The next morning.

When Asakura Yu was having breakfast, he found that the snow outside had indeed piled up and was several centimeters thick.

“Baby, eat more.”

“……Um.”

Asakura Yu turned around and looked at his mother, feeling a little strange.

His mother in elementary school was already a memory from ten years ago. Even though he had never forgotten what his mother looked like, it was still inevitable that he felt awkward when getting along with her.

He is not very skilled at pretending to be a kid.

Fortunately, he was not talkative in elementary school and did not often act like a spoiled child in front of his mother.

“Is it not delicious?” Ms. Asakura showed worry on her pretty oval face.

“No, it’s delicious.”

As if to prove that he was not lying, Asakura Yu picked up the bowl, drank the flavor-enhancing soup, and then ate with big mouthfuls of food.

Halfway through the meal, he remembered something.

My father said he would come back in the morning, but he didn’t keep his promise…

The reason why Asakura Yuu later decided to abide by the spirit of the contract had a lot to do with his “cheater” father.

Do what you promised, and don’t promise if you can’t do it.

After finishing his meal, putting on his scarf and gloves, Asakura Yu went out to school alone.

As soon as he went out, he pulled the scarf open a little. His mother wrapped herself too tightly, with three circles inside and three circles outside, which made him very uncomfortable.

Let’s go find Hanekawa Tsubasa after school today.

The class monitor in elementary school might be very interesting. He should be a weird person who always reads a book…

Just like myself in elementary school.

The reason why Asakura Yu and Hanekawa Tsubasa have such a good relationship is that when he is with Hanekawa Tsubasa, he always feels like he is looking in a mirror, a mirror that can see the past.

Passing by a small park.

Asakura Yu saw several elementary school students playing inside, and their toys were naturally the snow that had piled up last night.

As a child, he never played with his peers.

In addition to calling him Pochi, boys also like to say that he is a prudish person. In the world of children, it seems that being serious is wrong.

Those who study hard will be excluded, and those who don’t play games will also be excluded.

“Hey, do you want to play together?”

“No.”

“Why don’t you play?” asked the boy who came over to talk to him.

“what your name?”

Asakura Yu looked at the person in front of him and felt more and more familiar.

“Hikigaya Hachiman.”

Vomit roar.

The island nation is really small.

I met my teacher yesterday and met my bad friend from the same class today.

“Why aren’t your eyes rotten? Hachiman, it turns out your dead fish eyes weren’t born that way.”

Another mystery in Asakura Yu’s heart has been solved, the mystery of Hikigaya Hachiman’s dead fish eyes.

“Don’t you want to play with us? Everyone is playing in the snow.”

“Sorry, I like to be alone.”

Asakura Yu’s voice came out from the scarf, and white steam came out of his little nose.

The temperature today is below zero, colder than yesterday.

“Alone? Won’t it be boring?”

Hikigaya Hachiman was a sociable kid in the second grade of elementary school, so why did he become like that? It’s really puzzling.

“Hachiman, heroes are lonely and noble.”

“what?”

“Who do you think is the strongest?”

“do not know.”

“People without weaknesses are the strongest.” Asakura Yu said logically, “I have no friends, which means I have no one to worry about. In other words, I have no one to protect. Having nothing to protect means I have no weaknesses. What is a person without weaknesses? A hero. Is a hero strong?”

“Of course the hero is strong!”

“Yeah, so the lonely people are the strongest and the heroes.”

Hikigaya Hachiman scratched his head, thinking that the person in front of him was really strange.

But is it true that the lonely person is the hero?

“Well, I will continue on my lonely road. Goodbye forever.”

“Ah… oh.”

–

Asakura Yu left the park, still thinking.

Why did this enthusiastic little boy who plays with other children and talks to strangers evolve into that B-like person 10 years later?

Oh, I can’t figure it out.

Chapter 187 The Fate of Passing By

Asakura Yu discovered it.

It’s really boring to accompany elementary school students to class.

In particular, what second graders are learning now are addition, subtraction, and some simple multiplication. As for English and Chinese, they are even simpler.

If he hadn’t had an extracurricular book in his hand, he would have been so bored that he would have fainted…

“Asakura-kun, can you show me your book?”

In the classroom, the responsible female head teacher came up to him and asked him gently, just like she would any other elementary school student.

