Uneasy daily life

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"Anyway..." Yukino Yukinoshita said in a muffled voice, "I don't want to feel indebted to you, nor to myself... If we're going to be enemies, then let's be fair and square, because I won't lose... Admittedly, I've thought about it—why I didn't get puberty syndrome, making Haku-kun revolve around me, and forced to reveal more of himself to me... Even though we're enemies, you're stuck in this predicament..."

"Let's deal with things one by one, one by one. I will help you and I will win, and there is no conflict between us..."

Yukino Yukinoshita couldn't help but raise her hand to rub her dry eyes, feeling as if the world before her was a little dazed.

"People who are too upright will suffer... My mother suffered because of this. Her love, which she devoted herself to, was completely ruined, and she has never been able to like anyone since."

Sakurajima Mai gave Yukino Yukinoshita a deep look. After staying up for two nights, Yukino clearly didn't have the energy to hide her thoughts and spoke directly, while she herself seemed indecisive.

"My mother succeeded."

Yukino Yukinoshita retorted in this way.

Haters are not someone who can be easily defeated.

Mai Sakurajima chuckled.

Yukino Yukinoshita couldn't discern the meaning behind the laughter. She turned her head to look at Mai Sakurajima, who became abstract in her dim and swaying vision.

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……

On the rooftop, the evening light was exceptionally bright.

"You came."

The white figure stood with his hands behind his back, gazing at the setting sun, his voice deep and powerful.

Angelina, holding a glass of cola, looked around uncertainly and replied, "I'm here?"

"You shouldn't have come."

"I didn't want to come either."

"You're still here."

"I had to come."

"Why did you come?"

"I...stop!" Angelina, her mind still a bit foggy, took a sip of her cola and said sternly, "Sir, just give me the mission!"

"Very good, this is my excellent subordinate."

The white figure turned around, her face serious, and said, "Touch me!"

Angelina slowly opened her orange-red eyes, the straw she was biting brushing against her lips and bobbing to the side.

"You'd better use your superpowers to 'tie' me up before you touch me." The white figure strictly set out various conditions, "Not too fast, not too slow, not too light, not too heavy, it must be done step by step, in a methodical manner..."

Angelina lifted the Coke cup, felt the weight of the sloshing inside, then bit the straw again and sipped the remaining Coke, before aiming it at the white figure's head.

This interruption made Angelina remember what she was doing and hesitated for a moment: "Are you having an episode?"

"Simply put, in order for the Stand to forget Mai Sakurajima, I need to merge with it to a certain extent. The best way to stimulate this thing to sit up in shock while it's on its deathbed is to get hands on it." The white figure poked the Killer Queen that appeared next to him. "As you can probably tell, this thing is alive. Since it's a mental entity, there's no such thing as sleeping or not sleeping. Therefore, to make it sleep, I can only repair it and strengthen the connection between us, so that when I sleep, it sleeps too."

"Huh? Isn't this dangerous?!"

"What's so dangerous about this? At worst, I can just dismantle it again after this is all over. I've done this many times before. Since this thing doesn't want to die, it can only keep protecting me." Bai Ying chuckled. "I'm on the verge of suicide, and it's the safety cushion. Jumping off a building is no big deal, it'll just turn into a pineapple before I do."

Angelina blinked, glancing subtly at the shattered Killer Queen.

What did the officer do with this body double before...?

"In short, present your claws. First, use your superpowers to bind my hands to prevent me from suddenly falling ill," the white figure said. "Let me test the strength of your superpowers. If it's not enough, I can get some sturdy ropes."

Angelina nodded repeatedly and earnestly activated her superpower.

Puff-!

The white-clad figure and the assassin queen on her body collapsed to the ground, barely managing to utter, "P-Please, it's alright—the pressure is just right, come on! Touch me!"

Angelina stepped forward nervously, raising her hand, unsure what to do. Should she touch Bai Ying's hand? No, no, it was mentioned in the comics that the Killer Queen made bombs by touching them with both hands, so Bai Ying's hand was a danger zone…

An idea popped into her head. Angelina poked and poked Bai Ying's forehead, secretly pleased with herself. "Ahem, sir, how are you feeling?"

