I really don't want to be reborn.

No, I promised to go to his place this weekend—I realized I was being silly. Kirino never knew that thinking about someone would keep her awake at night, make her lose her appetite, cause her to daydream in class, or make her smile like an idiot right now.

What's so great about Kyosuke anyway?

Why do you think of him like that!

It's nothing special, but when she's not around, Kirino can't suppress the longing she feels.

After a jumble of thoughts, the girl finally snapped out of it before the bell rang. She felt that her thoughts were like a little dog, ready to run off and wander off at any moment.

However, if she goes to her brother's place on the weekend, her father will probably object again. Naturally, she won't listen to her father in everything. Kirino's rebellious nature is the same as her brother's.

The father, Daisuke, was like a gravedigger; as the head of the family, everyone should be below him.

But nobody will listen to him...

But how should I tell my mother?

Kirino sent an email to her brother, but after waiting for several minutes without receiving a reply, she became a little angry. Sending an email and expecting a reply is like writing a story and expecting attention and comfort. No one paid attention, and no one was there to keep her company every night, so of course Kirino was angry.

"Kirino? Who are you emailing now?"

With her best friend standing behind her, Ayase Aragaki smiled and said, "I was just talking to Kanako about whether we should go shopping for clothes together this weekend?"

"I don't have time on the weekend..."

Kirino chuckled awkwardly in refusal, then her eyes lit up suddenly: "Ayase, I have a favor to ask! Let's go this weekend, just the two of us, without Kanako! Just the two of us!"

"Eh... eh?"

Ayase Aragaki seemed to have misunderstood something, her face flushed as she looked at her best friend, as if she had been confessed to.

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I'm in a bad mood. Yesterday evening, Chapter 10 of Volume 2 was blocked because it was accused of being pornographic. I don't know when it will be released.

Let's applaud the whistleblower and the review department.

And there aren't any donations of razor blades (a metaphor for financial support), so I'm going hungry this month...

The following is a book recommendation, an older one. This author is a veteran Wan Hua player in the game. The first time he used his light-foot skill to take me, we both ended up committing suicide together. How embarrassing!

"Precautions for Evil Organizations," a brief introduction is as follows:

Young man, I heard you feel lonely and rotting away, wondering what the meaning of life is? Well, I have an electronic contract here to help you understand the true meaning of life. Just tick "yes," and you'll instantly transform into a humanoid tentacle monster flying at Mach 10, advance to LV6 Hokage, and embark on a journey to the Seireitei, the western branch of the underworld, to find a great treasure! If you sign the contract immediately, you'll also receive a magical girl costume similar to the Bronze Saint's, and an Ultraman transformation controller personally signed by Athena!

……

Bai Qige has many aliases: the mysterious high monk Master Mengyi at the bottom of the cliff who creates adventures for young heroes; the blue raccoon demon king who bestows magical treasures upon chuunibyou (middle school syndrome) teenagers; and the eight-headed serpent demon who serves as the main villain for the protagonists. In this life, you don't necessarily have to be the protagonist; you can also be a professional old man who mass-produces protagonists.

Chapter Seventeen: Eyebrows and eyes as before, time as it always has.

There's an exam before the weekend.

It seems that once you enter high school, there are more exams.

Those exam papers, crammed with questions, could drown you!

"Hey, Kosaka's here early today?"

"Is there an exam? I'm taking the exam while I'm sick, I don't know if it will give me extra points."

"You think too much."

After greeting a few classmates, Kousaka Kyosuke walked to his seat with a smile and patted Akagi Kohei in front of him: "Look at you with that gloomy face, did you get athlete's foot from playing soccer?"

"...Oh my, dear friend, you're here so early today. Are you feeling better yet?"

"Are you worried about me?"

"Of course!"

Kyosuke scoffed, "Really? I've been in the hospital and haven't received a single call of concern from Akagi-nii. Disgusting siscon, get lost!"

Akagi Kohei exclaimed in surprise, "Don't you know that I made up the reason your girlfriend asked for leave? If I weren't so clever, the homeroom teacher would have gone to her house long ago!"

"I really didn't know... Wait a minute! My girlfriend?"

His eyelids twitched. He glanced at the classroom door and, not seeing Kasumigaoka Utaha, lowered his voice: "Where would I get a girlfriend?"

Akagi looked completely bewildered: "Aren't you and Kasumigaoka dating?"

"...Why do you think that?"

"That's what everyone thinks!"

Akagi hesitated for a moment, but finally decided to speak: "Almost everyone in this school knows you two are dating, but it seems like only the two of you don't know..."

Is that right?

Actually, everyone thought they were a couple.

But they were the only ones still acting coy... Thinking back to their previous subtle attempts to avoid suspicion, Kyosuke Kosaka blushed slightly, feeling both embarrassed and annoyed: "Why are there so many gossipy women in this school!"

He suddenly remembered something: "What was your reason for helping her ask for leave?"

"Go get an abortion..."

"..."

