What will Cinderella be thinking after she takes off her princess dress?
Darkness.
Ah, what kind of darkness is that?
She couldn't see her own fingers, and her movements seemed to be walking through an empty world. There was no other person left in the world except her.
Why is it so dark?
Why could she hear other people's voices - some praying fervently, some cursing angrily, and some whimpering incomprehensibly?
They said, this is human [crying],
I can't understand it no matter how much I think about it.
She walked a long way unconsciously, but she didn't know how far she had gone. She couldn't see anything clearly in the darkness, even [distance] was not immune.
At this moment, a faint light spot suddenly appeared in front of her eyes. Although its light was weak and almost extinguished, it looked so dazzling in this vast darkness...
Can't help it,
I want to get closer...
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"Ring ring ring ring ring!!!"
The piercing sound of the alarm clock was like a sharp needle, penetrating the brains of all those who were addicted to sleep. Watanabe Temple had also been awakened by the alarm early, and sat up suddenly from the bed, with a wet expression on his face.
The anger faded.
Just now... I seemed to have had a very unpleasant dream. She felt the lingering emotions in her heart and thought about it in a daze.
Watanabe Temple looked around early. He was surrounded by familiar layouts, but he always felt that everything he saw was unfamiliar.
Strange? But this is the room she has lived in for two months.
Is it because of the dream?
When Watanabeji tried to recall the content of his dream, his mind went blank.
Ahhhhhh, I feel so unhappy!! I don’t know why, but I feel very unhappy!!! Watanabeji dove into the quilt and let the soft duvet wrap up his excess emotions.
Every day, almost every day! She will experience the same thing——
I have disturbing dreams every night, but I can't remember anything the next day. Even if I go to the doctor, I can't explain my situation to the doctor. It's impossible to get effective medication for treatment with ambiguous descriptions.
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This problem seems to have existed for a long time. At least when Watanabeji was still in junior high school, her friends in the same dormitory already knew that she had a serious "waking up problem".
But only Watanabeji himself knew that this was not a wake-up call at all, but a "nightmare sequelae".
Watanabe Temple shook her head violently, as if she wanted to get rid of all her worries. No matter what, she couldn't continue to dawdle. She didn't want to leave the impression of a lazy person who liked to be late to her colleagues or bosses.
You know, leaving a good impression may take years of deliberate effort to maintain, but destroying this impression only takes one time.
Watanabeji had already thought of the excellent potential love partner in the president's office, and his mood index couldn't help but become much higher, and the depression that was surrounding him just now was swept away.
Just wait, sooner or later she will leave this rental house and live in the luxurious residence she has dreamed of!
When the time comes to fall asleep in such an excellent environment, will it become more comfortable?
Although he had shared secrets with the reliable president at the banquet yesterday, today Watanabeji felt like Cinderella who had been beaten back to her original shape. She could only stand calmly holding the document and waiting for the president.
End his video conference.
Even if you considerately offer him coffee with the flavor he likes, he will only get a short "Thank you".
It was like polite exchanges after necessary social interactions, and it also seemed like a basic social distance was deliberately maintained.
Even that brief closeness was like a dream she had had...
This huge gap made Watanabe Temple once again feel the difficulty of this love object.
Sure enough, there are still some problems with the previous efforts. Since starting from work doesn't work... should we take a risk and take a step closer and work in a more personal direction?
Watanabeji had been calculating silently in her mind for a long time, but her eyes were getting brighter and brighter. No matter how she calculated, she felt that this would be a route with high risks, but the rewards might be unusually high.
Then let’s make [understanding everything about “Sawada Tsunayoshi”] the next action goal!
Watanabeji had already set his goal, and then began to think about how to accomplish it.
emmmm······Who should I go to for more information?
Since Watanabeji had already attributed the error in judgment at yesterday's banquet to "not being close enough to Mr. Sawada, so I couldn't understand his private side", then choose someone who has known Tsunayoshi Sawada for a long enough time and has a close enough relationship.
Is it okay for someone to come and ask?
But this is a new company. Is there really anyone who meets such conditions? Watanabe Temple tried hard to recall the information revealed by the secretaries when they were gossiping with her, trying to find someone among them who could be asked.
Wait, this kind of person does seem to exist, and his name is————
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"Mr. Jokudera, excuse me."
Watanabeji knocked politely on the door of the general secretary's office, opened the door and walked in after receiving permission.
In Clam Company, perhaps because of the generous nature of the president, most department managers and leadership-level figures have their own offices, including the general secretary who commands a total of five secretaries, large and small, in the company.
Mr. Hayato is no exception.
This seems to be the first time Watanabeji has come to him on his own initiative, and it is also the first time he has entered the office of the chief secretary of Jokuji.
What was different from Watanabedera's expectation was that there was no [Essential Props for Evil and Evil No. 12345] inside the other party's office, and there was not even an ashtray for extinguishing cigarettes on the table.
Is he actually the non-smoking type? Watanabe Temple was surprised and made a judgment in his heart.
