Uneasy daily life

"Nisunai——!"

On the streets at night, Yukino Yukinoshita (Mai) walked towards her apartment, with two chasing figures swirling around her like a whirlwind.

Chapter Twenty-Nine: If the mountains and rivers won't come, I'll rely on the mountains and rivers.

Using the excuse that I had to go to school the next day, I successfully skipped the adults' dinner party.

On the way back, Mai Sakurajima (Wahana) was caught off guard by a sudden attack, and she was so angry that she wanted to kick the white figure into the river—no, she wanted to kick him into the river!

I'm not going to live anymore! Let's all die together!

"Calm down. So what if you were lied to? It's not a big deal, kid. You can't avoid all kinds of deception on the road to adulthood, from others, from society, and even from yourself. The real meaning is learning how to face lies..."

"Like killing you!"

"Violence won't solve anything. First, let's define what deception is—I had no intention of deceiving you; it was just a spur-of-the-moment thing. I pretended your sister had taken my body to practice my acting skills. You think you've been deceived because of a misunderstanding. I didn't profit from it, and it didn't violate public order or good morals. Objectively, there was no deception; it was just your wishful thinking… I'm outta here!"

"Xinei!"

"Don't let impulse control your soul! Stickman, remember! Remember our past—then suddenly realize your mistake, level up, gather everyone's strength, and sever the boss's dog head in one fell swoop..."

The past?

Sakurajima Mai (Wahana) paused slightly, and the white figure that had circled around from the other side of Yukino Yukinoshita (Mai) suddenly stopped and jumped back.

Huh? The stick figure actually knows how to wait for a rabbit to run into a tree stump?

Bai Ying observed the other person's expression.

It seems she's reminiscing about happy times from the past...

I watched my sister's news and works from afar, chatted with someone online by chance, ran away from home to see my sister, and got scammed.

I just got off the tram and mistook the other person for a human trafficker. With the heavy snow adding to the chaos, I was about to be abducted. I'll have eight children and be scammed again.

Upon arriving at the battleground, she had a conflict with her older sister because of Aunt Sakurajima's presence. That night, the other woman impersonated her older sister's voice and confided in her, thus being deceived.

I was scammed three times in one day!

Not to mention everything that followed... I was just fooled once, and I really thought that the bastard and my sister had swapped bodies!

Looking back, I get angrier the more I think about it.

Sakurajima Mai (Wahana) gritted her teeth: "I won't believe a word you say!"

Bai Ying raised an eyebrow, glanced sideways, and asked suspiciously, "Really?"

Mai Sakurajima (Wahana) answered firmly, "Really! If you believe me, you're a puppy!"

"Your sister is an ultimate siscon."

"..." Sakurajima Mai (Waka) paused for a moment, then glared at him coldly, "Heh!"

"If not, how could your sister remember every single letter you wrote?" Bai Ying shrugged. "She memorized them all. Tsk tsk, what terrifying sisterly love. In your sister's eyes, a mere stick figure is actually inferior to me..."

Sakurajima Mai (Waka) became smug and retorted, "So what? My older sister likes me anyway, and she's much taller than you!"

What kind of fan am I? A die-hard fan! What kind of fan are you? A hater!

Bai Ying nodded and said, "You believe me? You're a puppy."

"I...I didn't believe you! You're the one who's a puppy!"

"The puppy bounces back!"

"Rebel—rebel my foot! You're just a cat!"

"You little dog, who are you calling a cat?!"

"scold you!"

"Good puppy."

Sakurajima Mai (Waka) was stunned and stood frozen in place, her hands clenching and unclenching, reflecting her fluctuating emotions.

"When you argue with a primary school student, you've already lost."

Standing in the middle, with a dog barking wildly on her left and her younger sister jumping up and down to argue back on her right, Yukino Yukinoshita (Mai) felt a buzzing sound from both sides. She decisively raised her right hand to stop her sister's rampage, and raised her left hand to wave at the white figure, forcing it to get closer and closer, trying to make the white figure jump back and ignore her.

“That’s true.” Mai Sakurajima (Wahana) calmed down, raised her eyebrows and sneered, “Hmph, childish guy.”

The white figure stroked its chin, pondered for a moment, and then suddenly realized: "Woof!"

"—"

Be patient, or you'll lose!

