Uneasy daily life

Angelina wanted to complain, but she didn't want to; she felt uncomfortable.

Yukino and the others, carrying buckets and mops, arrived at the student council office fully equipped, only to be met with this surreal scene.

Furniture floated around, while a grimy towel was cleaning, the furniture occasionally flipping over to conveniently direct the dirt onto the towel...

Angelina waved her hands in the air, her face indifferent, as if performing a mysterious ritual. The white figure leaned against the wall and gave verbal instructions: "Rotate the table ten centimeters to the right."

Bang! Yukino Yukinoshita quickly slammed the door shut.

"...Suddenly, I witnessed a magical scene."

Hachiman Hikigaya blurted out, "It's like a strange feeling of an elephant appearing in the room."

"Mmm!" Yui Yuigahama nodded repeatedly, glancing left and right. "There shouldn't be any cameras in the office, right? Shiro and An, what are we going to say if they see us? Let's just focus on cleaning!"

"Alright, alright, since the Deadly Chef enjoys the feeling of labor so much." Bai Ying reached out and caught the towel, then tossed it into the bucket that Hachiman Hikigaya was carrying. "I'll go find a ladder, and the subordinates can go up and wipe the ceiling later."

Hachiman Hikigaya decisively replied, "Don't worry, Minister, go ahead and use your superpowers. I'll guard the door!"

Bai Ying frowned, slightly displeased: "Hmm? You should address someone by their job title during work hours."

"Oh..." Hachiman Hikigaya understood immediately. "Please rest assured, Chairman!"

Bai Ying nodded in satisfaction: "Not bad, not bad, you've improved."

Hachiman Hikigaya chimed in at the opportune moment, "It's all thanks to the chairman's excellent leadership."

Yukino Yukinoshita and Yui Yuigahama gave each other looks as if they were idiots.

Hachiman Hikigaya's lips twitched slightly. What are you looking at? This is a survival strategy that Hachiman has figured out after a long period of trial and error! As long as he simply agrees with the chairman, he won't be in the awkward situation of being forced to agree!

The group busied themselves cleaning up and soon realized something was wrong—Angelina was not only speaking very little today, but also had a cold face and was radiating an aloof and unapproachable aura, giving people a completely different feeling than before!

Angelina in the past: cheerful and ordinary personality, good at making sarcastic reactions to Bai Ying's behavior, often getting angry at Bai Ying and always responding to Bai Ying in a semi-passive manner.

Today, Angelina's face was calm and serious. She ignored Bai Ying's words and actions and did not show any signs of anger. She would occasionally look at Bai Ying, but basically ignored him.

Did they have a fight?

Hachiman Hikigaya subconsciously had this thought, then quickly suppressed it.

He couldn't imagine arguing with the chairman; he feared that the argument would lead him astray and into a ditch.

But what exactly is going on here...?

"Anxin Courtyard, what happened?"

As expected of Yukinoshita, she completely ignored the delicate atmosphere and relationships and launched a direct attack.

Angelina seemed to pause for a moment, pursed her lips, glanced at Yukino Yukinoshita, and said briefly, "It's nothing."

Yukino Yukinoshita looked at her with a puzzled expression, then decisively turned to look for the walking truth-telling machine: "Haku-kun, what happened to Anshin-in?"

“Jealousy and unfulfilled desires were revealed.”

Bai Ying raised her hand and wrung out the dirty water from the towel, sighing, "Brave warrior, don't you think 9527 is a lot like you today?"

Yukinoshita Yukino: “?”

Angelina: "??"

Yui Yuigahama compared them and said, "Hmm... An does look somewhat like Yuki today. Is this what they call a cool and aloof demeanor?"

Could it be that Xiao An didn't have a conflict with Xiao Bai, but instead was imitating Xiao Xue?

"Ah—the cleaning is almost done! Yuihama, let's go move the things from the activity room over here!"

Hachiman Hikigaya suddenly made a loud noise, giving a frantic look with his eyes, and hurriedly walked outside.

Run! This place is extremely dangerous; you cannot stay here any longer!

Yui Yuigahama was stunned, staring at Angelina in disbelief... Not only Sakurajima-senpai, but you are too... Come to think of it, she's always hanging out with Shiro, and there are always other people involved, how could Angelina not be one?!

Angelina's eyes widened as she suddenly sensed a familiar aura of being unfairly maligned...

"Um... let's talk things out calmly, don't fight."

Yui Yuigahama carefully uttered a sentence and gently closed the door as she left the office.

Wow, is this what they call a battleground?

I hope everyone can reconcile and stay safe and sound.

Chapter Twenty-Three: Nano Substitutes

"Yukinoshita! Your crimes are heinous!"

