Hikigaya Hachiman is still in the dark

I suddenly remembered something and asked, "Do you all just want my buttons as a souvenir?"

"Well, senior."

"For small businesses, I feel like good things will happen."

"If it's a custom, there's nothing I can do about it."

I see. I let out a sigh of relief and handed the button in my hand to Isshiki. Isshiki happily took the button. Yuigahama and Yukinoshita were a little disappointed when they saw me hand the button to Isshiki. Komachi murmured, "What should I do? Even though it was my brother's choice, but..."

Ignoring Komachi's whispers, I took off my coat, unbuttoned two buttons from the front of the shirt I was wearing underneath, and handed them to Yukinoshita and Yuigahama.

Komachi's eyes sparkled again for a moment: "Senpai Yukino, this is closer to the heart than the uniform." What's the matter with this strange explanation? And what's the closer? It's just a few millimeters.

"Oh, thank you, Xiaoqi." Yuigahama happily took the button from my hand. Accidentally, her hand touched my palm.

"You're really cunning." Yukinoshita didn't smile like Yuigahama, but stared at me without emotion. Just when I felt uncomfortable and was about to withdraw my hand, Yukinoshita reached out and took the button from my hand. Is it an illusion? I always feel that Yukinoshita's hands are colder.

"Senior, this is so cunning." I don't know when the joy on Isise's face faded away, and she patted my chest with a bit of embarrassment.

"By the way, Xiaoqi, I remember I said before that I would go to the office to sign for you. Now that you have taken off your clothes, give them to me for signature."

It seemed like she really agreed, so I handed the clothes to Yuigahama.

Yuigahama carefully took my uniform, then took out a pen from her schoolbag, wrote her name on it carefully, and then handed the pen to Yukinoshita.

"Why should I sign on clothes that have bacteria on them?" Yukinoshita protested.

I hope you realize that there are germs on your clothes too.

"Look, there's no one signed on Xiaoqi's clothes, so just help Xiaoqi." Yuigahama used her usual coquettish offensive, and Yukinoshita gave in as usual...

"Hey, Komachi, I want one too." Komachi said as she ran to Yukinoshita and signed her name. But this is usually for classmates, right? Why are you joining in the fun? After Komachi signed, Isshiki also came over. She showed her own little devil smile and signed her name a little higher than Komachi.

So where does this sense of confrontation come from? It's so boring.

At this time, a man pushed open the door very imposingly, and a familiar white coat suddenly came into our sight.

"Teacher, I should have said to knock on the door." Yukinoshita frowned as usual. Give up, Yukinoshita, you have been correcting her for two years. It's time to understand the fact that this person cannot be corrected.

"Hahaha, you're about to graduate so don't worry about these things, Yukinoshita." The man laughed it off as usual.

Perhaps the sad moment has passed, Ms. Hiratsuka has regained her previous smile, but traces of crying can still be seen in the corners of her eyes, which are slightly red.

"Hey, are you signing?" Teacher Hiratsuka looked at the clothes on the table and went over with interest. Then she picked up the pen and wrote her signature like a literary giant. So this is why you can't get married. Realize this quickly!

When my clothes were returned to me, the back of my uniform was filled with words. Yes, filled. Yuigahama wrote her name in a relatively large size, and below hers was Yukinoshita's beautiful handwriting. Then above it was Komachi's signature. Looking up, there was Isshiki's subtle font that was larger than Komachi's signature. At the very bottom, there was Hiratsuka-sensei's signature that took up almost half of the back.

This person definitely did it on purpose.

I said this, and although I felt that this dress was a bit embarrassing to wear, I still put on the uniform because of the weather. Since there were no buttons, I wondered if I looked like a street thug. Then, Yukinoshita stood up and poured a cup of black tea for Hiratsuka-sensei in a paper cup. Hiratsuka-sensei drank a sip of the black tea and then looked at me and Yukinoshita with a smile.

I was inexplicably nervous, and Yukinoshita seemed to become serious as well. Well, after all, the bet was about obeying everything, so even Yukinoshita must be very concerned.

