CHAPTER 425: CHAPTER 419: THE DUEL OF THE GREAT YIN-YANG MASTER

So, Asano Nazuki, seizing the end of the midterm exams as a pretext, started persuading the slacking girl and the whimpering one to pester Shirakawa Sawahei.

"Shirakawa, I did pretty well in this midterm, didn’t I? Tonight, I want to..."

"No, you don’t."

"I haven’t even told you what I want yet! Shirakawa, at least listen to my request before turning me down!"

"You want me to hang out with you?"

"Wow, Shirakawa, how did you know!"

"..."

"It’s out of the question."

"Aw~"

The slacking girl, mission failed.

"Shirakawa, I..."

"Out of the question."

"???"

The whimpering one, mission failed.

The Black Hearted Lolita looked at her two useless teammates with frustration, thinking to herself that they were messing things up for her. With these two old slackers in the field, Shirakawa Sawahei might elope with Hayakawa Kashi at any second, while they are still struggling to hail a taxi to the airport.

They’re too slow, way too slow. At this rate, the Black Hearted Woman will fully develop into the Great Demon King and emerge!

Seems like it still takes Miss Kaori’s charm to make Shirakawa Sawahei listen obediently, doesn’t it?

The Black Hearted Little Girl hesitated for a moment before deciding to personally...

Huh? Why is the Black Hearted Woman here?! Is she already level sixteen?! Where’s my base? What’s with my handsome guy? Didn’t he explode?

Oh, he didn’t blow up, then it’s fine.

The Evil Little Arrogant leaned against the door of the Calligraphy Club room, leisurely speaking: "Sorry to disturb your club activities, but..."

"I need to borrow a club member for a bit."

Shirakawa Sawahei met the gaze of the Little Arrogant, recalled the message she sent him on his phone, and responded with an "oh." He turned to the confused Black Hearted Lolita and Tsukimi sakurazawa, saying,

"There’s something at the school we need to handle. I’ll go with Hayakawa. Ise Yu, you can head home by yourself later."

Black Hearted Lolita: ???

My base didn’t explode, he actually switched sides!!!

"Shirakawa... what’s this about?"

"It’s that school promotion video I promised to make for recruitment?" Shirakawa Sawahei recalled the Little Arrogant’s earlier persuasion, saying nonchalantly, "It shouldn’t be a big problem."

"Then... when will you be back?"

Looking at the reluctant and tender expressions on the faces of the whimpering one and the slacking girl, Shirakawa Sawahei couldn’t help but ask.

What’s going on? Didn’t I say Ise Yu should...

As Shirakawa Sawahei was puzzled, he suddenly saw the Little Lolita’s face with a watching-the-drama expression and the smile on Miss Kaori’s face, and suddenly felt something was off.

"Let’s... see how it goes."

"Oh~ then we’ll wait for you at home obediently..."

"We promise to be good and not cause any trouble."

"Yes, we’ll be sure to behave... Even if we feel lonely, we’ll bear with it until you come back so that we can continue our daily activities~"

"The daily routine of the three of us~ very much looking forward to it every day~ Thank goodness Sakurazawa is joining us, otherwise if it were just me, it would be very exhausting to keep up..."

"..."

Why do those two veterans make tutoring at my house sound so strange? Is it just my imagination? Does the Little Arrogant’s expression look a tad scarier?

Isn’t the situation a bit off? Did the chaotic scene come so suddenly, without even a heads-up?

"Shirakawa?" Miss Kaori said calmly: "It’s time to go, the meeting might take quite a while."

"..."

Black Hearted Lolita: *snickering*

Oh, Handsome Guy! Serves you right today!

This time... this time, the slacker teammates made a comeback! No matter what kind of slackers they are, as long as they can make the Handsome Guy and the Black Hearted Woman stumble, they are good slackers in my book!

Award them! Award them all!

Asano Nazuki’s joy at this moment perfectly matched Shirakawa Sawahei’s bewilderment. He and the Little Arrogant exited the activity room, heading toward the end of the corridor. As they reached the staircase to go down, the Evil Little Arrogant casually looked back and asked.

"Even though I don’t really care, but since it’s about a partner..."

"Shirakawa, you seem to have a lot of daily activities?"

Shirakawa Sawahei paused: "Do you mean the daily activities they just mentioned?"

Miss Kaori turned her head away from him, continuing to walk at her own pace, saying, "That’s not what I was asking."

"But... if Shirakawa wants to talk about this, I wouldn’t mind knowing."

"Didn’t you just say you weren’t interested?"

"Indeed, not particularly," the Evil Little Arrogant emphasized, saying, "It’s just a slight curiosity as a friend."

Shirakawa Sawahei could not help but grin: "What if I don’t want to say anything?"

Miss Kaori’s expression flickered slightly before she replied: "As I’ve said before, it’s just out of curiosity."

"If Shirakawa, for whatever reason, chooses not to disclose, that’s your freedom and none of my concern."

"So, I won’t say then, but Hayakawa, you should actually know, right? My daily routine?"

"Shirakawa, I’m fairly busy myself, with no time to observe every friend’s daily life. Including yours."

"You have a lot of friends?"

Miss Kaori raised an eyebrow: "Are you mocking me?"

"Not at all," Shirakawa Sawahei explained, "I really don’t have many friends, either."

"Not many friends?"

"Of course."

The Evil Little Arrogant nodded slightly, sincerely saying, "In that case, Shirakawa must be a very kind-hearted person."

"Spending every day commuting to school with unfamiliar people, working part-time with them, occasionally visiting trendy dessert shops on Fridays with them... Shirakawa is really gentle, don’t you think..."

"..."

Shirakawa Sawahei fell silent as he was psychologically outmaneuvered by the Great Yin-Yang Master with nothing left to retort.

Actually, I do have quite a few friends, but mainly the Calligraphy Club members. Others, like Imamura Takuya and Ishida Koji, are so wacky that they’re not even considered friends... When you put it that way, my friends really are few, not at all like a social butterfly...

Does Hayakawa Kashi really have few friends?

Considering Miss Kaori’s unique situation, one could say she has all friends around her, or none at all.

As the head of the socially active group at Akihisa High School, it’s clearly impossible for the Evil Little Arrogant to lack friends, but she doesn’t seem to place much emphasis on maintaining such relationships. In this school, probably the only ones important to her are her idiotic knight Erron and Shirakawa Sawahei.

Oh, right, I also need to include those few girls from the Calligraphy Club now.

Sigh, it’s really all because of Ise Yu and Tsukimi that I got roped into splitting the bill at the dessert shop that I ended up wordless against the Little Arrogant...

Shirakawa Sawahei walked in silence for a while before suddenly remembering something, feeling that the situation wasn’t quite right...

"Hayakawa?"

"What? Do you have more pretexts concerning Shirakawa not having many friends?"

"Not at all..." Shirakawa Sawahei chuckled lightly, and asked, "You mentioned that you’re usually quite busy and don’t have time to keep up with each friend’s daily life?"

"So... that observation about me commuting and working part-time with unfamiliar people, and visiting trendy dessert shops..."

"That must be Nazuki, right... wouldn’t you say so?"

Hayakawa Kashi: "..."

Shirakawa Sawahei, hold a grudge +1

In today’s match with the Great Yin-Yang Master, Shirakawa Sawahei, wins.