Senior Inoue Passed Out Again

Early the next morning, after Shinnosuke finished his morning exercise, he brought Inoue Ryushi home, looking like a dead dog. The two quickly finished breakfast, grabbed the keys, and raced to the motorcycle in the yard.

Misae hurriedly called after them.

"You two be careful out there..."

"Got it!"

"Got it, ma'am."

Then Shinnosuke twisted the throttle, and they sped out of Misae's sight, leaving a trail of dust behind them.

"Honestly, those two..."

"Hey, let me ride it for a bit..."

Shinnosuke curled his lip. Was he kidding? He didn't dare lend his bike to anyone now. Even a scratch on it would break his heart.

"No... You should be celebrating that I'm even giving you a ride."

"Do you have to be so stingy?!"

The PE teacher was directing students as they entered the school when he suddenly saw a motorcycle speeding toward him! He blew his whistle frantically, trying to stop it, but then he recognized Shinnosuke Nohara on the bike and hurriedly jumped aside!

As if he could stop that guy. Students beating up teachers was common these days, and that guy was the boss of the school.

Amid the students' startled cries, Shinnosuke swung the bike's rear wheel around and stopped at the school gates. Suddenly, he heard a scream, and the bike felt lighter.

Shinnosuke turned around and found Inoue Ryushi lying face-down on the ground with his butt in the air. Shinnosuke gave him a strange look and said,

"When did you get off...?"

Inoue Ryushi's hand twitched as he lay on the ground...

After getting his usual leave from the teacher, Shinnosuke headed straight to the rooftop and settled comfortably onto his beat-up sofa. He couldn't keep the smile off his face as he hummed softly.

"Riding my beloved little motorcycle~ It never gets stuck in traffic~"

Shinnosuke never brought a lunchbox because Misae always liked to put green peppers and carrots in it. Today, as usual, he ate the lunch Kinoshita Hideyoshi had brought him.

Today, Hideyoshi had brought him a beef bowl with four onsen eggs. A gentle poke sent golden yolk coating every grain of rice. Sunlight shone on the rice, giving it a golden glow that made his mouth water!

Shinnosuke wolfed it down, and Kinoshita Hideyoshi couldn't help smiling as he watched him.

"Watching you eat always gives me an appetite!"

Shinnosuke glanced at him and mumbled indistinctly,

"The thing I can't shtand mosht when eating is chewing slowly. You've gotta take great big mouthfuls for it to tashte good!"

After eating, the two chatted on and off for a while before Kinoshita Hideyoshi took the lunchbox and said goodbye to Shinnosuke.

He spent the entire afternoon lying on the sofa, bored out of his mind. Inoue Ryushi was still in the hospital because of what had happened that morning, and the two little ones had both gone over to see him. After all, they were Inoue Ryushi's juniors.

It was usually so noisy that he wasn't quite used to the sudden quiet. Just then, the rooftop door opened, and Shinomiya Kai came up with a grave expression.

"Hey, Nohara... The Silver Dragon Society has been completely wiped out..."

Shinnosuke froze for a moment, then sat up and asked in confusion,

"What do you mean by wiped out...?"

"The Silver Dragon Society's entire building burned down... Even Tsukikawa himself was burned to a crisp... Could those two have done it...?"

Mitsuhashi and Ito's faces appeared in Shinnosuke's mind, but then he shook his head.

"Even though I don't know them well, I don't think they'd do something so crazy. Anyway, it has nothing to do with us..."

Shinomiya Kai pondered for a moment before speaking with a complicated expression.

"No, it has a lot to do with us... There were lots of witnesses when we went there last time... And our car was caught on surveillance cameras too..."

Shinnosuke thought about it and realized he was right. After he brainwashed them, everyone had looked ready for a fight... People on the street would have easily remembered them. He never imagined something like this would happen in the end! He looked up at Shinomiya Kai and asked,

"So what are you planning to do...?"

"I do have some clues... We need to go to Chiba again!"

Shinnosuke looked at Shinomiya Kai's grave expression but didn't ask for details.

"Sure, we'll leave tonight. But let's not drive. We'll take the motorcycle. Mine doesn't have any registration papers, so they can't trace it."

Shinomiya Kai froze.

"Aren't you going to ask what the clues are?"

Shinnosuke scratched his head and flopped back onto the sofa.

"Well, I'm no good at this kind of thing. Anyway, you wouldn't screw me over."

Shinomiya Kai shook his head with a smile, then turned and left the rooftop.

Meanwhile, at the hospital, Inoue Ryushi's head was wrapped in gauze as he listened to the doctor's instructions with a sullen face.

"In any case, you can't do any strenuous exercise for a while. The concussion itself isn't a major problem, but you need plenty of rest, understand? Fancy falling off a motorcycle. Don't ride one again. It's far too dangerous!"

Inoue Ryushi said through gritted teeth,

"Yes, I understand, doctor..."

After watching the doctor leave, Inoue Ryushi started yelling in anger, and the others hurried to calm him down. Someone accidentally knocked over the IV stand, and the glass bottle of glucose solution on it crashed down onto Inoue Ryushi's head along with it. He passed out again.

"Ryu-chan!!!"

"Doctor!!! Senior Inoue passed out again!!"