Uneasy daily life

The white figure raised an eyebrow in surprise, looking at Hiratsuka Shizuka with a strange expression: "...Little?"

Hiratsuka Shizuka said unhappily, "Yino! I say you should change how you address me..."

The woman hesitated and said, "Then, Dajing?"

Hiratsuka Shizuka was a little sensitive: "..."

The woman looked surprised: "Huh?! I can't exactly call you Old Jing, can I? Even though you are indeed older than me—"

Hiratsuka Shizu's blood pressure: ↑.

"How rude!" Bai Ying frowned. "Miss, I suppose you and the teacher are acquainted and get along well, but how can you forget the respect in social etiquette? It's true that the teacher can put aside her airs and joke around with you without any manners, but can you treat an elder like this? You won't even call her Aunt Jing!"

"That's right! I was so rude!"

The woman turned her head sharply, her eyes flashing with a glint of light, and she cleared her throat—

"I'm going to go find Yukino!"

Hiratsuka Shizuka left like lightning, her expression somewhat distorted, her heart aching. She had brought Haruno here, thinking it would trigger a spectacular battle between Haruno and Hakukage, and that no matter who got hurt, she could light a cigarette and laugh until she was convulsing...

Damn it! I never expected I'd be the one who got hurt! Those two bastards together are definitely double the bastards!

Hachiman Hikigaya, who had been quietly observing humanity from the shadows, was on high alert. He realized he was in the same space as two terrorists, and the level of social anxiety in the air was off the charts! Help—!

"Hahaha—you're so funny!"

The woman let out a cheerful laugh and patted the white-clad figure's shoulder.

White Shadow: "—!!!"

Killer Queen!

In the blink of an eye, the white figure even summoned a stand-in, pushed off the ground with both feet, and slid two meters away with the chair legs scraping against the ground!

Angelina suddenly became alert—could this person also be a superhuman? Was he planning something bad to her superior just now?!

Speaking of which, this method of moving backwards along with the chair... seems vaguely familiar; I think I used it myself yesterday.

"Huh?" The woman was a little surprised by the other party's overly forceful evasion.

The figure in white said solemnly, "I suspect you are an assassin."

"I suspect your suspicions are hiding something—hmm?"

The woman smiled and rested her chin on her hand, making her seem more like the hostess of the activity room, while the white figure some distance from the reception table was the guest.

"It's true."

Bai Ying closed his eyes, his heart heavy with sorrow, his conscience clenching for a moment. Then he opened his eyes and said, "I am also a normal high school boy who yearns for mature and beautiful older sisters. I sometimes play games like creating a girl's life and a happy two-person room. I subconsciously crave beautiful emotions—but! I deeply understand the gap between reality and fantasy, so please stay away from me and don't disturb my proud soul."

Hachiman Hikigaya stared silently at the ceiling, the overwhelming awkwardness almost making him want to dig a three-bedroom apartment out of the floor... Captain, what are you doing?! Wait a minute... it seems the captain suddenly fell ill just as he was about to be slapped by the other person's hand... Come to think of it, the captain occasionally looks at the hands under the snow...

The woman's eyebrows twitched slightly, and she nodded with a smile: "Hmm, I see! What an innocent child—would you like my email address?"

"It seems I need to clarify something." The white-clad figure straightened up. "Judging from your face and demeanor, it must be related to my colleague, right?"

"Oh, I almost forgot I haven't introduced myself yet, hehe." The girl stuck out her tongue cutely and said cheerfully, "My name is Yukinoshita Haruno, and I'm Yukino's older sister."

Bai Ying cupped his hands and said, "Judging from your demeanor, one can glean some insight into what the future beneath the snow will look like."

"Yukino?"

The woman asked with interest, "Oh—do you think Yukino would be okay?"

Bai Ying turned the chair around, facing away from the others, and said in a hoarse, aged voice, clearly that of an old man: "Life is neither about success nor failure. A hundred years pass in a flash, success and failure are all in vain, only nature is eternal, cycling endlessly, and life never ends."

Yukino Yukino sprawled on the reception table, showing no airs of an 'elder,' and slammed her hand on the table in dissatisfaction, saying, "Sigh~ These grand principles are so boring."

