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

If Horikita says so, what can Shirai say?

If you ask someone for help with something, you should of course cooperate fully.

Bai Lan took a spare blank notebook out of her bag and handed it to Horikita.

Then the morning meeting began.

Then, the morning meeting ended.

The morning meeting had just ended.

"My pen is out of ink, can I borrow a pen?" Horikita once again initiated a "friendly interaction".

The first regular class has ended.

Horikita: "I missed copying your notes in the last class, so I'll borrow yours for a bit."

Bai Lan lent out her notebook.

The second period has ended.

Horikita: "Lend me an eraser."

Bai Lan lent out the eraser.

The third period.

Horikita: "Lend me a pen."

Bai Lan: "Didn't you borrow a pen? This is the only pen I have left!"

Upon hearing this, Horikita frowned: "You only brought two pens to class?"

Good grief, you're actually complaining!

“In that case…” Horikita, using the desk as cover, took a cardboard box out of her bag.

The word "pen refill" is written on the surface of the cardboard box!

Horikita glanced around, then without saying a word, began stuffing the cardboard box into Shirai's desk drawer, before saying, "Lend me a pen refill."

Bai Lan: ?

Finally, Bai Lan took out the cardboard box that Horikita had secretly put in the drawer, then pulled out a pen refill from it and handed it to Horikita, then said in a pretentious manner, "I don't have any extra pens, will a pen refill work?"

"Okay, thank you," Horikita said, taking the pen refill.

After doing all this, Bai Lan couldn't help but pat her forehead with her palm.

Bai Lan felt that her actions were incredibly foolish!

Bai Lan finally couldn't hold back any longer.

Before the fourth period started, Bai Lan emailed Horikita, asking, "Isn't our interaction a little too frequent just to 'maintain popularity'?"

Horikita quickly replied: "With the average person's memory, to convert short-term memory into long-term memory, one must first repeatedly present the same information point in one's mind throughout the day, and then 'review' the same information point according to a certain periodic pattern in the following days. Only in this way can one achieve the effect of solidifying memory and leaving a deep impression in one's mind."

Therefore, in order to leave a lasting impression on the class that "we have a close relationship," we need to cultivate the "short-term memory" of those around us in the next few days, which requires frequent interactions that demonstrate closeness.

Bai Lan replied to the email, asking, "So, I'm going to have to endure this kind of troublesome life for several days in a row?"

Horikita: "To be precise, it will last for three days. After that, I will gradually reduce the frequency of some necessary but inefficient and time-wasting interactions, and fix some efficient interactions into the daily routine."

"Necessary but inefficient, what do you mean?"

“For example, when it comes to ‘borrowing things,’ the borrowed items are basically useless, and they cannot be dealt with all at once. You also have to spend energy managing the borrowed items, which is inefficient.”

"What do you mean by 'highly efficient'?"

"For example, going to and from school, which are things you have to do every day anyway."

After reading Horikita's reply, I understood and frowned, immediately sensing something was wrong.

Bai Lan: "You're not planning to do this every day, waking me up early for class and making me have awkward conversations with you the whole way, are you?"

“Yes, going to and from school together is the most efficient way. It doesn’t require extra time and effort, but it yields excellent results. I think it’s necessary to make it a regular routine,” Horikita replied.

Upon reading Horikita's reply, Bai Lan felt a strange sensation.

For some reason, he felt like he had been taken advantage of.

The more he thought about it, the more something seemed wrong.

Bai Lan couldn't help but think, "What was my original purpose in looking for a shield again?"

Bai Lan begins to search for her original intention in finding a shield.

Soon, Bai Lan remembered.

Oh, right! He didn't want to be in a relationship, and he felt that rejecting suitors was too much trouble, as long as he could avoid hurting others.

Therefore, Bai Lan was looking for a shield because she hated trouble.

He wanted to use this as a shield to deter his suitors and protect him from trouble!

