The goal of life is to break up all couples

"Lixi, calm down."

Matsueda Azusa was silent for a moment: "Actually... if Deng can find a new band, that might not be a bad thing, right?"

Shiina Riki was stunned when he heard this and stared at Matsueda Azusa blankly.

Matsueda Azusa looked at Shiina Riki seriously and said, "If Crychic doesn't have a place reserved for Deng... we shouldn't stop her from starting a new life, right? Just like we rebuilt Crychic, Deng also has the right to choose to start a new band."

"But...but, Deng..."

Shiina Riki clenched his fists: "If the people who asked her to form a band were those with bad intentions..."

"Hey! I'm still here!"

Chihaya Aine waved her fist in protest, "Who are you calling the malicious one? You're so rude!"

"Lixi, Deng will eventually learn to grow on her own. She will eventually find her own band and her own place..."

Songzhi Zi pursed her lips and said, "And...if you're really worried, why not ask Deng and hear what she thinks."

Shiina Riki's shoulders relaxed. "That's true... Azusa, you're right. I worry too much, and I can't make the decision for Deng... I have to go and ask her what she thinks in person."

Matsueda Azusa loosened his grip on Shiina Riki's shoulders and seemed to want to say something, but in the end he changed his words and said, "Go quickly, Riki."

Li Xi looked at Matsueda Azusa hesitantly, then turned around and chased in the direction Takamatsu Deng escaped.

Completely lost in the situation, Chihaya Aine couldn't understand what was going on. "Eh?! Don't run! What do you mean? Wait for me!"

She subconsciously wanted to chase after him, but after thinking it over, she bowed slightly to Songzhi Zi first: "I don't know what happened, but anyway... thank you for helping to smooth things over."

After saying that, she hurriedly ran after Shiina Riki again.

This kid is quite polite.

Songzhi Zi scratched his head and stared blankly in the direction they left.

Now he was alone again.

Taking a deep breath, Matsueda Azusa patted his cheeks lightly and turned to look inside the RING.

Hachiman Kailing looked at the direction where Shiina Riki left with a worried look on her face. She seemed to want to follow him, but in the end she did not take any action and said nothing.

Where will the future of crychic go?

Matsueda Azusa discovered that she was actually the same person as Nagasaki Suyo in a sense.

Yamada Ryo pushed open the door, stuck his head out, and looked at Matsueda Azusa pitifully: "Matsueda, my parfait~"

Matsueda Azusa came back to his senses and looked at Yamada Ryo with a bewildered look on his face: "Then go eat. You actually waited for us? How can you be so polite?"

Yamada Ryo blinked his eyes brightly: "You haven't paid yet."

"I knew you weren't that kind!"

The vein on Songzhizi's forehead twitched.

"Speaking of which...if you don't have anywhere to go, why don't you come with me to where we're finishing up the band later?"

Yamada Ryo tilted his head.

"What do you mean by having nowhere to go? What are you saying..."

Matsueda Azusa retorted subconsciously, but her voice dropped for some reason. "...Okay. I guess there's nothing else to do anyway."

"Ah, and—"

Yamada Ryo seemed to suddenly remember something: "What I said before was not just a casual remark, Matsueda, you might want to think about it."

Songzhi Zi was stunned when he heard this: "What?"

"Just... write me a song."

43. Pine Branch Wine and Warm Water

Why do people go to school?

Every day when Songzhi Zi comes to school early in the morning feeling sleepy, he starts to doubt his life: Do I really need to go to this school?

What is the meaning of life?

Songzhi Zi was sleepy and staggered towards the teaching building.

Suddenly, a huge force was felt, and the defenseless Songzhi Zi was instantly dragged into a dark corner.

"?!"

Songzhi Zi was frightened awake.

What was going on? Could it be that the shady organization that he'd speculated about dozens of chapters ago, abducting students from beneath Sobu High School, was actually real?!

