Uneasy daily life

"……perhaps."

"Do you have many thoughts and feelings in your heart, but you don't dare to express them directly to your mother, which leads to disagreements, arguments, and cold wars between the two of you, and in the end you have to use silence to represent your dissent and to fulfill your obedience?"

"Maybe...?"

Chisa Kotegawa asked in confusion, "How can silence be both a form of objection and obedience?"

"Uh—it's that kind of, that kind of..." Angelina gestured haphazardly, "...the behavior of expressing unwillingness by not speaking, but with the body behaving obediently?"

Kotegawa Chisa tilted her head, her face full of surprise, and hesitated to speak. Why does what you're saying sound so strange?

Angelina also felt it was strange. She coughed and tried hard to recall what someone had said: "It means neither advancing nor retreating, not daring to or unwilling to cause trouble."

Who's having a tiff? But since my sister already had someone else relay the message...

Chisa Kotegawa pursed her lips: "Perhaps that's true."

I wonder if my sister has any ideas...

Angelina tried hard to recall what had just happened, and then—it was so similar, so incredibly similar! She was practically a carbon copy of Yukino! From this perspective, the solution was to get her to express her wishes to her mother, instead of remaining silent and stubbornly obeying her mother's wishes while unwillingly tormenting herself…

The key is to encourage her to be brave and take the initiative, just like Bai Ying did!

Angelina said, "I think—oh no, Nana-chan thinks you need to express your wishes to your mother!"

"?" Chisa Kotegawa paused for a moment. "I've told my mom many times that I like scuba diving, but every time she tells me to find something else to do..."

Angelina: "?"

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“Ultimately, my mother is a stubborn person. No matter how much I express my wishes, she will only express her disapproval.” Chisa Kotegawa sighed. “I just want to become a diving instructor like my sister, but my mother has a problem with me…”

Angelina tried to correct the timeline: "Uh, maybe, actually, your mom was doing it for your own good..."

"Does my sister also think I'm not good enough?"

Chisa Kotegawa's voice suddenly became somewhat shrill.

Oh my god! It looks like I've stepped on a landmine! What should I do?!

Angelina had a sudden inspiration and figured out some of Nanaka Kotegawa's thoughts: "She... doesn't actually have any particular thoughts, she just doesn't want to see her family so estranged."

"...This is not my problem."

Chisa Kotegawa lowered her head and thought about it. She felt that this was something her sister would consider. She sighed and was about to say something when she looked up and Angelina had already slipped away.

"Eat your food first, don't think about too many things. Tomorrow is the first day of school!"

So what exactly is going on and what's the situation? Chisa Kotegawa was completely baffled.

[Angelina: That's basically the situation!]

[Yukinoshita: Hey, senpai, what's one plus one?]

[Angelina: What are you trying to say?]

[Yukino Yukinoshita: Because one plus one equals two, therefore two plus two also equals two. Is Anshinin's approach to problem-solving simply copying answers? Not everyone's family problems are exactly the same. What standard are you using to directly apply my past situation to others?]

[Angelina: First of all, this isn't my fault! Who made the situation seem that way at first glance? A wonderful older sister who's a siscon, a quiet younger sister who envies her, and a family with conflicts between the younger sister and their mother—this is clearly Yukino No. 2!]

[Sakurajima Mai: Hmm? Has the hater-kun's "Hero" series of nicknames been updated to Hero 2.0?]

[Yukino Yukinoshita: When will you release the update? Hero Plus.]

[Yukino Yukinoshita: Judging from the naming convention, Hero Plus is basically an enhanced version with bugs fixed and improvements made, but lacking room for further improvement.]

[Sakurajima Mai: Hello, original version, you have a lot of room for improvement.]

[Yukino Yukinoshita: Oh dear~ I suddenly feel a sense of loneliness, like I'm being excluded from any permutation or combination scheme~]

[Toyohama Kazuka: Aren't you the hero's older sister?]

[Yukinoshita: Hello, Hero Plus's younger sister.]

[Angelina: The situation is urgent, so let's not joke around!]

