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《Suffering from a terminal illness, I became a goddess of scientific research》

Chapter 50 Come, pour some water!

The library was not completely packed on the weekend, but there were more people than the boy had imagined.

Looking around, Kaede Sakakibara's eyes couldn't help but become moist. The Qingqing students present here are all his peers. In the last December of senior year, they gritted their teeth and charged forward with a countdown of more than 30 days. It really reminded him of his past self.

The decorations in the library are reminiscent of Christmas in late December. The red and green Christmas tree decorations and postcards piled behind the counter seem to be notifying every passerby that Christmas Eve is approaching.

"Christmas is coming."

The boy nodded to the librarian working the counter and made a meaningless exclamation.

"How does Sakurajima-san usually spend Christmas?"

"Last Christmas I was filming a TV series in Hokkaido, and I spent Christmas soaking in a hot spring," Sakurajima Mai recalled. "This year... I'm not sure yet, I may be filming, or I may go home."

A hint of complexity flashed across her eyes, she pursed her lips, and continued in a brisk tone, "Well, our high school students' daily crew should give us a day off. The benefits of STARS Agency are very good."

Thinking of the buffet and snack area, Sakakibara Kaede nodded in agreement. This was not just good, it was extremely good.

Looking back, there were fireworks blooming outside the window, couples walking hand in hand on the street, and the man, a white-collar worker in the city, was leaning over his desk, typing hard on the keyboard, taking in the beautiful scenery of the spreadsheet on the computer.

Holidays? Work!

"Sakakibara-senpai, how are you going to spend Christmas?"

The boy who was asked this question smiled and said, "It might be work. My agent Iida-san has been asking me to audition for commercials every day recently. Who knows, maybe I'll be selected by a famous clothing brand in late December?"

"Well... maybe I should study. Christmas is only ten days away from the college entrance examination. I will naturally seize the time to cram for the exam."

"Really?" Sakurajima Mai nodded. She didn't hear the boy talking about his family, so she didn't ask any further.

The boy turned around and added, "It's also possible that he went out to eat barbecue with Uehara, Takeda and the others."

"Senior, do you have any desires other than eating?"

Sakakibara Kaede stroked his chin, thought seriously for a few seconds, and answered uncertainly, "Paper man?"

Mai Sakurajima, subway, old man, cell phone, "Kimo."

"Apologize to all the otakus in the world, Kora!"

Since they were in the library, the man had to lower his voice, and the oppressive kora of the Yakuza sounded like a dog instead of a tiger, and naturally got the laughter of Mai Sakurajima.

The library is equipped with a separate glass room, which creates a relatively soundproof space where people can calm down quickly without being disturbed by external environmental factors.

"Well, how's it going here?"

Mai Sakurajima asked in a low voice, pointing her finger at the empty glass room.

The boy glanced at Mai Sakurajima and saw that she was not wearing a mask today. It would inevitably make some noise if she sat in the public library to study so rashly. If someone took a photo with Mai Sakurajima in the photo, it would bother him even more.

I don't know who made the edit of the footage of him and Mai Sakurajima on the same show, but the encounter in their eyes made the video a hit among some fanatical Mai Sakurajima fans.

The ghost animal section is still the best, it’s so harmonious, although the man has already found his own ghost animal in the ghost animal section who was angry and embarrassed after being exposed on the show.

But it doesn’t matter, he still has acting skills and will have a chance to fight back.

"I'm OK."

The two men pushed open the door of the glass room. The heating in the room was more sufficient than that in the hall. The boy took off his coat casually, took the coat handed to him by Sakurajima Mai, and hung the two coats of similar colors and styles behind the door.

Mai Sakurajima was well prepared. She carried with her not a shoulder bag that could only hold cosmetics, but a briefcase that she carried to school.

As lazy as the boy, he only carried a cross-body bag today, which contained a discounted thermos bottle he bought in the supermarket a few days ago. The bottle contained boiled water that had just been boiled that morning.

Seeing her taking out textbooks, exercise books and pencil cases one by one, the boy's voice trembled, "Hey, are you serious?"

"Ah? Otherwise, Sakakibara-senpai, do you think I was joking with you?" Sakakijima Mai snorted, "I really don't know where you got the confidence from. You think you can pass the college entrance examination without any mistakes. Isn't it good for me to accompany you to review?"

"I can't imagine spending a weekend in the library doing completely meaningless exercises."

Sakakibara Kaede groaned softly and leaned limply against the wooden chair back. To be honest, it was a bit painful to lean back like that. After the college entrance examination, when I go to Tokyo to choose a house, I must buy a gaming chair or an ergonomic chair so that I can lean on it however I want, and even sleep on it.

"Here, this is the Basic Mathematics for College Students I+A that I prepared for you. After all, I will need it next year." Mai Sakurajima selected a book from among many reference books and pushed it in front of the boy. "Your homeroom teacher is Mr. Hiratsuka. When we first met, Mr. Hiratsuka said that you wrote well and praised you a few words. Liberal arts should not be a problem for you."

