A youth story of a passerby at the end of the world

"You would do this." Sakurajima Mai's voice was as thin as a mosquito.

Uesugi Genshin sat opposite her and poured himself a cup. He felt a sour feeling in his stomach, but his face remained calm.

"I kind of understand you." Sakurajima Mai said after a slight hesitation.

"what?"

"Why is this happening?" Sakurajima Mai held the cup with both hands and took a sip. She felt as if something was pulling her throat.

Pungent and with a strong smell of smoke.

He tilted his head back, resting his head on the edge of the sofa, staring blankly at the ceiling.

"..."

The arched shape emphasizes the slender yet well-proportioned body curves. Although the breasts are not big, they are definitely not small.

There was a somewhat bored expression on his handsome face, giving people a sense of mature weariness and lust.

"You'll have a good sleep after drinking it." After that, Uesugi Genshin said nothing and just stayed with her quietly.

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Chapter 148: Terrible Subordinates

"It's morning." I was woken up by a clear and transparent voice again.

"Hmm...?" I could hear it vaguely, and still didn't open my eyes, but I felt my ears making a sound, because it was such a soft and beautiful voice.

"Ha..., get up quickly." This is how much I drank last night.

"Please wake me up like this every morning."

"Isn't this what we do every day?" Yukinoshita Yukino covered her head with her hands in pain, looking at the person lying there peacefully and motionless.

"Then please make me miso soup every morning."

"Talk in your sleep when you're asleep." Yukinoshita Yukino pulled open the curtains, letting the sunlight outside shine into the house.

"......What, it's morning already?" Uesugi Genshin finally opened his sleepy eyes. Although it was not bright, unlike the darkness of the night, the early morning light outside the window was still particularly dazzling.

When the window was opened, the cool breeze blew in, causing him to pull his arms back into the quilt from outside the quilt.

"I've called you many times." Yukinoshita Yukino sighed helplessly and closed the open window again. "What time did you go to bed last night?"

"Well... before 12 o'clock." Uesugi Genshin reflected to himself.

"11:59, also known as before 12 o'clock. Are you a child who can't take care of yourself? Still making excuses. No, no child is like you." Yukinoshita Yukino said to Tsurumi Rumi who was standing at the door.

"Ah, Rumi." Uesugi Genshin turned his head to look at his sister at the door and smiled.

"I'm not a child." Tsurumi Rumi was uncomfortable with the gaze from Yukinoshita and was very dissatisfied. She was not a child anymore.

"No, there is a deep reason for this." In order to avoid damaging his dignity as an elder brother, he sat up with all his strength and searched for the flat hair on the back of his head.

Yukinoshita Yukino guessed that he didn't have much time to make breakfast, "I'll bring it to you later."

Let Hayasaka-san make an extra portion when she cooks. It's her turn to cook today.

Ever since Shiromai-senpai left, the three of them and Hiratsuka-sensei have been taking turns to prepare breakfast.

Among them, the breakfast made by Shizuka Hiratsuka was the most mediocre. It would be more accurate to say that she deserves praise for being able to cook. For a woman living alone, this is something she should be able to do, but for Shizuka Hiratsuka, the requirement becomes vague.

Because it is hard to imagine that a boyish and violent female teacher would one day get married and have children, and then honestly prepare breakfast for her husband and children at home.

"Thanks. I'll go take a shower first." Uesugi Genshin did not refuse.

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"what......"

Seeing Hachiman yawning loudly, Uesugi Genshin realized that he was the same as himself.

Although Uesugi Genshin was the last to arrive, he was not late. Time can always be squeezed out, as long as one seizes time somewhere or runs faster on the road.

Turning his head to look at Mai behind him, she was resting with her eyes closed and didn't look tired at all.

It seems that I stayed in Yeshan's apartment for too long yesterday. It's better to drink less in groups in the future.

"Minister!" Zaimokuza Yoshiki stepped out of the line, knelt down on the left side of the aisle, and bent his body.

"What's wrong?" Uesugi Genshin asked casually.

He, Hanano, and Sagami took out the pens, ink, and blank copybooks they had prepared and placed them in front of Uesugi Genshin. "Please write the inscription, Minister."

