Chapter 397 I Am Your Father

"Let's go home."

Mikael repeated it again in as gentle a tone as possible, but Mei still stood there blankly, not making the slightest move.

Seeing this, Mikael slowly closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he finally noticed the food hanging all over her body.

His lips trembled, then he knelt down on one knee and gently brushed off the stolen goods from Mei's long hair and woolen sweater.

After he finished doing this, he held Mei Yi's hand again, squeezed out a smile that didn't look very sincere, and said softly:

"Mei, let's go home."

Meiyi's body swayed, and her originally stiff limbs gradually softened.

Mikael held her hand tightly, and then stood up. With a little effort, Mei Yi was led by him to move step by step.

"Mea Yi..."

When the two of them walked past Kiana, she suddenly raised her hand, as if to retain her, but unexpectedly, Mikael directly grabbed her hand. The two girls were attracted by Mikael in such a strange atmosphere. I left the classroom half dragged and half dragged.

It wasn't until she was blown by the cold wind in the corridor that Kiana came to her senses and began to look at Mikael involuntarily - not to mention the hair that was a little too long, and just looking at the side face, it was actually no better than this school. How much older are the boys here?

However, I always feel that something is completely different... Wait, who is he from Mei Yi? Is it a relative or a brother?

Kiana couldn't figure it out, so she wanted to turn around and ask Mei Yi directly, but even after the latter left the classroom, she still lowered her head and didn't look like she had the intention to speak at all, so Kiana didn't know whether she should or not. spoke.

Suddenly, she heard footsteps coming from the corridor again. Different from the crisp "tap" sound of high heels, the footsteps of the person coming were very dull, and she knew it was a man.

Moreover, some people may not believe it, but Kiana did feel the familiar machinery and old-fashioned sound from the footsteps. She shivered all over, and there was no need to guess the identity of the person coming.

Soon, Mikael took the two girls and met the expressionless Mr. Kuzuki at the top of the stairs.

The two stopped and looked at each other without saying anything. On the contrary, Kiana behind Mikael took a deep breath, feeling that a conflict would break out between the two in the next moment.

Of course this kind of thing will not happen. After a brief confrontation, Kuzumu handed Mikael a note and spoke slowly:

"This is Raiden Mei's leave note."

Michael took it silently, pulled Kiana behind him and said matter-of-factly:

"Now there's one more person. Remember to help her complete the procedures."

Kuzuki didn't speak, seeming to be thinking about something, but he nodded after all.

After receiving a positive response, Mikael did not want to waste time and directly pulled Mei and Kiana downstairs.

It wasn't until she walked out of the teaching building that Kiana spoke carefully:

"you……"

She really didn't know how to address Mikael, so she could only use the clear and vague title "you".

"Do you know Mr. Kuzuki?"

Mikael paused for a moment, then shook his head slightly.

"I don't know him, I just happened to meet him, so I asked him to ask for leave."

"oh."

Kiana didn't think much about it, but she was more curious about why this guy took her away with him. She was sure that she didn't know this guy, but it didn't matter. Firstly, she couldn't worry about Mei Yi, and secondly, it was an opportunity for him to skip class openly.

But what she didn't know was that until they walked out of the school gate, Kuzumu was still standing there stupidly. It wasn't until he was sure that they had completely left the school that he turned around and walked onto the rooftop of the teaching building.

Here, he no longer needs to hide anything. The nanorobots that make up the skin on his face melt like heated rubber, revealing the cold metal head and the scarlet eyeball.

"Transfer me to the doctor...ah, it's a pity that I don't have an umbrella at hand."

He seemed to be talking to himself, and indeed he was talking to himself.

After a while, he spoke again:

"No, everything is going according to plan. Both qualified bodies are in normal condition, but...it's just that I seemed to have seen...Mikael just now."

…………

The black car stopped in front of a seemingly ordinary ramen shop. Kiana glanced at it and saw that it was indeed an ordinary ramen shop. Mei raised her head in hindsight. When she saw clearly The look of the surrounding streets suddenly became extremely complicated.

At this moment, the car door beside him was opened.

"I know you haven't had lunch yet, so let's just make up for last night's meal."

Mikael pretended to be relaxed and said while holding out his hand to Mei.

Mei Yi stared blankly at the hand in front of her. Only then did she realize that the palm was covered with yellowing calluses and scars, which was so ugly that it was scary.

But she still gently put her hand on it.

Walking into the ramen shop that she wanted to go to last night but couldn't, Mei suddenly felt a needle-like pain in her nerves.

Same place, same street, just half a day later, my mood is completely different.

Now smelling the aroma of ramen, she couldn't bring up the slightest appetite.

On the other hand, Kiana looked a little eager to give it a try, but she hadn't figured out the current situation yet, and she didn't have any money with her. She looked at Mikael, and finally wisely remained silent.

"You won't say anything?"

Mikael forced a smile, and the ramen shop owner recognized him. As the boss said last night, there are only a few customers here every day, and they are all acquaintances. Whenever a new face appears, he will remember him freshly. .

