Stray Chapter 212: The right way to open a wish

"Huh?"

Megumi Kato tilted her head again.

Xia Ran thought for a while, then said, "However, Kato-kun, do you really have no plans to change your current state?"

"What? If you say that you want to make my debut as an idol, I don't think it will work..." The girl responded calmly. "Anyway, I'm used to it, and I feel that it doesn't make any difference if I change it or not..."

"Don't be so pitiful... How about paying someone else to be your friend?"

Xia Ran sneered a few times, then he pinched his chin and thoughtfully put forward a wonderful idea——

"After all, compared with ordinary verbal agreements, there are far more binding forces in reality. As long as real interests are involved, then it's hard to ignore your existence no matter what, right?"

"Eh? This is too miserable..." Kato Megumi looked a little unwilling, as if she didn't hear that Xia Ran was joking.

"After all, apart from this method, I haven't thought of any other way to strengthen your sense of existence..."

"Woo..." The girl bit her lip lightly and made a troubled and cute voice, she had no way to refute it, but she still felt that something was not right, "But the friends I made in this way can really be regarded as friends. ?"

"Well, this is not important, because what we want is only the result and not the surface form, so let's take a step back and say that we don't have to maintain those false friendships, as long as the other party can notice it for a week. You..."

"Why take a hundred steps back? And can't even maintain fake friendships?"

Kato Megumi interrupted him in shock, probably because she was overwhelmed, and there was a subtle melancholy in her eyes.

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"Excuse me, please forget about it... Then seriously, how about thinking about the method I mentioned earlier about joining a club?"

I always felt that joking with Kato classmates in this regard would have a sense of guilt, so Xia Ran cleared his throat and said sternly and seriously.

"If you join the same club, you will meet people no matter how much you don't want to? I said before that your main problem is that you don't have too many interactions with people, so you always have nothing. A sense of presence..."

"You're right, but most of the clubs in my school have little interest, and I don't know what I can do."

Megumi Kato thought about it with a very serious expression. She always seemed to be able to adjust her mood quickly and keep up with jumping topics.

"And it's already mid-May. The interpersonal relationships in most clubs have already been fixed, right? If I join at this time, can I really integrate into the environment?"

That's true, and she's still a second-year student, which is also a problem. After all, if it is a freshman in the first year, then the seniors will take care of them without any psychological burden.

"If it really doesn't work, how about considering the service department?" Xia Ran thought for a while, and found that this problem was not a problem at all, so she bluntly proposed an option.

"Eh, really? But what can I do?"

Kato Megumi was a little surprised, but she was still a little hesitant, and she didn't agree.

Xia Ran understood her doubts, and said casually: "No need to do anything, anyway, that society is not doing anything at all, that is, some strange guys come to visit occasionally, usually you just Treat it as a literary club..."

"Huh? Don't you need any conditions to join the club?"

"I don't need it for the time being, at least I didn't find any strict restrictions... Also, you've seen Yubihama-san, if my memory is correct, she probably didn't officially join the club, but She also comes to the activity room every day, and everyone doesn't think there is any problem."

Xia Ran thought about it for a while and gave an example.

"You can also give it a try first. You don't have to join our club. Let's see if this club is suitable for you. Of course, if you want to formally apply for membership, you can also apply. I have an application for admission here. book, just fill out one copy.”

He turned around and pulled out a brand new form in his desk drawer, and placed it on Megumi Kato's desk.

"Well... this, I'll take a look first, I won't write the application form." The girl looked at the form, hesitated a little, and then said.

"Alright, you can keep the form first. Now let's go to the activity room..." Xia Ran stretched out her hand and snapped her fingers, stood up, and picked up her schoolbag, planning to go to the special building. activity room.

"Well, that... Xia Ran classmate?" Kato Megumi seemed to think of something again and called out his name in a low voice.

"What's wrong?"

"About this... Am I going to pay you?" Kato Megumi seems to be still entangled in the joke just now.

"...No need..." Xia Ran raised her fist and tapped her forehead, sighing and said, "The one just now is just a joke, you don't need to care, I'm not trying to get your money..."

"Then what are you picturing me?" The girl's face changed subtly. Her expression seemed to be a little confused, mixed with a little curiosity.

"Of course it's for you... No! I was almost surrounded by you, Kato-san." Xia Ran was about to answer subconsciously, but she immediately reacted, so she hurriedly shook her head, "I don't know anything. The picture is good!"

"Is that so?" Kato Megumi nodded, her expression turned into confusion before she knew it, "It seems that I misunderstood you, Xia Ran, and I thought you wanted to take me there. , let Yukishita-san get angry with you because of the noon thing."

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"Then...that, classmate Xia Ran? Why is there a sudden silence...Although I don't want to think so, shouldn't I..."

"...your illusion."

Xia Ran turned her head away with a hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, she looked away with a guilty conscience and "looked" towards the corridor outside the classroom. It's too foul, even if the level of breath blocking is so high, why is even intuition so sensitive!

