The strongest high school student in Japan

Mogami Jun quickly saw clearly that the one leading the group was none other than senior classmate Umemiya Natsuki, and the one walking in the middle was Izumo Asana.

He quickly got out of the car and waved to them.

The girls quickened their pace and walked in front of him.

"Good evening, everyone." He greeted them quickly, "I'm sorry to bother you so late..."

To his surprise, these girls did not look sleepy, impatient, or nervous. On the contrary, they seemed quite excited. Some of them looked at him with red faces and flickering eyes, as if they were watching some spectacular drama.

Uh...did they have some weird misunderstanding?

Jun Mogami quickly looked at Asana, and the moment their eyes met, Asana suddenly blushed and lowered her head.

At this moment he finally reacted. At this critical moment, he drove dozens of kilometers late at night (although it was actually his mother who was driving) to see Asana. How much of an impact did this have on the students of the girls' school?

It's just like a girl's comic or a TV idol drama.

Uh, how embarrassing... Even with his thick skin, he couldn't stand their gaze.

They certainly didn't realize that they were forced to come here by their mother, right? I certainly couldn't tell them.

For a moment he didn't know what to say, and Asana remained silent.

"Her Royal Highness the Princess has finally come to pick up the maid?" At this time, someone in the crowd started to make a noise, which caused others to laugh.

The more they laughed, the more embarrassed Mogami Jun felt. In order to get out of the predicament, he had to look at Umemiya Natsuki.

"Umemiya-senpai, thank you for protecting Asana all this time."

"I should do this, I don't need any thanks." Mei Gong Xia Fei interrupted him directly, and then her eyes softened a little, "At least you still have some conscience."

"Has Asana told you? I have something I want to talk to her about alone..." Mogami Jun asked again.

"Yes, I've already said that." Mei Gong Xia Fei nodded, then waved to the other girls, "Let's go back first. Contact me when you're done talking, and I'll pick her up."

"Thank you so much." Jun Mogami thanked him quickly.

"If you really want to be grateful, you should take better care of Asana." Umemiya Xia Fei sneered, "Okay, time is precious, you guys should finish your talk as soon as possible, we will go back first."

Then, without saying anything else, she turned around and walked towards the school gate, and the others followed her.

"Your Highness, you must persevere to the end! We all support you!" Someone suddenly shouted, and then there was another burst of laughter. They returned to the school gate while laughing.

Just like that, silence returned here all of a sudden, with only Mogami Jun and Izumo Asana left facing each other.

Because her companions had already left, Asana finally overcame her shyness and looked up at Mogami Jun.

"Chun, thank you." She said again. "Thanks to your help, I have been able to hold on until now..."

Mogami Jun took a deep breath.

Asana's thanks made him feel even more guilty. His visit today was destined not to make people happy.

The weather is very good now, with a cool breeze that makes people feel very comfortable.

This is a beautiful scene under the moon and flowers, but it is really not a good time to be sad.

But now that it has come to this, there is no way to not say it.

"Asana, I'm so sorry, I have something unpleasant to tell you, can you please listen carefully?"

253, Willful

"Asana, I'm so sorry, I have something unpleasant to tell you, can you please listen carefully?"

"Something unpleasant to hear? Do I have to say it now?" After hearing what Mogami Jun said, Izumo Asana was a little confused, but still nodded, "Okay, then please say it..."

Mogami Jun seemed to want to say something but stopped himself.

At this moment, Asana was looking at him with her head slightly tilted up, looking very focused.

She was so cute in her school uniform that Jun Mogami suddenly felt a little sorry for her.

She is just a teenager. Does she have to face all this?

However, now that it has come to this, I have to say it no matter how reluctant I am.

Mogami Jun bit his lip and hardened his heart.

"Is such that--"

Then, without stopping, he told Asana all the news he had heard before, as well as the visit he and Sagihara-senpai had made to Matsukata Nobuo's family, and his recent secret actions. Except for some irrelevant remarks from his grandfather, he basically told her everything.

Under his mother's persuasion, he finally decided to lay everything out on the table and let Asana choose what to do next - after all, isn't this her own business?

When he first said this, Mogami Jun was still paying attention to Asana's expression, but he soon gave up and deliberately looked in other directions.

Because he saw that Asana's face was getting paler and paler, and he couldn't bear to watch any longer.

There is really nothing to be happy about in delivering a new blow to a girl who has suffered a series of blows.

"...That's basically the situation." After Mogami Jun finished speaking, he looked at Asana again, "I know these words may not sound nice, but after careful consideration, I think it's better to tell you, Asana, I hope you can understand..."

