Let's do it again, Yukino.

"Do you still have any objections?"

Lying on the sofa, her legs were propped up on the edge, her fair and tender calves exposed to the air. She moved her body slightly, her lithe figure shifting towards the inside of the sofa.

The girl's soft breathing could be heard clearly in the silent spring day.

Not long after, a cold, threatening moan came from inside the sofa.

"..."

He could vaguely see the girl's pink fist raised in mid-air. Haruhi, who was about to complain, covered his face and shrank by the table, shaking his head fiercely and answering somewhat cowardly.

"I just won't drink it, Xiaoxue, don't do this."

At worst, I'll just make sure you don't see it again...

"Were you just thinking that as long as I didn't see it, everything would be fine, Kasuga-kun?"

"!!!! Absolutely not!!!"

Her body shuddered, and Haruhi, with her strong will to survive, subconsciously denied it.

The night gradually deepened.

……

I rubbed my sleepy eyes, looked up at the clock on the wall, and saw the hour hand slowly pointing to eleven o'clock.

Beside her, Xiaoxue, who was curled up asleep on the sofa, was breathing steadily and softly.

He stood up, stretched, touched his nose, and headed towards the sofa.

As usual, he gently carried Xiaoxue, who was sleeping on the sofa, to the bedroom.

"This time, don't... be disappointed again."

"You must do your best in the next mock exam."

It must have been in a daze that Xiaoxue, lying in Chunri's arms, clutched Chunri's shirt with both hands, her expression somewhat dazed, and she seemed to be saying something intermittently.

"Okay, get some rest."

The boy gently placed the girl on the bed. Understanding the meaning behind her words, Chunri covered her with a thin blanket, pulled down the curtains by the balcony, and closed the windows on both sides.

He turned off the lights in the living room and closed the bedroom door again. Haruhi had no intention of staying overnight at Koyuki's apartment. After quietly cleaning up everything in the living room, he left the apartment without hesitation.

The apartment where Xiaoxue lived was considered a well-known upscale apartment in Chiba City. As Haruhi walked out of the elevator, he compared his own apartment with hers, and the huge contrast made him crave money.

I didn't plan to go back to the apartment right away. There was a triangular park behind the apartment building, which I used to pass by when I went for walks. I decided to rest there for a while.

The cherry blossoms swayed gently in the evening breeze.

Under the illumination of the only streetlamp, the slide in the park cast a short, thick shadow on the ground. Chunri was sitting on the slide, head down, enjoying the cool breeze.

"To say 'be interested in a' in English is to say 'be interested in a,' and the fixed usage is in the passive voice. So, if you were to translate it directly, you would write 'be interested in something.' But if you were to translate it into Japanese, you would have to make sure it fits the expression habits of the Japanese language."

I was so stupid to go back to high school twice and have to start all over again.

"Prefer A to B means you prefer B over A, right?"

Spring felt incredibly bored as she recited the symbols and letters of this tongue-twisting and obscure language like an idiot.

After being abandoned by his mother and father, Mingming completely lost interest in studying.

but,

Some memories will suddenly flood back —

……

…………

The night was equally hazy.

The young man pulled the girl, who was walking forward with her head down, and unconsciously tightened his grip on her slender shoulders. However, for some reason, his eyes looked somewhat unfriendly.

"Who told you to apply to the same university as me?! Xiaoxue!"

"...You're hurting me."

"Don't give me that nonsense, I need an explanation."

Even so, the young man still withdrew his hands from the girl's body.

"There's not much to explain. I just think that school looks good to me, and there's a scholarship to be had, so why can't I go?"

The girl's bangs covered her eyes, and she spoke with her head down without looking up.

"Are you kidding me? How am I supposed to explain this to your devilish sister?! You forgot, she promised your mother that as long as you pass the exam—"

"Shut up!"

The girl stepped on the shoe of the young man who was about to say something more, raised her head, and her dark pupils seemed to gleam with a faint light.

"If I were to abandon you, I'd feel sorry for Haruhi, who's left there all alone. Is that explanation acceptable? As for my sister, I'll go and persuade them. You don't need to worry about it! You've been nagging incessantly in my ear like a fly, you're really quite noisy, you idiot!!"

Unable to resist, she stomped on the young man again, and finally, the girl angrily strode away.

"Xiaoxue, are you an idiot?"

The young man, still in pain, shouted angrily at the girl in the distance once more.

……

Some nights are muggy.

