Uneasy daily life

Hayato Hayama's expression stiffened, and he forced a smile: "This..."

"Damn it! The football team must be jealous of my talent, leaving me only to console myself on the commentary stand!" Bai Ying complained, then praised again, "It proves that not picking me was a mistake. They lost now, didn't they? Hahahaha—!"

Hayama Hayato: "Ahaha..."

"Ye Shan, don't be polite in front of Bai Jun. If you're too polite, he'll just do whatever he wants."

Yukino Yukinoshita glanced at the white shadow with annoyance, and then said, "There were reasons for what happened back then. Neither you nor I were at fault. If we have to say whose responsibility it was, it was just a bunch of ignorant elementary school students who made a mistake in the atmosphere. You don't need to blame yourself, and you don't need to follow my example."

"..." Hayama Hayato looked at the other person hesitantly, feeling that something was off, but it was indeed Yukinoshita Haruno. Perhaps this resemblance to Yukinoshita was the other person's true self when she wasn't suppressing herself. "This..."

"Alright, alright, stop flattering yourself." Bai Ying chuckled. "Little Good Guy already answered on the court, why are you still lecturing me like that? It's shameful."

answer?

Yukino Yukinoshita was slightly taken aback. She had been focused on Sakurajima and Haku-kun and hadn't really noticed the subtle changes on the court.

“I want to be someone who can meet my friends’ expectations. Although I learned it from your pretense, it’s now my own thing,” Hayama Hayato shrugged and laughed.

Yukino Yukinoshita remained noncommittal: "If you act like this, it's easy for people to start expecting things from you. If you call them friends, then one day you won't be able to meet those expectations. Who will hold a grudge then? I find it hard to accept."

"I know, so it's about wanting to, not being able to."

Hayato Hayama said nonchalantly, "Even someone like you can't find a perfectly correct way of life. I don't think I can have a smooth journey, so I'm already prepared for failure."

"what ever."

Yukino Yukinoshita shook her head and didn't say anything more.

The three of them walked out of the school chatting as they went. Bai Ying skillfully grabbed Hayama Hayato, rubbed her fingers together, and asked, "Good boy, I cheered you on during the match just now. Shouldn't you do something in return?"

"for example?"

"I feel that your basketball, tennis and table tennis teams are missing a key player."

"No shortage."

Hayama Hayato answered immediately.

"What?! Didn't you say you wanted to meet your friends' expectations?!" Bai Ying roared. "I've gone to great lengths for you, aren't I your friend?!"

Hayama Hayato: "..."

Chapter 46 A Thousand Hamlets

"It's said that a true friend is hard to find in life. Don't I understand you? I understand you so well, so am I not your friend?"

"No."

"Hayama! Have you forgotten your promise? Even if you're troubled or caught in a dilemma, you still have to strive to be an excellent person who meets your friends' expectations!"

"I've thought about it carefully, and it's really difficult to be friends with you."

"It's okay. We can start with familiar relationships and gradually deepen our friendship to become good friends. For example, if you help me with something, our favorability will increase by 5. If we help a few more people, we can go from being familiar to being friendly. Don't be fooled by how simple and crude it seems like a game setting. This is the ideal of mutual help in human society."

"I think it's good to keep the relationship at a familiar level."

"Hoping to keep the relationship at a certain point, neither taking a step forward nor becoming indifferent and retreating, so as not to trigger a chain reaction in interpersonal relationships... Huh? Isn't this the way of a scumbag? Hayama-kun, be careful, there's a chance that a scumbag will get stabbed in the back."

"..."

"In short, the White Team needs someone like me!"

"Student Bai should ask the teacher about this problem."

Bai Ying enthusiastically tried to get close to him, talking about everything from the reasons for the survival of human society to the warmth and gentleness of interpersonal relationships. He felt that the name "White Team" sounded like a connection with him. He felt that the school leaders had made a snap decision to divide the teams into red and white teams, leaving no room for freedom or student initiative, which resulted in him being assigned to the red team. But he didn't care.

With just a nod from Hayama Hayato, and with your popularity and my skills, it would be a piece of cake for White Team to acquire a top general!

Hayato Hayama gradually became adept at making excuses. He said, "I can't make the decision to draw a circle with my left hand; I don't have the authority. I can't help with drawing a square with my right hand, but I suggest asking other departments. That would be my way of helping."

He possessed the skill of ambidextrous fighting, demonstrating the ability to pass through a myriad of flowers without being touched by a single petal.

The White Team doesn't need someone like you!

The two of them were pulling and tugging at each other, and Yukino Yukinoshita rolled her eyes inwardly, feeling that the conversation was full of flaws, such as the scumbag guy...

"Isn't your idea of ​​how to conduct yourself problematic?" Yukino Yukinoshita said coldly. "When facing certain people, the standards you set for yourself will always create contradictions."

