I just want to drop out of school

tie.

But, in terms of body shape...

Ichinose wins!

3: 0!

Finally, if we add one more item - the degree of popularity among boys.

The number of people in the whole grade who want Ichinose to be their girlfriend obviously far exceeds Horikita.

and so.

4: 0!

The final result——Ichinose defeated Horikita!

Because Ichinose completely defeated Horikita.

In other words, it is almost impossible for Ichinose to feel inferior to Horikita and retreat in defeat.

If Ichinose was willing to help Shiran, she could easily block the attack from Horikita and prevent Horikita from harassing Shiran any further!

It just so happens that Ichinose said she wanted to repay Bai Lan by helping her...

This made Bai Lan couldn't help but think about it.

anyway.

Horikita was originally Shiranji's shield.

Then, Horikita, the shield, stabbed Shiran in the back.

Now Bai Lan plans to ask Ichinose to help him stop Horikita.

What is that Ichinose to Shiranashi?

Or a "shield"?

No, Horikita didn't really want to pursue Shiranui at all. She was not an "arrow" but a "shield for backstab".

So, if Ichinose agrees to help, Ichinose’s identity will become Shiranashi’s - a “shield”?

......

After comparing Ichinose and Horikita, Shiranji said in surprise: "Ichinose-san, it seems you can really help me!"

Hearing this, Ichinose also showed a happy expression: "Really? Can I really help Bai-san in some way? That would be great? Please tell me how I can help you. If I can do it, I will try my best!"

Bai Lan began to think about how to bring up the "shield" issue with Ichinose: "Actually, this is both easy and difficult. Whether it can be done depends mainly on each person's situation."

"What's happening?"

"Ichinose-san, do you have a boyfriend?" Bai Lan asked.

"what?"

99. Fooling Ichinose: Real couples are not real, fake couples are not fake

"Ichinose-san, do you have a boyfriend?"

Hearing Bai Lan's question, Ichinose couldn't help but wonder, "Could it be that Bai helped our class before because he wanted to pursue me? Everything he did before was just to pursue me?"

While thinking this in his heart, Ichinose subconsciously said in an apologetic tone: "I'm sorry, Bai, I don't plan to fall in love while I'm studying!"

It wasn't the first day that Ichinose became a "school idol", she was one before she came to this school.

As a "campus idol", Ichinose has always encountered various suitors.

However, as she said, she does not intend to use her study time to fall in love.

Ichinose's family conditions are not very good, it is a single-parent family. She has a younger sister, and the family of three depends on their mother to support them alone.

My mother is not a high-income earner. On the contrary, her income level is relatively low.

Her mother struggled to support the family.

In such a family environment, Ichinose also wants to work hard to improve herself. Whether it is cultural subjects or interpersonal relationships, these are what she needs to learn.

She wanted her mother's efforts to be rewarded, and she had no energy left to indulge in luxuries like love.

In order to help her mother reduce her burden as soon as possible, Ichinose even thought about going out to work after finishing high school. However, when she mentioned this to her mother, she was slapped hard by her excited mother.

That was the first time her mother hit her.

Afterwards, her mother calmed down and apologized to her, and then said to Ichinose: "Mom will let you live the life that normal children should have. You can certainly choose not to continue your studies after graduating from high school and go directly to work, but I hope this is a choice you make based on your true expectations, not because of the reason of "to reduce the burden on the family".

It is the parents' duty to provide their children with a normal environment. If you do this, it will make your mother feel useless."

After that, Ichinose never said that again, but just worked harder than before.

Although Bai Lan had helped her, Ichinose would not simply accept Bai Lan's pursuit for such a reason.

After all, in the past, there were many boys who took the initiative to help her in order to pursue her.

If she would do something like using her feelings to repay a favor, she would have had hundreds of boyfriends.

Because she had often rejected other people's advances in the past, Ichinose was very familiar with the words of rejection, which had almost become some kind of muscle memory.

In fact, Ichinose had subconsciously recalled the rejection words she had prepared long ago.

According to her experience, those suitors who are thin-skinned and have exhausted all their courage just to confess their love will basically give up directly because of her "rejection words-starting move".

However, based on Ichinose's impression of Shiran, she felt that Shiran was not the kind of person who was thin-skinned. Therefore, she felt that she would not be able to get rid of Shiran with just a "starting move".

Thinking of this, Ichinose finished speaking and began to try to predict what Bai Lan might say next.

As long as Bai Lan used similar moves from the various plans that Ichinose had studied, she could easily resolve them based on her experience.

However......

"What a coincidence!" Bai Lan was delighted when he heard Ichinose's words.

This was a reaction Ichinose had never expected.

"Eh? Eh! What do you mean by coincidence?"

Ichinose couldn't help but let out a sound of confusion.

Bai Lan explained: "It's like this, I don't plan to fall in love while studying."

Ichinose: "Then why are you asking me this question, Shiro-san?"

Bai Lan: "I don't want to be in a relationship, but someone wants to disturb my life in the name of 'pursuing me'. This is exactly what I was worried about just now."

At this time, Ichinose noticed the lunch box in Shiro Arashi's hand, and then he looked as if he had suddenly realized something, "So, Shiro ran to the fourth floor, where first-year students are basically unlikely to come, just to avoid the difficult 'pursuers' so that he could have lunch, right?"