A righteous and indignant accusation came rushing towards us.

Even though it was her boyfriend speaking in his girlfriend's voice.

...What a load of nonsense.

Yukino Yukinoshita had a fleeting thought, and although she wanted to tell Haku to stop, she suddenly changed her mind—Haku-kun probably wanted to use him to express Anshin-in's opinion of her, right? After all, Haku-kun was capable of doing such a thing, and it was something Haku-kun would do.

Bai Jun's erratic behavior must have a deeper meaning.

Yukino Yukinoshita glanced at Angelina, who was stunned and speechless, and understood.

After all, this involves several people. How to get along with them, how to view each other in the process, and how to handle the problems that arise are indeed things that need to be taken seriously. Everyone's relationships, experiences, personalities, and thoughts are different, and this complicated relationship has been created because of Bai Jun…

Yes, we need to think about it carefully and handle it properly.

Yukino Yukinoshita calmly retorted, "What crime have I committed?"

Why are you looking at me? What are you doing, Yukinoshita? Why are you so enthusiastic about cooperating with your superior today?

Angelina was a little confused. She really wanted to complain, but she really didn't want to say anything...

The white figure leaped back, her face filled with grief and indignation, and Angelina's voice boomed and clamored out.

Pride, lust, greed, gluttony, sloth, envy, wrath! Yukino Yukinoshita, you have the seven deadly sins!

"First and foremost, it's an unforgivable sin of arrogance! You always stand right next to my boyfriend as if you're his girlfriend!"

Is this considered the sin of arrogance?

"I am."

"Next is the shameful sin of greed! We had clearly agreed on this relationship, yet you tricked my boyfriend into moving into your house and living with you alone! How despicable! I also want to live with my superior and see him every morning when I wake up!"

No, I don't want to.

“I have the necessary conditions, so I will do this. You can also invite Baijun to live in your home.”

"And then there's the despicable sin of gluttony! Everyone else is a heroine in their own story, but you always manage to take up more content, devouring other people's stories until they're torn to pieces, without any restraint! You eat a chapter today, a whole volume tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow the entire book will be yours!"

Oh, can this even be called eating?

"This is also due to objective factors, plus my willingness to express my feelings, that's all. Didn't you and Bai Jun tinker with that 'General Martial Arts Chronicle' before? I was focused on preparing for the student council election, and I don't know as much about it as you do. Should I blame you for that?"

"I get so angry just thinking about it! I was the one who prepared for the student council election with the officer, so why was it you who ended up standing on the stage? This is your sin of jealousy! Just because I have some little secrets with the officer, you want to steal my achievements!"

What is this?

"How ridiculous. Are you really planning to collect all seven deadly sins?" Yukino Yukinoshita seemed less willing to cooperate, feeling it was a waste of time and energy. "What about rage? I don't think I've ever acted impulsively in a fit of anger, nor have I ever been lazy, have I?"

It's... um? Lust?

White Shadow Angelina's eyes widened: "Lust?"

You're asking me? What do you think?

Yukino Yukinoshita: "This is irrelevant to the current topic."

She turned to Angelina: "Anxinyuan, if you don't say something soon, Bai Jun might use this as an excuse to make trouble."

“Uh…” Angelina scratched her head, swallowing back her countless complaints, and said in a flat tone, “I’m used to it.”

"Yukinoshita!"

Bai Ying, Angelina, clenched her fists in indignation, still venting her anger: "Sakurajima-senpai and Toyohama are busy with work, and Haruno-senpai is far away in Tokyo. We're the only ones spending time together at school, but you always steal our time! Even though you're the greediest one, the one with the most memories, you still refuse to share! Whether it's Sakurajima-senpai returning to school or me and the officer preparing for the student council election, you always have to interfere, as if we're the ones who are being abrupt and disruptive! You dare to speak up for the officer in front of everyone, and you're always unwavering. Everyone at school thinks you and the officer are a couple..."

As he spoke, his voice gradually faded, becoming somber and sorrowful, filled with self-pity.

"Why is this happening? I was here first..."

"?"

Angelina gave a deadpan look and couldn't help but blurt out, "Sir, you're so annoying."

There was a reaction; as expected, Bai Jun had guessed Anxinyuan's feelings immediately.

"I've talked to Mai-senpai about this. After all, it's a relationship like this, and sometimes it's hard to know how to get along. Everyone wants to spend time with someone they like and doesn't want to be disturbed by others, but our relationship can't avoid that kind of situation. Back then, Mai-senpai and I even talked about the idea of ​​dividing the time by the day..."

