4 Raiden Mei

Raiden Mei is a second-year student at Senba academy, which is one of the most favorite academies in Nagazora city.

A year ago, when she first entered Senba Academy, she was immediately popular and mobbed by her classmates.

As the daughter of a wealthy family, she received strict tutoring for a long time which left her without many friends.

To Mei's delight, she didn't have to think about how to get along with her classmates, as her classmates took the initiative to befriend her.

Mei enjoyed the company of her many friends at school, but that didn't last long before her father, Raiden Ryoma, was involved in a case of economic malpractice and went to jail for it.

Mei felt very sad about this and she was convinced that her father was not such a person and had actually been framed.

But she also thinks a little positively because she is not alone and has friends beside her.

She knew that she shouldn't involve her friends in personal matters that might bother them, but at least she had friends to confide in.

But just a few months later, after her father went to prison, the ME company's reputation was badly damaged and even the current president had replaced Raiden Ryoma.

Mei who was no fool quickly realized the changes around her.

For most of the day and night, the people she used to consider her best friends were now using various excuses to stay away from her, The classmates who used to crowd around her after school and chat about girlie topics together were also alienating her.

It turned out that the identity Mei thought was well hidden was revealed during enrollment.

Even though her graceful temperament and authority were not so obvious under the deliberate hiding, her last name was quite recognizable.

'She is the only daughter of the owner of the ME company.' thought the students who heard and saw her name.

Mei originally thought, she won everyone's friendship by relying on her polite manner in dealing with others and her considerate personality.

But it turned out that she was very wrong, Mei was very naive to think that way, no, maybe she had realized it but tried to ignore it.

Even though from the beginning, the purpose of the students was clear, which was to establish a friendly relationship with the daughter of the leader of the ME Company, in order to gain benefits.

When Mei lost her status as the heiress of the ME company, they certainly had no intention of doing anything in vain.

Even to prevent the dissatisfaction of the still giant ME company, everyone deliberately alienated Mei but did not bully her.

Of course, bullying here is not hitting or physically harming her, but that doesn't mean they don't talk about Mei behind her back and badmouth her as bad girls generally do.

As the saying goes "The tongue is sharper than the knife" especially since the people who said these things were people she used to consider friends.

On that day, Mei discovered that the world was not as beautiful as she had imagined.

Mei actually lacked family affection since childhood, it was because her father was too busy working and her mother when she was young had died of cancer.

She therefore thought she could use friendship to alleviate her father's lack of affection, but in the end she discovered that she was wrong, the friendship she had was a sham from the start.

This made her subconsciously feel that something inside her had broken like a splinter.

However, Mei's temperament did not change drastically, in addition to being more sensitive to the atmosphere of the surroundings and people's hearts, her mind also became stronger.

After such drastic changes, Mei's gentleness and tolerance made her classmates uncomfortable and avoided her.

After all, it's a bit strange to be tolerant and gentle with people who demonize you.

Mei was actually acting like that just because she felt lonely.

Right now, as usual when the full moon night came, she did not return to the dormitory immediately.

After all, there was no difference between the classroom and the dormitory since both she alone.

Mei's current situation was actually really sad.

Considering that an enclosed space like a dormitory would only make her feelings of loneliness more obvious she preferred the classroom.

Mei who was in class at this time sat on a bench and looked at the moon shining indiscriminately in the sky along with the sound of insects chirping on a full night made Mei able to feel a little comfortable.

Staring at the moon with a blank expression, the feeling of being spied on suddenly appeared making her expression change.

"Who's there?!"

Mei shouted and turned her head to stare at the large tree near the school wall not far from her.

Only a gust of cold air answered her.

Mei trusted her keen intuition as she had practiced physically so she was sure the feeling of being spied on was not wrong.

Mei continued to stare intently at the tree her face not wary and stern just a little serious, in fact she was looking forward to it hoping that the peeping tom was one of her former friends.

Really... Mei was so lonely that even though she knew that the people approaching her were 'fake friends' she still wanted to be friends with them just to alleviate her loneliness.

Mei hoped that her actions would make one or two people who used to be her best friends feel her sincerity in friendship.

But her seriousness and hope turned into a surprise, as an unfamiliar boy who looked a year younger than her appeared from behind a tree.