"The result of your bet is..."

"Huh?" Yukinoshita and I opened our mouths in surprise at the same time. What kind of answer is this? We must protest!

"I cannot agree with this..." Yukinoshita's voice was firm, as if she was very dissatisfied with the result: "Two years of competition ended with this result. Teacher, what is the difference between this and the recent elementary school sports meet where everyone won first place?"

It's a very strange example, but I am also very opposed to it. It would obviously make people feel unhappy if the competition ended in a draw after two years of competition.

Although I don't really care about the result... Well, I do care. But a draw seems to be pretty good, a draw means I don't have to obey the orders of the Demon King Yukinoshita, although it's a pity that I can't give orders myself.

"Anyway, I can't accept it." Yukinoshita stared straight at Teacher Hiratsuka, expressing her determination.

What on earth does this person want to order me to do? Why is he so persistent?

"That being said." Mr. Hiratsuka looked at me and Yukinoshita with some helplessness: "But as I said before, your method and Yukinoshita's method have their own advantages and disadvantages. If I were to go by my bias, I would be more inclined to Yukinoshita. But in this case, I would feel sorry for Hikigaya who sacrificed so much."

Why can't the judgment be based on being sorry for me? I haven't done anything wrong.

"But if that's the case, what's the point of our initial bet?" Yukinoshita seemed to agree with Hiratsuka-sensei's statement... Eh? Why would she agree? Did I really make you feel sorry?

"You're right." Mr. Hiratsuka rubbed his temple with a headache, and said in a troubled tone, "But I've been thinking for a long time and I can't think of a good way to decide the winner. How about playing rock-paper-scissors?"

"How is that possible?" I don't agree with this irresponsible solution. So far, Yukinoshita and I have been serving in the Service Club for two years, and the final result is decided by rock-paper-scissors? What a joke, of course we have to hold a competition like the Chiba Quiz to decide the winner.

"Please forgive me for rejecting this. I think as students we should decide the winner based on our math scores." Yukinoshita said as she took out two math papers from her schoolbag: "I just happen to have some papers left for the exam."

"No, why should I study after graduation? Of course, I will use the common sense of Chiba that everyone in Chiba should know to win!" I retorted, and why do you carry math test papers with you? It's so scary, please put it away, don't remind me of my miserable memories of the math test...

"Hikigaya-kun, I hope you can realize that college students also have the obligation to study."

"What a pity! I am studying at a private liberal arts university. I don't need to learn about that inhuman stuff."

"Stop." Hiratsuka-sensei stopped me and Yukinoshita, and then she held her forehead with her hand as if in a headache: "I didn't come here to ask you to quarrel. How about this, let everyone in this room vote to decide the winner?"

"This is acceptable." Yukinoshita and I nodded at the same time. This method is indeed fair. Because in the past year, Isshiki and Komachi would come to this club room almost whenever they were bored. They would always watch our activities, so Yukinoshita and I would feel more at ease with their judgment. What's more, Komachi would definitely stand on my side!

"Then, Komachi will of course support unnie..." Komachi raised her hand happily, her voice sunny and bright. My lovely sister, please choose your brother quickly!

However, at this moment, Isshiki interrupted Komachi as if she was fighting for something, and said to Mr. Hiratsuka hastily, "I support you, senior." Then Isshiki looked at Komachi happily and a little proudly. Komachi immediately showed a struggle on her face, and then she took a deep breath.

"I still think Yukinoshita-senpai is more reliable." Komachi's words stunned me. My sister, why did you choose Yukinoshita, who has nothing to do with you, and give up your brother? The coldness your brother feels now can be said to be running naked on Greenland...

Chapter 25 This is a good idea

Perhaps noticing my blaming gaze, Komachi first looked at Isshiki next to me with hostility, then looked at me with a slightly apologetic look, and finally, she gave me a cute smile.

Maybe she wants me to forgive her, this bastard sister. Just forgive her because she is so cute.

"It's a tie." Yukinoshita touched her chin with her hand and pretended to think, then she looked at Yuigahama: "Yuigahama-san, what's your choice?"

