Catalogue of forbidden Taoist techniques

"Uh, it means sitting together and studying."

"Will they interfere with each other? The efficiency is a bit too low."

Ling Wuji grabbed a French fry, dipped it in ketchup, and put it in his mouth while speaking.

But even a lady from a prestigious family like Yukinoshita Yukino, who always pays attention to etiquette and manners, did not think there was anything wrong with the boy's behavior. Instead, she felt that he should be such a free and easy person by nature. If others imitated him, it would probably only make people think they were rude and impolite. However, the boy's attitude at this moment had a kind of just the right amount of casualness -

Although Yukinoshita Yukino felt that she must have seen the boy's unbridled behavior too much recently, so she had hallucinations.

She pressed her forehead with a headache.

But then I heard someone next to me say, "Brother..."

When did he get a younger sister?

But she soon realized that the person she was calling "brother" was probably Hikigaya Hachiman or Totsuka Ayaka.

After all, she simply couldn't imagine Ling Wuji having a younger sister.

Although her sister Yukinoshita Haruno also said that Ling Wuzhi was the only one left in his family.

This also means that it is absolutely impossible for Ling Wuji to inherit the Yukinoshita family business as Yukinoshita's adopted son-in-law.

Although the possibility of this is very small.

So she looked up and saw a delicate-looking junior high school student waving in the direction of Hikigaya Hachiman. Judging from their appearance alone, except for the pair of dead fish eyes that were about to rot and were too distinct, the two people were indeed very similar, although the behavior of the beautiful girl who greeted people gracefully and the boy who always liked to hide in a corner and read books by himself was really very different.

"Komachi, why are you here?"

Hikigaya Hachiman spoke at the right time, and then his eyes quickly locked on the boy sitting next to his sister Hikigaya Komachi, with an expression as if he was worried that his cabbage was being eaten by a pig.

Then the situation suddenly became chaotic.

Only Ling Wuji still looked aloof. He was just eating French fries and drinking Coke nonchalantly, not taking the current situation to heart at all. But after they all introduced themselves, everyone's attention was focused on him. After all, people like Ling Wuji were quite attractive just by their appearance, not to mention that his aloof attitude was really impressive. In a sense, Hikigaya Hachiman was more worried about Ling Wuji than Komachi's classmate Kawasaki Daishi.

After all, no matter how you look at it, Daishi Kawasaki is just an ordinary person.

"No disease."

In the end, Ling Wu Ji couldn't stand the current atmosphere and said his name.

Then the topic of the off-campus study session quickly shifted to Hikigaya Komachi, the younger sister of Hikigaya Hachiman. Of course, Ling Wuji didn't want to pay attention to it. He just ate his dinner on the side. But the topic they discussed eventually flowed into his ears. Ling Wuji heard Kawasaki Daishi say that his sister had become very strange recently, as if she had become a bad girl, and she always came back very late.

His sister's name is...

"Kawasaki Saki?"

"He's a classmate from Class F. Don't you know him?"

Ling Wu Ji shook his head.

For Ling Wuji, although he has always had a photographic memory, the names of his classmates are not something worth wasting brain cells on, after all, he usually doesn't interact with them at all.

Originally, for Hachiman Hikigaya, the reason why he didn't remember the names of his classmates was naturally similar. It was just that he was caught late today by Shizuka Hiratsuka, and the sister that Daishi Kawasaki mentioned was naturally Saki Kawasaki, who was also late, so he remembered this name. Otherwise, he would have forgotten all these things long ago.

"So, you want to turn her back to the way she was?"

Ling Wuji still spoke as if it was none of his business.

"Um...Does Ling want to help too?"

"Well, first tell me what you are going to do."

Ling Wu Ji thought that the inside story might be simpler than you imagined.

"First of all," Hikigaya Hachiman saw that it was his sister who asked for the commission. Although it was outside the school, he had no reason to drag these people into it. But now that no one had any intention of backing out, he took the initiative to step forward, "We need to find where that 'Angel' is."

"and then?"

“Then we’ll just play it by ear.”

Ling Wuji thought for a moment and said, "This is my junior brother Kawasaki."

"Yes!"

The junior high school student suddenly spoke loudly.

"Don't be so excited. I'm not some big brother." Ling Wuji just waved his hand and said, "You said that your sister studied very hard when she was in junior high school, so she was able to get into our school, right?"

"Ah."

He nodded vigorously.

"And you also said that your parents are both working people, and you have younger brothers and sisters. Can I assume that your family's financial situation is rather tight?"

Ling Wuji still had that nonchalant tone.

Kawasaki Daishi glanced nervously at Hikigaya Komachi, and then secretly looked at Yukinoshita Yukino. After all, in the eyes of a junior high school student like this, it was not very nice to admit that his family was in financial difficulty in front of such a beautiful girl. But he finally lowered his head and whispered, "That's right."

"So, what if your sister's motivation is just to continue to go to college and that's why she wants to work at night?"

Ling Wuji's inference does not sound unreasonable.

"But……"

"Although in my opinion, the concept of family in Japan is really distorted."

At this time the young man suddenly said.

"What do you mean by this, Lord?"

Yuigahama Yui asked.

