Zongman I fight weirdness in everyday world

"No, you won't."

"Huh?"

"Didn't understand?"

Toma Kazusa said solemnly.

"You can't wear a kimono, got it?"

Ogiso Setsuna was still a bit bewildered.

"But... you can't either. And now you won't let me learn, so what's the point of bringing the kimonos? No one can wear them."

Toma Kazusa revealed a slight smile and slowly opened her mouth.

"Yozora will. Let him help us wear them."

"Huh?"

Ogiso Setsuna's brain instantly overloaded, and she didn't know where to start complaining.

First and foremost...

Yozora is a boy, how would he know how to wear a kimono? Could it be that he specially practiced it?

This guy, for such a small chance that might occur, but most likely won't in his entire life, he even made special preparations!?

Yozora, who usually just slacks off and makes people feel lazy, is only willing to put in all his effort for this kind of thing!?

"But... but..."

Ogiso Setsuna was so shocked by Toma Kazusa's astonishing words that her tongue almost couldn't speak straight.

"Putting aside... putting aside the fact that I know how to wear it myself, but I have to pretend that I don't, and have my best friend's boyfriend do this kind of thing, helping me wear a kimono... this is too... intimate..."

"Setsuna."

Hearing this, Toma Kazusa placed her hands on Ogiso Setsuna's shoulders and said, word by word.

"When you said you wanted the three of us to always be together, was it just a casual remark, or are you as serious as I am?"

Ogiso Setsuna hurriedly replied.

"Of course I'm serious, but..."

"No buts."

Toma Kazusa directly interrupted Ogiso Setsuna's next words and said to herself.

"In our current situation, if we want the three of us to always be together, no matter what happens, without separating, there are only two paths."

"Which two?"

"The first path."

Toma Kazusa hadn't even spoken the words yet, but a smile couldn't help but appear on her face.

"You hurry up and reincarnate now. Counting the time in line, you should be able to make it in time for Yozora and I to get married and have children. You become our daughter, and that way, the three of us can always be together."

Ogiso Setsuna was speechless upon hearing this.

"Putting aside whether reincarnation exists or not, the content of your words is already so outrageous that I don't know how to complain. I can't even believe that it's something that Kazusa, whom I know, could say... Does Yozora-kun carry some kind of highly contagious abstract virus? How have you been assimilated by him."

Toma Kazusa replied in a serious manner.

"There's a saying that couples resemble each other. Couples being abstract together is also a couple's resemblance."

Ogiso Setsuna: "...Then what's the second path?"

"Join."

Toma Kazusa's tone was very sincere, and there was even a hint of heartbreaking sadness in it.

"Setsuna, I want to be with you forever, and I also want to be with Yozora forever... Only this way can it be done."

Just like how the usually indifferent Toma Kazusa couldn't bear to refuse as long as Ogiso Setsuna opened her mouth to beg, for Ogiso Setsuna, as long as Toma Kazusa made a request, even if this time the request made her feel very outrageous, she still couldn't refuse.

Ogiso Setsuna took a deep breath, adjusted her emotions, and finally mustered the courage to look at Toma Kazusa, asking the question that she had vaguely sensed but had never found an opportunity to ask.

"I want to know... Mai-senpai, Miko, Rio, these members of the Paranormal Club, are they all with Yozora...?"

"How is that possible."

Hearing Toma Kazusa's denial, before Ogiso Setsuna could even breathe a sigh of relief, she heard the other party continue to say.

"Let me count... Yurikawa-san, Kitagawa-san, Yukino, those three, plus you, that's four. All the rest are."

Ogiso Setsuna sighed slightly, her expression very complicated.

To be honest, she never thought in her life that she would encounter such an outrageous thing.

In a club, the number of boats that the male president is on isn't described by which boats he's on, but by the process of elimination of which boats he's not on.

Ogiso Setsuna's mental journey is as follows.

Hearing the rumors within the school that Yozora created the Supernatural Quantum Mechanics Investigation and Research Club with the goal of opening a harem, even daring to make a move on the homeroom teacher, Hiratsuka Shizuka—after contact, she discovered that it wasn't like that at all. Yozora and the members around him weren't as scary as the rumors said, and there weren't any daily orgies in the activity room—after deeper contact, she discovered that it seemed to be the case, and the members were all aware of each other?

Even, during the New Year's Eve party that night, there were not only several people from outside the school, everyone gathered together happily, and the homeroom teacher Hiratsuka Shizuka actually came.

Even more outrageous than the rumors.

"Kazusa, you..."

Ogiso Setsuna pursed her lips and asked carefully.

"Like this... you... won't you be jealous?"

"Jealous? Of course, I will be."

Toma Kazusa nodded, without concealing anything.

"If it's you, I won't be jealous, but when I see Miko and the others sometimes doing some intimate things with Yozora, I will definitely still be jealous. But if I think about it from another perspective, people like Futaba Rio, Yotsuya Miko, Yuigahama Yui, Mai-senpai, these people all see each other as the most important person, just like you in my eyes, so they shouldn't be jealous."

"However, Yozora said a sentence that I think is very reasonable."

Ogiso Setsuna asked curiously upon hearing this.

"What sentence?"

Before Toma Kazusa could open her mouth, she heard Yozora's voice coming from outside the thin door made of wooden planks and paper windows.

