I just want to drop out of school

"Maybe I'm overthinking it. How could a person like Horikita, who only thinks in one direction, have any bad intentions?"

Thinking of this, Bai Lan finally breathed a sigh of relief and drank the remaining juice happily.

After Bai Lan threw the can into the trash can, she said, "I've finished my juice and my conversation. If there's nothing else, I'll leave."

"Where are you going?" Horikita asked.

"Go back to the dormitory, wash up and get ready for bed."

"Oh, let's go."

Then, Bai Lan turned and walked towards the dormitory.

Bai Lan had just taken a few steps when he heard footsteps coming from behind him.

Bai Lan looked back and saw a beautiful figure approaching her.

Bai Lan tilted his head, looking confused, as if there was a big question mark above his head.

Horikita: "I'm going back to the dormitory too."

Bai Lan: "Do we have to go together?"

Horikita glanced over and said, "It's just a 'shield' job."

Bai Lan: "But, even if there are arrows shooting at me now, I can't use the shield, right? I'll call you when I need you."

Horikita: "This is called 'preparation'. If we don't have any friendly contact with each other, and you suddenly use me as a shield, others may not believe it."

Bai Lan: "No way, we even had a scandal before, and I think they would believe it, right?"

Horikita: "Rumors have heat, and so do feelings. Heat will fade over time, so we still need to walk together occasionally to maintain the heat so that others don't forget. Since we're on the same route today, we might as well walk together. This is more efficient."

"That's true." Bai Lan nodded and accepted this statement.

Soon, Shiran and Horikita returned to the dormitory building together.

Enter the door and go into the elevator.

There were only two of them in the elevator.

At this time, Horikita spoke up: "We didn't encounter any witnesses this time, so it's best to find another suitable opportunity tomorrow and go together again."

“Looks so professional.”

"No, I'm not an expert. I haven't learned anything about this yet, but I will supplement my knowledge as soon as I go back tonight so that I can do this job perfectly."

"Ah, come on."

"So, what's your answer? Do you have time to go together again tomorrow?"

"Oh, yes, sure."

"so be it."

"I have to say, when Horikita gets into a serious state of mind, he actually makes people feel reassured unexpectedly." Shiran thought to himself.

However, what Bai Lan didn't know was that this idea of ​​his tonight would be overturned by him in a short time.

Well, not long really.

The very next day...

95. Horikita: Everything is just...a mission

Early the next morning.

Bai Lan woke up naturally at seven o'clock. After washing up, he went downstairs to exercise for half an hour to prevent his body from getting rusty.

After his workout, he stopped by for a morning meal.

When I returned to the dormitory, it was not yet eight o'clock.

There is still more than half an hour until the morning meeting.

In short, there is still a lot of time to waste.

Bai Lan sat on the bed with his back against the wall, controlling his body through meditation and adjusting his previous state that had been reduced due to physical exertion and eating.

After coming here for a while.

Bai Lan's cell phone rang.

He pulled out his cell phone, opened one eye, and took a look.

I found out it was Horikita calling.

"Is there something?" Bai Lan asked directly after answering the phone.

After speaking, he turned on the speakerphone and closed his eyes.

Horikita: "Where are you now?"

"In the dormitory, what's going on?"

"That's great, let's go to class together."

"Let's go to class together?"

"Yes, didn't we agree on this yesterday? Let's find a suitable opportunity to walk together. If we go to class together, we don't have to spend extra time and energy. We only need to complete the daily tasks, and we can also complete the daily task of 'walking together' to maintain enthusiasm. This is more efficient."

"I can understand that you want to use your daily routine to complete your mission, but the problem is that there is still a long time before the bell rings! Why go so early? When you get to the classroom, you can only hear those people yelling there, and once you get there, Kushida will come looking for you. Wouldn't it be better to stay in the room for a while and have more peace and quiet?"

“Although there is still some time before the bell rings, the entire school will enter the peak period of school attendance, and the flow of people heading towards the teaching building will begin to increase dramatically.

In this case, if we go to school together, the frequency of our observations will be the highest when we perform the behavior of "walking together", and the efficiency of the task will also be the highest.

From what I remember from this month, the rush hour to school usually only lasts 10 to 15 minutes.

That is to say, the peak period will end in 10 minutes at the shortest.

At my normal speed, it will take me about 5 minutes to get ready from now until I reach the classroom, considering the possibility that you might be busy, such as going to the toilet, eating, or solving the dirty physiological problems of male high school students......."

"Can you please not use 'going to the toilet' and 'eating' together? It's easy to cause misunderstanding! People who don't know would think I was eating something. Also, what is 'the dirty physiological problems of high school boys'? Explain it to me if you can!"

Horikita didn't respond to Shiran's words, but continued to explain: "Anyway, in order to prevent giving you time to prepare, I notified you 5 minutes before the end of the 'shortest peak time'. However, after this conversation, you only have 4 minutes left to prepare."

"Don't act like I've already agreed!"

"I'm already downstairs. If you're okay, please gather at the door as soon as possible to avoid missing the peak period."

"I...Okay, I'll go down right away."