I also focused my attention on Yuigahama. Yuigahama had been with me and Yukinoshita in the service club from the beginning, so her opinions should be fair and representative.

Perhaps she noticed the gazes between Yukinoshita and me, Yuigahama twisted her body awkwardly. She first looked at me carefully, then turned her gaze to Yukinoshita, and finally her gaze kept swinging between the two of us.

"I think." Yuigahama looked conflicted, and then whispered tentatively, "How about a draw?"

"Of course not."

"Yuigahama, that's a very cunning answer."

Yukinoshita and I immediately conveyed our protest to Yuigahama, who then tilted her head in confusion, "But you see, both Koki and Yukino are excellent. If we have to choose between them, it's really..."

Well, if it were me who chose Yukinoshita to date Yuigahama, eh, just kidding, there's no way such a thing would be possible.

"Well, how about this, Senior and Yukinoshita-senpai spend one day each serving Yuigahama-senpai, and then Yuigahama-senpai will give the scores, and in the end the winner will be decided based on Yuigahama-senpai's opinion." Isshiki suggested happily from the side. This guy was definitely there to watch the fun.

"Hey, that's a good idea. It just so happens that both of your methods require Yuigahama's help, so it seems a good idea to use this as the final evaluation." After thinking for a while, Mr. Hiratsuka slammed the table and said with great momentum: "Then it's decided."

Yeah, actually a draw doesn't matter. Although I thought so, looking at Yukinoshita's burning fighting spirit, and Isshiki and Komachi cheering and watching the fun on the side, these two people are obviously so compatible, why are they so hostile?

"It seems that I don't have the right to refuse." I sighed and said helplessly.

"Eh, is this necessary?" Yuigahama seemed embarrassed, and said with some concern: "Will this not trouble Xiaoqi and Xiaoyukino?"

"Not really." After all, I've graduated and I'm really free, without that much to do.

"I am quite grateful for your care all along, and this is acceptable." After all, he is your only friend in high school. It can be seen that Yukinoshita is thanking Yuigahama very seriously.

"Oh well."

"Yoshi, tomorrow belongs to brother, and the day after tomorrow belongs to sister Yukino. The competition that will satisfy sister Yui has officially begun!" Komachi announced happily like a host. By the way, she was also so energetic when she was a bride.

"Well, it's getting late, and I still have some graduation work to deal with, so I'll go back to the office first. You should go back early too." Teacher Hiratsuka looked at her watch, reminded us of the time, and walked out of the office. It seemed that she was still busy with our graduation matters.

"Ah, it's already this late. I have something to do in the student union, so I'm leaving first." Isshiki stood up and hurried out of the office. Did you skip work and come here because we were leaving? Be more conscious as the student union president, otherwise how can I graduate with peace of mind? I don't want you to bother me with student union matters after graduation.

"Komachi also has something to do. Brother will wait for her at the bicycle place later. Komachi will go to appreciate the cherry blossoms with brother on the way back! Ah, Komachi's words just now scored very high." Then Komachi winked at me and walked out of the club room.

With that, Yukinoshita, Yuigahama, and I were the only ones left in the club room, but the three of us fell into silence.

Youth is the most ambiguous word in the world.

I was moved by a look back without any deep meaning, I was moved by a greeting without any special meaning, I was moved by the intimacy that is not required for ordinary communication. These are experiences unique to youth. But these are what I hate. People who presumptuously think that others have a good impression of them, presumptuously think that they are in love with someone, and those who talk about their likes and love are just fake after all.

Let us first skip over the specific time period of youth and understand love from the broad perspective of life. Love is by no means a cactus that can survive independently in the desert. On the contrary, love is a rose in a greenhouse that must be watered with time and energy to thrive. Long-distance relationships do not wear out your patience to wait, but your love itself. If there is no special way, the flower of love will only wither and eventually wither.

