If you can't learn, then just fall in love

"Yuzu-kun, do you have a lot of homework? Even when your senior asked you out, you still remember to study..." Kasumigaoka Utaha sat opposite Hanyu with a complicated expression. She had been there for nearly a minute, but he didn't notice.

Hanyu looked up and put his pen aside. "I just wanted to see how long Kasumigaoka-senpai would wait to call me before pretending not to see it."

"Senior, I can only last for one minute. Are you disappointed, Yuzu-kun?" Kasumigaoka took a sip of hot cocoa and looked at Hanyu with her wine-red eyes. "Or are girls with less stamina more likely to interest Yuzu-kun?"

Hanyu opened his mouth and gave up the idea of ​​continuing this conversation with Kasumigaoka-senpai. If Minami Kotori next to him understood, he would be doomed.

"Master, please call me if you need anything." The apprentice maid bowed and saw Yuzuru's concerns and left quietly, but the mischievous look in her eyes when she left made Yuzuru feel a little uncomfortable.

Kasumigaoka propped up her face and flipped through the book that Hanyu had just read. She found that it was not something obscure and difficult to understand, but just some very basic knowledge. "You did it for someone else, right?"

"Ah."

“Let’s not talk about this anymore,” Kasumigaoka Utaha put the book back and took out her notebook and pushed it in front of Hanyu. “This is my new work and game plan. Take a look. The male protagonist~”

"Can't you be nicer to your notebook..." Hanyu was speechless at Kasumigaoka-senpai's special gentleness. She returned the book gently one second, and then pushed the computer towards her without a care in the next second. "I should have let your notebook fall to the ground that day."

Being seen through, Kasumigaoka blushed and pretended not to hear anything while drinking her cocoa. In fact, she had been using the computer that Hanyu had helped her catch that day in her bedroom carefully.

Hanyu looked at his senior's new work "Innocent Love 100 Pa" carefully. "Did the senior choose a campus romance comedy this time?"

"Well... the stomach medicine for the previous book has been distributed. Now I prefer silly and sweet girls." When saying this, Kasumigaoka looked out the window, as if she didn't dare to look directly into Hanyu's eyes.

Hanyu waved his hand helplessly in front of her eyes, "It's no use pretending not to know me... I say, your words are obviously written to please someone, right?"

"Um…"

"It follows the previous game, with a heart-wrenching love story as the main plot, which is good, but you don't have to use yourself as the prototype when arranging the character plot." Hanyu curled his lips, "And it also laid so many foreshadowings to torture the protagonist."

Kasumigaoka looked at Hanyu in surprise, "You figured it out, Aozora-kun?"

"So you can call the right name? Never mind... the foreshadowing can be seen from these few chapters." These are just guesses, but judging from Kasumigaoka-senpai's expression, he is not wrong. "I still think the same as before. The fate of the characters should not be determined by us, the authors or the readers."

"The fate of the characters should be driven by the plot. They will not appear or leave because of the readers' preferences or the author's preference. Everyone has their own story. They exist for the plot, and the plot becomes exciting because of the characters." Hanyu sighed softly, "Senior, your new work is very interesting and excellent. This kind of campus love comedy has a great market. If you continue to write, it will definitely be more popular than your previous work."

"But there is a flaw, right?" Kasumigaoka Utaha licked her lips. She seemed to be becoming more and more interested in the junior in front of her.

Looking at the senior's expression, Hanyu always felt like a slave being auctioned off, accidentally being favored by a rich lady, "…By the way, senior, you just swallowed your lipstick."

Kasumigaoka Utaha's expression froze and she glared at Hanyu unhappily. He would do this every time his favorability towards him increased. It was probably the so-called self-defense method.

"The flaw is that if you follow other people's writing, you will one day lose control of the plot, and even end up like the last volume of the previous book." Hanyu looked at the senior apologetically, "I'm sorry."

Kasumigaoka Utaha looked at Hanyu and couldn't help but laugh, "What's there to be sorry about? You've done a great job, Yuzu-kun."

