Crossover anime, Hachiman's childhood friend's growth diary

Hachiman sighed, "There's this guy named Ijichi who seems to have a good relationship with your sister, but I don't know anything else about him."

"Ijichi, is that right? Is it a boy or a girl? And what's its name?"

"How would I know? Go ask your sister yourself!" Hachiman pushed the overly excited little brat next to Nishimiya Shoko. "Is there anything else? If not, I'll be going now."

Yuzuru Nishimiya was completely immersed in the joy of her sister making a friend, while Shoko Nishimiya was held tightly by her neck and unable to move. In this happy atmosphere, Hikigaya left the park without saying a word.

...

The Hikigaya family.

Light footsteps came from the stairs.

"Komachi, aren't you asleep yet, it's so late?"

"Huh, how did Onii-chan know it was me?"

Komachi, who came down from the second floor to get a drink of water, looked at her older brother with some confusion.

"Hmph, we've known each other for over ten years, so recognizing footsteps is a piece of cake for me," Hachiman said proudly, holding a kettle in one hand.

"Sigh, Onii-chan is dreaming again. Komachi just turned seven."

Realizing he had let something slip, Hachiman quickly coughed and said, "Ahem, Onii-chan dreams about Komachi every day, so according to common sense, Komachi and I have known each other for fourteen years."

"That algorithm is disgusting, Onii-chan, please don't say that."

"Oh, Onii-chan will be sad."

Seriously, was Komachi already this eloquent at the age of seven? Onii-chan is so proud of her.

"You idiot, what are you thinking about? Stop it right now!"

"Can you please stop pronouncing words together?!"

"Pfft!"

Hearing Hachiman's sarcastic remark, Komachi covered her mouth and chuckled, "So what does Onii-chan do at night?"

"Make MAX coffee."

When Hachiman got home, he found that his allowance was only enough to buy one bottle of MAX coffee a day. In order to ensure that he could drink two bottles every day, he decided to make it himself.

"Coffee?" Komachi tilted her head, puzzled, and walked through the corridor to Hachiman's side. "Isn't that something adults drink? And it's very bitter. Komachi doesn't like drinking it at all."

"This is sweet, and don't just casually omit the words at the beginning!"

"Wouldn't it be better to just drink fruit juice?"

"Then it won't taste the same."

"Sigh, I don't understand at all. Komachi went upstairs to sleep. Onii-chan, you should go and rest too."

Komachi slowly went upstairs, while Hachiman sped up, poured honey syrup into the espresso, stirred it for a while, and finally took a small sip.

"It seems like we failed..."

...

Early in the morning, Hikigaya walked with Komachi along the path to school through streets lined with cherry blossoms.

He remembered that the cherry blossoms fell at a speed of five centimeters per second, because he would sneeze about every five seconds.

"Ayawn!"

Hachiman rubbed his slightly red nose.

He had contracted chronic rhinitis these past few days, and coincidentally, it was cherry blossom season. Hachiman, who was already extremely sensitive to pollen, naturally became the snotty weirdo in everyone's eyes.

Komachi, who was going to school with him, held Hachiman's hand and asked with concern, "Onii-chan, is your rhinitis still not better?"

"I'm sorry to have worried Komachi. I should be better soon."

Wearing a mask, he quickened his pace as he passed through the area filled with cherry blossom trees.

A week has passed since the start of the semester, and apart from Nijika Ichichi and Shoko Nishimiya occasionally visiting him, the other classmates seem to have forgotten that there is a guy named Hikigaya in the class.

He became the invisible person in the class as he wished.

Hachiman felt very satisfied with this and hoped to spend the next few years in this way, but he soon noticed that the atmosphere in the class seemed to have become a little subtle.

Hachiman clearly understood the reason behind it.

The first class in the morning is music class. All third-grade classes will participate in the school's choir competition, and the winning students will receive a mystery prize.

Encouraged by the prizes and the sense of collective honor, everyone took the competition very seriously.

Hachiman wasn't interested in winning or losing the competition, and even considered skipping the class. However, skipping class during such a group activity would be too obvious, so he had no choice but to follow the group to the music room.

When it came time to assign seats, Hikigaya, who had little presence, was unsurprisingly placed in the second row.

Unfortunately, this choir of only twenty people was disrupted by the fact that if even one or two people were silent or sang randomly, it would throw off the rhythm for everyone. So Hachiman had to give up the idea of ​​lip-syncing and just sing along honestly.

Directly in front of him was Ijichi Nijika, and to Nijika's left was Nishimiya Shoko.

During singing practice, Hikigaya's voice, which barely kept up with the tune, was drowned out by the crowd's singing, and he simply went with the flow.

It wasn't until a particularly abrupt sound rang out in the classroom that Hachiman gradually came to his senses.

"Xigong, um, you sang too early."

Class monitor Kawai Miki gently patted Nishimiya Shoko's shoulder; the discordant cry from earlier had come from her.

Hikigaya observed his surroundings; everyone's expressions were somewhat speechless. It seemed that this wasn't the first time Nishimiya Shoko had made a mistake.

"It's okay, let's try again."

The music teacher tapped a piano key, hoping to bring the students' attention back to the choir.

014 The crisis has been temporarily resolved.

The practice begins again.

But before everyone could get into the zone, Nishimiya Shoko made another mistake.

This time, the performance was too late.

In fact, in order to keep up with the pace of the group, Nishimiya Shoko would observe whether everyone opened their mouths before speaking herself.