So love needs the same time and space, and friendship also needs the same time and space. Maybe one day when you are sending messages to your friends with great interest, your friends on the other side just think you are boring, and after sending some perfunctory replies such as "yeah" or "ah", there will be no news. After all, you have separated and belong to different worlds. The common topics and common memories between you are getting less and less, and gradually you will feel a sense of disharmony, and you will never find the good feelings you felt for each other at the beginning of your friendship.

Perhaps only family affection will not create barriers, will not cause misunderstandings due to the barriers of time and space, and will not produce feelings that are not as good as they were in the past. Only family affection will become more mellow as time goes by and the distance increases. Thinking in this way, my sister is indeed my true love, and there seems to be nothing wrong with close-kin marriage! Ahem, I'm a little off topic.

So no matter it is love or friendship, forever is just a lie. After all, the truth is the best way to expose lies. Couples who swear to get married will break up because of long-distance relationship, and people who swear to be friends forever will forget. People will gradually understand that what they are pursuing is actually a fake, and then everyone will live more cunningly and realistically.

But to be honest, I probably became more cunning and realistic in my life a long time ago.

I looked at Yuigahama who was silently flipping through the paperback book and playing with her cell phone on the table beside me. Because I was too used to it, I even blurred the time for a moment. I thought I was still in the afternoon of a sunset in my second year of high school, reading the paperback book that interested me and watching the unchanging daily life.

Things like this may still be what I call a "fake". But now I cannot deny the meaning of "fake" to people. After all, I used dirty means to push Isshiki to the position of student council president in order to maintain the false peace in the Service Club. In the end, I even secretly helped Isshiki with student council activities without telling Yuigahama and Yukinoshita. The sensitive Yukinoshita discovered my abnormality. When we met under the street light, she smiled a smile that I couldn't see clearly and spoke broken and gentle words that made me stand blankly on the cold street.

At that time, I was sure for the first time that what I was defending was a fake. I made up a lie to defend the fake and became the type of person I hated the most. After all, I was just a little insect in the darkness who couldn't bear to give up the light and tried my best to get close to the light.

People seek out fakes because they have meaning, a meaning that I don't yet know.

Thinking of this, I took a sip of the black tea in front of me. At least, what I did allowed me to drink a sip of delicious black tea as the sun set in such a quiet moment.

"Speaking of which, what are your plans after graduation?" Yuigahama, who was playing with her cell phone, probably couldn't stand the awkward silence. She adjusted her posture on the table and changed to a normal sitting position. Then, she put her cell phone away and moved closer to Yukinoshita. In fact, the distance between them was not far, and being closer made Yukinoshita's living space further reduced. Yukinoshita had to put away the paperback she was reading.

Yukinoshita and I also had a weird attitude towards graduation. We both still took our paperback books with us when we graduated... But this is probably a habit we developed over the past two years.

Someone once said that pets have the same personality as their owners. This sentence seems to be very appropriate for Yuigahama and Yukinoshita. Although Yukinoshita doesn't have a cat, she likes cats very much. I think she will probably have no pets other than cats in the future. Yuigahama is like a dog... I always feel that this is ambiguous. In other words, Yuigahama is full of energy at first glance, just like Sabre, and she is very proactive in approaching others, allowing others to feel her enthusiasm for herself. This kind of person is also the gentle girl that I disliked a long time ago. Inadvertent contact will make others mistakenly think that they like me, but fortunately I am a warrior who has been tempered into steel, so I will not be easily shaken.

Yukinoshita is like a cat. She has her own territory and attitude. She never approaches others actively. When she feels insecure, she lives alone in an invisible place. However, after getting familiar with someone, she will treat others as docilely as a kitten. The evidence is that when Yuigahama no longer came to the club room because of a misunderstanding with me, she took great pains to prepare a birthday party for Yuigahama, and finally persuaded Yuigahama to reconcile with me. Although her method was not satisfactory, it is very rare for Yukinoshita to do that.

Perhaps this is where Yukinoshita's gentleness lies. She will pretend to be arrogant when you approach her, indulge you when you act coquettishly, and try every means to pull you back when you want to leave.

However, if that's the case, I hope you won't spoil Yuigahama so much. Do you think we've all become a love consulting department because of Yuigahama's love requests?