Yukino Yukinoshita sighed softly and looked earnestly at Angelina: "In the end, we came to the conclusion that how we behave in private belongs to the two of us, and how we get along at other times is how we should get along. We need to think about how to get along as we get along. Forcibly regulating behavior through mutual agreements is itself a betrayal of our own feelings and goes against the original intention of setting rules."

You guys talked about this too?

Angelina was a little surprised, her mood was a little strange, and her expression was somewhat hesitant.

"Anxinyuan, are you really jealous and envious of me? In my eyes, you are used to the way you interact with Bai Jun, and you yearn for change, but you can't get rid of the power of habit, and you feel powerless and frustrated about it."

Yukino Yukinoshita bluntly stated, "You're just too hesitant and indecisive. You're satisfied with how we get along, yet dissatisfied with just getting along like this. You're afraid of further changes, yet you also crave further changes. This isn't a problem between you and me; it's a problem between you and Haku-kun. Projecting your worries and frustrations onto me is nothing more than an escapist act of procrastinating on the problem."

"We are both willing to accept our current relationship because of this feeling. Since we have come this far, why let our feelings be trapped in the entanglement of habit? Why even disguise this trouble as a problem caused by comparison—we have already accepted our current relationship, so why should there be any comparison or competition?"

Yukino Yukinoshita comforted her, "Please think about this carefully. What if I am better than you in your heart? What if I am not? When you care about these stupid logics, you can't be yourself, whether you are better than me or not. Just like you tried to learn from me, do you think you would be happy if you pretended to be Yukino Yukinoshita and dated Haku-kun? It's not only absurd, but also perverted."

Angelina: "Uh..."

Seeing the strange and bewildered look on the other person's face, Yukino Yukinoshita felt that Yuihama might be right; she really wasn't very good at comforting people...

What about the one who's good at comforting people?

Watching a play.

Yukino Yukinoshita frowned and said, "Haku-kun, aren't you going to say something?"

Bai Ying thought for a moment, then said sternly, "9527! Aren't you going to say something?!"

“…” Angelina said softly, “Um, Yukinoshita…is it possible that…I have a fishbone stuck in my throat and I really don’t want to talk…”

Yukino Yukinoshita stood frozen in place, fireworks slowly blooming in her mind.

Angelina added cautiously, "I was planning to go to the hospital after I finished cleaning the office..."

"What?! It's a fishbone?" Bai Ying frowned. "Then why didn't you say so earlier? I think you had ulterior motives, deliberately watching the hero run wild on the wrong track!"

Yukino Yukinoshita slowly clenched her fist, and it hardened!

“Uh…” Angelina swallowed subconsciously, feeling the foreign object in her throat. Her cheek twitched slightly, and she said with a deadpan expression, “Yukinoshita spoke too fast, saying such a long sentence in one breath, I didn’t know how to start…”

Yukino Yukinoshita took a deep breath: "Shiraki..."

"Oh dear! It's just a fishbone, no need to go to the hospital."

With a snap of his fingers, Bai Ying summoned a Stand: "Too long to read, have you ever heard the story of nano Stands?"

“?” Angelina tilted her head and thought for a moment, then instantly grasped the point of the comic. She exclaimed in surprise, “Huh? The plot where the Stand can become very, very small and can crawl into other people’s bodies? Wasn’t the plot behind that setting eaten up?”

"It's okay, I made the author retract the original concept."

The white figure focused its attention, and the substitute rapidly shrank under the watchful eye, flying towards Angelina: "Open your mouth, I'm going in."

Angelina glanced warily at the white figure, then opened her mouth and uttered, "Ah—"

The shrunken Stand burrowed inside, passing through the throat and penetrating deep within. The white figure, with eyes closed, sensed the Stand: "Hmm... So this is what it looks like inside. From the Stand's shrunken perspective, the mouth is practically a gaping maw, and the throat is like a bottomless abyss... I see the fishbone. It's not very long, stuck below the throat, just barely wedged by the muscles off course. No wonder it managed to trap you like a bootleg hero..."

You're the one who's copying the hero!

Angelina kept her mouth open, glaring at him with her eyes.

Soon, a fishbone was carried out by the stand-in.

Angelina coughed a few times, touched her throat, and swallowed several mouthfuls of saliva. The awkward feeling from before vanished, and she even wanted to cry tears of joy: "Ah! I finally got this wretched fishbone out!"

The white figure pinched the substitute and handed it back, a tiny fishbone about one centimeter long: "You never want to eat fish again, right?"

“Yes, yes, I’ll never eat…” Angelina changed the subject, “…fish with bones!”

"Well, at least things are resolved."

Yukino Yukinoshita reached out and opened the door, saying calmly, "Yuigahama hasn't arrived yet. I'll go check on her."

Bai Ying and Angelina silently watched as Yukino Yukinoshita opened the door, went out, and closed it.