After leaving the electronics store, Fang Li led Sakura Airi all the way out of Beech Shopping Center, eventually arriving at its entrance.
"Are you okay?"
Only then did Fang Li ask Sakura Airi behind him.
"I-I'm... fine."
Sakura Airi's complexion had looked rather poor since earlier, but it had finally recovered a little.
Only under these circumstances did Sakura Airi finally notice something.
She noticed that Fang Li was holding her hand.
"~~~~~~~"
Sakura Airi's entire body stiffened again, and her pretty face rapidly flushed red at a visible speed.
She looked so overwhelmed with blood rushing to her head that one might have worried she would faint the next second.
Naturally, Fang Li could not have failed to notice.
So, without drawing attention to it, Fang Li released Sakura Airi's hand and changed the subject.
"Do you know that clerk from earlier?"
The topic successfully diverted Sakura Airi's attention.
The redness on Sakura Airi's face began to fade slightly. Clenching the hand Fang Li had just held and placing it in front of herself, she spoke in a somewhat dejected voice.
"I-I don't know him. I've just been to that store a few times."
In other words, during his several encounters with Sakura Airi, that clerk had developed improper thoughts about her and displayed blatant desire?
But wasn't that desire a little too intense?
No matter how ruled by lust he was, he should not have felt such strong desire toward a female student he had only met a few times.
Moreover, though it was rude to say so, Sakura Airi was not particularly eye-catching at this school. There were plenty of girls cuter than her; the only thing that might surpass every other woman's was probably her figure.
Could it be that the clerk had been fixated