"Is this graduation from Class A... so important?" Wu Yasha didn't quite understand.
Wu Yi thought about it seriously and said, "It's probably quite important to most people. Although it's hyped up as if it were the Holy Grail, and you can easily go to any university or company you want, it's just a chance to try. In the end, it still depends on your personal ability. If you don't have the ability, you won't be able to stay even if you are given more opportunities."
"It sounds a bit like some obsession left over from the past." Wu Yasha understood a little.
"Everyone has some obsession to some extent." Wu Yi shrugged.
The mother and son kept chatting in the busy and noisy cafe.
"Oh yeah, have you ever thought about bringing 'her' back with you when you graduate?"
During the conversation, Wu Yasha's casual remark made Wu Yi look in the direction of his mouth, and he was frightened on the spot.
"It's okay to bring it back, what are you thinking, mom?!"
"Can't you?"
The woman narrowed her eyes and asked in confusion.
Wu Yi held his forehead with his hand to show that he was tired.
"That's a teacher. You can't do that between a teacher and a student. Besides, aren't you a teacher yourself?"
"Oh, that's only between teachers and students. After graduation, it will no longer be a teacher-student relationship, right?" Wu Yasha teased.
"..."
Considering that continuing to talk would only make the situation worse, Wu Yi stopped talking and remained silent.
He would only feel so embarrassed in front of his mother.
After a while, there was still no reply, and Wu Yasha laughed softly to himself.
"Well, I was just joking, but I'm really surprised that Yi-chan, who has never been interested in women since childhood, has evolved into a sea king in just over a year."
"It's not that I don't like women, it's that I can't get close to women." Wu Yi complained, "It's not an ordinary family. The old man got married because he was pregnant. I thought I would be arranged to have a family like the old man when he was young. If that's the case, we won't be together in the end anyway, so why not marry him?"
"Oh~ That's a very responsible statement."
As if he had received some unexpected surprise, Wu Yasha clapped his hands quickly and made sounds of surprise.
As she spoke, her eyes moved slightly toward the corridor outside the window, then she looked down at the time on her phone and exclaimed.
"What a shame. I wanted to stay a little longer and talk to Yi-chan, but it looks like we'll have to stop here for today."
"Ok?"
Hearing this, Wu Yi looked back and saw that there was a long queue outside in the corridor where Katara Metsudō and others were already waiting, with Uncle Sakayanagi and Arisu beside them.
Seeing him coming, Garuda and Shaoxiang waved their hands at the same time.
Arisu also waved, but it was probably not a farewell, but to show that he was here too.
"Okay, then we'll have to wait until graduation to see you next time."
Wu Yasha smoothed his clothes and stood up and walked out of the booth, adding a sentence with a smile before leaving.
"Remember to bring them all back when the time comes."
Volume 471: Chapter My Sister Was Led astray
As the time approached three o'clock, the heat of the shopping mall, which had been bustling for most of the day since the hotel in the morning, finally began to wane. Tourists began to leave in batches and retreat towards the school gate.
Without any new customers, the girl with long black hair, who had been busy behind the cash register for several hours, finally had a short break.
Theoretically, the number of customers will decrease until the end of the cultural festival. However, considering that the store will be returned to the original owner after today, and all their arranged scenes and furniture will have to be cleared away in the end, it will probably take a lot of work even after the business hours are over.
"call……"
Taking advantage of her free time, Horikita Suzune stretched out her body, which was a little sore from sitting for a long time.
Her job was actually quite easy, at least physically.
Other students in Class A of the second year, like the boys, either work in the kitchen making coffee and desserts, or run logistics, and immediately go to purchase any materials that are missing.
Not to mention the girls, from nine in the morning to three in the afternoon, not only do they have to wear unfamiliar maid outfits, but they also have to walk around serving tea and water and posing for photos. Even if they have shift breaks, they are still exhausted.
