Love Comes After Learning

'As expected...is it for me? '

Guess the sound game, is it to let me get out of the tension, is it specially done?

Clover tugged Yihua's sleeves, with a dim light in her eyes, silently asking her for an answer.

The quintuplet sisters have a sympathetic heart, making Yihua understand the meaning of Yotsuba's eyes in an instant.

With a gentle smile slightly bent, she leaned into Clover's ear and whispered.

"Don't think too much about it. Okay?"

"..."

Yotsuba nodded slightly, looked away, and whispered something at the same time.

"Yihua, please help me... to apologize to Asada-san."

"Can you tell me why?"

Kazuka didn't refuse right away, but looked at Yotsuba with clear eyes.

The crystal blue eyes, both in color and in the will contained in them, are quite different from hers.

Yotsuba bit her lips slightly, watching her hands clenched into fists little by little on her knees, but her palms couldn't grasp anything except trembling.

"In the beginning, I thought I didn't hold back, and perfectly met your expectations... As a result, I still made you think of me and caused you more trouble.

"Why can't I trust everyone's strength...why can't I be more mature, like Ikka, who can face everything calmly...

"Obviously, Linjian School should have grown up at that time, and should be proud of themselves...

"I'm really inferior..."

He spoke intermittently, and at the end, the regretful voice was so low that it was almost inaudible.

No one could see, under the drooping hair was full of unwillingness to cry.

And listening to her confession, Yihua just gently hugged her shoulders, rubbed her hair with the tip of his nose, and said softly.

"Well, I see.

"Then, mine... no, it's "ours" Shinichi-kun now, so I'll leave it to you for the time being."

"Eh?"

Before Yotsuba could react, Yihua let go of her shoulders, turned her head and said a few words to Asada, and the two exchanged positions quietly.

There was a slight creaking sound of the folding chair being pressed down due to the extra weight.

"Troublesome girl, are you calling me?"

Pretentiously low voice, coming from a very close distance

Chapter 58 We all worked hard

Clover didn't dare to look up at him, afraid of being seen with a too useless expression on her face, so she just answered with a wry smile.

"Student Asada, after being treated like this just now, it's amazing that you can still joke around..."

He said indifferently: "It's not great, because it doesn't matter to me at all."

Clover's head hung lower.

"But, obviously I caused you to be given that kind of look by everyone in Zongwu High..."

Suddenly, a voice that was exactly the same as hers interrupted her words flatly.

"Even Tokiomi can't bear the blame on you, why do you want to blame yourself?"

Asada's words were a bit difficult to understand, and Yotsuba hesitated for a while before vaguely understanding what he meant.

"I comforted you again..."

Like a child stuck in a corner and unable to turn around, she slumped her shoulders, and her voice was stained with a deeper sense of loss.

"Honestly, what should I do, I don't know anymore...

"From before to now, I haven't changed at all..."

Asada looked at her with the bunny ear headband hanging limply to her forehead, and sighed imperceptibly.

"It's not so much that it hasn't changed, it's better to say that you have a feeling that it's getting worse..."

"Wuuuu, that's really the case..."

Yotsuba became even more lonely, her head was like a dark cloud covering the top, shrouded in deep darkness.

"Everyone is moving forward, I'm the only one who is going backward—"

"We stand on the stage that others expect, but we never feel how glamorous we are."

Asada suddenly said softly.

"...What do you mean?" Yotsuba simply gave up thinking after turning her head halfway and then froze, and asked honestly.

"it means……"

He bent down suddenly, and leaned his head closer, his eyes as bright as cold stars looked straight at her who was staring wide-eyed in astonishment, and said in a serious and serious tone.

"No matter how bad it is, you shine brighter than more than [-]% of high school students. Denying that light is tantamount to denying the audience standing in the audience."

He said the shameful words in a serious tone, and he was very thin-skinned, but he didn't feel embarrassed at all, but poured all sincerity and heart into his voice, and it was clearly transmitted to his ears.

Clover didn't blink her eyes, she and him looked at each other, asking doubtfully.

"Does this mean that I'm good enough and it doesn't matter if I'm bad?"