Mai Sakurajima (Wahana) has decided to become a more mature person starting today.

"Stickman, there's something important I need to discuss with you." Bai Ying's tone turned serious. "9528 is probably up to something big lately. You don't want to end up like a child without a mother, do you?"

"hehe."

Sakurajima Mai (Waka) gave a perfunctory smile, her expression calm and composed: "Your idea?"

“No, no, no, in our private chat, I told her to use your appearance to commit a simple crime, go to the police station, and wait for your mom to bail her out, so we could have a mutual catfight,” Bai Ying pondered. “She actually rejected my idea outright, so she probably has an even more outrageous plan.”

"climb!"

"Bounce!"

"Climb with your rebound!"

Sakurajima Mai (Wahana) retorted without thinking, but after realizing what she had said, her cheek twitched, and she simply buried her head and walked away quickly.

A series of loud, booming laughs drifted from behind.

Ugh! That damn bastard!

Mai Sakurajima (Waka) turned and rushed back like the wind, kicking fiercely.

boom!

The toe hit the calf with a dull thud.

"Hiss—you're wearing leg guards?!"

Sakurajima Mai (Wahana)'s face twisted slightly as she recalled some unbearable past events, but then she suddenly noticed that the white figure was also jumping and shaking its legs, and she gasped for breath.

The white figure retorted in a booming voice, "Do I look like I'm tied up? Didn't you feel it when you kicked me? Ouch!"

Sakurajima Mai (Waka) twitched her toes: "Then why didn't you dodge?!"

“The effects of force are mutual, and everyone experiences pain,” Bai Ying said, counting on her fingers. “But I will gain happiness, while you will only gain sorrow. If you do the math, aren’t I making a huge profit?”

"You bastard!"

Mai Sakurajima (Wahana) looked grief-stricken.

If only I hadn't had that big fight with Mom that day, I wouldn't have been in a bad mood. If I hadn't been in a bad mood, I wouldn't have angrily decided to run away from home. If I hadn't run away from home, I wouldn't have gone to the battlefield. I wouldn't have been defeated at Huarong Road. Laughing and laughing one after another, there wouldn't have been red, green, black, yellow, and blue, one link after another. I wouldn't have poured sauce over the nine-turn intestines, one set after another...

Thinking about it carefully, even without those things, I wouldn't be able to reconcile with my sister... no, saying reconcile isn't quite right, I wouldn't be able to get along with her like this now, ugh! It's because my sister cares about me, it has nothing to do with being a jerk!

I'll kick your ass sooner or later!

……

……

Despite the irritating gaze of someone, Bai Ying hummed a song and happily opened the door to go home.

"What weird idea is the hater coming up with now?"

Yukino Yukinoshita (Mai) sensed that the white shadow's mood was very high... and most of the time, it wasn't a good thing: "Could it be that he's trying to cause trouble for the sports festival?"

"Look what you said."

Bai Ying scoffed, "Compared to puberty syndrome, the sports festival is nothing."

"But I heard you wanted to join the soccer team but didn't succeed." Yukino Yukinoshita (Mai) crossed her arms seriously. "Didn't Black Fan say he was going to be a cheerleader?"

"A qualified cheerleader is someone who shines when the team is in dire straits, scores a game-winning goal in the last second, and leaves behind a legend for the cheerleading team!"

Bai Ying got excited when she talked about it: "Those guys actually wouldn't let me join the Red Team football team!"

"You can't play soccer?"

Yukino Yukinoshita (Mai) is a bit strange. The hater has pretty good physical fitness, and with a little cheating, his foundation is much stronger than others, right?

Sakurajima Mai (Wahana) took off her shoes, her toes still a little sore from the pain in her white socks. Holding her slippers, she pouted and said, "Sister, you don't know, that bastard is incredibly fast and accurate on the field. I happened to be passing by the playground when I saw him. Some of my friends who had just met him said that although he's a bit strange, he's very handsome on the field. He was directly accepted into the team."

Bai Ying said smugly, "Next time, introduce your friends to me, and I'll let them get to know me."

"Forget it, they already know you." Sakurajima Mai (Wahana) chuckled and said to Yukino Yukinoshita (Mai), "You jerk, you just joined the team and played a training match. When you got the ball, you'd rather let the opponent steal it than pass it to your teammates. You can clearly dribble past people, but you have to move around randomly. It's more like a bullfight than playing football. You were dribbling the ball while talking about something, but I couldn't hear you because you were too far away."

