After deciding to give up, he started to gain popularity

"If you're hungry, just go eat. It's about time now, right?" Xia Chuanzou glanced at her and sighed.

At some point, a rope suddenly appeared in his hand, and the dog attached to it was naturally the golden retriever of the Fujiwara family. But the problem was that he was obviously not the one who needed to walk the dog, right?

"Oh, I can't do that today. Sister Fengshi is coming home today, and we have to wait for her to finish cooking. If we eat out, she will be sad."

"So...why don't you just go home and eat?" Xiachuan Zou complained.

Fujiwara Chika puffed up her cheeks and said, "What are you talking about, President? How could I leave you alone and run away?!"

"..." Xiachuan Zou's face turned black, as if he was an elementary school student who needed care.

After walking and chatting for a while, a vending machine appeared on the side of the road. Xia Chuan Zou was a little thirsty, so he turned around and walked to it. "Want something to drink?"

"Hmm... Ramune... Not good either, it's not summer yet. Or carbonated juice? But I want to drink Ramune... Or both..."

"Unfortunately, there is only one option." Xia Chuanzou said expressionlessly, thinking that this guy really didn't know what politeness was. Not only did he choose one, he actually wanted them all!

"Hey~ President is so stingy..." Fujiwara Chika muttered, and then finally made a decision under his cannibalistic gaze, "Then let's go with carbonated juice. The first round of soda this year should be saved for the real summer!"

"I don't understand where this sense of ritual comes from." Natsukawa Kanade shook his head, then skillfully bought two cans of carbonated juice and presented them in front of Fujiwara Chika.

"Orange juice or green apple, which one do you want?"

"Ugh... Damn it, you have to use this trick..." Fujiwara Chika felt a little distressed.

Xia Chuanzou rolled his eyes at her and urged her, "It's already good enough to let you choose first, don't play tricks, hurry up..."

"Well...then orange juice will be fine..." Fujiwara Chika hesitated for a long time before finally making a decision.

But when Xiachuan Zou handed her the orange juice, as soon as he pulled the ring, she stared at him with a eager expression, making it difficult for him to drink it.

"Then you drink this?" Xia Chuan Zou sighed. Fortunately, he hadn't moved his mouth yet, so it didn't matter if they exchanged.

In the end, Fujiwara Chika still hesitated and couldn't make a decision, still staring at the soda can in his hand.

"Hey, hey, don't go too far! After all, I have to drink it myself!" He glared at Fujiwara Chika.

"I won't steal it from you!" Fujiwara Chika puffed up her cheeks and said sullenly, "I'm just... a little curious about what it tastes like."

"Then can't you just try it next time?" Xia Chuan Zou glanced at her, still holding the opened bottle of soda in his hand.

"Oh, President, you don't understand at all. Things like this must be satisfied immediately! If you wait until next time, your mood will have changed. You might even want something else!"

"Then just buy one for yourself now."

"I didn't bring any money." Fujiwara Chika put her hands on her hips and said confidently, "In order to prevent being tempted by delicious food, I never bring any money every time I take Pace out to play!"

"But aren't you still tempted?" Xia Chuan Zou said sarcastically.

"No way! It was clearly... the president who seduced me! It's the president's fault!"

"Wow, you! I treated you to food and drinks, and you said it was my fault. No more next time!" Natsukawa Kanade pretended to threaten. He didn't really think so. Anyway, Fujiwara just liked to talk nonsense.

But it was quite useful because he saw Fujiwara Chika blushing and looking very embarrassed.

"I...I didn't mean that...I just...just..."

But she hesitated for a long time and couldn't say anything, so Xia Chuan Zou was a little helpless, "So which one do you want to drink? Do you want to change it back?"

"Uh..." Fujiwara Chika was also very distressed. After hesitating for a while, she said hesitantly: "How about... let me try it and see?"

"Why didn't you just say it earlier? Why are you hesitating for so long?" Xia Chuan Zou complained, then reached out and handed over the soda.

After Fujiwara Chika took it in a daze, her movements became even more awkward than before.

Xia Chuan Zou was puzzled and couldn't help but urge him, "What are you waiting for? Make a decision quickly. You are not thirsty, but I am dying of thirst."

So Fujiwara Chika calmed down, but inexplicably looked at him with a very strange look, and then slowly took a sip from the soda bottle.

She smacked her lips first, tilted her head as if she was savoring it carefully, and then commented to him, "It doesn't taste good... It's definitely not as good as the one in my hand."

"You talk as if you've drunk that?" Xiachuan Kanade complained, then reached out and took the soda can back.

Naturally, he didn't care much about Fujiwara Chika's behavior of drinking. This kind of thing didn't matter to him at all. As long as the other party didn't mind, there was no problem.

After taking a big sip, Natsukawa Kanade wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, revealing a satisfied expression.

"After eating takoyaki, drinking a can of carbonated juice is really refreshing."