This must have been ordered by Shizuka Hiratsuka! It seems that his identity as the protagonist of the hot-blooded manga can no longer be hidden. The plot of annihilating the dark organization will surely unfold in a grand manner.

Matsueda Azusa had a determined look in her eyes. She turned around and saw that the person coming was actually Miura Yumiko.

"No, sister, what are you doing so early in the morning?"

With Miura's intelligence, he couldn't do the work of the dark organization, and Matsueda Azusa's imagination was shattered in an instant.

Miura Yumiko tsk-tsk-tsk-tsk-tsk-tsk and cautiously glanced around. After making sure no one was around in this damn place, she said to Matsueda Azusa, "How come you're so calm?! I don't think my friends believed what you said yesterday at all. I felt like they were looking at me strangely the whole day!"

"...If they really believed it, then there'd be no point, okay? With such a lame excuse, I really have to wonder if those who believed it are mildly mentally retarded."

Matsueda Azusa gave him a look that said, "You called me out just for this?" and glanced at Miura Yumiko speechlessly. "I think Tobe Sho is the only one in your group who would believe that excuse."

Miura Yumiko couldn't help but complain: "Can't you think of a better excuse?"

Songzhi Zi rolled her eyes. "I can explain it for you. You should thank me already. Why are you asking so many questions? If you hadn't fallen flat on your face in such a panic, and on me, you wouldn't have to explain so much. Look for your own faults before blaming others."

Miura Yumiko was speechless for a moment. Thinking about it, it was true that Matsueda Azusa was a person who was eager to create chaos in the world. She would almost laugh when she had the opportunity to make Hayama Hayato and others misunderstand her. How could she possibly try her best to help her find a solution?

"Ugh……"

Seeing Miura Yumiko speechless, Matsueda Azusa held her forehead and sighed, "To be honest, you don't need to worry about this. With Hayato Hayama in charge, even if they don't believe that excuse, any rumors will not spread."

Matsueda Azusa is not so bad as to take such a thing that may ruin someone's reputation lightly. If the rumor that "Miura Yumiko is pregnant" is likely to spread, he will definitely find a way to clean up the mess.

But this was unlikely to happen. After all, only their small group was present at the time.

The silly boy Nakatobe Sho really believed Matsueda Azusa's excuse, and Hayama Hayato will do his best to prevent this from happening in order to prevent rumors from spreading and causing the collapse of the small group.

Among the girls, Yuigahama Yui and Ebina Hime aren't the type to spread rumors. Most of the remaining girls are unlikely to "disobey" Miura Yumiko. Even if a few of them have inappropriate thoughts, they still have Hayato Hayama to back them up.

Therefore, this excuse doesn't need to be able to convince others at all, as long as it can fool people on the surface, as for the rest... the legendary stability maintenance king Lao Ye will take care of it.

"No, I know rumors can't spread, but that's not the point. The point is that Hayato must have misunderstood!"

Yumiko Miura couldn't help but grab her hair.

"...Well, wouldn't that be better for me? Are you sure you want to discuss this with me? Do you just want to be ridiculed by me some more? Are you addicted?"

Matsueda Azusa looked at Miura Yumiko with pity and couldn't help shaking his head. This girl was not smart enough to begin with, and now she must have been hit even harder, right?

Yumiko Miura was embarrassed.

It really is.

How could she have thought of dragging Matsueda Azusa to discuss this matter? Miura Yumiko was almost laughing at her own stupidity.

Matsueda Azusa added the finishing blow: "Besides, to be honest, it's nothing. He misunderstood, so what? Do you think he'd be with you if he didn't misunderstand? That's a nice thought. If it doesn't affect the outcome, then it's the same as if there was no misunderstanding."

"........."

Miura Yumiko was completely stunned. She grabbed Matsueda Azusa's collar and shook her vigorously. "No, why are you always targeting me? You're not secretly in love with me, are you? Why don't you try so hard to break up Himemiya Karen and Kuda Kusuke? And aren't you worried that your team members Numizu Kazuhiko and Yanami Kyouna are together? With so many targets, why do you always pick on me? You really want to use me to improve your record, right?"

