Uchiha Sasuke’s Collapse Chapter 027

Fortunately, Sasuke didn’t let Kiana be embarrassed for too long. He stood up and looked at Mei, “I’m leaving. Training continues tomorrow.”

“Training? What training?” Kiana’s internal alarm bells went off.

What secret agreement did Mei and this stinky man have? What were they training behind her back?

“Eh? Sasuke, are you leaving so early? Why don’t you rest here tonight? There are spare rooms…” Mei walked towards Sasuke.

“No need.” With that, Sasuke opened the window, leaped out, and disappeared without a trace.

Kiana’s eyes lit up, impressed by Sasuke’s movements, but then she remembered that this guy was her “love rival,” and she gritted her teeth, “This guy just loves to show off!”

Mei shook her head helplessly. She knew what Kiana was thinking, but she couldn’t explain to Kiana that she and Sasuke were just ordinary acquaintances, not what Kiana imagined.

Because explanations would only lead to more misunderstandings, Kiana might mistakenly think she had strange feelings for her.

Mei, whose sexual orientation was still normal, currently only saw Kiana as her best friend, not a partner to spend the rest of her life with.

“Mei, what’s this training he mentioned?!” Kiana grabbed Mei’s arm, exuding an air of “I won’t let go until you speak.”

Mei tried to break free, but Kiana wouldn’t let go, so she could only explain, “He’s here to help me train my swordsmanship.”

“Mei, you’re lying! I remember you said you were the ‘Hokushin Ittō-ryū’ men… men… what was it again?”

“Menkyo Kaiden!” Mei tapped Kiana’s head.

“Anyway, you’re the best at swordsmanship, so how could that guy teach you swordsmanship!”

Mei sighed, “There’s always someone better. Just because I got Menkyo Kaiden in ‘Hokushin Ittō-ryū’ doesn’t mean I’m the best swordsman.”

“Then, even if he’s really strong, stronger than you, Mei, why would he train your swordsmanship for no reason?”

Under the crisis of her rice bowl being snatched away, Kiana’s single-celled brain burst forth with astonishing wisdom.

Mei hesitated for a moment, but decided to tell Kiana everything, “Kiana, you should know about my father’s imprisonment. Sasuke, he seems to know the truth behind my father’s imprisonment…”

“So he’s coercing you to be his girlfriend?” Kiana’s anger immediately flared.

“No, do you really think Sasuke is such a bad person?” Mei’s face was full of black lines. “According to him, my father was framed and imprisoned by someone named Cocolia, and that person’s real target is me, so he wants to help me grow quickly.”

“It’s Cocolia? Not Sasuke?” Kiana’s focus finally shifted.

“Yes.” At this, Mei’s pretty face was also covered with worry. As a high school student, after learning that she would be targeted by a corporate-like organization, she didn’t know how to fight back.

Now, she could only take it one step at a time.

Was Sasuke teaching her swordsmanship because he wanted to use force to resist?

“Cocolia? I’ll remember that.” Kiana let go of Mei’s arm and clenched her small fist, swinging it in the air.

“It’s useless even if you remember!” Mei saw Kiana’s reaction and knew what she was thinking, saying sternly, “Don’t think about those unnecessary things and put yourself in danger!”

“I know~” Kiana perfunctorily replied, then changed the subject, “So, Mei, you’ve been coming home late these past two days because you’re practicing swordsmanship with that guy?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“Then I want to go too!”

“But…” Mei didn’t object to Kiana’s request, she just didn’t know if Sasuke would agree.

“Oh~ What if that Cocolia person comes looking for me? If I become a little stronger, I can help out, right? At least I won’t be a hindrance, right?”

Kiana’s round eyes kept darting around, a cunning expression flowing within them. How could Mei not understand what she was thinking?

However, what she said did make some sense.

That “Uchiha-style” swordsmanship was very exquisite. It wouldn’t be bad if Kiana could learn a trick or two for self-defense. She just didn’t know if Sasuke would agree.

But he didn’t seem like someone with a narrow-minded view, so he probably wouldn’t object.

She just wasn’t sure what had happened between him and Kiana…

Right!

Mei’s eyes suddenly sharpened, and she looked at Kiana with scrutiny, “Speaking of which, you and Sasuke-kun already knew each other?”

“Uh—” Kiana, caught off guard, dragged out the sound. Her brain was working at lightning speed, trying to casually brush it off with a few words.

Because that would expose her daily late-night “heroic deeds,” especially if Mei connected her sleeping in class during the day to these “heroic deeds”…

Watching Mei’s increasingly stern gaze, Kiana screamed “I’m gonna die, I’m gonna die, I’m gonna die” in her heart.

Finally, under Mei’s half-smiling interrogation, Kiana decided to confess everything and suffer the consequences.

In this world, only her rice bowl could not be let down. Getting scolded was fine.

Kiana honestly confessed her crimes… no, what she had been secretly doing these past few days. However, during the confession, she still tried to quibble and shift responsibility, saying that she secretly went out every night to look for news of her father, trying to evoke Mei’s sympathy with a similar situation.

But to her surprise, Mei didn’t care about her secretly running away for half a day, especially after she quibbled that it was to look for news of her father.

Mei seemed more interested in how she and Sasuke met.

So, Kiana said that it was on a dark and windy night, a night for murder, when she accidentally ran into Sasuke while “doing heroic deeds.”

Kiana absolutely did not mention that she was the one who actively pestered him, only saying that every night they, the male and female thieves, happened to appear together, until after the “Sannen Sakura” incident, the two went their separate ways.

Saying they went their separate ways was actually just Kiana’s unilateral choice not to seek him out anymore.

As for the “Sannen Sakura” incident, out of some inexplicable guilt, Kiana did not explain it in detail. She only vaguely mentioned the general gist of the incident, and then said that she and that cold guy Sasuke simply couldn’t get along, so they went their separate ways.

To Kiana’s relief, Mei didn’t press for details about the whole thing. She just nodded thoughtfully and then let her off the hook.

She probably wouldn’t know the meaning of “Sannen Sakura” and about that girl chasing her, right?

She was pure in Mei’s eyes, right?