The Race Within My Heart Chapter 7

"Your smoke is drifting into my room!"

"Isn't it great that you can enjoy the smell of cigarettes without buying cigarettes?"

"I don't smoke! Anyway, please control yourself and don't cause trouble to me!"

Look, it's all smoke! The tenant in No. 102 waved his cigarette away with his hands. These white harmful substances even drifted to Azuru and the others. It was only then that Kaker suddenly realized that the smoke in front of him did smell like smoke. It was fortunate that it was not a fire, but the two people were arguing more and more fiercely.

"Your music is also very noisy! Chaka Boka, Chaka Boka, you can hear that inexplicable music all night long, it's so noisy, do you want to give me nightmares?"

"I wear headphones and listen to it late at night!"

"It's no use, I can still hear those annoying Chaka Boka!"

"It's all because this apartment is too old. There's nothing I can do."

"I didn't mean to let the smoke smell out! It's all because of the poor sealing of the door..."

"Okay, that's it." Braxton clapped his hands, attracting the attention of the two noisy tenants. "Just in time, let me introduce you to the new tenants."

As soon as the quarrel stopped, the heavy bass music coming from Room 102 was mixed with electronic noise, and pure white smoke like dry ice floated out of Room 104, immediately pouring into the corridor. Grayson didn't want to go there at all, but Braxton didn't care and walked towards the two people at the end of the corridor.

The two tenants who lived at the far end of the first floor of Zhuqingzhuang suddenly lost their arrogance. They just shook their fists and opened their mouths, waiting for Braxton and the new member Ah Chu to arrive.

"Senior, Yuki, this is Grayson, a first-year student at the School of Social Studies, who will be staying in Room 103 from today. Grayson, this is the veteran of Zhuqingzhuang------Akihiro Hirata from Room 104. Senior, everyone calls him Senior Niko.”

"Because he is the Nicotine Demon." Ashue, who had not been introduced yet, said angrily amidst the deafening music.

Braxton asked him not to interrupt and continued: "Senior Niko will be a third-year student in the Polytechnic starting from this spring. When I first moved in, he was still my senior, but now he has become a junior."

The hunky-backed Nico didn't even bother to smile politely, and just nodded to Ah Zou.

"Then you are my neighbor. Thank you for your advice."

Nico, who had a stubble all over his face, looked fearless, and he really didn't look like a student.

"Excuse me, how many years can I study in college at most?" Grayson asked Braxton in a low voice.

"Eight years."

Just as Braxton finished speaking, Nico immediately added: "I'm only in my fifth year."

Ashue, who still didn't know his real name, interrupted impatiently: "Don't forget that you retaken the exam twice."

Meaning, he is already twenty-five years old? Grayson made a quick calculation secretly and looked at the majestic Nico. Even if someone was making trouble nearby, Nico still didn't show any anger and looked calm and composed. Although Grayson wants to stay away from the harm of smoke, this senior Niko doesn't seem to be a difficult person to deal with.

Then Braxton finally started to introduce another one.

"Kakaru, this is Iwakura Yukihiko. He is a law student, a fourth-year student like me, and everyone calls him Yuki. Even though he looks like this, he has already passed the judicial examination."

"Hello." Ashue greeted lightly.

As the name suggests, his skin is unhealthy pale, he wears glasses, he is as thin as a bamboo pole, and he looks a little nervous. Grayson told himself that it was best not to mess with this person.

Nico took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it, but he didn't pay attention to Ashue's complaining eyes at all.

"Braxton, there was a lot of noise on the second floor just now. What was the noise about?"

"As we expected, the twins soon broke through the floorboards."

"So fast!" Nico laughed.

"What idiots, these two guys," Axue said with a straight face, "Thanks to us, we specially gave the largest room in Qingzhu to their brothers, but in the end they broke the floor and wasted all our efforts."

"The room on the second floor near the entrance is already very fragile. Now we need to think of a way to strengthen it."

As soon as Braxton said this, Ashue frowned suddenly. "I think it's all the prince's fault."

While Braxton and Yuki were busy talking, Grayson and Nico stood aside silently. Nico used his amazing lung capacity to inhale the large section of cigarette in front of the filter into ashes, and then snuffed it out directly on his door.

"Hey, Grayson," Nico, like the other three, called Grayson by his first name affectionately just after they met, "I have made an important discovery."

"What?"

"The names of the three of you are exactly the same as the characters in famous cartoons!"

"Yeah......"

Grayson wasn't familiar with cartoons, so he could only give him a neutral reaction. I saw Nico holding the second cigarette between his fingers, pointing at Braxton, Grayson and Yuki in sequence.

"Braxton is Heidi, your surname is Kurahara, so it's Clara, and there's Koyuki the goat. Am I right?"[4]

"Please don't just call other people goats."

Ashue, who had just finished talking to Braxton, pushed Nico back to room 104.

"And I am that Peter..."

Ashue didn't wait for Nico to finish and slammed the door of Room 104. Furious, he turned around and hid in his room, slamming the door of Room 102 violently, leaving only smoke and lingering sounds floating in the dark corridor.

"Excuse me..." Akari said with confusion, Braxton just shrugged lightly.

"Don't worry, they are just like this. It seems that these two people like you very much, which is great."

Braxton opened the door to room 103.

"Okay, this is your room. The key is here," Braxton pointed to the brass round key hanging on the back of the door. "When you want to lock the door from inside the room, just like locking the door from the outside, insert the key. That’s fine. Everyone thinks it’s troublesome, so they almost never lock the door when they’re in the room.”

Grayson picked up the dark golden key: its nostalgic appearance seemed to announce that it could be used to open the door to magic. It has been passed down from the hands of successive tenants, and the gilding has been mottled, giving it a warm and rounded feel.