He believes that ambitions and goals should be mentioned and put in front of the eyes to play a motivating role. Just like the belief he silently recites every day: Always on the battlefield, I am a sharp blade!

"..." Hachiman looked at Zaimokuza who was approaching him and looked inexplicably dazzling.

After returning to his original position, Zaimokuza Yoshiki sat down on the floor, crossed his hands majestically in front of his chest, with a face full of confidence and a sense of superiority that came from nowhere, "I think we should let everyone know our ambitions."

“......, um.” What ambition?

Ah, Shangluo to Akihabara.

Uesugi Genshin remembered what he said yesterday, and felt a little depressed when he saw the things that Zaimokuza and the others had carefully prepared from the calligraphy club.

If I had known this last time, I would not have let them go to the calligraphy club to get things. Now that I have exposed my calligraphy skills, they did not go to find the original members of the calligraphy club, but asked me to write it directly.

None of these subordinates are worry-free.

"We will set Shangluo as our target!" Qin Ye looked around passionately.

"Going to Kyoto?" asked Hube Xiang.

"That's right!" Zaimokuza Yoshiteru responded in an ancient style.

Sagami also said: "Our steps cannot be limited to just small Chiba."

"Oh oh." The surrounding members heard this and thought there was nothing wrong with it.

They really believed that their current strength was far beyond what it used to be. Each of them had the blood of at least a dozen zombies on their hands, and the team leaders had dozens more.

The confidence brought by this achievement prompts them to develop a sense of self-importance.

"After going to Kyoto, let's become famous in Tokyo and let the world know the name of our Sobu High School." Zaimokuza Yoshiteru opened his palms and raised them to the sky.

"Oh!!!"

The noisy members became excited and started to make a lot of noise.

In short, they just want to be famous, want to be in the spotlight, and want to get big benefits. There's nothing wrong with that, but Hachiman didn't shout with them, and Yeshan on the other side was just laughing.

"Minister!" "Minister!" "Minister!"

At this time, wouldn’t it be more appropriate to say that the enemy is in Honnoji?

"It looks like everyone is fired up."

"minister!"

"......" What should I write? Not wanting to offend his subordinates, Uesugi Genshin picked up the brush and dipped it in ink.

Gotta write! Gotta write! Zaimokuza Yoshiki held his head high and stared at the copybook. Sure enough, it must be that one! Tenkabubu!

As the brush falls, the strokes move like flowing clouds and running water, showing a strong and heroic style, thick and steady, elegant and varied.

Except for a few people, most people don't know that their minister also has the skill of calligraphy, and it looks very powerful and a little too handsome.

Everyone tilted their heads, wanting to see what was written on the copybook.

Uesugi Genshin looked at Hayasaka Ai behind him, and she understood and stepped forward to unfold the copybook.

"One Million Hearts"

"With unity and one heart, any powerful enemy and any difficult environment will surrender to us."

"Whether it's Shangluo or something else, if I can rely on your strength, and everyone works together, then we will have no rivals ahead."

"This is exactly Baiwan Yixin!" Uesugi Genshin stretched out his palm and patted the words on the copybook.

"Yes!!!" Everyone bowed their heads respectfully.

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Then Zaimokuza hung it on the wall behind Uesugi Genshin, and it became the unique symbol of the Executive Department together with "Furin, Kazan" and "Bishamonten" on the left and right.

Chapter 149: Longing for Friends

After the morning class at the dojo, Uesugi Genshin, who had just finished his meal, saw his sister sitting on a bench in the courtyard. "Hey~, why are you here?"

Tsurumi Rumi looked up at Uesugi Genshin and said to her brother respectfully, "Sister Yukinoshita asked me to wait for her downstairs. We will go to eat together later."

When Uesugi Genshin sat next to her, Tsurumi Rumi looked at Uesugi Genshin, as if asking why he was here too?

"I just finished my meal." Uesugi Genshin explained, crossing his legs.

After hearing this, Tsurumi Rumi turned her head to the other side, "Those people..."

Hearing this, Uesugi Genshin turned his head and looked. Indeed, several girls passing by in the distance kept looking over here. "Don't worry about it."

Ever since he cut his hair short, people always point and talk when they pass by him.

It happened that a few elementary school students had just come out of the cafeteria and were wandering around the campus. They were chatting and laughing, holding hands, and strolling like friends.

