Hikigaya Hachiman is still in the dark

After sending the text message, I started to wash up for the day.

I looked really haggard in the mirror, with messy hair and dark circles under my eyes due to irregular sleep. If I go out like this, I might be mistaken for a beggar and asked for alms.

Forget it, a new day has begun, and I have to spend today with full energy. Nothing happened yesterday. Yes, nothing happened.

Today, as well as yesterday, will be uneventful.

"Senior, you are so slow."

"Logically speaking, the agreed time hasn't arrived yet, right?"

Just in case, I arrived at the agreed location 15 minutes early, but when I got there, Isshiki was already there and she was looking at me impatiently.

"It's a shame for boys to keep girls waiting for a long time." Isshiki (sensitive word dividing line) said angrily.

"I'm not late, am I? And you were always about ten minutes late when you met me before. Why did you come so early today?"

"What? Are you still dissatisfied?" Yi Se's face changed slightly, but then she looked at me fiercely and snorted coldly.

How willful! We are already college students, but why do we feel no different from when we were in high school?

"I'm not worried about you, senior..." Isshiki said this and turned his head away, looking very shy.

"Pretending to be a tsundere is prohibited!"

How long do you think I've been with you? I'm already immune to your cute little tricks. As expected, after hearing my voice, Isshiki became unwilling and smacked her tongue.

"Tsk, after becoming too familiar with the subject, some of my skills have no effect? ​​I really miscalculated."

Over there, I heard everything you said. Is this really okay?

"So, Senior, have you considered where to go to play?"

"This one……"

Seeing my hesitation, Isshiki's cheeks puffed up again, and he put one hand on his waist and pointed at me with the other.

What's with this extremely contemptuous posture? If you look up a little more exaggeratedly, you will become a completely different person... But wait, a figure like Yishiki should not be able to control such a deep V dress, which means that it is a low-quality version...

"Senior, are you listening to me? Why do you look like a pervert?"

"How rude of you to call someone a pervert."

"But isn't your expression like this, Senior? It looks extremely disgusting and scary."

"That's even more rude!"

"No way..." Isshiki wanted to argue with me, but then she seemed to remember something and tapped my waist gently with her hand: "I didn't come here to argue with you, Senior. Please tell me where to go?"

"Well? Isn't there an old saying that goes, 'Take one step at a time?'"

"Say something like that, doesn't it mean that you are helpless? Senior, you are not prepared at all, right?"

"How can you blame me? Isn't this normal for me who has almost zero experience in hanging out with girls?" I responded to Isshiki righteously.

"If you take it too seriously, it will make people feel very pitiful."

"So nagging." How could you possibly understand the helplessness and embarrassment a man with no dating experience feels when he is asked out by someone and asked where he wants to go?

Speaking of which, I'm a homebody to begin with, and because of my personality, I rarely go out. And even when I do go out, I'm usually tricked into going out by others.

"No progress at all, four years have passed." Isse looked at me helplessly, and finally waved her hand: "There's really nothing I can do, senior, how about we go to the movies?"

“Very good, a good place to kill time!”

“So, senior, if you say something like ‘kill time’ when you go out on a date with a girl, doesn’t that mean you’ve completely lost?” Isse looked at me with dissatisfaction.

Isn't that the way it is? After all, isn't going out shopping also for killing time? The purpose itself is this, so it's not wrong to say that everything you do when you go out is to kill time!

Of course, I couldn't say such things to Isshiki. I'm not stupid enough to do that.

"Why are there so many people?" When I arrived at the cinema, I couldn't help but sigh when I saw the huge crowds of people.

The cinema was completely packed, and there were even many people queuing up at the door ready to go in.

Damn you guys, are you still so active during the holidays? In normal times, you guys are always wandering around and causing trouble for others. Do you still want to continue to harass others and carry on with your normal work during the rare holidays?

"There are so many people here!" Isse looked at the crowded crowd and became hesitant.

"There's nothing we can do about it. How about we just go back here?" I tentatively suggested to Isshiki.

"It's a good idea, but now that it's come to this, I feel like I've lost."

"There's nothing we can do about it on holidays, right?"

I looked around and saw the terrifying flow of people. Chiba is indeed a big city.

