I wanted to be a bad actor in the anime, but I failed.

In a dessert shop in Chiba district.

There were three women and one man sitting in a booth eating their favorite desserts.

Three young girls were having a lively conversation, among which the girl with bun-haired hairstyle was the most active.

The other two girls, who were not very good at interacting with their friends, seemed very passive.

He looked as if he was wondering why the bun-head girl could always find so many topics to talk about.

On the other hand, the young man next to him was eating dessert silently, looking at his phone from time to time, looking like a melancholy man whose heart was not here.

"I didn't expect Xiaoxue to be able to play video games!!"

“I just started playing it recently.”

"Hey, is the video game you're playing fun? To be honest, since Xiaoxue is playing it, I want to play with her too! But my family may not allow it!"

"Actually... I played it secretly and my family didn't know about it." Yukinoshita Yukino lifted her hair.

"Huh?" Tuanzi's eyes widened. "I didn't expect Xiaoxue would do something like this!"

"...Yeah, but it's fine to just play for a while every day. This game isn't... liver-intensive? I think it can be described as liver-intensive, right? Mu Lin?"

As if she felt that the boy next to her had been silent for too long, Yukinoshita asked him to join in.

"Yes."

Mu Lin replied calmly, but he was very envious in his heart.

If Sadako hadn't helped her go through so many boring mission plots before, she wouldn't have said such things.

Those unnecessary quests that are meant to trap players and force them to increase their play time are so poorly designed!

Mu Lin not only experienced it himself, but was also forced to experience it again with Sadako.

However, the latter really enjoyed this bad plot that was criticized by many netizens on the Internet. His inexperienced look made Mu Lin helpless.

Thinking of this, he suddenly became worried about the fact that she turned into Hong Zhen and killed many people.

"Liver? What a strange word, I don't quite understand it... hehe!" Tuanzi scratched his head in confusion, looking like a curious baby.

"It should be a game that requires a lot of time to play. If you need to spend a lot of time, you will have to stay up late for a long time and do other things that are very unhealthy. This kind of behavior is very harmful to the liver, so I just use 'liver' as an adjective."

Kasumigaoka explained to the curious baby.

"It feels like Shiyu is very understanding." Tuanzi said in surprise.

“In fact, writing novels is quite hard work.”

Yukinoshita acted as a side comment, which made Tuanzi suddenly realize.

"Oh! That's right! Could it be that Xiaoyu often stays up late to write novels so she sleeps in class? No, this is very bad for your health. You must have a good work and rest schedule!"

Tuanzi gave her friends instructions like an old mother.

"Yeah." Kasumigaoka responded perfunctorily.

"She won't listen. For someone like her, staying up late has long been a habit. In other words, adjusting her schedule will harm her health."

In response to Yukinoshita's insinuation, Kasumigaoka Utaha said, "Then I guess you, who have good work and rest habits, must be in good health so that you don't need to take leave or drop out of school often, right?"

"I took leave because I was injured, and I took a leave of absence because of family matters. And you seem to take leave often too."

"I'm just taking leave to make a living in the future, unlike you who just study in school."

This sentence made Tuanzi, who was trying to smooth things over, complain: "Eh?! I really envy Xiaoyu, who doesn't need to work hard and can get the first place in the exam just by sleeping in class!"

Seeing that Tuanzi was willing to join the fight, Yukinoshita decisively pulled her in as an ally and said something nice: "Maybe she is just studying quietly at home, Tuanzi, you can do the same."

"Is that so? I see! Damn it! Xiaoyu is actually playing tricks on me while studying!"

"Yin... to school?" Yukinoshita and Kasumigaoka were a little confused.

"That is to say, Xiaoyu secretly studied hard without telling her friends. This kind of secretly working hard is really annoying!"

"You sound as if you will work hard just because you see others working hard. This is really just complaining about others."

"I'm not blaming anyone or anything!!"

Tuanzi was furious and stared at Kasumigaoka fiercely! But she didn't want to be betrayed by her trusted friend.

The matter-of-fact Yukinoshita pinched her chin and said, "Come to think of it, I was often seen studying in the Service Club by Tuanzi, and it didn't seem to have any effect on her."

"Ahhhh!! Xiaoxue, why are you like this?!"

Tuanzi felt so aggrieved. Originally, this verbal fight had nothing to do with her and she was kind enough to try to persuade them, but ended up being lectured by these two people!