Sitting on the slide in the park,

Spring shakes its head.

Perhaps, it was after Yuki filled out the same college application as her that Yukishita's mother, that woman, transformed her previously vague hostility towards her into undisguised hatred.

Their original plan to send Xiaoxue abroad for further studies was disrupted by her appearance.

"My life is at a crossroads."

Thinking about these things, I came across this line about spring.

I couldn't help but translate this English sentence, which somewhat suits his current mood.

after all

My life is currently at a crossroads with no clear direction.

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Chapter Seventeen was absolutely terrible.

"Kasuga-kun, thankfully you made it in time."

As the boy hurriedly walked into the classroom with the sound of the bell, Ms. Hiratsuka, who had been staring worriedly at the clock on the wall, breathed a sigh of relief and a relieved smile spread across her face.

"..."

Haruhi, who had discovered that her alarm clock was malfunctioning that morning, came running out of the classroom door, slightly out of breath. She looked at Hiratsuka Shizuka, who was standing on the podium holding a stack of brown envelopes, and nodded apologetically to her.

But I'm not exactly a model student, so why should I arrive early...?

However, it was indeed because the boy had walked too fast that he looked somewhat disheveled and in a mess.

He hadn't washed his face, hadn't tidied his hair, and his school uniform had been in his backpack the whole time before he put it on. He looked all wrinkled from head to toe, and with him covered in sweat and panting, it wasn't just me bragging; no normal delinquent teenager would be as stressed and anxious as he was about a small test.

"Your dark circles have been really bad lately, Kasuga-kun. Have you not been sleeping well?"

During this time, Haruhi gradually got along better with Nagato, who didn't seem to care about her status and would turn around to talk to her from time to time. Although Haruhi still didn't understand what Nagato was interested in about her.

She was holding a comb in her hand.

Do you need me to fix your hair?

"Are you my mom? I have exams coming up, transfer the money to me."

Spring shook her head vigorously without saying a word, muttering a complaint under her breath.

"However, during this period, in preparation for this quiz, I have been getting less than three hours of sleep a day, sometimes even less than two hours."

Xiaoxue tried to subtly suggest that I sleep on her apartment sofa for a while yesterday, but I still refused.

As it turns out, Chunri is not a genius like those reborn transmigrators. If she wants to get good grades, she still has to learn from the other students and memorize the knowledge in the books.

"This is clearly a bad setup. What on earth have you been doing all this time before the exam, Kasuga-kun?"

"It's just regular review. Alright, alright, Nagato, turn around. Hiratsuka-sensei has noticed us. It wouldn't be fun if she thought I copied your work."

"Being serious can also be a bad habit..."

Nagato nodded, turned around, and seemed to murmur something softly.

The first test results after the spring's rebirth have begun.

Hiratsuka Shizuka stood on the podium, straightened her body, and her clear voice echoed throughout the classroom. The classroom, which was usually filled with gentle expressions, remained serious at this moment.

"Everyone sit down. From now on, no talking is allowed. Try not to leave any blank spaces on your test papers."

As Hiratsuka Shizuka untied the thick leather envelope and took out a stack of exam papers, Haruhi, seeing this, finally confirmed a startling fact.

He was indeed just an ordinary guy who was reborn along with his ex-girlfriend. He didn't have any special abilities, nor did he have many girls secretly in love with him. All he had was busyness and a repetitive daily routine.

Even in rebirth novels, the male protagonist still has to take exams. He used to read so many rebirth campus novels, watching the male protagonist build a harem everywhere and conquer girls, and in the end, he could still get into a top university. He always thought that those male protagonists didn't have to take exams.

"Please put everything that is not related to stationery in the drawer, and do not open the test paper until I say 'start'."

Unlike other teachers who pass the test papers from the front row to the back, Hiratsuka Shizuka prefers to distribute them one-to-one.

And today's first exam subject is English, which Haruhi hates the most.

He took a deep breath. After all, he had put in a lot of effort in English recently, and even Xiaoxue had acknowledged his spirit of "studying hard can be useful sometimes."

If he didn't do well on the test, he would be destined to miss out on meals at Xiaoxue's house. Thinking of this, he took a deep breath, and his trembling fingertips touched the test paper that Teacher Hiratsuka had given him. He felt an invisible force pushing him forward.

No problem, there will definitely be no problem this time.

He silently cheered himself up.

What was just an ordinary test in everyone else's eyes, Haruhi looked like she was facing a major crisis.