Chapter 626: Chapter 396: Two Wives?
The art students’ classroom is usually quite cluttered, with boards, paints, canvases, stands, buckets, and brushes piled up everywhere. Sometimes when there’s too much stuff, most students don’t even want to get close.
There are also two sinks at the front of the classroom, but due to frequent use, many paint stains remain on them.
Hanamaru Hanabi filled a small bucket with water and returned to her seat, ready to continue working on her assignment.
"Hanabi-chan, someone is looking for you."
"Who?"
The female classmate chuckled, pointed to the door, and teased:
"Your husband."
Hanamaru Hanabi blushed at her classmate’s words and peeked out of the classroom to see Uesugi Sakura standing at the door.
"Sakura-kun?"
She was a bit surprised...
Sakura-kun... why is he here?
Isn’t Sakura-kun supposed to be in class...
Hanamaru Hanabi knew he had been very busy lately with his heavy coursework.
In the past, he would often sneak out of Tokyo University to come to Tokyo Art University to play with her.
Lately, it’s been less frequent.
Hanamaru Hanabi put down her paintbrush, held down her skirt, and stood up to head outside the classroom.
Outside the door, Uesugi Sakura saw Hanamaru Hanabi emerge.
He looked around, his gaze searching for something on Hanamaru Hanabi.
"Sakura-kun... what are you looking at?" Hanamaru Hanabi was even more perplexed.
"Hanabi-chan, did you come straight to school after leaving home today?"
"Yes."
"No...," Uesugi Sakura looked at her, "Hanabi-chan, are you hiding something?"
Hanamaru Hanabi, still looking puzzled, softly said:
"Sakura-kun... you’re acting strange."
"I’m strange?"
"Yes," Hanamaru Hanabi nodded, "Sakura-kun has been asking some very strange questions lately."
"Hanabi-chan, do you really not know what happened earlier?"
Hanamaru Hanabi shook her head, still full of confusion.
Seeing that she truly didn’t know, Uesugi Sakura took his phone out of his pocket.
He opened LINE and pulled up the previous chat history with Hanamaru Hanabi.
Then he handed the phone to her:
"Hanabi, take a look."
"What...?"
Hanamaru Hanabi curiously took his phone.
The first message was one sent by her.
Strangely, Hanamaru Hanabi didn’t remember sending them.
She scrolled down from the earliest message at 9:35 AM today.
Her eyes reflected the scrolling screen on the phone, and every message was absorbed into her brain.
"Sakura-kun Sakura-kun Sakura-kun Sakura-kun, Sakura-kun is indeed concerned about Hanabi... so happy... so happy..."
"Sakura-kun... Hanabi likes you the most... so... won’t let Sakura-kun be troubled... if Hanabi suddenly made that wicked woman disappear... Sakura-kun would be very troubled, right..."
...
She read each message word for word.
Hanamaru Hanabi raised her head, looked at Uesugi Sakura, and said in a small voice:
"These aren’t messages from Hanabi..."
She had a characteristic expression, where her face and demeanor always had a gentle air, her eyes reflecting a shimmering gaze, her voice delicate and pleasant, with a hint of slight grievance.
Uesugi Sakura knew this was the normal state of Hanamaru Hanabi.
"But these are the chat logs between Hanabi and me, look at the avatar."
Hanamaru Hanabi looked at the avatar, which was a cartoon of an angry shark, indeed her LINE account.
She thought of something, took out her own phone, and checked her sent messages.
From 9:00 to 11:00... every message was there.
"How is it?" Uesugi Sakura asked from the side.
Hanamaru Hanabi held her phone in a daze, then looked up and said to him:
"They’re there..."
"See."
"But... but... Hanabi didn’t send these messages..."
"Yet these messages indeed appeared."
"But Hanabi didn’t send them..."
They both fell silent for a while.
"Hanabi-chan, you haven’t been feeling unwell lately, right?"
"No... nothing like that..."
"I suspect... maybe you’re sick, Hanabi?
"Sick?"
"Something like split personality..."
The same chat logs existed in Hanabi’s phone, confirming to Uesugi Sakura that there were indeed two Hanabis.
But it seemed the regular Hanabi was unaware of the other Hanabi’s existence.
The wife is still the wife, but has become an unstable wife.
"I haven’t done anything to stress you out, right?"
"Sakura-kun is really nice..."
"..."
If he hadn’t done anything to stress her, how did this situation occur?
Unable to identify the problem, Uesugi Sakura said:
"How about...I take you to see a psychologist this afternoon?"
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Having identified the issue, life still had to go on as usual.
Uesugi Sakura asked his uncle to contact a highly reputable psychologist, planning to take Hanamaru Hanabi to understand her current condition.
To see if it was split personality or some kind of mental disorder.
The appointment was scheduled for three days later.
In the past few days, Hanamaru Hanabi hadn’t shown any symptoms; she seemed normal.
If not for having seen Hanabi in that state,
Uesugi Sakura might have thought someone had taken her phone for a prank.
On the third day at noon, after lunch at the Tokyo University cafeteria, Uesugi Sakura rode his bicycle back to wait for Hanabi to return home.
He arranged his outfit in the bedroom, glancing at his wristwatch.
13:24:25
He took out his phone, fingers tapping on the screen, and sent a LINE message to Hanamaru Hanabi:
’Are you almost here?’
Hanamaru Hanabi: ’Yes, I’m on the train, will be home soon.’
’Alright, I’ll wait for you at home.’