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"Many people say so, but it's just a coincidence."

"Why didn't you go to that game that year?" Van suddenly brought up the matter.

"Because I thought if I didn't go, you would stay." Wen Tai exhaled a puff of smoke with a calm expression.

23. Fated people, father-son relationship

"Because I thought if I didn't go, you would stay." When hearing Van mention the competition that year, Wen Tai exhaled a puff of smoke, put down the cigarette in his hand again, with a calm expression, as if he was just talking about a trivial matter.

"Stay?... If I win, I have to go..." Van sighed. Some things are difficult for an ordinary person like Wen Tai to explain, and he could only answer vaguely like this. Van picked up the teacup and took a sip. He didn't drink much. He just put the teacup down after feeling a little wet. His original intention was not to drink tea, but it was his turn to speak. He couldn't express clearly what he wanted to express, so he had no choice but to pick up the teacup, hoping to hide something.

"Forget it, it's just a race. My absence isn't a big deal." Wen Tai glanced at Van's teacup. It was still quite full and there was no need to add more tea. He turned his attention back to his cigarette.

"By the way, your things are still here with me. Since you're back, take them quickly. I'll keep them for you." Wen Tai slowly stood up with his hands on the floor, turned around and walked into the room. After the sound of drawers being opened and lids being opened, Wen Tai walked out of the room with a bunch of keys in his hand and placed them in front of Van.

Hikigaya glanced at it curiously. It must be the car keys.

"You idiot, you just left your car and walked away. I have to wash your car every once in a while, and drive it for a few laps from time to time to prevent it from rusting. That's a GTR, boss. You just don't want it if you say you don't want it. You are worth tens of billions, Van." He had to maintain the car of this guy who just left without saying hello for so many years for no reason. It was a loss. The more Wen Tai thought about it, the more he felt he had lost.

Picking up the key in front of him, Van's eyes were filled with nostalgia.

"The car is parked behind the store. Do you want to go and take a look?" Wen Tai asked Van.

"Let's go and take a look." Van finished his tea in one gulp, stood up and followed Wen Tai out of the house.

Seeing this, Shidou was about to follow, but saw that Hikigaya and Yukinoshita did not move.

"Aren't you going to follow, Hikigaya-san? Yukinoshita-san?" Everyone was motionless, should I still go over...

"Shidou, it's enough for you to go. You should go. We'll watch a movie here and wait for you." Hikigaya said with a smile.

"Hmm?" Shidou looked at Hikigaya's ambiguous smile and listened to Hikigaya's words that he didn't quite understand. Why should he go? Did Van-san hint something to Hikigaya just now? He didn't seem to see any special movements or words from Van-san.

Although I don't quite understand what Hikigaya means, since he suggested that I go up, there shouldn't be any problem.

"Then I'll go out too and not bother you any more." Shidou turned and walked out, leaving behind words that could easily be misunderstood.

Seeing Shidou walk away and outside, Yukinoshita finally couldn't help it and pulled Hikigaya's sleeve.

"Hey, did you reach any agreement with Van? Hikigaya, when? I can't tell at all." Curiosity was written all over Yukinoshita's face.

"It's normal that you can't see it." Hikigaya picked up the teacup and took a sip, as calm as an old man fishing.

"Because nothing happened at all. I just thought that something would happen if Shidou went with him, so I let him go out." Hikigaya spoke calmly, as if he knew something, giving people a feeling of enlightenment.

"Oh." I was indeed too naive, but I was able to keep my mood calm. I simply replied "Di Xueshita" and sat down again. I kept changing channels with the remote control, looking for more interesting programs.

"Actually, I am your father." The cold and ruthless voice of the Dark Sith Lord sounded from the TV.

"Wow, Star Wars is playing here." Although I've seen it before, it doesn't matter if I watch my favorite movie one more time. Putting down the remote control, Yukinoshita sat in a lazy posture, no longer forcing herself to follow her sister's footsteps. It was really...refreshing.

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Van ran his hand across the hood of the black GTR in front of him, without any dust left on his fingers. He had chosen it at first sight. The noble black color was DARK, which matched the name of Van.

"Thank you, Bunta." Van could see that the performance of the car had not changed much after so many years. It was obvious that Bunta was maintaining it very carefully, waiting for him to come back one day and take back this GTR. Just like himself, he had been waiting, waiting for a stranger from the same place. He wanted to have a race with Bunta on Akina Mountain!

