"What's on your mind?"
When Terumi Mei reacted, she saw Satoru's handsome face enlarged several times, and he was almost going to touch her face with his.
"Ah!"
Terumi Mei stepped back subconsciously, but forgot that there was a sofa behind her, so she tripped over and fell onto the sofa.
At this time, Satoru stood in front of her, his tall body seemed even more oppressive under the current height gap.
He moved his neck slightly, and then continued to stare at Terumi Mei with downcast eyes. The angle of the downcast eyes made Terumi Mei feel that she was "scrutinized" by his eyes again, and all her sins had no place to hide under his gaze.
What's worse, she actually felt that such a feeling was slowly poisoning her.
"Satoru? What are you doing?"
"You just accepted my idea on the surface, but you don't actually agree with it. If deep in your heart, you still think that your idea is right, then I'm sorry, I can't go to Kirigakure with you."
"Why? Didn't I say that I won't do stupid things no matter what!?"
Terumi Mei wanted to go with Satoru's way, she doesn't want her relationship with Satoru to be too tense, after all, she had already come to this point now, and she had even said her apology.
But Satoru turned around and ignored her, leaving Terumi Mei there alone.
He didn't continue to talk to her or drive her away, he just ignored her.
A sense of grief and indignation surged from the bottom of Terumi Mei's heart. She felt that she had no face to stay there anymore, so she stood up and resolutely prepared to leave.
When she looked back, she saw that Satoru stood by the balcony. He had raised his head, closed his eyes, as if feeling the temperature of the sun.
It's as if he's saying to her that look, even Satoru, who had always said that he was not a good person, could be bathed in the sun at this moment. But every time Terumi Mei stood in the sun, she just felt that she was not worthy at all.
This was the difference between the two of them. This fundamental difference lead to their respective perspectives of thinking about the same problem, which was fundamentally at different levels.
They may never talk about being together for the rest of their lives.
…
Terumi Mei left Satoru's house, but at this moment Satoru turned his head and looked at the direction she left with some sadness.
After a long time, he said something as if he was muttering to himself, "The first step is that you have to come out on your own, no one can help you with this. You have to work hard..."
Terumi Mei couldn't understand Satoru's painstaking efforts, so Terumi Mei came to the outskirts of the village with a depressed mood to find a remote place to calm down.
As soon as she sat down, she heard a laugh behind him.
"I actually saw you showing such an expression."
Terumi Mei was thinking about the past all in her heart, and so, she didn't realize that she was being watched by someone.
She jumped up and saw Konan standing on the tree.
'Shouldn't they be gone? Why is she still here?'
Terumi Mei put on a fighting posture, but Konan raised her hands at this time, indicating that she had no intention of fighting the opponent at all.
"Don't get me wrong, we were indeed leaving, but we just encountered some unexpected situations, so we can only take shelter here to temporarily avoid the limelight."
The word "shelter" was wonderful.
It could be interpreted as avoiding the pursuit of enemies, or as avoiding the concerns of acquaintances.
Judging from Konan's expression, it doesn't look like she was about to be hunted down by enemies.
'No… wait, all the people in the entire Akatsuki organization are all lunatics. Even if someone hunts them down, maybe they won't feel nervous, or they might not even feel a sense of crisis.'
'They regard themselves as weapons to break through the cycle of the world world. As a weapon, how could they have a sense of crisis? This is a paradox.'
"Well, I can see your puzzlement. Let me tell you, in fact, we are being hunted down by our own organization."
Her words made Terumi Mei frown even more.
'Didn't everyone say that the people of Akatsuki organization were particularly united?'
'How could they still hunt down and kill people from their own organization?'
Terumi Mei couldn't figure it out, but she didn't want to get too much information from the person in front of her, first because she might be deceiving her, and second because there was no need to talk too much about the former enemy's condition. After all, they just wanted to kill her and Satoru a while back.
"It has nothing to do with me."
"I know, but I want to tell you that so that you know why."
"I don't know, and I don't want to know."
Even if Terumi Mei refused, Konan seemed to have no regard of her answer at all, and said again, "Because I want to get your help. Everything our organization has experienced so far is what you don't have. As far as I can imagine, we can be loyal comrades-in-arms who put each other's lives in the hands of each other, or some people whom we can send into the underworld when the crisis comes."
"We are who we are, and there will be no change in that. What we can do for the organization today is also what we can do for you tomorrow, there is no need to treat us as enemies. There is still a chance for changing all of this, isn't it?"
What Konan said sounded good, but when Terumi Mei heard it, the meanings of those words changed completely. It sounded like for their own purposes, they could sell out those who are currently with them without hesitation. Naturally, she felt even more contempt about the Akatsuki after hearing this.
"It seems that there is really no way to talk to you guys, we are people who are not on the same level of thinking."
"Hehe, you will soon know that sometimes your so-called partners will become your enemies without hesitation when needed. I am looking forward to that day… I am really looking forward to it. "
Konan smiled and left, and while she was leaving Terumi Mei saw blood on her back.
The blood seemed to be fresh and still flowing from Konan's body, which meant that Konan was injured.
'It may be true that they are being hunted down.'
Terumi Mei went back to the village and saw Naruto talking mysteriously with someone on the street corner.
Walking over to see, he was actually grabbing a child by the collar and his expression was a bit scary.
'Could it be that he is threatening someone?!'
Naruto was Satoru's student. Terumi Mei subconsciously didn't want Naruto to affect Satoru's reputation, so she walked over and grabbed Naruto away.
"What are you doing?"
The little boy ran away on the spot after being let go, Naruto yelled and wanted to chase, but was pushed directly against the wall by Terumi Mei.
"Let me ask you, were you blackmailing that kid just now? Aren't you afraid of the impact that this kind of behavior will have on your teacher?"
"I'm not blackmailing, I'm just warning that guy!"
Naruto looked both angry and innocent, "Just now that guy wanted to steal money, but I caught him. That guy looked very fierce even after being caught and I was afraid that he would suffer if he was caught by someone else, so I brought him here directly to give a warning. I didn't even hit him, if you don't believe me, you can chase him and ask him."
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