After deciding to give up, I became popular

"Oh, oh, that's good, that's good..." Summer River played a sigh of relief at once, "It's good that you didn't misunderstand... In short, that's it, I really didn't think you were petty."

"It doesn't matter, I don't care anyway." Katou shook his head, and finally began to bring the topic into the right track, "But on the other hand... Does Xia Chuanjun remember what I told you before?"

"Uh... before..." Xia Chuan played a difficult look at once. They talked a lot between the two. What is this asking?

But combined with the context...

"Say that you don't have to be so polite when you get along with you?" Xia Chuan tried to say.

"Of course this is necessary, but it's not the focus of this time." Katou Kei shook his head and continued to let him guess.

"In this case..." Xia Chuan played a little bit and couldn't guess it. He tried to think for a long time and couldn't come up with any suitable results.

"It's only about Xia Chuanjun." So Katou gave him a little hint.

"Uh..." He really had an answer now, but he became hesitant again, and it was a little difficult to say it.

It's not that he was a little embarrassed, it was purely that he felt that this answer was really suitable for the current scene?

"I remember what you said, but... is 'let me be wayward' really related to this matter?" Xia Chuan played still puzzled, he couldn't relate Katou's life advice to this "touching head incident" at all. Although the reason why Katou was angry was discussed now, wasn't it because of his frivolous behavior in the final analysis?

"It seems that Xia Chuanjun still doesn't understand what I mean." Katou Kei shook his head, and Wei Chun opened lightly, "If you have it in your heart, you won't say to me because of this, 'I will compensate you for everything'?"

"..." Xia Chuan played a little speechless for a while, but there was also a strange feeling that he couldn't tell, so he didn't know how to refute the other party.

"Only people who always ignore themselves will make such promises indiscriminately?" She seemed to be making a summary.

But Xia Chuan played suddenly woke up, and finally understood what was wrong.

"No, it's not what you said." He seriously refuted the other party.

"Maybe what you said was correct until just now, but all these judgments can't be right if you use them on me." Xia Chuan played shook his head and then explained to Katou Kei, "Of course I have always kept in mind what you told me before, and not only remember it, I have really started to do it."

"Although it sounds a bit selfish, I have indeed started a self-centered life..."

Returning to the student union, rebuilding the interpersonal network, and the friendship that had gradually broken off was also picked up by him one by one. Who are these for? Who else can motivate him to do this besides himself?

Because I want to live a perfect life for my friends, because I want to laugh and play with everyone, so I do this, and I am really happy after doing this, and the worry and fear in the past, fearing that my actions will go wrong, causing my mood that I will be hated has completely disappeared... No, maybe there is still, but it has gradually evolved from completely afraid of being estranged into an open-minded attitude that it doesn't matter if he is hated, he has tried his best.

He will still make some concessions to maintain friendship, and do things that he thinks may be more troublesome, but his original intention has already changed. It has changed from "wanting to improve the other party's mood and ingratiate" to "wanting to get along happily and coexist harmoniously".

Although he really proposed to compensate in a way of "I will do everything" in this incident, it does not mean his humble attitude at all, but because he felt that he had done something wrong, and rashly stretched out the "salty pig hand" to Katou, this is what he wanted to make up for his fault and wanted to appease his restless heart. This is the most important point.

"In short, I really didn't lie to you. This time, I'm not wronged myself. I even think that 'using casually promised conditions to exchange for a headshot of Katou' is actually a very profitable deal for me..." Xia Chuan played hesitantly. This statement is indeed a bit obscene, as if he was greedy for Katou's body, but it is really his true thoughts.

After all, who doesn't want to be close to beautiful girls? Don't look at Katou's usual low sense of existence that she can't find, in fact, she is also a very beautiful and cute girl, especially today she is wearing a neighbor girl style dress that she had shown him at her home yesterday, which is really cute!

Not to mention anything else, today's Katou has a kind of "Bulingbuling" sparkling feeling! It's not an irrelevant passerby girl at all, but a real cute heroine!

"Eh, it's very happy to be praised like this, but it's also a little shy..." Katou's eyes flickered slightly, and he didn't dare to look at him, which made Xia Chuan play dumbfounded.