"If I heard correctly, you mean that, behind the scenes... my parents are criminals?" Izumo Asana opened her eyes wide and looked at Mogami Jun. "And you are preparing evidence to catch him?"

"We can't be sure yet whether they have broken the law. Everything is still at the stage of suspicion and speculation." Mogami Jun answered in a low voice.

"Now is not the time for controversial words, right?!" Asana suddenly raised her voice, "Jun, when you were collecting evidence, weren't you assuming that they were criminals? Otherwise, would it be necessary to go to such great lengths?!"

Izumo Asana got angry.

Mogami Jun was sure that this was the first time she got angry in front of him.

Asana frowned, breathing slightly heavily, and the corners of his mouth seemed to tremble slightly.

That angry look and that overwhelming aura made people feel her anger.

Only at this time did Mogami Jun finally feel that she was, after all, a young lady who had been treated with respect by servants since she was a child.

But Jun Mogami could understand.

If someone suddenly came up to you and said, "I suspect your parents are criminals, and I'm collecting evidence," you would also be angry.

"Is this kind of thing your business?" - I would probably curse myself like this.

Asana's reaction was exactly what he expected. In fact, she was very well-mannered just by asking such a question.

So what choice will Asana make next?

He didn't know and couldn't have predicted it.

But there is no turning back, keep going!

"Although I am indeed collecting evidence of your parents' crimes, please believe me, all of this is just to save you, and I have no ill intentions--" Mogami Jun tried to keep himself calm, "I have tried other methods before, but you have seen the results. Your mother and your uncle are unwilling to make any concessions. I have no choice but to try this path."

"What makes you think my parents have committed a crime and say such things in front of me?" Asana asked back.

She was really furious, and suddenly stomped her feet heavily. "Chun, even though I quarreled with them now, to me, they have raised me anyway, and have always been respectable parents. I... I don't believe they would do such a thing! And I don't allow you to slander them!"

"No one can tell for sure about this kind of thing now. If there is evidence, then there is evidence. If there is no evidence, then there is no evidence. We can only look at the objective facts." Mogami Jun replied calmly, "If the final facts prove that I did slander them, then I will apologize for slandering them. I will apologize to you in any way you want me to."

There was one more thing he didn't say - "But if the fact is that they did commit a crime, then I'm not slandering them." I believe Asana himself understood the subtext.

To be honest, at this point in time, Mogami Jun felt quite confident.

He didn't simply believe in Chairman Horikawa's words. In fact, since making the decision, the Mogami family has also begun to collect information about the Izumo family everywhere.

From any perspective, the financial situation of the Izumo family has not been good in the past 20 years - a large inheritance has been sealed in a trust bank, and most of the family members are not good at managing finances, but spend money like water. Under such circumstances, the finances are definitely stretched.

Even when my grandfather met with his old colleagues, they directly said that the Yun family was not as rich as they appeared.

Moreover, when Jun Mogami visited the Izumo family, Izumo Yosuke's various behaviors did indeed hint that the current situation of the Izumo family was not good.

However, even in such circumstances, the Izumo family has been able to maintain its appearance for the past twenty years. In the eyes of everyone, the bourgeois are like dancing on a tightrope, as if they can never spend all their last penny no matter how much they spend.

So where did such a huge amount of money come from? Is Mrs. Izumo really that capable of managing the household? I'm afraid not. I have never heard of any famous and lucrative investments made by the Izumo family.

Combining the above circumstances and thinking carefully, their family has taken some gray and black paths, and they really can't escape.

It just depends on whether we can get evidence.

"You... do you really think they did that?" Seeing Jun Mogami's expression, Izumo Asana shook again.

"I don't want to lie to you, so I'll tell you the truth. I'm not afraid of taking risks, but I won't take risks if I don't have a 50% chance of winning." Mogami Jun replied, "At least based on the information I've received so far, they are very likely to have done these things. Otherwise, I wouldn't have let our family waste so many resources to investigate everywhere..."

"You..." Chaona wanted to say something else, but he couldn't utter it. He could only utter intermittent sounds, "How could it be... Impossible..."

It was a little bit difficult and even cruel to make a girl who had respected her parents since she was a child believe that her parents had committed a crime. So Mogami Jun didn't say anything else. He gave Asana some time to catch her breath and accept these shocks.

"It's so weird... so weird..." After a moment, Asana shook his head.

"What's strange?" asked Jun Mogami.

"I don't want to argue whether your suspicion is justified or not. Even if what you said is true, don't you think it's strange? You said you wanted to help me and save me, but the way you did it ended up ruining our family! If this is the result of getting rid of my mother's control, then what's the point of all my struggles?!" Asana was still angry and continued to question Mogami Jun, "How could I do such a thing to my parents? How sad would my grandfather be in heaven?"

