After saying that, Hengchuan Xinbei stretched.

Yu Gongtaku didn't refute him, because it was indeed late. If he lifted the curtain and looked outside, he would find that it was already pitch black outside the classroom. If he didn't go back soon, his family might worry.

Of course, there's no need to worry about the four of them, especially Moriyama Omi.

She should be more worried about whether her mother will abuse her again because she comes home late than whether her family will worry about her.

That's all for today's club activities. Let's get motivated starting tomorrow! Let's all do our best!

"You really have the nerve to say that."

Hengchuan Xinbei was full of enthusiasm and encouraged the group, but Yu Gongtuo poured cold water on their spirits with a single sentence.

After that, the four left the club. Hengchuan Xinbei and Zuo Gong Andeng came to pick them up in a private car, so they said goodbye to the two at the school gate.

As Hanamiya Taku and Moriyama Omi walked towards the station after leaving school, the cold wind kept slapping their cheeks, but they were still able to chat enthusiastically.

Because it was already completely dark, Yu Gongtaku got off the bus early and escorted Moriyama Omi home. He only left when she entered the house and the Future Diary showed that everything was normal.

Chapter Ninety-Two: It's not that I'm isolated, it's just that I'm difficult to get along with.

The next day, Yu Gongtaku came to school as usual, but this time, he did not sit in his seat in a daze. Instead, he left the classroom and prepared to go to Class 3A on the fourth floor.

Just as he was about to step out of the classroom, he bumped into Moriyama Omi, who had also just arrived at the school. After asking what was going on, she said she was also going.

Yu Gongtaku didn't think much of it, since under these circumstances, it was absolutely impossible for an accident to happen.

So the two of them went to the classroom of Class 3A on the fourth floor, intending to help Takakura Izumi get some useful information.

As they approached the fourth floor, they heard pleasant reading voices coming from the classroom. Even though there were still twenty minutes before class and the teacher hadn't arrived yet, the students were still behaving with such self-discipline.

It's no wonder this class is made up of top students... it's truly a spectacle in human society.

However, this made Yu Gongtuo feel a bit uncomfortable, because if the students in his class didn't come out, they wouldn't have a chance to ask questions.

It wasn't until a boy left the classroom to go to the restroom and returned that Yu Gongtaku finally seized the opportunity.

"Excuse me, senior, please wait a moment." Yu Gongtuo politely stepped forward to greet him, while the other person looked him over with a puzzled expression.

"You must be lower-year students?" After the initial confusion came the question, "Do I know you?"

Seeing an opportunity to ask a question, Yu Gongtuo quickly replied, "No, I just wanted to ask if you know Takakura-senpai?"

Takakura Izumi was isolated in class, but surely no one wouldn't know him, since isolating someone requires knowing and disliking them first.

"Takakura? Of course I know him. Do you want me to go in and call him out?"

"No, no, no, we just heard that he seems to be isolated in class, so we wanted to ask him about the specifics."

Yu Gongtaku revealed his purpose, but the senior's reaction was somewhat different from what he had imagined.

"Isolate him? Who isolated him? That guy gets excellent grades. We often talk about him in private and compare him to students from other classes."

"Uh..."

Things took an unexpected turn. He subconsciously looked at Moriyama Omi beside him, who had an expression that said, "Taku, I believe you."

It turns out we still have to rely on ourselves.

"Then what do you mean when he says he has no friends?"

It might be a lie that Takakura Izumi was isolated, but it's definitely true that he has no friends. If that's wrong, then Hagiya Taku will start to wonder how he grew up.

"No friends?" The senior was taken aback, then realized and said, "Ah, that's because he takes everything very seriously, even to the point of being competitive, so it's very difficult to get along with him."

Is it true that being serious about things is a bad thing? But can being serious about things really prevent a person from making friends? Yu Gongtuo couldn't understand it.

"Could you give me a few examples?" Yu Gongtaku asked, eager to know how Takakura Izumi was isolated because of his serious work ethic.

