"Raiden President, please forgive us!" Right after school, at the entrance of Raiden Mei's classroom, the sight of all seventy-five members of the kendo club performing a collective dogeza in the corridor was quite a spectacle.
Even Raiden Mei was stunned by this scene. What kind of situation had she not seen before? But dozens of people simultaneously dogeza-ing to her she really had never witnessed that.
However, she could no longer go back… "Get up. I forgive you." With Raiden Mei's permission, everyone shakily rose to their feet.
"Then, Raiden President, could you please return to the kendo club and continue leading us? The kendo club cannot lose its president just like the West cannot lose Jerusalem!"
The former vice president, now acting president, said.
"No need. I forgive you because adults do not get angry with children, but that doesn't mean the kendo club is important to me."
Hmph, what was the kendo club? Nothing but a pile of dried bones in a tomb. Without her blessing, the kendo club was merely a group of parasites sucking blood from the merit book named Raiden Mei.
Such a large kendo club didn't even have a single person with second dan in kendo. It could be said to be utterly useless.
Moreover… thinking of the young Kiana she had seen yesterday, Mei couldn't help feeling a little dry-mouthed. That was the person she should be protecting!
Of course, there was also her only friend right now Kiana…
Speak of the devil and the devil appears. Before seeing the person, they first heard Kiana's voice. Accompanied by the continuous calls of "Mei! Mei!" that sounded like a big idiot, Kiana squeezed into the crowded corridor.
"Mei, why are there so many people here?" After meeting Raiden Mei, Kiana finally noticed the kendo club members.
"Wait… they're not here to cause trouble for you again, are they!" Kiana struck a fighting stance, scaring the people around her badly.
No, sister, who would dare fight you? The principal's car was still sitting on the sports field and no one dared to tow it away! With both background and individual combat power completely crushed, who would dare touch your Mei?
Mei was also afraid that Kiana would get excited and charge at her former club members with a baseball bat, so she quickly explained.
"Kiana, it's not like that. They came to apologize to me." Only after everyone took turns explaining did the misunderstanding get cleared up.
"So that's how it is. I thought they were trying to bully you again…" As she spoke, Kiana waved her fist. The club members who had originally wanted to persuade Raiden Mei to return to the kendo club immediately scattered in all directions.
"Let's go, Kiana. Let's go home together!" Raiden Mei knew that after what Kiana had done yesterday, the people who used to like surrounding Kiana probably wouldn't dare approach her anymore either.
So, in the end, they only had each other… But it was fine. The so-called strong were destined to be lonely. Whether it was her or Kiana, both were the so-called strong.
"Mhm, sure! This is my first time going home with Mei!" Wasn't that obvious? Raiden Mei used to be in the kendo club every day and had to attend club activities, while Kiana belonged to the go-home club. The two of them had never had any overlap after school.
But now it was different. Raiden Mei had quit the club and hadn't joined any other clubs, so she naturally belonged to the go-home club as well.
"By the way, Mei, there probably isn't anyone cooking at your house right now, right?" Only then did Kiana realize that since something like that had happened to Mei's family, even the chefs were probably gone…
Eh! I have a great idea! The reason she could so easily form such a deep bond with Mei was largely thanks to one person, yet that person had never even met Mei!
Since there was such a good opportunity today, she should let that guy meet her Mei!
At this moment, Kiana still didn't know that in Shenzhou there was a saying called "inviting a wolf into the house."
"That's right. I'm not good at cooking, so I'll probably need more practice from now on." Although not all of Raiden Ryoma's assets had been frozen and quite a considerable amount of money remained.
But at this moment, Raiden Mei no longer wanted to return to being the pampered young lady of the Raiden family.
"Then… Mei, would you like to come to my house?" Kiana carefully chose her words and extended the invitation to Mei.
"Your house? Kiana, didn't you also come to Nagazora City alone for school?" Raiden Mei remembered Kiana saying that her own cooking skills were a complete mess, even worse than hers. So she had always assumed that a Nordic young lady like Kiana ate at high-end restaurants outside every day.
Kiana scratched her head embarrassedly and said, "It's like this, so I've been freeloading and staying at someone else's house the whole time, haha."
Hearing Kiana say this, Raiden Mei felt as if her head had been violently struck by a heavy hammer swung by an ancient giant! In that instant, the whole world began to spin around her. Her thoughts were smashed into chaos by the sudden heavy blow.
Kiana, coming to Japan alone and freeloading and staying at someone else's house? Japanese way of thinking began to activate. Raiden Mei couldn't help but start making wild associations.
"Kiana, is that person male or female?" Mei asked with a trembling voice, a question that sounded strange to Kiana.
"Of course it's a guy. What's wrong with that? Let me tell you, his cooking is super delicious!"
After hearing Kiana's answer, Raiden Mei became even more convinced of her own thoughts.
Perhaps because Kiana was European, her thinking was more open? So she felt there was no problem with this. But she, Raiden Mei, was a traditional Yamato Nadeshiko.
Traditional and conservative thoughts still occupied Mei's mind. She absolutely could not let Kiana continue to fall like this!
Becoming a god-waiting girl just for food and shelter! Something like that should at least wait until ten years after she was dead!
If Kiana had no place to belong… then let me become her home!
As a friend, Mei felt that even if she had to support Kiana for a lifetime, she could not accept her best friend walking down that path of no return.
"Kiana, you've suffered… Why did I only find out now…" A tear slipped from the corner of Raiden Mei's eye as she spoke to Kiana with deep emotion, leaving the not-so-bright Kiana completely dumbfounded.
"Huh? What are you talking about? I'm very happy every day! Shun treats me really well!" Kiana still hadn't realized that Raiden Mei's thoughts had gone completely off track and was even adding fuel to the fire.
What? Kiana had already been shaped by someone else? But… it's okay. I will definitely save you!
The responsibility of saving Ashina in that world could be set aside for now, because compared to that world, you, Kiana, are more important!
"Let's go. Let me personally end it!" The long-time vegetarian Raiden Mei put on a cold expression and declared.