Isshiki ignored me. She lowered her head and thought for a while, then looked at me with surprise. At the same time, she pulled my sleeve with her hand and lowered my head.

Don't act so intimately! Don't you know this is a public place and there are many people watching us? Please be more aware of this and don't let others misunderstand! The relationship between us is just that of editor and author, which can be said to be the identity of boss and office worker.

"Senior, it seems that the latest smartphones can be used to order movie tickets online. Don't you see that there are few people in front of the online ticket window?"

After listening to Yi Se's words, I looked over and saw that indeed there were not many people in front of the machine with the words "Online Ticket Booking and Collection Office". Comparing the situation inside the cinema, that place might be the only piece of pure land.

"That's true, but I have never booked a ticket online."

"It's very simple. I've seen my classmates do it." Yi Se said confidently.

That's great. Young people these days are very fashionable and often do things that surprise adults. However, it seems that there is less than a year difference between us... It's like people born in 1999 and people born in 2000 are the same. Although they are similar, the treatment and the division of the population are all different.

In other words, sometimes the one-year-old threshold is the most difficult to cross? It's a cruel fact.

Before I knew it, I had fallen behind.

"Senior, hurry up and look at what movie you want to watch." Isshiki still didn't let go, so, because Isshiki was pulling my collar, my head was still lowered, and we were very close, I could even clearly feel Isshiki's gentle breath.

Also, the hair of the same color has been moving around on my chin, which makes me feel itchy. Why does it feel like my hair has grown longer? Is it my illusion?

It’s not good. No matter how you look at it, this situation is not good. I was mocking the popular people before, but now I am doing things that are contrary to my own words!

"This is the one I'll choose." I pointed at one at random.

"Eh? But aren't movies like robot battles boring?"

"In that case, how about another one?" I pointed to another movie.

"Really? Senior, do you want to watch a horror movie so that I can get scared and crawl into your arms? As expected, you are a..."

"I'd better change it." I said, and started looking for the target on the smartphone screen again. Isshiki seemed to be muttering in dissatisfaction because I interrupted her conversation. Never mind, it was only natural to be interrupted after saying such words.

I looked at the movie posters and found an ad for Mr. Pan the Panda movie by accident... Is it no longer a trend? Could it be that the company wants to make a final profit from the fans? Although I know that such a thing does exist, it is better to say that there is a die-hard fan next to me...

Chapter 221 Hikigaya Hachiman and Isshiki Iroha

That level, perhaps even the hardcore fans can't accurately describe it. Even if everyone in the world no longer likes that thing, Yukinoshita will still like Mr. Pan as the last fan...

It feels unexpectedly cool to say this!

"Really? Why is it so difficult for you to choose a movie? This one will do!"

"Wait, Isshiki..."

"It's no use arguing!"

Issise didn't even look at me. After releasing her hand, she started to operate her mobile phone. Although the distance between us was not as close as before because she was no longer holding my collar, but watching this movie was not appropriate anyway, right?

Even though I am not well-informed, when I saw the movie chosen by Isshiki, I knew that it should be a movie about a love story. I heard that it is also one of the movies that couples cannot miss recently according to Dianping.

If it is raised to such a high level, even if I think watching movies is nothing, I will still feel horrible! Even if the movie itself is nothing, if it is a love movie like this, doesn't it mean that the cinema is full of people whose brains are only filled with love germs? I will be unable to breathe in such an atmosphere!

"Um, Isshiki, I think..."

"Senior, you are so annoying." Isshiki glanced at me lightly.

What a cold look. I feel like I will definitely die if I say one more word. Isshiki is so scary. Why is she so scary?

But, was I intimidated by her? If so, I can't say anything more. After all, it was because of my indecision... No! It was Isshiki who rejected all my proposals, why did I become so passive? Damn, it seems that Isshiki is really not to be underestimated. I almost got taken in by her again!

"Okay, senior, let's go get the tickets now!" Isshiki fiddled with it for a while and looked at me and said, "It's so convenient! Look how stupid those people are. There are obviously simpler ways. People who can't keep up with the times are really pitiful!" Isshiki pressed his lips with his fingers and said innocently and cutely.

But her words were so cruel. Was the race of this person wrong when he was set? In fact, this person was originally set to be a demon, right?

