Chapter 388 The Child Stolen From the Orphanage

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Sakakihara Suzu did not expect that the dean would ask herself this question.

However, people have been asking about the color of my eyes since childhood, so that everyone who meets me for the first time will curiously ask if I wear colored contact lenses.

So when the dean suddenly asked this question, Sakakihara Suzu didn't think there was anything surprising.

However, when the dean asked this question, all the senior voice actors, agents, and managers in the agency all looked over, making Suzu Sakakibara feel a little stressed.

Suzu Sakakihara faced the dean and tried hard to adjust her mentality. Under everyone's gaze, she replied with a reserved and polite smile:

"That's right."

After hearing the answer, Dean Matsuda's kind face became more surprised, and she stared at Sakakihara Suzu's purple pupils for a few more times.

This made Sakakihara Suzu, who was already being stared at by everyone, a little embarrassed.

Manager Shi Nimura noticed the dean's expression and asked the dean on behalf of Sakakihara Suzu:

"Dean Matsuda, do you think there is something strange about Ling's eyes?"

Probably noticing his gaffe, Matsuda withdrew his gaze from Sakakibara Suzu, lowered his head slightly, first expressed his apology to several people, then put his hands together in front of him, then smiled at Sakakibara Suzu and said:

"It's not anything particularly important. It's just that Miss Ling's eyes remind me of a child in our hospital."

As soon as these words came out, everyone became more curious.

Nanami Ayako, Yoshiwara Nao, and the female seniors in Uto Yaegure's office all looked towards Sakakihara Suzu.

Chitian Sakai stared at Sakakihara Suzu.

"Child. What child?" Sakakihara Suzu was stared at in confusion by everyone.

Nimura Shi noticed Sakakibara Suzu's embarrassment, looked at Sakakihara Suzu, then looked at the dean, and took the initiative to bring up the topic to relieve Suzu:

"Dean Matsuda, does that child also have purple eyes?"

"That's right." Dean Matsuda nodded, "And the child's eye color is very similar to Miss Sakakibara's."

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Hearing this, Sakakibara Suzu's senior couldn't suppress the complaints in his heart.

Yoshihara Nao approached Sakakihara Suzu and nudged her with her elbow. She was very affectionate and showed a tiger-toothed smile:

"We, Suzu-chan, didn't come from an orphanage, right?"

"Nao, what are you talking about with Suzu?" Nanami Ayako, as the oldest voice actor in the agency, wears more mature makeup and has a more stable attitude when going out, and reaches out to stop her from talking nonsense.

"Senior, I was just joking with Suzu~"

Uto Yaegu, who was dressed more neutrally, waved his hands habitually and said helplessly: "You can't be joking like this."

Chitiano Sakai was very curious and weakly interjected, raising her hand to ask the dean:

"Dean Matsuda, I saw someone on the Internet saying that there are less than 500 people with purple eyes in the world. Meeting one in normal life is a very rare thing. It is basically impossible to meet the second one. "

"Well," Dean Matsuda nodded in complete approval, his voice was unhurried, "That's why I care so much."

Nao Yoshihara held Sakakihara Suzu's slender arms, smiled in her ear and said:

"I'm serious, Ling, do you want to get to know that kid? Meet him as a sister or something. It's rare to see someone with the same eye color as you. Oh, no, I've never seen your eyes have the same color as Ling. people."

Sakakihara Suzu smelled the perfume on her senior's body, "Senior, what kind of sister do you think you are? I, I'm not very familiar with her."

"Hey, what you said is wrong. Aren't we just here to celebrate Children's Day with the children today? Isn't it our job today to get to know the children?"

"Right."

Sakai Chitian asked the dean: "What about the child the dean mentioned?"

Dean Matsuda sighed with a regretful expression: "The child is lost."

"lost?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone's eyes turned over again.

"Yes, it was lost shortly after birth."

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Yoshihara Nao put her hand to cover her mouth and looked at Sakakihara Suzu again.

The meaning of this look is self-evident.

"Not at all."

Under everyone's gaze, Sakakihara Suzu quickly retorted.

She didn't know why, but she felt a little disgusted with this.

She doesn't hate orphans, but she doesn't like being denied her current identity.

She is Sakakihara Suzu.

Suzu Sakakihara has lived with this name for more than ten years.

My mother is Miwa Sakakibara and my brother is Raku Sakakibara, so they are not orphans.

If I really came out of the orphanage, what would my identity be in the past ten years?

But rather than being angry, Sakakihara Suzunori didn't take what the dean said to heart at all.

Because I am not the only one with purple eyes.

Our neighbor's sister named Hanamaru on the same floor also has purple eyes.

Although this is a bit of a coincidence, it is not impossible in this world.

As long as it happens, it is reality.

While Sakakihara Suzu was thinking about these things, Nanami-senpai asked the dean about why the child was lost.

"The child was stolen."

"Stolen?"

Chitiano Sakai: "Then the police didn't find it back?"

Dean Matsuda shook his head wordlessly.

