The Winter Promise

Chapter 134: Have I Overused It?

After school, I went quickly to meet Kichida at his rented. Thankfully, I have no scheduled pickets. I also did this so as not to meet Miyuki and the others.

Why didn't I tell Miyuki that I already knew of Kichida's whereabouts at this time, because I was sure that if Miyuki knew that if I wanted to go there, she would definitely insist on coming along.

Yeah, I don't think there's any harm in taking Miyuki on this. But I felt that taking her with me would be more troublesome than taking Riki along.

After many times I changed buses to get to the place given by Maul. I finally got there.

Right now, I'm in front of a very large and luxurious-looking contract.

I should have known this by now considering we were talking about Kichida here.

What's clear is that right now, I can't just walk into this contract.

First, I don't know which room Kichida is in.

Second, this contract is a female-only contract.

I better call him.

I decided to call her in the hope that she would pick up the phone.

And after waiting for a while, it turned out that Kichida picked up my phone.

“What's Mar?”

“I've been in front of your contract.”

“Hah!? A minute Mar.”

I'm sure he must have been surprised to see me coming.

Not long after, Kichida got out of her contract wearing casual clothes.

Honestly, this was the first time seeing him wearing such casual clothes. I usually see him wearing a neat shirt.

“Why do you know this place Mar?”

“Did you forget that I was friends with Maul?”

I asked him back.

“What do you want Mar?”

“I want to hear an explanation from you.”

“Then it's better we talk in my room instead of here.”

Is he sure he took me to his room so easily? Anyway, I can go in there.

“What is no problem?”

“Why?”

I also just pointed to a sign that read ‘Special Contract Women’.

“Oh If for that you calm down Mar, yesterday I saw the person next to my room carrying a man into his room.”

“Alright then.”

Actually I was a little uncomfortable to accept the offer, I intend to take him to a cafe or place to eat around here.

But I'm afraid he wants to talk about something important and doesn't want anyone else to listen to him.

I also began to enter the contract, when I entered there were some residents of the contract who were out and in there. His attention was on me because I was the only man there.

It makes me more uncomfortable and wants to get to Kichida's room soon.

We climbed the stairs to the fifth floor and stood in front of a room whose door had a room number of thirty-one.

Kichida's room was on the top floor and there did not have as many rooms as the previous floors, I saw only six rooms next to him and six rooms opposite to his room.

“Please enter Mar.”

Kichida opened the door and I went into her room.

I'm telling you, this is the first time I've been inside a woman's room.

I mean a woman who has nothing to do with my blood...

I was also a little confused as to why Kichida had no objection to invite me into her room.

I'm the only one that men mind a little if my girl friend goes into my room.

Besides because in my room there are so many secrets related to me, I also do not really like to do that.

When I got to his room, his room looked very tidy. There is only one mattress, one closet, and also air conditioning.

Yeah, maybe because that's all there is to look neat.

“It looks like this room is expensive.”

“That's how, please sit Mar.”

I sat down on a chair she had provided and Kichida sat on her bed.

“Where did you get the money to rent this room?”

“I used all my savings.”

Deposits yes.

This room is very comfortable, I might ask Kichida to take a nap if Kichida is a man.

“What is all that money you spent just to rent a room?”

“No, my money is still plenty and enough for my daily needs.”

I'm sure the savings are a lot.

While at school, I never saw Kichida buy food in the cafeteria. He always carries provisions and also after school, he also never goes anywhere.

Why do I know that, because if Kichida went somewhere, he would definitely take Miyuki and Miyuki to tell us while taking a break.

“Then what about when you want to eat?”

I asked because I did not see there was a stove and rice cooker.

“I bought it at a stall near rent.”

The stall that's on contract?

Oh.. Must be the warteg I passed.

It is also great that he can eat the food in Warteg. Maybe because of the circumstances that made him adapt.

“Then what if your savings are up?”

“I'll find a job for it.”

“There are jobs that want to accept Junior High School graduates?”

For now, I won't ask him about his problem first. I better get him to tell me that to himself.

“There alone, I can also ask you a job.”

“I won't give work to me.”

I'm not serious about saying this, I just want to see the reaction. Actually if he still wants to do this and needs a job, I'll give it to him.

“If you don't want to give me a job, maybe I'll go to the night world to earn money. Surely I can get money there.”

I don't know what he's thinking, but I can tell he's threatening me back.

He could too.

“Are you crazy?”

“I'm not crazy, that's what I would do if I didn't get a single job.”

He's gone mad.

“Do you want to stay here forever?”

“Maybe.”

Kichida still looks indifferent to me.

“Are you not worried about your parents?”

“Make what I worry about with them.”

OK, he's really mad at his parents. Age cannot lie, it is still childish.

“Tadi morning, your parents came to school and told this to Mr. Febri.”

“Is that true?”

Kichida looked at me seriously when she heard that.

“Miyuki is also worried about your situation, even she is not as excited as usual.”

“I feel guilty to Miyuki, but not with my parents.”

He's really mad.

Can I make them make up?

Hmmmmm... Let's see it later.

“What exactly happened to get you this far?”

“They've gone too far Mar!”

Kichida's emotions slightly increased and her voice became high.

I'm grateful that this room muffled the sound a little.

“How to?”

“That time, my mother accidentally caught me making a comic and she complained this to papa. The night they both scolded me was endless.”

It's so sorry for him.