"Ah! Of course, I didn't mean any innuendo in what I said." Isshiki explained with a wave of his hand, looking very flustered.

If you explain it now, doesn't it mean that you really think so?

A recent survey on smartphones showed that the penetration rate of RB is only around 30 percent, which means that more than half of the people are still using feature phones.

Isshiki, you should apologize to the 70% of people in RB right now. It's not that we are too backward, but that you are too avant-garde! Although I had never operated the ticket machine before, it was quite easy to operate. I still got the movie ticket smoothly. With the movie ticket, I walked into the cinema with Isshiki.

There weren't as many people in the aisle of the screening room as outside, so it wasn't that difficult to walk.

On the aisle leading to the screening room, I saw waiters selling popcorn and cola. Maybe because there were too many people in the main hall, and considering the mood of the customers, they deliberately brought the things here to sell. They are really thoughtful merchants.

After buying two extra-large portions of popcorn and Coke, Isshiki and I entered the screening room, where there were already a lot of people waiting for the movie to start, and, unsurprisingly, almost all of them were couples.

Huh? Isn't this situation terrible? Isn't it strange that I'm still single in this environment? I feel like a gorilla mixed in with the crowd.

Because I realized that I was different from them, I became nervous.

"Senior, can you see the seat number clearly?" At this time, Isse came over and grabbed the hem of my clothes with her little hands.

"What's wrong? Can't you see clearly?" I looked at Isise in confusion. Isise's eyesight should be pretty good, he shouldn't be able to see the seat number clearly.

"No, Senior, aren't you wearing glasses? I was afraid that you couldn't see."

"I can see it clearly, so there's no need for you to get close... It hurts." Before I could finish my words, Isshiki kicked me hard and I couldn't help but scream.

"What are you doing suddenly?"

"Nothing, I'm just a little angry!" Isshiki said and turned his head to the side.

Why did she suddenly get angry? Is it really because a girl's mood is like the rain in June?

It's really inexplicable...

After the movie ended, Isshiki and I walked out of the cinema.

Because the cinema was very dark, it took me a long time to adjust when I first came out of the cinema before I felt that the sunlight was not so glaring anymore.

"What a wonderful movie!" Isshiki exclaimed.

"Ah, yes!"

In contrast to Isshiki's enthusiasm, my answer was very perfunctory.

There's nothing I can do. I really have no interest in this kind of movie. Not to mention that the plot is extremely old-fashioned and the handling of the story is not very good, even the characterization is not full enough. I feel that my movie ticket money was completely wasted.

After all, this movie is a commercial movie, right? Such a movie should not have much reputation in the industry, so why do so many people still go to see it? Are people so rich that they can watch bad movies all the time?

By the way, Isshiki's expression was constantly changing with the plot, including crying, laughing, fear, relief. Feeling Isshiki's facial expressions beside me, watching the changes in her facial expressions was much more exciting than the movie itself.

But if I tell it, I will definitely die, right?

"Senior is really perfunctory!"

"I can't help it. I just can't muster any interest in movies like that."

"Senior, you are such an idiot! How many of the boys in there do you think are interested in the movie? They all came here to accompany their girlfriends, but you, senior, are like a fool and didn't move at all..." Isse said with a lot of complaints.

"Eh? Does watching a movie require action?" I looked at Isshiki in confusion: "Then what should I do?"

"Well, of course there are many things to do." Isshiki, who was asked by me, immediately showed a panic expression: "Like holding hands, or hugging a girl when she cries, or comforting her when she is scared..."

"Wait... there's a big problem with what you're saying, right?"

"Problem? Is there something wrong?"

"Aren't those things couples do? What do they have to do with us?" I honestly expressed my doubts.

Time seemed to stop for a long time in an instant, and Isshiki looked at me angrily.

"Stupid senior!" Then she kicked me harder than before.

"What? I was simply stating the facts! Why did you kick me like that?"

"That's because..." Isshiki tried to explain like a stuck robot, but soon she spoke again: "Aren't we here to collect materials today? Of course we have to act like a normal couple."

“This is too much!”

There was nothing wrong with interviewing her yesterday, but today I just wanted to apologize, so why is it still a topic for interview?

"Anyway, that's it, this is an investigation, an investigation!"

"Got it, no need to stress about it then!"