"That's Hanyu..." Hanyu held his forehead helplessly.

"At first, it was editor Machida who asked me to add some funny and cute elements, saying that readers reported that the last volume of "Love Metronome" was well received."

However, the highly acclaimed fifth volume was actually revised twice by Kasumigaoka. Frustrated by her confession, she could not write a love story as pure as snowflakes, so she had to imitate Hanyu's last volume and added some other elements to dilute the sadness of the bad ending. In a way, this was a compromise, as only Hanyu had read what she really wanted to write.

"Then I realized that if I continued writing like this, maybe someone would want to read this story," Kasumigaoka glanced at Hanyu vaguely, but found that he was also looking at her and did not avoid her. "Tsk... I tried to keep writing. After all, this kind of story is very similar to my current situation."

"If I continue to write this kind of story, the romantic comedy will eventually collapse into a battle royale, and the characters I created will be eliminated for various reasons. In the end, it will become a stomach medicine novel with the appearance of a light comedy. Although it is very popular, it is not what I want to write."

Hanyu blinked and gently put down the coffee cup. "Senior, you know it very well... May I ask, what kind of story do you want to write?"

"Let me think about it..." Kasumigaoka Utaha tapped the table and fell into deep thought. Hanyu didn't bother her and looked at another work of her senior, which was the game project.

Just like that, one of them was looking at the screen, and the other was looking out the window, with only the sound of keyboard tapping and breathing lingering in their ears.

"I want to write something different." Seeing Hanyu being frightened by her sudden voice, Kasumigaoka smiled adorably. "That story may not be popular, but it is interesting enough to show what I yearn for, the purest and most perfect love between youth and girls."

Hanyu was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly and shook his head, "I was originally planning to give up continuing to be Kasumi Shiko's illustrator, but after hearing what you said, I had no choice but to join."

Kasumigaoka Utaha was overjoyed and moved closer to Hanyu. When the boy's handsome face was so close to her, she suddenly realized that she had lost her composure and sat back down embarrassedly. "I thought you wouldn't agree."

"I think so too, but I found the original intention of my creation from the description of my senior." Hanyu pointed to the game plan, "There is also this game, add me in."

Chapter 16 He Changed the Moonlight

“Yuzu-kun, you are also following someone’s wishes, right?” Kasumigaoka Utaha restrained her happy expression and looked at Hanyu seriously, “I don’t think that just my words can make you regain your passion for creation.”

"In other words, I don't think I can do what Eriri can't do."

Hanyu sighed, "Eri even told you that I have no passion for creation. You two have a really good relationship."

"She's done more than that for you, Yuzu-kun."

Kasumigaoka Utaha was shaking her legs in annoyance. She didn't know why she spoke for that stupid tsundere, but she would never accept such a promise from Hanyu no matter what.

"I agreed for other reasons, but not for the reasons you said." Hanyu looked out the window and suddenly laughed, "But you also said that I only need to be your leading man, and the script and illustrations will be handled by the two of you. I just need to do some casual work, right?"

“That’s true…” Kasumigaoka looked at Hanyu suspiciously, “So do you really have the creative passion you mentioned?”

“I think I have the motivation to draw illustrations, but I still lack interest in other things.” Hanyu thought about it and told the truth. “It’s fun to slack off for a while, and it’s fun to slack off all the time.”

Kasumigaoka Utaha held her forehead helplessly. No wonder even Eriri couldn't get Hanyu to come back to create. It turned out that this guy was broken.

"Then I'll tell Eriri that you agreed to join the group, okay?" Kasumigaoka asked briefly as she was about to leave, "Although I think you've already told her."

Hanyu nodded. He had just informed Eriri about this matter. After all, the club leader was still the stupid tsundere on the surface. "Anyway, let's work hard together in the future, Kasumigaoka-senpai."

Kasumigaoka thought, Eriri and I are working hard, and you're just slacking off on the sidelines. Is that what we call working together? "If you keep acting like this, we'll hit a bottleneck and start with you first."

