I, the mastermind behind the scenes at Soubu High, refuse to be caught in a bloodbath.

"The conversation gradually turned to me."

Yukinoshita seemed a little embarrassed and buried her face in Mr. Pan's downy fur.

"Why do they like that kind of topic so much? It's really incomprehensible."

Yukinoshita gritted her teeth and complained, hugging Mr. Pan even tighter.

"Young people are driven by hormones. Do you expect them to talk to you about world classics on a school trip night? No way."

"You're making it sound like it has nothing to do with you, and besides, it's because you suddenly showed up at my house during the school festival..."

“After all, I have my own sense of responsibility,” Himekoji said, shrugging. “Besides, wasn’t it you who suddenly made the declaration that ‘you hugged me at your house’? Thanks to you, almost all the executive committee members of the cultural festival know about it.”

Because everyone's headsets were connected, everyone was shocked when Yukinoshita said those words.

Chapter 225 And so, [Jing Ke'ai] set off.

"That's the biggest mistake of my life so far..."

She buried her head even lower under the snow.

Just then, a woman wearing a brown coat and sunglasses walked past them furtively, but stopped after a few steps and looked at them in surprise.

Why are you all here?

"Oh, I'm just here to buy a drink. What are you doing at this hour, teacher?"

"Um, um... Don't, don't tell anyone else, okay? It has to be a secret, okay?"

Hiratsuka-sensei's hesitant demeanor and delicate girlishness made Himekoji's heart flutter. The word "quiet and cute" involuntarily popped into her mind at her shy posture, but the words that followed utterly destroyed that notion.

(Quiet かわいい, because the kana か followed by Hiratsuka Shizuka's quiescent か and かわいい【cute】both start with か, so one か was omitted, so it became quiescent かわいい)

"Um... next... we're going to eat ramen..."

So you're being so shy just because you're going to eat ramen?! I know Tianxia Yipin is delicious, but you don't have to be like this! If I didn't have precognitive abilities, I would definitely think you were going out to see your lover! I'll be jealous, you jerk!

Himekoji and Yukinoshita stared blankly at Hiratsuka-sensei. As if remembering something, the teacher crossed her arms, straightened her posture, and finally took off her sunglasses. It seemed she had been planning to disguise herself earlier.

"If it's just the two of you, that would be perfect."

"Huh?"

A question uttered from beneath the snow, its meaning unclear.

"Let's go. To shut you up, I've decided to treat you to ramen."

Hiratsuka Shizuka approached, speaking in a very low voice, giving them a thumbs-up and displaying a wonderful smile.

"Okay, then I'll head back."

Yukinoshita wasn't very interested in the idea of ​​eating ramen at night, so she immediately stood up and was about to leave.

"No, Yukinoshita, you come too."

"Hey, but my current outfit..."

You can't wear clothes that are suitable for indoors outside; it's very cold in Kyoto right now.

“It’s okay, as long as you put this on…” Hiratsuka Shizuka pointed to her coat, then immediately pointed to Himekoji’s trench coat and said, “Ha, as long as you put this on, there won’t be any problems!”

So Himekoji and Yukinoshita said to Hiratsuka Shizuka at the same time, "NO!"

Making Yukino wear boys' clothes would probably be unacceptable to her.

"Well, well, I'm a woman after all, so how about you show some gentlemanly manners? Humph, humph?"

Hiratsuka Shizuka walked over to Himekoji, wrapped her arms around Himekoji's arm, and gently rubbed her chest against him.

"...Okay, that's possible, but would Yukinoshita wear it?"

"...I think I should go back."

"Really? The ramen we're going to eat next is absolutely amazing!"

Hiratsuka Shizuka continued to tempt her with delicious food.

Yukinoshita swallowed slightly, then turned her gaze to Himekoji, before quickly looking away.

So, what do you mean by this?

"Take it off!"

Hiratsuka Shizuka delivered a chop to Himekoji's forehead. "By the way, why didn't you do this when you were sharing a room with me at the Cesare Hotel that night?"

Himekoji sighed and took off his trench coat, revealing a somewhat thin casual outfit underneath. He held up the clothes and stood behind Yukinoshita, saying, "Miss Yukinoshita, please reach out."

"Don't use such a strange form of address!"

Although she said that, Yukinoshita didn't seem to mind. She put on the clothes one sleeve at a time. Himekoji loosened the clothes and straightened her sleeves. To be honest, Himekoji's clothes were a bit too big for Yukinoshita.

Height is related to arm span, so Yukinoshita now looks like a shackled kitten, with her hem hanging down past her knees and reaching near her shoes.

"Hmm, hmm, not bad, not bad, let's go."

Hiratsuka Shizuka nudged the two of them and pushed them out the door.

After hailing a taxi, the three of them got in together, but somehow it ended up with Himekoji sitting in the middle, Yukinoshita on the left and Hiratsuka Shizuka on the right.

The main branch of Tenka Ippin Ramen is located near Ichijoji, so Hiratsuka Shizuka directly instructed the taxi driver to go there.

However, upon entering the store, Yukinoshita was immediately taken aback by the so-called "delicious food".

Because the soup was covered with too much oil, even though Himekoji doesn't usually eat oily food, she had to have a bowl since she was here.