Although Bai Lan wanted to continue enjoying her solitude and didn't want to go to the classroom so early to face those troublesome classmates, Horikita said she was already waiting downstairs.

After all, when it comes down to it, it was Shiranashi who asked Horikita to do this "shield" job.

As a person seeking help, Bai Lan didn't want to keep the person waiting for too long.

Moreover, Horikita was so passionate about her work that Shiranji couldn't possibly discourage her enthusiasm.

Bai Lan swung his legs, which were originally cross-legged on the bed, into the air with a "Dragon Swing", and then his feet landed accurately in the slippers beside the bed.

Driven by his legs, Bai Lan's upper body also rose up. While rising, Bai Lan grabbed his mobile phone with one hand and his coat with the other.

The moment his feet stepped into slippers, Bai Lan put on his coat in mid-air and put his cell phone into his pocket.

Button your clothes as you walk.

When he was about to close the door, he kicked off his slippers in advance and put his feet into the shoes he wore outdoors.

Finally, he turned the door handle with one hand to open the door, and quickly lifted up the heel of his shoe with the other hand.

When he walked out of the room, he was already dressed in formal attire, holding his schoolbag in his left hand and the garbage he was about to throw away in his right hand.

From getting ready before going out to leaving the house, the whole process takes less than 10 seconds.

Soon, Bai Lan saw Horikita waiting at the door of the dormitory building.

After meeting up with Horikita, the two headed straight towards the teaching building.

At this time, Horikita suddenly asked Bai Lan: "How do you say the word 'hearing' in Chinese?"

Bai Lan:?

"Why are you suddenly asking about Chinese?"

"It's just to find some topics. I looked up information that said: when people who are close to each other walk together, they usually talk about something. I just observed other people and they seemed to be the same. Since I have to act, I have to act more realistically.

However, I think that the trivial things they talk about are meaningless. Since we have to talk about them, we might as well talk about something that can help us make progress.

You are an international student in China, and I think your Chinese should be of some benefit to me, so I would like to learn Chinese from you.

Of course, you can ask me if you have any questions about your studies. "

"Okay, okay, 'hearing' right? 'Hearing' means..."

Horikita repeated it several times.

Bai Lan nodded, and after verifying the other party's pronunciation, she couldn't help but say, "No, when you see other good friends chatting, they just talk about studying?"

"Well, after all, it's a mission period, my time is yours, so, if you don't talk about studying, what should you talk about among friends?"

"I'm not sure either. I haven't been in school properly for a long time, and I don't really understand what my peers are talking about."

"Don't know what people your own age chat about? Have you ever chatted with people of different ages in the past?"

"Roughly the same?"

"So what did you guys talk about?"

"Talk about the weather."

"Weather? Is that the way you greet those grandpas and grandmas? 'It's a nice day today', like that?"

"What? I mean choosing the location and method of setting up camp by checking the weather, as well as the range of animal activities and so on."

"What's the point of learning these?" Horikita said nonchalantly.

Bai Lan felt very unhappy when he saw that something he was proud of was being belittled, and he couldn't help but say:

"Do you think you are very good? Very good?"

"I think my efforts and achievements deserve the evaluation of 'excellent'."

"But you were assigned to Class D."

"But that's because there's something wrong with this school's evaluation criteria!"

"Even your brother doesn't think highly of you."

“But…Damn it!”

When Bai Lan brought Horikita Manabu out, Horikita's younger sister was instantly spoken of.

"Have you ever said something like this: you don't need unnecessary and useless socializing, you can live well just by yourself?" Bai Lan suddenly asked.

When Kushida first approached Horikita to make friends, Horikita said something similar to this to reject Kushida.

Horikita replied, "I did say that. What's wrong? Is there any problem?"

Bai Lan: "The history of mankind is the history of mankind's struggle against the might of nature and then its efforts to survive and reproduce!

Therefore, as a human being, our most basic requirement is actually 'survival'."

"I am confident that I can use what I have learned to survive on my own in this world." Horikita said confidently.

Bai Lan continued, "If I throw you alone on an isolated island far away from human habitation, how long can you survive? Can you return home by yourself?"

"what?"

“You confidently say that you can survive on your own, but in reality, your survival is not the result of your ‘aloneness’, it is just that you are not in close contact with those who participate in every aspect of your life.

What you are good at actually only involves a very small part of what is necessary for human beings.

The food you eat, the clothes you wear, the tools you use, these are not things you could have gotten by ‘alone’.”

"But that was earned through my own 'independent' efforts. I don't owe them anything."

"Who paid you?"

"If I were to work for someone else, I'd get paid by my boss, but if I were to run my own business, it would be the customers."

"So whether you can get paid depends on whether there is a boss willing to hire you, or whether the customers are willing to pay you. So, in the end, you still have to rely on others."

"I believe that as long as I have good enough abilities, naturally there will be bosses willing to hire me and customers willing to find me."

"Ha~ The premise is that you are really so good that you are irreplaceable and cannot be replaced. Are you really that good? If you are really good to the point where 'cannot be replaced', why doesn't even Class A want you? Oh~ Even Class B and Class C don't want you, so obviously, you are not that good."