Seeing Hanyu's expression stiffen, Kasumigaoka smiled and said, "Goodbye, Yuzu-kun."

After waving to Minami Kotori who was working, Hanyu turned and left. He couldn't wait to go home to play with his cat and play games. He didn't have many leisure days left, so he had to seize the time.

"Ah, Xiao Qingkong."

Hearing the familiar voice, Hanyu turned around and saw Takemoto waving at him happily. He checked the time and saw that the classical music club activities were almost over.

"I thought Xiao Qingkong had already arrived home," Wu Yuan stared at Hanyu with bright eyes, with a smile on his face. "Since Xiao Qingkong left the Classical Club, we haven't been home together like this for a long time. I miss it a little."

Hanyu nodded softly, not knowing what to say. Wu Yuan liked the classical club as much as Xiaohui, and she must have been very unhappy when she learned that he had quit.

"I'm telling you, Kirisu-sensei came to the Classics Club today and said he would be a tutor to help us with our studies, but Fumino-chan and Rizu-chan seemed a little scared of Kirisu-sensei."

That stupid teacher, Hanyu just told her about this yesterday, and she ran over today. She was really too serious. No wonder she had such heavy bags under her eyes when I saw her this morning.

"If Kirisu-sensei comes over, we won't have to worry about your studies," Hanyu smiled, "even Junka, the dumbest one, can learn English well."

"I'm not stupid. Teacher Kirisu praised me for being very hardworking." Wu Yuan Runxiang thought of the overly gentle teacher Kirisu just now, and her eyes were full of admiration. "I didn't expect that the teacher who looked so cold was actually a gentle and mature big sister. It's a pity that you didn't see it, Xiao Qingkong."

The corners of Hanyu's mouth twitched. He wondered if that stupid teacher had eaten some alcoholic chocolate again. "Did Fumino buy some weird snacks again today?"

Wu Yuan thought for a moment, "Strange snacks? I didn't see any, but the alcoholic chocolate was super delicious, although there was a faint smell of alcohol in the club room after eating it."

Hanyu held his forehead with his hand. The smell of alcohol alone would probably make Kirisu Madoka drunk. However, according to Takemoto's description, it shouldn't be that serious. "You're really causing me trouble, stupid Madoka."

"Eh? Xiao Qingkong, what did you say?" Wu Yuan came closer curiously, wanting to hear Hanyu's mumblings, "Ah, sorry, I was too close."

Hanyu turned his head away with a slightly red face, "It's okay..."

After what happened just now, Wu Yuan lowered her head, not knowing what she was thinking, and almost bumped into the electric pole in front of her. Fortunately, Hanyu grabbed her sleeve.

"I didn't go home with Xiaohui today. Is there something wrong?" Feeling embarrassed, Hanyu had to find a random topic.

Wu Yuan seemed to be still fantasizing about something, and it took him a while to react, "Ah! I was going to buy a book, but I was so excited to see you, Xiao Qingkong, that I completely forgot about it."

Hanyu had a clearer understanding of Takemoto's cuteness. "It's not too late to go back now. Let's go together. I just happen to have a book I want to buy."

"No need. If I go back, I will have to trouble you, Xiao Qingkong..." Wu Yuan looked away disappointedly, "Xiao Qingkong left because he was afraid of trouble..."

After a pause, Hanyu smiled and touched Wu Yuan's head. "No, I want to buy books too. It would be my honor if Runxiang could accompany me."

Seeing that Wu Yuan was still a little hesitant, Hanyu smiled and said, "Then I can only go alone. It's always boring without anyone to accompany me."

After walking a few steps forward, Runxiang followed as expected, "Then... let's go together. If Xiao Qingkong said he wanted to buy a book just to comfort me, I would be angry."

Hanyu smiled, "Yeah, I understand."

After finding the book he wanted, Hanyu went back to find Takemoto, but saw the girl looking worried.

"Ah, Xiao Qingkong, you came just in time. I was thinking about which English exercise book to buy." Wu Yuan pulled Hanyu and they squatted down. "I want to choose one of these two, but I don't know which one is better."