The girl didn't say anything, but her expression became very pale unconsciously.

"...Kato-san?"

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The setting sun shines across the long orange corridor into the empty classroom.

Megumi Kato remained silent for a while.

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There was no one on the road leading to the special building, except for the shouts of the older brother's sports club on the sports field in the distance.

Because the negotiation failed, Xia Ran came to the service department alone and opened the door of the activity room on the east side of the fourth floor. As usual, Yukinoshita was sitting on a chair by the window reading quietly, as if time had stopped under the afterglow of the setting sun.

"It's strange, I thought you wouldn't come over today..." She raised her head and glanced at the sound of the door being opened, and said lightly.

"How is this possible..." Xia Ran said with a haha, and then made a gesture of looking around, "But speaking of it, why is it only you, Yukinoshita, Hikigu and Yubihama today? Didn't you come?"

There are no new commissions today, and the rowdy guy is not present, so the event room is very quiet.

"Hikigaya-san seems to be sending Totsuka-san off. After all, Totsuka-san has an injured leg, and it's not as perverted as you are. You really need someone to take care of you... But Yuhihama-san said she wanted to go with Miura-san. They're going out to play." Yukinoshita answered very plainly without raising his head.

Xia Ran hesitated for a while, and seemed to be considering whether to leave a way to escape at any time, but in the end she closed the door of the activity room.

"Perverted or something... is it too much to say?"

He walked straight over, pulled out the chair opposite the girl and sat down on the opposite corner of the long table. This is the seat that the two of them are used to.

Yukinoshita lowered her head and looked at the books spread out on the table, but she leaned back slightly and pulled the chair, as if she wanted to distance herself from him, and snorted coldly. : "I don't need to belittle myself at all. I'm still far behind you, Xia Ran."

Sure enough, you're still angry, do you really care about that?

Xia Ran reflected on himself. He really didn't think too much about it at the time, but it seemed that he caused real damage to Yukinoshita, or the kind of double crit... There was no good face to show himself. , is also of course, it seems that he has to master the degree of joking skillfully.

He sighed and apologized very sincerely:

"Sorry, I was wrong, next time... not next time."

"What is next time?" Yukinoshita put the bookmark into the library book, frowning in displeasure, she always felt that this person was not here to apologize, but to provoke her.

"Cough, it's nothing... I mean I'm here to apologize." Xia Ran wisely didn't dwell on this topic, the girl obviously didn't want to talk about this topic that annoyed her. "Speaking of which, Yukinoshita, guess what I brought..."

"I don't guess, I'm not interested, I don't need it." Yukinoshita was calm.

"Uh... that, just treat it as a little arrow to continue giving me a conversation, anyway, cooperate!"

"It's funny, I have no reason to cooperate with you..."

Tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-a sudden knock on the door interrupted the unnecessary bickering between the two.

"...Please come in." Yukinoshita said lightly.

Brush! The door of the activity room was opened, and a tall boy shyly patted the back of his head and appeared outside the corridor: "I'm sorry to bother you... Excuse me, is this the service department?"

"Yes." Xia Ran nodded expressionlessly.

"It's strange, this is the first time I know there is such a club..." The boy muttered in a low voice, and then tentatively asked: "I heard that people's wishes can be fulfilled here, right? I hope to be able to Fulfill one wish..."

"No!"

Yukinoshita interrupted the boy's words indifferently, denying it.

"Ah? Wait, can't you? But I clearly heard that it's possible..." The boy's eyes widened, as if he had gotten an unexpected answer, and he seemed a little unacceptable for a while.

"I heard wrong." Xia Ran made up the knife without the slightest emotion.

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The boy was silent for a while. This is obviously the Ministry of Service, but why is it completely inconsistent with the information he heard?

Also, what's going on with these two eccentric club members?

"Hey! Boy, I said to you, did you really listen to me yesterday?" At this time, someone patted the boy on the shoulder, sighed and said such words .

"Hira, Hiratsuka-sensei..."

"It's me." Shizuo Hiratsuka looked at the two people in the activity room with a half-smile, but then turned into a helpless look when he looked at the boy, "Why did you come here for help today?"

"I... I thought she wouldn't be angry for a long time, I don't think she needed it." The boy whispered, his cheeks slightly flushed.

Appears to be for emotional counseling? Xia Ran raised her eyebrows.

"Then do you listen to me carefully? No one in this world can directly help you realize your wish..."

Hiratsuka Jing walked directly into the activity room and waved——

"Why are both of them like this? If you want to find the Dragon Balls, you have to go to the Great Channel to take the Jounin Exam first..."

"What is that?" Yukinoshita was puzzled, and subconsciously looked at someone directly opposite.

"Don't listen to Mr. Hiratsuka, her method is outdated. Now it is popular to use the Holy Grail to make a wish, get seven dragon **** and then summon the dragon, get the magic lamp from the dragon, and then use the power of the magic lamp to make a wish to get The Holy Grail..."

Xia Ran said solemnly.