People at the practical education center only want to drop out.

Taking all this into account, Bai Lan assigned her homework consisting of physical exercises such as running and crunches.

If you don't finish your homework, you'll be bullied even more the next day.

In the afternoon and evening, Karuizawa also needs to spend more than an hour exercising.

Training for more than four hours every day is a very painful thing for Karuizawa, who has poor physical strength and willpower.

Bai Lan explained the effects of this training to Karuizawa in detail, and envisioned a bright future for her where, after becoming stronger in both body and mind through training, bullies would become weaklings in front of her and she would no longer be afraid of bullying.

Later, under Bai Lan's half-goading and half-coercion, Karuizawa finally reluctantly accepted Bai Lan's training arrangements and persevered under Bai Lan's continuous encouragement and "coercion".

In order to make time for training, Karuizawa declined many invitations from her friends in the gal group.

After a week, the training results were excellent.

After a morning of grueling training.

Being scolded and hit seemed to have become commonplace for her, and her emotions were not greatly affected by it.

During this time, Karuizawa was still somewhat afraid of Shirai, who was playing the role of the bully, but along with the fear came anger. Then, in extreme anger, driven by rage, he retaliated by verbally abusing and hitting Shirai.

Although her retorts were no match for Bai Lan's, she also lost the fight.

As for physical fitness, on the last day of Golden Week.

Bai Lan conducted a running test on Karuizawa.

Karuizawa, through the breathing techniques taught to her by Shirai, and the training she received in core strength and stamina during this period, has finally achieved a passing grade in the 1000-meter run. With a little more effort, she has a chance to enter the upper-middle level of her class.

When Karuizawa discovered that her running performance surpassed that of most of the girls in her class, and even some of the weak boys, she revealed a genuinely "arrogant" smile, or rather, a "confident" smile.

Finally, there's Ichinose Honami.

During this period, she frequently asked Bai Lan on her phone whether she was free or when she would be free. She would also ask her once when they bumped into each other outside.

Is Ichinose determined to give Shiran a lesson in etiquette?

Bai Lan couldn't refuse, so she could only make excuses.

It wasn't that Shirai couldn't say "no" to Ichinose; he had already refused him.

However, whenever he said he "refused," Ichinose would patiently persuade him to "accept."

Refusing was useless, so Bai Lan could only politely decline.

To avoid having her vacation spent attending etiquette classes, Bai Lan chose to decline.

"I have disciplinary committee members patrolling later, so I'm busy."

"I'm going to the library to study today, so I don't have time."

"I need to go for a run to exercise, I don't have time."

"I'm practicing boxing, I don't have time."

.....

Bai Lan came up with various excuses.

However.......

As the saying goes: If the mountain won't come to me, I'll come to the mountain.

"Patrol? Let's go together!"

"Studying at the library? Let's do it together!"

"Running? Let's go together!"

In reality, Ichinose never pressed her way in or tried to get closer to me.

Many times, after Ichinose said "Let's go together," Shiran would say "It's inconvenient" and continue to refuse.

After sensing Shirai's resistance, Ichinose stopped pursuing her.

After some time, Ichinose will invite him again.

After rejecting Ichinose multiple times, Shirai couldn't help but feel that "Ichinose is pitiful."

This emotion continued to accumulate.

On the fourth day of Golden Week, when Ichinose invited her again, the accumulated emotions had completed the process of quantitative change to qualitative change. Bai Lan suddenly felt that "if I continue to refuse, I feel like I'm not human enough." Then, she couldn't help herself and finally accepted the invitation.

Then, Shiran and Ichinose got together.

While patrolling the shopping street... well, actually just shopping, Shirai received after-school etiquette tutoring from Ichinose.

Bai Lan was initially very resistant, as the idea of ​​"learning etiquette" made him feel like he was being treated as an "impolite child."

Although he was indeed quite impolite.

However, in reality, Ichinose's after-school tutoring was not as unappealing as one might imagine.

Ichinose did not ask Shiran to listen to her lecture.

Even when Shirai showed the slightest displeasure while listening to Ichinose's words, Ichinose could always quickly pick it up and subtly steer the conversation elsewhere, constantly probing what Shirai was interested in.

Soon, Bai Lan discovered that Ichinose seemed to be trying to find out about his life at school, his grades, whether he was having any difficulties with his studies, and whether he had any recent troubles.

To be honest, Ichinose's actions reminded Shiraishi of his mother, who was far away and whose whereabouts were unknown...

To sum it up in one sentence: "Ichinose is a woman who could be my mother."

However, unlike when Shirai listens to his mother asking him these questions, he thinks "Mom is so long-winded," but he doesn't when it comes to Ichinose.

Ichinose is good at making friends and has a high level of affability. No one who gets along with her will feel troubled by her.