What's the situation? Did he just... say it unconsciously?

"Cough... anyway, that's the way things are. Maybe it's my own bad taste. I'm a little curious about how you will react, and at the same time, I really think your learning state is very good. I want to praise you, so I did it..."

"Of course, I am serious about the apology afterwards, because after all, I lacked some consideration, just like you said..." Speaking of this, Xia Chuan played suddenly stunned, because he remembered Katou just said, "You have to ask the person concerned for their opinion before doing it." Doesn't this mean...

As long as you say hello in advance, you can rua rua Katou Niao at will?

Then he's really excited!

After all, so far, he has carefully felt the feedback from Shinomiya, including Yukinoshita, Eriri, and his senior, and even Kaguya is like this. He has not only played with her hair, but also done headshots. He is completely on the road to collecting everything.

I didn't feel it carefully just now because I was too anxious. Can I taste it carefully now?

"Although it happened suddenly, Katou Sang... can you let me touch it again?" Xia Chuan played suddenly became radiant.

"Moxi Moxi, is this the police officer? Yes, there seems to be a pervert here..."

"..."

It's a joke, it's a joke! Don't really call the police!

235. Yukino working part-time

"Although it happened suddenly, Katou Sang... can you let me touch it again?" Xia Chuan's eyes were full of anticipation, and he didn't look like he was joking at all.

"Moxi Moxi, is this the police officer? Yes, there seems to be a pervert here..."

"Don't, don't really take out your phone, I'm just kidding..." Seeing the other party's action of taking out his phone, Xia Chuan played a little flustered again. Although he felt that Katou would definitely not destroy his friendship righteously, he still couldn't help being nervous.

"Although you said so... but this level of joke can already be considered harassment, right? Xia Chuanjun." Katou's expression seemed a little distressed, and he seemed to be wondering why his friend would become like this.

This made Xia Chuan play a little unable to explain his situation. He couldn't honestly tell her that he had lost to the desires in his heart, right?

But after all, Katou herself expressed that "it's better to ask her opinion before doing this kind of thing", so he is completely acting according to the other party's meaning, but now he is still "disgusted".

Fortunately, Katou is indeed a tolerant girl. She forgave him without saying anything more, and even helped to start changing the topic.

"So, can I continue to study?"

"Of course! No problem, definitely! Please..." Xia Chuan played slowly and nodded busyly.

Speaking of which, they are indeed holding a student union, not staging some strange love comedy. After all, the purpose of students is to ensure good study, right? Just like Eriri next to him, he has always maintained a focused posture of "I love learning"...

Speaking of Eriri, Xia Chuan played suddenly felt a little strange, curious about how this little blonde was so well-behaved today, and actually kept studying until now. Could it be that he has really improved?

He was very curious, but after thinking about it, he still didn't ask to disturb her. If he pulled her out of this focused state, it would be even more difficult to get in.

Katou next to him also began to study seriously, but he, the instructor, became idle now. So after thinking about it, he simply stood up gently and walked to Eriri's room to get a few comic books.

Of course, it's not the kind that can't show pictures. Even Eriri will have a few ordinary popular comics.

--Although the purpose of buying it is to learn from it and draw inspiration from other people's works.

He still remembers what Eriri told her before. In fact, she also thought about "wanting to go ashore". After all, a book painter is not an identity that can be said with confidence. What she hopes to achieve in the end is actually "Although she is essentially a book painter, she can actually draw serious content. She deserves to be Teacher Eri Kashiwagi." She actually wants to gain such praise.

But it is actually difficult to become a cartoonist who is serious or even serialized in popular magazines. Her painting skills are of course qualified, and the part full of astringency will definitely attract some readers, but it is definitely not enough to draw comics well. This is only the foundation. On the contrary, the plot is the big deal. It is not easy to be able to continue serialization, and for Eriri, the plot is completely her difficult part, so she has not realized her ideas.

Xia Chuan played originally wanted to help her, but in fact, he himself is not very good at this aspect. At most, he can only provide some suggestions as a "male reader". The biggest help he can say is his somewhat overly rich "pursuit history". Although they all ended in failure, after all, so many things happened during the period. If the plot is slightly embellished or changed, it is not impossible to draw it into a comic. He even thought of the comic title--About the fact that I confessed to several girls and failed, but they all took the initiative to come to my door.

