In the anime, their emotions can be combined into strange props

However, in reality, not only did Yukinoshita have no intention of speaking, she just silently looked at someone - Xia Yan could actually understand this. After all, with Yukinoshita's personality, she would not do something like promising benefits to canvass votes.

But what was even more strange was that Fujiwara Chika, who was obviously the best at canvassing for votes and cheating in such places, did not react at all at this time. She just looked at Xia Yan with the same smile, as if she was giving him the final right of choice with complete trust.

Faced with this situation, Xia Yan thought carefully for two seconds.

Although he is in the Service Club, his relationship with Yukinoshita is not actually very friendly.

As we all know, or anyone with social anxiety knows, what they fear most is not hanging out with a large group of people, because in that way you can at least hide in a corner and listen to other people's conversations quietly.

For people with social anxiety, the worst situation is to be alone with two people in a small space.

This was undoubtedly the situation of the very first service department.

In the awkward atmosphere of silence, people with social anxiety will feel uncomfortable and increasingly restless, and then, looking at the person on the other side, they will desperately want to bring up a topic to ease the awkwardness of silence.

But in the end, because of the nature of social anxiety, they have no idea what topic to talk about, so the only choice left for them is to pretend to play with their mobile phones with goose bumps all over their bodies, or to actually play with their mobile phones.

At that time, Xia Yan also persuaded himself that he was just here to play the game, and whether it was embarrassing or not was none of his business, so he could just lower his head and focus on his own things, but gradually...

Perhaps Yukinoshita also felt that the service club didn't even have a cup of boiled water to entertain guests, which was indeed too simple, so one day she brought black tea to the service club.

As the warm afternoon sun streamed into the clubroom, the two of them sat on either side of their desks, quietly flipping through their books. Steam rose from the delicately patterned teacups on the tabletop...

Perhaps it was the gradual change from awkwardness to tranquility in the atmosphere that gave him a bit of an illusion, but Xia Yan could indeed feel that there was still a certain amount of unspoken understanding between him and Yukinoshita.

Therefore, Xia Yan, who was now looking away from Yukinoshita and Fujiwara Chika, who were staring at him, naturally chose:

"I vote for [United Department]."

……

……

Shuchiin, 16:00 PM.

Xia Yan was leaving Shuchiin with his schoolbag, feeling a little guilty - Yukinoshita Yukino was still too naive after all.

Have you ever seen a candidate campaigning without bribing voters in advance?

Moreover, Fujiwara Chika had not only contacted Xia Yan in advance and confirmed that she had won his vote, she even roughly investigated the personality traits of Hikigaya, Yuigahama, and even Yukinoshita herself - otherwise, how could she have provoked Yukinoshita's weak spot so accurately.

There was a huge gap in the preliminary preparations from the very beginning. How could Yukinoshita possibly win this game proposed by Fujiwara Chika where she was cheating the whole time - unless Xia Yan, who had promised a certain pink-haired girl, could turn against her at the last minute.

But Xia Yan actually didn't feel any guilt at all about his "betrayal".

Because the reason why Fujiwara Chika spent so much effort to merge with the Service Club was that she really just wanted half of the club activity funds that she had swindled - after all, she was the one who would use Coke to bribe the student council president to increase her club's funds.

Therefore, after the two of them merged, except for the club name that had to be changed - if Yukinoshita insisted, maybe even the club name didn't need to be changed, and then they would just each have half of the club room, and they would carry out their own club activities without affecting each other.

The two people in the board game department are really very pure. They just want a place and some funds to develop board games and play the board games they made.

Therefore, there is no harm in merging the departments.

Xia Yan was only interested in this - he agreed to "betray" the Service Club because it would allow him to have better contact with Fujiwara Chika.

If there was one thing he had miscalculated, it might be... He glanced at the fragment he had just obtained:

[Yukinoshita Yukino is a little angry]

Xia Yan: “…”

When I have time next week, I'll go and apologize to her...?

No, no, no, it's impossible for me to apologize. I will never apologize to anyone in this life.

Just thinking about how he would have to shyly apologize to someone made him feel uncomfortable. At most...

If I have a chance to be alone with Yukinoshita next week, I'll go and explain it to her.