[Toyohama Kazuka: What's so urgent? Who doesn't argue and have disagreements? It's a very common thing.]

[Angelina: Bai Ying is still playing with that group of boys and hasn't noticed the Kotegawa sisters yet. If he does notice them—]

[Yukino Yukinoshita: She was disliked and ostracized because she criticized and hurt others' feelings about their family affairs.]

[Angelina: Have you ever disliked or distanced yourself from Bai Ying?!]

[Yukino Yukinoshita: As humans of similar age and born in the same country, it's normal to have similarities in some situations and relationships. However, to generalize from these similarities is a limitation of perspective. Initially, I was driven by a competitive spirit towards Haku, and I didn't distance myself from his strange behavior. Instead, I interacted with him directly, which led to many subsequent events. This is clearly different from others. Furthermore, I don't believe that the family relationships in Kotegawa, as you mentioned, were as severe as they were for me in the past.]

[Angelina: Can someone translate?]

[Yukino Yukinoshita: A smart, cute, sincere, and tragically pitiful girl like me, who is not a person, is the perfect match for Haku-kun. Don't just tell everyone you meet that you're like me.]

[Yukino Yukinoshita: Sister, don't expand on this randomly!]

[Sakurajima Mai: Angelina, I think you're overthinking things. You've been together for three years; you should know that many things can't be replicated. A girlfriend who easily suspects her boyfriend of cheating can put a lot of pressure on him.]

[Toyohama Kazuka: What sister or younger sister? If you're talking about who a bastard might be connected to, it's definitely the people who are always around him and get tricked by him from time to time, like you.]

That seems to make sense? No, no!

Angelina frowned slightly, reorganized her thoughts and ideas, and seriously engaged in the debate.

[Angelina: First of all, the sisters Nanaka and Chisa Kotegawa have some family, ideal, and life issues that come with adolescence, right?]

[Yukino Yukinoshita: Everyone has that.]

[Angelina: And then, White Shadow likes... or rather, is particularly interested in people who are burdened with worries. She's keen on using strange methods to dig out their secrets and make the situation naturally become one that they have to face, right?]

[Yukino Yukinoshita: When he gets tired of the entertainment industry, he could try his hand at detective work; he'd definitely be a master at mediating relationships between men and women.]

[Angelina: Indeed, when catching someone cheating—don't veer off-topic. In short, whenever Bai Ying gets interested, he'll jump in to help, leading to a series of all sorts of stories. He's definitely not afraid of the other person disliking or disliking him; he only cares about the interesting truth. Then, in this process, the other person gradually confronts themselves and their difficulties, and develops gratitude towards Bai Ying. Because of these strange relationships, and after spending some time together, they gradually get used to Bai Ying's words and actions, and their hearts slowly accept him. That kind of reserved person, once they've brought the other person into their favor zone, will romanticize the past times when Bai Ying made them angry or speechless, and their favorability will skyrocket!]

[Yukino Yukinoshita: What are you talking about? I won't allow you to call Yukino-chan love-obsessed!]

Ignoring this troublemaker who's steer clear of this mess, he might just be a spy sent by Bai Ying!

[Angelina: And then! As Chisa Kotegawa and Shirokage grow closer, Nanaka Kotegawa, being a sister-complex character, will quickly make her move. Whether it's a test, a probe, or simply out of curiosity, she will definitely approach Shirokage and initiate contact. Then Shirokage will turn the tables and seize the opportunity to use it against her, ultimately causing her to sink deeper and deeper into the vortex of the relationship. Originally, she was trying to protect her sister by confronting Shirokage, but unknowingly she has fallen into this relationship. This conflicted feeling will become Shirokage's breakthrough point, thus evolving into the unpredictable Three-Body Problem!]

[Yukino Yukinoshita: What are you saying? I won't allow you to call my older sister a womanizer.]

[Sakurajima Mai: Hater: Happy.]

[Angelina: What are you laughing at! Mai-senpai and Toyohama were clearly in the same situation, only reversed—back then, Shirokage got involved with Mai-senpai, and then she and Hana, that sister-obsessed girl, walked right into her trap!]