In comparison, she only needs to sit behind the cashier counter and keep moving her fingers to record the forms, which can be said to be quite labor-saving.
However, after several hours of high concentration, mental fatigue is still inevitable, and even going to the bathroom requires every second counts.
But generally speaking, the busiest period has passed, and what remains is only...
"Long time no see, Lingyin."
She almost suspected that she was hallucinating. Just as Horikita Suzune clicked save and prepared to take a drink of water and rest, the closest and most familiar voice in her memory from childhood to adulthood sounded close to her.
Horikita Suzune was more surprised than happy and sat up straight.
She had been concentrating on her work before and didn't notice that there was someone next to her. Now that she was relaxing and was suddenly frightened like this, if it were someone else, they would probably jump up on the spot and stick their head into the ceiling.
"elder brother?"
The girl turned around in disbelief.
Her sight followed the direction of the voice and connected with it. Just outside the cashier counter less than two meters away from her, the former student union president, who had originally planned to wait until her sister was free to say hello but unexpectedly scared her sister instead, was nodding slightly apologetically.
"I'm sorry to interrupt your work, Lingyin."
"No... I just finished here."
After forcing out these words with great difficulty, Horikita Suzune couldn't wait to immediately raise her own question.
"Brother, when did you come? Why didn't I see you before?"
"I arrived at two o'clock, Wu Yi can testify to that. As for why I didn't notice... it's probably because you were working hard the whole time." Horikita Manabu explained.
Because I am working hard...
These words left Horikita Suzune dumbfounded, not knowing whether to cry or laugh.
Ever since she knew that people from outside the society would participate in this cultural festival, she had been looking forward to meeting Horikita Manabu from the bottom of her heart. However, she didn't expect that they would meet in the end, but they didn't see each other for long.
The cultural festival was only five minutes away from officially ending, and in the nearly hour before that, her wooden brother had been standing like a piece of wood at the cash register, watching her work in silence.
Nerves...
Oh, Horikita Suzune would definitely not be able to say the above words, but if it were Wu Yi, she would definitely sigh from the bottom of her heart.
Mainly because it's really nerve-wracking.
Seeing that his sister suddenly stopped talking, Horikita Manabu realized that he might have done something stupid, so he coughed lightly and changed the subject.
"I didn't really care about you when you were in the first grade, Suzune. You're already in the second grade now, and you'll be promoted to the third grade next spring. Do you feel... happy studying in this school?"
Happy?
If it were the previous Horikita Suzune, she would definitely give a negative answer. In her opinion, studying should be a process of hard work.
Since you have to work so hard, the only time you can be happy is when you reap the rewards. How can you be happy in the process?
It is better to say that happiness or unhappiness should not be the final conclusion.
But now she found that she couldn't seem to give a negative answer so firmly.
At least in other high schools, there probably wouldn't be such a ridiculous cultural festival, and it would be impossible for the school to give students so much living expenses every month without charging tuition, not to mention going on a school trip to Hokkaido.
But speaking of school trips, I really want to go to Kyoto.
Come to think of it, a certain guy had said before that he wanted to invite her to Kyoto...
No, no, I was talking to my brother about whether I was happy studying here, why did I think of him?
Shaking her head slightly to get rid of all the distracting thoughts in her mind, Horikita Suzune brought her thoughts back on track.
"If you ask me specifically whether I'm happy or not, I can't really say, but if I really have to give an answer, I guess I don't hate it."
Don’t you hate it…?
After receiving such a reply, the corners of Horikita Manabu's mouth curled up silently.
"That's good, Lingyin. It seems that you have changed a lot in the past year or so. Who has influenced you?"
Influenced by whom?
Horikita Suzune was slightly stunned for a moment, and began to think subconsciously.
Of course, there was no need to think about it. After all, her social network at school was at most the size of a palm, and the people she had spoken to in class could be counted on one hand.
In this case, if we ask who influenced him, who else could it be?
