Chapter 16: Just a Pride

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Today’s day had gone well, and Natsuki Arai had managed to get Keiko Hayakawa’s favorability towards her to 8 points, and it was only a matter of time before she broke into double digits.

From start to finish it even felt like it elevated faster than when she was with Rina, and after getting acquainted, she realized that she was actually quite a thoughtful girl, just that she didn’t have much interpersonal interaction on weekdays because of her personality issues and her rather rustic dress.

By the end of the night.

After Aoi Natsuki and Rina’s meal, they continued to focus on watching the dramas, and Rina, being an eight year old, naturally enjoyed watching them, and every now and then, she would say something on her writing pad, actively discussing it with him.

And what I’m watching today happens to be a fandango called Hanamaru Kindergarten, which is about a couple of little girls who have a funny thing going on at their school.

It’s hard not to think more about it.

Leigh that eight years old naturally wasn’t in kindergarten, she should have been in second grade at least.

But if he really wants to go to school, it involves the issue of household registration, this point Aoi Natsuki does not have any solution for the time being, he himself is still only sixteen years old, and in the case of adoption, only his parents’ side has the right to do so.

As well as Lena’s own particular situation, not being able to speak, then going to a general elementary school will be ostracized by classmates, not making friends, or not being able to bring up a problem in the first place, which are all difficulties that need to be overcome.

Natsuki Aoi pursed her lips, her consciousness unable to stop wandering.

Averting her head, she glanced at Leena who was mesmerized by the interesting school events happening on the TV, and could tell she was eager to go through them and meet more friends as well.

For a moment, inexplicably, there was some heartache.

He raised his hand and stroked her little head.

Lina scrunched her neck slightly, and when she turned her head immediately afterward, it was a bright smile that she flashed at him, lifting her hands and stroking the backs of them gently, which in turn seemed to be comforting.

And then shifted and leaned his body against his arm and continued to watch the TV.

Lena is really a very good boy.

It’s every child’s right to aspire for what they want, and everyone deserves their own memorable childhood.

On this point, Natsuki Aoi needs to do some research.

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Ten o’clock at night.

Natsuki Arai received a message from Keiko Hayakawa.

It was just some very common Tropicana-type questions, and it looked like he just wanted to talk to him a little longer.

This he was naturally very pleased to see, the two have been talking for an hour and a half, a man and a woman chatting just feel that time will pass very quickly, but the more you talk the less sleepy, do not realize that it is very late.

The conversation between the two was almost over.

There was also a 10-point increase in favorability.

Now comes the 18th hour.

Just when he thought it was going to end, the other man seemed to start a new topic.

“Actually, I’ve always wondered if the reason I have so few friends could be my grooming… can you give me a little reference?”

Hayakawa actually took it upon himself to pay attention to how he was dressed?

Natsuki Arai seriously considered it and replied, “There might be some reasons for that, so have you thought about changing your hairstyle, Hayakawa?”

After a dozen seconds or so, the other person messaged back.

“What do you think of …… Aoi-san ……”

Well ……

Natsuki Aoi turned on her intracerebral association as well as recalling her special dark green eyes.

But not pretend to understand is not his character, so he spent twenty minutes online to check out the knowledge about hairstyles, a quick glance through the different head shapes and different face shapes with different hairstyles, and even about the length of the features as well as the length of the various positions have been studied, I have to say that this is also a very deep learning ah.

Finally, Natsuki Arai, who is “a little accomplished,” responded:

“Hayakawa your face is relatively small, so with heavy bangs it will look short, why don’t you try showing your forehead, as well as your head is a bit flat, so the current hairstyle will look like your head isn’t very full, I am suggesting that you can do a slightly fluffier curly hair to make your head look fuller, so it should look quite good.”

This time the response was almost half an hour long without movement.

For a moment Aoi Natsuki thought the other man was asleep, and then he too waited for sleepiness to set in, half-asleep, when the other man’s text message came.

He opened it.

“Yes! Thank you very much for your valuable advice! If it’s okay, can you accompany me to the barber store tomorrow after school …… Of course it’s okay if something comes up.”

“No problem, then let’s text tomorrow after school.”

It was a perfect opportunity to increase favorability, and he’d take it with a grain of salt.

He expected that almost after reaching 40 points of goodwill with Hayakawa, he should be able to thus go on to influence Takahashi Midu’s subjective judgment of himself.

I hope this one is going in the right direction.

The two then chatted a bit more before Natsuki Aoi took the initiative to end the conversation, it was too late at this point in the day or they probably wouldn’t even be able to get up in the morning.

How exuberant you can be at night, how remorseful you can be during the day.

This is something that all student parties are well aware of.

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Every other day.

In the senior classroom.

It was recess at this point.

Keiko Hayakawa was standing next to Midu Takahashi’s seat, holding a thermos in her hand.

“Metu, your water.”

Takahashi Midu squinted and glanced at her, her tone a bit unkind, “I’ve been told I don’t have to pour me any more water.”

“That’s okay.” Keiko Hayakawa smirked.

“Don’t do it when I tell you not to, and only do it when I tell you to in the future okay?” Takahashi Midu’s attention was still on the phone screen, but it kept sliding some empty screen.

“Uh-huh.”

Hayakawa Keiko looked in a good mood, and Takahashi Mito had noticed it early on, but getting in the way of her own strange subjective opinion of her, she couldn’t have been more twisted in her mind right now.

In her first year of high school, she had always rejected making friends because of what happened before, plus she always lost her temper randomly, and the people in her class seldom communicated with her, but she was also indifferent to this, no friends, just no friends, anyway, what she once thought was a good friend eventually chose to falsely accuse her, so why should she make friends?

I thought school life would go on like this until Keiko Hayakawa came along.

A nerdy girl with a timid personality came forward to chat with her, hoping to say she’d become her friend.

At first Takahashi Mai had refused to do anything, to keep her away from herself, she’d been asking her to do things for her, as if she were making a servant, she’d done it just so that the other person could hate her and stay away from her, adolescent thoughts were the most contradictory of all, knowing that it was bad, but wanting to go through with it anyway.

But as time grows longer and longer, the always hard-working Hayakawa Keiko has never half a complaint, still actively help her busy, slowly, Takahashi Meidu’s opinion of her has also substantially changed, and eventually no longer make her help themselves.

By now, Takahashi Midu was used to having such a person by her side, but the little stubbornness in her heart would occasionally treat her badly, but her heart always became apprehensive after that, eyes not looking but ears quietly listening to what the other person’s reaction would be.

What a tangled mind. That’s probably just girls.

“Why are you so happy today, is it because of something?” Takahashi Mito acted like she was full of concern, but both ears were already perked up.