northernbook Chapter 225 I can't even say "I like you"
Chapter 225 I can't even say "I like you"
"What's wrong, Yuuko?" Shinobu Kocho frowned slightly, a hint of worry in her eyes. "You don't look well."
Yushiro said calmly, "He was probably scolded by Lady Tamayo."
"That's you, isn't it?" Yuko glanced at him sideways. "Have you thought about how to explain this to Tamayo when we get back?"
He had never offered to see guests off before. Even when Tamayo asked him to, he would just do it perfunctorily and come back quickly.
It's as if she can't be separated from Tamayo even for a moment.
Now they walk like prisoners on their way to execution, dawdling and hesitant.
She had been chatting with Tamayo inside for so long that she had caught up with the two of them when she came out, but she still hadn't walked out the door.
Yuko can figure things out even with her toes.
Yushiro's face darkened, his eyes twitched violently, a vein bulged on his forehead, and he glared at Yuko with gritted teeth: "Didn't you ask me to give it to you?"
Yu Zi immediately turned hostile and denied everything: "You just take it because I told you to?"
Did I force you?
Yushiro wanted to punch someone when he heard this, but he was too strong to beat them.
Just as he was clenching his fists, sulking resentfully, Yu Zi patted him on the shoulder generously: "The revolution is not yet successful, we must continue to work hard."
"What?" Yushiro slapped Yuko's hand away with a displeased look.
Yuko didn't mind and smiled, saying, "I'm referring to the matter of taking down Tamayo."
Shinobu's eyes widened slightly.
That's quite a bold statement, Yuko.
Yushiro never expected Yuko to be so straightforward, and his carefully maintained composure crumbled instantly.
"You...you...you...!!" Yushiro's blood surged to his face instantly, and he roared, "What nonsense are you spouting!"
"Yes, yes, why are you yelling so loudly?" Yu Zi leaned back slightly, avoiding the noise with a look of disgust.
Yushiro, his face flushed, said, "I and Lady Tamayo..."
He hadn't finished speaking, but Yuko had already heard everything.
"Anyway, you'll have to do your best."
Yuko waved casually, then pulled Shinobu Kocho away.
As he watched the two walk out the door towards the setting sun, Yushiro stood in the shadows under the corridor, his expression gradually becoming complicated.
After a long while, he sighed, turned around, and went back to the basement.
Tuk-tuk-tuk...
"Excuse me, Lady Tamayo." Yushiro opened the laboratory door.
Tamayo was still wearing that white lab coat, but the difference was that she moved from her lab table, which had never been moved in years, to the tea table.
She was enjoying her afternoon tea with elegant manners.
Since developing a medicine that allows humans to consume food, Tamayo has maintained a habit of drinking tea.
Yushiro asked instinctively, "Lady Tamayo, aren't we going to do the experiment anymore?"
Every time I came in before, Tamayo was always sitting at that lab table, head down, busy with something.
Hearing this, Tamayo gently put down her teacup and looked at him calmly: "Yes, why can't I do anything anymore?"
Yushiro broke out in a cold sweat: "Um... I..."
His mind was in complete chaos, and he couldn't think of a way to explain it.
Just like that despicable woman said, it was his own choice.
Seeing his tense expression, Tamayo couldn't help but smile and poured him a cup of tea: "Come and sit down."
“…Yes.” Yushiro breathed a sigh of relief, thankfully Lady Tamayo wasn’t angry.
While sipping his flower tea, Yushiro secretly observed Tamayo.
Ah, Lady Tamayo is so elegant when she's enjoying tea!
The moment that thought crossed his mind, Yu Zi's straightforward words echoed in his head.
Take down Tamayo...
No, no, no! How could he have such a thought?
Damn it!! That wretched, disgusting woman!
……
Yes, that seemed to be his initial thought when he first met Tamayo.
If it's this woman, if it's this woman, he wants to spend the rest of his life with her.
Compared to Yushiro's chaotic emotions, even Tamayo's calm eyes couldn't help but show a slight ripple.
"You don't seem to refer to him as 'that child' as much lately."
No... Yuko...
She deliberately referred to Yushiro as "that child" because she sensed his feelings for her.
I tried to maintain a certain distance from Yushiro, both verbally and in terms of attitude.
……
But just as Yuko said, lately, she seems to be subconsciously forgetting the way she intentionally addresses people.
Tamayo gently raised her eyes and looked at Yushiro, who was holding a teacup and looking down into his mind.
Tamayo calmly looked at the teacup reflecting her face on the table and said, "We've done everything we could. The rest is up to Yuuko and the others."
But as expected...
I'm sorry... she can't reciprocate those feelings.
Just as Yuko said, she couldn't forgive herself.
This is about the fact that I once hurt my family members, and the fact that I once hurt innocent people.
She's different, unlike Ikuko, Yushiro, and Nezuko.
If... if there is an afterlife, perhaps she will accept this affection with equanimity after she has paid off her sins.
"Huh? Hmm..." Yushiro hadn't fully recovered yet.
……
"Were those two originally in that kind of relationship?" Shinobu Kocho wondered on the way back to the Butterfly Mansion.
Yuko glanced sideways slightly: "Didn't you notice?"
"Hmm~ I wouldn't say that..." Shinobu Kocho pondered for a moment, "It's just that the two of them don't seem to have that kind of relationship at all."
Yuko lowered her eyelids slightly: "...Comparatively speaking, the identity that is more familiar to them should be family."
Shinobu Kocho murmured to herself, "Family?"
In the end, love will inevitably evolve into an emotion similar to familial affection.
This is what mutual support means.
Yushiro and Tamayo have been together for two hundred years, and their relationship has actually transcended the so-called romantic relationship.
If you say that Tamayo didn't sense Yushiro's feelings for her, Ikuko wouldn't believe it.
She just can't get over the past.
That memory was too cruel for her; whether she forgot it or remembered it, it was extremely painful.
Yushiro deeply understood Tamayo's complex feelings and chose not to break the silence.
Ultimately, although Yushiro looks like a young boy, his physical age is already over thirty, and his actual age is over two hundred.
She usually seems impatient, but that's how she treats everyone except Tamayo.
"But I didn't expect Yuko to be so blunt." At this point, Shinobu Kocho couldn't help but laugh.
Yuko frankly said, "Probably because it has nothing to do with me."
She had never felt ashamed of changing size before.
Just like many people who act as strategists for others, displaying a wisdom that surpasses even Zhuge Liang's.
When it came to his own situation, he went from being a brilliant strategist like Zhuge Liang to a simple-minded Liu Shan who could only mutter "Aba aba."
He stammered when he spoke, and couldn't even say "I like you".