The senior student immediately gave several examples.

"For example, when doing math problems, even if a math problem can be solved in multiple ways, he insists on using the simplest method. If someone uses another method, he will explain it in various ways and force the person to change the process to the simplest one."

"When we were setting up hypotheses, we would use our imaginations, but Takakura liked to use the truth to prove the hypotheses. Any statement that did not conform to the principles of physics or chemistry would be refuted by him, which made our discussions particularly awkward."

“Even in casual conversation, if there is anything illogical in what we say, he will jump out to correct us, even when we are joking.”

"So, we don't really like communicating with him, even when discussing problems. If he could get rid of this bad habit, he might be quite popular, since he's very helpful to everyone in the class."

After listening to the examples given by his senior, Yu Gongtaku finally understood why Takakura Izumi couldn't make friends.

Striving for perfection in everything you do, and not allowing anything unreasonable to exist in your own world—isn't that a classic case of terminal obsessive-compulsive disorder?

Taku Hagami always thought that this kind of person only existed in manga, but he never expected that they actually existed in reality.

This is really terrible, because the fundamental solution to this problem is to get rid of Takakura Izumi's obsession with perfection in everything.

However, this is tantamount to changing a person's mindset, which is easy to say but incredibly difficult to do in practice.

Even if you can force Takakura Izumi not to take things too seriously, if he still has the original ideas in his heart, then the one who will find it troublesome to communicate with him will not be others, but himself.

Forget it, anyway, Yu Gongtaku's only goal is to help Takakura Izumi make friends, there's no need to care about anything else.

......

At noon after school, Hanamichi Taku avoided Moriyama Omi's gaze and went alone to the abandoned warehouse behind the playground. He then took out his phone and sent some LINE messages to Takakura Izumi, trying to call him out.

The two exchanged contact information last night. After all, it's a relationship of posting a commission and accepting a commission; they can't do without contact information.

The reason for avoiding Moriyama Omi and calling Takakura Izumi to a place where almost no one would come was because Hagiya Taku didn't want to show her his true self.

As for his truest self... if I had to sum it up in two words, it would be "sharp-tongued."

If you want to know just how sharp-tongued Yumiya Taku really is, you'll find out in a bit.

Not long after, Takakura Izumi appeared here alone, carrying a bento box that he kept stuffing into his mouth as he walked.

They really are top students; they don't want to waste a single moment.

"Junior Brother Yu Gong, what brings you here?"

Takakura Izumi threw his finished bento into the trash can next to him. Knowing that he couldn't speak with food in his mouth, he deliberately finished eating before speaking.

"Takakura-senpai, I've figured out why you can't make friends," Hagiya Taku said casually.

"Really?" Takakura Izumi was overjoyed to hear this. He thought his days of not being able to make friends were finally over, but Hagami Taku's next words immediately dampened his spirits.

"However, the reason you can't make friends is not because of others, but because of yourself. It's your own habits that cause you to be isolated, but you're completely unaware of it, always thinking that there's nothing wrong with how you get along with others."

Chapter Ninety-Three: Lies are more pleasant to hear than the truth

"Huh? It's because of my own fault?" Takakura Izumi was completely bewildered by Hagiya Taku's words, because he didn't know why the other party would say that. In his opinion, there had never been a problem with how he got along with other people, so how could it be his fault that he couldn't make friends?

"Take last night's incident for example. You said our club doesn't have a service-oriented atmosphere, but I want to say that isn't it up to us to decide what kind of atmosphere the club should have?"

Last night, Takakura Izumi and Hanomiya Taku had a long argument about the club atmosphere. At the time, he thought that the other party was just focused on the study atmosphere, but he didn't expect that this was the root cause of his inability to make friends.

"That's true, but that's a club room. If it's a classroom, it should look like a classroom, right? What do you guys call that? It's like you're just here to enjoy life."

However, Takakura Izumi was completely unaware of this, and even knowing that he was in the wrong, he still refuted Hagami Taku.