"I thought I hid well. How did you find me?"

There is no doubt that men hiding in secluded places to peek at women with unknown intentions is a crime, the law remains in place even though the number of men is now rare.

But Mei just looked at the other party calmly and didn't shout or change her expression to disgust and so on, she smiled instead.

"Because I practiced swordsmanship for a short time when I was a child. This makes my perception a little sharper than ordinary people. Moreover.... You looked at me for so long that I was able to detect it."

With her extremely beautiful appearance and with her long black hair and deep jet black eyes.

She was obviously only a high school student, but had a temperament that was mature beyond her years.

Mei saw the young man looking around before walking up to her and stopped after keeping a few meters away and said.

"My name is Hanagami Kouro, I'm a first year student at Tachikawa Academy."

"Tachikawa Academy? It's not too far from Senba Academy. Why did you sneak into the academy at this time of night?" Mei asked with a raised eyebrow.

Even though she was very lonely and wanted company it didn't mean she would befriend a criminal let alone a strange pervert.

"I'm sure you're not at Senba academy because you got lost, right? Before I call the guards, you'd better prepare your excuse well. " she continued.

Although Mei said that, judging from her calm expression it seemed that she would not call the guards immediately.

It was not because she was confident in her swordsmanship to protect herself that Mei did not bring her wooden sword this time.

Moreover, her bag did not contain anything like chili spray and so on due to immoral crimes.

Her calmness now was because she did not feel any resentment from Kouro, and Mei who had turned somewhat sensitive to the emotions of others.

Of course, part of the reason was because Kouro had a very handsome face, not the kind of person to give a bad first impression.

So remember guys, you have a handsome face, you're safe.

Moreover, in general, men who have good-looking faces will not commit crimes such as immorality.

In fact, ever since Kouro was discovered by Mei, he has been thinking hard about how to give a proper and reasonable explanation for his behavior of sneaking into the Senba school academy.

The excuse of 'For the sake of world peace' did not seem very convincing.

Kouro who couldn't find the perfect excuse could only tell half-truths in Mei's curious eyes.

"I got the qualification for an internship at the ME company from my school. So I went to the internship before this, I happened to see the information that 'Raiden Mei the daughter of the Former President of the ME company, Raiden Ryoma, attends Senba academy currently'."

Kouro saw Mei's eyes dim slightly as he said this, he then quickly continued.

"I found a rumor that Raiden Mei is a beautiful and charming girl so I'm a little curious if it's true. "

Kouro could not see Mei's expression as she was hidden by the shadow of the moon, but he heard a few crashes before he heard Mei ask him.

"What do you think? Do I fit the rumors?" Mei showed her face letting the moonlight shine on it.

It could be seen that her cheeks were slightly reddened either from the slap or from something else.

Kouro gave her a long look, he held his chin while wearing a serious expression and finally shook his head.

"I want to beat up the person who spread that rumor for spreading false rumors. "

Mei's expression was a little sad when she heard this, after all as a girl she also wanted to be praised about her beauty.

"Beautiful and charming? That's wrong, your appearance is too superficial to be called that. I honestly hope to meet and see you every day even when death takes me so that when in heaven I can proudly say that I have met an angel in the world. " Kouro said with a confident smile while pointing to the sky.

At that moment, the moonlight shone on him as if supporting his words.

Kouro didn't know that his words were really deadly for a young girl.

Although it sounded like a third-rate flirtation, but what Kouro said was honest.

He didn't know that Mei was currently pinching her thighs to not show an embarrassing reaction.

Even so, Mei's face was flushed with a strange smile as she bit her lip.

Feelings of embarrassment mixed with happiness flowed through her body so she behaved strangely, fortunately Kouro didn't notice.

After a while, Mei had a good impression of Kouro, but remembering Kouro's words at the beginning her expression calmed down a little.

Mei returned Kouro's words with a smile, but then her eyes became a little dim.

"I am indeed the daughter of Raiden Ryoma, Former President of the ME company. But if you want to take advantage of me, I can only apologize."

"Perhaps the ME company is deliberately hiding some facts from an apprentice like you. My father has actually been imprisoned for economic malpractice and already has no influence left in the ME company." Mei continued.