Chapter 5: Sinan Hanyu Chose You
"Ran really didn't wait for me after all."
By the time he stepped out of the school building, the entire campus was already deserted.
The next second!
His gaze was caught by a red sports car in the parking lot.
"A Lamborghini Aventador!"
"Is this the system's gift to me?"
Looks like it was!
He knew this car was worth two hundred million yen in Japan.
"Vroom--"
"Vroom--"
Sinan Hanyu sat in the car and slammed the gas pedal.
The domineering roar pouring out of the engine made him feel an inexplicable rush of excitement.
...
Beika Town, 2-chome, 31.
Only after checking again and again did Sinan Hanyu finally dare to believe that the milky-white villa before him was the gift the system had given him.
The villa had five floors in all!
The first thing that caught his eye was a two-hundred-square-meter garden, and behind the villa there was an oversized swimming pool.
Everything he could want was there.
This was more than a million times better than the rental dump he had lived in before.
"Hello!"
"New neighbor?"
At that moment...
A fresh, sweet female voice suddenly rang out not far behind him.
Sinan Hanyu turned to look, and his brows lifted slightly.
Miyamoto Yumi?
That's right!
The woman chatting him up outside the villa was none other than traffic cop Miyamoto Yumi.
"Hello."
"I'm Miyamoto Yumi."
"I live right next door!"
Miyamoto Yumi looked at the villa in front of her and couldn't help admiring the rich guy.
She had been coming and going past this villa every day for a month.
She had always been curious what kind of person owned it, and she hadn't expected that inside this luxury villa there would actually be such a handsome man.
"I'm Sinan Hanyu!"
"Want to come in and sit for a while?"
Sinan Hanyu invited her with a smile.
"Another day!"
"I just got called out on a job."
Miyamoto Yumi pointed at the police badge on her shoulder, also telling Sinan Hanyu what she did for a living.
After Sinan Hanyu entered the villa, a silver-white robot stood at the entryway waiting respectfully.
"Hello, Master!"
"I am your household robot, Kevin."
"I can do laundry, cook, clean, and keep the villa under twenty-four-hour watch and defense."
Damn!
Sinan Hanyu couldn't help blurting it out.
The system really hadn't lied to him.
Household robot Kevin was practically a perfect nanny and a dog with absurd combat power rolled into one.
"Master!"
"What do you need?"
The robot's voice was the same as the system prompt.
Mechanical and formulaic!
"Make me a Japanese meal."
"Certainly, Master. I'll arrange it right away."
Seeing Kevin head into the kitchen, Sinan Hanyu also went up the stairs to the second floor.
A massive five-story villa!
As the sole owner, he had to get familiar with the place first.
He pushed open the bedroom door.
Sinan Hanyu's eyes lit up at the bedroom decor.
If he put Ran on this bed today, he had no idea how good it would feel.
Not just one Ran...
Even if there were three or five more people, it still wouldn't feel crowded.
Sinan Hanyu spent the whole night getting acquainted with his new home, and also came up with a sensible plan for how to make use of the five-story villa.
...
The next day.
"Ran."
"What did Teacher Hanyu say to you yesterday?"
"Did he give your phone back?"
"Did he see the video?"
"..."
Sonoko Suzuki's questions rained down on Ran's face like a volley of bullets.
She had been curious all night!
But...
Ran kept walking forward blankly as if she hadn't heard a thing.
No amount of time in one night could calm the surging emotions in her chest.
"Ran."
"You're not still mad at me, are you?"
"Just listen to me!"
"Yesterday my dad suddenly collapsed with illness, otherwise I definitely would have gone to the office with you, sis."
Sonoko Suzuki thought Ran was angry because she had slipped away on her own.
But... that wasn't it!
The reason Ran hadn't answered Sonoko's call yesterday was that she had been in no mood at all.
"Good sis."
"So how did things go yesterday?"
Sonoko Suzuki pleaded.
"N-no big deal."
Sonoko Suzuki looked at Ran's retreating back.
No.
Something was very off!
The smile Ran had just shown was obviously forced.
"Hmph--"
"Not telling me?"
"Then I'll find out myself."
She, Sonoko Suzuki, was the kind of person who could pour one hundred percent of herself into gossip.
There was no way she'd let this go until she got to the bottom of it!
...
Teitan High School.
The moment Ran saw Sinan Hanyu step up onto the platform, her attention was irresistibly drawn to him.
The pleasant scene from last night also sprang vividly to life in her mind.
Strictly speaking...
Sinan Hanyu hadn't exactly gotten her consent last night.
But...
She couldn't bring herself to dislike her handsome new homeroom teacher at all, and at one point last night she had even seemed to lean into it on her own.
Bad!
Could it be that she was...
"Class!"
"I'm announcing something now."
"Starting today, Teacher Hanyu will be carrying out home visits for our class."
"One or two students will be selected every day!"
"Today we'll start with... Mori Ran."
In an instant...
Every eye in the class shot to Ran Mori.
"Ran."
"You've been picked by Teacher Hanyu."
Ran, who had been spacing out, jolted hard inside.
Picked?
Had she and Sinan Hanyu already been exposed?
Only after Ran learned the full story from Sonoko's mouth did she realize it had been a false alarm.
"Ran."
"Looks like you've left a deep impression on Teacher Sinan Hanyu."
Ran gave a light laugh.
Yes!
That impression was deep enough.
Deep enough to make her unable to stop wanting more.
"What exactly is going on with you?"
Sonoko Suzuki probed subtly.
She wanted to read Ran's reaction and figure out exactly what had happened in Teacher Hanyu's office after school yesterday.
She failed.
Her best friend simply wouldn't step into the trap she had set.
The more that happened, the more certain she became that there was some secret hidden in there.
"Ran!"
"Don't tell me... don't tell me you like Teacher Hanyu."
That possibility was pretty big.
Teacher Sinan Hanyu was so handsome; the moment he showed up in class yesterday, by the end of the lesson there were already girls discussing how they wanted to have his babies.
"Sonoko."
"Don't talk nonsense, all right?"
"I... I don't."
Sonoko Suzuki narrowed her eyes as she watched Ran hurry away from her seat.
Avoidance!
That girl Ran was definitely hiding something from her.