A youth story of a passerby at the end of the world

"A boisterous dog and a cat that wants to lie down are naturally incompatible; it's a matter of compatibility." There's no solution.

"Yui, your mother." Uesugi Genshin glanced out the window and opened the car window.

Yui leaned out of the window and waved towards the temple gate, "I'm leaving, Mom."

"Have a safe journey," Yuihama's mother said with a gentle smile as she stood in front of the temple.

"It's been so long since I said that. Surprisingly, I feel a little nostalgic," Yuihama's mother thought to herself.

He drove slowly along the road towards the exit, remembering the way he had come.

After it got completely light, you could see people moving around on the roadside. Everyone had gotten up, and the field of vision was also wide open, no longer as poor as when it was dark.

If you keep going forward, you'll soon reach the exit. You can already see the car, and there are two people standing in front of it.

The figures in the distance gradually grew larger and became clearer in Uesugi Genshin's eyes.

Besides Yukino Yukinoshita, whom he was familiar with, the other woman was a beautiful woman who, like Mai, seemed very strong.

They look very similar...

He is tall and thin, and looks very young.

She certainly doesn't look like a mother with a high school daughter.

Watching her figure from the car, Uesugi Genshin wondered when Mai's mother had given birth to her.

I'm so tired, so alone

There are rumors that she gave birth at the age of twenty, so if that's true, she's only in her thirties now.

Logically speaking, she should be considered an older woman, but she completely lacks the aura of a young "mother".

Instead, she resembles a glamorous and capable urban woman, and the bright black suit gives her that impression even more.

She must have dressed up specially, because Yang Nai had told her that she would be seeing her daughter soon.

"Let's get in the car too," Yukino Yukinoshita said to Ms. Sakurajima beside her as she saw Uesugi Genshin drive up.

"Ok."

Sakurajima's mother was driving; Yukinoshita Haruno wasn't driving her own car.

Before getting into the car, she glanced at a passing vehicle and saw a cool-looking young man inside. The next second, he noticed her.

Then I smiled at myself, and it's no exaggeration to say it felt like an ice cube melting.

"..." The contrast was so strong that she was still thinking about it even after she got into the car.

So she asked Ms. Yukinoshita in the passenger seat, "Excuse me, is the driver of that car also from Soubu High School?"

Previously, Yukino Yukinoshita mentioned that a female teacher from Soubu High School often came here, but that person was male and very young, probably a student.

“Yes,” Yukino Yukinoshita smiled. If someone who knew her saw the smile on her face, they would recognize it immediately.

That's a malicious expression.

"Oh, he's your daughter's boyfriend."

"..."

The car stalled as soon as it started moving.

Chapter 215: The Secretary's Pride

"What did you say..." Sakurajima's mother opened her mouth in astonishment, and even braking was an instinctive action.

"Did you already know about this?"

At that moment, she deeply understood Ms. Yukinoshita's perverse sense of humor.

"Hmm... it's not early, less than 24 hours."

"You should have told me sooner!"

Although her tone was very calm, her words sounded somewhat irritable.

"Well~ well~" Yukinoshita Haruno smiled, turning her head to the side, "It's not too late now, we're going to have to go quite a distance ahead~"

Seeing her pointing ahead, Sakurajima's mother stepped on the gas, and the car sped off with a "whoosh."

She stopped when she saw the car ahead stop at the exit checkpoint, and at the same time glanced at Yukino Yukinoshita beside her, thinking, "My daughter is safe and sound."

From Kanagawa to Tokyo and then to Chiba, all that was known about Mai's whereabouts was her location; the specifics remained unknown.

"Mmm, it must be very healthy." Feeling pleased, Yukinoshita was happy to add some spice to this rather long and tedious trip.

Sakurajima's mother seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. At the same time, she looked through the gap on the side of the car and saw that her daughter's boyfriend was driving the first car, while they were at the very back, with another car in between.

"His name."

"Uesugi Genshin."

"He... he's a student, right? Is he in college?" Seeing the car in front of her drive forward, Sakurajima's mother restarted the car and continued to follow.

"No, she's the same age as your daughter."

"Mai, you've fallen for someone your own age." It was a statement, but it was also a sigh, and it contained the reassurance of Sakurajima's mother.

The younger type usually represents someone who wants to take care of the other person, the older type shows a tendency to want to rely on someone, while the same age type represents a balanced compromise.

"What kind of person is he, that boy named Uesugi?" Sakurajima's mother still vividly remembers that glance, and the contrast she felt when she thinks back on it is like spring after the snow has melted.

"Hmm? Ah, as far as I know, he speaks Latin, German, Russian, and Chinese. If you include English and Japanese, he speaks about six languages." With a smile, she said something Sakurajima's mother couldn't understand, "Amor est vitae essentia."

The pronunciation was accurate, but in reality, she only knew this one Latin phrase because she had specifically looked it up one by one. After all, it doesn't feel good to be treated like an idiot, and maybe the other party was just... trying to intimidate her.

These are realistic statements, and they were indeed very shocking at the time. The results afterward were even more shocking, which is why she said "I don't believe it" last night.

"..." Sakurajima's mother was taken aback. Latin... who speaks Latin these days? The priest?

She also mentioned six languages, which she found hard to believe, suggesting that the speaker probably only knew a few basic phrases.

"What about the others?" She wanted to know what kind of person the other person was, and whether Ms. Yukinoshita knew anything about them.

"He's from Hokkaido, but he got into a school in Chiba."

"..." That's really quite far. Hokkaido is also called the Snow Country because its climate is completely different from here; it's like a different world.

The fact that they were able to get into this university from there at least shows that their academic ability is not a problem.

"Is there anything else?" So what she wanted to know was what kind of person the other person was!

