Hikigaya Hachiman is still in the dark

Chapter 98 Don’t Think Too Much

When I saw Liumei off at the station, I wanted to give her the scarf, but she firmly rejected my offer. Liumei stood on her tiptoes and carefully put the scarf on me, wrapping it around my neck a few more times as if she was afraid that I would feel cold.

"Hachiman, don't think too much."

After saying this, Liu Mei walked into the station, waved to me, and disappeared into the crowd.

"Don't think too much...?"

I stood at the entrance of the station for a while. People in autumn clothes kept walking in or out of the station in a hurry. The light signs above the station kept changing colors.

I don't know why, but the world suddenly became blurry.

The people passing by turned into black and white, like passers-by in comics, and all the neon lights turned into halos.

Now, I seem to be observing the world with tears in my eyes, but my eyes are dry and there is no sign of tears at all.

I just stood there blankly. If it rained, it would probably be another very vivid scene, I thought to myself with self-mockery.

The cold wind was blowing, and I felt cold after standing for so long even though I was wrapped in such a warm scarf.

Go back, I said quietly, and I took a step forward, "Xiao Qi, it's too late."

When I got home, Yuigahama was standing at the entrance with her cheeks puffed out and her hands on her hips, complaining to me.

Why are you here? Also, your remarks are totally inconsistent with your position. Are you a daughter-in-law waiting for your husband to return to his new home?

"Really? You're a teacher now, after all, you should pay more attention to your image. You've grown up, but why are you still as careless as when you were in the club room? Xiaoqi is always like this, so he looks gloomy..."

Yuigahama came up and helped me put my scarf and briefcase away, then carefully helped me tidy up my suit and hair.

"That's good." Yuigahama smiled brightly. "Oh, come on, don't smile so naturally. If you do this now, won't it make me look stupid because I'm blushing because of shyness?"

"Yuigahama, I think that person's words will be useless no matter how hard you try. The only way to correct his personality is probably to be reborn as a real human being."

Why do you deny me based on my biological attributes... "Hikigaya-kun, if possible, could you come back a little earlier?"

"A little..." Is this person worried about me? "Thinking of you still wandering outside at night, I always feel worried about others!"

You're not worried about me, you're worried about others! You're really worthy of being Yukinoshita-sama.

"Really? The food is almost cold. I thought something happened to Xiaoqi. Xiao Xueno almost called the police!"

"Wait... Yuigahama, I'm just afraid that he will harm other people..." Yukinoshita blushed and didn't know what to explain.

"You have to wait for Hikigaya-kun to come back before eating. I'm exhausted after spending the whole day with you and now I have to wait for someone who's free."

"Wait, Yukino-chan..."

Then the two of them started arguing for some unknown reason.

My eyes moved to the dining table. The food on the table was still steaming. At one end of the table, there were three mugs that were also steaming. I guess the black tea inside was still as delicious as before.

This kind of scene seemed to be my daily routine a few years ago.

"Thank you...thank you."

I spoke softly, could such soft words be conveyed to Yukinoshita and Yuigahama at that time?

If only it could penetrate, "Brother, are you used to the new house? Do you shiver at night because you're not used to it and miss the cute Komachi? Stare~~! Komachi misses brother very much, but it's almost the end of the semester so she doesn't have time to visit brother. But she will definitely visit brother later, so brother, please prepare enough money by then, hey!"

As soon as I woke up in the morning, I picked up my phone and saw the text message that Komachi sent me. As a corporate slave, I had already gotten up very early, but Komachi had to get up even earlier than me because she had to review for the finals. It seems that Komachi's university has very strict requirements for students.

I was chatting with Komachi not long ago, and I mentioned that I often couldn't get up recently due to the cold weather. After that, Komachi would send me a text message every time she got up, which could be said to be a temporary alarm clock.

After a yawn, I folded my quilt. When I opened the curtains, I could see the sun trying to rise. It looked like it would be a good day today.

The basic contents of the cooperation with Haibin High School have been finalized, the cooperation plan and the responsibilities of each party have also been basically determined. The subsequent work is all preparatory work that requires joint efforts, such as the production of props and so on.

Although the progress of the work is still a bit slow in my opinion, it has been a great improvement compared to our class, so I have nothing to complain about. The only thing I am dissatisfied with is that Motoki always drags me to the site for supervision. I remember that last year, Mr. Hiratsuka only went to the site for supervision once, but why do I have to go every time?

It's not that I didn't try to shirk my responsibility by saying that I was busy, but every time Ben Chugui would drag me over with all kinds of excuses, like she had encountered a difficult problem and needed my help, or she had difficulty communicating with the people at Haibin High School. In short, she had all kinds of irrefutable reasons to get me to go.