"There are also lighter options. You might prefer that type."

"Ah, no need. I'm full just looking at it..."

Like a cat borrowed from somewhere, Yukinoshita shook her head frantically, her heart pounding with anxiety.

"Really? Then I'll share some with you on the plate so you can try it."

Even though Hiratsuka-sensei made this proposal, she still looked hesitant, but eventually nodded.

After ordering and waiting a short while, the ramen was served.

Pick up the chopsticks and put your hands together in front of your chest.

"I'm starting to eat."

Yukinoshita was also about to eat the ramen that Hiratsuka Shizuka had given her, though her expression was extremely reluctant. However, seeing the encouraging looks in Himekoji and Hiratsuka Shizuka's eyes, Yukinoshita hesitated for a moment, but eventually made up her mind and picked up her chopsticks and spoon.

She gently brushed her long hair behind her ear, picked up the spoon, and fed it to her mouth with a "ham." Her throat moved with an unusually seductive gait as she swallowed the thick soup.

The broth is too thick; it's all an illusion, an illusion.

Ji Xiaolu desperately shook a certain thought out of her head.

"What a viciously delicious treat..."

After taking a bite, Yukinoshita commented as follows.

Now she was starting to regret not having a bowl, but Ji Xiaolu immediately ordered a small bowl for her, which fulfilled her little wish.

On the way back, Hiratsuka Shizuka talked about how being urged and being scolded are different, but judging from Yukinoshita's current situation, she still doesn't understand at all.

After getting out of the taxi, Hiratsuka Shizuka walked a few steps in the opposite direction, turned back and waved to them, saying, "I'm going to buy some alcohol now, so you guys go back first."

After saying that, she turned her head and walked directly towards the nearby convenience store.

Yukinoshita looked around and then at Himekoji, whose hands were hidden in her long sleeves, making her look rather comical.

Let's go back together.

"Um..."

She lowered her head and responded softly, walking to Himekoji's side. She followed his steps without wandering off at all, just like when she was walking in the womb in front of Kiyomizu-dera Temple. The only thing missing was that the two of them were not holding hands.

I kept walking and walking until I reached the hotel entrance.

"Do you want to go in first?"

"Ok?"

Yukinoshita looked up, puzzled.

Chapter 226 is really good, [Hiratsuka Shizuka] wore stockings today.

"After all, if others see me with you at this time, won't they say something about you?"

After Himekoji finished speaking, Yukinoshita's cheeks visibly flushed red.

She rushed inside, muttering things like, "What a blunder! Oh no!" But she seemed to have forgotten that she was still wearing Ji Xiaolu's overcoat. Just as Ji Xiaolu called out to her, "Hey, clothes!" someone sitting on a bench in the lobby turned their gaze to the two of them.

Hachiman is drinking a beverage.

Then, Hachiman quietly looked away, got up and left.

Yukinoshita and Himekoji both froze on the spot. She mechanically turned her head, slowly took off her trench coat, handed it to Himekoji, and then fled upstairs.

Ji Xiaolu stayed in the lobby for a while to warm up.

Just as Ji Xiaolu was about to go back to read a book and go to sleep, his phone suddenly vibrated.

But the vibration only lasted for a moment before going silent, which even made him wonder if he had touched the HOME button on the ○ Star phone and that was the cause of the vibration. After he took the phone out of his pocket, this doubt was immediately dispelled.

It was a missed call. Because the call was only connected for a brief moment, the screen lit up, but the vibration didn't continue.

The caller was Hiratsuka Shizuka. Himekoji set her caller ID picture to the image of her crying in the teachers' lounge that day, and changed her caller ID nickname to "Shizuka is cute".

So Ji Xiaolu dialed the number again, but Hiratsuka Shizuka quickly rejected the call. He dialed again, and it was rejected again. Just as Ji Xiaolu was getting annoyed that Hiratsuka Shizuka was acting like Yukinoshita, who had been kicked out of the house by her mother, Hiratsuka Shizuka sent him an email.

Hiratsuka Shizuka: I'm outside the door.

Outside the door? Outside the hotel, of course. Through the gleaming floor-to-ceiling windows in front of the hotel lobby, Ms. Hiratsuka, dressed in an office lady uniform, high heels, and stockings, was waving at Himekoji. At the same time, Himekoji noticed that she was carrying a large bag of bottles and jars in her right hand. Considering that she had just said, "I'm going to buy some alcohol," Himekoji figured that it was probably full of beer cans.

However, Hiratsuka Shizuka has a very low alcohol tolerance. With beer, she can barely drink two cans before she starts to stagger and her tongue becomes slurred. If she drinks three cans, she'll get drunk immediately. I really don't know who she's planning to drink with, carrying such a big bag of alcohol.

Putting away her phone, Ji Xiaolu walked to the door. The automatic door opened with a "hum," and the cold air from outside mercilessly poured into the warm hotel lobby, giving Ji Xiaolu the same cold feeling as Hiratsuka Shizuya in front of her. The position she and he were in was just like their current state of mind: one indifferent, the other warm.

Himekoji stepped out of the partition door and slowly approached Hiratsuka Shizuka.

"What are you doing wandering around outside at this hour? Aren't you cold?"