"Yes, he even debuted as a novelist."

Yukino pulled out a book from somewhere, and Sakurajima's mother glanced at it when she had a moment; it was a light novel.

"Hey, what's the content?"

"Hmm... It's a story about a brother and sister who have no one to rely on, returning to their deceased grandfather's house in the countryside, under the increasingly bright early summer sky. It's quite famous." As she spoke, Yukino Yukinoshita shook the book in her hand.

"Oh." Sakurajima's mother nodded, thinking that since he was famous, his income should not be a problem. Even if he didn't do other work after graduating from university, he could make enough money as a full-time novelist.

In a daze, she realized that such a future did not exist.

"Wait a minute... you said he's the same age as my daughter, which means he hasn't gone to college yet!"

"what happened?"

"I just saw him driving."

Only then did she realize the anomaly she had been overlooking: at his age, he couldn't even take a driving test, let alone have a driver's license. She got her driver's license in high school because at that time, women were considered adults at 16!

"Ah~, this is nothing special." Yukinoshita Haruno waved her hand, adopting a nonchalant attitude.

Being able to drive is a normal thing; anyone can start a car by holding the steering wheel and pressing down on the pedals. But leading the way like this is a different story, especially since Ms. Yukinoshita seems so at ease with it, which is even more surprising.

Looking at the shadows of zombies flashing past the window, she didn't think it was anything ordinary at all.

"What kind of person is he?" She then chose to ask directly, afraid that if she asked again like before, the other party would still beat around the bush.

"Well... how should I put it?" Yukinoshita Haruno deliberately drew out her words as if she were pondering something.

"..." Although Sakurajima's mother was driving without changing her expression, several scripts suddenly popped into her mind.

“I don’t know much about him; you can ask your daughter later.”

"Ha..." Sakurajima's mother sighed. This statement seemed like an attempt to avoid the topic, and it was unclear whether she genuinely didn't understand or what.

"Look, he's handsome after all."

"Yes, but my daughter is not a superficial person." Mai is often approached by young male actors during her acting career, but she has never paid any attention to them and politely declined, whether they are popular idols, famous actors, or music celebrities.

Even so, she still remembers very clearly how she was tricked back then.

In any case, it's Mai's business from now on.

Is that so?

"besides......"

The problems didn't end until they reached the coastal highway.

She was thinking that her daughter was independent and she should mind her own business, but she kept asking about the boy.

Yukinoshita Haruno spoke half-truths and half-lies, watching with great interest Sakurajima's contradictory behavior.

"Soubu High School is just ahead." Pleasant times always pass so quickly, Yukino Yukinoshita remarked.

"It's just ahead..." Sakurajima's mother let out a heavy sigh. Along the way, she not only had to focus on driving, but also had to subtly try to get some information out of Yukinoshita. She was feeling a little tired.

There was another obstacle, and what looked like a wall they had made of sheet metal and planks. Sakurajima's mother opened the car window, leaned her arm out of the car, and looked ahead.

There weren't many zombies along this stretch of road, which is why she lowered the glass.

The people standing guard in the distance were wearing school uniforms from somewhere else, and this place was different from the Chiba Self-Rescue Committee area; they were all young people.

Then she saw the person asking the question bow to the people inside the car, and she realized that it wasn't an inquiry, but a respectful greeting!

“Oh, I forgot to mention.” At that moment, Yukinoshita Haruno’s voice rang out from the side, her words filled with a mischievous teasing tone, “The other party is also the vice president here.”

"So it's the vice president," Sakurajima's mother suddenly realized.

"Because Xun, who is the chairman, doesn't do anything at all."

If the "Messenger" that Ms. Yukinoshita mentioned refers to the nominal highest leader here, "...that means he is actually the leader here!"

“Yes.” Yukinoshita Haruno looked at the other person with a smile, and saw a good expression on her face.

The sense of superiority brought about by this information gap is indeed fascinating; being able to see through the other person's thoughts with ease is as interesting as solving a puzzle game.

Results and process are equally important. Achieving results easily can sometimes bring simple pleasure, but she enjoys the process of constant exploration even more, where the whole picture is obscured, like a mysterious mountain in a sea of ​​clouds.

"..." Her thoughts were in disarray again. Sakurajima's mother silently drove the car in, turned left along the road, and saw the school not far away.

Zongwu High School is the name of the school.

Entering through what appeared to be a side gate, she saw two cars parked casually in the space next to her, so she parked next to them as well.

She turned off the car engine, opened the car door and got out, while Yukinoshita Haruno got out from the other side.

"Woof woof woof!" A dog barked from somewhere. She looked over and saw her daughter's boyfriend standing next to another boy, closing the trunk of a car. The source of the sound was right at the feet of the cute girl next to him.

The dog got off the car.

"Ah! Yukino-chan."

Hearing Ms. Yukinoshita greet her in surprise, Sakurajima's mother looked over and saw several girls walking towards them, the one in front of them being a girl whose beauty was no less than that of her daughter.

The girl's long, flowing hair cascaded down, revealing her delicate, fair face. Her crystal-clear eyes were looking in this direction, or more accurately, at someone standing next to her.

Just then, Sakurajima's mother saw her turn to look at Yukinoshita, and then covered her forehead as if she had a headache.

“That’s my sister,” Yukinoshita Haruno explained to the woman next to her.

"I see." Sakurajima's mother understood. Looking at it now, it did look very similar. She had been wondering why she had met several girls as beautiful as her daughter recently.

"Sister, what brings you here!" Yukino Yukinoshita walked over quickly and asked as if she were questioning her.

"Because I miss my little sister," Yukinoshita Haruno said matter-of-factly with a smile.

"Ah! Senior, it's been several days already."