“You’re a colleague, and colleagues are my enemies, so you’re my enemy.” Bai Ying turned around and gestured towards the door, “Please.”

"No way, as an enemy, I might understand Yukino better than a friend, right? Although, well, Yukino's friend—hmph." Yukinoshita Haruno grinned mischievously. "Tell me quickly, do you think Yukino is any good, or I'll have to resort to some terrible methods!"

It neither advances nor retreats, neither fights nor surrenders; it's truly a piece of chewing gum!

Bai Ying said seriously, "I think Yukino is not good enough, yet I envy her for not being good enough, I long for her to be good enough, yet I do not want her to be good enough."

Yuigahama Yui: “?”

Angelina: "?"

Hikigaya Hachiman: "..."

What is the culmination of contradictory literary descriptions?

However, at that moment, Hachiman Hikigaya felt that there was a crack in the perfect exoskeleton armor of Yukinoshita.

"Haha, the white shadow is indeed very interesting."

Yukino Yukinoshita said with a smile, "I won't bother you anymore—see you later."

Waving to everyone and giving them smiles, Yukinoshita Haruno left the activity room in a lively and cheerful manner.

With the departure of those who weren't very familiar with the room, the atmosphere in the activity room became a little more relaxed.

Angelina exclaimed wistfully, "What a cool older sister..."

Surprisingly, he was able to keep up with his superior's conversation.

"Yeah, he really looks handsome..." Although I always feel a bit of inexplicable pressure.

Yui Yuigahama agreed, then looked at the stranger: "Eh? Um... who are you?"

“Anxinyuan Angelina—just call me Angelina, I’m a foreign transfer student… or should I say a mixed-race transfer student?”

Two genuine high school girls started chatting.

Hachiman Hikigaya breathed a huge sigh of relief.

Cheerful, generous, straightforward, and outgoing... It's a terrifying exoskeleton armor, but it still pales in comparison to the club president, who is practically a complete idiot. It accidentally developed a tiny crack—was it because of Yukinoshita? It seems that the Yukinoshita family has a rather complicated relationship. No wonder Yukinoshita's behavior was a bit strange when they talked about her siblings before.

It's likely that the minister gleaned something from the persistent questioning he gave about the snow.

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Hachiman Hikigaya couldn't help but look at the minister, who should be holding a portion of the answer key.

"Yuihama! Become my subordinate!"

"what?!"

"After Yukinoshita's defeat, this activity room became my domain!"

Bai Ying made no attempt to conceal his ambition, and tried to persuade the stubborn prisoners to surrender: "Even now, can't you see the situation clearly? Yukinoshita is a mediocre ruler, outwardly tough but inwardly weak, fierce in appearance but cowardly in reality. He retreats easily when faced with difficulties, is ambitious but greedy for glory, and is nothing but a skeleton in a tomb—you are a man of talent, are you willing to have your skills go to waste? I will reserve a seat for you, why not come with me up the mountain and have some fun, rather than suffer this humiliation!"

Yui Yuigahama automatically filtered out the 'nonsense' and said seriously, "In that case, I should stand with Yuki even more. Friends should help each other, right? I actually think it's quite nice to be able to help Yuki, hehe..."

"Hmph! Then just wait to be trampled into dust by my million-strong army!"

Bai Ying put the items into her bag, picked it up, and prepared to leave.

Hachiman Hikigaya was taken aback: "Huh? Captain, what's going on...?"

"Of course I'll go find a place to rent—if someone comes to my door, I'll grab them. If I can't solve it, I'll handle it tomorrow."

The white figure departed with a hint of melancholy.

Does the Yukinoshita family have some kind of good genes for their hands?

After so many years of hard fighting, even though the claws of creatures like Yuihama could easily suppress the reaction, the hands of Yukinoshita and Yukinoshita's younger sister became restless when faced with their hands.

Fight hard, White Shadow.

I'll take a closer look at the claws under the snow tomorrow.

Chapter Fifty: The world is vast, and there are places to lie down.

People cannot grow without facing the past.

Is growing up about accepting or rejecting your past self?