Seeing his sister staring at him intently, Uesugi Genshin asked, "Why, are you jealous?"

"......" Then she was glared at by Tsurumi Rumi, which was a mockery of her for having no friends. Her awkward posture looked no different from that of Yukinoshita.

He laughed, "Only the weak like to hang out together, it doesn't matter."

This is the "truth" that Hachiman talks about, and he feels it is particularly applicable here.

"What kind of paranoid ideas are you instilling into Liumei?" Yukinoshita Yukino came over from the side. It seemed that she had finished her work and was going to take Liumei out to eat.

Uesugi Genshin leaned forward with his head and neck, looking past his sister at Yukinoshita, "I thought you would agree with me."

Tsurumi Rumi then squeezed towards Uesugi Genshin to make some space for Yukinoshita Yukino.

"Why do you think I will agree with you?" Yukinoshita Yukino said helplessly, and then sat on the other side of the bench. Tsurumi Rumi was sandwiched in the middle. It was indeed a bit crowded.

However, because it is April, I can still feel a warmth and smell two very different scents. The brother has a very fresh smell that is hard to describe after exercise, probably because he has taken a shower, while the sister Yukinoshita has a faint pleasant fragrance. Is it shower gel, laundry detergent or her own body odor?

"After all, you don't have many friends, right?" Uesugi Genshin complained.

Tsurumi Rumi found it incredible, "Sister Yukinoshita doesn't have any friends?"

After all, she was such a beautiful person, she didn't think about it that way at all.

"Well, she is the same as you." Uesugi Genshin bluntly pointed out that what happened to Yukinoshita in the past was very similar to Rumi.

In the end, he was still glared at by Yukinoshita, and the look in her eyes was exactly the same as the one Rumi had glared at him just now.

"I don't recommend you to be like your brother and believe that having one or two friends is enough, since he doesn't have many friends."

"Eh?" Tsurumi Rumi widened her eyes exaggeratedly. If her brother had few friends, then what about those sisters who went to his apartment to play at night?

"It's not that exaggerated." Uesugi Genshin turned away with a frown, "It's just that my requirements for friends are a bit high. Otherwise, I can give you as much as you want."

"That's not called friends." Yukinoshita Yukino disagreed, and the one who was particularly critical was Hayama.

This is also what Hachiman often talks about as a fake thing. The general circle in Japanese schools is very peculiar. It is a very typical example of seeking common ground while eliminating differences. There is usually a central figure, and everyone else has to "please" and flatter that person.

This is completely different from Uesugi Genshin and Yukinoshita's elimination of differences and pursuit of common ground. The elimination of differences and pursuit of common ground in the circle really does not tolerate any other voices. To be presentable, everyone must be presentable. Even if you have a otaku nature, you have to hide it, otherwise isolation and exclusion will immediately occur.

False and superficial friendship is undoubtedly a fake, but Uesugi Genshin and others' pursuit of common ground through elimination of differences is a recognition of personality. They hope to establish sincere friendship and naturally reject superficial friends.

Ye Shan is indeed an outlier among them, but he can only be regarded as a reformist. He hopes to build a more inclusive circle where everyone is happy, but because of himself, he inevitably belongs to the side of current life. Unfortunately, he does not have the ability to change the overall environment.

"Look." Uesugi Genshin pointed at Yukinoshita Yukino and said to Rumi, as if to say that your sister Yukinoshita is also such a person.

"You are my sister. Actually, we are of the same generation. There shouldn't be much of a generation gap between us. So if you can't have fun with your peers, just go find older brothers and sisters to play with."

Uesugi Genshin put his arm around his sister's shoulders and said casually, "Remember those people who came to my apartment these few days? They are all good people and there is no problem at all."

"Yeah." Tsurumi Rumi nodded in agreement. She also felt that since she couldn't play with children, she could just play with adults. It was not necessary to have friends of the same age.

"Speaking of Yukinoshita." Uesugi Genshin suddenly remembered.

"what's up?"

"Have you gone to see Komachi?"

"..." Yukino Yukinoshita instantly understood what Uesugi Genshin meant. When Kawasaki Saki was busy in the cooking club, Komachi would stay in the apartment to help take care of Kyoka.