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Ah, so it's Su Qing...
Su Qing had somehow ended up sitting next to Shiina, and the song she was humming was clearly her own.
"Su Qing."
Shiina said softly.
"Yes, Shiina, I'm here."
Su Qing returned a faint smile.
"Could I borrow your shoulder?"
"Please use."
Su Qing shifted her position again, getting even closer to Shiina.
"Thank you."
Shiina gently turned to the side, then leaned her body towards Su Qing, resting her head on Su Qing's shoulder.
A strand of flaxen hair fell silently down. The rain outside the window had stopped sometime earlier, and the moon struggled to peek out from behind the clouds.
Then, the moonlight shone down.
It fell onto Shiina's single strand of hair, and onto Su Qing's face.
Shiina looked up and saw Su Qing's profile. She saw a light in his deep eyes, but she couldn't tell if it was moonlight or if his eyes naturally had a light.
I suppose so.
—That seemed to be the "light" she had been searching for.
My hand involuntarily reached out towards something, as if it had touched something, and then quickly withdrew, only to be immediately grabbed back by a large hand.
And so, their hands clasped tightly together in the moonlight.
"Su Qing."
Shiina called out softly again.
"I'm here."
Su Qing responded softly.
"Thank you."
"Well, no need."
……
The electricity is back.
(The latest chapter is stuck and difficult to review. It will probably be available in the morning. Sorry everyone.)
Chapter 47 Tom is like this
After the power came back on, Shiina, her ears red, hurriedly said goodbye to Su Qing and returned home. Su Qing, seeing that the girl had returned to normal and that her absolute sense of smell could no longer detect the sorrowful scent, did not stop her or offer any further comfort.
After all, everyone has their own deep-seated secrets. Shiina won't bring it up, and Su Qing won't ask.
Until the other person speaks up, Su Qing can only try her best to appease them, just like she did today, and that's enough.
At least, that's what Su Qing thinks now.
……
The following day, despite the typhoon, the rain was not heavy, so the school did not close and classes continued as usual.
As soon as Su Qing sat down in the classroom, she heard a lot of complaints.
"Ugh, so annoying, I really want a vacation."
"Yeah, this typhoon is too weak, isn't it? I thought we could have a holiday today since the typhoon hit yesterday."
"Stop talking. I thought I'd have a day off today, so I stayed up all night to celebrate my wife's birthday for two and a half hours."
"Inflatable toys can even have birthdays?"
"Yes, doesn't it say the production date on it?"
"...6"
"Speaking of which, Daishi and Murakami haven't come for two or three days, right? When I asked them on e, they just stammered and didn't give any explanation."
"Who knows? Maybe he's been doing too much at home and can't get up."
"...You're so good at talking."
Yes, the students today are still full of youthful energy and vitality!
"Xiao Qing, have you heard?"
"What did you hear?"
Su Qing turned around curiously and looked at Yui, who was standing mysteriously to the side.
"It seems like the sports festival, which is supposed to be in two weeks, will be postponed," Yui muttered to herself.
"Postponed? Why?" Su Qing was surprised. Could something like this be postponed? Was it because it was supposed to rain on those days and couldn't be held? But if that were the case, they wouldn't have decided on those days in the first place.
"I don't know the specific reason either. I only heard it from Yumiko and the others. Now quite a few people know about it." Yuihama innocently stuck out her pink tongue.
Many people already know? Does that mean I'm the last to find out? Damn it. Su Qing glanced at it, then, as if struck by a thought, walked over to Hachiman's seat amidst Yui's bewildered gaze.
"Hachiman, did you know that the Sports Festival might be postponed?"
"Oh, it's you. Well... I wasn't sure. When did the teacher notify you?"
Hachiman, who had been slumped over his desk like a couch potato, looked up at Su Qing with deadpan eyes after sensing someone's arrival. This was the first time since starting high school that someone had initiated a conversation with him.
Oh, no, it's the second time.
I gave it to Ayaka for the first time during a cooking class.
Saika... Hehe, Hachiman suddenly laughed.
Is the postponement of the sports festival that making this guy so happy? Why is he laughing like that? Su Qing would never have guessed that Hachiman was so happy because he was thinking of a "boy." If he did know, he would probably be so scared that he would take several steps back.
However, thankfully, at least I'm not the last person to know about this. There's still Hachiman at the bottom, isn't there?
Su Qing immediately felt a sense of balance.
"I've heard, just heard, but a lot of people are saying that. I remember you also signed up for a program, right? I thought you didn't know yet, so I came to tell you in advance so you could be prepared."
Su Qing offered an explanation, then revealed a harmless and kind smile.
This guy is such a good person. We're not only in the same club, but he also took the initiative to ask me to join his group during the last cooking class. I guess we'll basically be in the same group from now on... and now he's come all the way here to tell me this news.
So, have we become friends without even realizing it?!
I knew it! Hiratsuka-sensei's talk about correcting my personality was completely unnecessary.
"Um, th...thank you." Hachiman said, it was only right for him to thank the other person who had come all this way to tell him the news, right? However, perhaps because he hadn't said such a thing in a long time, Hachiman seemed a little stiff.
"Okay, I'll head back now." After receiving some reassurance, Su Qing went to play with her yo-yo.
"Kiyoshi, are you and Hachiman very close?" Yui asked curiously from the side. After all, Hachiman was the kind of person no one paid attention to in the class. He usually kept to himself and others said that Hachiman liked to do strange things, which made everyone's impression of him not very good.