The only answer immediately emerged in her mind, and Horikita Suzune almost blurted it out, but at the same time she noticed that her brother, who was always serious and old-fashioned, actually had a hint of joking in his tone when he spoke just now, which she had never remembered.
Could it be that--
The girl's eyes suddenly dimmed, and an even colder expression appeared on her face, which usually showed no emotion. However, it was not coldness in the popular sense, but more like a deliberately pretended coldness like that of a tsundere.
"Brother, you should pay more attention to your own side than to mine. After all, no matter how easy-going Tachibana-senpai is, the proper proposal process should still be followed. Is it really okay for a personality like your brother?"
"Uh!?"
The sister's sudden counterattack really caught Horikita Manabu off guard, as if his opponent had punched him in the face before the boxing match even started, and he almost broke his nose.
As expected, Suzune, you have changed a lot... Horikita Manabu smiled helplessly in his heart.
Although I don’t know whether this change is good or bad, it is much better than the sister who used to imitate him blindly.
Without answering the question, the former student council president checked the time on his watch.
"I'm sorry, even though it's only a short time, I have to go. The next time we meet will be after graduation."
"Um……"
Horikita Suzune was startled again, but didn't say much, just responded softly.
Horikita Manabu smiled slightly, and his voice softened a little.
"I'll be waiting for you at the school gate then."
Volume 472: Chapter Chabashira Sae: I was suddenly attracted
After an entire hour of agony in which every second seemed like an eternity, Chabashira Sae, whose inner bar of shame had long been broken through to the limit, was finally freed as the bell rang for the second class in the afternoon, announcing the end of the cultural festival.
After glaring at the culprit who looked as if it had nothing to do with her, she ran out of the restaurant at the speed of a 100-meter sprint and went to the room inside to change her clothes.
"Yeah, it's been a busy day."
The boys and girls in the coffee shop have already started busying themselves with packing up. Wu Yi walked to the cashier counter with his hands in his pockets and joked as he looked at the scene in the store.
It would be very expensive to buy new items for all the cultural festivals, and since they are only used once, it would be a waste to just throw them away or leave them unused.
Therefore, most of the equipment used by the classes in the cultural festival were rented or borrowed from the original stores in the shopping mall. Now that they have been used up, they have to be returned to their original owners.
"You're so embarrassed to say that."
Horikita Suzune glanced at the guy, changed her tone to a cold one, crossed her arms over her chest in a defensive manner, closed her eyes and spoke seriously.
"You've been running off to who knows where the whole morning, and you've slipped away to slack off when everyone else is busy, and you still have the nerve to say you're busy?"
"Ahaha~"
Wu Yi scratched the Band-Aid on his face and smiled without saying anything.
It is busy, but the content of the busyness is different.
"Speaking of which, what happened to the wound on your face? I wonder if you sneaked out and got into a fight with someone while everyone was busy?"
Horikita Suzune didn't notice it at first, but when she accidentally glanced at it, her eyes became more suspicious.
"Well……"
Wu Yi did not give a direct answer. He just picked at the edge of the Band-Aid, pulled it off gently, and threw it into the wastebasket beside him.
He turned his face slightly to the cold-faced girl with long black hair, "While you have some free time, can you help me see how you have recovered now?"
"…The skin is still a little pink, but it's basically fine now."
Horikita Suzune examined it carefully and came to a conclusion with some confusion.
The main thing is that she remembered that the other person didn't have the Band-Aid on his face yesterday, which means that the injury was sustained today.
But if the injury was just sustained today, how could it be possible to recover so quickly?
Facing the girl's puzzled look, Wu Yi maintained an awkward but polite smile.
The main reason is that he really can't explain this matter. If he has to explain it, he can probably just say "people's physiques cannot be generalized."
Horikita Suzune felt a little overwhelmed by his smug and slightly mysterious look, so she simply rolled her eyes in annoyance.
