A youth story of a passerby at the end of the world

"What's wrong? Is heat contagious?" Hachiman smoothed his hair with his hand, sticking out a cowlick.

"Ah... because it's springtime."

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The cherry blossoms have not yet fallen.

Originally, Tobe Sho and Ebina Hina should have belonged to different social classes.

Hu Buxiang's own circle of friends is basically the noisy and attention-grabbing type; to be precise, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say it's like a mountain of flowers and fruits.

As for Hina Ebina, although she is indeed good-looking and sometimes clumsy, she also has a cute side.

However, compared to the other two members of the Miura Group, that "cuteness" might be slightly off.

Based on her usual class standing, Hina Ebina should be right next to the top, in a position like "the super cute kid that only I know about".

This makes middle-class and even lower-class boys wonder, "Could it be that I can date her too?" At the same time, they feel a sense of luck, like they've gotten a great deal or stumbled upon a bargain, and shout "Lucky!"

What Hayato Hayama is willing to fight to the death to protect, Yumiko Miura wants to destroy, and she was just stopped. Now it's Sho Tobe's turn to stop her. Who will stop her this time?

But none of this had anything to do with the two of them. However, the Yeshan Group was truly facing one problem after another.

"Drink!" Uesugi Genshin raised his glass in the game club's classroom, and everyone responded, even Hachiman, who looked reluctant.

"cheers!"

"Wow, what is this~" Sagami took only a small sip and felt his stomach burning.

"Don't breathe." Qin Ye pretended to be calm, raised his glass high, and drank it all in one gulp. His hand trembled slightly after he finished.

Cai Muzuo Yihui rubbed his chin with his thumb and forefinger, chuckling, "Is this wine still warm?" He was lost in his own thoughts.

"Do your best, at least finish one glass." When his own glass was empty, Uesugi Genshin picked up the whiskey bottle and refilled it, not forgetting to fill Hachiman's glass as well.

"Ugh..." Hey, don't fill it so full.

"One cup is enough," Sagami said softly, and like Qin Ye, he held his breath and gulped it down in one go.

"However, thanks to you, Minister, we were able to get this clubroom back." Qin Ye looked around at the cabinets filled with games, a sense of pride rising within him. "Another drink, please!"

Sagami was shocked by the man's gesture of extending the empty glass. He pushed up his glasses and said, "Really?" Ah, this man is hopeless; he's already drunk after just one drink.

"Haha, no need for honorifics in private. And just one more glass, otherwise you might throw up. Just drink it slowly." Uesugi Genshin, considerate of his subordinate, kindly filled his glass. Because there was an ice cube in the middle, there wasn't much. It was pure whiskey, so the alcohol content was safe and wouldn't catch fire.

Qin Ye nodded. "Is that so?"

“Hmm, you can call this guy Lord Odate (Odate-sama) or Lord Odate, it’s fine.” Yoshiteru Zaimokuza said, pointing at Genshin Uesugi, his face slightly flushed.

"Heh." Uesugi Genshin silently picked up the whiskey and filled Zaimokuza Yoshiteru's glass.

"I see!" "Oh, I see!" "..."

"This is delicious." Hachiman chewed on a squid leg and raised his eyebrows.

"This is not bad either." Yoshiteru Zaimokuza tore off a long strip of beef jerky and put it in his mouth. "But it's a bit spicy."

The spicy spices elevate the flavor of the beef jerky to another level.

Sagami ordered a slice, tasted it, and exclaimed, "It really is!"

By the time everything on the table was finished, the wine that the minister had brought was almost gone.

"Alright, keep up the good work from now on, so that we can live better lives." Uesugi Genshin, as the department head, gave the final speech and announced the end of the event.

As soon as Hachiman stepped outside, he felt a chill and shivered. Wow, it was really hot inside.

Then everyone went home, washed up, and went to bed.

Watching Genshin enter his room and close the door, Hachiman stood at the door of the former Service Club classroom, about to pull the door open and enter, when he heard the voices of other girls.

"Yeah, yeah, Yui's cooking skills are truly disastrous. I really hope she can curb her destructive creativity. Ah~, why did she suddenly want to learn to cook?"

It was the sound of Ebina Hina sighing. That guy was good friends with Kawasaki and often came here to play. Hachiman Hikigaya was used to it and opened the door as if nothing was wrong.