“And that made me angry, the next day when I came home from school, all my drawing tools were confiscated by them.”

That's a little outrageous.

If I were Kichida and I didn't have the money I do now, I would probably do the same. But I didn't run away with living in a rented house, because there was no way I had enough money to pay the monthly rent.

I will definitely go to the mosque that has a special room for the marbot and the caretaker there get fed even salaried.

Yeah, that's what I'm gonna do.

“Before I followed your advice to prove to them, but they themselves do not want to see the results of my efforts.”

Kichida's angry getting worse. He gripped the blanket that was near him very strongly.

“If things are like this, I can't possibly blame you completely.”

“What then do you want to give me a job?”

“No, I'm just saying don't blame you completely. Doesn't mean I justify the action you're doing.”

I should try to be neutral here.

If it's like this how to persuade him to return home?

“Whatever you say, I still won't go home.”

I haven't told him anything about it.

OK, forget all my plans just now. I think I need to do this situationally.

“Are you sure you said that?”

“I'm very sure once.”

His foundation was formed very strongly.

“Now there is still a case of kidnapping and everyone thinks that you were kidnapped, even Miyuki had thought like that.”

“Leave it so.”

Ahshaw! He's back again.

If it goes on like this, whatever I say to him. He won't listen to me.

“Since when have you been selfish like that?”

I'm still trying to calm down here.

“What's your problem Mar? Aren't you the one who doesn't usually care about things like this.”

Now Kichida's starting to scold me.

You want to make me tell the truth here?

All right then.

“To be honest I don't care what you're going through right now either, but a lot of people are worried about it and it bothers me a lot.”

“Then what will you do? Notifying my current location to my parents?”

It's troublesome once, I'm indeed not suitable to handle things like this.

“What exactly do you want?”

I started to be strict with him.

“I just want to reach my goals Mar.”

Kichida's tone began to decline and she was seen starting to hold back her emotions.

“What is it with you staying here, you can reach that goal?”

Challenged him.

“Can only.”

Kichida said that with great confidence.

“How to? Do you have enough time to be able to make a comic when all your time must be divided again for other things?”

Kichida was silent to hear that.

It seems like he was completely unaware of it.

Maybe at the moment he still does not feel it because the money he has is still there and the amount may be quite a lot.

When eating he can buy it, wash the clothes he can pay for services, and others. But he will feel that way when the money he has is already limited and he has to make the most of it until he gets the money again.

Doing that is not easy.

“Living alone is not as easy as you might imagine. Even though I never felt it, at least I know how to do homework myself and it was very time consuming.”

I began to lecture Kichida slowly and gently.

I threw away all my emotions so that she could hear what I was saying. I'm not so emotional about this either.

Kichida was still silent saying nothing.

“Moreover you also have to work, do you think there is a job that works for a while but the pay is big?”

Kichida didn't answer my question at all.

“Nothing, let alone you are still SMK and have no experience at all. Fortunateest you get a job that pays by the hour.”

My mouth, my mouth won't stop.

I'd better go home otherwise I'll say something hurtful to him.

“If that's what you want to do. Go ahead, I won't get in your way.”

I started to stand up and took my bag that I had previously placed on the floor.

“And one more, I won't tell anyone your whereabouts.”

I started to step on my feet to get out of there.

When my hand held the doorknob, my bag was pulled by Kichida.

I looked up a little and saw him not making a sound.

Lothawat! I think I'm doing something wrong here.

I started to see him shedding tears.

Not wanting to be seen by me, he covered his face. He also restrained himself so that he would not sniffle.

Are my words too painful to say?

I think my words just now I've chosen the safest one to say.

“Currently... I don't know what to do Mar... But on the one hand I also do not want to lose my ideals.”

I sat Kichida in his bed and gave him the tissue I had.

I was thankful that on my way here, I accidentally bought a tissue from a little boy who sold it at a bus stop.

Kichida started rubbing her snot and tears with the tissue I gave her.

“Then, it is better now that you go home and speak well with your parents.”

“What if they ban me again?”

“Take it easy, they won't ban you.”

I tried to convince him.

I looked into his eyes with confidence so that he would believe what I said just now.

“Where did you know it was Mar?”

“After what you're doing now, there's no way your parents will resist that. He will definitely let you reach your goals.”

If her parents forbid, Kichida would run away from home again.

They certainly don't want that to happen.

As bad as parents are, they must regret doing that to their children.

“And also, if your parents still forbid you. Me and Mr. Febri will step in to convince them.”

“Why Mr Febri too?”

“Actually Mr. Febri also a little amrah with people tauamu when hearing stories from them. Mr. Febri also said that they deeply regretted banning you.”

Yes, actually Mr. Febri also did not say that he was angry anyway.

“For now, get rid of your ego and talk to your parents with a cool head. I'm sure they'll listen to it.”

“I'll go home and talk to my parents like you said Mar.”

Finally, my task here is done as well.

In this way, I just give a report to Mr. Febri.

“But not now..”

Aye?

“I need time to gather my courage first.”

So anyway.

“No problem, just prepare first. Then I want to leave first yes, it's late afternoon too.”

“I'm sorry to you Mar, and also thank you for talking to me.”

“That's no problem.”

I finally left Kichida's contract by being escorted by him to the front of the contract.

On the way to the stop, I raised my hand high to stretch my stiff shoulder.

I didn't think I could do something like this.

All right, I'll report this to Mr. Febri tomorrow while at school.

the End Chapter 134