodles here. If you don't want to eat them, just leave them there until I get up tomorrow morning to clean them up. If you want to eat them, remember to eat them quickly. It's easy to catch a cold if you stay up too late in the middle of the night."

After saying that, he returned to his room.

Jiu Huayue, who was left alone in the living room, watched Fujii Itsuki disappear, and then turned her gaze to the two portions of food he had prepared for her on the table.
She thought it was ridiculous.

The first person who cared about me and asked me what happened today was the perverted uncle I hated the most.

This perverted uncle not only cared about his own situation, but also found himself out looking for food in the middle of the night and saved face for himself by leaving these two simple meals.

She couldn't quite understand the thinking of this perverted uncle.

Thinking about it carefully, this perverted uncle always said some very rude and annoying words, but he really did not pose any real threat to me, nor did he touch me, and I didn't even get those guys to look at me with disgust.
Jiuhuayue's eyes once again fell on the two simple dishes on the table.

Maybe the perverted uncle is indeed a perverted uncle, but is he really a good person as the dean said?

Jiu Huayue remembered him standing at the door at night, ready to go out to look for her.
Why would he notice that I didn't go home? There was obviously no relationship between them, just a contract of mutual exploitation.

I am just a stranger to him, right?
It's strange to make several phone calls and go out at night to look for a stranger, isn't it?
If I committed suicide, it would have nothing to do with him, right?
Why meddle in other people's business and why did you choose to stop yourself that day.

I clearly want to attribute all these problems to his evil intentions towards me, but I always feel that it is not the case.
Is this perverted uncle really a good person?
Jiuhuayue was extremely conflicted, but finally her eyes fell on the lunch box and instant noodles on the table.

Snowflakes were falling outside the window, and the air inside was cold and quiet late at night.

The girl held her stomach and sat down at the dining table.
She hesitated for a moment, but finally couldn't resist the hunger in her stomach. After muttering "thank you" quietly, she started eating.

(End of this chapter)