Because she was a little nervous, Nishimiya Shoko didn't react at the beginning and spoke a beat late, naturally making her the most conspicuous person among them.

"Yeah, sorry."

Nishimiya Shoko apologized sincerely.

Mr. Kita shook his head with a wry smile, then comforted everyone to try again. Even so, the repeated interruptions and failures still made the atmosphere in the class restless.

Hikigaya, sitting in the second row, had a clear view of everyone's reactions. To put it simply, it was unreasonable to let a child with hearing impairment participate in a normal choir competition.

Clearly, this arrangement wasn't aimed at winning rankings, but rather at cultivating vague notions like a sense of group honor and teamwork.

However, Hachiman thought this idea was rather arrogant.

"We're doomed. With Nishimiya in our team, we have no chance of getting a ranking in the competition."

"Maybe I should just forfeit. I don't want to embarrass myself on stage."

During his break, he heard whispers around him.

Nishimiya Shoko felt extremely guilty, and this affected everyone around her, making them all dejected. At that moment, someone quietly suggested that Nishimiya Shoko should not make a sound but only lip-sync.

From an efficiency standpoint, this is indeed a good solution. However, after this incident, Nishimiya Shoko will probably only drift further and further away from the group, and slowly become an outsider in the class.

Hikigaya had no intention of helping Nishimiya Shoko; he simply felt that two tigers cannot share one mountain, and that one marginal person in the class was enough.

Therefore, he approached Hongxia in the first row: "How about you pull Nishimiya a little closer to the start?"

"Ok?"

Nijika was probably caught off guard by Hikigaya's sudden conversation and froze on the spot.

"Hachiman, will this work?"

"I don't know, someone just told me to say that to you."

"Okay, I'll go tell Shoko-chan."

As the next chorus began, Nijika listened intently to the piano's rhythm, and just as she noticed Nishimiya Shoko was about to start singing, she tugged at her sleeve.

"The spring breeze blows across the earth~"

Catch up!

Nijika's heart was pounding with excitement. She turned to look at Hachiman, who pretended not to see her and kept looking straight ahead.

Hey, don't look over here, you're super conspicuous!

At that moment, the piano music stopped, and Ms. Kita turned to the side and gently reminded him, "Ijichi-kun, don't look around when you're singing."

"Oh, teacher, I'm so sorry!"

Hachiman sighed silently; elementary school students were really difficult to deal with.

Thanks to Nijika's efforts, the first choral training session was successfully completed. This child has a great sense of rhythm and can always choose the right moment to lead Nishimiya Shoko to sing.

As for the issue of singing off-key, there are many people who are tone-deaf. As long as the volume is properly controlled, Nishimiya Shoko's problem is not so prominent for the time being.

The atmosphere in the class returned to normal after music class, but Hikigaya, who was in the last row, could clearly feel that a few people would intentionally or unintentionally look at Nishimiya Shoko's position.

He felt like he had seen this kind of scene targeting a specific person somewhere before.

Unaware of this at all, Nishimiya Shoko was walking towards the class monitor's seat with her notebook in hand. She said in a mumbled voice, "Kawai-kun, could you please write a question for me?"

Class monitor Kawai paused for a moment. Actually, she hadn't finished her own homework yet, and a hint of embarrassment and reluctance flashed across her face: "Sure, but could you wait until I finish my homework first?"

"Yes, thank you."

...

After school, Hikigaya went to the Literature Club as agreed.

In the activity room, Ichinose Motoyo was staring blankly at her homework. Upon hearing footsteps outside the door, she immediately straightened her posture and tidied her perfectly styled brown hair.

"excuse me."

"Good afternoon, Hachiman Hikigaya."

After entering the activity room, Hachiman moved a chair and began reading without any expression.

It's strange, really. Why does my chair keep respawning next to Su Shi every day? Did he put two chairs together to sleep after I went back?

If that's the case, why not just go outside and bring in a few more chairs?

Su Shi secretly glanced at Hachiman, opened her mouth, then lowered her head, looking uneasy.

Hikigaya, who had been secretly observing everything, sighed again: "Ichinose-san, did anything happen in the class today?"

"Oh, no." Su Shi smiled faintly. "But the advisor came over this afternoon and told me that the books we ordered seem to have arrived at the school warehouse."

Although Su Shi had promised from the beginning to hand over all the club's funds to him, he was not a dictator after all, so he still discussed the use of the activity funds with Su Shi.

A portion of that money was used to buy new books.

"The book has arrived?"

Hikigaya instinctively tried to get up.

"Okay, I'll go pick it up later. Please wait in the activity room for a moment, Hikigaya-kun."

"I'll go, there's not much stuff anyway."

It wasn't that Hikigaya was hardworking; he just wanted to experience the thrill of unpacking books. You know, the satisfaction of peeling back the cover of a new book is something you can hardly experience anywhere else.

"Sigh...then I'll leave it to Hachiman-kun."

The shy girl didn't express her desire to accompany him. She watched Hachiman leave the activity room with longing eyes, then slumped dejectedly onto the table.

The Literature Club had an extra member, but the result was no different from when she was alone.

Suze wasn't interested in reading, but Hikigaya was a bookworm. After greeting everyone in the activity room, he would silently start reading.

Whenever she tried to start a conversation, Hachiman would make up various excuses to avoid it.

The precocious girl had long realized that Hachiman didn't like to communicate with people, and from that perspective, she was the one who was hindering Hachiman's normal life.

As expected, wouldn't it be better to let Hachiman leave the club?