In the anime, their emotions can be combined into strange props

Going to the cooking table with Hikigaya, they looked at the irregular charcoal-shaped cookies on the plate... or rather, they were charcoal-shaped cookies.

Hikigaya's face had turned visibly green. "Do we... really have to eat this?"

While Hikigaya was still hesitating, Xia Yan had already bravely put a biscuit into his mouth. As he chewed it, feeling the crunchy texture and the taste of charcoal, he commented expressionlessly, as if the biscuit didn't taste too bad.

"I think not wasting food is a very basic quality when eating."

"Are you saying that the cookies I made are a waste of food?" Yuigahama Yui, who was squatting and leaning on the edge of the cooking table with a depressed look on her face, looked at the coke... cookies she made with her own hands. Her expression became even more lost after hearing this.

"No!"

Xia Yan firmly denied it and silently added, "I'm saying that for the first time in my life, you've made me feel that wasting food isn't a sin!"

"Woo~"

Amidst Yuigahama's wails, Hikigaya, who had already picked up a biscuit with some doubt and was about to die after seeing Xia Yan's performance, now put the biscuit back into the plate without leaving a trace, with a cold sweat on his face.

At this time, Yukinoshita Yukino, who was also squatting next to Yuigahama, but holding her forehead with a pale face, also said helplessly: "Why did this child make so many mistakes in those few short steps..."

"Woo woo woo! Is it really that unpalatable?!"

Yuigahama's defeated wail grew louder, and her delicate little face, sprawled on the cooking table, revealed an expression like a lively puppy whimpering in sadness.

"As expected, I don't have... such a thing as talent."

Chapter 6: Being Noticed

"Yuigahama-san, you just said you have no talent, right?"

Yuigahama's self-doubt actually aroused Yukinoshita's fighting spirit. She stood up and began to organize the milk, wheat flour and other ingredients for making cookies again. Although her eyes did not look at Yuigahama, everyone could feel the seriousness in her words:

"Please change that perception. Those who don't even make the minimum effort have no right to envy talented people. Those who can't succeed are unable to imagine the accumulated efforts behind successful people, and that's why they can't succeed."

"Anyway, let's adjust the ingredients first, and then you strictly follow my production process..."

Can...

Xia Yan, who had activated the breath blocking technique again and sat back in his original seat silently, suddenly closed the book with a "snap".

Time to end.

It’s not that there was anything wrong with what Yukinoshita said, but Xia Yan noticed that Hikigaya, who was also on the other side, had an expression as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.

"Come to think of it, Yuigahama-san, you made handmade cookies to give to someone, right? Who is that person?" Xia Yan spoke first.

"Um, this..."

"Is it a boy?"

Noticing Yuigahama's hesitant expression and knowing their situation, Xia Yan changed her words: "That's easy. If you're giving it to a boy, then even if your cookies taste terrible... well, even if they're made like this, they're good enough for a boy."

"Huh? What does this mean?"

"To put it simply, a beautiful girl like you spends time, energy, and effort to make handmade cookies specifically for one person. Just receiving them would make a guy jump for joy."

Xia Yan looked at Yuigahama and said casually, "In this situation, who would care about the taste?"

"Ah~, beautiful, are you talking about me?"

Yuigahama's expression was a little shy at first, but then it immediately became suspicious... and subtly disgusted: "No, you guys only look at faces, right?"

"That's right, it's as simple as looking at the face. If a pretty girl shows even the slightest hint of affection, he'll misunderstand it and want to fawn over her. Men, after all, are such simple creatures."

Xia Yan nodded firmly, turned around and threw the blame back to someone: "If you don't believe me, you can go ask Hikigaya."

Hearing this, Yuigahama's delicate face, which had been carefully made up, actually blushed a little. She asked Hikigaya shyly, "Hikigaya, is this really true?"

"Huh?" This came from the innocent Hikigaya Hachiman: "Why are you asking me?!"

Xia Yan once again skillfully activated the breath blocking technique, wanting to hide his presence and watch the two people start to eat melons with a concealed look on their faces.

"Beautiful...huh~"

Yukinoshita Yukino narrowed her eyes at this moment, glancing sideways at Xia Yan beside her, and suddenly said, "So this is why you tried to secretly take photos just now, but gave up out of a slight sense of guilt?"

"Ok?"

"Secret photo?!"

On the other side, Hikigaya and Yuigahama, who were facing each other, were distracted by Yukinoshita's sudden words.

Xia Yan was naturally frightened at the beginning, but after all, he had nothing to fear. He was just collecting illustrations and did not take any secret photos on purpose. He even gave up halfway. Why should he feel guilty?

Therefore, after calming down and thinking carefully, he suddenly discovered a brilliant point -

No, I also activated the Breath Blocker when I wanted to take a photo. You were still busy instructing Yuigahama. How did you notice I was looking at you in that situation?!

...Although my skill level is indeed a bit low.

Xia Yan looked at Yukinoshita suspiciously.

"Could you please stop looking at me with that lewd gaze?"

Xueshita seemed to have noticed Xia Yan's gaze. In an instant, she exaggeratedly hugged her breasts, which actually had nothing to look at, and took two steps back, saying in a condescending tone:

"I'm very sensitive to other people's gazes, especially the lustful and obscene gazes from a pervert like you. Just one glance at me gives me a severe rejection reaction that threatens both my body and mind."