But now, after Bai Lan found Horikita as a shield, before his suitors could even cause him any trouble, he was already embroiled in a lot of problems because of his role as Horikita's shield.

And they made it so eye-catching.

Isn't this just asking for trouble?

After clarifying her thoughts, Bai Lan sent an email to Horikita explaining her ideas.

Horikita replied via email: "Are you saying that I went a bit too far?"

Bai Lan: "That's right."

Horikita: "You want me to reduce the frequency of my shield-playing duties?"

Bai Lan: "Yes."

Horikita: "So can I take that my actions today have exceeded your expectations of me?"

"That's it."

"Now that I have achieved your expected goals today, or even exceeded them, it means you have received enough 'rewards'. So it's your turn to help me."

"Yes, yes, I will help you."

"Okay, then tell me now how I can gain my brother's approval."

"Huh? Now?"

"Correct."

"Isn't that too fast? I haven't thought about it yet."

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Since Bai Lan intends to take a passive approach to helping Horikita gain his brother's approval, she naturally can't be so proactive in helping him come up with solutions or anything like that.

"Don't you have a clue at all?" Horikita asked.

"not yet."

"After an entire night and a morning, you still have a clue? It seems you haven't been taking my matter seriously?"

“It’s not like that, you don’t understand. This kind of thing is all about inspiration,” Bai Lan tried to explain.

"I understand. These are just excuses. Since you haven't taken my matter seriously, it must be because you think I haven't taken the job of being a shield seriously enough!"

Huh? Is that another way to interpret it?

Seeing that Horikita had already prepared a reason for him, Bai Lan replied, "That's right, I'm not very satisfied with your work attitude, so I have no motivation to help you."

"Okay, I understand! From now on, I will take the task of being your shield even more seriously, and I will find a way to make sure that no girl in the entire school dares to bother you!"

After reading Horikita's reply, Bai Lan suddenly felt that Horikita was a little scary.

"What do you want to do?"

"I have a plan that allows you to complete the task with almost no cooperation from me."

"Oh? What is it?"

“I can use public opinion to create a ‘quarantine zone’ on the ‘outer periphery’ so that the girls won’t bother you.”

You said you don't plan to date, so I can just tell everyone at school that "you don't like girls," is that okay?

That way, I won't need to trouble you to cooperate with me or interact with me.

How about this plan?

"Hey! Don't mess around! If you do this, what will become of my reputation?!"

"What? You clearly don't plan to date, yet you still care about such useless things? Anyway, after graduation, everyone will go their separate ways, and no one will care about this kind of thing."

"Even if nobody cares, I care a lot, okay?"

"This is troublesome. Okay, I have another plan. Let's change the 'mutual affection' setting and make it so that I pursue you unilaterally."

You don't need to put effort into responding to every interaction I have; just treat it coldly.

"In the future, if a girl pursues you, just tell me, and I'll go directly to her and declare war on her. Then I'll use my physical strength, academic ability, and good looks to force her to give up on pursuing you. How about that?"

Bai Lan was completely dumbfounded.

Horikita's character seems like a total simp.

Horikita is really going all out!

The problem is, simps usually lick green tea.

Horikita is willing to play the role of a sycophant to fulfill her mission of being a shield, but Bai Lan doesn't want to be a green tea b*tch!

Thinking of this, Bai Lan quickly replied, "No, no, no! Don't do anything unnecessary. It's actually very simple. Just interact with me normally as usual."

I think that frequency of interaction is enough.

At most, they might leave the classroom together occasionally after school when they have some free time, and just let others see them 'walking together'.

When someone starts pursuing me, I'll just say I have a girlfriend, and then you'll step in as her and help me persuade them to leave.

It's such a simple thing! Don't complicate things, okay?

"But if I do that, won't the task be too easy? It won't show how serious I am at all!"

"But I think that's enough. It's a very simple thing. It's just using your 'couple' identity, which you don't need anyway, to bully me. Why are you taking it so seriously?"