Today we should be confirming the script of our stage play. Our Sobu High School student union wrote a rough script a long time ago, but since it is a collaboration, we must also discuss with the students of Seaside High School to improve the content of the script, otherwise it will be bad if there are deviations.

Since the last time, I would send Liumei to the tram station after every meeting. Liumei and I had never deliberately communicated about such things, but every time I left the school, Liumei would stand at the school gate. Of course, I couldn't refuse such a situation, so gradually I accepted my task of sending Liumei home, and occasionally when I left the school earlier, I would wait for Liumei at the school gate.

I take out milk and bread from my own refrigerator. I am not good at cooking. Although my cooking skills are not completely zero, it becomes troublesome to cook by myself. I'd better just enjoy the benefits of convenience stores quietly.

I used to drink a can of MAX coffee when I got up early. When Komachi found out, she strongly demanded that I not drink MAX coffee right after I got up in the morning, otherwise she would tell Yukinoshita and ask her to take away all my MAX coffee... Of course, I'm not afraid of Yukinoshita, I just couldn't bear to refuse my lovely sister's request, cough cough cough... After breakfast, I picked up my briefcase and went out. When I opened the door, I found Yukinoshita and Yuigahama were already waiting for me at the door.

"Good morning, Xiaoqi."

"You always make us wait for you, Hikigaya-kun, do you really like staying in dark and damp places?"

"If you can, could you explain why mine has become a dark and damp place while our apartment is the same?"

"Isn't the place where you stay, Hikigaya-kun, dark and damp?"

"Why are you answering my question with a question? You're avoiding my question, right?"

"You two, it's getting a little late if you don't leave now."

Yuigahama laughed awkwardly and pushed me and Yukinoshita towards the elevator. Since Yuigahama said she wanted to open her own flower shop last time and Yukinoshita agreed to help her, Yuigahama simply moved in with Yukinoshita for convenience. The new apartment is big so adding Yuigahama is not a big deal.

I was a little uncomfortable at first, but I soon got used to this situation. Besides, in high school, the three of us often went back together after the service club activities, so I was able to adapt to this situation quickly.

"Speaking of which, Xiaoqi, has your school's joint activities been going smoothly recently?"

Yuigahama asked me about the joint activities I had mentioned to them before, and told them some questions. Yuigahama seemed very interested in this matter and often asked me about the progress of my work. In contrast, Yukinoshita seemed to have no interest in this matter. This was natural. Yukinoshita always believed that she should do her own things. If there was no commission, she would never take the initiative to help others.

Maybe Yuigahama was so concerned about the progress of the incident because I was involved in this matter because of her, so she hoped that I could complete the work as easily as possible.

"Basically there aren't any major problems. They are much better than our class."

"That's good, but speaking of that collaboration..." Yuigahama said in distress: "I don't know if it's a happy memory!"

"But it left a deep impression on me..." said Yukinoshita as she fixed her hair.

It is true that the collaboration was extremely torturous in many ways. Although it was successful in the end, the process in between could definitely not be used as an example of successful collaboration.

Although it was a long time ago, the president's unique gestures and the English that popped up from time to time are still very impressive. In some ways, this person is really a special and successful person.

"Let's put that aside for now. How long do you plan to take to find a formal job, Yukino?"

"Me? For now, I'll help you finish the preparations for the flower shop. I'm not too worried about the job for now. My diploma from school should make it easy to find a job."

The word "temporarily" is redundant... "Yukino is the best." Yuigahama moved closer to Yukinoshita with a bright smile. I said that the distance between you two was close enough before, and now you are deliberately moving closer to Yukinoshita. Stop it now. There is no need to squeeze Yukinoshita's breasts. There is no way no matter how hard you try.

Yukinoshita looked at Yuigahama in embarrassment: "Yuigahama, it's too close."

"What does it matter? Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it."

As a matter of course, she was brushed off. This kind of scene had happened countless times, so this time, Yukinoshita didn't even make a symbolic excuse.

"But Yukino-chan, what are we going to do today?"

"Didn't I tell you yesterday? This is your shop, so please pay more attention to it."

"I am very attentive and preparing seriously."

If possible, I hope you can look directly at Yukinoshita when you say this. Just turning your head away won't fool even elementary school students. "Today I'm going to see a decoration store to confirm the decoration style."

Chapter 99 Give an Example

"Eh? Is this important?"

After Yuigahama finished speaking, Yukinoshita and I both looked at her with a look of giving up.

"What?! Why are you looking at me like that?! What did I do wrong?!"

"I say, Yuigahama-san, do you really understand what you are going to do?" Xuezhi looked at Yuigahama with a headache: "Generally speaking, the decoration of the store must be very important."

"Why?" Yuigahama still looked at me and Yukinoshita in confusion.