She really wants Asakura Yu to integrate into the class so that he won’t continue to be bullied by other children!

“Mr. Nakano, here you go.”

Asakura Yu opened the book for her to see.

“……” Our homeroom teacher, Nakano Tamako, was previously an ordinary female college student with good grades in English, otherwise she would not have become an English teacher.

But after graduating and obtaining the teaching qualification, it was the first time in her three years of employment that she saw elementary school students reading foreign books in school!

Um, what language is this?

“My Struggle, in German.”

Seeing that she seemed to be illiterate and could not read, Asakura Yu kindly reminded her.

When Mr. Nakano heard his answer, the expression on his face could not be restrained.

Let’s put the title and content aside for now.

She seemed to have realized something, the reason why Asakura Yu was always alone.

It’s not that Yu Asakura can’t integrate into the group, but that he doesn’t want to integrate.

Is it possible for a boy who reads German books in primary school to make friends with his peers?

“Asakura-kun, have you ever considered skipping a grade?”

If he went to higher grades, or even junior high school, perhaps his situation would be better?

“No.” Asakura Yu shook his head.

Mr. Nakano seemed to have something to say, but Asakura Yuu took the book back and started reading again.

“Please take better care of him in the future.” Nakano Tamako stopped bothering him.

If this was a private high school, with such a gifted student, the teachers would probably take good care of him. After all, in that kind of school, the student’s academic performance is the most important thing. If there could be a student who ranked first in the country, no, in the top five, the school’s reputation would be greatly improved.

But this is a public elementary school. Happy education may seem ironic in the eyes of junior high and high school students, but in elementary school, there is no pressure to go to higher education, and the children are indeed very happy.

After all, there are only a few monsters who are involuted in cram schools in elementary school.

Soon, it was time to go home from school.

Asakura Yu took out the mobile phone that he had hidden in his schoolbag and opened the map software.

It is true that he has a good memory, but if you ask him to remember all the routes in Chiba after traveling back to ten years ago, that would be a bit too much to ask.

Leaving Chiba Municipal Wakaba Elementary School.

Asakura Yu did not go home immediately. Instead, he followed the navigation on the map and headed towards the direction of Hanekawa Tsubasa’s home in his memory.

According to his judgment, it would take about an hour to travel.

The main reason is that his physical strength has weakened a lot. His smaller body means his feet are shorter and his stride is smaller… The superpowers in his body can still be used, and the system’s shopping mall can be opened normally, although there are no good goods in it.

Chekhov once said: If a pistol appears in a story, it must be fired.

Asakura Yu glanced at the mall and only saw one Tracking Mastery that seemed to be of some use.

As for time travel, the gun had already fired, and even shot him back ten years ago…

Almost two days had passed, and he still couldn’t accept the fact that he had gone back to the past.

Ten minutes later.

“It should be here.”

Asakura Yuu turned a corner and saw several teenagers who had gathered together to play in the snow that morning, but Hikigaya Hachiman was gone…

Could it be that this guy was fooled by my nonsense this morning?

Those words about the lone hero were what Asakura Yu heard from Hachiman, and now he returned them to Hachiman intact. Does this count as exporting and then selling domestically?

If Hachiman becomes that socially anxious chuunibyou in the future, then it seems like I will have to bear a lot of the blame?

Guilty sin.

Walking out of the residential area and coming to the nearby river, Asakura Yu continued walking along the stream.

In winter, the water level here is very shallow.

You can even see naughty primary school students going into the water to touch the pebbles on the bottom of the river.

It gets dark very early in winter.

I was supposed to finish school at 3:30 in the afternoon, but when I got here, it was already dark.

We walked for another twenty minutes.

Asakura Yu came to another residential area. He had been here once with Hanekawa Tsubasa before he traveled through time.

We walked along the familiar road for another ten minutes.

Asakura Yu saw a single building in front of him… No, there was only an empty lot!

“I actually forgot…”

He slapped his head.

Hanekawa Tsubasa told him that the place where the Hanekawa family lived before high school was not here, but a more dilapidated place, where Hanekawa Tsubasa didn’t even have a room of his own.

Damn it.

How to find this?

“No, there seem to be only three elementary schools nearby?” Asakura Yuu put his right hand on his chin and thought.

One of them is a private elementary school with high tuition fees, the elementary school he is currently attending, and the other one might be Hanekawa Tsubasa’s school?