The title alone should be very attractive, right? Finally, as long as it is processed into a traditional love comedy, it should be fine. Although the story is a bit old-fashioned, the old-fashioned means there is a market, and some readers like to watch this kind of tune. And as a newcomer, it will be of great help to Eriri to explore some experience first.

But all this must be based on the fact that he is really willing to provide material--in the final analysis, it is a shameful past, especially when the original motive is impure, it is strange that this situation can make him take the initiative to help?!

You can't start with something like "Actually, I have a friend..."? You will be detected in minutes!

...

In the afternoon, several people spent their time studying. Katou left earlier because he lived far away. Xia Chuan played tutored Eriri for a while before planning to leave. When he went out, he even ran into Sawamura Sayuri, Eriri's mother. The other party enthusiastically invited him to stay and sit for a while, and by the way, have dinner or something. He even said that it was okay to stay overnight, which made him very embarrassed. Of course, he refused in the end.

After all, he also has his own home, not a homeless person.

There is still a lot of time left today, so I can play outside for a while, so Xia Chuan played wants to continue what he didn't finish yesterday--of course, it doesn't mean going on a date with Senior Kasumigaoka, but referring to earlier, he plans to go to the bookstore to make up for the various magazines and comics. Before, he didn't continue shopping because he met his senior by chance, so he went to make up for it now.

He picked up his phone and searched casually, and found that there was indeed a bookstore nearby, which was relatively close, so he went straight there.

He originally planned to make a quick decision, buy things and leave, but he was stunned when paying, and found that the front desk staff of the bookstore was actually his acquaintance--Miss Yukinoshita Yukino.

Today's Yukinoshita is still very beautiful and lovely. Even the simple and extreme work clothes can't cover her super high appearance. It will even add a good impression of being diligent and thrifty, but the more important thing is because she is a cashier. I'm afraid she is following the rule of "smile to customers", and she rarely doesn't keep a straight face.

Although she doesn't keep smiling, she is obviously more kind, at least more amiable than most of the time she sees him.

The strange thing is that she doesn't always keep standing, but slowly stands up from the chair when checking out for people. It feels a bit inconsistent with her serious appearance... Oh! He remembered, her foot seemed to be injured a few days ago! He even helped her deal with her foot injury!

...

"Uh, I didn't expect you to be working here..." Xia Chuan played tried to start a topic.

If he meets an acquaintance and doesn't say hello at all, he will feel a little impolite, and because of some guilty conscience, it is difficult to ignore the other party directly.

However, Yukino-shita-san was clearly ignoring him, possibly because she was still on duty and had no intention of catching up with him. "Please place the books on the table, customer. I can't ring you up like this."

"Ah... okay." Natsukawa Souichi paused, instinctively wanting to nod and step forward, but suddenly remembered that the books he was holding contained some compromising material. Now... could he still present them?

"..."

As for his silence, Yukino-shita Yukino was clearly unaware of the reason. She simply frowned slightly and continued to remind him.

"Please come over here to pay, customer."

"..." Natsukawa Souichi still couldn't bring himself to move.

It was impossible to go forward and pay. Just the thought of a classmate seeing him buy such things from a bookstore was enough to make him tense up. The key point was that their relationship was unusually complicated, and he felt he would be severely scorned and verbally attacked into silence.

The situation remained deadlocked. The look of confusion in Yukino-shita Yukino's eyes gradually deepened. Just as he was thinking of making an excuse to browse some more so he could put the books back, another customer interrupted.

"Hey, I say—where are the photo magazines? I can't find them." A blonde delinquent suddenly appeared.

It was a customer with a very unfriendly attitude, and on the other hand... ah, he couldn't really criticize the other party too much at the moment. In some ways, he even had to thank them for getting him out of this situation.

"..."

Visibly, Natsukawa Souichi could feel the atmosphere around Yukino-shita seemed to turn colder. He didn't know if it was due to the other party's unfriendly attitude or something else, but as someone who knew her well, he could definitely sense it.

"They're at the end on the right-hand side by the door."

