I won't be a loser.

Nino, who was staring at the bookstore with Ichika, was now feeling very sleepy. She stood in the corner gloomily, looking at the bookstore. She slowly took out her mobile phone from her pocket and looked at the time on it. She had been squatting here for such a long time, she might as well go home and sleep.

"Can't we just leave one person here to keep watch, and the others go wait somewhere else? There's no point in just standing here like this."

May's patience was wearing out, and she had no interest in waiting any longer. Even lying on the sofa at home, covering her face with a magazine and staring blankly, would be much better than standing here doing nothing.

At this moment, Yotsuba was hugging the telephone pole with a numb look on her face. Miku was holding a book, completely immersed in the world of the book, and did not pay any attention to her sisters at all.

Even Ichika herself doubted whether Xianren had discovered them and had actually left through the back door of the bookstore a long time ago, leaving them standing here in a daze, wasting time?

"Go look inside the bookstore alone?"

"Who would be better to go?"

"If Yihua leaves, wouldn't that be too obvious?"

"Nino is going?"

"I don't want to. If they happen to see me, how am I going to explain it?"

"May?"

"You go ahead, I won't go."

Yotsuba didn't look like someone who would go to a bookstore at all. The three of them only looked at Yotsuba for a moment, and then they looked at Miku who was standing aside reading a book.

Among the sisters, it seems that Miku is the only one who can read. She is reading a book at the moment. If Miku goes to the bookstore, it doesn't feel out of place...

"I dont go."

Miku, who was looking at the book, slowly raised her head, met the gazes of the others, and expressed her refusal.

"Just going in to take a look, it's okay."

"If people aren't in the bookstore, we'll just go back."

"No."

Faced with her sisters' persuasion, Miku remained indifferent.

When Nino was about to persuade Ichika to go in by herself, a familiar figure suddenly walked out of the door of the bookstore, causing the five people to immediately fall silent and hide in the corner, watching the familiar figure walking out of the bookstore and the unfamiliar girl next to him.

"That girl, was she the one who went in later?"

"Do the two know each other?"

Kento, who was unaware that he was being watched, read many books with Nishimiya Shoko in the bookstore. After spending a lot of time selecting books that both of them liked, Kento and Nishimiya Shoko were ready to say goodbye.

"The direction I go home is different from yours, so we have to separate here."

"Thank you for taking so long to help me choose."

"I'm not in a rush. It's rare to meet someone who likes reading, so I can't help myself. I'm glad you don't mind."

"I like the books selected by the wise man very much."

"As long as you like it, then...right."

Remembering something, Xianren took out a small bag of cookies from his schoolbag and handed it to the girl.

"These are the cookies I baked in Home Economics class today. If you don't mind, please accept them as my apology."

cookies.

Nakano Ichika, who was hiding in the corner and watching, felt her whole body suddenly become energetic when she saw Xianren take out the cookies from his schoolbag. She stared at Xianren with her eyes and handed the cookies to the girl.

Thinking of what Kento had said to her before, about giving it to her girlfriend, Nakano Ichika couldn't help but squint her eyes.

"That girl is a bit strange. She never spoke a word and only communicated with Miyamizu-kun through that notebook..."

Yotsuba, who was watching the scene in front of the bookstore, suddenly noticed some details. Looking at the strange girl and the wise man standing opposite the girl, she suddenly felt deeply confused and didn't understand why the girl didn't speak.

When the words fell, the other four people also noticed this detail, and they all turned their eyes to the girl, staring at her closely.

But because of her long hair and the distance, no one could see the hearing aid on her ear. I just wondered in my heart whether the girl could not speak.

"That girl, could it be that...she can't speak?"

"You can't make any sound, so you're relying on a notebook to communicate with Miyamizu-kun?"

Nakano Ichika watched Kento hand the cookies to the girl. The girl was a little hesitant, as it seemed that she and Kento did not have a very close relationship. But after hesitating for a moment, she still accepted the cookies given by Kento, wrote something on her notes, and showed it to Kento.

He smiled at the girl, and then seemed to say something. Then he said goodbye to the girl and turned to walk away.

The five people squatting in the corner watched the girl and Xianren separate, and for a moment they didn't know which one to follow.

"Should we go ask that girl about her relationship with Miyamizu-kun?"

Nino made a suggestion. At this moment, everyone was very curious and concerned about the girl's identity. They also had a certain curiosity about the girl's situation and wanted to know why the girl didn't speak.