"Hmm...maybe."

Hayama Hayato smiled bitterly.

"She was talking about me, not the hero," Bai Ying said, shaking her head. "Can't you riddle tellers and imaginative thinkers learn from my honesty?"

Hayato Hayama twitched his eye: "If Shiro doesn't do anything weird, I can try to get you into the Red Team."

Bai Ying stroked his chin and said, "First, let's define what constitutes a strange thing."

"This..." Hayama Hayato coughed slightly, then hesitated, "It's something that won't affect relationships with other people, right?"

"Oh, for example..."

Bai Ying suddenly shouted, "It's like how Bai Ying didn't expose Miura Yumiko even though she discovered she was following you!!"

Miura Yuko: "?!"

Hayama Hayato: "?!"

Yukino Yukinoshita: "...You've already seen through me."

"It was an accident, so I bear no responsibility."

As Bai Ying answered confidently, Hayama Hayato waved goodbye and left at twice the usual speed.

Miura Yumiko stood awkwardly in the back, glaring at the white figure with a vicious look...

The white figure tilted her head slightly, suddenly realizing something, and turned to face Hayato Hayama's back, uttering Miura Yumiko's voice: "Hayato~ wait for me~!"

Hayato Hayama glanced back instinctively, then turned away with a dark expression and left even faster.

Yumiko Miura was so angry that she jumped up and down, but in the end she didn't dare to stay any longer and quickly walked to another path.

"Hmph, they actually won't let me join Team White!" Bai Ying said, hands on his hips. "Then I'll lead Team Red to crush Team White and show you what it means to underestimate a young man's potential!"

It's clearly you who are taking advantage of the fact that the young are poor.

After the bystanders left, Yukino's expression immediately darkened. She moved a little closer and smiled faintly, "Haku-kun, what do you mean by 'we're defining it'?"

"In order to avoid topics that are unfavorable to oneself, one deconstructs familiar words and replaces certain components to package one's own ideas and reasoning in a more persuasive way, which is a kind of rhetoric."

Bai Ying explained clearly: "For example, let's first define what a friend is—'Friend, noun, refers to someone who shares the same ideals and interests, and later to someone with whom you have a deep friendship. From the meaning of the word, we can see that it is one person's perception of another person. In other words, the subject is 'someone.' Do they share the same ideals and interests? Do they have a deep friendship? The subject of the judgment should also be 'someone.' If we understand it more deeply, the focus is not on the person, but on whether they share the same ideals and interests and have a deep friendship, which can make the subject have a corresponding tendency and judgment. Regardless of whether they are people or not, they are friends."

"So, all the cats in the cat cafe are my friends. You can't say I don't have any friends... Wait! Murder!"

Yukino Yukinoshita suddenly sprang up and reached out to grab him. The white figure's expression changed drastically, and he retreated several steps, leaning against the wall and crossing his arms to protect himself.

"Go on." Yukino Yukinoshita smiled faintly, slapping her hands against the walls on either side, leaving the white figure nowhere to escape. She uttered a slightly clattering sound from her back teeth, "Always bringing up the past and nagging about it, is the white fungus some kind of retro single-celled organism?"

"Ahem, I know that's not what you meant at the time."

Bai Ying coughed and said seriously, "Whether someone is a friend or not should be judged based on the standard of 'that person.' In other words, for me, only those who share the same ideals and have a deep friendship are considered friends. I don't agree with the idea that if you greet each other when you meet, can say a few words, and have a classmate relationship as a foundation, you must be friends. So although I don't have any friends, in my eyes you don't have any friends either. We are all the same!"

"Heh." Bai Ying suddenly raised her chin slightly, her expression turning aloof. Yukino Yukinoshita's voice rang out, full of Yukino's words, "This is the definition of a friend. Bai Jun, who also has no friends, where does he get the confidence to laugh at me? The pot calling the kettle black, pathetic and unaware of his own shortcomings, it's hilarious to think about."

Still talking! It's that mouth that's still talking?!

Yukino Yukinoshita's eyes widened slightly as her gaze fell on the white figure's mouth. She felt an urge to pinch and pull his cheek... Should she pinch him? Speaking of which...

"Calm down." The white figure seemed to sense the danger and suddenly became serious, advising, "Just because Yukino pinched this thick-skinned person doesn't mean I can't pinch her too. That kind of thinking is not advisable. Do you really want to follow in other people's footsteps? Haruno, calm down, be proud of yourself!"

＃！

Yukino Yukinoshita instinctively looked away, then angrily looked back: "Don't you dare guess!"

"Alright alright."

Bai Ying shrugged helplessly, leaning against the wall. When he looked up and met Yukino Yukinoshita's gaze, a casual smile appeared on his lips as he asked in confusion, "This looks like a wall 'Duang'?"