Bai Ying frowned, realizing that things were not so simple: "The Assassin Queen's reaction is even weaker than before. Could it be that your hand has gotten fatter?"

Angelina looked at her own white paws. They were quite pretty, weren't they?

"Did you know that people are most confident when they look in the mirror? Conversely, if they take a picture to record it, they will feel ugly?" Bai Ying suggested, "Take a picture of your hands with your phone and see."

"Really? Sir, you're not kidding me, are you?"

Angelina tried it with some skepticism, and glanced at the photos that were taken.

The White Shadow's ingenious plan failed miserably in an unexpected place.

……

……

Soon it will no longer be Mai Sakurajima's home.

"It's not quite as long or as slender, there are a few calluses from holding a pen, but it's very white, soft, and smooth, and the nails are neatly trimmed..."

Angelina curled up on the sofa reciting the "Confidence Sutra," while Mai Sakurajima listened curiously. Yukino Yukinoshita, sitting on the sofa, forced herself to stay awake: "What's the solution you came up with, Haku-kun? Is it perhaps using your puberty syndrome...?"

"If you don't sleep for a day, your IQ will be halved; if you don't sleep for two days, your brain will regress to its ancestral state; if you don't sleep for three days, you'll head to Cthulhu. Give up squeezing your brain cells; some things just can't be done."

Bai Ying poured a cup of hot tea and handed it to him with a smile: "Brave warrior, it's time to take your medicine."

"I'm not sick, why should I take medicine?"

Yukino Yukinoshita took it and drank some.

"Sleeping pills."

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Chapter 102 Holding a Slight Question

Sedatives... There are sleeping pills in the water?!

Yukino blinked hard, and the world began to twist and spin. Someone seemed to be twisting and turning along with it, as if they were dancing.

I was careless. How could I drink the water Bai Junxin handed me without thinking?!

"Bai Jun, you—!"

Yukino Yukinoshita suddenly stood up, staggering and her head swaying. She vaguely saw a white figure pointing at her and laughing, "Oh dear, oh dear!" Despite her efforts to fight off sleepiness, the shock and anger made her even more drowsy, her mind clouded and unable to stay awake.

To solve Mai Sakurajima's problem, I must persevere to the very end... I want to know what Haku-kun, who I didn't know before, is doing again. He already told me about puberty syndrome before, so why is he suddenly attacking me again? No, I can't sleep, I... I don't want to...

Despite constantly building up her mental defenses and trying to solidify her conscious mind, Yukino Yukinoshita still felt dizzy and lightheaded. Her worries, anxieties, resentment, and anger consumed even more of her energy. When she felt someone tug at her, she couldn't help but sit back down on the sofa.

The softness of the sofa annihilates any resistance.

Yukino Yukinoshita closed her eyes. Sakurajima Mai had ambushed her too? Wait, I'm still conscious… I don't want to…

“z…”

Yukino Yukinoshita leaned back on the sofa, her head tilted to the side.

"No matter how fierce you are, you can't withstand a cup of water even after staying up for two nights."

Bai Ying smiled smugly.

"Aye--!!"

A gasp rang out, and Angelina's eyes widened. She instinctively pulled out her phone and started tapping on a few buttons.

"Wait!" Bai Ying frowned and asked, "9527! What do you want to do?!"

Angelina was extremely flustered and hesitant. With a tragic expression, she pleaded, "Sir! You must calm down! You must obey the law! Don't let your unsatisfied desires lead you down the wrong path. As your subordinate, I must correct your bad habits!"

"Nonsense! Don't question the officer's decision!" Bai Ying thought this guy really meant it, and immediately pointed to the cup on the table, saying, "There's just ordinary warm water in here, no medicine!"

Angelina didn't believe it: "This is water? How could someone be sleeping under the snow?"

“When a person is killed, they die. You’ll also feel tired if you stay up all night,” Bai Ying said. “If you don’t believe me, you can drink this glass of water.”

Angelina looked at the glass of water suspiciously, then realized what she meant and crossed her arms, saying, "Won't I just fall asleep after taking a sip?!"

Bai Ying frowned and said, "Do you think I'm such a desperate person?"

Angelina felt she had been attacked without cause.