This guy is hopeless... "Yuigahama, to put it simply, people's first impression is visual. If the decoration and lighting effects are very good, then even if the products are the same or even inferior, you can still have better sales performance than the other party."

I explained to Yuigahama.

"Why? Wouldn't it be popular if the product was good?"

It seems incomprehensible, so I'll give you an example.

"Yuigahama, let me give you an example. For example, there are two butcher shops. One has very bright lights and uses bright colors to decorate the shop, while the other one uses darker colors to decorate the shop. Which shop do you think will perform better?" "Well, the first one?"

"Wrong answer." I raised my hand and made a "cross" gesture: "The correct answer is the second one."

"Why? Isn't the first one much better in terms of decoration?"

"This is just an appearance. If the quality of meat is the same, an overly colorful decoration will make the meat look less delicious. However, if it is darker, customers will subconsciously think that the meat is fresher. This is the effect of contrast. If the meat is compared to a white shop, then is it more conspicuous to put it on a blue board or a black board?"

Yuigahama didn't say anything, and it seemed that she agreed with my point of view.

"So the decoration of the club store is also very important. You need to understand the characteristics of your products and the psychology of consumers. Even the decoration should be related to the corporate culture you want to establish. In this regard, decoration is actually a very important part, so please pay more attention to it."

"I, I get it, I didn't say decoration is not important!"

"What a simple explanation!"

"What do you mean, international student?"

I looked at Yukinoshita, and felt that what she just said was a provocation.

Hearing my question, Yukinoshita became obviously panicked and explained: "Well, don't get me wrong, I didn't mean that in any way. I just meant to explain it very well."

"Oh, I see..." I was stunned for a moment, and my face quickly turned red when I realized that this was a compliment. Then, as if noticing my blushing cheeks, Yukinoshita quickly turned her face away.

Please, your reaction is more embarrassing and humiliating, okay? Please behave as usual if you can.

Yuigahama looked at me and Yukinoshita with concern, then she took a deep breath and said loudly:

"Then let's work hard today!"

"Don't say something like that from a hot-blooded comic book."

I sighed. This is a corridor. Although it is morning, there are still some people around. Please don't make such noises suddenly.

"Well, Yuigahama and I are going to the decoration market today, so let's separate here."

When we arrived at the entrance of the community, Yukinoshita stopped and said to me.

The renovated area is indeed a different route from Sobu High School, and I nodded to Yukinoshita.

"So, goodbye."

"See you tonight, Xiaoqi."

After waving goodbye, I watched Yuigahama and Yukinoshita leave and walked towards the train station.

Because the distance has become longer, I basically don’t ride a bike or walk to school anymore. I can only take the train to school every morning. Now I am completely like a working animal...

"Good morning, Hikigaya-sensei."

"Good morning, Hikigaya." Yuexia and Mita greeted me respectively.

"Good morning, Yuexia and Mita."

I sat back in my seat, looked around and found that the seat that originally belonged to Mr. Fujiwa was still vacant. If I remember correctly, Sagami should be our new teacher.

"Hasn't the new teacher arrived yet?"

"Well, the new teacher doesn't seem to have any classes today, so there's no need for her to come."

The one who responded to me was Teacher Yuexia. Mita was unexpectedly quiet today. I don’t know if he suddenly realized the fact that he was quite noisy.

Doesn't Sagami have classes? She's probably still dealing with some handover stuff, but that's fine. If we meet now, I don't know how to greet her.

I took out the lesson plan, confirmed today's lessons and breathed a sigh of relief. Then it was time to work.

It was around 4pm when the work was finished. After saying goodbye to Yuexia and Mita, I walked towards the department office where the school magazine was produced.

I knocked on the door, and when I heard Sea Star's voice "Come in" from inside, I pushed the door open and walked in.

As usual, Hai Zhixing took out his laptop and didn't know what to do. Tamasaka was holding the paintbrush and staring at his blank drawing board in a daze, probably wondering what to paint. This is quite common. Artists often stop themselves because of lack of inspiration. For example, it is really painful to write a novel when you have no inspiration. No matter how long you sit in front of the computer, you can't type a single word.

I walked to my seat and sat down. On the table were cookies that were probably made by Star of the Sea, and there was a mug in front of me.

"Ah, teacher, you are here."

When Tamasaka saw me coming, he stood up and poured me some brewed black tea.

"Are you thinking about the painting?" I asked Tamasaka.

"Well, it's about this. I've hit a bottleneck in my creation recently and I don't know how to start." Tamasaka shook his head, looking very distressed.

"Don't be anxious about this kind of thing. If you take your time you will always have inspiration." I comforted Tamasaka like this, and Tamasaka nodded to me, probably agreeing with my point of view.