Bai Lan thought about it. Although this was not entirely the reason, it seemed similar, so he nodded: "Yes, speaking of which, don't you have to go to lunch?"

"Ah, lunch. I have a bento box prepared in advance." As he spoke, Ichinose took out a bento box from the bag he carried with him, and waved it in front of Bai Lan: "How about we eat while we talk?"

"Okay." Bai Lan nodded.

Afterwards, the two of them took their lunch boxes and sat down on the stairs leading to the rooftop from the fourth floor where almost no one passed by.

Then, Ichinose opened the lunch box and said, "In fact, I noticed a little bit on the first day of school. Bai seems not very good at rejecting other people's kindness, right? Although it's not good to say this about myself, I have always had a lot of suitors. Because I don't want to fall in love, I have studied many ways and techniques of rejection. I still have some experience in this regard.

Do you need me to teach you how to say no?"

After finishing his words, Ichinose picked up the food with his chopsticks and ate his bento while pretending to listen.

After hearing what Ichinose said, Bai Lan felt a little guilty.

Because of the experience of failure gained from Hirata and Horikita, two seemingly "honest" guys.

Again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again.

Although Ichinose seems to be a good person, there are also cases where "good people" mean well but do bad things.

Examples might be: "I'm doing this for your own good" and "He's still just a child."

Therefore, Bai Lan remained vigilant and did not want to expose his "weaknesses" in front of him.

Thinking of this, Bai Lan explained calmly: "Ha, I'm not good at rejecting kindness, that's not the case.

I think I’m quite good at speaking, and what I say usually achieves the effect I want.

So, you don’t need anyone to teach you this, and besides, your style is not the same as mine.

I just hate being involved in useless connections with boring and troublesome things.

Although you can basically avoid subsequent troubles by simply refusing, the act of "refusing" itself is a trouble.

Because, when the options of "yes" and "no" appear in front of you, even if you already have the answer in your mind, even if you don't need to think about it and just need to "confirm the choice", the act of "confirming the choice" itself is already consuming your energy.

Just like the pop-up ads on the Internet, even if you click on them immediately without thinking, you will still find them annoying.

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In my opinion, for people who have no expectations of love, suitors are just small advertisements running into reality.

Moreover, these small advertisements cannot be simply removed by moving the mouse or clicking a cross.

Anyway, it’s annoying, you know?

It's not that I'm bad at saying no, I'm just annoyed by anything that I'm not interested in but runs into my world, so do you understand?"

After saying that, Bai Lan buried his face in the lunch box and quickly devoured one third of the food in the lunch box.

Seeing Bai Lan trying to explain, Ichinose thought for a moment, then nodded and said, "Okay, Bai Lan, I think I understand everything now!"

"Do you really understand?" Bai Lan looked at Ichinose who nodded, and asked uncertainly.

Ichinose still nodded.

However, Bai Lan always felt uneasy, worried that the other party's "understanding" might not be the same as what he wanted.

"Is Ichinose just trying to give me a perfunctory answer? The 'understand' here is similar to 'right, right, right'? Or is he doing the same thing as Horikita did last night, taking advantage of the loopholes in my words and deliberately misinterpreting my meaning?" Shiran couldn't help but think.

However, after thinking about it, Bai Lan shook his head. He felt that Ichinose would not do such a thing.

and many more!

Did he think about Horikita in the same way yesterday, thinking that "Horikita would not do such a thing with her personality"?

The results of it?

Are you embarrassed?

Thinking of this, Bai Lan couldn't help but want to confirm with Ichinose again and again whether the other party's "understanding" was the same as what he explained.

But soon, he gave up the idea.

He felt that there was no need to do so. After all, the request he was about to make to Ichinose had nothing to do with whether he was good at rejecting kindness.

"In short, you know I hate all the troubles that come with love, and I'm even too lazy to spend time and energy to refuse." Bai Lan summarized the previous content in one sentence, and then finished another third of the meal.

"Hmm, well, so, what exactly do you want me to do to help you, Shiro?" Ichinose asked.

Bai Lan stopped eating, swallowed the food in his mouth, and said, "I want you to help me get rid of the bother of my suitors. I have an idea. This idea can easily and once and for all solve the problem of being entangled by suitors. Not only my suitors, but also your suitors."

Ichinose asked curiously, "Oh? Can you take care of my share too? How do you do it specifically?"

Finally, Bai Lan's true intentions were exposed: "Fake couple."

"Fake couple?"

"That's right! If you want to have a relationship, or need to rely on being single to maintain something, then I won't say anything.

When you are not, you are not going to be in a relationship.

And you don't rely on your singleness to control the class. After all, the people who accept your command are not just those adolescent boys.

They believe in you because they believe in your character. Whether you have a boyfriend or not will not shake your influence on the class.

If you don't plan on falling in love and don't need to maintain influence by being 'single', the vacant 'couple' position will do you more harm than good!

In my case, it's pretty much the same.

As long as our 'couple' position remains vacant, others will have legitimate 'reasons' to pursue us.

Those pursuits are just wasting our time and energy and adding trouble to us.

In this case, why don't we just cooperate with each other and ban the 'couple' position.

This way, others will have no legitimate reason to pursue us, and we can save a lot of time and energy on saying no.

It's a win-win!