"Liberal arts rely on rote memorization, and writing essays is all about routine." The boy waved his hands. There are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people, but the number will not change.

"So!" Sakurajima Mai's voice got louder, and she slapped the table with a serious look on her face. "There is also mathematics in the liberal arts category of the college entrance examination. Although it accounts for a small proportion, it is very likely to be a point of loss for seniors."

The boy raised his eyebrows and nodded to acknowledge that what she said was indeed quite correct. For students who were determined to focus on the humanities, they did need to take a math test.

He looked at the textbooks that were stacked up like a small mountain, and the corner of his mouth twitched again. At this time, Mai Sakurajima took her thermos from the side, handed it to the boy, and chuckled, "Sakakibara-senpai, pour me a cup of tea."

"Do you think this is the ancient way of becoming a disciple? Why is it so formalistic?" Sakakibara Kaede criticized Sakurajima Mai's degeneration.

"But I am indeed your teacher. I prepared so many teaching materials for you. Even if I don't have any credit, I have worked hard, right?"

The boy curled his lips and poured tea for Sakurajima Mai in the thermos.

"Oh, I thought Sakakibara-senpai would be more grateful and pour the water for me, like when we were working part-time?" Sakurajima Mai acted cute and blinked her eyes in grievance.

“Miracles, magic and smiles aren’t free.”

"Tsk, that's not romantic at all."

The boy snorted and lowered his eyes without even looking at the girl who was holding her chin up. "Pen!"

The slender fingers controlled the fountain pen, the pen shaft turned a circle vividly on the fingers, and then gently fell on the paper, leaving a small black dot.

He lost interest as soon as he saw the exercises. Is it necessary to solve such questions? It's like teaching an adult how to walk - math is something that can be mastered and applied naturally, just like walking, eating and breathing.

"Well, the first question is really difficult, isn't it?" Seeing Sakakibara Kaede's constipated expression, Sakurajima Mai said complacently, "But it's okay, I mastered this knowledge point when I was studying on my own--"

"This problem type is a definite integral."

"...What about the second question? Oh? It looks like there's a little trap?"

"——You mean the trap of confusing concepts? Well, just clarify the concept of pure imaginary numbers."

"What about this question? Sakakibara-senpai, this question is the final one! I don't believe you know the answer."

Someone got anxious, but didn't say who it was.

"Oh, this question is about the internal tangency relation in analytic geometry, which is also known as Poncelet's closure theorem. I'll draw a picture for you."

Taking the ruler and compass from Sakurajima Mai's pencil case, the boy skillfully drew geometric figures on the notebook, and listed the values ​​next to the figures step by step, even the formulas were correct.

In just a short time, just a cup of tea, Sakurajima Mai took Sakakibara Kaede's solution book and looked at the densely packed numbers and formulas on it in disbelief. She couldn't understand it at all - because the answer process on the exercise book only had a short abbreviation.

Apart from anything else, the answer is exactly the same.

"How, how is that possible?"

Sakakibara Kaede was in a good mood. He laughed, took out his thermos and waved it in front of Sakurajima Mai.

"Hahaha, Sakurajima-san, pour some water!"

At this point, Sakurajima-chan realized that she had been tricked. No, it could be said that she tricked herself. The complacent senior in front of her was not a poor student with poor academic performance. Could it be that what he said was true? Did he want to get into the University of Tokyo in the college entrance examination?

She still had some hope and asked, carefully wording, "Sakakibara-senpai, what is your deviation value now?"

The boy pretended to think for a while, then sighed with a heavy heart, "I just passed 80 in the last test. What a pity, I lost points in the Chinese section."

"I have long since given up on liberal arts, and now I am following Mr. Sakai Yuichi in the science field." Sakakibara Kaede clasped his fists towards the void, "Sakurajima-san, if there is anything you don't understand about math, I can teach you."

Mai Sakurajima stepped one foot into the trap she had prepared for Kaede Sakakibara. Looking at the boy's smug face, she clenched her teeth and felt her fists itchy.

Finally, she gave in, reluctantly took the boy's thermos and filled it with boiled water.

"OK."

The boy took a sip of warm boiled water, and his originally slightly cold fingers immediately warmed up, and his body suddenly felt comfortable. Compared with the physical warmth, the mental pleasure was more comfortable.

Mai Sakurajima looked at the pile of math textbooks on the table and suddenly felt that she was a clown for carrying all those books. She opened her notebook gloomily and began to review the contents of the final exam of her second year of high school.

As for the big pig's hoof in front of me, it makes me angry just looking at it.

Sakakibara Kaede drank the water with reluctance, looked at Sakurajima Mai's bangs, raised the corner of her mouth and said, "If you don't understand anything in mathematics, you can ask me. I learned from Yuichi Sakai and studied thirty hours a day. I also have experience in teaching. I always treat students equally and patiently."

"Oh? I wonder which student you taught?" Mai Sakurajima asked casually, supporting her cheek.