The dusk faded away quietly and the night enveloped the world.

This announced the end of what might be the only time that the young boys and girls will be able to spend time together.

"...We will definitely go shopping together and eat desserts in a dessert shop together in the future, right?"

As the farewell approached, Tuanzi spoke in an incoherent manner in the midst of joy.

A hint of sadness of impending separation appeared in her eyes.

"Will do."

Yukinoshita and Kasumigaoka nodded heavily.

The three girls looked at the young man standing beside them.

"Maybe."

Mu Lin did not intend to make a lying promise, but to build psychological expectations for this group of sentimental people.

He had long been accustomed to separations and reunions, joys and sorrows, so he didn't care about this little thing.

It’s just a bit helpless that there are always people who don’t understand the common things in this world and make us sad along with them.

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It has to be admitted that the four of them happened to meet each other and formed a relationship like friends.

It is something worthy of being called bizarre.

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After saying goodbye to Dango, the three of them arrived at the door of Hiratsuka's house.

"Aren't you going back?" Mu Lin asked puzzledly to Xueshita who had followed him here from the beginning.

He was too lazy to ask on the way, but seeing that she looked like she was about to go in, he had to ask.

"Did you forget it?"

"Forgot something?"

Yukinoshita did not answer, but walked into the Hiratsuka family with Kasumigaoka, leaving the still confused boy standing on the road in the night.

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"Eh? Yukinoshita, why are you here?"

The lonely old man Shizuka Hiratsuka has been waiting for a while and is getting a little worried. He was planning to blame Kasumigaoka and Kirin for coming back so late, but he didn't expect Yukinoshita to visit him suddenly.

"Well, good evening, Mr. Hiratsuka. The reason I came to visit you without any prior notice is because you asked me to tutor Mu Lin in Chinese."

"So you're here to tutor Mulin in Chinese?"

"Yes."

"Eh? It's already this late..." Seeing Yukinoshita's calm eyes looking at her, Hiratsuka Shizuka stopped talking and finally shrugged, "Okay, but you have to be prepared, that guy's Chinese is hopeless."

"It's okay. By the way, Mr. Hiratsuka, have you had dinner yet?"

As she spoke, Yukinoshita picked up a bag of sweets she had just bought.

"Ah, I ate, but not much. It would be nice to have some of your dessert too!" Shizuka Hiratsuka took it happily, "So you two went to have dessert together."

She said to Mu Lin teasingly, "Mu Lin, it must be great to have three beautiful girls by your side, right?"

"Happy? Humph, at least I can't see why he is happy." Kasumigaoka Utaha said coldly from the side.

At least in this regard, she had never seen Mu Lin show any expression.

For some reason, this behavior always hurt her self-esteem.

I really don’t know how Tuanzi and Yukino have been able to endure until now.

"Really? Well, at least this is fair to Nitro."

Hiratsuka Shizuka's words startled the girl with long black hair next to her.

"If you want to give us tutoring, we should go to that brat's bedroom. The living room is where we use it for entertainment!"

Shizuka Hiratsuka said this with no awareness of her double standard, even though she had tutored Mu Lin in Chinese here before.

"it is good."

Yukinoshita nodded, and when she saw Mu Lin, who had remained silent from beginning to end, walking towards the bedroom, she followed him.

That look always makes people feel that she is very......

"How humble! What happened to her?"

Kasumigaoka Utaha had noticed this a long time ago, and now she finally couldn't help but say it out loud.

The proud girl could actually be so humble.

Was it PUA?

Hmm? PUA? Why do I feel like I've heard this somewhere?

"I don't know. But does Yukinoshita know that Mu Lin has a girlfriend?"

Shizuka Hiratsuka held her chin in her hand in boredom.

"I don't think so."

"Ah, what an enviable and pitiful youth."

The atmosphere created by the ambiguous exclamation also infected the bedroom.

At this moment, the cozy bedroom was a little silent.

The girl wearing glasses sat at the desk, organizing Chinese language tutoring materials.

These tutoring materials were prepared with great care and effort during her break from school after she returned to her own home. It took her a long time.

After finishing tidying up, he looked at the boy who was lying on the bed with his hands behind his head, staring at the ceiling boredly.

The fact that he had no idea how much he had put into preparing all this did not make the girl angry. She said seriously, "Then, let's get started."

"Is this still necessary?"

