After breaking up, my ex asked me to win her back Chapter 177 176 Regret

The rain outside was pouring down harder and harder.

The raindrops reflected the light through the darkness, like endless silver needles threading through the night.

What a torrential downpour it was.

Kagura Hikaru sat by the window, resting his chin on his hands, staring blankly through the small window outside the bathroom, accompanied by the rumbling noise of the washing machine.

He was at ho now.

There is a saying that being inside and watching the rain outside, even if a roof shields your head, yields two completely different sensations.

At ho, there is a feeling of safety being securely sheltered by the house, while outside, you can feel the wind on your skin and the fine raindrops brushing against your cheeks.

The sound of running water echoed from the adjacent bathroom.

And the noise of the shower water hitting the skin.

Kiryu Hina was right now bathing just a door away from him.

A short ti ago, on the way ho, he had encountered her drenched from the rain under an umbrella, the feeling of being battered by the storm still vivid on his skin.

Yes, Kagura Hikaru had taken her ho.

There was no reason not to bring her; even if it were soone else, he would have done the sa, as helping each other is a good human virtue.

Kagura Hikaru nonetheless asked her for the reason.

"Why are you all soaked, where is your umbrella?"

She said she hadn't held it tight, and the wind blew it up to a rooftop. There wasn't a convenience store selling umbrellas nearby, so she had to stay under the eaves of that store to take shelter from the rain.

The tone of her voice at that ti, Kagura Hikaru could only describe as 'feeble.'

Thus, it naturally led him to the second question.

"Are you sick?"

Just a bit dizzy, I'll be fine after I rest for a while, she said.

Having been pale and unsteady since noon, and now having been rained on as well, this condition couldn't rely be dismissed as 'dizziness.'

Therefore, Kagura Hikaru disregarded Kiryu Hina's opinion and carried her back to his own ho.

Since she was in such a condition, it was natural that she couldn't hold the umbrella, and the result was that they were both wet by the ti they arrived ho.

When a drenched Kagura Hikaru arrived at his doorstep, carrying a drenched beautiful girl, his stepmother was quite startled.

The stepmother had first seen Kiryu Hina during a sports day before the sumr vacation but didn't retain much of an impression and evidently had forgotten her.

But Kagura Hikaru's father knew her.

As a child, Kiryu Hina often visited Kagura Hikaru at the hospital.

Since middle school, they had been inseparable.

Thanks to his introduction, the stepmother almost changed the dinner to red bean rice (celebration al).

What a tattletale.

After they entered the house, Kagura Hikaru first let Kiryu Hina take a hot shower. After changing out of her clothes and getting them washed, her stepmother prepared new clothes for her to change into.

That's why now, wearing a set of dry clothes, he sat outside the bathroom waiting for Kiryu Hina to finish her shower before it was his turn to go in.

Click.

The sound of water inside the bathroom stopped, and a minute later, the bathroom door opened.

Kiryu Hina ca out wearing a light blue long-sleeve nightgown, her long hair cascading down, either from shyness or from the steam of the hot water, her face was flushed as she stepped out.

"Sorry to keep you waiting," Kiryu Hina said with an awkward smile.

"Co out, it's my turn to bathe."

"Oh, yes....."

Kagura Hikaru passed by her and walked into the bathroom.

Fifteen minutes later, he finished his shower and when he ca into the living room, he saw his stepmother waving at him.

"Kagura, that girl you brought, she has a fever."

"Did you take her temperature, how high is it?"

"Around thirty-nine degrees."

"Give her so fever-reducing dicine."

"Yes, she has taken the dicine already and is now lying in the guest room." your stepmother said with a sly expression,

"Do you want to go see her?"

"..."

In the end, he went, using the reason of visiting a sick person.

Of course, he had so questions to ask as well.

Kagura Hikaru gently opened the door to the guest room on the first floor, and upon entering, he saw Kiryu Hina lying on the bed, her face pale as she looked at her phone.

"Aren't you sleeping?"

"Ah, yes, I was reporting to my dad."

Kiryu Hina put down her phone, turned her head, and with a frail smile full of apologies said, "Sorry for causing you trouble."

"Not at all."

"Can I stay here tonight?"

"Why, isn't your father coming to pick you up?"

"He's currently out of town on a business trip and said he won't be back until tomorrow afternoon at the earliest."

"What about your stepmother?"

"She's in London gathering material."

"...Is that so."

"Sorry."

The sick Kiryu Hina seed much weaker than usual, even pitiable.

This made Kagura Hikaru feel sowhat estranged.

What was her plan then?

She had deliberately waited there just to get him to take her ho, what was she planning this ti?

Kagura Hikaru didn't intend to keep his questions to himself and asked straightforwardly, "It wasn't a coincidence that we t, right? Your ho isn't nearby, and you specifically waited on the path I take ho, you ca to find , didn't you?"

"...Yes."

"The reason, does it have to do with Ayakoji Chiyoko?"

"Are you questioning , Mister Hikaru?" Kiryu Hina turned her face towards him, her eyes sowhat sad, "What if I said that I had no ulterior motive, that I just wanted to see you?"

Kagura Hikaru sniffed, sensing a mix of truth and lies.

As expected, her purpose wasn't entirely pure.

"Would you do sothing so pointless, I don't believe it."

"...Is that so."

Kiryu Hina seed to have thought a lot in that mont and then took a deep breath, "Yes, my coming here today indeed relates to Ayakoji Chiyoko. However, getting a fever was truly unexpected."

"If you want to inquire about the progress of our relationship, then it should still be going smoothly," Kagura Hikaru said emotionlessly, his eyes calm, "I'll find an opportunity to suggest visiting her ho, I will inform you when the ti is right."

"...What if, I asked you to terminate the plan..."

"You're not thinking of backing out, are you, after I've already deceived and hurt Ayakoji Chiyoko?"

In that mont, Kagura Hikaru's aura beca exceptionally intimidating.

"You're not going to say that all of this was just a joke, a revenge against ... You wouldn't say that, would you?"

"I...."

He lowered his hand, walked up to the bed, and looking down at Kiryu Hina, his expression ice cold, said, "Finish this matter soon, end this connection, and then we can go back to being strangers."

"..."

Strangers.

That word, like a needle, pricked Kiryu Hina's ears.

She stifled the urge to cry, and smiled laboriously, mimicking the playful tone she used to use, "Saying such things to a sick person, that's not very nice, Mister Hikaru."

"True, it was inconsiderate of to say that."

Kagura Hikaru looked as though he had lost interest in the conversation, "Rest well, your family will pick you up tomorrow, then?"

"Yes."

"That's good."

Without any reluctance, he left the room, shut the door, and even turned off the light for her.

The room returned to darkness.

Kiryu Hina lay there with her eyes open, staring at the invisible ceiling, drawing her limbs helplessly under the covers.

She could feel Kagura Hikaru drifting further and further away from her.

When had he begun to feel disappointed in her... Yes, it was when she had forced him to date Ayakoji Chiyoko.

Deceiving, concealing from soone, and embracing her with a heavy heart, that experience, even the past Kagura Hikaru had gone through it, and it had brought painful mories to him and those around him.

And the past her, once a victim, now found herself on the side of the perpetrator.

If only she had shown a bit more empathy towards Ayakoji Chiyoko at that ti, she wouldn't have resorted to those asures, and she wouldn't have put Kagura Hikaru in such a difficult position, leading to the current situation.

The Kiryu Hina of now truly felt regret from the depth of her heart.

What should she do?

Tell , Mister Hikaru.

What should we do to return to how things were before...