Tokyo Unnatural Forensics

Chapter 128, Asuka's New Home

Just as Asuka was packing her things upstairs and preparing to leave this sad place, Uesugi Sosetsu was chatting with Erina downstairs.

The tall beauty has enjoyed a double harvest in love and career during this period. She has experienced unprecedented bliss and has made further progress in her career and has been promised a job in the Metropolitan Police Department. She is as radiant as a blooming flower. Her originally hot and sunny eyes are now filled with the figure of Uesugi Sosetsu, and she wishes she could be with him every day.

In fact, she did so.

However, Uesugi Sosetsu's inexplicable behavior today made Erina feel uneasy, but she seemed unable to organize complete words to express her meaning at once, so she simply kept silent and just observed.

Fortunately, Miss Minami helped Erena ask most of her questions. Asuka's life experience is indeed heartbreaking. Erena also sympathizes with her and can understand Uesugi Sosetsu's decision.

But I understand ≠ I accept!
When she thought that Uesugi Sosetsu actually planned to take the girl home, Erina felt indescribably strange. It would be fine if the other party was an ugly girl, but looking at the appearance of this girl, she was simply a beauty that only appears once in a thousand years!
Such a girl was taken home by Uesugi Sosetsu?
Erina felt vaguely uncomfortable.

To put it another way, even if Uesugi Sosetsu has no feelings towards this super cute girl, it is still a bit inconvenient to have one more person in the family.

Well, that’s very inconvenient!

Thinking of this, Hui Lingnai was a little angry, and her cheeks puffed up slightly: "You decided so hastily? Zong Xue, doesn't she still owe you 58.8?"

"Well, yes, tuition in Japan is that expensive." Uesugi Sosetsu did not directly answer Erina's question. Instead, he described to Erina that the tuition at Musashino University is as high as 180 million yen a year.

And this is just tuition, not miscellaneous fees! There are all kinds of miscellaneous fees for textbooks, tools, miscellaneous fees, club fees, plus the cost of living in Tokyo. No matter how you calculate it, 4 million yen a year is still tight.

"Then why does she still owe 300 million in scholarships?" Erina was also distracted by Uesugi Sosetsu. The tall beauty stuck out her tongue and said, "Why did she spend so much? And it's not a scholarship? Why does she have to pay it back?"

"Pfft." Uesugi Sosetsu was amused by Erina's question.

Thinking about it carefully, this tall and beautiful teacher of his has never worried about tuition fees. She was born in a foreign trade company family in the golden age. Her father was a middle-level manager of a foreign trade company stationed overseas with an annual salary of 900 million yen. After the bubble economy burst, the company went bankrupt. Erina's father used the connections and resources he had accumulated overseas to simply change to a foreign trade company and continue to work as a middle-level manager with an annual salary of 600 million. The impact was not so big as to cause her to slide down the social ladder.

She has been trained as a professional judo and karate player from elementary school to now, and has won countless awards. As a national sport, she has naturally received numerous scholarships and subsidies of various kinds, so she has never worried about money.

Since the scholarship reform in 07, Japan's scholarships have been divided into two types: grant-type scholarships and loan-type scholarships.

Only the former is truly free, while the latter needs to be repaid! And it is a high-interest student loan of about 3% per year!
However, the vast majority of places and application conditions for grant-type scholarships are reserved for foreign students. It is difficult for Japanese students to obtain this type of scholarship. Basically, they can only apply for the latter, and this scholarship must be repaid in the future!
So it is no wonder that the Japanese people are extremely resentful about this. Some extremists have even expressed the opinion that "Japan is dead" on this matter. Many people are already heavily in debt after graduation before they even find a job. What's worse is that nearly half of the college students don't even know that they have to pay it back and still think that this money is given to themselves.

So, why are university tuition fees so expensive in Japan?

To be objective here, the tuition fees of Japanese universities used to be very cheap, but from the 90s to now, the tuition fees of universities have increased by about 40 times, while the per capita income has dropped by 10%.

His grades in his previous life were not bad, but after entering university, he found that he was still living in a six-person room with no balcony and the toilet was a public toilet.

Prison is better than this!

Fortunately, because it was so hot, an air conditioner was installed that year, otherwise he would have rebelled.

But when he visited the college next door, the twelve-person room, sixteen-person room, and a special twenty-person room refreshed his understanding.

Even a pigsty is better than this!

However, no matter how much he complained or how much he disagreed, Uesugi Munen had to admit that college was cheap!
Really cheap!
This alone is enough to offset most of the problems.

Universities in Japan are very expensive. It is expensive to study, live, and eat.

Uesugi Sosetsu even had reason to suspect that these people deliberately made the tuition so expensive to ensure that children from poor families could not afford to go to college... or at least would be severely drained of their money by student loans.

50% of college students in Japan need scholarships to complete their university studies.

Damn little life.