Thinking so, Xia Yan put away the things in his hands. He had an important "date" at the weekend, so he decided to leave the matter with Yukinoshita until next week when he had the chance.

Chapter 29: The Weekend That Might Not Come

The next day, Saturday afternoon.

An abandoned mansion in the suburbs.

Because he grew up fighting in the extremely chaotic area of ​​[Central], Juukiji Ouma has almost no demands on the quality of life.

So after he recently walked out of that hellhole in [Zhong], he just randomly found a mansion in the woods that had been abandoned for who knows how many years, with even the gate covered with vines, and settled down there.

This made Xia Yan do this every day:

"Hey, the conditions are the same. If you win, I'll tell you what you want to know."

“…the same place.”

After making such a brief phone call to arrange a fight, it took him several hours just to get to this remote suburb.

"Huchi~huchi~"

And now, Xia Yan was indeed wearing a thin shirt with rolled-up sleeves, his whole body soaked with sweat, and he was panting as he confronted the Ten Demons in this abandoned mansion.

I don't know if it was because of his previous taunt of "opening a pre-borrowing when you see the situation is not good" that worked, but after that, Juu Kisara's character changed from fierce to inexplicably silent during the battle with him, and even the pre-borrowing was a tacit agreement between both parties, and no one opened it again.

The fight between the two men also gradually changed from a fight without caring about injuries to a pure exchange of skills.

Of course, sparring is sparring, but in reality, neither of them has any intention of holding back, except that they won't deliberately hit wounds and vital points.

After all, they were all martial artists, so who among them was willing to admit defeat? Besides...

Xia Yan stared at the shoulder of the Ten Demon Snake King Horse opposite him, which was wrapped in thick bandages. Although his arm was not broken in just a few days, the serious injury of his shattered shoulder blade was naturally not so easy to recover from.

At least Xia Yan, who was fighting against him, could always feel the weakness of his left hand and the embarrassment of not being able to lift his shoulder.

However, facing such a seriously injured enemy, Xia Yan's victory was not as easy as he had imagined.

Every time he fought against this guy, he had the illusion that Juukishima, who was fighting against him, seemed to be transforming and remembering something every moment.

A few minutes later.

The Ten Demon Snakes, who had already stopped fighting, were sitting in the lobby of the mansion, next to the huge solid wooden staircase that vaguely showed the prosperity of the past. In the shadow behind the staircase, one could see the corpse of a huge wild boar that was almost as tall as a person.

Shikishe scraped off the wild boar's thigh meat, then took out a small gas stove and frying pan that he had bought from somewhere, placed them in front of him and started frying the wild boar meat.

Xia Yan also sat not far in front of him on a large piece of rubble that had fallen from somewhere, studying the third fragment of will that had just been peeled off from this guy.

During these few days, he had fought with the Ten Demon Snakes about seven times. As shown by the number of fragments, he was not able to produce fragments of will every time.

However, thanks to these examples, as well as the Ten Demon Snake King's increasingly tenacious fighting spirit and combat effectiveness, Xia Yan was able to go from easily winning at the beginning to being able to barely tie with him now.

This allowed him to figure out the pattern of the explosion of will fragments.

mood.

The male protagonist's fragments are still related to this, but compared to the female protagonist, for some reason, it seems much more difficult to obtain the fragments.

As the name of the fragments suggests, they need to accumulate certain emotions continuously until they are sublimated into a certain "will" in order to explode.

For example, the fragment of Jukija Ouma's will was the one that remained undiminished in the continuous battles, no matter how many times he was defeated, and even in the original work, when his heart reached its limit and died once.

The will to win!

Xia Yan simply beat up Aki Tomoya at the time, so naturally there was no question of his sublimated will, so he was unable to produce the male protagonist's fragments.

And as a fragment of will that was obtained with such great difficulty, its function seems to be only...

Xia Yan began dragging the fragments of Juuki Snake King's Will, which he had finally collected 3 of, to the synthesis slot. As expected, the final item he synthesized was:

[Two Tigers (Blue) +1]

Unlike emotion fragments, will fragments seem to be synthesized into fixed items, which are specifically manifested as some special skills or specialties possessed by the male protagonist - Xia Yan didn't know whether to say that this mechanism is useful or not.

Because for Xia Yan at the moment, being able to synthesize a certain skill is quite useful, at least it can speed up his initial accumulation of skill levels.

