I, who advocate giving up, feel like a disqualified person

"Then having it recorded by us and reported to the parents is another story."

This story is really scary...

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"My knight..."

"Stop..."

As soon as I entered the classroom, Lingcan came up to me with a premeditated look on her face, but I quickly interrupted her.

"I haven't said anything yet."

"I won't listen. It's not a good thing anyway, right?"

"No," she said, shaking her head. "It's just a small thing for you."

"...What little thing?"

"Can you give me a ride on your mount during the marathon?"

"I can't do it!"

Let’s not talk about whether or not a mount is allowed for this run. It would be strange for a half-baked knight like me to have a mount... So you’re saying this because you hate running so much, right?

"No way? Where's your flaming warhorse?"

"Only a fool would ride something like that..."

A horse burning with flames...won't it burn itself?

"Could it be a dragon?"

"Are you still not awake..." I looked at her helplessly because I didn't want to complain anymore.

"Cooperate a little, useless knight..." She looked at me with a sad expression, "Let me live in this dream."

...It seems that she is more afraid of this exercise than I am... Although I felt sympathy for her, I still patted her shoulder.

"Dreams always end in awakening..."

....................

Compared to Lingcan, Rinquanchuan is much calmer.

She was still sitting upright reading a book, without any worried expression.

"..." He hesitated for a moment, then looked at her. "Hey, are you confident in this long-distance run?"

"..." She glanced at me and replied with disdain, "Of course I'm sure."

Ohhh... I didn't expect Rinsenkawa to be so motivated this time...

"I've already thought of a reason to ask for leave." He said with a hint of pride.

I don't want to complain at all...

You'll find that no excuses will work.

Wait...will Rinquanchuan be in the newspaper? Haha...

But it's troublesome anyway...

Lucky and touching

After some thought, I finally vaguely remembered that a few years ago when I was in junior high school, I was strolling outside and saw a group of high school students running.

Everyone's face had an expression of reluctance...mostly fatigue.

Now that I think about it...those guys were me a few days later, and this project seems to have quite a history.

Dragging your exhausted body back under the gaze of passersby is embarrassing just thinking about it, let alone experiencing it yourself...

Really gratifying.

I don't know why...but the school requires students to participate in this project. Hahaha, how strange...

Although there is a reward, it will definitely not belong to me.

Besides, the rewards are not very generous. At most, they are school supplies or something, and the bonuses are only given to the top ten students in the grade.

Although I thought about hiding when no one was paying attention at the beginning of the run...but when I heard that there would be people from the student union supervising me, I gave up the idea.

Will the student council under the leadership of Rin Hanekawa come to supervise... It's better to call it surveillance. Maybe it's really because of "birds of a feather flock together". Although the guys in the student council have different characteristics, they are as serious about their work as Rin Hanekawa.

Besides, the matter I promised Rin Hanekawa has not been resolved yet, and she will definitely ask me again during this run.

It's so annoying... The problem that can be solved by the two sisters talking nicely has to be made so complicated. Is it so difficult to have a nice talk with Rinquanchuan?

"Hey, I know your personality, so I came here specifically to tell you that I will not approve any sick leave."

Rin Hanekawa's voice came from the door, and she left before Rin Izumikawa and I could react.

Lin Quanchuan, who had a smug look on his face just now, suddenly became gloomy.

"..."

It seems quite difficult.

Chapter 2: Luck and Touching

"........"

The gaze from Rinsen River made me feel uncomfortable. It was as if it was saying, "Ask me how I feel."

Although I don't understand why I can understand this look, I still choose to ignore it... I don't care about your feelings. Anyway, the reasons you come up with are not even enough to issue a leave note.

"Oh, are you feeling sad?"

Because I inadvertently felt the murderous intent, I temporarily changed my mind and chose to surrender to the evil forces.

By the way, there was also a tone of concern.

"Wow, I'm not so poor that I deserve the pity of a bug like you."

I knew it... She's mad at her sister and she's venting her anger on me? Well, it seems like that's all I can do for her...

"I don't feel sorry for you..."

The rest of his words, "Because you deserve it," were interrupted by a sharp pain in the back of his foot.

"What's wrong..." They're not even allowed to refute me? This evil force is really too dark...

"Oh, it's nothing. Isn't it common sense to step on annoying bugs when you see them?"

This really leaves me speechless...

"Even bugs have the right to live, and there are good and bad bugs." I put forward my argument to her.

"Huh? Who asked you about the bugs?"

"..."

It was obviously you who started it.

"Then what do you want to ask? You're not going to ask me to help you think of a reason to ask for leave, are you?" I said, glancing at the clock on the wall...there were only a few minutes left before class started.

"Oh my, what a surprise! Your brain actually works so well sometimes. Is it a miracle? Or have you used up half your life's luck just trying to think normally?"

Shut up! Insult my personality, insult my intelligence, belittle me like a bug, but don't bring up luck! Are you going to let me open card packs? What if my luck is gone?

"It's impossible to use up all my luck..." He quickly said to himself, "And it's impossible to come up with a reason, because I can't think of one myself."

"Tsk, it's really useless."

It’s better to keep this kind of complaint quiet so I don’t hear it.

"It's not my fault, but Brother Nan also said that he will not approve any leave requests. It seems that I have no choice but to participate in the running." Of course, he was still very reluctant.

"...Well..."

Linquanchuan frowned as if thinking about something. Based on my intuition...it shouldn't be a good thing.

"Can I take a ride in a mobility scooter?" she suddenly looked up and asked me.

"That wouldn't be running..." At least respect the essence of this activity...

"Oh yeah..." She frowned again and thought about it.

Why do I always feel that she can't think of any good results...

"How about the two of us running together?"

She proposed this plan.

"If it's two girls or two boys running together, it's fine. But if it's just one boy and one girl, they'll probably be mistaken for a couple and get caught by the school and reprimanded."

Especially the terrible story told by Brother Nan.

"So... what if instead of running together, you carry me on your back?"

"That would be even worse..."

This is more likely to lead to misunderstandings than walking together...

"Is that so..." She seemed to want to say something else, but the bell for class had already rung.

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Come to think of it...I memorized Rinsen River a long time ago...

Could it be that she wants me to carry her on my back like this again?

"...Impossible..."

I was frightened by my own thoughts and couldn't help but look at Rinquanchuan.

Her eyes were fixed on the blackboard at this time, but her gaze was unfocused and it was unclear what she was thinking.

"..."

I forgot what I was thinking and turned my head to the window out of habit.

The sky is so blue...

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"Why is the sky blue?"

A very familiar question...I think someone asked me this before.

"Hey, Shaji, why do you say that?"

Yeah...why?

"I don't know..."

"I heard someone say...there's actually an ocean above the sky, and when there's too much water in the sky, it rains."

This explanation is so romantic...

"No way... If that were the case, wouldn't the rain be salty? But rainwater has no taste."

"...No way? Have you ever tasted it?"

The tone seems to be a bit disgusted...

"Just curious..."

"..."

"!"

I suddenly woke up from the dream and found that I had just fallen asleep with my chin hanging down. If my arms hadn't been unable to support me, I would probably have continued to dream...

So, what did I dream about?

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If there was anything good that happened today, it was probably that I was suddenly told that two classes of the same grade would now take physical education classes together.

And it just happens that I am in the same class with Class 6, which is simply awesome. Is it because I have been hit so hard recently that I am here to comfort you?