I can only say that this is Japan. Listen to what Tokugawa Nobuyuki said.
"Huh? Is that so?" Ikeda Erena was a little confused. She remembered that she earned 27 yen a month, and thought that even if it was the th salary, it would not be enough to cover the cost of a year of college without eating or drinking!
Hehe, fortunately I didn’t go to college, but only went to a correspondence high school.

The tall beauty thought happily: Isn't this just saving a lot of money? And even if this is the case, I am already the patrol chief, and in the future I will be transferred to the Metropolitan Police Department headquarters and work with a group of professional team members who graduated from prestigious schools, so it doesn't make much difference. Win!
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At noon that day, in Sakata Bridge, in the cafeteria on the first floor.

Nothing can soothe a broken heart better than a big bowl of warm, steaming, smooth and chewy ramen on a cold winter day.

In the cafeteria with warm colors and heating on, Saito Asuka had completely disregarded her image and slurped noodles in big mouthfuls, like a hungry squirrel or a crying baby bird. She buried her little head in the big bowl of ramen with great effort, slurping it up loudly.

Seeing how hungry she was, Uesugi Soyuki and Ikeda Erena both felt very hungry. Uesugi Soyuki ate two set meals by himself, and Erena also ordered a serving of oden.

After finishing lunch, Saito Asuka finally had enough energy to observe the new environment.

The girl from Hokkaido was immediately dazzled by the huge luxury of the Sakata Bridge Tower.

So high! So bright! So clean! So luxurious!

A clean and tidy hotel-style reception, a shiny marble floor, a huge floor-to-ceiling glass exterior wall, European-style chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, rockery statues with fountains, and a Christmas tree hung with gifts.

All this was beyond Saito Asuka's imagination. She was stunned and soon lowered her head in inferiority. She twisted her feet together and hid behind Uesugi Sosetsu. Her delicate little hands gently pulled the corner of his clothes.

She, she is scared!
"Come with me." Uesugi Sosetsu smiled and indicated that the girl didn't need to be afraid, and just needed to follow him. He also touched her little head affectionately.

Seeing this scene, Erina rolled her eyes subconsciously and felt very uncomfortable, but when she thought of what happened to Saito Asuka, she could only sigh and didn't want to say anything more.

After getting into the elevator and pressing the 18th floor, when she arrived at the floor, the spacious elevator lobby in front of her made Asuka Saito subconsciously think that two or three families could live here. The row of floor-to-ceiling windows on the right was enough to overlook most of the Bunkyo Ward and the entire core area of Tokyo in the distance.

The girl was a little stunned. She had never seen the city from this perspective, never.

The girl felt refreshed for the first time with her belly filled completely after a long time and the view from above.

"Haha, if you like to watch, you will have plenty of time to watch in the future." Uesugi Sosetsu touched the girl's head and said lovingly, "Let's go home first, okay?"

The girl nodded gently like a chick pecking at rice, and like a little baby bird, she shyly and fearfully shrank her body behind Uesugi Sosetsu, with only her little head showing to observe the surroundings.

So you live in a place like this? A high-rise building overlooking the sea or the river?
After opening the door of Room 1802, the fresh air and light that rushed in made the girl even more nervous. She could hardly find a place to stay. She felt that she would make the place dirty!

Uesugi Sosetsu took out the slippers, and Ikeda Erena had already naturally taken off her high heels, revealing her beautiful black silk feet wrapped in thick black pantyhose and stuffed into the slippers.

Saito Asuka was urged by Uesugi Sosetsu before she quickly took off her small leather shoes with her hands, revealing a pair of pink, crystal clear, and petite translucent black silk feet. Seeing the man looking at her, the girl was very embarrassed. She didn't know where to put her black silk feet, so she quickly stuffed them into her slippers. She bowed 90 degrees to Uesugi Sosetsu very seriously and with a little panic, and shook her long hair from the back of her head to the front of her head: "Excuse me...excuse me!"

Opening the small room on the left side of the entrance, Uesugi Sosetsu said softly: "This will be your room from now on, Asuka."

The entrance room is not big, only about ten square meters in total.

"It's so big!" But the girl had never lived in such a big room before. She was shocked and said carefully: "I, I don't need such a big room, just a place to sleep... I, it's okay!"

"That's right, you'll live here." Uesugi Sosetsu instructed in an unquestionable tone: "I'll give you ten minutes to take out the things in your luggage and put them away. This will be your room from now on."

"Then we'll go to the property management office and I'll ask them to get you a secondary card. From now on, I'll take care of you instead of your sister."

Uesugi Sosetsu spoke in a serious tone, but Erina beside him changed her expression when she heard this.

"Uesugi, what about me?" the tall beauty said anxiously.

"Oh, Master, don't worry." Uesugi Sosetsu replied seriously: "Asuka will open the door for you."

"what?!"

(End of this chapter)