"Welcome back." "Oh, okay."

"Yay~, I'm here to play."

"Well, welcome."

Hina Ebina walked over, so close they could smell each other's scent. Indeed, "Ah~, Hachiman smells like Uesugi, so rotten..."

Hachiman Hikigaya vehemently denied it, even pulling up his clothes to smell himself. "No way! How do you know it's that guy's smell? I didn't smell anything but alcohol."

"Drinking so much?" Saki Kawasaki, sitting over there, criticized him in a tone that sounded like a mother lecturing her father.

"Oh? Could it be that the strange man's scent on you is from someone else?" Hina Ebina's eyes, hidden behind her red-rimmed glasses, were shining.

"..."

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"Although Hayato-kun is the kind of person who only acts in that style, the environment he creates is very likable. I don't want it to be destroyed."

Last night, before leaving, he saw her off for a while, and then he remembered what Hina Ebina had said. Was she asking for his help?

Although I only told him, oh dear, things have become complicated again.

"You idiot! What are you daydreaming about?" Xuanxin's angry shout rang in his ears.

Sitting next to him, Hayato Hayama smiled and said, "Hachiman, it's your turn."

"..." Hachiman silently put on his mask, picked up the bamboo sword beside him, and decided not to think about it too much. There must be a way.

He stepped into the circle formed by the crowd and bowed to the person opposite him.

"Please advise!"

"Snap!" Light speed.

"red deer!!!"

Chapter 88: Sister, you're leaving tomorrow.

Slashing the leg and striking the face.

The trembling, weak ligaments and calf muscles could not support the body's balance. When the face was hit, the body inevitably lost its center of gravity and fell backward.

She fell to the floor of the dojo with a "thud".

"...Ugh," Hachiman exhaled a breath of stale air, completely relaxing. The sweat stuck to his inner lining, which was very uncomfortable, but it was nothing compared to the physical exhaustion.

This is extra practice after the team members have left. He can wait a little while before getting up, because no one will wait for him or urge him.

“Not bad.” Uesugi Genshin squatted down beside him, his bamboo sword resting on his shoulder. “Except for being a little distracted at the beginning.”

"At the beginning..." The other party rushed over like that, and I didn't have time to think about anything else. The pressure was too great to pay attention to anything else.

"What happened?" What interesting thing happened? That's what he wanted to ask.

Hachiman sat up from the ground. "How do you suggest we stop Tobe from confessing?"

"?" Uesugi Genshin was very confused. What does this have to do with us? He doesn't forbid his subordinates from having romantic relationships.

Fearing the man might not understand, Hachiman explained again, "I was asked by Ebina."

"Then you can just pretend to be her boyfriend." That wave of the hand, implying it was no big deal, was infuriating.

"I shouldn't have asked you." Hachiman lay back down.

"This is the most straightforward and thoughtless method. Since they already have a lover, no one else can go up and confess their feelings to them."

Hachiman took the words "No need to think..." to heart, which meant he should take the formal commission seriously. However, there was a method that seemed to offer minimal risk and could be used directly...

"What else?" Confess before Tobe Sho can, and then get rejected?

This would highlight Hina Ebina's desire not to be in a relationship, but it would also diminish Hachiman's authority as the leader, making a self-sacrificing approach completely unnecessary.

Uesugi Genshin looked at Zaimokuza Yoshiteru, who was sweating profusely while doing squats, and said, "Anyway, if you explain it in detail, you two will both know the truth, and those close to you won't have any misunderstandings. Apart from the fact that everyone thinks your love story with her has gone from zero to one, there is absolutely no loss."

"Hmm..." Hachiman hesitated. He didn't expect to be like the protagonist in a romance novel and end up taking things too seriously. After all, he had already "graduated" from that relationship. But the human tendency to be lazy suddenly kicked in.

Just as he was trying to find the logical flaws in the story, Uesugi Genshin pulled him up.

"Again." It's almost noon.

"Oh, okay." And so he stopped thinking.

After finishing his extra training, Hachiman obediently took off his protective gear and placed it aside, where someone would come to wash it.

If this type of protective gear is not washed promptly after sweating during exercise, it will quickly develop a strong, sour smell.

Kendo clubs usually have new members wash their hands as a sign of respect from seniors to juniors, a practice that many people find deeply repulsive.