"No, this statement is too exaggerated. Are my eyes some kind of tool to accelerate aging?" Xia Yan complained.

"Ah, so this perverted gentleman also has this kind of self-awareness."

Regarding Yukinoshita's venomous tongue, Xia Yan...

Don't care at all!

As long as you can get gold coins, we are half-brothers and sisters!

Unfortunately, when Xia Yan opened the panel, he was unable to see any new fragments appear behind Yukinoshita's portrait.

But it’s not a big problem, at least his main purpose of interrupting this time was achieved.

The reason why Xia Yan expressed his opinion on "boys being childish to accept gifts" before Hikigaya this time was not out of any attempt to steal the limelight.

It was because of one of the rules for the emotional fragments to burst out, as tested by Xia Yan:

[The heroines and supporting actresses, only when I participate in their influence, can they possibly explode with emotion.]

Just like Yukinoshita and others, they naturally have emotional fluctuations in their normal lives, but Xia Yan has never seen any emotional fragments flying out of thin air for no reason.

They will only explode into fragments when Xia Yan is under their influence.

Let me give you an example from someone present here:

Suppose Hikigaya told a joke and made Yuigahama Yui laugh. In this case, there would be absolutely no fragments exploding (×)

Because Xia Yan had no involvement in it;

If [Xia Yan asks Hikigaya to tell a joke] and Yuigahama Yui laughs, then fragments will explode (√)

Because Xia Yan had an influence on this incident.

In short, Xia Yan has to seize the opportunity and insert himself into the topics of the heroines and supporting actresses, so that when they have emotional fluctuations, he can get some information.

As expected, as the conversation progressed, Xia Yan immediately got a new fragment, and Yuigahama Yui's portrait appeared on the left panel.

[Emotional Fragments: Yuigahama Yui

Type: Joy]

In addition, Xia Yan previously speculated that the [label] attribute related to the final synthesis product, if it is really a combination of impressions, then Yuigahama Yui's label must be:

Current charge?

Energetic girl?

Are you good at reading the air?

No, according to Xia Yan's deep impression of her, she must be:

【Tag: dumpling】

bingo!

Xia Yan happily dragged the newly acquired fragment to the secondary seat, and then added another Ying Lili fragment to the secondary seat. As for the main seat?

The fragments of Yukinoshita that he had placed there earlier had not yet been removed.

Click Compose.

This time, his guess was so accurate, it would surely bring him some good luck in this synthesis...

"Om~"

[Uchiha Itachi...]

Seeing these four words, Xia Yan's heart skipped a beat. Could this be the Sharingan coming? !

Is metaphysics really that useful?!

【…My favorite three-color meatballs! 】

——Then he finished reading the last seven words.

Xia Yan: “…”

Although the synthesis hit the wrong secondary position, the combination of dumpling and meatball once again proved his previous theory that the synthesis was related to the heroine label.

Overall, it's quite reasonable.

It was so reasonable that Xia Yan's eyes went dark. He covered his heart and staggered, almost falling to the ground.

Xia Yan felt like he could write down this paragraph in his notebook:

In 2022, on the th day of the th lunar month, it is better to explode gold coins/fragments than to synthesize them!

Chapter 7 I Need More Useful Women (Mist)

"Huh? Xia Yan, why are you suddenly looking at me with such disgust?!"

Yuigahama Yui is indeed a woman who is very good at reading the atmosphere. Xia Yan was almost mad because she drew out an "N card" and subconsciously looked at the culprit with disgust.

I didn't expect that she would notice this.

"No, it's nothing."

Glancing at Yuigahama, who was about to cry because of his disgusted gaze, Xia Yan took a deep breath, turned his body sideways, and materialized a string of useless things made up of pink, yellow and green balls from the system warehouse, and stuffed them into Yuigahama's mouth.

Self-produced and self-eaten.jpg

"Woooooo~"

Yukinoshita's eyes narrowed as she watched Yuigahama Yui, who had already picked up the bamboo skewer of the three-colored meatballs and was chewing them like a hamster, noticed something was amiss and turned to look at Xia Yan suspiciously: "No, where did you get that string of meatballs from?"

"I brought some snacks from the cafeteria at noon and put them in a box in my schoolbag." Xia Yan said casually without changing his expression.

When he took out the useless string of dumplings just now, he was very careful to do it in the blind spot of the three people's vision. With his experience, there would be no flaws, so he then took out his mobile phone very calmly and checked the time.

"Anyway, Yuigahama-san's commission has been completed. I have something else to do, so I have to leave first."

Xia Yan picked up his schoolbag and stood up, speaking casually. However, when he glanced at Xuexia next to him, he unconsciously showed a hint of hesitation, and then...

After constructing the scene in his mind, choosing the sentences, and preparing his lines, he invited her in a somewhat stiff tone: "Yukinoshita, I heard there's a new cat cafe in Shinjuku..."

"Want to go and see it together?"

Upon hearing this, Yuigahama Yui, who was already happily eating the three-colored meatballs with her cheeks puffed out, couldn't help but speed up her chewing movements with excitement, as if she had heard something interesting and appetizing.

Her eyes were almost emitting a ray of light called "gossip" as she stared at Xia Yan and the other person so intently.

And Xia Yan...

His idea was actually not that complicated, which was: cat = special attack on Yukinoshita = she was the type who would unconsciously meow when seeing a cat.

So going to a cat cafe means harvesting a lot of joy fragments from Yukinoshita.

But...