He originally wanted to say hello, but he seemed to be aware of the awkward atmosphere between the few people, and for a moment he didn't know whether he should speak.

In the end, it was Mikael who made the decision for the other two people simply and rudely:

"Three bowls of tonkotsu and barbecued pork ramen, please hurry up."

"Oh, okay, okay."

Mikael took the two of them and found a random table to sit down. However, the three of them were not very familiar with each other. In addition, too many things happened at once today. The three of them were speechless for a while. explain.

It was already past meal time when we arrived here from Qianyu Academy, and there was not a single customer in the ramen shop. Not long after they sat down, the boss brought over three bowls of ramen.

Three bowls of ramen, three people, no need to think about it, one bowl per person, Kiana unconsciously glanced at the other two bowls of noodles, she has always been carefree, but she had heard from her classmates about what happened in ME club today She also knew that this incident had a huge impact on Mei Yi. She was a little afraid that her behavior would cause Mei Yi to misunderstand, so she had no choice but to eat her own noodles.

Mikael, who was opposite her, just lowered his head and smelled it, then slowly shook his head:

"I didn't expect that the taste of this thing has not changed at all..."

He whispered something that Kiana couldn't understand, but pushed his bowl of noodles in front of Kiana.

"this……"

"I can't get used to it."

Mikael didn't explain much.

Kiana was a little embarrassed. She wanted to say thank you, but when she met Mikael's deep and weak eyes, the simple "thank you" stuck in her throat along with the noodles, and she couldn't get up again. Can't get down.

But the weirdest and most unsurprising thing was Mei - she didn't move her chopsticks at all, she just kept scooping up the turbid bone soup with a spoon, and then slowly poured it on the noodles, in this mechanical cycle, Other than that there is no movement and no sound is made.

"Mea Yi..."

Kiana scooped up the two bowls of noodles and the soup into her stomach at the speed of light. She looked at the shiny bottom of the bowl, and then at Mei who just kept repeating this action. She silently bit her lower lip, no Know what you can do.

She glanced at Mikael again. This man sat upright, but he didn't seem to pay attention to Mei. He just closed his eyes and didn't know what he was thinking.

"Mea Yi..."

Kiana called out again, and Mei's movements on her hands paused, but soon she continued to repeat.

Kiana took a deep breath. The rain outside had stopped long ago, and the air was obviously very fresh, but she just felt like there was something lingering around her, making her only able to take in half a breath with each breath, so she became more and more... The more breath she held in her chest, the more time passed and she was afraid she would explode.

Fortunately, at this point, Mikael was finally willing to speak:

"Mei Yi, do you still eat?"

Meiyi didn't answer, but silently put the spoon back into the bowl.

Mikael didn't say much, but decisively pushed Mei Yi's bowl of noodles in front of Kiana.

As a result, what Kiana coveted at the beginning finally fell into her stomach, but she could not feel happiness or satisfaction at all, only the pain of overeating and the lingering depression in her heart.

The three of them fell into silence again. Even the owner of the ramen shop felt that something was wrong in the atmosphere and started to work with a certain caution.

Kiana drank the last mouthful of soup and gently put the bowl back on the table. She picked up the napkin on the side of the table and wiped her mouth, then stared at Mikael intently.

"Watch what I do?"

Mikael asked awkwardly, then shook his head helplessly.

He patted Mei Yi's shoulder gently and said softly as before:

"Let's go, I'm really going home this time."

But Meiyi didn't move.

Mikael bit his lower lip, waiting for her to speak.

"How is my father...?"

Mikael took a sharp breath, and finally chose not to lie:

"I went to the ME Club building this morning. I didn't see your father. I only saw Xiaosong. But judging from your father's actions, he probably wanted to take on the crime of economic fraud by himself without affecting the entire ME Club."

Meiyi's tears fell all of a sudden, and her voice could no longer be controlled:

"So, father really...really defrauded people of their money, right?"

"No, it's not." Perhaps Mikael should continue to tell the truth, but he did not do so, but deliberately chose to blur:

"I don't know. I haven't even seen your father's face. Besides, now, does it really matter what the truth is?"

"Bang!"

"Of course it's important!"

To Meiyi's expectation, but not to Mikael's surprise, the person who just slammed the table and made a sound was Kiana, who had nothing to do with this incident.

Seeing the two guys who could be regarded as the parties concerned looking directly at her, Kiana felt a little nervous, fearing that she would irritate Mei Yi by saying the wrong thing, but before this worry could get out of her mind, she had already taken one step ahead. He spoke:

"Why is it not important! If uncle was wrongly accused, then we should work hard to clear his name!"

Mikael blinked, looking a little innocent, until he showed a sarcastic smile:

"If it can be proven that he was wronged, why doesn't Mr. Ryoma prove his innocence?"

Kiana felt that the man in front of her was sophistry. After thinking about it carefully, it seemed that he was indeed sophistry.