The pain of a love triangle doesn't come from the intimacy between others and the male lead, but from the concept of failure itself. Extending this, it's precisely because it's a multiple-choice question that, when you know you're not that option, you feel pain and sadness. So, the best way to eradicate a love triangle is to directly turn the multiple-choice into a 'choose all' scenario. No one will be excluded, and naturally, no one will be hurt.

Ogiso Setsuna was completely dumbfounded.

This…

It actually makes a little sense?

When you don't become the wrong option to be excluded, when you know everyone is the right option… it seems it's indeed not so unbearable.

Ogiso Setsuna felt this deeply because she had personal experience.

Back then, downstairs, when she saw Touma and Sayako kissing in the music practice room, she felt dizzy, her entire brain went blank, and her heart felt like it was being clenched by a hand, making even breathing painful.

But after realizing the true situation…

It seems she really hasn't felt that way since.

Seeing the silence in the compartment, Yozora outside the door chuckled and said,

"The world is like this. War, conflict, contradictions—everything that brings sadness and misfortune to people is due to so-called competition, because there's a line between success and failure. I can't change the world, nor do I want to change the world, but at the very least, I can ensure that the people around me won't feel that sense of frustration and pain. I want to create a reality where there will be absolutely no regrets!"

Ogiso Setsuna was already completely dumbfounded.

What a passionate, righteous, and inspiring speech.

The problem is, why aren't you usually like this?

"Alright, alright, stop wasting your breath."

Touma Kazusa directly opened the door and waved at Yozora.

"Come in quickly and help the two of us put on our kimonos. I'm hungry and want to go out to eat. Hurry."

"Okay."

Ogiso Setsuna blushed, and seeing that Touma Kazusa had already started reaching out to take off her clothes, she tried to struggle a bit, but she couldn't contend with Touma Kazusa, who could physically withstand a high-altitude fall onto a concrete slab.

In the end, she could only let Yozora help her put on the kimono, albeit reluctantly. Although she felt like this guy was deliberately taking advantage of her along the way, she managed to get it on.

But in the end, Touma Kazusa's kimono was put on by Ogiso Setsuna.

When Ogiso Setsuna asked why, Touma Kazusa gave a simple and unadorned reason that she hadn't anticipated but couldn't refute.

"I'm afraid that if I let Yozora change me, by the time it's done… we'll only be able to go out for dinner."

…

Ogiso Setsuna and Touma Kazusa, wearing kimonos, spent the whole day with Yozora in Amagasaki City. Although there weren't many worthwhile activities in this small city of Amagasaki, just being with these two made Ogiso Setsuna feel like it was the happiest moment of her life.

Just like when the three of them were rehearsing together.

After dinner, Touma Kazusa first took out her phone to search for something, and then said as if she had suddenly realized something.

"Oh no, I messed up. I had too much fun, and I missed the train back. It seems we can only spend the night here."

"I say, could your acting be any more clumsy?"

Ogiso Setsuna sighed, speechless.

"The room was booked in the morning, and I didn't bring any luggage when I came out, and you even made me bring a change of clothes. From the beginning, you had no intention of returning the same day, right? Stop acting, stop acting. I'll listen to your arrangements, okay?"

"Hehe, I knew Setsuna was the best."

Watching Touma Kazusa rub her cheek against Ogiso Setsuna's cheek like a cat, Yozora looked very emotional.

"That's great. How about we three sleep together tonight?"

"I agree."

Ogiso Setsuna blushed and lightly patted Touma Kazusa's shoulder.

"What are you agreeing to? I haven't agreed yet. What is this between you two? Singing in harmony to force me into a corner?"

"You can understand it that way."

At this moment, Ogiso Setsuna felt like she was a lamb entering a tiger's den.

She thought Yozora was the tiger.

Now she realized… Touma Kazusa was the bigger tiger!

…

Half an hour later, at the entrance of a small temple.

"Is this Hon興寺…"

Touma Kazusa looked at the temple in front of her, frowning slightly, and muttered to herself.

"It's far inferior to Shitennoji Temple."

"Ah, this female benefactor, you are mistaken."

An old monk, who was originally sweeping the floor at the entrance, wearing a gray cloth robe and looking about the same age as Oda Noten, put down the broom in his hand, first put his hands together in a salute, and then said with a smile.

"What if Shitennoji Temple is bigger? Wasn't it still bombed?"

Hearing this, Yozora couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.

"Wow, Master, you speak very frankly. It's true that monks don't tell lies. You say whatever you think."

The old monk looked at Yozora and saluted again.

"Benefactor, you don't know. After I entered the monastery at the age of twelve, I have been practicing the silent meditation."

"Then why are you talking now?"

"Don't mention it. After practicing for nearly twenty years, one day, I was scalded by the tea that my disciple had just made, and I subconsciously said 'Damn it,' breaking the precept. The practice failed."

"Wow, you're really abstract."

"Alas, I held back for too long when I was young, and in the end, my merit and practice didn't improve, but I ended up with the habit of saying whatever I think, making the three benefactors laugh."

Listening to the words of this old monk, Ogiso Setsuna and Touma Kazusa didn't know how to describe it.

Isn't it… are the monks in this Hon興寺 so abstract?