But everyone felt that it would be inappropriate for them to go up and ask directly. After a moment of silence, they all looked at each other and gave up the idea of following the girl.

When I wanted to catch up with the wise man, he was nowhere to be seen.

"I've spent a long time here. I'm no longer interested. I need to go home and rest. If you're interested, you can continue."

May, who was squatting, stood up. She no longer had any interest in following the man any further. She felt that doing this was a bit boring without considering the moral issues. It was not as interesting as reading those magazines at home.

The same thing happened to Miku. She closed the book in her hand and walked silently towards home, too lazy to say anything.

Yotsuba, the more lively of the five sisters, looked dying at the moment. She glanced at Nino and Ichika, laughed, and followed Miku's footsteps to go home. May looked at Yotsuba and left directly.

"They all went back, what about you?"

"Forget it, let's stop here today. I'm going back too."

After noting the girl's appearance, Nakano Ichika had no interest in following him. She didn't know where Xianren would go next. If she went somewhere else and spent some time without meeting the girl she wanted to see, wouldn't that be a complete waste of time?

Even if she really has plenty of time, she has sisters by her side and cannot be unconditionally willful.

"Come on, go home."

Seeing Ichika's eyes full of reluctance but enduring it, Nakano Nino remained silent and walked quietly with it towards home...

Kento, who had no idea that he was being followed all the way, went straight back to his apartment after parting with Nishimiya Shoko. He casually placed the new books he had bought on his desk, took off his school uniform as usual, put on his casual clothes, poured a cup of tea, sat at the desk, and continued writing.

A pen, a cup of tea, a stack of manuscripts...

The vision in front of him dimmed, he put down the pen in his hand, went back to the living room and turned on the light.

Glancing at the time, he saw that it was almost time for dinner. He silently walked to his schoolbag and took out the two small bags of cookies left in it.

He stuffed the money into his pocket and left his apartment, closing and locking the door and walking towards Qingpu's house.

"Cookies?"

Qing Pu Mai, who was preparing dinner, was a little surprised when she saw the small bag that Xianren placed in the living room and the biscuits inside. She was already in the living room, so she opened the package, picked up a small piece of cookie, and put it in her mouth.

"Today's home economics lesson is about baking cookies."

"Didn't you share it with your classmates?"

"Well... I divided some of it, and these are the ones left."

Setsuna pursed his lips, swallowed the cookie, drank a large glass of water, and looked at the wise man beside him.

She could tell that Xianren didn't seem to like cookies very much, but even so, the cookies he made tasted almost the same as those sold in stores, as if he knew everything, which always surprised her.

"Then I'll try it later."

Qingpu Mai is still preparing dinner and doesn't have much time. Looking at the calm expression on Setsuna's face, it looks like the food should taste good.

Looking at Qingpu Mai who was preparing dinner, and then looking at the bag that had been opened by Setsuna, Xianren picked up one of the cookies and walked towards Qingpu Mai.

Setsuna, who was originally sitting leisurely on the sofa, narrowed his eyes slightly as he watched Xianren's actions. As he watched Xianren gradually walk to his mother and feed the cookies to Qingpu Mai's mouth personally, Setsuna's eyes narrowed into slits, like a kitten staring at a mouse.

Just as Xianren was about to ask what Qing Pu Mai tasted like, he also noticed that there seemed to be a cold gaze staring at him from behind. He turned back to look at Setsuna sitting in the living room, and then glanced at the smiling Qing Pu Mai...

Xianren, who usually returned to his apartment between eight and nine o'clock, left Qingpu's house at eleven o'clock tonight, with unsteady steps and a somewhat frivolous look.

The gift I gave to Setsuna yesterday, those stockings and socks, Xianren himself didn't expect to come in handy today...

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Cherry Blossom Season: 130. What are you thinking about in your little head?

"Miyamizu-kun."

"Miyamizu-kun, wake up, Miyamizu-kun?"

The voice rang softly in his ears, and feeling the push from his shoulder, the wise man slowly opened his sleepy eyes and looked at the person beside him who had woken him up from his dream.

His sleepy eyes gradually opened, and the other person's figure gradually became clearer from blurry, and the surrounding environment also became clearer bit by bit. After he saw the person next to him clearly, an expression of surprise appeared on his face.

Looking at the other people in the classroom, he almost understood what had happened. He blinked and looked at Kiryu Yuzuki who was standing right next to him. The worried look on the other's face made Xianren feel a little embarrassed.

"woke up?"