Denying one's past means the collapse of one's current beliefs and the admission of mistakes.

Accepting your past means facing your embarrassing failures and acknowledging your weakness.

Yukino Yukinoshita, with dark circles under her eyes and a hastily bought bag slung over her shoulder, wandered aimlessly on her way to school.

What happened yesterday was far too heavy.

Being emptied of health by my sister and instinctively running away is nothing special.

Rolling around in bed wrapped in a blanket a few times, biting someone's name hard between your teeth a few times, that feeling of wanting to die naturally fades with time and becomes insignificant.

Well, it's irrelevant.

What I wanted to die for even more was something else—

Why? Why do I feel that... Hikigaya dislikes Yui because of the car accident? Why did he come up with the idea of ​​taking the blame to solve the problem?

No, from a normal perspective, my own ideas should be fine, right?

A person whose interests have been harmed will subconsciously blame others.

It's logical that Hikigaya was traumatized by the accident and blamed Yui Hama. So, it's also logical that he should take the blame himself, let Hikigaya blame him, and then restore his relationship with Yui Hama... That logic is also correct, right?

This is not the case.

This is just a misunderstanding.

Hikigaya didn't dislike Yui Hama, but Yui Hama mistakenly thought she was disliked and didn't dare to ask, which led to further misunderstandings.

No one is at fault, no one needs to be blamed, the matter ends here, and there is a good outcome.

Looking back at the process from the result, it makes you want to die, makes you reflect on what you were thinking, and makes you wish you could crack open your brain at that time to see how the program inside worked.

"what……"

Yukino Yukinoshita breathed a sigh of relief, and her steps became lighter.

After skipping her club activities yesterday, she had nothing to do in the afternoon, so she bought black tea and a tea set, which she now put in her backpack for her three... no! two... no, one and a half friends.

Thinking back to the literary societies I visited before, they all provided tea and snacks. As the head of the society, it is my proper duty to prepare some black tea for the members.

Who is the one and a half friends?

Yuihama is one, and Hikigaya is half.

White shadow? Hmph, a stepping stone to be stepped over sooner or later.

Upon reaching the corner from yesterday, Yukino Yukinoshita instinctively stopped and peeked at the school gate, just as usual.

The road ahead is clear, with no white shadows.

What am I doing?

Yukino walked into the school as if nothing had happened.

I arrived at school about half an hour early today, just in time to pick up the schoolbag I left behind yesterday in the activity room. It contained stationery and some textbooks for today's classes. When Yui asked me about it, I told her not to bother my friend and not to take it with her.

It's a bit strange, really. Yesterday I was mentally prepared for my sister to run back to my place and take the opportunity to tease and mock me, so I spent the whole afternoon wandering around outside and adjusting my mindset before going back to my apartment... but my sister didn't bother me at all.

Could it be that my sister predicted my prediction?

Headache.

Yukino Yukinoshita felt that she might not be very good at understanding people's hearts—or perhaps the people she wanted to understand were all a bit too strange?

learn a lesson.

In the early morning, as she let her thoughts wander aimlessly, Yukino Yukinoshita arrived at the activity room, took out her key, unlocked the door, and opened it.

Although it hadn't been long, the activity room had a reassuring sense of familiarity.

The reception table that sits in the middle was conceived by Hajime, who then dragged Hachiman back with him.

The side of the reception table facing the wall is where Hachiman sits.

The innermost part of the room is where Bai Ying sits, where the clattering of keyboards can always be heard—occasionally the keyboard sounds will suddenly become concentrated, and then suddenly disappear completely, probably because someone is going through a writer's block.

On the inner side, near the outer edge, is Yuihama, who likes to play on her phone and browse all sorts of new and strange news. She often takes the initiative to start topics and then joins in the discussions to liven up the atmosphere.

My seat is on the side facing the window. It's well-lit and there's a gentle breeze occasionally, making it perfect for reading. My backpack, which I left behind yesterday, is on the chair.

There was also an open space cleared behind the reception table, where futons and bedding were laid out. Bai Ying was neatly covered with a gray blanket, enjoying a baby-like sleep, with a school uniform jacket on the chair next to her.