Padoru Felice

That evening, Yoshikage Kira stayed behind to help clean up. Although he usually did the classroom cleaning by himself, Yoshikage Kira didn't complain.

"If it's only this much, I can endure it," Yoshikage Kira told himself.

After finishing the cleaning, Yoshikage Kira started his journey home.

Perhaps it was fate, or perhaps something happened, but Yoshikage Kira's right eye suddenly began to twitch.

"Why is my right eyelid twitching? Did I forget to bring something?" Little Yoshikage Kira furrowed his brows slightly, opened his schoolbag, and found that he had indeed forgotten some books. So, he turned back.

And so, in the afterglow of the setting sun, Yoshikage Kira encountered the phantom thief girl, Padoru Felice.

So, should he turn Padoru in? Yoshikage Kira thought as he lay on his bed at home.

Lying on the bed, his thoughts drifted far away.

Simulation, in essence, was nothing more than role-playing.

But "a mask worn for too long cannot be taken off."

Moreover, He Cheng-rui was just a college student who had recently come of age.

"Yoshikage Kira, no wonder the simulator warned me not to be influenced by the character template at the beginning." He Cheng-rui sighed. He could feel that he didn't need to deliberately play the role of Yoshikage Kira.

Because the existence named Yoshikage Kira was influencing him in reverse, and the pursuit of a peaceful life had become an unconscious behavior.

"It's only been a few years, and the influence is already this great?"

"I hope I don't develop a pathological obsession with hands."

Thinking this, Yoshikage Kira fell asleep.

The next day, after cleaning up, Yoshikage Kira didn't rush home. He walked to the milk tea shop across the street, ordered a cup of milk tea, and began to wait for the cat to walk into his trap.

After waiting for about ten minutes, he saw someone sneakily approaching the door and trying to pick the lock. Yoshikage Kira knew it was time to act.

Yoshikage Kira tiptoed and slowly approached Padoru from behind, who was engrossed in picking the lock.

Padoru seemed too focused and didn't notice someone standing behind her.

Yoshikage Kira reached out and patted Padoru's shoulder. Padoru flinched, then slowly turned around. Seeing Yoshikage Kira, who was close to her age, in front of her, she seemed to relax, a kind smile appearing on her face, and she opened her mouth to say something.

"Miss Padoru Felice, you wouldn't want anyone to know you've been stealing, would you?"

Padoru, who had just opened her mouth to argue, was silenced by Yoshikage Kira's words.

Seeing the panic and fear welling up in the wide eyes of the frail girl in front of him, Yoshikage Kira pointed to the milk tea shop across the street. "Let's go inside and talk, shall we?"

Taking a sip of milk tea, Yoshikage Kira looked up at the restless girl sitting opposite him. Her thin body was wrapped in worn clothes she seemed to have found somewhere. She was dirty, but the hands placed on the table were very clean, fair, and slender, making one want to hold them.

Noticing Yoshikage Kira's gaze, Padoru retracted her hands. Noticing Padoru's movement, Yoshikage Kira snapped back to attention.

He then sternly said to the girl in front of him, "Do you know whose things you were stealing? Have you thought about the consequences?"

Padoru panicked, "I didn't steal your things! I only steal from bad people!"

"I'm here on behalf of those bad people to catch you."

Hearing this, Padoru shrunk her head and whispered, "But I didn't steal your things. Why are you helping those bad people?"

"How can you be so sure I'm not a bad person?"

"Everyone in Twilight Town knows that Dr. Yoshikazu Kira is a good person, so you must be a good person too."

"..." Yoshikage Kira was speechless and rubbed his temples.

"Besides, I didn't steal all of it. Your teacher stole quite a bit too."

Oh, is that so? Then this matter can be easily resolved.

Yoshikage Kira was still troubled about how to protect Padoru without disrupting his peaceful life. Hearing this, he smiled.

"Then, Miss Padoru Felice, you wouldn't want the mob boss to know that his child's things were stolen by you, would you?"

As he spoke, he took out his camera, which showed Padoru picking the lock.

Padoru shrunk her head and let out a cute whimper. "Then... then what do you want?" Padoru asked nervously.

Yoshikage Kira pushed the camera forward.

"It's very simple. First, take pictures of the teacher stealing things. Second, stop stealing things from the classroom," Yoshikage Kira said calmly.

"It's that simple?" Padoru said incredulously.

"That's how simple it is. When you've taken the pictures, put the photos and the camera in my desk."

After speaking, he stared into Padoru's sky-blue eyes and said sternly.

"Can you do it?"

"Then... you won't report me, will you?"

Yoshikage Kira shook his head, picked up his schoolbag, and went home.

Padoru looked at the camera, which looked expensive, and muttered, "What the heck, he really is a good person, isn't he."

Three days later, after showing the teacher's stolen photos to the class, the teacher vanished. The school, which shouldn't have existed in Twilight Town, naturally disbanded without a teacher.

"Hooray, hooray, hooray!"

"Boss, please let me follow you!"

Yoshikage Kira flipped through a book, frowning, and looked at the girl standing before him.

Was he being pestered?