"Let's take that conclusion as a fact. Then, she wants to work part-time because her family can't afford to continue to support her to go to college. The most fundamental reason for this is of course economic reasons. However, I think there is a deeper reason, which is that their family wants to continue to let this junior Kawasaki go to school, right? Therefore, their family can't afford to support two students - one of whom is a college student - to go to school, but the question is, why is she the one who was abandoned?"

Ling Wu Ji just said.

"Well, that's because..."

Originally, no one present was aware of the problem that Ling Wuji was talking about. Now that Ling Wuji raised it, they realized that this was indeed a good question.

Yes, why was she the one who was abandoned, and not Kawasaki Daishi?

It would be fine if Kawasaki Saki failed the exam, but she knew before she even took the exam that she and Kawasaki Daishi would definitely be the one who was abandoned, so she wanted to go out to work and earn money for her college education. But in this way, the deeper reason behind the problem was covered up, so that no one realized why she thought this way.

Volume 6: Life and Death in the Present: Chapter 9: Inference

The root cause of all this, just as Ling Wu Ji complained, lies in Japan's family concept, or to be more direct, the distortion of gender concepts. In fact, although China's one-child policy was controversial for a period of time, this policy has promoted gender equality in China to a certain extent. Although topics about women's rights and gender confrontation have been constantly causing controversy on the Chinese Internet in recent years, of course, if you have to say it, Japan has also had a feminist movement, but after the economic recession, Japan entered a low-desire society, and men changed from Showa men to Heisei waste. No, it seems to be Reiwa now?

In short, it is clear that Japan is a patriarchal society with deep feudal legacy.

Of course, Wu Ji doesn't actually care what kind of society Japan is. In fact, if he really wants to say something, his current situation is very worthy of criticism.

But secular moral laws are of little use to him now.

Therefore, it is natural for Ling Wuji to complain about the social atmosphere in Japan.

Kawasaki Daishi also reacted at this time, thinking that Ling Wuji wanted him to give up his future of going to college or even high school in exchange for his sister Kawasaki Saki going to college, so he was filled with blood and clenched his fists, saying: "Don't worry, senior, I will tell my parents that I am willing to give up so that my sister can go to college..."

Ling Wuji immediately shook his head and said, "First, the matter has not been concluded yet. It is hard to say whether she works at night because she wants to go to college. Second, even if you are willing, she may not be willing, right?"

He simply held up two fingers and said to the junior high school student.

"Why would you not want to..."

The middle school student was confused for a moment, but Ling Wuji said directly: "Maybe she is not simply disappointed with her parents and thinks that they will definitely favor boys over girls, but she really loves you as a brother and doesn't want you to be stuck between her and her parents? So, this matter seems to have become an economic issue in the end, and this kind of problem seems too cruel for a high school student, right?"

Although such words are certainly not worth mentioning to a lady from a noble family like Yukinoshita Yukino.

But even if she could privately support the suspected bad girl Saki Kawasaki to go to college, she had to consider that person's self-esteem and whether she was willing to accept it.

"Um, Senior..."

Kawasaki Daishi obviously also knows that this is a cruel problem.

And this problem is more cruel for him than for Saki Kawasaki herself.

Because Saki Kawasaki has more or less found her own solution.

Although that would make it impossible for her to balance studying and working, and she might end up earning enough money but not be able to use it to pay for her studies.

This kind of dramatic ending, similar to that of an O. Henry novel, is actually quite interesting.

"how?"

"What if I want my sister to stop working at a place like that no matter what?"

Ling Wuji said, "Let's put everything else aside. You can actually have a frank talk with her and your parents."

Kawasaki Daishi kept nodding: "And then?"

"Then, I guess the talks will still fail."

Ling Wuji knew clearly from his description that her sister was the kind of person who would do things her own way, would not accept sinking into the quagmire of the current situation, and would just muddle through. Since there was doomed to be no good outcome, she certainly was not willing to return to her past life, so this result was inevitable.

"What happens after that?"

"I remember that Japan seems to have some kind of scholarship policy?"

At this time, Hikigaya Hachiman interrupted the conversation and said.

When Ling Wuji heard him say that, he nodded and then suppressed his little thoughts:

Although it is actually quite interesting to kidnap people to test the game.

But since there is a better way, he certainly didn't continue to waste his time on it.

So he took two bites at a time and finished his food. Finally, he said, "However, in fact, whether she really went out to work at night because she wanted to go to college and ended up doing that, you need to confirm this fact by yourselves. I will not accompany you. If it is not the case in the end, please don't continue to look for me. I am not interested in real bad girls, and I don't want girls who have chosen to become bad girls to go back to their original path."

"why?"

Yuigahama Yui said.

"what why?"

"I mean, Ling doesn't want the girl who has chosen to become a delinquent to go back to her old path."

At this time, Ling Wuji had already stood up and said, "A person does not need any reason to choose a lifestyle. Similarly, there is no need for a reason not to go back to the old path."

Ling Wuji said this nonsense as a farewell and walked out of the restaurant, but Yukinoshita Yukino noticed the boy's eyes and finally picked up her belongings. She first apologized to Yuigahama Yui, but then strode to catch up with the boy's back. The few people who were left there could only look at each other, and then Hikigaya Komachi asked in confusion: "Is that Yukinoshita-senpai in love with that... Ling-senpai?"

Hikigaya Hachiman and Yuigahama Yui looked at each other in bewilderment.

Those two people...are in love?

Could it be that Yukinoshita developed feelings for someone because of the abuse?