"Well, he's alright. We joined the same club, and I think he's quite interesting."
"A club? Qing, when did you join a club? I didn't even know!" Yui opened her mouth, somewhat surprised.
"It happened a couple of days ago, didn't I tell you?
"No, Xiaoqing, what club have you joined?" Yui then asked.
"Well, you might need to go there sometime, and then you'll see."
Su Qing chuckled. The name "Service Department" was a bit embarrassing to say, and since it was close to class time, Su Qing didn't want to explain too much.
"Alright then~" Seeing that Su Qing did not give a direct answer, Yui did not continue to ask.
The school bell rang, and Ms. Hiratsuka walked in with a smile on her face, but that smile looked... a little off.
"Okay, everyone, calm down."
Ms. Hiratsuka first calmed the classroom atmosphere before speaking.
"I bet many of you have heard that the school is postponing the sports festival, right?"
Students below kept nodding. Of course, some students who didn't know the answer also nodded as if they knew, just to show that they weren't being ostracized.
"Well, I need to clarify that it was actually a rumor."
A wave of relief swept through the audience, as no one wanted the three-day sports festival to be inexplicably postponed.
Hiratsuka Shizuka suddenly smiled. Although she looked beautiful and charming in her business attire, what she said next made all the students scream on the spot.
"It's not postponed, it's canceled. The school has decided to temporarily cancel the sports festival and instead hold the end-of-month exams earlier. By the way, this end-of-month exam will be the same test as the other two top-three schools in Tokyo, and they will be ranked together."
"Ah! No!"
"Why should I, damn it?"
"held by the school's poets"
"Teacher, why is this?" Seeing that the students around him were not in a good mood, Hayama Hayato quickly stood up and asked the question.
"Why? You still dare to ask why?" Hiratsuka Shizuka rubbed her temples first, then spoke with a hint of helplessness.
"You guys really got cocky at the start of the semester. The disciplinary committee has found erotic comics among the boys at the school gate more than once. There are almost some in every grade and every class. It's been a whole semester and you still don't know the school rules?"
Some of the boys lowered their heads in shame.
The girl, on the other hand, was unwilling to accept it, thinking that the boy should take the blame.
"You female students are the same. Since the start of the semester, when the PE teachers from different grades go to the gym to get equipment, they always run into some of you couples doing it in there. When asked why they're doing it in there, they all say that the girls are the ones who initiate it. The school doesn't oppose free love, but the school isn't a free hotel."
"Furthermore, haven't you noticed that school leaders have been inspecting the classes of each grade since the start of the semester? Even so, some students are still dozing off and playing xxx."
"In short, given the current atmosphere, it's impossible for the school to hold a sports festival."
Hiratsuka Shizuka changed the subject.
"However, if you can at least avoid being at the bottom of the class in this exam, or even rank first, the school will hold the sports festival again afterward, and may even extend it to four days!"
"Really, teacher!" a student asked impatiently. "If we can have four days off, doesn't that round up to four days? We only have five days of school a week, so doesn't that mean we only have one day of school a week? It's practically like not having any classes at all!"
"Of course it's true, the school leaders personally guarantee it."
Hiratsuka Shizuka replied calmly, looking at the excited expressions of the group of kids below, she knew that they had been manipulated.
Of course, some of what I just said is true and some is false. The atmosphere was so bad that the whole school should just be renamed the General Martial Arts Academy.
The more truthful and false the news is, the more convincing it will be to these kids. Besides, these students are indeed a bit arrogant at the beginning of the semester and don't seem to feel any urgency. They need to be given a good talking-to. After the monthly exam, the school will probably hold the exam as scheduled, regardless of their ranking, just with a few more days.
Poor Tom, he was completely manipulated.
Chapter 48 Biological Survey Report (Two-in-One)
After class, inside the classroom.
"Animals are generally social animals, and carnivorous animals have a strict hierarchy. If you don't become the leader, you will be bullied to death. Herbivores will also choose to abandon their companions and flee when they encounter predators."
Therefore, organisms in a group do not bring any benefit to the individual.
Therefore, I chose the path of the bear, one that is utterly celibate and destined for solitude. After all, bears do not suffer from loneliness; they are among the most resilient animals, and they can also hibernate.
If there's a next life, I definitely want to be reborn as a bear.
With one hand pressing down on Hachiman, who was struggling and resisting wildly, Su Qing held Hachiman's biological investigation report in the other hand and read it aloud in a voice that the two of them could hear in the noisy classroom.
"That's enough, stop reading. It's too embarrassing."
Hachiman pleaded from the side, even a self-destructing truck wouldn't want its homework read aloud. Although Su Qing used a very low voice to ensure that only Hachiman could hear it, it was still too embarrassing!
However, Su Qing's seven-point strength made it impossible for him to get close to his work, leaving him at Su Qing's mercy.
Su Qing continued looking at Hachiman's homework with great interest, and then made a joke.
"Why can't I say it anymore, Hikigaya Kuma-kun? That's probably what Japanese people call him, right? Ever been interested in becoming a light novel author? I've already thought of a pen name for you, Hikigaya Kuma. What do you think?"
"Not really... Seriously, who uses their real surname as a pen name?"
Hikigaya fell silent, then weakly retorted. When Su Qing mentioned whether he wanted to become a light novelist, he inexplicably thought of a chuunibyou fat guy... Now that he thought about it, it was a past he didn't want to recall.