Perhaps sensing that he was being treated coldly, or perhaps he was just looking for trouble, the blonde delinquent started yelling, "What's with your attitude? Come out here and show me the way! And what's with that look in your eyes? Are you looking down on me...?"

"..." Yukino's face clearly became even colder than before. Natsukawa Souichi could clearly perceive that she was suppressing her impulse.

Of course, Natsukawa Souichi himself was also a little angry. What a joke! There was actually such an idiot daring to mock Yukino. He really wanted to punch his head in!

But he couldn't do that, because doing so would only embarrass Yukino. Of course, he wasn't going to stand by completely, so he directly spoke up to help: "I'll take you there. I happen to know where they are."

"Huh?" The delinquent looked at him, his tone even more unfriendly. "Who do you think you are...?"

Unfortunately, before he could finish his mocking sentence, Natsukawa Souichi cracked his knuckles, making a "pop" sound, the threatening meaning self-evident.

"...W-What are you going to do? I'm telling you, hitting people is against the law!" The blonde delinquent was obviously a little nervous. This guy was already a bit on the thin side and looked somewhat malnourished. He definitely couldn't compare to Natsukawa Souichi, who was well-built from exercise. His intuition told him it was best not to provoke him any further.

"Ah? No, why would I? I just felt a little cold and wanted to stretch a bit." Natsukawa Souichi scoffed. He rarely resorted to violence directly. He was also worried about having to pay medical expenses if he knocked someone out with a punch, especially since the other party hadn't done anything yet, right?

At the very least, he had to establish a claim of self-defense first.

"T-That's right..." The blonde delinquent still chickened out. After carefully sizing him up, he seemed to be comparing himself to him, and quickly came to a conclusion: "I-I suddenly remembered I don't want to buy them anymore. I-I'm leaving..."

But he didn't run away directly. He was actually asking Natsukawa Souichi with an inquiring tone.

This made the latter couldn't help but find it a little funny. Did he really look that unapproachable? He felt like he was being treated like some kind of gang leader.

But in Japanese society, this was normal. In fact, almost every high school had some similar "school bully" types. Their school wasn't entirely an exception, but the level was a bit higher, and they wouldn't go around bullying other students for no reason.

"Eh? Really? Don't you need me to show you the way?" Natsukawa Souichi put on an expression of regret, as if he was sad that he couldn't help others.

But in the eyes of the delinquent, this was clearly a blatant threat! So he could only reply with some polite words like "No need, no need, I wouldn't trouble you" before scurrying away.

Seeing this, Natsukawa Souichi clicked his tongue, wanting to spit to show his disdain, but gave up considering various factors.

"Are people like this common?" He asked Yukino-shita Yukino, who had been silent the whole time.

He believed that Yukino had the ability to handle such things, but when he encountered it, he still didn't want to stand idly by. Perhaps it was because he didn't want to see Yukino being bullied by anyone other than him.

"No, it's rare." Yukino-shita Yukino shook her head and responded softly. After hesitating for a moment, she even took the initiative to speak again: "Thank you... just now."

She was indeed willing to talk and no longer ignore him. Perhaps this was somewhat due to the "hero saves the beauty" factor.

"Ah? Oh, it's nothing..." Natsukawa Souichi suddenly felt a little embarrassed, after all, "violent threats" weren't exactly a glorious thing, right?

But the good news was that he received Yukino-shita's gratitude, which she didn't easily express. It seemed that he had only heard it twice so far, and the last time was just a few days ago, when he carried her out of the haunted house at the test of courage event.

"Oh, right, speaking of which, how's your foot injury? Is it any better?" Natsukawa Souichi was a little puzzled. After all, it was quite serious when he treated her before. It shouldn't have healed so quickly after only one day, but she was still insisting on working part-time, which was hard not to worry about.

"Let's talk about that later..." Yukino-shita Yukino shook her head, and then reminded him to go pay. "I'll be off work in a little while, let's talk then."

"..." Natsukawa Souichi's body immediately froze.

He was so busy helping Yukino out of the situation that he forgot to secretly put the books back!

This was going to be awkward!

236. The Snow Woman Student Who Is Good at Attracting People