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Hachiman felt a chill run down his spine and immediately protected his lunchbox, saying warily:
"I'm warning you, don't even think about taking my lunch. This is a bento box my sister made for me with love!"
The only person in this world I cannot let down is Komachi Hikigaya!
Hikigaya increasingly felt that this was a truth.
His lunchbox today was indeed made by his sister, who said—
"Brother, you've changed a lot lately. You finally don't smile that weirdly like before."
By the way, when will you invite our friend 'Su Qing', whom you often mention, to our house? It must be because of him, right?
I really need to thank them properly, otherwise my parents will scold us when they get back.
Ah... couldn't his sister think that he suddenly awakened?
A faint sadness welled up in my heart.
"Hmm, a love-filled bento box?" Su Qing tilted her head, asking uncertainly.
"Does your sister know if you say that?"
It sounds like you're just talking to yourself.
This is Su Qing's unspoken message.
"You're just envious of me. Anyway, it was my sister who did it."
Hachiman continued to be stubborn.
Anyway, if he doesn't say anything, how could Su Qing possibly know?
"Well, how about you try my bento? I think I made a lot today."
Caijia pointed innocently at the tempura in the bento box and asked.
"Huh? What? Then you can have mine!"
Hikigaya bravely pushed the bento box away and then protected Ayaka's lunchbox.
Upon seeing this, Caijia instantly revealed a smile of triumph.
[Hachiman, that's easy to understand...]
"What happened to the special bento your sister made for you?"
Su Qing had a faint smile on her lips, like a silent mockery.
"Well...actually, my sister is a very good girl who loves to share. Before she left, she told me, 'Onii-chan! If your friends want to eat, you can generously share with them, but not too much! Otherwise, I'll get angry.'"
Hikigaya quickly covered up his embarrassment with a smile and started talking nonsense in a serious manner.
[Ah... Komachi, although I'm very reluctant, I don't really want someone else to eat Saika's bento!]
"Whose sister talks like that these days? Do you really have a sister? Or is she some kind of fictional character from a two-dimensional world?"
Su Qing couldn't help but laugh, her attitude full of skepticism.
Why not just say you don't want him to eat Ayaka's bento?
They even went so far as to fabricate so many abstract reasons.
Upon hearing this, Saika also looked at Hachiman with a worried expression.
"No, I really do have a younger sister! She just asked me to invite you to my house to play last time."
Noticing the way Ayaka was looking at the delusional patient, Hikigaya was about to go crazy.
Although he did embellish his words quite a bit.
The truth is: "Brother, don't let anyone steal the bento I made for you. If they do, don't come looking for me. I won't make you a second one."
But Komachi Hikigaya is his real sister!
Seeing the unspeakable suffering on Hikigaya's face, Saika finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Su Qing looked at Hachiman with surprise and questioned him:
"When did you tell me this? I've never heard of it."
"Ha... Haha, maybe you're just forgetful."
Hachiman tried to brush it off, but Su Qing wouldn't be mistaken.
If something doesn't exist, it simply doesn't exist.
Faced with Su Qing's gaze, Hachiman gradually felt guilty.
His relationship with Su Qing wasn't that good back then.
Therefore, I didn't take it to heart.
"Okay, actually I forgot, I just remembered now. So, do you want to come over to my house this weekend?"
"Is it possible that we'll be going on a school trip to Kyoto from Wednesday to Sunday?"
Su Qing sighed.
Hachiman is now acting like a human-machine hybrid.
"...I forgot, there really was such a thing." Hachiman was so embarrassed he wanted to disappear into a crack in the ground. He awkwardly invited him again:
"How about we find another time next time?"
"Let's see. I don't have much free time right now."
Su Qing replied casually.
"Ta-da! Guess who I am?"
Su Qing felt a light tap on his shoulder, and when he turned around, it was indeed Yui.
"Didn't you go to dinner with Miura or Yukino?"