Now with the addition of another +1 Erhu Flow skill that he had created using the emotional fragments in the past few days, Xia Yan's Erhu Flow had now reached a level of +5.

My understanding of Erhu Liu has gradually begun to move away from simply applying martial arts. I can try to study the principles of Erhu Liu's various moves more deeply and integrate them into other skills.

"Want to eat?"

At this moment, the Ten Demon Snakes suddenly threw a mobile phone to Xia Yan and pointed to the frying pan in front of them, where each of them had a fork inserted into the fried wild boar steak.

After Xia Yan took the phone, he didn't hesitate to go over, pick up a piece of steak and start eating it, and handed the other phone in his pocket to Shi Guishe.

In addition to completing his "daily tasks", the main reason he came here this time was to change back to his original mobile phone.

Last time, in a hurry, in order to be able to contact Juu Kisashi Ouma, he had no choice but to throw his mobile phone to the other party.

Although there were no more than five contacts on Xia Yan's phone, it was quite troublesome for him not to be able to contact these five people, especially today - so he came over to change his phone.

"Aren't you going to say anything, kid?" Amid the sounds of chewing, Ten Ghost Snake King Ma stared blankly ahead, but not at Xia Yan, and suddenly spoke.

"Oh, except that even though you seem to have added a lot of soy sauce to enhance the flavor, the wild boar meat still has a strong smell... Let me think."

Xia Yan didn't mind revealing the secrets of Erhuliu to Juukishe—even revealing the secrets of the second part, Omega, wouldn't matter, as long as Juukishe was still willing to fight him twice a day for gold coins: "At least my Erhuliu wasn't learned from anyone you imagined."

"As for the more specific situation..."

Xia Yan swallowed the steak on his fork in one gulp and said with a smile, "I'll tell you next time. I have an important appointment later, so I don't want to waste my time here with you."

"..."

In the silence, Juukishima did not ask any more questions. Instead, he watched calmly as Xia Yan picked up the coat he had thrown away and turned to leave.

Suddenly, Tenkishe frowned inexplicably. He just looked at the back of the little ghost leaving, and for some reason...

Suddenly I had a bad feeling.

……

……

Saturday evening.

Xia Yan does not have Alzheimer's disease and has misremembered the date agreed upon with Kato Megumi. Instead, the person he had an appointment to meet today is another person.

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Xia Yan didn't know whether to call her dedicated or what. She actually asked him out to review the character designs for the book he'd commissioned her to draw, and the first few drafts, just because they were finished...

However, it was rare that someone was willing to meet him on the weekend, so Xia Yan naturally said goodbye to the Ten Ghost Snakes, went home to pack his clothes, and then rode his motorcycle over.

The place they agreed to meet was in an ordinary family restaurant. When Xia Yan arrived there, he could look across the street and see Eriri sitting by the window in the restaurant opposite with her lively shaking ponytails and the way she turned her head away inexplicably in anger.

Seeing her look, Xia Yan also showed a funny expression and pushed the motorcycle to a marked parking space on the side of the road.

Everything was so peaceful and beautiful, until...

For the first time, the system's small map automatically popped up in front of Xia Yan, and on it:

Red! Bright red!

A bright red human face with only blurred facial features suddenly appeared on the small map, and it was located not far from Xia Yan, and was even approaching him.

Xia Yan's body suddenly froze, not because he was frightened by the small map that suddenly popped up, but...

"Hello, sir. I accidentally dropped my wallet in the alley, but it's too dark over there. I'm a little scared. Could you please help me?"

Xia Yan turned his head with a slightly stiff neck, looked in the direction of the voice, and then saw a tall and beautiful woman.

Her long dark purple hair was draped in front of her, and her raised pale cherry lips and purple eyes were all obviously charming, but the pure white dress with lace patterns on the hem that she wore unexpectedly gave her a sense of purity and intellect.

This is a mature and intellectual beauty with great charm.

Xia Yan immediately saw this intellectual beauty and made a timid plea: "Can you accompany me for a while to retrieve my wallet?"

Xia Yan froze for several seconds holding the handlebars of the motorcycle, then he suddenly smiled and said:

"Okay."

Chapter 30: Ordinary people also have things they want to pursue