"Would you like to go to Akina Mountain, Van?"

"I wanted to ask you the same thing just now." Van had already opened the car door and sat in the driver's seat of the GTR.

"Come on up, Shidou. I'll teach you how to drive. Next time we go to the arcade, finish that game."

"Okay, Van-san."

"Takumi, throw the keys to the AE86 over here and get in. Dad will teach you how to outrun these expensive sports cars." His own dad actually helped, and Takumi excitedly got into the AE86 with the black hood.

"Wun Tai, be careful of your hand shaking." Van rolled down the car window and looked at Wen Tai with an annoying smile.

"Don't forget who taught you to drive, Van." Wen Tai, who also lowered the car window, held a cigarette in his left hand, put it out of the window and shook off the ash.

"Then let's get started." Van said.

Wen Tai took his hand back and closed the window. Van also closed the window and put on his black hood. Although no one shouted to start, Van and Wen Tai had agreed that the race would start when the engine roared three times, and neither of them had forgotten it.

"Buzz..." Three engine roars, accompanied by the screaming of wheels, Van and Wen Tai's cars rushed out almost at the same time.

On the short straight line ahead, due to horsepower, the GTR had a slight advantage over Wen Tai's AE86, and the gap gradually widened on the downhill section.

"Van-san, we are in the lead." Shidou shouted excitedly as he watched the 86 behind him being slowly left behind.

"It's a straight line and it's downhill, so it's normal to have a little distance between us. However, Wen Tai's 86 has also been modified, so we can't have a too far distance." Van held the steering wheel with a focused look. Wen Tai also won the race when he was driving an unmodified 86, but... it would be great to have another race with him.

In the 86, neither Bunta nor Takumi reacted much. Considering the performance of the two cars, this start is normal. After all, the GTR is crowned the God of War by many drivers. However, no matter how strong the horsepower is, it can only show its advantage on a track with many straight lines, but this is Akina Mountain.

Soon, Van came to a bend after another. He had to step on the brakes to slow down. The GTR's speed dropped suddenly. If someone was watching, they would have noticed that the front wheels of the GTR had been worn red and made an extremely harsh sound. Once out of the bend, Van stepped on the accelerator at the fastest speed. In the short straight line, the GTR's speed increased rapidly, slowly accumulating its own advantages.

Wen Tai shifted to second gear, and the front of the car entered the curve almost along the inside line. After entering the curve, the car body deviated and he even stepped on the accelerator, shortening the distance with Van.

The first section of the road in Akina Mountain has fewer bends and the curvature of the bends is not large, so Van has been leading temporarily. In the middle section, some bends with larger curvatures and slopes begin to appear. In such sections, GTR no longer has an advantage and the distance between them is constantly closing in the bends. Soon, the two will reach the five consecutive hairpin turns in the last section.

At the first turn, Van still stepped on the accelerator and brakes at the same time, trying to stick to the inside line as much as possible, while Wen Tai accelerated directly to the outside line before stepping on the brakes, letting the car drift on the outside line. The two were almost parallel.

If I continue like this, I will lose. With Wen Tai's skills and the modified 86, even if he takes the outside line in the next turn, he will still leave me behind. I can only try to see if I can stop Wen Tai.

Van stepped on the accelerator and the GTR moved ahead of the 86, but also lost a little of its own inside line.

Van tried to block the 86 at every turn, but as the gap on the inside line gradually widened, Van knew he had already lost.

Just as Van thought, at the last bend Wen Tai turned directly into the inner line, and put the front wheel on the inner line into the drainage ditch to pass the bend, completely surpassing Van.

Van stopped the car and took off his hood. Wen Tai also stopped the car not far ahead, got out, lit a cigarette and looked at Van with a smile.

"My hands are shaking, Van." Wen Tai shouted loudly.

In response to Bunta's words, Van just smiled and waved his hand.

"I know you're awesome, the car god of Akina Mountain."

"Let's go back." Van got back in the car.

"Van-san, are you leaving?" While driving, Shidao nervously asked what he wanted to ask.

"I'm not leaving. I won't leave if I lose." If Wen Tai had also come to participate in the competition that year, he would not have won at all, and he would not have left.

"Then Van-san, are you going to continue living in my house?" Shidou said excitedly.

"What? Do you really think of me as your dad?" Van put his big hand on Shidao's head.