"You don't have to worry about that. If we get evidence, we'll just use it to negotiate and force your parents to back down. We don't have any intention of making it public." Mogami Jun explained immediately. "That's why I came here specially to tell you everything."

"So what you mean is... you want me to threaten my parents with our family's reputation and survival so that they will allow me to do what I want?" Asana asked again.

"In a sense, you can say that." Jun Mogami nodded.

Then, he took a step closer and looked at Chaonai with a very sincere look, "Chaonai, actually, I came here to explain everything to you clearly, and then let you make your own choice. Yes, all of this is caused by you, and it is up to you to decide what to do - either stop or continue, it all depends on your own will."

"For me..." Asana muttered.

Then, she smiled bitterly, "Do you know how difficult it is for me to be so careless with your words 'for my sake'? You actually want me to threaten my parents by ruining my family's reputation... Is this something a child should do?"

"Then a mere teenager is thinking about giving his daughter to someone else, is this what a parent should do?" Mogami Jun was a little unhappy, and then asked directly, "In the beginning, they were the ones who bullied you and suppressed you. Is it wrong for you to find a way to fight back? Think about it carefully, who broke the law, them or you? They were the ones who acted recklessly, not you, but in the end it became your fault, just because you are their daughter... Isn't this ridiculous? No one can do whatever they want just because they are parents. You just want to take back your freedom, what's wrong with that? It is they who ruined their reputation, definitely not me, and not you!"

"You... you are still talking so confidently now. If you had told mom that you liked me, this wouldn't have happened! If mom had agreed at that time, she wouldn't have lost face and regretted it, giving others room to interfere! It's all your fault, all your fault!" Asana closed her eyes and angrily scolded the boy in front of her, "Until now, you still pretend to be a good person, saying that you are doing it for me... You encouraged me to go to war with mom, it's all your fault!"

Uh……

This is already extremely unreasonable.

Mogami Jun knew that there was no point in arguing with her now, so he stopped.

Asana took a deep breath, and after a while, she finally calmed down.

"Humph, you feel guilty too, right? You are speechless now, right?"

"I don't feel guilty. It's impossible for me to fall in love right away at the beginning, right? If I were so casual, you would be scared instead." Mogami Jun retorted, "No matter what happened before, please believe me now. I don't have any ill will towards you. Although what I did doesn't seem right, it has only one purpose in the end, which is to help you escape from your current predicament. There is no other purpose."

Then he sighed, "Asana, you should be able to see it with your intelligence, right? If I were to simply stand in my position, I could tell you nothing, do everything without telling you, and then confront your parents. Wouldn't I be able to do whatever I want then? But if I do that, you will be the one who suffers the most. I've thought about it carefully, and I really can't do that. I should tell you everything, and then wait for you to make a decision, whether to continue or stop, it's up to you, I'll accept it."

Then he added, "I understand how you feel, so you don't have to make this decision right away. There's still some time. I can wait for you to make a decision and then just let me know. No matter what decision you make, I will accept it, because this is your decision. Izumo Asana is the only one in the world who is qualified to be responsible for Izumo Asana, and no one else can."

Then, with a little guilt, he bowed and said goodbye to Asana.

"I'm sorry for causing you so much trouble during this period. I don't know whether this is good or bad. But I still say that, please believe me, I have no ill will towards you."

Then he turned and walked towards his mother's car.

He was a little afraid that if he continued talking, Asana would collapse.

However, just as he took a few steps forward, a breeze seemed to come from behind.

"Stop!" Then his eardrum vibrated slightly.

Mogami Jun stopped.

Then, he suddenly felt an impact from behind, and then his shoulders were grabbed by arms and he couldn't move.

"Stop!" Asana's voice trembled strangely. "You want to leave after saying such shameless nonsense?"

"what?"

Jun Mogami turned around in surprise.

Then he saw a face with some tear marks in the corners of the eyes.

Her hair was a little messy and there was some sweat on her forehead, probably because she was excited.

"Don't leave!" Chaona repeated, "I hate you... Do you know how happy I was just now? I thought you would come to comfort me and find a way to make me happy, but what did you say? You said such cruel things and asked me to decide... Do you like to torture people so much?!"

"…If you want to hear words of comfort, I can actually say as much as you want." Mogami Jun sighed, "But your situation cannot be solved by saying some boring words of comfort. I think actual actions are more important."

"Then tell me! Are you willing to tell me? I want to hear it!" Asana insisted.

It turns out that Asana can also be willful sometimes. Mogami Jun couldn't help but smile bitterly.

254, Comfort and Courage

"Then tell me! Are you willing to tell me? I want to hear it!"