"Huh? It's you? What's the matter?" Hayato Jokudera obviously didn't expect that the person coming would be her.
Although special assistants and secretaries sound quite similar, in fact there is not much overlap in the scope of work. Even if there is, the special assistant lady is basically dealing with those few secretaries.
So to be honest, Watanabeji Hayato and Gokudera Hayato had hardly exchanged a few words, except yesterday.
Yesterday was probably the day when Gokudera talked to this special assistant the most, right? It was Watanabedera who he personally contacted after get off work, and delivered the dress and accessories requested by the Judaime to the door of the apartment he rented.
Could something have gone wrong at the party?
Apart from this incident, Hayato Jokudera couldn't think of anything else that the other party would do to look for him.
"It's nothing, I just want to ask Mr. Jokudera about something..." Watanabeji replied hesitantly.
Her eyes fell on the thick stacks of documents on his desk. The other person was obviously overwhelmed by the piles of work, and it seemed that she had come at the wrong time.
"If you're bothering me, I'll come see you next time." She wisely closed the door and exited.
"etc."
Just before the door was about to be closed, a voice stopped Watanabe Temple from moving.
"Huh?" She thought she heard wrongly and tilted her head in confusion.
Hayato Gokudera, who had just been sitting on the chair, stood up impatiently, walked directly to the door, and forcefully opened the door amidst Watanabe Temple's shocked expression.
"I said, wait." He raised his head, his emerald green eyes peeking out from under his slightly messy bangs, looking straight at Watanabe Temple's position.
The vicious Mr. Gokudera is taller than Mr. Sawada. Compared with the silent gentleness of Junmono Sawada, Tsunayoshi, the general secretary of Gokudera is a bit too oppressive, right?
Especially when he spoke to Watanabe Temple with that impatient and vicious tone, he always felt like he would pounce on her and beat her up in the next second.
Speaking of which, Watanabe Terahaya would have to thank him. If Hayato Jokudera's viciousness had not caused the representative of the cooperative company to be scared away at the first sight, Watanabe Terahaya would not have had the extremely intimate position of the president's special assistant.
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But that doesn't stop her from not liking to have too much contact with each other.
To be honest, Watanabe Terahaya himself is quite - quite - quite disgusted with this kind of guy who has a gangster and bad vibe.
Putting aside the moral resistance and dislike, once this type of person appears in her life since middle school, it often indicates that endless troubles will follow in the coming time.
They only talk to themselves, and they clearly cause a lot of trouble to others, but they feel smug about helping themselves solve one or two of them, and even proudly come forward to take credit - this kind of person simply has no self-awareness.
Big trouble.
Thinking of this, Watanabe Temple had already tightened his brows in disgust.
"What's your expression like?" Hayato Jokudera noticed something was wrong with the girl in front of him and frowned.
Oops! Because he recalled the disgusting things, his expression management was a little out of control! Watanabe Temple had already bit his lip, and his mind was thinking of solutions quickly.
Even if Hayato Jokudera is not her target, what should he do if he turns around and tells Mr. Sawada if she fails in front of him?
Ah, looking at it from afar, it turns out to be a troublesome type!
"Coco, Coco... isn't Mr. Jokudera busy? I see, I see you have so many documents to process..."
While stammering, Watanabe Temple lowered his head and took a small step back, pretending to be frightened by the opponent's sudden attack.
No matter when, showing weakness in front of such people is always a good solution.
And that's exactly what happened.
"······"
Jokudera didn't expect the other party to react like this. He scratched his hair half helplessly and half irritably, then sighed heavily and pulled her into the office.
After yesterday's dealings, he still had some impressions of this special assistant.
But the other party is obviously a generous and decent type, but why does he become so scared when he meets himself?
"Really, do I look that scary?" Hayato Jokudera clicked his tongue impatiently, and then stared at Watanabeji Hayao with his beautiful green eyes: "Hey, just say what you want to say."
"...Ah?" Watanabeji didn't understand what he meant.
"We can deal with work and other things later. Did you come to me just now for something important? In that case, let's talk quickly." His tone was still very vicious——
But the content of the words can be called empathetic, right?
Watanabe Temple suddenly had a strange feeling——
Is Hayato Gokudera different from the bad guys she encountered in the past?
"Well, it is indeed a very important thing to me, thank you..." Watanabe Temple tentatively thanked you earlier, and then quickly raised his eyebrows before the other party raised his eyebrows impatiently.
He asked his own question.
"I would like to ask Mr. Jokudera, what kind of person is Mr. Tsunayoshi in your eyes!!"
As soon as these words came out, they both froze on the spot.
There was a long silence in the room,
Did she ask too abruptly? Sure enough, she was still a little anxious, right?
Just when Watanabeji was worried about this, he suddenly felt a blur in front of his eyes, as if something extremely shiny suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.
No, isn't it?
Wait, why are the eyes of the chief secretary of the Prison Temple glowing after mentioning Mr. Sawada?