As Bai Ying's subordinate, scapegoat, behind-the-scenes manipulator's black glove, and gossip-loving bystander, Angelina knows everything about Bai Ying's relationships and how they happened!

In other words, this dive shop has too many elements! So many that it's already giving me PTSD!

At the corner of the stairs, Angelina was engrossed in her phone when she suddenly frowned, sensing something was amiss. She looked closer and realized that, under the stairwell light, her shadow had inexplicably become two heads…

[Toyohama Kazuka: The past is the past, the present is the present, they're not the same thing. You're going diving, not swimming. Why are you dwelling on things that make you unhappy? Would your boyfriend actually cheating on you give you a sense of accomplishment?]

[Angelina: Alas! This moment is just like that moment. Sisters envy each other, mother and daughter are separated. Sisters have many worries but little strength, their entanglements always make it difficult to move forward. Yukino is sad and speechless, Sakurajima wants to have it both ways; Toyohama and Kazuka, rebellious, don't know where to turn for blame; under the heavy snow, they bury their hearts and live year after year! Love and hate are mixed, more complicated than hairs on a cow; easy to think but hard to express, more like the dark swirling of a vast ocean; the past and the future are more numerous than the scriptures in the library. This makes the sisters dare not speak but dare to be indignant. Their throbbing hearts sleep alone. A white shadow calls, wishing for a long life, day and night become love, full of affection!]

[Angelina: Alas! Those who love their sisters are the sisters themselves, not Bai. Those who possess Bai are Bai, not the sisters. Alas! If each sister loved her own lover, she could easily reject Bai; if Bai loved the one who loved her sisters, then three of them could become ten thousand in a harem, and who would lose love? The sisters had no time to grieve for themselves, yet later generations grieve for them; and if later generations grieve without learning from this, they will only cause later generations to grieve again!]

[Angelina: Yes! I know we're a couple, and Bai Ying isn't promiscuous, but the sisterly dilemma is there. If we're not careful and let Bai Ying get involved, what if the same thing happens? Do you all want Bai Ying to use these key events to directly win over other people's hearts? I'm a petty person; I don't want too many people liking the person I like, so I must be vigilant and take the initiative to prevent Bai Ying from contacting those key events and people! Even if many people still like him, I'll eliminate them one by one! Because the person I like likes me, I won't allow anyone else to like him!]

[Angelina: Gentlemen! This is a protracted war! Let us act! Let us swear a blood oath to drive out every single one of those who love the White Shadow!]

[Yukino Yukinoshita: No wonder Shiro kept urging Miura to chase Hayama back in high school; he really has a childish temper.]

[Sakurajima Mai: It's truly touching that my hater is willing to fight against an entire nation for me.]

[Yukinoshita: Hmm? Could it be that this is why that jerk and his dad are always arguing?]

[Toyohama Kazuka: You bastard, you stole the Angelina ship?!]

[Angelina: I'm not good at high-end IT stuff, I just stole a phone. Everyone's having such a lively conversation, why didn't you include me? This is bullying!]

[Toyohama Kazuka: Climb, climb, climb!]

[Angelina: Alright! I'm charging towards Chisa Kotegawa's room right now! (Too long and rambling just regurgitates the plot, completely lacking the creator's flexibility!) Chisa Kotegawa's family problems aren't that serious. The key isn't to bravely confront and express them, but to find the misunderstandings and their causes. My intuition tells me the focus is on her mother's thoughts. All I need to do is trick her into giving me her phone, cleverly mimic her voice, and with a few words, I can clear things up.]

[Yukino Yukinoshita: Come back.]

[Angelina: What a childish temper! Does she really not want her boyfriend to be loved by everyone and adored by flowers?]

[Sakurajima Mai: Is she being so enthusiastic just to make Yukino jealous? That's so childish.]

[Angelina: I am the head of the Aid and Service Department! It is my duty to help others solve their problems! Unlike some people who have forgotten their original aspirations and are only interested in status and coveting the student council president, I have abandoned my ideal of improving the world!]

