After breaking up, my ex asked me to win her back-Chapter 228 - 227 What Kiryu Hina Wants

An hour earlier.

At the entrance of Tsukinomori Girls’ Academy, after parting ways with Ayakoji Chiyoko, Kagura Hikaru walked off in a direction different from the crowd.

Just around the corner, he received a text message from Ayakoji Chiyoko.

Ayakoji Chiyoko: "Meet here (navigation location.jpg)."

Ayakoji Chiyoko: "I am waiting for you here."

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Kagura Hikaru searched it and discovered it was a back alley in a nearby residential area.

In that case, apart from local residents and those delivering newspapers or packages, essentially no one else would be around, let alone students from Yuqiu High School.

From the direction everyone had departed, the chances of encountering them were slim.

Kagura Hikaru walked toward the location given by the navigation, sending an ’ok’ emoji to Ayakoji Chiyoko.

He then closed her chat window, brought up the dialing interface, and dialed a well-memorized phone number.

Beep, beep, beep... click.

It connected.

"Hello? Mister Hikaru?"

Kiryu Hina’s voice came from the other side.

"What’s up, you reaching out to me? Is something wrong?" she asked, concerned.

As he walked, Kagura Hikaru said, "I am currently on my way to the Ayakoji house."

"..."

"You know what I mean," he said calmly. "Tell me now about the thing I was supposed to find earlier."

"Mister Hikaru..."

There was a moment of silence from Kiryu Hina on the call, followed by a sigh.

She spoke slowly, "I’ll be honest with you. The condition I set initially was just to give you a hard time. I had actually obtained the real answer a long time ago, and there was nothing you needed to do. It was just... an excuse to keep you working for me."

Kagura Hikaru, phone in hand, walked briskly through the streets, attracting the gaze of every woman he passed, whether students or mature women, with his stern face.

Even knowing this infuriating truth, his expression remained unreadable.

Perhaps he had realized it long ago, or perhaps he truly didn’t care.

"State your objective clearly, you only need to answer me this one thing, no need for the rest," he said.

Kiryu Hina fell silent again.

In her hand, she held a thread as thin as a spider’s web.

This thread was her connection to Kagura Hikaru.

Kiryu Hina could feel clearly that if she gave Kagura Hikaru the answer he sought, this last thread of connection would also snap.

From then on, they would no longer be in contact, each heading in a different direction with both joyful and painful memories.

"Don’t go any further, Mister Hikaru." — She wanted to say this to stop him.

But after a moment of silent contemplation, Kiryu Hina took the initiative to give the answer.

It wasn’t that she intended to let go of Kagura Hikaru, but she had realized that even if she continued to postpone the inevitable bad future here, in the end, they would not achieve a happy ending.

The crisis of separation was imminent. No matter how hard they struggled, it would only delay the inevitable by a month, a few months, a year.

In this ugly entanglement, how would Kagura Hikaru see her?

By doing this, she was essentially forcing him to continue associating with Ayakoji Chiyoko, and his impression would only continue to deteriorate.

Not just for Kagura Hikaru, Kiryu Hina herself did not wish to see him continue like this.

There is a saying, "No breaking, no establishing."

Some relationships, stuck in a deadlock, might need to be shattered first before a new future can be seen.

Kiryu Hina had made her decision.

"Alright, I’ll tell you," she said on the other end of the phone, "What I want is a DNA sample from Ryoma Ayakoji."

..............

Kagura Hikaru wandered through the Japanese-style rooms of the Ayakoji family residence.

Along the way, he had confirmed that there were no surveillance devices inside the house, and if there were any, they were only external, so he needn’t worry about being treated as a thief.

However, their house was indeed a bit excessively large.

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Kagura Hikaru felt that he had probably had a largely inaccurate impression of Ayakoji Chiyoko; she wasn’t just any rich girl, but in ancient times, she might have been considered of a princess’s stature.

Although there was still a gap between her and the top tycoons he knew, like the Kohinata family, it was already beyond the reach of ordinary people.

An average family, working hard for a lifetime, might only be able to afford one room in this mansion.

The rooms that Kagura Hikaru opened were almost all unoccupied.

But they were all spotlessly clean, without a speck of dust, and were fully furnished with no item missing, among which included some valuables. With Kagura Hikaru’s level of appraisal, he had mentally calculated a number that could land him in prison if acted upon.

Among them were some antiques that could not be measured in money, each one capable of being a family heirloom.

Ryoma Ayakoji, Chiyoko’s father, was also a top actor in the entertainment industry of the Island Nation and an international superstar, but if it were just him alone, it would be very difficult to possess so many priceless treasures.

That would require a profound family legacy, collected generation after generation.

On the flip side, if these items were put up for auction, they could instantly create a new tycoon overnight.

Speaking of which, Ayakoji Chiyoko had once mentioned to him that her family was of the Former Chinese Clan.

At that time, Kagura Hikaru didn’t quite grasp the significance of this.

The Former Chinese Clan he knew of merely had ancestors who had prospered for a while and been nobles for some time, only leaving their descendants a title by now.

But that was not really the case.

Now he realized just how significant that title was; it was literally made of pure gold.

Ayakoji Chiyoko trusted him, had brought him into her home, and even let him roam alone, yet Kagura Hikaru shamelessly planned to steal, which really made him feel guilty.

Even though what he was looking for was insignificant both to the Ayakoji family and to Ayakoji Chiyoko herself, wandering and searching around someone else’s house without their knowledge was still not a proper thing to do.

Kagura Hikaru, feeling guilty, kept moving through room after room, while simultaneously praying not to encounter Ayakoji Chiyoko before finding his target.

At this moment, Ayakoji Chiyoko must have realized he was missing and he needed to speed up.

This one wasn’t the right room, but a guest room.

This one is, a game room? To even have such a place, with arcade machines inside.

Judging from the age of the game machines, they probably belonged to Ryoma Ayakoji, but Kagura Hikaru was looking for his room, and it was unlikely he would find the other’s DNA sample here.

Blood, mouth swabs, hair, cigarette butts, toothbrushes, fingernails, chewed gum, etc., these are the so-called DNA samples, containing a person’s DNA components.

These items, for most people, are used for paternity tests.

So why did Kiryu Hina need them?

Kagura Hikaru forcefully severed his own line of thought.

He didn’t want to get involved in matters related to that woman anymore, even if it seemed to involve the Ayakoji family as well. But what of it? After all, after this matter was over, he and Kiryu Hina, and even Ayakoji Chiyoko... would all become strangers again.

"Found it."

Kagura Hikaru slid open a paper screen door and, upon seeing the scene inside, immediately concluded that this was Ryoma Ayakoji’s room.