“What? That’s clearly a sister’s passionate love and care for her younger sister, okay?”

Yang Noi obviously has her own unique insights into the loving daily life between herself and her sister. Faced with someone’s sharp complaints, she instantly became furious, her eyes gradually became kind, and she exuded an indescribable weird aura from her whole body.

In front of this aura, the person who was the first to bear the brunt of it naturally lost his previous casualness and could only nod slightly after a brief silence:

“Okay…right.”

“Hmph~!”

He turned his head to the side, indicating that he would not argue with this wooden man who could not speak fluently. However, they soon arrived at the door of the first club.

The club’s activity rooms are basically adapted from vacant classrooms. Club members add some characteristics of their own club to the original basis, and then it becomes a secret base that belongs only to them.

For example, the one in front of us has a big football logo on the plain classroom door. It is so simple and crude, as if it wants to announce to the students in the entire corridor who has the final say in this room.

【Football Club…】

Skillful!

To be honest, Hasegawa felt quite familiar with this club.

After all, when I was still working like a madman, in order to maintain basic relationships with my alumni, I would occasionally take time out of my busy schedule to participate in some group activities.

Compared with the school’s annual fixed festivals, the occasional competitions between clubs, which do not have such rigid rules, are undoubtedly more suitable for him.

The football club in front of us is one of them.

[If I remember correctly, the president of this club is a senior, and he should have stepped down at this point in time and started thinking about his own job after graduation or which university to choose.]

A relatively clear face appeared in my mind.

Although the other person is his senior in school, compared to the overall environment, there is no rigid hierarchy or adherence to rules when they get along with each other. Overall, it can be said to be quite relaxed and harmonious.

In addition, the president had invited him, a powerful foreign aid, to join the team many times before, trying to lock him into the big ship called the Football Club… Now, Hasegawa thought that it should not be too difficult for him to “hang out” here.

“excuse me.”

Seeing the smiling face of a certain girl beside him, he rolled his eyes and finally knocked gently on the door of the activity room.

Then, accompanied by a passionate voice, Hasegawa, who had received permission, adjusted his state in time and walked into the activity room which he had not been to for a long time.

And then… everyone looked at him in unison, as if they were seeing a rare species.

“Hasegawa-san!”

“Oh my God, why are you here?”

“Could it be that he has changed his mind and is ready to accept the minister’s invitation and officially join us?”

……

Someone’s arrival instantly made the already noisy activity room explode.

Looking at the guy in front of them who was emitting a sour smell, everyone subconsciously ignored the beautiful girl next to him. Enthusiastic voices came one after another, and the content of the discussion was all focused on the outstanding performance of the other party in a certain competition.

After all, in the eyes of the members of the football department, the alumnus in front of them is not only strong, but also gentle and humble in character. Every time he helps, he quietly retreats, leaving the glory and honor to everyone, and keeping his own merits and fame.

Now that the other party has actually come to their “territory” on their own initiative, no matter what the reason is, they still remain quite enthusiastic.

This passion even made Hasegawa, who loved quietness, briefly overshadow a certain socialite at this moment.

Chapter 26: When Heat Becomes Kindness

For most people, what to do and when in their short life is almost always set.

Just like the president of the football club, as Hasegawa had expected, the senior who had countless enthusiasm for the club finally chose to be responsible for his own future and temporarily entrusted the affairs of the club to trustworthy partners and juniors.

He shook his head, seeming to be somewhat disappointed with the result.

Compared with his ideals, this senior, like most ordinary people, lacked the courage to burn his boats and chose a more popular and safer development path.

But compared to himself, the quasi-minister named Tanaka, who took over the inheritance from him, obviously had different ideas.

There is no specific basis, but looking at the other person’s determined face, Hasegawa has a feeling that this is a guy who can burn himself and achieve his dreams.

“…Anyway, this is roughly what happened.

Is there any vacant seat here? If it’s convenient, I’d like to bother you recently.

To be honest, I spent three years in high school in silence in the “Homecoming Club”. It doesn’t sound good to others, haha…”

He made up an excuse for himself, and at the end, Hasegawa grinned and smiled nonchalantly, as if he was a little embarrassed about it, which made the members of the club smile in good faith.

Only Yang Nai, who was standing next to him, widened his eyes slightly and stared blankly at the guy in front of him, as if he had discovered some incredible secret.

[Great, great….So Hasegawa, you actually have such acting skills! ]

“hiss…….”

[Now that I think about it, this guy…has he used this method to fool me before?!]

Even if others don’t know, how could she not know?

The guy in front of me is always eager to get out of school, and he even often says in private that “this is to put my limited time and energy into meaningful things.” How can he feel ashamed of being a member of the “Homecoming Society”!

But if someone who doesn’t know him sees this honest look, they might really think he is a respectable person who cares about his reputation.

“You are amazing, Hasegawa-kun…”

A faint whisper came from behind, coming silently and catching people off guard.

At the same time, feeling the faint touch of fingers pinching his lower back, Hasegawa, who was originally chatting with the club players, groaned and subconsciously wanted to make a roundhouse elbow strike to the back.

However, after realizing who was secretly causing trouble, considering the other party’s physique that was theoretically not very resistant to beatings, and the fact that he wanted to save face in school, he finally resisted the urge.