[Yukikinoshita Yukino: #! 】

[Angelina: Alright, I've taken care of the white shadow. Leave this to me. I won't give him a chance to start the twin sisters incident!]

[Yukinoshita: Are you for real or not? I'm starting to have my doubts.]

[Angelina: After Bai Ying finished her light novel, there has been no news of a new one for a long time. It's certain that she has run out of ideas, suffered writer's block, and can no longer write a new light novel.]

Mai Sakurajima: It's genuine.

[Toyohama Kazuka: By the way, is Shirokage's light novel going to be adapted into a game? I saw they were recruiting voice actors for it.]

[Angelina: I only follow light novels, so I'm not really into this. Aren't you a singing and dancing idol? Why are you following this?]

[Feng Binhehua: My aunt said that unless you have amazing strength in a certain area, diversified development is the mainstream in the current market, and only by crossing over into multiple industries can you create a breakthrough effect... I don't remember very clearly, and I didn't understand it very well either, but it basically meant do whatever you can. I even endorsed a mobile game before.]

[Angelina: ...When we talk about work and such, the conversation always seems to drift off into something far away.]

[Toyohama Kazuka: I don't feel anything.]

[Sakurajima Mai: That's an outsider's perspective. You think it's special and far removed from your own experience, but for me, it's just a bunch of things to solve and accomplish.]

[Yukino: Doesn't Senpai spend all her time writing travelogues and taking photos? Using superpowers to create spectacular scenery, how did you even come up with that idea?]

Oops! We've been discovered?

Angelina was about to continue using her phone when she suddenly felt a weight on her shoulder. She glanced sideways at the white shadow that had just been swatted away: "How many meters do you want to fly this time? I can make it happen for you."

"I didn't intend to hack your account." Bai Ying smiled tolerantly. "I just wanted to remind you, who's so engrossed in group chats, to look at what time it is."

Angelina glanced at the time and was startled.

"It's too long to read. The dive shop is about to close. We should find a place to rest too."

Bai Ying smiled, revealing her teeth.

[Angelina: Help! How can I avoid being dragged to the school by the white shadow to set up a tent?!]

[Yukino Yukinoshita: Use your superpower on Shiro-kun.]

[Yukinoshita: Find a park bench.]

[Sakurajima Mai: Staying up all night at an internet cafe.]

[Toyohama Kazuka: Hotel room booking.]

[Yukikinoshita Yukino:? 】

Chapter 141 The First Day of School

[Toyohama Kazuka: You? What??]

[Yukino Yukinoshita: Do you want to see whose suggestion is the most illogical?]

[Toyohama Kazuka: You.]

[Toyohama Kazuka: Everyone else is offering suggestions, but you're just arguing with the jerk.]

[Yukino Yukinoshita: I don't deny that, but is your suggestion alright?]

[Toyohama Kazuka: Huh?]

[Toyohama Kazuka: Where do you stay when you're traveling if you're not going to a hotel? Go to the park and look for cardboard boxes?]

[Toyohama Kazuka: Putting aside business trips, do you not stay in guesthouses or hotels on school trips? Do you not book rooms when you travel? You can't possibly rent or buy a house every time you go, can you? Your family is in the construction industry, so it's impossible for you to have residences everywhere that you can use at any time.]

[Toyohama Kazuka: Of all the suggestions, only my sister's and mys are worth considering. You two, Yukino, one is sarcastic and the other is insulting. From a common-sense perspective, it's clear that you two have a problem.]

quiet--

[Toyohama Kazuka: Huh? Where is everyone?]

[Sakurajima Mai: Hmm... I'm speechless after being teased by Kazuka.]

[Toyohama Kazuka: Huh?]

[Yukinoshita Haruno: Yukino-chan thought you meant when you said "booking a room" was the kind where a lone man and woman go to a hotel and have sex, you know~ In front of the pure, innocent, and upright Kazuha-chan, Yukino-chan is blushing~]