Chapter 377: 374: Lady Tsukimi Wants to Provide Financial Support
As someone seen as the most well-behaved study princess, Shirakawa Sawahei felt that giving a little preferential treatment to the invisible girl wasn’t something he couldn’t accept.
Unlike the other three troublemakers, Tachibana wouldn’t get cocky when favored, and start pushing boundaries immediately. Sawahei knew this well—after all, the pants-pulling incident from before was the perfect example. If he was too lenient with the whiny monster and the slacking girl, he’d find them crossing boundaries soon enough...
No... No, wait, given their fearless nature, they were already thinking about pulling down pants before, and if they go any further... would they even...
Hiss... That’s terrifying...
Yeah, Little Arrogant and the invisible girl are better... So, you all keep saying I have double standards, but there’s a reason for my double standards!
Do I want to have double standards? I don’t want that, okay!
Comforting himself with such a reason, Shirakawa Sawahei walked around the sports field with the three girls from the Calligraphy Club and the tag-along slacking girl. Even near the end, the sports festival was as lively as ever, with many people along the way greeting them. Some were cute little Ise Yu’s friends from the Light Music Club, helping to pack up equipment or just hanging around.
"Shirakawa... Today during our tug-of-war, my palms almost got blistered," the whiny monster waved her little hand at Shirakawa Sawahei: "Look, it’s all red~"
"Hmm, drink more hot water when you get home."
"???
"Does drinking hot water help my fair little hands recover?"
"No effect."
"Then why are you telling me to drink hot water!"
"I was just worried you’d be thirsty."
The whiny monster angrily said, "Hmph... Shirakawa, you’re too dismissive... If something happens to my hands, you’ll be really busy in the future!"
Shirakawa Sawahei thought for a moment and then asked, "Aren’t I already busy now?"
"I’m talking about the Calligraphy Club’s achievements! If I didn’t help with everything, you’d be in more trouble!"
"Isn’t Tachibana still here?" Shirakawa Sawahei responded calmly.
"Eating off Xiao Mo’s dime! Shirakawa, you’re such a scoundrel..."
"Eating from Tachibana’s dime is being a scoundrel, but eating from yours isn’t?" Shirakawa Sawahei gave her a sidelong glance: "Tsukimi, you’re so double-standard."
"My dime and Xiao Mo’s are obviously different..."
As Tsukimi Sakurazawa started debating with Shirakawa Sawahei about the differences between living off her and living off Miss Tachibana, the other side, Miss Tachibana was already in ’blushing steam girl.jpg’ mode.
Supporting Shirakawa... This... this... Wouldn’t Shirakawa disagree to this?
If, if he agreed...
"Sakurazawa! Stop talking about it, Tachibana is about to combust..." the slacking girl hastily intervened: "Regarding living off someone, I think with Shirakawa’s ability, it’s impossible for him to end up like that..."
Shirakawa Sawahei gave the slacking girl a strange look, thinking it’s surprising she’s backing me... Could it be that during her past manga hiatus crisis, her brain got fried from the deadlines?
Hmm... Come to think of it, Ise Yu has indeed been acting a bit weird lately... Perhaps her brain really did get fried...
Black Hearted Lolita also chimed in: "I agree, Shirakawa is the top of the year now, going for a medical or law degree shouldn’t be difficult, right? It’s impossible for someone to support him in the future... Unless the girl is super rich."
Or unless that girl is named Asano Nazuki. Black Hearted Lolita silently added in her heart...
Hmph? Living off someone? Of course, it’d still be this lady’s favor... Tsukimi Sakurazawa and Tachibana Tomoku want to support a pretty boy? Did they ask this lady?
Even if my wealth doesn’t compare to Hayakawa Kashi, that black-hearted woman! Compared to you two, I definitely have an advantage~
Asano Nazuki felt quite smug, but Tsukimi Sakurazawa, hearing the ’super rich’ condition, just nodded thoughtfully.
"Is that so? Then it could be a bit troublesome..."
"Then I’ll go online later and see how much it costs to support a talented medical student~"
"Don’t! Sakurazawa-san! Those silly netizens would definitely reply with things like ’Support me, I’m cheaper,’ completely not seriously answering the question."
"That’s true..."
Shirakawa Sawahei: "..."
"You guys are discussing supporting me right in front of me, do you really think I’m not here?" Shirakawa Sawahei sneered: "I guess you two don’t want the sports festival to be a beautiful memory..."
As expected! The whiny monster and the slacking girl are daring as ever, treat them a little nicely and they’re ready to support someone!
Just the two of you, want to support me?
Keep dreaming!
...
The final moments of the sports festival quietly passed in the strolling of the Calligraphy Club group. Shirakawa Sawahei looked back on recent times and realized that besides the sports festival, the slacking girl’s manga cancellation incident also took up a lot of his time.
Just for helping Ise Yu’s manga through the crisis, Shirakawa Sawahei took two days off. After putting in the most effort, the resolution turned out mysteriously... and he ended up with a quirky cute little Ise Yu.
Now, not only does she snatch up household chores, but her demands aren’t high, either—just pat her head after she’s done or give her a casual compliment, and she’ll be satisfied for a long time... Shirakawa Sawahei initially thought this goof was hoping for something big, like a whole set of Asano Nazuki cosplay photos or something, so he was always on guard until he slowly discovered that perhaps the slacking girl... really had changed a bit...
For instance... In the past, she loved to sleep in, but after the manga crisis passed, now she gets up around the same time every day and waits for him in the bathroom to wash up together...
Shirakawa Sawahei once secretly observed the expression of cute little Ise Yu, and found that aside from some drowsiness on her face, her eyes were exceptionally clear, not at all like the expression of someone up to no good...
If he could accept this suddenly odd cute little Ise Yu, overall, life’s been pretty fulfilling lately...
Hmm, before the sports festival, Little Arrogant’s ploy to film promo videos was unresolved, and who knows what Akihisa High School wants to do...
Shirakawa Sawahei pondered a bit and suddenly realized that after the sports festival, there didn’t seem to be any large school events... Study trips have to wait until senior year...
Oh right, there’s also the forest school.
This means... today’s sports festival might be the last event Shirakawa Sawahei, the slacking girl, and Black Hearted Lolita participate in together in the same class!