Kirigiri Novel Book 2

Chapter 8- Part 2 Lost

I suddenly felt something touching my face, and I woke up. Kirigiri is staring at my face with a worried look.

She is touching my face with her fingertips. Like she was wiping away my tears.

"Yui-onēsama, you're crying."

"Sorry, it's nothing."

I sat up, took off my glasses and put them on the bed to wipe my tears.

"You like to ask me so many questions, but you don't talk much about yourself."

Kirigiri frowned as she got a little upset.

"I still dream about my little sister from time to time." I talked about a topic I had never mentioned to anyone before. "She's always asking for help, but I haven't been able to save her once. Even in my dreams, I'm still powerless... It's frustrating..."

"Yui-onēsama." Kirigiri brought her face closer to me. "Then you will protect me this time. If anything happens to me... Yui- onēsama, you will have to come and protect me, and you will be able to do it."

I stared at the smiling Kirigiri. She looked a bit blurry.

Speaking of my glasses...

I tried picking up my glasses on the bed. But Kirigiri quickly snatched it away.

She put the glasses on her face and joked: "Do I look good?"

"Sorry, I can't see you well."

"......Forget it."

Kirigiri took off the glasses and shoves them at me as soon as she can.

Although she looks calm, she is easy to get angry sometimes... or she is just shy.

I put on my glasses and looked at her expression.

"Enough about that, the time for the last auction is getting closer and closer."

Kirigiri suddenly put on a serious face and said. "Do you really plan to fight her at the auction?"

"Of course." she said as she puffed up her thin chest. "At yesterday's auction, I was convinced that in order for her to confess guilt, she must be defeated according to her rules. The fact that Nanamura-san, the detective, is on her side is also giving her confidence."

"I really want to punch that Nanamura guy so badly."

I said, clenching my fist. I have never punched anyone before, but breaking that precept on him doesn't look so bad. Ah, on second thought, better not to.

"This matter aside... We ran out of money yesterday, and now we are broke. Shinsen-san completely believes in Yozuru-san still, and he seems to have given her full control of his money... And that Nanamura guy will definitely not lend us his money."

The other side freely controls at least 233 million, while we are stuck at zero. This overwhelming gap is impossible to fill. Even if we can borrow the remaining 50 million from Nanamura, we wouldn't be able to win against the other side in terms of money.

No matter how I think about it, it's impossible for us to win against Yozuru.

"Why don't we just escape from the rooftop while we're at it, how about this method?" I mentioned the idea that I had been brewing secretly. "Like you said before, just tie up the bed sheets into a rope, let it dangle outside, and then descend along the rope to the ground. We can even tie the bed sheets to the car on the rooftop..."

"It's quite difficult to climb down from a five-story rooftop with a rope of tied up bed sheets."

"But if only one person can safely descend to the ground, then they can open the entrance of the hotel from the outside. as long as the door is left open, everyone can get out!"