After rebirth, I confessed to the losing heroine - Chapter 16- Unsure?

At the age of seven, Yuichi was met with an accident when he was traveling with his parents toward the hilltop. The road was slim and the barriers were also broken in places.

As such, a drifting car just crashed into them, and after falling into the vast forest, Yuichi was rescued by a group of people, who went to camp there.

His journey toward the underworld began that day and Yuichi made himself quite a big name there, given his natural adaptability toward his surroundings and his insane hook punches.

Yuichi himself never made any bet on himself or others, but many poor gained millions within one night after they used their remaining fortune to bet on Yuichi.

He was the starfighter. The best.
However, at the age of fifteen, Yuichi decided to return to his hometown and start his new life, and the gang leader, whom Yuichi regarded as his big brother, also accepted his proposal.

Now, it has been over two years and Yuichi has made near-zero contact with his ex-allies. He never had any issues in life worth asking for their help…until this point.

“Things were going awry and you decided to tell us after everything already happened?” The person currently occupying the driver’s seat was a lady in her early twenties.

She was the gang leader’s adopted daughter—Tojou Minami, and also the person who deeply cared about Yuichi.

The reason, she approached him after Yuichi’s call last night stems from the fact that she became hyperactive toward anything related to Yuichi.

“I never got the time and also, there was a risk that he may have circulated those videos all over the internet,” Yuichi spoke, in his defense.

As he said, he didn’t have much time, and because of Hiroto’s incident, his mind wasn’t working properly.

The dark green-haired woman looked at Yuichi with a narrowed gaze, entirely not convinced nor happy about how he took this in his hands without having any caution.

The woman sighed, seemingly accepting her defeat before she asked in a neutral tone,

“Now then…tell me what happened.”

Yuichi internally rejoiced that the topic was skipped before he began recalling everything that happened yesterday.

From how it started, to how it turned out, Yuichi didn’t leave any detail. The fact that a native young man held such a potential to murder so many trained personnel was quite alarming.

The lady creased her brows as she heard the details of how cleanly all the murders were executed. And also, the fact that the assailant was still not caught since the search warrant was still in commission.

“It’s quite…messes up.” The woman found the situation in a very weird state.

More than anything, what made Minami tensed up was the assailant’s unknown motive of saving(?) Yuichi and that little one named Kaori.

“Minami-san, I am worried about those videos. I have a feeling that the assailant stayed behind just for those videos.”

Yuichi’s concern was valid but Minami’s following words suggested otherwise,

“Nothing has been leaked out until now, and no call for ransom came into our server. Last night, when you informed me, we began tracking the network around the region, but…”

Yuichi sighed in relief but still, what had not happened until now, didn’t mean it would not happen in the future as well.

But there was no way to catch the assailant nor to ensure that all those videos would not go viral.

For now, Yuichi could only hope for the best.

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Around four in the afternoon, Hiroto reached his home.

Today was a very eventful day for him. After living eighteen years of his life(in the previous world) for the sake of money and self-happiness, Hiroto felt elated to add someone else to his world as well.

He wouldn’t say that living in isolation was boring…but a life where he could see Miyuki and could converse with her, tease her, and gain so many butterfly emotions in return was a life worth continuing.

Even though he had spent just two days in this world, Hiroto was already thanking those two trucks, which became the reason for his death.

‘Haah…is it alright to be this happy?’ Hiroto knew he was just being silly now, but sometimes, it felt good to act according to his age.

“I am home.” Walking inside the house, Hiroto announced his arrival, just based on his habit as he began exchanging his shoes.

“Hiroto…” The said boy frowned his brows upon hearing his mother’s voice when she should have been in her classes at the moment.

Not to talk about her anxious tone.

“What happened?” Sliding into slippers, Hiroto walked toward his mother and asked.

The older one remained silent, seemingly unsure whether she should say it or not, when the man of the house also walked out of the living space.

“Dad?” Unable to get any answer from the lady, Hiroto turned toward his other parent.

“Hiro…someone called us and asked for an appointment tomorrow.”

Hiroto’s jaw tightened at that. He had a bad feeling about this.

Although he knew that there shouldn’t have been any clues remaining inside that warehouse, which could bring Hiroto’s name to light…however, the way these two seemed, signified that maybe something once in a blue moon might have occurred.

Hiroto first asked his parents to follow him inside the living room before he made them sit on the couch while he knelt on the ground.

Taking their hands in his, Hiroto asked in a serious tone, “Now tell me everything. What happened and who asked for this appointment.”

Hiroto shouldn’t have been feeling any emotion toward these two…but considering how he has replaced the original Hiroto, it becomes his responsibility to keep these two safe.

Ryouske hesitated a bit, but soon broke the ice, “I received a call just an hour ago…from my old business partner, Shirogane Souma, asking me whether I would be able to come to his house tomorrow, with my family members.”

The older one took a long breath with his gaze falling toward the ground as he concluded, “And without thinking much, I agreed.”

Hiroto raised his brows before he asked in an uncertain voice, “So…what is there to be so troubled about?”

“But Hiro…Miyuki-san was your…”

Now that Hiroto realized the reason behind their apprehension. Apparently, they knew about his liking toward Miyuki, and now that they were going to their house, the Takeda couple thought, that their son might not agree.

However, little did they know, how Hiroto’s perception had completely shifted for that single girl.

‘Guess, we are having a date tomorrow, Miyuki~’

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A/N:- Ah…he is just like that. Drop a comment.