Songzhi Zixu narrowed his eyes and said, "Is it possible that I never intended to care about you from the beginning, and it was you who came up to me and got humiliated all the time?"

"And who said I gave up on breaking up Himemiya Karen and Kuda Sosuke? It's just that the plan we made at the beginning went wrong and we can't continue to implement it. Isn't it time to find another way?"

"As for Wen Shui and Yanami... Haha, it's just like between you and Hayama. There's no chance - at least that's the case for now - so there's no need to stop them."

Miura Yumiko regretted it so much that her intestines turned green. Oh no, it was true. If she hadn't provoked Matsueda Azusa in the beginning, there wouldn't have been so many troubles later. She didn't expect that it was really her own fault.

Despite this, she still insisted, "Are you so sure that there's no possibility between Onumi Kazuhiko and Yanami Kyouna? Yesterday, I saw Onumi Kazuhiko arguing for Yanami in front of Kuda Kusuke, and I think it's very possible between them! Are you turning a blind eye just because they're members of your club?"

Matsueda Azusa couldn't help but laugh. "You still don't understand human nature. Hikigaya Hachiman wouldn't ask this kind of question like you, because he knows, just like me, that Onsui and Yanami are impossible. Just like the problem between you and Hayama isn't with you, the problem between them isn't with Yanami, but with Onsui."

"You have to say I am!"

Miura Yumiko glared at Matsueda Azusa angrily. "Okay, okay, okay, okay, there's no possibility between Hayato and me, okay? Now you're happy, right? ...So what's wrong with Onumi Kazuhiko? Is it the same situation as Hayato?"

"That's so different."

The mention of criticizing others immediately perked up Matsueda Azusa. He leaned against the wall, raised a finger, and began to speak. "There are two problems with Hayato Hayama. One is that he cares more about the stability of the group than about relationships, and the other is that he doesn't like you at all. I've already analyzed him many times before, so I won't repeat myself."

"And Onumi Kazuhiko... this guy is a very difficult person to deal with. He's an atypical person who's warm on the outside but cold on the inside. In many ways, his thinking and logic are completely different from that of ordinary people. You may not be able to see it, but he actually hides a very strong desire for control."

"real or fake……"

Miura Yumiko's curiosity was piqued, but Matsueda Azusa's words were so exaggerated that she couldn't help but ask incredulously, "Is it as outrageous as you say? I can't tell... He just looks like an ordinary, gloomy man."

"So you don't know how to judge people."

Matsueda Azusa curled his lips, "You can't even tell what kind of person Hayato Hayama is, and you still want to understand Wen Shui? It's pure daydreaming."

Miura Yumiko rolled her eyes. She had become completely desensitized to Matsueda Azusa's constant backstabbing of her. She held out her hands and said, "Okay, okay, you analyze it. Please."

"You should learn from this."

Matsueda Azusa snapped his fingers: "This person, Onmizu Kazuhiko..."

44. Pine Branch Wine and Warm Water (Continued)

"Do you know why Wen Shui was a complete nobody in the class before I found him? To the point where he didn't even have a single friend?"

Matsueda Azusa leaned against the wall. "You know, even Hikigaya had a close friend like Zaimokuza."

Yumiko Miura shook her head, but it was not so much that she didn't understand, but rather that she had never paid attention to it at all.

"Well... although a considerable part of this is actually due to Wen Shui's sister, but this involves personal privacy, so I won't go into details. The main issue is his own personality."

Matsueda Azusa glanced around and saw no one else coming, so he continued his analysis: "Wen Shui's attitude towards social relationships related to him is that the outcome of this relationship must be predictable and controllable by him."

"A big part of the reason he and I became friends is that his way of dealing with things is so similar to mine – because he's afraid of being abandoned in social relationships, he has to cut off relationships before they abandon him, or even prevent the relationship from starting at all, in order to maintain his inner peace."