"It was the rainy season, it rained every day, and there were frequent thunderstorms. I had just gotten married at that time, and my husband and I would prepare dinner for the children on time at seven o'clock every night. I remember that my husband, my husband, and I would prepare dinner on time every day. The children were eating together when my grandfather suddenly walked in with a baby girl in his arms.

"The baby girl looked like she was just born, wrinkled, and the umbilical cord had just been cut. It was thundering and raining outside, and she kept crying in my grandfather's arms. Through my grandfather's eyes, I knew that this was another abandoned child. Eh."

Dean Matsuda probably recalled the unhappy past and thought of the abandoned children, and there was a strong sadness in his words.

Sakakihara Suzu can understand the dean at this time.

As the director of an orphanage, I have seen so many abandoned children in my life.

They either have some congenital disease or some congenital organ loss.

They are alone from birth and can always only envy what others have.

"After taking over the child from grandpa, my husband and I stopped eating, found new swaddling clothes for the child, fed her some milk powder with warm water, and then performed a physical examination on her Fortunately, apart from being a little weak, she is a very healthy and beautiful baby girl.

"The head is quite big, the hands are quite strong, and the eyes are a pair of pure and beautiful purple that I have never seen before."

Dean Matsuda gestured with his hand to show the size of the baby girl in his arms. After putting his hand down, he looked into Sakakihara Suzu's eyes and laughed.

"After the child entered the orphanage, she was the youngest child in our family at that time. The children took good care of her and regarded her as their sister. I remember that the child was really good at eating. She had to feed more than 20 people a day. Second-rate.

"Then she was stolen away by a thief on the third day."

"My husband and I called the police, and the police came to investigate, but found no clues about the baby or any trace of the suspect. The case was delayed again and again, and gradually turned into a mystery that remains unsolved."

What the dean told was just a brief story.

The only point that this story can connect to Sakakibara Suzu is that there is only one characteristic [purple eyes].

If there are so many coincidences in the world, Sakakihara Suzu will not have time to apply this identity to herself.

After others heard it, they just regarded it as a past event and expressed regret about it.

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After everyone from the seiyuu agency met with the dean, they officially entered the orphanage with the dean leading the way.

There is a spacious yard in the courtyard, surrounded by shrubs and various flowers and plants, and several large trees separated by a certain distance.

On the lawn in the middle, there are slides and swings similar to those found in kindergartens.

There are many children of various ages playing on it.

Some look lively, while others look very quiet. For example, the little girl in a short skirt standing under the tree, staring at the ground, Sakakihara Suzu can't tell what she is doing.

Sakakihara Suzu followed the dean and secretly discussed with Sakai Chitano, and Sakai Chitano couldn't help guessing it.

However, the conversation between the two was overheard by Dean Matsuda, who was walking with several other seniors in front. She stopped, looked at the little girl and said:

"The child's name is Qianyi. She has congenital heart disease. Because her family is not rich, her parents divorced because of her. She followed her mother who still cared about her. Her mother was the kind of person who was idle at the beginning. No She would go to work. Later, in order to earn money for her surgery, her mother joined a gang of thieves and committed many crimes in a row. She was caught burglarizing the home of a steel factory owner and was sentenced to nine years in prison.

"Qianyi often stands under the tree. She is counting ants. Her mother told her that when she counts 50,000 ants, they can meet."

Dean is simply stating the facts.

But Sakakihara Suzu sounded particularly complicated.

A mother is idle and doesn't like to work, but she knows how to care for her children. Even though her daughter had an incurable heart disease, she never gave up.

But the strange thing is that her way of saving the child was an immoral act like stealing.

This made Suzu Sakakihara feel that this mother was both bad and not so bad.

Sakai Chitano asked: "Then Dean, is Chii-chan still suffering from heart disease?"

"Yes," Dean Matsuda replied in a kind voice, "She will have surgery soon, and she is still taking medicine to relieve heart pressure every day."

Yoshihara Nao: "What about the surgery fee? The cost of surgery for congenital heart disease should be quite large, right?"

"Of course the orphanage can only pay for it, and her mother can't afford it at all."

Chitiano Sakai, "Is every child like this?"

"Yes."

Sakakihara Suzu: "But Director, there shouldn't be that much money in the orphanage, right? What should we do at this time?"

"Ask for help," Dean Matsuda said, staring at the little girl counting ants under the shade of a tree. "Medical organizations, charities, go to the streets to ask for donations, and go to the government to apply for financial support. As long as they can get money, they must be shameless. Go and give it a try. In the past, when we were too poor to have any money, we would let the children make some things by hand, and then sell them in the market for as much as they could. The houses in the orphanage were also sorted out and rented out."

It sounds like being a dean is really difficult.

If a child doesn’t have money for surgery, he really has no choice but to “beg” everywhere, right?

Not to mention that there are so many children in the orphanage, and their living expenses, education expenses, and medical expenses all need to be borne by the orphanage.

Sakakihara Suzu didn't know the actual situation in the orphanage, but she could already feel embarrassed just thinking about it.

