Chapter 70 - Leave her alone. - Entertainment Prodigy

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When the next day arrived, I went to school with a smile on my face, excited about the meeting that would take place later that afternoon. I was really looking forward to working on this project.

I never thought I'd have the chance to work on an anime this early. I'm a very popular author, but I didn't expect something like this to happen.

I just wanted to write the script and hand it over to them, that's all. But in the end, I ended up "gaining" such a fun job. Yeah, it'll definitely be fun. They say working in the animation industry is exhausting, but I think it'll be fine.

While I was looking out the window, Mirai called out to me.

"Hey, Kyo, what's going on?"

"Hm?"

"You've been smiling since you got to school. Something good happened, didn't it? Does it have to do with your work?"

"Something like that," I replied.

"Who are you working for now? Another clothing brand? Maybe a cosmetics brand? I'm sure a lot of companies are after you."

"Hmm… It's a company you don't know," I said with a smile.

"I see…" Mirai sighed and then continued. "There's something I want to ask you."

"What is it?"

"Didn't you notice?" Hearing her question, I got confused. Notice what?

Is something going on?

"Judging by your expression, I guess you didn't. Look at this." Mirai handed me her phone, and I took it. There was a picture of me sitting on a bench with Miu. My hand was resting on top of hers.

My expression looked calm, but Miu was blushing deeply and clearly nervous.

Who took this picture? I wasn't that surprised. I figured something like this could happen… but I was sure there was no one around.

"You want to know if I'm dating Miu?"

"Miu? So that's her name?"

"You don't know her?"

"No. She's in another class, and I've never talked to her before. I've seen her around, but she's always alone."

"I see. She's a nice girl."

"So you really are dating her?"

"No, it's not like that. We're just friends. I was just comforting her."

"Comforting?"

"Yeah. Her life is a bit difficult. But I don't want to talk about someone else's life without them being here."

"I understand…" Mirai murmured as she put her phone away. "If her life is already difficult… I think it's about to get even worse," she said.

Hearing that, my eyebrows instinctively rose. "What do you mean by that?"

"Haha…" Mirai laughed. "You have no idea how many girls at this school like you, do you? You practically have a fan club full of girls crazy about you. What do you think is going to happen to that girl?"

"..." I was left speechless.

Miu's face appeared in my mind.

I might have made her life even worse without realizing it… I started to feel nervous, but I didn't show it. I kept looking out the window as I waited for time to pass and for lunch break to arrive.

Then lunchtime came. I ran straight to Miu's classroom to meet her.

Everyone looked at me as I approached.

"Miu?" I called out as I entered the room. Everyone still inside turned to look at me.

Miu was nowhere to be seen.

"Has anyone seen Miu? Miu Kageyama."

I waited for an answer.

Then I noticed a girl looking at me, seemingly a bit scared. She was so small she didn't even look my age. I walked up to her desk, and she looked at me.

When our eyes met, her face turned red.

"I-I-I…" she stuttered.

"You know where she is, don't you?"

"I don't want to get involved…"

"Just tell me. If you do, I'll give you a gift later," I said.

"Behind the gym," the girl said, her eyelids trembling. She looked really scared.

Someone unpleasant is involved in this.

I ran toward the back of the gym.

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POV: Third Person

Behind the gym, Miu was crouched down with her back against the wall. Her hands were covering her head, and her body was trembling nonstop. Around her stood three girls, all bigger than her.

They all had the look of delinquents.

All three wore malicious smiles.

The girl in the center was holding a bucket. It was a dirty trash bucket she had taken from nearby and filled with water from the fountain next to the gym.

"You're not going to answer me? I asked what your relationship with Kyo is!" the girl with the bucket said. "If you don't answer…" She pretended she was about to dump the bucket over Miu's head.

Miu didn't even react. She kept her head down, trembling.

She stared at the dirt ground as she thought.

'What should I do?'

'What did I do to deserve this?'

"Hey, Kaya is talking to you." Another girl crouched down and grabbed Miu's black hair. Miu was forced to look up, and her tear-filled eyes met the girl's gaze.

When she saw the girl's smile, her body started trembling even more.

"Hahaha, look at how she's shaking. Don't tell me you wet yourself?" the girl said, pulling Miu's hair.

"Let me go!" Miu said.

"What's this? Suddenly you want to fight back?" the girl with the bucket said. "Come on, I just want to know your relationship with Kyo. Why were you holding hands? How did you get so close to him?"

"I'm just his friend," Miu murmured. "A friend…" She still wasn't used to saying that.

"Friends? Friends aren't that close."

"But we are friends…"

"Shut up!" the girl clicked her tongue. "Promise me you'll never go near him again."

"What?"

"Promise me you'll never go near him again. I don't want to see you anywhere near him."

The other two girls said the same thing. They looked at Miu with hatred.

Miu had gone through similar things before, but this was the first time she felt so threatened.

"I…"

"Promise it!" The girl raised the bucket, about to pour it over Miu's head.

"I—"

But before Miu could respond, a voice cut in.

"What do you think you're doing?"

Kyo was standing there, staring coldly at the three girls.

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Chapter 70 - Chapter 70 - Leave her alone.