Chapter 113 Choice and Coincidence

“It seems like it’s solved?” A few days later in the Shirogane residence, Shirogane Kozo said with a smile while picking up food for Kaneki Ken and watching him eat with relish.

“It’s not that simple.” Kaneki Ken muttered as he picked and chose, “I’m a child prodigy, not a charlatan. I can’t make them change their ways by just saying a few words in the last game… But, to be honest, I have untied a lot of knots in my heart, and I can let go and deal with them.”

“Haha, that’s good.” Shirogane Kozou smiled and took a sip of his wine glass. “I’m old now, so I’ll leave these children to you from now on.”

“Don’t talk like you’re entrusting your orphan to someone else, old man.” Kaneki Ken curled his lips, “I’m just a high school student.”

“A high school student?” Shirogane Kozo’s eyes flashed, “By the way, have you decided which high school you’re going to?”

“Menghuang High School, what else can I do?” Kaneki Ken shrugged helplessly, “After all, I have been away for more than two years. Except for Fenghuang, other powerful schools have already found their core members.”

Kaneki Ken ate a few more mouthfuls of food in silence, then raised his head, looked at Shirokane Kozo gloomily and said, “There are quite a few schools that have invited me to join, and I don’t care whether they are wealthy or not, but you can’t just drag me over to form a basketball team before they even have all the members, right? For example, there was a school called Seigaku that asked me to go over, saying that I would be the basketball captain. So, I went to take a look these few days… Damn, they play tennis quite well, but the basketball team is full of players who were eliminated by the tennis team. I’m starting to doubt whether I’m out of date. How dare anyone dare to invite me…”

“Hahaha, people tend to forget things easily.” Shirokane Kozo smiled and consoled him. Then, as if remembering something, he stood up, pulled out an envelope from a nearby drawer, and handed it to Kaneki Ken. He continued with a playful look, “I particularly agree with what you said before. If you go to Fenghuang, you will only be a successor, which will not satisfy you.”

“It seems like you have other places to recommend to me?” Kaneki Ken said, staring at Shirokane Kozo’s eyes with a suspicious look on his face, without taking the envelope from Shirokane Kozo’s hand.

“Well, it’s just a suggestion, but compared to Fenghuang High School, I have a place that is more suitable for you. If you haven’t made up your mind to go to Fenghuang, you might as well consider it.” Shirogane Kozo put the envelope on the table, sat down, and picked up the wine glass to take a sip.

“Hmm…” Kaneki Ken wiped his hands, picked up the envelope from the table, opened it in front of Shirogane Kozo, and began to read.

“Hey, hey, hey, this is a letter of recommendation I wrote to my senior. Don’t grab it with your greasy hands!” Shirogane Kozo said helplessly.

“Really? Why don’t you just write another one?” Kaneki Ken read the letter quickly, folded it up and stuffed it into his arms. “Hey, old man, you recommended me to a public school? Are you using me to repay a favor to your senior?”

“Get out of here. It’s up to you whether you want to go or not. If you don’t want to go, give the letter of recommendation back to me.” Bai Jingeng pretended to snatch the letter of recommendation back.

“Look at you, you’re anxious again.” Kaneki Ken dodged Shirogane Kozo’s hand and said, “Whether to go or not, let me see first.”

……

“Can’t the old man let me live closer to home…” After getting off the train, Kaneki Ken picked up his phone and looked at the map carefully, “How can there be a school so far from the subway… Aren’t you afraid that the students will be late?”

As he spoke, Kaneki Ken took out a folding bicycle from his bag.

“Fortunately, I was well prepared~” Kaneki Ken assembled the car, installed the phone on a simple folding stand, climbed into the car, and looked at the red dot on the phone’s navigation. “After all, it was recommended by old man Platinum. If it is really the Shonan High School in my impression, maybe there is really a way…”

“Little ghost, weren’t you very arrogant just now?”

“You just knocked down four of us by yourself. It’s embarrassing, but now I’ve brought eight of you. If you can knock us down again, we’ll turn around and leave, and never bother you again.”

Just as Kaneki Ken was about to reach Shonan High School, a voice from the alley nearby attracted his attention. “Get lost, I don’t have time to fight you now!” A tall and strong young man with fiery red hair shouted at the top of his lungs in the crowd.

“? Street bullying?” Kaneki Ken raised his eyebrows slightly. He originally didn’t intend to get involved in such trivial matters, but the red-haired guy inside was really eye-catching.

“Yeah, yeah~” Kaneki Ken helplessly got off the bicycle, stuffed the phone into his pocket and muttered to himself, “I hope your hair is natural color, otherwise I will shave you bald, boy.”

After saying that, Kaneki Ken took a step forward, leaped up, and knocked to the ground a gangster who had his back to him.

“who!”

Everyone present stopped and looked at Kaneki Ken. The alley was narrow to begin with, and after Kaneki Ken’s tall figure joined the battle, the sky above the entire crowd darkened, and the scene seemed to have been paused for a moment.

“Hey, red-haired one.” Kaneki Ken pointed behind him, “I see you look very anxious. If you have anything to do, go ahead and I’ll cover your back.”

“Ah… OK, thank you!” The red-haired young man on the ground was the first to react. He wiped his tears and ran away.

“Damn it, who are you? Why are you meddling in other people’s business?” The leading thug saw his opponent escaping, stared at the tall and strong Kaneki Ken and roared angrily.

“Me?” Kaneki Ken pointed at himself and said with a bright and cheerful smile, “Just treat me as a Kamen Rider passing by. Do you still want to fight? If not, just get out of the way. Don’t you know that a good dog doesn’t block the road?”

“Tsk, just wait for me!” The leading thug saw that all his men had lost their will to fight, so he could only leave in a hurry after making some harsh words.

“Woo woo woo~” Just as this farce ended in a whimper, the sound of an ambulance came from a distance and finally stopped at the entrance of the alley.

“Not in vain.” Kaneki Ken raised his eyebrows, watching the red-haired boy and the doctor carrying out a middle-aged man with a purple face from a simple house, and muttered softly, “Group fight, alley, patient, it seems that it is really Sakuragi Hanamichi.”

“Oh, by the way, this blond brother!” Just as the red-haired young man was about to accompany the doctor to the ambulance, he suddenly turned around and shouted, “My name is Sakuragi Hanamichi, thank you very much today! When my father stabilizes in a few days, please be sure to come over, and I will thank you again!”

After saying that, Sakuragi Hanamichi got into the ambulance without looking back.

“Really?” Kaneki Ken looked back at the dilapidated house of the Sakuragi family, sighed helplessly, walked out of the alley, got on his bicycle and continued to head towards Shonan High School, “You didn’t even ask my name? What if you thanked Huang Lai?”

By the time Kaneki Ken arrived at Shonan High School, it was already dusk. All the students on campus had gone home, and the huge campus was empty.

“Oh, I’m late~” Kaneki Ken sighed regretfully, “It seems I can only come again tomorrow.”

“Oh, is that Kaneki-san?” Just as Kaneki Ken was about to turn around and leave, a kind old man’s voice sounded behind Kaneki Ken, “My name is Anton Mitsuyoshi, and I’ve been waiting here for a long time.”

(End of this chapter)