The group followed the director and visited the entire orphanage.

Where children sleep, where children study, where children play

We all went to have a look.

Because it was just work, the producer at the office, Tanaka-san, followed the whole process with a camera.

On the way, Sakakihara Suzu found that many children came to say hello to the dean, and then some also said hello to herself.

Some children younger than me kept shouting around me, "Suzuki-chan! Suzu-chan!", with such enthusiasm that Sakakihara Suzu was ashamed.

Then we officially started getting along with the children and asked them what their dreams were.

The children were very enthusiastic and surrounded Sakakihara Suzu, and they answered energetically, "I want to be a voice actor like Suzu!"

This sentence.

Sakakihara Suzu was in a daze after hearing this.

Have you become someone else’s dream?

In fact, I am no longer the miserable newcomer who gnaws on the buns bought by my brother every morning and stays up late at night to practice my voice with anime?

In the blink of an eye, he seemed to have become much stronger.

He is also a successful person, and he is also someone who is admired and envied by others.

In the orphanage, she met many children who said they wanted to be themselves and have themselves as their goals in life. Suzuma Sakakihara felt that she was touched.

You must know that since childhood, I have always been the type to be looked down upon.

He is clumsy in doing things, clumsy in studying, and clumsy in exercising.

I was always laughed at by my classmates in school.

Once upon a time, did you become someone else’s dream?

Because of these, Sakakihara Suzu got along more and more harmoniously with the children in the orphanage in the following time.

Sometimes they are so happy that they don't look like children without parents.

He is always smiling, smiling when playing and smiling when eating.

In order to respond to the children's wishes, Sakakihara Suzu also used her own various voices to express several lines from the animation.

There were just a few little boys who innocently said they wanted to hear Hidakaho confess to the male protagonist in the anime, which made Suzu Sakakihara have to question whether today's children are too precocious?

But it is certain that these children really like voice actors.

There are indeed a few junior high school girls asking themselves how to practice their voices.

Today is Children's Day.

There are also performances prepared by the children themselves in the orphanage.

Sakakihara Suzu and the voice actors from the agency watched one by one. After the performance, they played a chasing game with the children. One of them acted as a "ghost", chasing other children and trying to catch them.

The other seniors are very good at playing with children, especially Yoshiwara-senpai, who is particularly popular with children.

Tianno is a bit clumsy. When he was a "ghost", he saw children who were not hiding in plain sight and was too embarrassed to expose them.

In fact, by the second half, Sakakihara Suzu felt that this was no longer work and everyone was having fun.

At least Sakakihara Suzu never thought that one day she would actually be able to play hide-and-seek and ghost games.

Playing hide-and-seek with Raku Sakakibara was the most boring thing in the past. He could always guess where he was hiding.

Ghost hunting game even more!

You can't catch him as a ghost, and you can't run away from him as a ghost.

He is better as an older brother. He is stable and reliable. You can go to him for anything you want to do.

If you want to eat snacks, you can ask him to carry you to Cuntou to buy them.

Every time she was on his back, Sakakibara Suzu felt very powerful. Also, she was particularly happy that someone would always pass delicious food to herself on his back.

My brother carries me and brings me food.

very nice.

wrong.

What do you want him to do?

I agreed not to think about him for the next few days.

Sakakihara Suzu lamented her childhood, recalling the past scenes and how someone looked now, and her face turned red again.

She patted her cheek, washed her hands from the bathroom, and walked out.

This is the first floor of the main building of the orphanage, and the director's office is also here.

On the wall of the corridor is the history of Star Wish Orphanage.

There are photos hanging on it, starting from the group photo of Senior Dean Matsuda and Dean Matsuda, to a dozen group photos taken this year.

Every kid who ever lived here is on it.

Sakakihara Suzu held her chin and carefully searched the photos for the children she just met today. Every time she recognized one and read out the other person's name, she would feel a little happy.

Until Sakakihara Suzu saw a small photo hanging in the lower right corner of the photo wall.

Of all the photos, this one is not a group photo.

In the photo is the recently married Matsuda couple.

In the hands of young Dean Matsuda, there was an infant child. She was obviously just born and was so small that she couldn't even drink much milk powder. But Suzu Sakakihara still felt that she was looking straight at him with those colorful purple eyes. shot.

Even though the photo is slightly yellowed due to age, the purple pupils that look like stars are still bright and shiny.

Sakakihara Suzu was fascinated by it without even realizing it.

"Why does this child look so much like A Lingqi when he was a child?"

This sudden and familiar voice startled Sakakihara Suzu, who was frowning deeply in the photo. She quickly turned around and immediately saw someone who shouldn't be here.

Raku Sakakibara, who was wearing a casual summer outfit, touched his chin and was looking carefully at the old photos on the wall.

Seeing that extremely familiar face, Sakakihara Suzu was stunned for a moment, and then questioned loudly, "Why are you here?!"

"Why can't I be here," Sakakihara replied casually. He was obviously more concerned about the baby in the photo on the wall and stared at her for a long time. "Really, it looks very similar."