Su Qing asked curiously.
"Ah... I think I went a bit too far with her yesterday. Today she said she wanted to eat alone. Yumiko invited Hayama to join her, and I don't really want to be a third wheel."
Yui explained as she sat down.
Noticing that Su Qing's desk was empty, she asked with a curious look:
"Xiaoqing, aren't you going to eat? Do you want me to share my lunchbox with you?"
"Yeah. Aren't you going to buy food? You usually eat bread at this time of day."
Hikigaya also echoed.
He believed he had noticed this.
"We shouldn't need to eat bread today."
Su Qing said softly.
……
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Chapter 269 He's probably not a scumbag.
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"Don't you need to eat bread?"
Hachiman looked puzzled, then inexplicably excited, pressed on with the question:
"If you don't eat bread, do you order takeout? So, have you suddenly become rich?!"
If my good friend suddenly becomes rich, wouldn't I be able to latch onto his coattails?
Hachiman felt a pang of doubt, but suddenly he felt that the future was bright.
"...It's definitely not takeout, and your task now is to stop having those unrealistic fantasies."
Su Qing recalled that Maju had specifically told him this morning not to go out to buy food by himself at noon and to wait for her in the classroom, so he already had a pretty good idea of what was going on.
But speaking of which, why hasn't Mahiru arrived yet?
Has something happened...?
Su Qing couldn't help but start to worry.
Just as he was about to go out to find Mahiru, several girls from his class walked over timidly, looking hesitant to speak.
"Is there a problem?"
Su Qing asked concisely and to the point.
"what...."
One of the girls was startled; she seemed unprepared for what to say.
Seeing Su Qing's puzzled expression, the girl in the lead decided not to waste each other's time.
However, when his gaze met Su Qing's eyes, he couldn't help but tense up for a moment:
"Um, we heard that you supposedly defeated that legendary Hino-senpai in archery, so we wanted to ask if it's true..."
Upon hearing this, Su Qing was momentarily stunned.
He frowned slightly and asked:
"Who said that?"
"Well, we heard it from the senior students in our department. Oh, I forgot to introduce ourselves, we're all from the archery club, so we were just curious and wanted to ask, no harm intended..."
The girl in the lead thought Su Qing was upset because of the rumors, so she quickly explained.
"That's it."
Su Qing nodded, then explained, "It wouldn't be accurate to say we defeated each other; we just sparred a bit."
Everything he said was the truth.
Formal archery competitions test not only accuracy, but also etiquette and other aspects.
"And what was the result of the sparring match? Did you shock Senior Yang Nai by shooting five arrows in a row, all of them hitting the bullseye?"
"...You could say that."
"I told you it was true!" one of the girls exclaimed excitedly, jumping up and down.
"So, Su, would you be interested in joining our archery club?"
"I'm already in a club, and I'm not really interested in archery."
Su Qing refused without even thinking.
But then, for some reason, I thought it would be fun if Yukino were here.
I wonder what kind of expression she'll have if someone poachs someone right in front of the minister.
Thinking of this, Su Qing couldn't help but smile.
Seeing that the other party did not accept, the girls did not show any disappointment. After all, this was just an excuse for them to chat with Su Qing.
They're not ministers; the department's future and recruitment are none of their business.
After the group left, Yui couldn't help but exclaim in surprise:
"Wow, I didn't know Xiaoqing was so good at archery! I remember that Sister Xiaoxue was the champion of the national archery competition that year."
Su Qing turned her head slightly, glanced at Yui, and a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes.
Shouldn't we usually focus on when something happened?
The other party's focus is really peculiar.
"No, is it true?"
Hachiman's mouth gaped open so wide it could fit an egg; he was so shocked he couldn't close it.
Dude, are you secretly rolling this up behind my back?
His heart felt like a jumbled mess of emotions, a mix of feelings welling up inside him.
"It seems... to be true."
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