"If there really were something that could make someone fall asleep instantly with just a sip and no side effects, wouldn't it be reasonable not to give me a Nobel Prize?" Bai Ying pouted. "Sleeping is different from being in a coma. If you don't believe me, poke her and see if she reacts."

Angelina, still somewhat skeptical, leaned over and poked Yukino Yukinoshita's cheek, leaving a small indentation with her fingertip. Yukino Yukinoshita, who was in a light sleep, shifted her head to the side and tried to turn over as well. Her neat eyelashes trembled incessantly, indicating that she was not unconscious but had fallen asleep.

"Anyway, let's carry the hero into the bedroom and get her to sleep... I'll lift her legs..."

"Huh? Didn't the commander say he wanted to use his hands? Yukinoshita's hands..."

"The force was too strong; I was afraid I would pass out."

"oh oh."

"One, two, three, throw!"

Yukino Yukinoshita groggily opened her eyes a little amidst the tremors, but the softer, more comfortable bed pulled her eyelids down again, especially with the soft, soul-devouring creature beneath her head constantly absorbing the various thoughts from her brain.

"Sir, shouldn't you go out for a bit? Shouldn't you let Yukino change her clothes?"

"Does sleeping really need to be so fussy? I won't change her clothes, I won't even take off her socks, and I'll cover her with a blanket to keep her warm. Tomorrow she'll wake up to a marinated, stinky warrior."

"Hiss! Yukinoshita will kill the commander, won't she?!"

"It's alright, I'm tough... Go and get ready first, we'll try again later."

It seemed like someone was saying something, and even though she was half-asleep, Yukino Yukinoshita still couldn't help but stubbornly type out a #!

Angelina walked out of the room with some doubt, raised her hands to look at them, and then tried to see if her hands were okay.

Bai Ying looked at the hand gripping her clothes, tugged at her clothes, and found that Yukino Yukinoshita, who had been drowsy, was holding on very tightly.

"In no mood……"

Yukino Yukinoshita, seemingly still somewhat conscious, clutched the hem of her clothes tightly, her eyelashes trembling slightly, and a jumble of emotions welled up in her eyes. She murmured incoherently, "I don't want to forget... Shirai-kun..."

Forgetting is a natural thing; in the end, only the result of forgetting remains, without worry or fear. But now, it's accompanied by puberty syndrome, becoming something that can happen suddenly. As I've thought before, what if Bai Jun suddenly disappears one day, leaving me only with memories? Now, even those memories seem impossible to hold onto; they can vanish so easily.

Fear and worry led to the desire to do something, but actions and perseverance only resulted in helplessness.

If Sakurajima Mai could disappear like this, wouldn't Haku-kun be the same?

Yukino Yukinoshita wanted to remember.

So Baiying took off her coat and solemnly covered Yukino Yukinoshita's head with it, saying, "Thinking too much will affect your sleep quality. Go to sleep."

"don't want……"

Yukino Yukinoshita has a stubborn mouth but sleepy eyes.

"If I were to disappear, it would surely be accompanied by spectacular fireworks and explosions, very artistic."

Listening to the faint sounds, Yukino Yukinoshita, filled with resentment and annoyance, was pulled into the abyss of sleep.

……

Still in the rented bedroom, Angelina stared blankly at Bai Ying, who was talking animatedly to the air. She pondered for a moment, then it dawned on her—was the commander rehearsing a performance? If it was a rehearsal, then there must be a performance, and she was included…

shock!

I'm going to be dragged out by my superiors to perform on the street!

The white figure grasped the hand in the air, and when it turned around, it saw that Angelina's small face was full of sorrow.

"9527 - Keep a certain distance and stand at the door."

Angelina snapped out of her daze and discovered that the Killer Queen had emerged from the white figure, and the cracks on its surface were repairing themselves at an extremely fast speed. She was stunned for a moment, then remembered the information from the comic book and quickly distanced herself from the white figure.

How did the white shadow excite the Stand? Could it be that it relied on its imagination to construct a beautiful hand out of thin air?

"Remember! When I yell at you to hit me later, use your superpowers to beat me until I can't fight back—!" the white figure instructed, then specifically asked, "9527, have your superpowers improved recently? Have you been training specifically?"