Chapter 75: You Don't Understand Whirlpool
Uesugi Kiyoshi wanted to explain his actions, but Saito Shuichi didn't give him a chance.
"I believe you're not a thief!" he frowned and asked, "But why haven't you left Black Vortex Town yet?"
"Can't leave..."
"I see." Saito Shuichi paused, then smiled bitterly and stopped probing further.
Seeing him like this, Uesugi Kiyoshi understood.
"Actually, you knew long ago that no one can escape, right?"
"This is a game, all participants can't escape, or more accurately, they don't even want to escape."
Saito Shuichi looked at the puzzled Itsutsu Kishima, his face becoming even more gloomy.
"I thought observers like you and me could choose to leave, but now it seems that we can only choose, but cannot leave."
"What are you saying, Shuichi?"
Itsutsu Kishima couldn't understand at all, but Uesugi Kiyoshi could.
All the townspeople in town, including Itsutsu Kishima, no matter how strange things they saw, would stay and find reasons to stay until they had no reasons left.
Saito Shuichi knew from the start that he was in a strange situation. He thought he could leave, but for his girlfriend and family, he chose to stay and wait for a miracle to happen.
This is a whirlpool, where everyone can only go with the flow and end up being torn apart.
Watching the dejected high school boy, Uesugi Kiyoshi cleared his throat and asked, "What if I say I can help you guys?"
"Help us escape Black Vortex Town?"
"No, it's to help you avoid harm from the whirlpool."
Saito Shuichi stopped in his tracks, gazing steadily at Uesugi Kiyoshi, his face gradually showing an expression of disbelief.
"Can it really be done?"
"I'm quite confident, but I have a condition."
"Go on!" said Saito Shuichi without hesitation.
"Lend me some money!"
Having money in hand, he felt at ease.
Even though Uesugi Kiyoshi had over a million yen when he first crossed over, now he was penniless.
"No problem!"
Saito Shuichi rummaged through his pockets, took out some banknotes, and also had Itsutsu Kishima empty her purse.
"Altogether... about fifty thousand yen, is that enough?"
Of course not enough!
Uesugi Kiyoshi took the money and patted his shoulder.
"Take me back, let me see if you have any more precious things."
............
The Saito family is located in Black Vortex Town, considered a wealthy family, but now the house shows no sign of wealth at all.
Because every part of the house is covered with vortex products.
Clothes with vortex patterns, chandeliers engraved with vortex designs, iron bars coiled into vortex shapes, even mosquito coils shaped like vortexes...
The whole house seemed to have turned into an ocean of vortexes.
Saito's mother, wearing an apron, felt guilty and kept apologizing.
"I apologize for the mess, I will tidy up now!"
Saito Shuichi led Uesugi Kiyoshi through the swirling ocean currents, and it took them a full five minutes to travel the short distance from the entrance to his room.
"Feel free to take anything in this room, Vortex-kunn," Saito Shuichi said.
"But there's hardly anything valuable in this room..."
What valuable things could there be in an ordinary high school boy's room?
Only clothes and books.
After browsing around, Uesugi Kiyoshi only found a dusty telescope, which could barely be considered valuable.
Saito Shuichi glanced at the telescope and lost interest.
"This is a second-hand telescope I bought from a friend for around 300,000 yen at the time. If you think it's useful, you can take it."
"But don't you want it?"
"...Because there was a little accident recently, I stopped studying astronomy since then."
Uesugi Kiyoshi was about to speak when the sound of unlocking came.
It was Saito Renzhi, the father of Saito Shuichi.
As soon as he came in, he became very angry and reached out with trembling hands towards his wife.
"How could you do this? I won't let you get away with it!"
It turned out that Saito's mother was secretly dealing with the family's financial problems while he was not at home.
"Honey, you need to wake up, if you don't throw those things away, you won't even go to work!"
Saito's mother sobbed and complained, and Saito Shuichi quickly stepped forward to stop his father.
Saito Renzhi panted heavily, took a while to calm down, and coldly said. Just throw it, I don't need that thing. Vortex can do anything, even manifest through the human body!
As he spoke, he took off his glasses.
His two eyeballs rotated in different directions, as if drawing separate vortexes.
"How about this? I can still do it!"
Saito Renzhi stuck out his tongue, curled the tip, and formed a meat-made vortex again.
"I can still..."
"Shut up, Mr. Saito!"
A loud yell interrupted his performance, Uesugi Kiyoshi came down slowly from the attic with a look of disdain.
"You don't understand what a vortex truly is!"