"It's so far away and yet so close. During the break time of shooting the graduation commercial, I helped Higuchi-san and Nakano-san from Burning Production with math problems. Wow, these two students are really serious and eager to learn."

The boy stroked his beardless chin, imitating Yuichi Sakai, and sighed in a rather kind manner.

"Eh? Sakakibara-senpai wasn't checking his phone during his break time at work, but was teaching math instead?"

Sakurajima Mai was really surprised now, "How is the teaching going?"

Sakakibara Kaede couldn't help but sigh when she thought of this. She didn't know whether she was sighing at the joint teaching between herself and Higuchi Madoka or at Nakano Ichika's grades. "Higuchi-san's math is in the upper middle range. I don't know whether she will choose liberal arts or science in the end, but it shouldn't be a problem for her to get into college in her senior year of high school."

"Nakano-san..." Sakakibara Kaede considered her words carefully, the expression on her face was hard to describe, "I'll give her four words: a promising future."

"What about me?" Sakurajima Mai showed her notebook in front of the boy. "Although I chose the liberal arts, mathematics is a required subject. Teacher Sakakibara, can you give me some pointers?"

The boy took the notebook from the girl. The girl's delicate and beautiful handwriting made Sakakibara nod slightly, but he did not praise her. After all, he had seen many internet celebrity students in a certain red book who took exquisite notes but had poor academic performance.

Some people's notes can only be understood by themselves.

The boy's previous exercises or problem-solving ideas were written like dog crawling. The cursive handwriting immediately reminded people of an old Chinese medicine doctor who had been working in the hospital for more than ten years. This not only prevented classmates from secretly looking here and copying answers during exams, but also prevented classmates from asking him about the social etiquette required for copying homework.

How can I copy if I don’t understand?

"How about it?"

"If you are going to take the final exam of the second year of high school, Sakurajima-san, you won't have any difficulty. You have mastered all the knowledge points of the second year of high school very well." The boy's praise made the girl happy and narrowed her eyes. He changed the subject and said, "But you still don't know much about the final question."

"Well, aren't these kinds of final questions usually given up?"

Hearing Mai Sakurajima's rebellious words, Kaede Sakakibara suddenly had high blood pressure, "Sakurajima-san, you, do you know what you are saying?"

"The final question is worth a lot of points, is difficult, and tests your comprehensive ability. It's your chance to distance yourself from other students. How dare you...give up?"

"Okay, don't be so angry. Can you teach me?" Sakurajima Mai pointed at the difficult questions in the textbook and asked with her hands clasped together.

The boy took a breath and nodded with satisfaction, "This young man is teachable."

The light shone gently on the textbook. The boy's voice was clear and calm, with rigor and seriousness in his brows. He began to explain to Mai Sakurajima step by step the parts that she didn't understand.

This was probably the most that Mai Sakurajima had ever heard a boy talk.

Chapter 51: Lace up your shoes and get ready

Study time always makes people feel boring.

Time often plays tricks on humans. When we are taking a break or playing games, time always passes by in a flash.

However, when students are studying and authors are typing, time seems to pass very slowly and is extremely difficult to endure.

So the best decision is not to study and not to write.

After studying for a whole morning, Mai Sakurajima felt sore in her back. She was not so tired even when she was studying on her own. Kaede Sakakibara not only explained to her the key questions of the second-year final exam, but also taught her some of the third-year content in advance.

Lying on the table, Sakurajima Mai stammered and closed her sore eyes.

The boy pushed open the glass door and returned to the room. He had been talking about the topic for the whole morning and had to refill his water three times.

"I don't want to study anymore..." The boy felt a sense of accomplishment when Miss Sakurajima Mai, who loved studying, said this.

"You were the one who asked me to come out and study, so why was it Sakurajima-san who fell down first?"

Sakakibara Kaede was merciless. She opened the exercise that Sakurajima Mai had just completed and marked or circled the answers with a red pen without mercy.

Seeing Sakurajima Mai's drowsy appearance, Sakakibara Kaede sighed helplessly and changed the subject, "Let's go have a meal and discuss the plot that needs to be filmed for tomorrow's TV series."

Hearing this, Sakurajima Mai raised her head and said, "I have finished watching the plot. This week's episode is about Kitahara Hiroshi's reversal!"

"I don't know. I haven't seen it yet."

Sakurajima Mai's eyes turned dangerous, and Sakakibara Kaede quickly stretched out her hands to press them down, pretending to comfort them, "Don't worry, I will definitely watch the plot carefully tonight. You know how fast I understand the plot, don't worry too much."

"really?"

The girl said half-jokingly. Before the boy could speak, she continued, "Well, I still believe in your professionalism. Next week's plot is going to be very exciting. I heard that STARS Agency specially invited many students and extras from the private Fengzhizaki Academy to help with this scene."

The boy hummed, "After hearing what Sakurajima-senpai said, I feel a little more excited about next week's plot."