"After all, it's something I promised. Even if the hope is slim, I have to fulfill it."

"Everyone is preparing for the farewell festival this week, so you plan to concentrate on tutoring me, right?"

"almost."

"Stop messing around and enjoy the farewell festival. This is also your school festival."

“…Here.”

Yukinoshita stuffed a tutoring material into Mu Lin's arms.

Then, the two of them began their uncoordinated tutoring and learning.

A scene was created where the teacher was concentrating on teaching but the students were absent-minded.

It's like the old wrinkles on the pages of a book, which makes people feel very bad.

Finally, unable to bear it any longer, Mu Lin threw the tutoring materials on the desk and said, "That's enough. It's getting late. You should go back."

Yukinoshita looked at him in silence for a while, then began to pack up the tutoring materials.

The sound of turning pages is very crisp.

Like broken glass.

When people separate, they always want to find a clue that will give them the opportunity to meet again someday in the future.

Yukinoshita is actually looking for, or creating, this line.

Now she had a temporary connection with the boy in front of her.

"Have you thought of any way to save Sadako?"

"I almost figured it out."

"Is that so? I'll take my leave now."

"Yes. But it's so late, let Hiratsuka-sensei take her there. I don't think she would want to see her students walking in the dark."

Yukinoshita naturally realized that he didn't even seize this great opportunity to send the beautiful girl home.

She opened her mouth to ask, but in the end she closed it as if she was afraid of the answer the other party might give.

What is his relationship with Nizo? And Kei?

With such doubts, she has subconsciously blocked out the answers from the past, whether it was when playing games or that real encounter.

"it is good."

After replying with a single word in a low voice, Yukinoshita silently left Mu Lin's bedroom.

He walked into the living room with heavy steps.

Seeing her absent-minded look, Hiratsuka Shizuka couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong? Is that kid's hopelessness leaving you helpless?"

"Well, it's pretty hopeless. I'm going back first."

It is always bad to trouble others, so Xueno does not intend to listen to Mu Lin, but in fact it is a kind of rebellious revenge.

But fortunately, Shizuka Hiratsuka is also very sensible.

"It's so late...By the way, you live alone, right?"

"Yes."

"Why don't you just stay at my place tonight?"

"...Isn't this a bad idea?"

"What's wrong with that? Come and sit down! I just need to discuss something with you!"

After hesitating for a while, Yukinoshita sighed and sat down opposite Hiratsuka Shizuka.

"I remember you could sing? And play the electric guitar?"

"Yes... a little."

"It's decided! Yukinoshita! You will also participate in the last show of the farewell festival!"

"Eh? This is too sudden, isn't it? There are only a few days left to prepare, and I won't have enough time for training or rehearsal, so I refuse."

"Don't reject me so hastily! It's just that young people nowadays are not active enough. Now we can only force others to participate!"

"So this is the excuse to force me to participate?"

"No! Just think about it, the famous Yukinoshita, the unattainable beauty of Gaoling, singing on stage, how exciting is that? I'm sure all the male students in the school will be excited, right?"

But there is one person who seems to dislike me.

Thinking of this, Yukinoshita smiled bitterly and said, "I'm not a performing puppet in a cartoon."

"This may also change some people's opinion of you. After all, you are usually so cold that no one wants to interact with you."

"You don't have to worry about this..."

Before Yukinoshita could finish her words, she suddenly thought of something and looked hesitant.

"Hiratsuka-sensei."

"Ok?"

"I promised, but time is tight. Please don't blame me if I make a mistake."

"Oh hoo! No problem!!"

Shizuka Hiratsuka was so happy that she discussed the details of the performance with Yukinoshita.

"With your talent, you can be the lead singer and electric guitarist! As for me, I can just play the bass."

"Eh? Hiratsuka-sensei can play the bass?"

"Of course! I used to dream of becoming... cough cough cough!"

"Isn't it K-ON!?"

"How can it be!!"

Shizuka Hiratsuka is furious!

This reaction eased Yukinoshita's depressed heart a lot.

She smiled and said, "It seems so."

The lights of thousands of homes contrast at night.

Perhaps the best way to deal with this is to forget about the estrangement of the person you miss and focus on your friends.

The long night is spent here.

Just in this night.

Two people are thinking about completely contradictory facts.

Close and far away.

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I don’t know why, but logically speaking, Mu Lin doesn’t seem to fall in love with anyone. What do you think?