Handing the book in his hand to Wu Yuan, Hanyu carefully helped Wu Yuan choose a better one.

Because he was squatting, Takemoto, who was shorter than Hanyu, looked straight at Hanyu's serious face and couldn't help blushing. He had to focus on the book Hanyu bought, "Spring Snow?"

"Well, it's a work with a Taisho romantic color, and it's also one of Mishima Yukio's representative works." Hanyu frowned and heard Takemoto muttering, "Recently I suddenly wanted to learn more about this kind of work, so I came here to buy it."

"Taisho Romance? Is it another name for depression?" Thinking of the novel that Hanyu once recommended to her, Takemoto Junxiang couldn't help but doubt the plot of this book.

The corner of his mouth twitched. Hanyu felt that his image in Takemoto's mind had become very strange. "Taisho Romance is a concept proposed by Natsume Soseki to represent the thoughts and atmosphere of that era. Due to the influence of European romanticism, the Taisho period, when Eastern and Western cultures converged, seemed somewhat special."

"Natsume Soseki?" Wu Yuan tilted his head when he heard a new term. "He sounds like a very powerful person."

Hanyu slapped the selected exercise book on Wu Yuan's head and sighed helplessly, "It's quite amazing. Because of him, we now have no good way to admire the beauty of the moonlight."

Holding his head in confusion, Wu Yuan had no idea how Natsume Soseki was related to the moon.

On the way home, Wu Yuan Runxiang followed Hanyu happily, stepping on his shadow. Suddenly, she looked up and saw a full moon. The bright moonlight made her exclaim, "Xiao Qingkong, look, the moonlight tonight is so beautiful."

"It's very beautiful, but Runxiang, you'd better not say such things casually."

Hanyu's expression was a little strange, which made Wu Yuan wonder if she had said something wrong. After returning home, she typed the two keywords "Natsume Soseki" and "Tsukishiro" on the computer, humming a little tune as she looked at the search results word by word.

"Let me see..." Wu Yuan Runxiang's face became redder and redder. She threw down the mouse and buried her face in the pillow. "I'm so embarrassed. I actually said that to Xiao Qingkong."

"I just wanted to say that the moonlight is so beautiful. I'm not mentally prepared to say I love you."

Chapter 17 I Just Watch and Don't Say Anything

"What's wrong? Why are you calling me so late?" Yuzuru leaned against the balcony railing, feeling the evening breeze. "I didn't tell Aunt Nan about that. Don't worry."

"That's not what I wanted to say, Hanyu-niang." Minami Kotori's clear and sweet voice was mixed in with the cool evening breeze. "I have something I want to discuss with you, because Hanyu-niang is probably the only person I know who can help me."

Hanyu changed his posture and became a little more serious. "Well, go ahead and talk. I'm listening."

Minami Kotori was silent for a while, probably thinking about how to express what she wanted to say completely. Hanyu wondered if this kid had a crush on a girl, was it the stupid Honoka or the heroic Umi?

"It's like this. In order to prevent Otonogizaka from closing down, Guoguo decided to form a school idol group."

"Oh wow." Hanyu was a little surprised. He thought that idiot Kosaka was just on a whim, but he didn't expect him to actually take action. "Are you joining too?"

"Well, I promised Guoguo, and I also asked Xiaohai to come along."

Hanyu couldn't help but imagine what the sea, land and air trio would look like in their performance costumes. "That's great. After all, you're all pretty cute."

After saying this, Hanyu was stunned for a moment. He remembered that Minami Kotori was a girl with little self-confidence. She was depressed for a long time because of a knee injury when she was a child.

"Isn't it cute..." Minami Kotori's whisper made Hanyu frown. "That's not important. I came to Hanyu-san because I want you to write a song for us."

"Hello, the number you dialed is unavailable, please do not dial again."