At least in the workplace, seniors may urge others to drink at gatherings, but in the end, they always pay for the meal. These seniors are true seniors. However, in schools, paying for meals is not the norm, so it is purely a matter of pressure from above and below.

However, the executive department does not need to wash the protective gear that is soaked with sweat themselves, because the Ministry of Health will come to collect, wash and dry it in the afternoon.

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When we gathered in the afternoon, all the members of the execution department were there.

"Minister, what are we going to do today?" Yu Sheng asked first.

Because the baseball bat was nailed in, Tobe Sho couldn't sling it over his shoulders to look cool; he could only lean on the ground for support. "Should I really go to the supermarket?"

He had finished all his snacks. He, Ooka, and Yamato had finished theirs in one night, plus the people they were giving away. It all happened so fast that he didn't have time to react.

When I came to my senses the next day, I found that all that was left were a bunch of empty bags.

“No.” Uesugi Genshin shook his head, looking at the two teams and assigning tasks.

"The Hikigaya squad is responsible for protecting the Organization Department's engineering team as they build the wall. The Hayama squad and I continue to clear out the zombies a little further away from the school, as well as the neighboring Chiba University."

"Okay~" Everyone obeyed.

Hachiman led his men directly toward the seaside highway. This coastal highway was very clean in the Sobu Highlands. They had already traveled back and forth so many times, and now they were just checking it in detail again. So their mission would basically not involve combat, but was to prevent any unexpected events from happening.

Meanwhile, Uesugi Genshin and Hayama's team entered the residential area opposite the school's main gate, which was also the place where the commotion had occurred earlier. Japan does not have the concept of residential communities; this area was simply a collection of apartment buildings.

The apartment building is quite old and looks rather dilapidated, with yellowed and peeling paint on the exterior walls.

They searched each building one by one, making noise on the first floor of each building, and once they confirmed there was no zombie activity, they stopped there.

Sure enough, several blood-soaked zombies emerged from the buildings inside. The black patches on their mouths were bloodstains from eating; they didn't wipe their mouths after eating.

Uesugi Genshin abandoned the zombies that came out of the building and continued walking forward alone, leaving Hayama and the others to deal with the remaining zombies.

By the time they caught up, he was already checking another building.

After all the apartment buildings were confirmed to be safe, Uesugi Genshin took out a map and drew a circle around this location.

Then start walking east along the seaside park road. This road is the one where the side gate of Sobu High School is located. It is a main road with traffic lights, unlike the small road between Sobu High School and Chiba University on the other side.

Looking around from this intersection, all the buildings on either side are surrounded by low walls at least one person high. By stacking the walls close to both sides of the road towards the middle, a decent roadblock can be created.

"Push harder! Push harder from here!" came an encouraging voice from the school's side gate.

Students were already pushing unusable cars toward the seaside promenade, using tables and cars to create a two-tiered barrier that was enough to stop the zombies.

"Hey!" Ooka swung his weapon and slammed it hard on the side of the zombie's head. Blood splattered out, and the zombie was dead beyond any doubt.

"Haaaaaah!" Full of momentum, Hobu Sho yelled as he charged forward to bolster his courage. He couldn't expect one action to completely build their confidence.

Uesugi Genshin stood at the back, holding a sword, watching over the few people who were scattered.

Hayato Hayama stood in the middle of the road, pushing forward and forming a sharp arrowhead that attracted the most zombies, with Tamahana and Yamato on either side.

This is his own way of helping his subordinates relieve stress, and there's nothing wrong with it.

This is just the first intersection heading east. Fortunately, the surrounding area is mostly residential buildings, so there aren't many zombies on the road; there are only about a dozen so far.

After the zombies were cleared away, they crossed the first intersection and continued forward. The zombies here were no different from those at the previous intersection.

"No need to go any further." Looking towards Zongwu High School from here, the school is too blurry to see clearly; a distance of a little over a kilometer is enough.

Further ahead is a convenience store, and even further ahead is the Chiba West Police Station Takashu branch, which is patrolled all day long but no one is there. It's very annoying that you often can't answer the phone there.

That's quite a distance. Uesugi Genshin led his men back to Chiba University.

"What is this?!" The talkative Tobe Sho stared in astonishment at the horde of corpses inside.