I've been financially ruined!
Tomie's expression was very unpleasant.
She exuded an aura that warned people to stay away. Sitting on a chair in the school classroom, one beautiful leg wrapped in over-the-knee socks swung gently, her toes tapping, showing her inner frustration.
Tomie rested one hand on her fragrant cheek, her gaze looking out through the classroom window at the playground outside. Recalling the events of the past few days, her expression grew increasingly gloomy.
In the past few days, whenever Tomie had free time after class, she would go to that cafe in Ikebukuro, hoping to meet Toru again.
However, Toru rarely went to that cafe.
For the past few days, Tomie would sit in the cafe for two hours every day and drink two drinks, but she never saw Toru himself.
She had originally wanted to rely on her ability to skip the bill, but the dark-skinned manager of that cafe actually did not fall for her trick, and her plan to skip the bill completely failed.
No, it could not be said that her ability was completely useless against that dark-skinned manager.
Unlike when facing Toru, her ability still had some effect on that dark-skinned manager. It was just that she did not know what the other party was resisting, making her ability difficult to work.
If it were someone seeing her for the first time, it would be understandable for the ability's effect to be weak.
But she had been to that store so many times and had met that dark-skinned manager so many times, yet she still could not completely charm him.
How come Toru always has such strange people around him?
Although Tomie was not very smart, she was not an idiot either.
She had never used her ability in places like luxury goods stores.
In such places, if she relied on her ability to skip the bill, large sums of money would easily expose her.
Tomie was just an ordinary girl. She was afraid of death, afraid of injury, and even more afraid of pain.
If she were caught by some mysterious department, she was very worried about becoming a test subject.
This was also why Tomie had been controlling the range of her ability and had not acted recklessly.
It was only for small expenses like drinking coffee that she would use her ability to solve the problem.
But who would have thought that Tomie, for whom men had always paid since she gained her ability, was actually spending money at a man's shop this time? How could she accept this disparity?
Tomie's bad mood made the male students and the teacher in the class feel as if they saw an opportunity. They came up to her to express their concern.
Tomie was annoyed and said angrily, "Get lost~"
Those few boys and the male teacher, as if hearing heavenly music, actually rolled away on the ground, which amused Tomie.
Seeing Tomie laugh, the men rolled even more happily, just to make the goddess in their hearts happy.
But soon, Tomie felt it was boring again.
When all men listened to her, Tomie felt she had lost the challenge.
Now, her heart only held Toru.
Why, why did her ability fail on him?
This made Tomie very unconvinced.
The result of Toru not being charmed also aroused Tomie's competitive spirit.
She had to find a way to make that man fall for her, no matter what method she used. She must make him kneel and call her Tomie-sama!
"Is my ability ineffective on him because his will is firm and his emotions are steadfast, or because Fujiwara Toru also has some special ability, allowing him to resist me?"
Tomie had no interest in going to school or listening to the teacher's lectures. From morning to night, she was thinking about Toru and racking her brain trying to find a solution.
If Toru was devoted to one person, then what she needed to do was find that woman named Kawamata Kayako and use her as a breakthrough.
Don't you deeply love that woman?
Then I will make the woman you deeply love kneel before me, please me, flatter me, and make her leave you.
By then, Fujiwara-san, I wonder what kind of despairing expression you will have?
Hmm, at that time, I'll show him some concern and let him know how good I am. I imagine that man will cry bitterly and regret ignoring me.
Thinking of such a scene, Tomie could not help but laugh out loud.
She did not believe it anymore. Could that woman named Kayako also refuse her charm?
However, if Toru's ability was ineffective not because he was devoted to one person, but because he himself was special, then she might be able to try studying him.
As Tomie's ability became more uncontrollable and its range of influence grew larger, although Tomie maintained an arrogant queen-like appearance on the surface, she was becoming increasingly fearful inside.
She was afraid of being exposed, and she was afraid of those terrifying eyes that wanted to devour her.
Tomie hoped to research how to use her ability.
If she could actively control this charm ability, that would be the result Tomie dreamed of.
This uncontrollable ability would only bring her danger.
And so far, the only person who completely ignored her ability and could be used as a research subject was Toru!
At first, Tomie also suspected that her ability was related to the drugs her father, who was a doctor, injected her with.
But Tomie got a list of those injected items from her father.
Those drugs were all supplements similar to vitamins and did not seem like something that could bring out her superpower at all.
Perhaps it was precisely because of this that Tomie's body did not have major problems after being injected with so many drugs.
"Toru's home address is easy to find. I've already found it."
"Should I go stake out his house tonight?"
Tomie hesitated only slightly before making up her mind.
Go. Why not go!
It was too difficult to see that man. She did not dare go to the government office building, so the only place she could see him was his home.
"Hoo..."
In this boring anticipation, school finally ended.
Tomie returned home and found that her father had surprisingly come back very early and was directing staff to install something in the house.
It was a freezer, the kind commonly used for popsicles in convenience stores.
Although winter was almost over and spring was coming, there was no need to install a freezer now, was there?
Especially since her house was not big and the living room was even smaller, there was almost no room to walk after the freezer was installed.
Looking at the installed freezer, Tomie suddenly felt that this freezer seemed like it could fit her inside too.
Thinking of this, she suddenly felt a chill.
Looking up again, her father's maliciously obsessed eyes made Tomie's skin crawl.
He, he wouldn't really want to kill me, would he?
Tomie ran into the house in fear.
No, I must quickly find a way to control my ability.
Father's eyes were getting stranger and stranger, and the eyes of those classmates and the teacher at school were also getting stranger.
She had secretly overheard a few boys discussing in private that they would chop her into pieces, and each of them would take a share.
Some said they wanted her legs to sleep with, while others said they wanted her feet to satisfy their desires.
At first, Tomie just took it as a joke and only found them disgusting.
But now, she increasingly felt that those people were not joking.
They really wanted to kill her!
...
At night, Tomie wrapped herself completely, like a perverted stalker, and secretly came near Toru's Western-style mansion.
(To be continued.)
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