"Come to think of it, I don't have any special plans." Yukinoshita was already sitting next to Yuigahama at this time. Yuigahama had her usual smile on her face. Yukinoshita smiled in confusion, but in the end she still sat closely with Yuigahama with a blushing face.

This is somewhat similar to Kurama's expression when I teased him...

"Well, then let's all go to the graduation dance together." Yuigahama's eyes lit up for a moment. Maybe he was looking forward to the graduation dance. Come to think of it, he could naturally shake hands with the girl he liked at the graduation dance. If the atmosphere was good, he might even confess his love to her, and then have a romance for a holiday before going to college.

"Although it's not necessary, I still want to confirm why I didn't confirm my schedule?" Am I really just a person who does nothing in your eyes? I have to work hard every day to eat, sleep and play games, so I don't have time to participate in those activities full of reality!

Chapter 26 Ask for my help

"Eh?" Yuigahama tilted her head in surprise, and then crossed her arms across her chest as if thinking: "After Xiaoqi graduates, besides eating, sleeping and playing games, are there any other activities that can be done?"

Is it a straight ball game? Also, this person used the process of elimination and didn't even consider that I would engage in other types of activities.

"Although you are right, I still won't go." But I still won't change my mind. I am a different species from them. I hope their explosive resentment has not dissipated with the two-year service club career. On the contrary, it has intensified. Sacrificing my precious time to help you fall in love... So, Yukinoshita, I told you not to spoil Yuigahama too much. Seeing them show off their affection in various ways, even I would want to go up and give them justice.

"I don't want to go either. I just want to quietly end my high school life." Yukinoshita refused as usual, and then she turned her head away from Yuigahama as usual, still with the same direct approach, and then Yuigahama would pull Yukinoshita's arm, shaking it and saying in her unique coquettish tone: "What's wrong with this, just go."

"What's wrong with that? Just go!" A familiar voice came the next moment.

"Good." I was secretly happy about my ability to predict the future. Then Yukinoshita said in a troubled tone, "Even if you said so." Then she looked at me with pleading eyes, seeking my help.

"Even if you say so..."

"Perfect." I was so happy that I accidentally said it out loud. Then, Yukinoshita looked at me with a suspicious expression.

"What? Demon?"

"Nothing, hahaha, I suddenly remembered this word." I laughed to cover myself.

Yukinoshita did not put away her suspicion. On the contrary, she stared at me with an even more unfriendly look. Her sharp eyes made me feel guilty and I dared not look her in the eye.

"I always feel like you are thinking about something rude." Saying that someone is thinking about something rude is the biggest rudeness, and what I am thinking about is not that rude, probably just something like world peace.

"What's wrong with that, Yukino-chan? Just come with me." Yuigahama used the third level of coquetry, which was very effective on Yukinoshita. Then Yukinoshita gave me a look that said, "I really have no choice but to give in and go on your own."

Who will cheer up? And please have more perseverance and don't surrender so easily.

"It's okay if you're free." Yukinoshita said to Yuigahama in a compromising manner, and after hearing that, Yuigahama happily let go of Yukinoshita's hand, and then gave me an eager look.

Come on, Gaia, as a warrior I will not surrender.

"I heard that Komachi and Isshiki will go together as special guests." Yuigahama didn't seem to be talking to anyone in particular. She turned her face to the side, but her eyes were secretly looking at me. I suddenly felt like I was hit by an arrow in the chest, but as a warrior I would not give in to this.

"Well, Komachi is very popular in school. I'm sure many people will be looking at her at the dance."

An arrow with more lethality than the previous one hit me again. I can’t... I can’t give in!

"If the atmosphere is good, it's easy for girls to agree to a confession." Yuigahama turned her face to the side and faced me with a smile that showed she had succeeded in her conspiracy.

"Xiao Qi will have a nephew soon."

Hikigaya Hachiman, killed in action at the age of 18.

"If you don't have any plans, you have to go. This is for Komachi's safety. I have to swat the flies around her. My sister getting married and all that reality can go to hell!" I said with great vigor.