Before Kyosuke could grab a chair and throw it at someone, Akagi quickly changed her tune: "Just kidding, just kidding, I just said she took sick leave... Could you put the chair down first?"

Before the exam, Kyosuke and Kohei Akagi were whispering to each other, occasionally using some rather offensive words. It was as if the two young men were exchanging their thoughts.

About erotic books and adult content.

Kyosuke Kosaka's eyes darted around, and he cleared his throat lightly: "What do you think of 'Saya no Uta'?"

For some reason, Kohei Akagi, despite being portrayed as a handsome guy who loves soccer and his sister, has a penchant for buying bizarre and unusual games.

For example, in the game "Higurashi", and the game "Saya no Uta" released two years ago, he seemed to be having a lot of fun with it: "Well, actually the game says that Saya is a piece of meat, but I can just look at her as a girl, right? Besides, it's not easy to imagine what a piece of meat is just from the game."

Kyosuke Kosaka, a bad guy, chuckled and said, "Come on, let me help you imagine. Saya's prototype is something from the Cthulhu pantheon."

I haven't heard of Akagi and said I don't know.

"Shub Nicholas, one of the Outer Gods, is a goddess with extraordinary reproductive power. In the system that Augustus constructed for the Cthulhu Mythos, her image is actually a huge lump of flesh like a black cloud, with many tentacles and a mouth dripping with mucus..."

"Stop, stop talking! I don't want to hear it!"

"You know octopuses, right? Actually, if you close your eyes and feel yourself wriggling among a bunch of tentacles, it's quite amazing..."

"Shut up! Kousaka, you're a devil... Give me back the Saya I remember!"

As the two boys laughed and joked, Kasumigaoka Utaha turned her gaze from the window to the boy at the table in front of her, a wistful smile spreading across her face.

That smile was like a slippery fish, impossible to pick up.

…………

I felt very empty after the exam.

Bored out of his mind, Kyosuke was twirling a pen. His thumb, index finger, and middle finger spun the pen around and around, making it fly up and down between his slender fingers in all sorts of ways.

"For me personally, taking exams is a waste of time."

A bored sigh came from behind me.

Kyosuke understood the girl's thoughts, but remained noncommittal, looking out the window with some worry in his eyes.

It's raining, and it's raining heavily.

The campus, which had been bustling all day, quickly returned to quiet. They watched from the window as the rain, which had formed countless long, transparent lines, swallowed up the earth from the sky.

"I'm worried about the clothes. The clothes at home haven't been put away yet. Are you going back today?"

Ask her if she's going back to her own home.

The girl shook her head indifferently. The two were less than half a meter apart and didn't speak for a long time, seemingly listening to the rain and watching the clouds.

Their postures were very casual, a posture devoid of joy or sorrow.

Half of it rests peacefully in the rain, while the other half is bathed in lamplight.

The girl suddenly stretched out her arm and reached into the rain. The icy rainwater instantly soaked her fair hand, which looked to him like a soft cake sprinkled with icing sugar.

"It looks like it will be a long time before it stops. Let's go. Luckily, I still have an umbrella in my desk, otherwise we would be in even worse shape."

He turned around and took out a small folding umbrella: "Don't wait any longer, or it might get even heavier. I'm starting to regret listening to you and waiting here like an idiot for so long."

Kasumigaoka Utaha sighed inwardly.

Eriri said she didn't know how to pursue men, but actually this man was even more clueless about romance than she was, and he didn't even enjoy spending time alone with a girl.

She dawdled as she packed her schoolbag and followed them downstairs.

"Let's go!"

Kyosuke opened the umbrella, which was clearly meant for girls, with a cartoon black cat on it...

"Is this umbrella yours? Don't tell me you're so girly."

"Um, this is an umbrella from one of Kirino's friends... I borrowed it a long time ago but forgot to return it."

The umbrella wasn't very big; it was probably custom-made for the black cat. Kyosuke was already struggling on his own, so two people would naturally be in a bind.

"Give me your backpack, and put my coat on your head?"

Kasumigaoka Utaha rejected his offer expressionlessly: "Then you get caught in the rain and your condition worsens, so I'll have to take care of you for a few more months, right?"

With his dark thoughts exposed, Kousaka Kyosuke pursed his lips.

Kasumigaoka continued her teasing relentlessly: "How about I rent a room next door? That way it'll be easier to serve you, you big shot?"

"...I don't mind."

"Keep dreaming! Anything can happen in dreams!"

They exchanged a glance, hesitated but tacitly reached out their hands to each other, and then clasped them together.

The boy held up an umbrella, and his heart, which had been numb for a long time, seemed to have a touch of warmth at this moment. In his true teenage years, had he ever held a girl's hand and run in the rain like this?

Under the girl's astonished gaze, Kousaka Kyosuke roared at the sky as if venting his anger, then grabbed her hand and rushed into the heavy rain.

They splashed through the water, their exclamations echoing all the way.

This is the most beautiful scene in May.