Lumine rubbed her head, casting aside her previous plan as well.
Her eyes sparkled as she spoke bluntly.
“So what you’re saying is…
you want to work for me?”
“Actually, our teacher wants us to do an internship this semester.
It’s something we have to find out in society ourselves.
I got to thinking, cough cough, don’t you have a good setup here, Su Yu?
We’re friends, classmates, and neighbors.
You wouldn’t refuse to help me, right?”
Looking at Lumine’s silly grin, Su Yu could only declare that this was more like it.
Smart and gentle.
That clearly didn’t fit Lumine’s personality.
Just like delinquent-girl Furina, even thinking about it gave him chills.
As Su Yu and Lumine drew closer and closer together, chatting intimately, Furina’s mouth puffed up into a bulge at the side, waves of grievance welling up from her heart.
Just when Furina’s grievance maxed out and she wanted to stomp Su Yu’s instep flat, hearing the company topic from Lumine’s mouth made her somewhat surprised.
This Su Yu was practically inseparable from her every day.
Starting a company?
She only knew that at some point, Su Yu was no longer short on money.
But starting a company didn’t match the Su Yu who had just enrolled and, not long ago, hadn’t a penny to his name!
And Su Yu had never mentioned such important news.
They lived under the same roof.
Their relationship should at least be closer than with others (Lumine).
How could she know nothing, making it seem like she was the latecomer…
Thinking of this, Furina grew a bit sorrowful, completely failing to notice that Su Yu had actually muttered about these things plenty of times beside her these past few days.
It was just that at the time her head was full of dieting and delicious food, so she didn’t pay attention at all.
In other words, it went in one ear and out the other.
“Of course, no problem.
We’re right at the start of the venture, and I was saying we don’t have enough hands.
I’ll have Ningguang hire a few people to tide things over.
I’m quite confident in how you handle things.
I’ll push Ningguang’s contact info to you later.”
“Oh~ I knew you wouldn’t stand by and let me die!”
“Since you want to intern, what about your brother?”
“Who cares about him.
Let him figure it out himself.
He’s mysterious every single day, chummy with Kamisato Ayato.
I really don’t know what he’s up to.”
Speaking of Aether, Lumine rolled her eyes.
Aether’s day-in-day-out absurd behavior had even made Lumine start doubting her brother’s preferences.
“Oh right, what’s the company called again?
Is it registered?
If not, the teacher will think I’m fooling her, and then I’m done for!”
Just after finishing complaining about her brother, Lumine seemed to suddenly remember something, and looked at Su Yu with a somewhat nervous expression. The source of this chapter is g.com.
Their class teacher naturally had high expectations for students like them.
This semester’s final assignment was to intern at a company that could be looked up online.
If you didn’t want to work for someone, starting your own business was also allowed, a big advantage for some students from well-off families.
But there was no helping it; after all, family background is part of one’s strength too.
“Sufu.
The name’s pretty simple.
You can look it up.
It’s a new company, but I believe with Ningguang’s competence, all the paperwork should already be settled.”
Su Yu said this lightly, while pushing Ningguang’s QR code to Lumine.
“Wait!
This—this name…
could it be?”
Before Lumine could react, Furina had already teleported between Su Yu and Lumine, pacing back and forth in place without pause, both eyes glittering with golden light.
That sparkling gaze made Su Yu abandon his original intention to tease her.
“It’s just the abbreviation of my name and Furina’s name.
Mm, it’s exactly what you’re imagining.”
“Isn’t it normal to give a little special treatment to the girl who lent me a hand in this unfamiliar city?
To let Fufu live a more wonderful life!”
After hearing Su Yu’s explanation, Furina’s overflowing emotions eased slightly, and then all her previous little moods were swept away.
Beneath the four dumbfounded eyes of Su Yu and Lumine, she hummed a little tune and skipped away.
At this moment, Furina feared nothing, worried about nothing.
Win, win, win—a huge win!
As for Su Yu and Lumine being a lone man and woman alone in a room?
That was a minor problem.
She wasn’t afraid at all, because she already stood upon an undefeated ground!
Before leaving, Furina even scooped up the little black cat that had been sprawled at the side eating melon seeds and carried it away, and the little black cat, forced to stop watching the show, meowed again and again in protest.
But the protest was invalid.
What was wrong with her?
So happy just because the company’s name had a “Fu” in it?
She really didn’t know how the words “home-stealing” were written, did she…
Lumine couldn’t help but grumble inwardly, but then she cleared her throat, her eyes rolling.
Just as she wanted to take advantage of Furina’s absence to have a good chat with Su Yu, Su Yu’s phone rang.
Picking it up, it was actually a call from Ningguang.
“Hello?
Ningguang, you have school tomorrow.
How come you’re still not asleep this late at night, and in the mood to call me…
What?
Beidou’s in the hospital?”
“Huh?
Beidou ate a whole plate of the chili-fried pork Ei made?
Who let her eat it?
And who let her cook?”
I taught her?
I won’t take that blame!
I haven’t even taught her to stir-fry yet!
You wait, I’m heading to the hospital!”
Hanging up, Su Yu quickly threw on his jacket and headed for the door, looking at Lumine with some apology:
“Looks like tonight’s discussion can only end early.
If there’s anything else you want to talk about, just contact me by phone.”
With that, Su Yu immediately set off, taking a taxi to the city’s most famous school hospital.
He had just received Ningguang’s message, saying that tonight Ningguang and Beidou had gone to Yae Miko and Ei’s home to discuss cooperation.
The moment Ei heard it was her teacher Su Yu’s company, she gladly went to cook.
At the time, Yae Miko was still having a round of constructive opinion exchange with Ningguang.
Before Yae Miko could even react, the dish was already served.
Smelling that somewhat pungent odor, Beidou actually thought it was a new Sichuan dish, and then…
and then there was nothing more…
One bite and she passed out cold…
Young people really are weak.
Arriving at the hospital, following the ward number Ningguang had sent, Su Yu soon saw Ei, who was staring with both big eyes, wearing an innocent yet somewhat embarrassed expression.
“Teacher, I didn’t do it on purpose…”
The first moment Ei saw Su Yu, after a mental struggle, she slowly shuffled over.
Of course Su Yu knew she didn’t do it on purpose.
Ei wasn’t that Yae Miko.
It was just that the difference between the two was merely a different process with the same result.
Yae Miko deliberately messed things up; Ei unintentionally messed things up.
“How’s Beidou?”
“She’s already awake, but the moment she sees me she starts trembling and covering her mouth, so I’m standing out here.”
Ei lowered her head slightly, exactly like a child who had done something wrong.
If Beidou weren’t still weak right now, he would have wanted to tease Ei properly.
But at root, he was a proper person.
Probably…
A sigh.
He had once been a pure-hearted youth yearning for one person alone.
But nowadays, well, cough cough—his heart had merely shattered into countless pieces, each falling in love with a different person.
No matter how you put it, Beidou entered the hospital in the process of working for him.
In other words, it should be called a work injury, right?
Thinking of this, Su Yu wasted no more time and patted Ei’s shoulder, consoling:
“Student Raiden, remember that you haven’t graduated as an apprentice yet.
Whatever dishes you want to make, it’s best.
No, you must do it under my watchful eyes.”
“Okay…”
“Alright, I’m going in.
Don’t take it too hard.”
With that, Su Yu pushed open the door and walked in.