"That..." Bai Ying chuckled deeply, "The saying goes, 'Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated.' I gathered intelligence, secretly observed, and determined the weaknesses and information of each player on the team. When facing off with the ball, a single sentence is enough to blunt their momentum, expose their flaws, and lead to their utter defeat!"

Mai Sakurajima (Wahana) asked curiously, "What did you say?"

Bai Ying recalled, "You don't want your crush on [beep beep] to be revealed, do you?"

"Beep beep?"

The white figure immediately seized the high ground, looking down at the person and pointing: "Stickman, respect other people's privacy, maintain a polite distance, and don't be too gossipy."

"Get out of here." Mai Sakurajima (Wahana) snorted. "Anyway, the training match isn't even over yet, and that bastard has already been kicked out of the team. My friends all say that although that bastard is very handsome, he's still too weird."

"So there's such a thing."

Yukino Yukinoshita (Mai) wasn't surprised: "It's a relief that Hater-kun didn't join the soccer team to spread his chat stream. So what were you laughing at just now?"

"I've come up with a brilliant idea!"

Bai Ying snapped his fingers and said in a booming voice, "Adolescent syndrome is no longer a concern!"

“First, let’s rule out the possibility that puberty syndrome can be resolved,” Yukino Yukinoshita (Mai) retorted. “Didn’t you always complain about unfairness and want to get sick too?”

Mai Sakurajima (Wahana) continued, "Does a bastard need to get sick? I think he's riddled with illnesses."

"That's right! I don't know which petty guy refused to give me puberty syndrome, so I'll take matters into my own hands!" Bai Ying clenched his fist, his face full of rugged lines and shadows, and said in a deep voice, "There is no such thing as a fair power, only the fairness of power! If they won't let me become a hero plus to compete in the tennis world, a stick figure to wield Frostmourne, a hero to harvest the hearts of teenagers, or 9528 to write sentimental youth literature... then I'll do it myself!"

"Wait a minute!"

Sakurajima Mai (Wahana) reacted first, her eye twitching: "You're not planning to impersonate someone, are you? Like you just pretended to be my older sister to fool me!"

"Starting tomorrow, I will be Toyohama Kazuka. I'll show everyone who the real Toyohama Kazuka is."

Before the stick figure could erupt in anger, the white figure quickly went inside and closed the door. As expected, they heard a series of rushing footsteps, a malfunctioning doorbell, a series of banging knocks on the door, and a series of harsh words like "Just you wait."

I'm tired of the same old routine.

Bai Ying hummed a little tune, in a good mood. "As expected of me, I can come up with such an idea so easily."

"As expected of you, you can even conjure up puberty syndrome even when you don't have it."

In the living room, a person sat on the sofa clapping.

It's normal for tenants to be in a rented house, so it's not surprising at all.

Looking at her perfectly identical, life-size replica, Bai Ying's probing gaze fell on the other's crotch: "Bai Yinghua?"

"It's not Bai Yinghua, it's your younger brother who was born on the same day, month, and year as you. Brother, don't you even recognize me?"

"White Shadow" said in a serious tone.

"So it was black light!"

Bai Ying immediately walked over enthusiastically, chattering about everyday matters: "Oh! My dear brother, I can't believe you've grown up so much in the blink of an eye—how's your studying going lately? Are you dating anyone? Which high school are you attending? What was your college entrance exam score? What tier of university are you in? Have you found a job? Are you married? Have you bought a house? Have you had children? How are your children's grades? When are you planning to have a fourth child? Have you retired? Do you have any grandchildren yet? Are you still alive?"

"..."

'Blacklight' is in a stable mood.

With your condition, you want puberty syndrome? You should get yourself cured first!

……

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【The Amazing Acting Room Without White Shadows】

That's right, the second group of patients with puberty syndrome.

Guess who's not in the group?

Yukino Yukinoshita (Yukino) originally disliked this kind of behavior that was suspected of being a bully and speaking ill of others. She thought that being upright and honest was the way to behave, and that hiding and dodging was not proper behavior. When she first saw that her older sister had set up such a group chat, she had no intention of joining.