"That...that..."

Her face turned red from holding back, and she finally caught the flaw in Mikael's words, and then replied:

"Everyone has framed Mr. Ryoma, how can we let him prove his innocence? We must persist in collecting evidence and finally overturn the case for Mr. Ryoma!"

Kiana actually didn't know Raiden Ryoma. She only knew Mei. However, after a brief contact with her, she felt that a girl as good as Mei would never have a fraudster father. What's more, even if this was true, at this time You shouldn't say it so bluntly...

But Mikael seemed to not care about Mei's feelings at all, and still loudly refuted Kiana's words:

"Oh? Then what? How long will it take to collect evidence and overturn the case? One year? Three years? Five years? Ten years? Or twenty years? Even if Mr. Ryoma was framed, until the case is completely overturned, Mei Yi will still be bullied every day. Staged. From this point of view, whether Mr. Ryoma was framed or not has no impact on Mei!"

Kiana was speechless for a moment. Meiyi grabbed the woolen sweater with both hands, twisting and pulling hard without making any sound.

Mikael sighed, knocked on the table lightly, and gently rubbed Mei's head.

"I know what I said may be a bit harsh, but...instead of letting you suffer blows again and again, I would rather take this opportunity to tell you the worst-case scenario directly at the beginning, so that you have psychological expectations, and then face it later. If so, it should be less uncomfortable.”

Meiyi was caught off guard by this sudden gentle movement. She glanced at Mikael with a complicated expression and was about to escape from his control, but after hearing his words, she suddenly became quiet again.

Mikael is right. These are things that we have to face sooner or later. There is no way to escape. Instead of going back to school tomorrow morning with the idea of ​​whether things will get better and then being hit again, it is better to break the bad news all at once. After hearing enough, after experiencing the previous things, these seem to be nothing.

Of course, the more important point is... the feeling of Mikael's hand touching the top of her head is not unpleasant. That rough and warm feeling made her mistakenly think that the person sitting next to her was her father...

But soon, Mikael withdrew his hand, and Mei's dream was shattered. She buried her head again, seemingly determined to isolate herself from the whole world.

Looking at the scene in front of her, Kiana always felt that something was wrong. It seemed that there was some doubt that existed in her heart from the beginning, but it had been ignored before...

ah! yes……

Kiana slammed her hands on the table, stood up and asked loudly:

"Ahhhh!! I finally remembered! Who are you from Mei!!!"

Mikael glanced at her casually, his eyes seeming to ask: "Why didn't you ask until now?"

However, he did not answer immediately. Instead, he stretched out his index finger and pressed Kiana's head, pushing her back to her seat easily and strangely.

"I……"

He closed his mouth as soon as he said the first word, and the words turned around in his mouth, and when they came out they became:

"This is not the place to talk. You go back to the car first."

He pretended to reach for the keys in his pocket, and the car outside the ramen shop made a beeping sound, and the back seat door opened on its own.

Kiana hesitated and stood up. Mei didn't make any move at all. Mikael patted her shoulder again. Then she stood up without saying a word, then quickly walked out of the ramen shop and rushed back to the car. .

The speed was so fast that Kiana didn't even react. Only Mikael's eyes flickered. He probably understood what Mei was thinking - she was just afraid of being recognized.

"Go and stay with her in the car, I'll pay the bill."

Mikael urged, and Kiana chased after her as if she had just woken up from a dream.

Then, he stood up calmly and walked towards the owner of the ramen shop step by step.

There were no other customers at this time, so the middle-aged boss was sitting behind the counter holding his cell phone. Mikael walked up to him and knocked on the counter. He was so frightened that he jumped up from his seat. Then he stuffed the phone into his pants pocket behind his butt without leaving any trace.

"Guest, you..."

The two only looked at each other for a moment, and the boss's eyes gradually became confused, and then he fainted and fell to the ground.

Mikael waved his hand, and the boss's mobile phone appeared in his hand. He first confirmed that all the messages sent by this mobile phone had been intercepted by the erosion power, and all those that should not have been deleted. Finally, he left the money for three ramen noodles and his cell phone on the counter, and then returned to the car with satisfaction.

"Hey! You guy, can you answer the question just now?"

In fact, Kiana had a more direct choice. She could ask Mei Yi directly, but maybe she knew that Mei Yi would not speak even if she asked, so she kept waiting for Mikael.

But Mikael didn't seem to want to talk any more. He took out a document from the drawer in front of the passenger seat and handed it to Kiana, saying:

"After you finish reading, show it to Mei Yi."

"What's this?"

Kiana took it over with curiosity, but Mei only thought it was the previous labor contract and didn't care...until Kiana screamed:

"Adoption agreement???"

She glanced down and saw Raiden Ryoma, Raiden Mei, and a name called "Mikael".

When she wanted to take a closer look, the document had been snatched away by Mei.

Mikael turned his head and said faintly:

"The agreement was signed eight years ago. I'm sorry, Mei, actually... in a sense, I am also your father."