“…” Minami Kotori was choked by Hanyu and suddenly didn’t know what to say, “Stop it, Hanyu. You’re the only one I know who understands this kind of thing. After thinking it over, I can only ask you for help.”

Hanyu plucked the wind chimes that were shaking non-stop, and the crisp sound traveled far away with the wind and reached the ears of Minami Kotori on the other end of the phone.

"How about this, Kotori, after school tomorrow afternoon, you and Honoka and the others go to the music classroom. The people you need are there." In the spirit of "a friend's death is better than my own", Hanyu decisively sold out Maki. Just kidding, he didn't have much time to write songs for JK campus idols right now.

Minami Kotori asked in confusion, but Hanyu just responded with "You'll know when you go and see", which made the girl puff up her face in dissatisfaction, "Hanyu, if you lie to me, I will tell my aunt that you bullied me."

"Haha... How dare I? I will never bully a maid no matter what." Thinking of his own mother's doting on other people's children, Hanyu could only show off his power with words and threaten Minami Kotori with what he saw this afternoon, "Right, Minalinsky~"

"Brother Hanyu not only bullied me, but also lied to me. He just said he wouldn't tell anyone, but now he's using this to threaten me." Even the gentle Minami Kotori felt helpless about threatening her brother, "You're committing an even greater crime."

After much persuasion, Hanyu finally managed to coax Minami Kotori into silence. He sighed, turned off his phone, and leaned on the railing to look at the night sky. Rengar walked up to Hanyu's back with a cat-like gait and rubbed his leg. The boy understood and held the cat in his arms.

"Do you want to catch this wind chime?" Yuzuru smiled, took the wind chime down and shook it in front of his master. The master picked up the wind chime and walked into the house. Yuzuru followed behind with confusion and saw Rengar put the wind chime in front of the pudding and egg tart.

The two little guys stared at the wind chime with their big eyes, wondering what it was. From time to time, they fiddled with it with their little paws, but it didn't make the usual clear sound.

"If you guys mess up, Nino will give me trouble."

This wind chime was a birthday present from Nino to him. Although when she gave it to him she said, "It's just a little gadget that should be more than enough for your birthday present," judging from how delicate it is, it must have been made by her own hands.

The two little guys seemed to understand what Hanyu said. They didn't dare to stretch out their claws to touch it. They just watched it cautiously.

Seeing them like this, Hanyu smiled, took a photo and sent it to Nino, "The two masters want to play with the wind chimes, do you allow it, Miss?"

Nino didn't reply to the message, and when Hanyu was wondering, the doorbell rang.

"Here, let them play with this. That's my birthday present for you. If it breaks, you can try it for me." Nino, who was wearing home clothes, threw a wind chime to Hanyu. It looked almost exactly like his. "Don't just stand there like an idiot. Go change it quickly."

Nino put her hand between Hanyu and Fengling, as if there was something she didn't want Hanyu to find out, but Fengling was in Hanyu's hand, and Nino couldn't keep it from him, so she had to snatch it back, "I'll take it to the egg tart pudding myself."

Hanyu had no choice but to move aside to let Nino in. Miss Nino took out the slippers she wore last time from the shoe cabinet as if nothing had happened, and walked in casually like a hostess, but when she noticed Hanyu's gaze, her earlobes turned an alluring pink.

"Pudding, Egg Tart, you guys play with this. It doesn't matter if you break it." Her voice became very gentle. Nino touched the heads of the two little guys and handed the wind chime to them with a smile. "This is something very important to me. I'm going to take it away."

Carefully taking away the wind chime, Nino pretended to be casual and checked the integrity of the wind chime, "Although I also like pudding and egg tarts, it would be bad if it was damaged." It looked like it had been carefully preserved. Nino put the wind chime in her arms and smiled happily.

Seeing Hanyu coming over after making tea, Nino threw the wind chime to him unhappily, "It's my birthday present for you after all, so take it seriously, okay?"

"I'm serious, okay? It's you who's tossing it around." Hanyu grabbed the wind chime with one hand, and the other hand holding the hot tea was inevitably scalded by the spilled tea.