"Sure." Van smiled, not knowing what he meant. Can he live in Shidao's house? Or can he let Shidao treat him as his father? Or both?

I now have a new family member, Shidou thought while sitting in the passenger seat.

"By the way, Mr. Van, is your name Van?"

"Name? Actually, my name is Dawei, Chonggong Dawei, but I prefer people to call me Van."

"Then I'll just call you Van."

"Are you really not going to try calling me dad? Shidou, I don't mind."

"Forget it, Mr. Van. It's the same if you call me Van."

"Heh, whatever you want."

On 'Fraxinus', Murasame Reine, who was monitoring Shidou, suddenly spat out the coffee in her mouth and kept coughing. She must have choked, poor kid.

24. Not-so-routine commissions

"Red Center!" He had already drawn several cards in a row, and he wasn't going to get Thirteen Yao. Hikigaya was helpless and slammed the Red Center he had just drawn on the table.

"Pong." Yukinoshita's cold voice sounded, and she turned over two red cards from her own deck, took the cards that Hikigaya had just played, and put them together at the corner of the table.

"No way, the red and the center are all touched..." It was clearly me who suggested playing cards, why did it turn out like this?

"You're lucky if it's not a kong. There isn't even a red card on the table." Because he played a kong card, if he was kong, Hikigaya would lose.

"It's human nature to want to play when you draw a card," Hikigaya explained casually.

After returning from Akina Mountain, Van temporarily stayed at Gokawa Shido's house. On the way back, after discussing with Yukinashita, Hikigaya invited Shido to join the Service Club.

The Service Club is awesome, everyone in it is a big shot, and it's free, you can come whenever you want, and the important thing is to participate. This sounds pretty good, and just like that, Shidou was lured to the Service Club by Hikigaya. Since Shidou is here, Tohka is also indispensable. It's a cause for celebration, this department with a bad name finally has more than just Yukinoshita and Hikigaya, and they can now play mahjong together.

"Ninety thousand." After that, it was Yukinoshita's turn to play.

"Yukino, Yukino, I have 70,000 and 80,000 cards, can I eat them?" Tohka asked excitedly, waving the two cards of 70,000 and 80,000 in her hand.

"Tohka, the cards we are playing now cannot take the cards of the previous player. We can only touch them at most." Yukinoshita explained to Tohka patiently.

"Really... Then I'll play five cakes." After drawing all the cards, Tohka threw out a lone card at random.

"This is a ghost (laizi) Tohka..." Shidou touched his forehead and was unable to express his feelings in words.

"Excuse me, is anyone there?" There was a knock on the door and a female voice came from outside the service department.

"Just open the door and come in." Yukinoshita shouted, and her attention returned to the battle.

Hey, are these people really reliable, Mr. Shizuka Hiratsuka?

Following the advice of teacher Shizuka Hiratsuka, the blonde classmate with twin ponytails, Eriri Sawamura, came to the Service Club to seek help. At this time, she looked at the four people playing mahjong in the school with an abstract expression on her face.

a few minutes ago,

"Teacher Shizuka Hiratsuka...you are very powerful, right..." Eriri said with red eyes and tears in her eyes as she looked at Shizuka Hiratsuka. She had heard that Shizuka Hiratsuka had amazing fighting power and she believed that she would be able to help her solve any small troubles.

"Well...it's not that great..." Shizuka Hiratsuka couldn't bear the sudden praise from her lovely student. She turned her head away with a blush.

"Teacher...I seem to have seen a ghost..." Eriri cried.

"A ghost?!" Shizuka Hiratsuka was confused. She couldn't deal with such a strange thing. I thought you were just being bullied by others... What should I do... I am a teacher and I can't let my students down.

Shizuka Hiratsuka felt like she was about to break out in a cold sweat...Oh, by the way, let her go find Yukino.

"Don't be afraid of ghosts, Eriri, I know some very professional guys." Shizuka Hiratsuka's face was full of an expression that said 'I want some good stuff, do you want to come and see?'

"Really, Teacher Shizuka Hiratsuka?" There was a gleam of hope in Eriri's eyes. It turned out to be the right thing to do when there is a problem.

"Go to this place, there is a department called the Service Department." Shizuka Hiratsuka pointed the way to Eriri.

"Okay, thank you, teacher." It's actually right here in the school. Is this the legendary great hermit hiding in the city?! Ying Lili thought, wait, isn't this the same department as last time!