"What do you mean 'wall slam'? It's clearly a wall slam..." Yukino Yukinoshita's words of correction came to an abrupt halt as she realized that in her anger she seemed to have wall slammed a white figure. She moved her hand slightly but did not pull it back from the wall.

Looking straight ahead, with eyes aligned, allows for direct eye contact. Even at close range, one can clearly see each other's faces and expressions without needing to strain to look up or look down affectionately.

I think I prefer a level-head perspective, but I've heard that boys develop later, so I guess Bai Jun will continue to grow taller, right?

Yukino Yukinoshita glanced at the top of the white figure's head and noticed that the top of the head was getting higher...?

"I advise you to get your hands off me right now." The white figure stood on tiptoe, her gaze instantly looking down at him, her tone carrying a friendly and playful tone, mixed with a hint of feigned aloofness, "If you keep thinking like this, you'll regret it so much you'll be rolling around in bed, hmph."

You can be shy?

"I told you not to guess." Yukino Yukinoshita's gaze was indeed looking upwards, sideways, her fluttering eyelashes like thorns that would soften at the slightest touch. She said in a low voice, "I'm not someone who can always stay calm. If you make me angry again... hmph."

Her slightly overheated mind cooled down a bit. Although she had a feeling and urge to do something, she was still acting like the older sister for now...

But it should be alright, right? Sakurajima also said that they didn't switch bodies, they just changed their appearances. Because of envy, they changed; because they forgot themselves, they seemed real, but in essence, they were still themselves... That's right, I am still me, not using my sister's appearance, so nothing has changed.

Bai Jun was clearly bringing this up on purpose, saying that you would regret it, making you unconsciously ponder this philosophical question of 'who am I,' which was infuriating.

I am who I am. Even if I become my older sister, whatever I want to do is what Yukino Yukinoshita wants to do.

I'm starting to understand what I have and am proud of, but my sister doesn't...

Yukino Yukinoshita's gaze unconsciously fell on the upturned corners of the white-faced man's mouth. She felt convinced, but also felt that there was a hint of teasing and playfulness in the white-faced man's smile. Unable to resist that curve, she unconsciously moved her gaze to the other's cheek.

The distance was really close, like the distance between a surging river and the night sky.

Yukino Yukinoshita subconsciously pursed her lips, just about to put her thoughts into action, when she suddenly noticed that the white figure's gaze was off; it wasn't looking at her, but rather passing over her shoulder and gazing into the distance...

You shouldn't be looking at me right now... Wait!

Yukino Yukinoshita suddenly turned her head, and the moment she did, she began to regret it.

If I were calmer, I would pretend I didn't notice anything, withdraw my wall-slamming motion, and then turn my head away...

On the road behind, Yukinoshita's father, Yukinoshita Yukino (Mai), and Sakurajima Mai (Wahana) each displayed different degrees of wonderful expressions.

"Puff puff……"

A white figure's laughter came from beside me, low but not completely suppressed, so low that it seemed meaningless.

White! Fungus!

……

……

In the makeshift meeting room, the executive committee members handed in their registration forms and left one after another.

"Today's overall results..."

"Yukino! The results for today are in. The White Team is currently leading the Red Team by 3 points!"

"Okay, could you please give me the results of all the competitions?"

"No problem, the table of all today's match results and rankings is ready, here you go!"

"...Is there any other work?"

"It seems there aren't any left."

Yukinoshita's father had a calm expression, which gave off a sense of nostalgia for her before she debuted as the head of the Yukinoshita family and worked hard to surpass the great goddess.

"Then today's work is done." Yukino Yukinoshita (Mai) sighed softly. "Thank you for your hard work."

Yukinoshita's father: "It's nothing, it's all what I should do."

A high-performing office worker should be fast and efficient!

Yukino Yukinoshita (Mai) casually smiled and said, "Haku-kun shouldn't have gone far yet. If we walk fast, we should be able to catch up."

Under the snow, the father smiled, his hands behind his back, clapping his left hand against his right. "What are you doing? Hurry up and get to work! Wouldn't it be better to enjoy the time spent guiding your little goddess at her work?!"

Hmm... Now that most of the irrelevant people around have left, it's time to talk about the little goddess playing the role of the goddess in the middle. This is a sign of mental illness!

Just as Yukinoshita's father was about to speak.

"Sister, Yukinoshita."

Sakurajima Mai (Wahana) peeked in, glanced at Yukinoshita's father with surprise, and quickly changed her question, "When will you be finished?"

"I'm all done." Yukino Yukinoshita (Mai) packed up the forms, put them in her bag, and picked it up. "Let's go, we can go back together on the way."

Yukinoshita's father gave the two of them a strange look, then quickly followed... The little goddess and the number one villain are so close? What's going on?

Best friend relationship? Best friend steals the girl's boyfriend?