"As a result, Wen Shui subconsciously draws a line between himself and others and harbors a deep fear of deep social relationships."

At this point, Matsueda Azusa spread his hands and said, "So do you know why he can get along with Yanami normally? Because from the beginning, he never regarded Yanami as someone he could pursue. He didn't even consider her a friend. In his eyes, Yanami was just an ordinary passerby who needed his help."

"And the most important thing is that, precisely because Yanami already has someone in his heart, Wen Shui has no expectations of a relationship between him and Yanami. This way, he can put himself in the position of a bystander and get along with Yanami."

"So even if Yanaijian succeeds in his comeback, gets back with his ex one day and dumps Wenshui, Wenshui can still tell himself with peace of mind that they weren't even friends and had no relationship in the first place, so how can he be 'abandoned'? And even if this is considered 'abandonment', such 'being abandoned' is not his fault in the first place, and secondly, it was already within his expectations and control, so it won't make him feel insecure."

"So...if one day Yanami Anna truly gives up on Kuda Sosuke completely, then the first person to choose to sever ties with Yanami will definitely be Onsui. If there are no other external factors intervening, Onsui will definitely follow through with her escape. This is one of the reasons why I'm not worried about them getting together at all."

Miura Yumiko frowned upon hearing this. "Uh... such nagging boys... why do all of you problematic boys have such twisted personalities? Is there no normal male high school student in Sobu High School?"

"I just thought you were complimenting me."

Matsueda Azusa curled her lips. "Besides, having strong internal self-control is better than having strong external control, right? No matter how distorted it gets, it will only affect oneself, not force those around him to play house games with him."

"Still mocking and ridiculing, still mocking and ridiculing."

Miura Yumiko curled her lips: "I can see that you really look down on Hayato. Forget it, let's not talk about this... Although your analysis says so, there is no way to be so sure that there is no possibility between Onmizu Kazuhiko and Yanami Kyouna, right? At least he is just "avoiding" the relationship, not like - damn, I was infected by you - I mean, not like Hayato who simply doesn't like me."

"Although you have understood Ye Shan, you still don't understand warm water."

Matsueda Azusa shook his head. "He'd rather not do something if he can't do it. He doesn't trust his current self to make the right choice, so he postpones it to his future self. In other words—even if someone truly breaks through his defenses, he'll keep procrastinating until he's absolutely sure he can do it."

"In fact, it's undeniable that he has many proactive expectations in his heart, but he relies too much on analysis before doing anything, always getting stuck in a rut, and even believing in his own analysis. This results in a lot of negative feedback, which actually suppresses his own expectations. He is too obsessed with controlling himself and wants his life to move at the pace of his own expectations. If he encounters an "invading foreign body", he will definitely avoid it."

Matsueda Azusa pointed at Miura Yumiko and said, "So don't try to understand him with your modern mindsets. You think making friends is a simple matter of a few words, but for him, it's a major decision that could affect the entire course of his life. Under these circumstances, unless a god descends from heaven or a high-dimensional narrator intervenes, I really can't imagine any possibility that Yanami would be with him."

Miura Yumiko frowned deeply in thought, then suddenly a lightbulb flashed in her head, and she clapped her hands in sudden realization: "Even though I've been talking about Onumi Kazuhiko from beginning to end, when I think about it carefully, don't you completely fit most of the characteristics you've described? The only significant difference is that you're not only controlling of yourself, but also of others! You control freak!"

"Oh my god, you can actually draw inferences from one instance? The Miura Yumiko I know isn't that smart! You're not Miura, who are you?"

Matsueda Azusa was surprised and took a defensive stance: "He actually took over Miura Yumiko's body!"

"What is this nonsense!"

Miura Yumiko's forehead was bulging with veins. "I think you want to be headbutted again!"

"Tsk, tsk."

Matsueda Azusa shook her head listlessly. "I thought I'd met someone interested in observing humans, and I was ready to exchange ideas. But even though you asked about warm water, you're not interested at all. You keep bringing everything back to me. It's boring."