Didn’t you say you were just using me as a substitute?

Japan is a country that attaches great importance to the so-called "collective spirit".

In their subconscious, they must belong to a certain group.

The size of the group doesn’t matter, but you must never be alone.

Because they understand that individual power is small, and only by being in and integrating into the collective can individuals give off greater light and heat and shine with greater brilliance.

They believe that people cannot be separated from the collective.

Therefore, even though Katsura Kotonoha is very beautiful, she is still the one isolated by the whole class.

Staying in this class, Gui Yanye felt very depressed.

"Kui-san!"

When Gui Yanye was walking out of the classroom with her hairpin, someone called her.

When Gui Yanye heard this voice, her shoulders trembled.

She heard it.

The person who called her was none other than one of the small groups that often bullied her.

Because she has no friends in class, no one will stand up for her even if she is bullied.

Even if you tell the teacher, it may not be helpful.

The teacher may be willing to take care of it once or twice, but if it happens too many times, the teacher will get annoyed.

Not all teachers are as nosy and trouble-free as Shizuka Hiratsuka.

Gui Yanye had to stop and turned her head slightly to look at Xiao Yuannan: "W-what's the matter?"

"I have something going on at home today. Can you help me clean it?"

Although he was asking for help, Xiao Yuannan's tone did not show any attitude of asking for help.

Katsura Kotonoha: “…”

Liar!

Just two minutes ago, Xiao Yuannan and the other two were still discussing going out to play after Kato Otome Club ended. She was not deaf, so how could she not hear it?

It was just because of her introverted, docile and weak character that she dared not resist when faced with oppression.

Seeing that she hadn't spoken, Xiao Yuannan's tone became a little impatient: "Is this possible?"

"Gui, we are all classmates. It's normal for classmates to help each other."

"You're not such a stingy person, are you?"

Perhaps noticing the situation, Natsumi Koizumi and Raimi Mori came over and started moral blackmail.

Gui Yanye didn't say anything, but just buried her head deeper and became even more silent.

It’s not like no one in the class noticed this.

But no one had any intention of standing up for Katsura Yanye.

Katsura Yanye also knew that no one would help her, so she had to lower her head.

She let her long hair cover her fragile expression and said softly, "...Okay."

"I told you, Katsura-san won't reject us."

"Arigato, Katsura-san."

"Mr. Gui, you are such a nice person."

The three of them appeared to be expressing their gratitude, but in reality, they were all laughing at Kaede Kotonoha for being a fool who accepted everything that happened to her.

They are not afraid of the teacher finding out.

Because they knew that with Katsura Kotonoha's honest character, she would never refuse.

Katsura Yanye asked softly, "Is there anything else? If not, I'm going to eat."

"No more, classmate Gui, go and eat quickly, don't be hungry." The matter was resolved, and Xiao Yuannan didn't want to see Gui Yanye anymore.

He waved his hand, intending to let Gui Yanye leave.

Just as Katsura Kotonoha was about to turn around, Kato Otome suddenly said, "Katsura-san, I heard that you've been getting close to Ito-san from Class 2, Grade 1 lately."

"...Well, he's my boyfriend" "I'll just say it straight out, I don't want you to get too close to him."

Katsura Kotonoha was just about to say that Ito Makoto was her boyfriend.

But before he could even utter the word "boyfriend", Kato Otome interrupted him forcefully.

Katsura Yanye raised her head and asked, "Why?"

Kato Otome's expression froze instantly, as if her hand had been bitten by her own dog.

She saw that Gui Yanye, who had never disobeyed her in the past, actually talked back to her today and glared at her.

"How can there be so many reasons?"

"No reason!"

Kato Otome's strong attitude made Katsura Kotonoha silent again.

"Alright, Otome! Let's go eat!"

"It's not like Ito-san likes her anyway."

"Let's go, we have to wait for a seat again."

At this time, Koizumi Natsumi and the other two started to smooth things over and pushed Kato Otome towards the cafeteria.

They rescued Gui Yanye not to help her, but because they didn't want to waste their precious lunch break because of her.

Kato Otome was pushed away.

Perhaps to vent her anger on Kato Otome, Koizumi Natsumi 'accidentally' bumped into Katsura Kotonoha with her shoulder when she walked past her.

