Zongman: Unknowingly trapped in the hatchet

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"Just open it and you'll know. Besides, didn't you eat the cookies she made last week?"

Su Qing gave Hikigaya a harmless smile.

Maybe he believed Su Qing's words, or maybe he was driven by curiosity.

In short, Hikigaya opened the paper bag carefully, as if opening a forbidden Pandora's box.

“It looks unexpectedly good.”

After seeing the real thing, he couldn't help but exclaim.

In fact, it’s more than just appearance.

The moment it was opened, Hikigaya, who was closest to it, could feel the faint fragrance the most.

After gently pinching a piece of pastry from it, Hikigaya's throat twitched subconsciously.

[Oh no, it looks really delicious...]

honestly.

He was feeling a little depressed this weekend because of Su Qing's matter.

Last night I tossed and turned until one or two in the morning before I fell asleep.

Today, I don’t know what was going on in my mind, but I came to school much earlier than usual and didn’t even have the mood to eat breakfast.

Now...I'm a little hungry.

"It's not a real thing that only looks good but is not useful."

After eating a piece of cake, Hikigaya praised again.

Many businesses nowadays ignore the taste of the food itself and blindly pursue gorgeous appearance or plating, simply treating consumers as fools!

As for why Hikigaya knew so much, it all started when he bought a cake for his sister...

"Okay."

As Su Qing said, there is still room for improvement.

"Don't give me that... I'm not praising you, don't you know what you have done?"

Hikigaya gritted his teeth in anger when he thought of the first time he teamed up with Su Qing in cooking class.

I originally wanted to find someone to hold on to, but I almost encountered the crisis of failing the home economics class.

If they hadn't met the little angel Caijia...I'm afraid they would really have to do as Su Qing said and get a spoonful of food from each group as their own cooking homework.

It's a pity that Su Qing could come up with this method...

"So what? I didn't ask you to eat it."

Su Qing shrugged, clearly showing an indifferent attitude.

"Tsk... Even dogs wouldn't eat the stuff you made." Hikigaya sneered, "By the way... Yuigahama's cooking skills have really improved a lot..."

After saying that, he took out another piece of cake from the paper bag and put it into his mouth.

Anyway, it was Su Qing who asked him if he wanted to eat, but did the other party have anything to eat?

What does it have to do with him!

He knew the relationship between Yuigahama and Su Qing best.

Judging from his experience, Yuigahama improved her cooking skills most likely for the guy in front of her.

By the way, why aren't these two guys together yet?

Is it because of the differences between students on the mainland and on the islands?

Somehow, when I thought of this.

Hikigaya suddenly felt that eating a few more pieces of Su Qing's cakes wouldn't actually cause him any harm...

"Well...that kid really works hard."

[Child? Weird... Did they confuse the meaning of the island language words?]

[Why do friends use such strange names?]

[Is this the reason why they haven't been together yet? It shouldn't be...right?]

After noticing Su Qing's choice of words, Hikigaya inevitably frowned, and at the same time a lot of doubts surged in his mind, but at this moment there was destined to be no one to answer his questions.

Speaking of Yui, Su Qing turned back to look at her seat for no reason.

All that could be seen was the girl's straight back and a pen that kept shaking - she seemed to be writing something.

Maybe it's because of my feelings.

Yui also turned her head and looked over.

After finding out it was Su Qing, Yui's face instantly blossomed into a sweet smile, and she proudly picked up the book on her desk - it was an English vocabulary book.

So she should be memorizing words.

Su Qing smiled helplessly at Yui, turned his head back and added softly:

"Unexpected... hard work."

"Well, I understand."

A man who has taken advantage of someone's kindness will be held responsible.

There was still some residual warmth from the pastry on Hikigaya's hands - so Yuigahama must have made it this morning, right?

In short, he felt obligated to say something on behalf of the owner of the pastry at this moment.

"Understand what?" Su Qing asked.

"Uh... I just feel inferior, maybe." Observing the changes in Su Qing's expression, Hikigaya continued.

"Look, you and Yukinoshita are both so outstanding, right? From what I've observed, in fact, Yuigahama's best relationship among the sophomores is between you and Yukinoshita, even surpassing Ebina and Miura. Anyway...it's normal for her to want to improve more or less due to the influence of you guys."

[Stupid, how can you want to improve just because of something like this?]

[That guy is most likely doing this for you... It's like the old-fashioned plot in a melodramatic light novel where the poor male protagonist chases the excellent female protagonist and works hard]

[Even if you don’t read light novels, you’re so smart, you should know what I’m talking about, right?]

This time I'm not the only one placing expectations on you!

"Actually...I know all of this. It's just that you are wrong about one thing." Su Qing said lightly.

"Which point?"

"She is not inferior. At least, I don't smell that smell." Su Qing put away his smile and spoke seriously.

[Are you a dog? Why do you say "smell"? In this case, you should say "feel"]

Considering that Su Qing had used the word "child" not long ago, Hikigaya simply thought that the other party had remembered the meaning of the local word incorrectly and had no intention of reminding him.

Anyway, maybe I just didn’t wake up today.

But for some reason, when Su Qing didn't show that usual faint smile, Hikigaya always had a feeling - although they were very close, the distance between them was still far.

Just like that day, Su Qing said that everything would be clear during the school trip.

Su Qing seemed to be hiding something from him, or rather, it was not just him, but also Yuigahama, Yukinoshita and the others.

No matter how close someone is to you, there are always things you don't want to talk about.

How could Hikigaya not understand?

just.

When something like this happened to him, he couldn't help it...

"sorry."

The familiar yet unfamiliar voice brought Hikigaya back to his senses.

[Hey, why doesn’t this sound like what I said?]

[By the way, did I move my mouth just now?]

"It was indeed my fault that day. I shouldn't have discussed it with Caijia alone. I should have discussed it with you in advance."

Every time Su Qing uttered a word, Hikigaya's heart seemed to be shaken by something.

"Why... apologize?"

Hikigaya was startled, his body trembling slightly.

"If you do something wrong, you should apologize, right?"

[Who said that...]

"I should be the one to apologize, right? I spoke to you in that tone that day, even though we all knew it was just a joke, and we were all men..."

Hikigaya clenched his fists and tried his best to organize his words to refute quickly, but Su Qing suddenly made a gesture to keep quiet.

"It's just a joke or whatever. I just hope we can still be friends."

"friend?"

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