"Um, sorry, I accidentally fell asleep during class."

"Come with me to the office. I have something I want to discuss with you, Miyamizu-kun."

Kiryu Yuzuki looked at Xianren who had woken up, and slowly stood up straight. He looked at the boy in front of him who had just fallen asleep in his class, gave an instruction, and walked out of the classroom.

From the noise in the corridor outside the classroom and from other classes outside the window, he could tell that it was time for the get out of class to end. He glanced at the quiet classroom, slowly stood up, and walked out of the classroom. Under the gaze of other classmates, he...

Following Kiryu Yuzuki, who was walking in front, wearing a white formal suit and transparent black stockings, Kento quietly followed her. The two of them came to the school's staff office together. She walked to her desk, put the tutorial textbook in her hand on the table, then sat down and looked back at Kento beside her.

"sit down."

Kiryu Yuzuki sat down and looked at the boy next to him, pointed at the chair next to him, and watched the boy sit down quietly before slowly asking.

"During your time in Tokyo, have you encountered any problems in your life?"

Kento's class teacher is Shin Fukuhara, but the middle-aged man has actually never paid much attention to the affairs of his class, especially with the presence of "crouching dragons and phoenixes, young unicorns and tomb tigers" like the Nakano sisters and Akihisa Yoshii, he is even more discouraged.

On weekdays, I rarely care about what happens in the class. I have the mentality of "don't worry about small things, and I can't worry about big things."

On the contrary, Kiryu Yuzuki, who is the teacher of the next class, cares more about the affairs of Kento's class than Fukuhara Shin himself. She has just graduated from school and is still full of enthusiasm. She cares a lot about the students' affairs.

Especially after learning about Shinya Fukuhara's laissez-faire teaching style, he suddenly became more concerned about Class D where Kento was.

Knowing that Kento was not a local student in Tokyo, but came to Tokyo from a relatively remote area like Gifu to study, Kiryu Yuzuki saw Kento sleeping on the table during class today, and many guesses emerged in his mind.

The image of a poor student from a remote area who had to work hard part-time after school to earn his living expenses due to life difficulties, but accidentally fell asleep in class, jumped into her mind.

Therefore, during class, even when she saw Xianren fell asleep, she did not wake him up. Instead, she chose to wake up the sleeping Xianren after class, called him to the office, and asked him about his life problems.

"I have some troubles in life... but they are not a big deal. I can handle them myself. Thank you for your concern, Mr. Kiryu."

Xianren, who had no idea how he looked in Kiryu Yuzuki's heart, felt a little strange after hearing the other party's question and facing the caring gaze of the young new teacher. He was silent for a moment, and did not deny some of his difficulties in life. He gave a vague and perfunctory answer.

"As a student, the most important thing for you right now is to listen carefully in every class. If you need help with anything in your life, you can come to my office and I will help you."

"...Thank you, Kiryu-sensei. I understand. Is there anything else I can help you with?"

Looking at the eyes full of concern in front of him, Xianren felt a little uncomfortable. The feeling of being treated like a child made him feel a subtle sense of incongruity in his heart, which was really unbearable.

"Well, there's nothing else to do, but if you need any help, remember to come find me."

"I see. Then I'll go back to the classroom."

Avoiding Kiryu Yuzuki's concerned gaze, Xianren turned around and grinned slightly, his face filled with intense embarrassment. He hurriedly left the office and returned to his classroom.

Looking at Xianren's hurriedly leaving back, Kiryu Yuzuki, who was sitting in the office, sighed softly.

In her opinion, Xianren's reaction was obviously due to his concern for his self-esteem as a boy, so he did not confide in her when he had difficulties. He did not have enough trust in her, so he left the office so anxiously.

She pursed her lips and made up her mind.

You must work hard to narrow the distance between yourself and your students, become someone they can trust, and let the students no longer have any reservations and confide all their troubles to her!

Kento returned to the classroom. Just as he walked through the door and entered the classroom, he suddenly shivered, not knowing where the chill came from. He returned to his seat dejectedly and sat down. Then he saw Eriri coming to his side.

"What did Kiryu-sensei talk to you about just now?"

"very curious?"

Looking at Eriri who was approaching, with a concerned expression on her face, Kento, who had sat down, had not yet recovered from the discomfort of being woken up from his sleep. He glanced at her, slowly breathed a sigh of relief, and then slowly answered her.

"She asked me if I had any problems or difficulties in life and told me that if I did, I could ask her for help. Maybe she had some misunderstanding about me."