Chika Fujiwara was holding a drink with a satisfied and happy expression on her face. She was indeed a foodie.

"Let's go." After she finished drinking the soda, Xia Chuanzou spoke, then turned and headed in another direction, "It's getting late, I'll take you home."

"Eh hey hey? You obviously don't want to go home yet..." Fujiwara Chika muttered, then looked at the golden retriever lying beside her who had obviously started to take a nap, "Pace doesn't want to go home either, right?"

"..."

How dare you say such a thing? You always use your dog as a shield!

"Didn't you say you were hungry? Then go home and eat early, and don't make your family worry."

“Having said that…” Fujiwara Chika pouted and muttered, “I finally managed to meet the president, I want to hang out outside for a while…”

Of course Natsukawa Zou didn't respond to her. He thought that this guy was treating him as free labor and that he was just making excuses to go out and play but didn't want to walk the dog.

"Then we'll go out together next time we have a chance... without the Pez, of course."

"Oh oh..." Fujiwara Chika nodded continuously, then squatted down and whispered to the golden retriever: "Look, Pace, the president is really a bad guy. He asked me to go out and play without you next time. Isn't that too much?"

Then he stroked its head and continued to talk nonsense, "So Pace, you have to keep working hard and try to make the president like you, so that he will think of you in the future."

"Hey, hey, stop stirring up trouble here!" Xia Chuan Zou pouted, also squatted down, and touched the golden retriever's head, "Don't believe what your stupid master says, you are very cute and lovable, I don't hate you."

Apart from anything else, this golden retriever scores points just for its understanding of human nature, and it has never made any noise or trouble, showing its stable emotions. It can even tolerate an owner like Fujiwara Chika.

"Hmph, it's just nice talk anyway." Fujiwara Chika snorted.

Natsukawa Kanade simply ignored her and stood up again.

"Okay, stop making trouble, get up quickly, I'll take you back."

"I remember the president lives on the other side, right?" Fujiwara Chika stood up and walked over, "You don't have to send me off. I can go back by myself."

Xia Chuan Kanade put his hands in his pockets, "What if you get lost?"

"You're not a child, how could you get lost?" Fujiwara Chika pouted, feeling that she was looked down upon. "Besides, I have Pace with me."

"Then what happened to you separating from it before?" Xia Chuan Zou asked back.

Although she had said before that it was because of him, he didn't think that such a well-behaved golden retriever would abandon its owner and run off to find a stranger whom it had only met twice, even though the relationship between the stranger and its owner seemed to be pretty good.

"Uh... just, I said it was because I met the president..." Fujiwara Chika stammered.

Natsukawa Zou stopped looking at her and focused on walking the dog.

The two of them chatted casually, and the journey seemed less boring.

"Come to think of it, summer is almost here, even though winter just ended." Fujiwara Chika complained.

"It's normal, because we are now an industrial society, which is prone to heat island effects." Xiachuan Kanade explained to her, "In addition, due to global warming and excessive human intervention, the original ecological environment of the earth has been changed."

"So it's actually our human fault?" Fujiwara Chika looked thoughtful.

"That's not entirely true." Xia Chuan Zou shook his head and said, "The struggle of living things to survive can at most be regarded as instinct, but human instincts are more numerous and strong, and they are also able to change the surrounding environment because of this."

If he were given a choice, he would naturally prefer to stay in a modern industrial society rather than go back to the old days. Although the current era is not all good, overall, it is easier for ordinary people to survive.

"Whether other creatures or the earth itself is willing or not, it is a fact that this world is dominated by humans. The specific direction still depends on this group." Seeing that Fujiwara Chika was also interested, Natsukawa Kanade couldn't help but analyze more.

"That is to say...if humans are willing, they can make the earth a better place? As long as they go in the right direction?"

"That's true in theory." Xia Chuan Zou nodded, "But in reality it's basically impossible. It's like the eternal topic of war and peace. Everyone knows that war is bad and will bring incomparable serious consequences, but war still exists and will happen from time to time."

"As long as there are more than two individuals, disputes are inevitable. All ordinary people can do is to do their best."

"..." Fujiwara Chika nodded, as if she had some realization. "In that case, only by becoming someone who can influence other people's thoughts can we eventually transform society better, right?"

"..." Xia Chuan Zou glanced at her, somewhat puzzled as to why the topic gradually turned to this. "Don't think too much about it. Your current task is just to study hard. It's okay to leave this kind of thing for later thinking."

"Eh?" Fujiwara Chika looked at him in surprise, "I thought you were going to say... President, don't you think I'm just imagining things?"

Xia Chuan Zou shook his head. "How can others know what everyone is thinking? Maybe others think that your thinking is just wishful thinking, but I think that no matter what the purpose is, since you are thinking, it proves that it is not completely useless. I think, therefore I am. The same principle can be applied here."

"Hmm...it's a bit obscure..." Fujiwara Chika shook her head in distress.

"Normal, because this sentence was said by a philosopher, and as we all know, philosophers are one of the most difficult people in the world to understand."