Soon, Bai Lan realized that rather than Ichinose coming to teach Bai Lan etiquette, she was more interested in finding opportunities to help Bai Lan.

Bai Lan finally understood that the reason why Ichinose did this was probably because she felt indebted to Bai Lan, but couldn't find a good way to repay the favor, so she used this indirect way to ask Bai Lan where she could help.

Bai Lan wasn't used to having people "surrounding" her and staring at her all day long.

After thinking it over, he decided to find something for Ichinose to do and proactively provide her with a way to repay a favor.

This also saves Ichinose from spending all her time using the term "etiquette class" to conduct a lot of ineffective communication.

To be fair, Ichinose can indeed help him with quite a few things.

Ichinose can be considered an upgraded version of Kushida.

Kikyo Kushida Plus-Max-Pro!

Ichinose has a much larger network of connections and is more approachable than Kushida, making her more likable and even respected, and she doesn't accumulate negative emotions by dealing with friends.

In short, Shiran can do many things through Ichinose's connections, such as gathering intelligence and recruiting manpower when needed.

However, Ichinose probably won't share what she knows about other people's dark history with Shiraishi without reservation, just like Kushida did.

Even so, Ichinose remains a very valuable obstacle.

112. The holiday is over, and the reform begins.

To be honest, Bai Lan didn't initially intend to accept Ichinose's favor; he didn't feel that Ichinose owed him anything.

The intelligence gathering on the day of enrollment, and the attack on Nagumo, were all things that Bai Lan did out of her own volition.

The former was intended to ignite class competition in advance, activate those dangerous elements, and select suitable "targets."

In fact, Ichinose's class didn't even use this information; their class didn't actually benefit from Shirai's actions.

The latter was because Bai Lan wanted to incite Nan Yun's hatred, and Nan Yun had done something that offended Bai Lan.

Even if Bai Lan hadn't intervened, Ichinose wouldn't have suffered any real loss in this matter.

So, in short, let's try a second round. Shirai's so-called help actually had no real effect on Ichinose.

Bai Lan has a sense of pride, and since she hadn't played any role, she naturally wouldn't rashly claim credit or lavishly take the credit.

Therefore, when Ichinose asked to repay the favor before this, Shirai kept making excuses.

On the one hand, he felt that he had enough manpower at present and did not need new manpower for the time being.

On the other hand, he felt that Ichinose did not owe him anything and was ashamed to accept help from others as a way of "repaying a favor".

However, to Bai Lan's surprise, Ichinose took the matter of "returning a favor" so seriously.

Bai Lan suddenly realized that Ichinose was somewhat similar to herself in this respect; they were both the kind of people who didn't like to owe others anything.

However, unlike others, Bai Lan finds the process of repaying favors troublesome, so she chooses to avoid owing favors to others as much as possible.

It's best to avoid accepting favors or acts of kindness from others, as these will leave you indebted.

Even when it's truly unavoidable to need someone's help, try to do it through a "transaction" rather than owing them a favor.

Cash on delivery, avoiding any debt of gratitude on the books, even if it only exists for a second.

Unlike Ichinose, who disliked things that Shirane considered "troublesome," Ichinose actually liked them.

Therefore, she cannot avoid these things. She likes to take the initiative to help others and will not easily reject other people's kindness, allowing favors to keep coming back and forth in her interpersonal relationships with others.

You owe me something, I owe you something, and in the end, it becomes a debt that can never be settled.

This tangled mess became the connection between Ichinose and others, forming a powerful network of connections for her.

Although Ichinose frequently experiences various social interactions and has a large number of friends, she does not look down on any particular favor because she "has too much," just as a wealthy person would not care about small sums of money.

On the contrary, Ichinose values ​​every favor.

Because of this, everyone who interacts with her feels respected and close, which is why so many people are willing to be her friends, giving her so many friends.

Ichinose values ​​the favors she owes others. Although she is willing to accept help from others, she will not take it for granted.

She helps others without expecting anything in return, but when she receives help from others, she always remembers it and will find an opportunity to repay them.

Like Shirai, Ichinose realized that if she delayed repaying someone's favor, she would feel even worse for a day.

Bai Lan felt a connection with Ichinose, and felt that she understood his feelings.

Therefore, after learning about Ichinose's thoughts and determination, Shirai decided to find something for Ichinose to do so that she would have a chance to repay the favor, so that she would feel at ease and not continue to revolve around her.

At worst, we can just delegate some of the intelligence work that belongs to Kushida to Ichinose.

⒊yi ② ba 伊嘶医san 疚

It just so happens that Bai Lan is currently preparing to expand into the "market" of second and third graders. It seems a bit unfair to only exploit Kushida.

Although Ichinose isn't like Kushida, who dares to inquire about any secrets and share them with Shiraishi, and the information she can provide isn't as "deep" as Kushida's, Ichinose has a wider circle of friends and a broader range of information.