Yu Gongtaku, of course, wouldn't stand on ceremony with him. After all, in this secluded environment, he could freely express himself.

"Listen, as long as we have the means, we don't care what kind of club we transform it into. It's approved by the school. You're not even a member of our club, so what right do you have to tell us what to do?"

"Don't you have any self-awareness about learning? A classroom should look like a classroom, not like you. You're just ruining the atmosphere."

"Corrupting morals? We are a club, not a charity or a national venue. We are just making changes based on personal interests. Even the school leaders, who have the most say, haven't said anything. What makes you think we are corrupting morals?"

"Corrupting the atmosphere is corrupting the atmosphere. If you don't change the club room back to its original state, you might as well disband. There's no point in you existing at all."

"Huh? You think you can just disband like that? By what right? Are you God or the king of gods? What gives you the right to order us around?"

"Judging from your condition, there's no need to continue the commission. I had some hope for you guys, but it turned out like this. It's very disappointing."

After saying that, Takakura Izumi, furious, turned to leave.

"Wait a minute." At this moment, Yu Gongtuo suddenly called out to him.

"Is there anything else?" Takakura Izumi, who was already in a bad mood, turned around and saw that the coldness and anger on Hagiya Taku's face had vanished, replaced by calm.

"Are you angry?" Yu Gongtuo asked casually.

"You asked me this kind of question... I'd be angry no matter how I look at it, right? What's going on? You started arguing with me for no reason."

Instead of answering Takakura Izumi's question, Hagiya Taku asked a question in return.

"Now you know why nobody wants to be your friend?"

"How should I know? You didn't do anything just now..."

He stopped abruptly halfway through his sentence, as if he had noticed something.

In class, it often happens that he gets into arguments with classmates for various reasons, like what just happened. This happens several times a month. Eventually, no one wanted to talk to him anymore, so there was no more opportunity to argue.

"Why did we start arguing? Because I said it didn't matter what the club room looked like, but you disagreed with me, and I wasn't willing to back down, so things turned out like this."

Seeing that Takakura Izumi was still a little confused, Hanomiya Taku explained.

"You've probably had similar arguments with your classmates before, right? But in the end, it's always the other person who gives in, while you think your conclusion has won."

"But what are the consequences of this? Others think you are too serious and are afraid that the same thing will happen to them, so they are unwilling to get close to you. They even keep their distance when they talk, for fear that you will hear them and they will be contradicted."

"So you arranged a fight with me, hoping to make me realize the truth in this way?" Takakura Izumi asked, still finding it hard to believe that the real reason he was isolated was because he took everything too seriously.

"You're not wrong to think that way, so have you realized your mistake?"

"But wasn't I telling the truth?"

"Some of what you're saying is certainly true, but do you think these truths are useful or useless in your interpersonal relationships?"

Takakura Izumi remained silent. He knew the answer to the question was no, but his pride prevented him from bowing his head.

So, Yu Gongtaku changed his story.

"You might not change your mind if I say this, so let's talk about the downsides of not being able to make friends."

"First of all, you will be eliminated when you look for a job or internship, because most companies now require employees to have certain eloquence and to play a decisive role at dinner parties, and you obviously have no eloquence, you could even say that your emotional intelligence is zero."

"Even if you find a job that doesn't require you to talk and just to do your job diligently, how will you find a girlfriend? How will you get married?"

"Do you think any girl would like a guy who takes things too seriously? They all prefer sweet talk, even if it's just a lie, it's more pleasant to hear than your so-called truth."

"If you can't find a job, you won't have any income; if you don't have any income, you'll starve. If you find a job but can't find a girlfriend, you can't get married; if you can't get married, you can't continue the family line. Do you want your family's bloodline to end in your generation?"

The Japanese have a strong concept of bloodline, which is why even in modern times, families still hold power in Japan. Takakura Izumi couldn't possibly ignore what Hagiya Taku said.

"But even if you say that, I can't change my perfectionist personality. Only being true to myself makes me feel comfortable."

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