[Gah! What the hell is going on? ]

[Could it be possible that talking about football would touch a sensitive nerve of this guy? ]

While continuing to talk with his friends in the club without changing his expression, Hasegawa reflected on whether he had said something he shouldn’t have said. But after a simple self-reflection, Hasegawa felt that this time it was not his fault no matter how he looked at it.

[Maybe…I feel uncomfortable for a few days every month?]

I thought to myself so rudely.

Of course, this careless guy never remembers the date when his girlfriend comes. No matter how close they are, it seems that they haven’t reached that level yet.

However, after realizing this, Hasegawa, who thought he had gotten the correct answer, stopped chatting with his friends in the football club and walked out of the activity room, pulling the depressed young lady behind him.

“If you can’t help it, just say no. Find a place to rest later. I’ll find you something hot to drink.”

“???”

Faced with Hasegawa’s sudden concern, Yono, who was completely unaware of the other party’s imagination, was full of question marks and immediately said that she was not that weak.

“But I’m really curious, Hasegawa, when you communicated with me before, were you as ‘calm and unhurried’ as you were just now?”

The voice paused, emphasizing the word “calm and unhurried.”

As expected, compared to why the guy in front of her suddenly cared about her health, Yang Noi was more concerned about whether the other party had also been talking nonsense when he was with her before, just like he did when he was dealing with the members of the football club just now.

“Take your time… It’s basic operation, isn’t it what you should do?”

“Should?!”

“Uh…did I say something wrong?”

The girl’s voice suddenly rose, causing Hasegawa to cover his ears subconsciously. At the same time, he gradually realized that what he and the other party were talking about did not seem to be in the same encyclopedia.

Quietly observing the expression on the girl’s face.

At this moment, he was surprised to find that he saw a strong sense of grievance and being deceived in the other person’s eyes.

【Fuck! 】

[Isn’t it just that I followed suit? No matter how you look at it, there’s no need to react to this extent, right? ]

The sudden anxiety in his heart made his body begin to feel at a loss. His nervous hands seemed to have no idea what to do and they gestured in the air randomly, and finally hung limply in the air.

“Yonori, what do you care about…is it the things I just dealt with them?”

“…”

“Knew it……”

Many times, silent silence gives the clearest answer.

Under the pressure of crisis, Hasegawa regained the intelligence he had in his daily battle of wits with the girl, and found the possibility that he had overlooked in the fog.

——This guy… maybe because of my overly mature behavior before, he is worried about the authenticity of the friendship between us?

“Being thoughtful is a good thing, but sometimes, Yang Nai, you shouldn’t think too much about unfounded things.

Maybe at the beginning there was a little bit of that, but now, do you think the relationship between you and me is still a superficial castle in the air?”

When he said this, Hasegawa’s tone clearly had a hint of emotion that had never been there before.

Rather than being helpless due to being doubted by close ones, it seems to be more of an inexplicable kind of doting.

It’s like a brother who loves his sister and sees her acting sullen and throwing tantrums outside, wiping his nose with his fingers and finally taking her home.

[Heh… Strange, how come such a metaphor suddenly popped up? ]

I couldn’t help but feel both amused and confused by the inexplicable scene that appeared in my mind.

At this time, Hasegawa still didn’t know what this silent change, which was gradually becoming commonplace, meant to him and the girl in front of him.

Chapter 27: The Good Brother Who Fears Women

“It’s dangerous, brother!

If it is really as you said, then you are now completely controlled by that woman!”

In the empty room, a handsome young man with short black hair put down the can in his hand, his tone full of sincerity.

This is none other than Lao Chen from China, who knew Hasegawa when they were both humble.

He visited the girl by chance and after learning about the other party’s inexplicable emotion, he instantly expressed his own unique insights, saying that their relationship was leaping from a simple student love to a rapidly developing direction of love over time.

“Think about it, kid, what kind of environment and atmosphere would make you think of a brother doting on his sister?”

“Um…I don’t know.”

“fool!”

“……”

[I really don’t know! ]

Being suddenly labeled an idiot by the other party, although they all had a good relationship with each other, such an evaluation still made Hasegawa feel suffocated. In the end, he lowered his head and vented all his anger on the carbonated drink in front of him.

Gudu Gudu…

He finished a bottle of soda in one swoop, and the aftereffect was so strong that he felt like burping madly.

But compared to Hasegawa’s battle of wits and courage with his body’s digestive mechanism, his Chinese friend beside him had transformed into a master of emotions, helping him slowly analyze that indescribable feeling.

“That’s a kind of familial affection that we are used to!”

“Ah, family affection?!

You mean… me and Yukinoshita?”

“Well, if you weren’t talking about another woman just now, it must be this Yukinoshita.”

“Pfft! Nonsense… How could you be talking about someone else?

“Hiccup~!”

Faced with the young man’s well-intentioned teasing, Hasegawa did not give in at all and immediately launched a refutation.

But the burping sound caused by the soda at the end made him lose momentum.

“That’s it.

I would say, getting used to this thing, well… that’s the scariest thing.”

He pinched a potato chip from the bag with his fingers.

In Hasegawa’s view, this good friend from China was describing a story buried deep in the years to him with the attitude of a person who had experienced it.

This feeling made him feel a little curious.

In addition to telling his friend about the past and expressing his inner feelings at the beginning, Hasegawa now keenly felt that there seemed to be some solid and verifiable evidence behind the other party’s words.