"One of them?" Fujiwara Chika tilted her head, as if she had found a blind spot. "Are there any other incomprehensible groups?"

"Yes." Xia Chuan Kanade glanced at her lightly, and then added, "Similarly, there are also mentally ill people and... women."

“Considered one of the most incomprehensible groups in the world.”

"..." Fujiwara Chika was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized that she was also a girl, so she puffed up her cheeks and protested, "Prejudice! It's all prejudice!"

"..." Xia Chuan Zou on the side remained silent.

Mainly from his personal perspective, the thoughts of philosophers are actually a little easier to understand.

After Fujiwara Chika made a fuss for a while, the two of them arrived at their destination.

As mentioned before, in order to go to school conveniently, Fujiwara Chika and her sisters lived outside, in a relatively luxurious house with a courtyard. Natsukawa Kanade had been here before, and at that time the whole house was surrounded by various big bodyguards. But today there were none, not even a gatekeeper, which made people feel a little relaxed.

"We're here. Come in. I have to go back too." Natsukawa Kanade said to Fujiwara Chika who was standing beside her.

"President, why don't you come in and sit for a while? And stay for dinner or something?" Fujiwara Chika suggested, then she pulled the dog leash and looked at the golden retriever as if asking it to think of a solution.

This golden retriever is really very human-like. Although it was obviously very sleepy, it still forced itself to stand up, walked slowly to Xia Chuan Zou and licked his hand.

"Okay, okay, I'll see you next time." Then he looked at Fujiwara Chika, looking somewhat helpless, "Only you can ask a dog to keep the guests away."

"What does it matter..." Fujiwara Chika pouted, "Besides, Sister Fengshi's cooking skills are quite good!"

"I know. It's not like I haven't eaten it before." Xia Chuan Zou nodded, but still refused. "Let's talk about it next time. If there is a chance in the future, I will come to visit formally."

The previous one doesn’t count. I’ll just bring a gift next time.

"Well... okay, bye, President. See you tomorrow." Fujiwara Chika waved her hand with a little regret and confessed to him.

Natsukawa Kanade also responded, "Well, see you tomorrow."

248. Loving Service from Angels

He made peace with Mahiru... No, actually they didn't have a quarrel in the first place, it's just that the angel was too shy and had been avoiding him for the past few days, but today he was finally willing to get closer.

After dinner, Mahiru sat on the sofa as usual, hugging her pillow and killing time. Natsukawa Kanade also sat next to her, and the two chatted casually.

"It would be nice if we could have such a happy chat in the classroom..." Miss Angel suddenly sighed. Perhaps the friendship between classmates in the TV series aroused her longing, so she couldn't help but pouting, "It was so hard to be assigned to the same class, but it's already the middle of the semester and we still haven't talked much."

Xiachuan Kanade turned his head and looked at her, "What's wrong? ... Do you feel that the usual communication is not enough?"

"That's not the case." Miss Angel shook her head. "It's just that the atmosphere at home is different from that at school, and..."

"and?"

"Well...anyway, it's different!" Miss Angel suddenly hit him with a pillow, "Anyway, this person is very insane, he won't understand even if I tell him."

"I can't agree with this." After being ambushed, Natsukawa Kanade reacted quickly and blocked her subsequent attacks.

In his opinion, the angel was obviously much more obtuse than him. At least he could still detect some strange atmospheres that suddenly appeared in the class, but Mahiru seemed to be completely blinded. She actually thought that no one had noticed their interactions and that they were hiding it very well.

So Xiachuan Zou couldn't help but reveal a slightly helpless expression on his face.

"So I told you before, Mahiru, you don't have to be patient. If you want to talk, just come over. Otherwise, I will take the initiative to find you."

"No, you absolutely cannot come over." Miss Angel couldn't help shaking her head and refusing, "If this happens, it will surely cause strange rumors to spread about Kanade, right? I can't cause you any more trouble."

"..." Xia Chuan Zou didn't know what to say next.

It seemed that she had always been like this. Compared with her own feelings, she seemed to care more about his situation. If I suddenly told her now that their "intimate" relationship might have been exposed to classmates a long time ago, she might feel uncomfortable for a while... Forget it, let her discover it slowly by herself.

Anyway, the classmates in the class had already behaved very obviously. It was like that before at the forest school, because Mahiru stayed to wait for him to wake up, she had actually already attracted the attention of other students, and she was the only one who was so stupid as to not notice it.

Seeing that Natsukawa Kanade suddenly stopped talking, Mahiru pursed her lips and looked at him with dissatisfaction: "Don't come over to see me!"

She had to remind him again, because she knew very well that if Zou really started talking to her in class, then her feelings might be exposed, and then it might not just be a matter of causing trouble for Zou.

"Yes, yes, I understand." Xia Chuan Zou sighed helplessly.

"I always feel like you are just being perfunctory..." The angel pouted and said dissatisfiedly.