Asumi Wants to Resign

"Thank you."

After receiving the after-school assignments collected by Miku, Ren expressed his gratitude to her.

"You're welcome."

Miku replied in a low voice and was about to say something else, planning to take this opportunity to chat with him.

But before she could speak, she noticed that Asumi seemed to be staring at him, and her eyes looked unfriendly.

So Miku had no choice but to swallow the words she wanted to say and return to her position.

She's not good at chatting, especially under the gaze of others.

"I feel my existence is becoming more insignificant." Looking at the after-school assignments in her hand, Asumi sighed.

Her job was initially very simple, but now someone had helped collect the after-school assignments, so she didn't need to do anything.

Although she worked hard to find a job, she still felt unworthy of such a high salary.

If that's the issue, she really...

Thinking about this, Asumi unconsciously touched her pocket, which contained all the money she earned as Ren's teaching assistant during this period.

After Ichika received the message, she didn't look worried at all. She chatted casually with Nino, and it was impossible to say that she was hiding something about Nino.

After a while, Ren finished correcting the after-school assignments and handed them over, along with the history of the after-school assignments mentioned today.

"Another perfect score."

After taking over the after-school assignments and seeing another perfect score, Ichika no longer cared.

The first few times getting a perfect score made her very excited, but after several times, she no longer felt the excitement at all, and she couldn't get enthusiastic.

Is this what it feels like to be an overachieving student?

This made Ichika who had long been a mediocre student, finally feel this way.

After finishing correcting the after-school assignments, Ren and the others also left.

After making sure Ren was really gone, Ichika took her notes and stood up. "I'll go back to my room first, call me if anything happens."

After saying that, Ichika went upstairs and returned to her room.

As soon as she entered her room, she immediately locked the door to prevent her sister from suddenly pushing the door and entering.

Then, she came to her desk and cleared the messy things on it to make a place where she could put the notebook.

Placing the notebook on the table, Ichika took out her phone, found the signature she took, and started comparing it.

The Kamikawa family name was easily found, on the first page of the notebook, Kamikawa Ren wrote his own name.

As for Naoki, it was much harder to find, but fortunately, this was a Japanese language notebook with quite a few words. After flipping through it several times, she also found the word Naoki.

"Exactly the same."

Ichika finally eliminated her last worry.

After confirming that Ren is Naoki, Ichika began to think about how to maximize the use of this information.

Anyway, she can't tell Nino directly.

"Let me think about it..."

Immediately, Ichika began to think.

Meanwhile, on the other side.

Ren and Asumi were walking home together; Fumino and Rizu had just parted ways and went home.

"For you."

Arriving at the place where it was time to bid farewell to Asumi, Ren took out his wallet, pulled out a 10,000 yen banknote, and handed it to her; that was her salary for today.

"I can't take this money." Asumi did not accept the money as usual but firmly refused.

"Why?" Ren was confused.

She used to be very active in accepting it, why couldn't she accept it today?

After struggling for a moment, Asumi bravely answered, "Because I want to resign from my job as a teaching assistant."

"Quit?"

"Yes." Asumi nodded.

"Why do you want to resign?" Ren asked again. He couldn't understand her thoughts at all.

"Because I don't deserve such a good job." Asumi had thought of her answer, so she answered very smoothly now.

"Why don't you deserve it?" Ren became even more confused.

"I'm not worthy in many places." Asumi raised her head and looked at him, "Kouhai-kun, please think carefully about what I've done while I've been your assistant."

"Helping you carry your school bag, giving you massages, and sending and receiving after-school assignments."

Ren had a very good memory and could easily remember things like this.

"So, do you think simple tasks like that are worth a 10,000 yen salary?" Asumi explained word by word, "And the work I do is useless."

"Massage is the only job that can be considered a job, and it's not worth mentioning. I haven't even learned massage. I can only massage your shoulders for ten minutes and get a 10,000 yen salary? Are you kidding me?"

"Indeed, I need money very much, but my dignity doesn't allow me to accept such a high salary just like that."

After saying that, Asumi took out a stack of 10,000 yen bills from her pocket and handed it to him. "This is the salary I received from you during this period."

"It's your money; I won't take it."

Seeing the money Asumi gave him, Ren had no intention of accepting it.

"No, this is your money. I just kept it for you before. Now I want to return that money to you." Asumi argued.

"I refuse."

In fact, Ren couldn't understand what Asumi had been saying from the beginning. Moreover, she said too many words at once, which was difficult for him to understand.

But in short, he couldn't accept the money she gave him.

He finally gave the money to Asumi, but now she wants to return the money to him, how is that possible.

"If you don't take it, I'll throw the money away."

Asumi wanted to force the money into Ren's hands, but after many attempts failed, she could only threaten him like this.

"Just throw it away." Ren said indifferently.

He had already given her the money, which meant the money belonged to her, and it had nothing to do with him, so she could do anything with the money.

"You..."