Asada flicked her forehead lightly: "The understanding is too rough, I failed. Also, this is preaching, not comforting, don't get me wrong."

"I didn't say I misunderstood..." Yotsuba murmured while covering her forehead.

"Whether you notice it or not, there is only one thing you haven't changed for the better, and that's self-confidence... The lack of confidence in yourself from the bottom of your heart is something you haven't changed from before to now."

Akira Asada spoke to himself, and moved his gaze up to her bunny ear headband.

The hand pressing on the forehead moved up, and Clover firmly protected the hair band, while trying to refute this sentence: "No, I am very confident... I believe in everyone, and I also believe in myself..."

"Oh?" Asada narrowed his eyes mockingly, "Can we get the champion of the checkpoint event?"

She nodded without hesitation: "Of course!"

"Clover can win the championship with us."

"Then..." She paused for half a second before she said firmly, "Of course!"

Snapped!

"This time, it's so strong..." Yotsuba covered her forehead with tears from the corners of her eyes, "Asada-san is bullying..."

Asada raised her eyebrows flirtatiously, and waggled her fingers.

"So, if you don't change your mind like this, one day your head will be pierced by me?"

"It's scary! Are your fingers magic light cannons?!"

"If there's nothing inside but pierces through, Yotsuba's reputation will be ruined."

"There will be! And not only the reputation will be ruined, but even the life will be ruined!"

"Yeah, since I can complain so vigorously..."

With a smile on the corner of his mouth, Asada straightened up slowly, and even Yotsuba, who was looking at him, unknowingly lifted up and leaned against the back of the chair lightly.

"Be kinder to yourself, Yotsuba.

"No one expects you to be a perfect superman, a handsome guy who occasionally makes mistakes, fails occasionally, and is disappointed, but no matter how many times he can smile again, admit these things and keep working hard, this is the persona that suits you.

"If that's something you can't do now, entrust it to your future self..."

Recalling the girl who said this to herself, Asada couldn't help but smile even wider, and reached out to stroke Yotsuba's head as if treating her younger sister.

"Because the future self will definitely be more mature and trustworthy, so don't be discouraged until you grow into that self, and continue to hold on to hope."

The host on stage had already pronounced his name to the third from the bottom.

"The third place is... Chiba Municipal Sobu Senior High School!"

The applause sounded, and Yukinoshita in the front row nodded lightly. Even though Yuigahama Yui happily hugged and shook her, she still maintained a reserved but not overly ostentatious smile on her face.

Hikigu Hachiman shrugged his shoulders, with a relaxed and natural look, but his slightly bright eyes couldn't hide the sense of peace of mind and happiness.

Asada was still staring at Yotsuba, just as she was silently staring at herself.

"No matter how much others say, it's useless. Since you can't trust your current self, you should have trust in the stronger and more powerful self in the future, and hold your chest out and say——

This is not an escape, but an investment in the future! "

Ahead, the host's voice became more and more excited.

"The second place is... Private Yingcai High School!"

Surrounded by even warmer applause, the heartbeat seemed to tighten with the beat.

However, at this moment, Yotsuba forgot whether they had read their names just now, and also forgot that most people's eyes were focused on them at this time.

It's just Ling's eyes, which were gradually swept away from the darkness and brightened, stared straight at the young man beside him, completely immersed in that gentle and quiet voice.

"By the way, there is one more thing I forgot to say."

"Finally, number one is—"

Asada withdrew the hand on her head, and in the high-pitched shouts that could not tell who was speaking, the corners of his mouth curled up and he smiled very happily.

"Thanks to you, I also fulfilled my promise."

"—Private, Shuzhiin Academy!!"

Amid the deafening applause, Clover stared at the smile on his face, her chest seemed to be gradually filled with some emotion, becoming extremely full and warm.

The two seem to be in different worlds, looking at each other, the air is so quiet that people have more leeway to think about other things.

For example, what kind of expression should I show now?

Like, how do you deal with that high feeling right now?

...Forget it, it's all right.

If you can't think of it now, let your future self think about it—but homework shouldn't fool the past like this.