Katsura Yanye didn't react at all. She lowered her head and walked out of the classroom in silence, all the way to the rooftop of the astronomy department.

Pushing open the door to the rooftop, Saionji Sekai complained, "Kotonoha, you're so slow!"

"Sorry, something happened in class."

When she arrived at Tiantai Mountain, Gui Yanye had already put her mind into order.

She is a person who is very good at keeping her emotions inside.

She doesn't bring the negativity she experiences onto others.

Of course, it would be quite scary if the repressed emotions of such a person erupted.

As the saying goes, don’t mess with honest people.

"Okay, let's eat quickly. We don't have much time for lunch break." Makoto Ito didn't ask what happened.

"..."

Katsura Yanye's mood suddenly became even worse.

She felt that her boyfriend Makoto Ito had changed.

In the past, he would always ask about even the smallest things that concerned him.

Chats are always back and forth.

She just didn't know when it started, but she found that Ito Makoto was taking longer and longer to reply to her messages, and was becoming more and more perfunctory.

I don't care about my own affairs as much as I used to.

'Does he dislike himself?'

When this idea came to her mind, the first thing she thought of was to save the relationship.

"Cheng, would you like to try the bento I made?"

She didn't know how to win her boyfriend back, so she chose the most traditional method of "making lunch for her lover to express her love."

So Yanye got up at five in the morning, politely declined her mother's help, and worked hard to complete a sumptuous lunch box by herself.

Just as she was about to hand over the lunch box, she saw Sekai Saionji reach out with her chopsticks and take the egg from Makoto Ito's bowl.

"Give me one of your omelettes."

Ito Makoto said without complaint: "Hey, don't you have it in your own bowl? Why are you taking it from me?"

Although he was complaining, Katsura Yanye felt that he didn't seem to care particularly.

"Let me try it for Kotonoha and see how good your cooking skills are." Sekai Saionji said this with confidence.

Upon hearing this, Ito Makoto reached out his chopsticks and took a piece of fried pork cutlet from her lunch box without saying a word.

"give me back!"

Ito Makoto stuffed it directly into his mouth.

Xiyuan World was so angry that she punched her.

Katsura Yanye looked at the two people flirting in front of her, and she felt that they were the lovers, and she was the superfluous one.

The lunch box she stretched out retracted again.

This small action of hers was seen by Saionji Sekai. She cried out in her heart, "Not good!" and her mind raced.

In a second, she reacted.

"Yanye, if your boyfriend steals my pork cutlet, I'll eat yours."

Sekai Saionji angrily took a piece of fried pork cutlet from Kotonoha Katsura's lunch box, put it in her mouth, and praised it before chewing it, "Wow, it's delicious."

"Cheng, your girlfriend is such a good cook."

"You are so lucky, kid."

Saionji Sekai said this on purpose, and as long as Ito Makoto praised Katsura Kotonoha a few words, the matter would be over.

But Makoto Ito did not understand the profound meaning of Saionji's world.

He didn't forget to say at this time: "Of course, do you think Yan Ye is the same as you, a woman with flat breasts and bad temper?"

The smile that was about to appear on Katsura Yanye's face suddenly disappeared.

He held the lunch box in his hand and squeezed it tightly secretly.

"Makoto, you idiot."

Sekai Saionji was really speechless by Makoto Ito's low emotional intelligence.

He didn't understand what I meant at all.

Were you afraid that Gui wouldn't discover our affair? Did you deliberately say it to her face?

Are all boys’ emotional intelligence so low?

.......

"I'm really impressed. Are all boys' emotional intelligence so low?"

At the same time in Aoba Cafeteria, Kamikawa Nari said the same thing.

"Can't he see that I'm angry?"

"Why don't you just coax me?"

"If I ignore him, is he going to ignore me from now on?"

.....

Nari Kamikawa kept muttering to herself, complaining about Kitahara Takashi to her friends like a machine gun.

"I curse this guy, from now on, every time I draw a card, I will get the full guaranteed bonus."

Nari Kamikawa uttered her most vicious curse.

"Rie, you haven't given up on Kitahara-san yet."

"How much do you like Kitahara-san?"

"I really can't stand you."

Some of Nari Kamikawa's close friends joked with a smile.