Lost Narrative Poetry

It seems that the situation has changed again.

Xia Ran couldn't help but raised her eyebrows slightly, subconsciously thinking whether Yuigahama Yui really went back, or did she say that on purpose?

As for the reason, it's actually easy to understand. Maybe it's because she doesn't want her and Hikigaya Hachiman's world to be disturbed? If this is really the case, then he will be impressed by this girl.

She was so shy and embarrassed before, but even when she said she wanted to help her create opportunities, she acted angry and anxious, as if a cat had its tail stepped on... But when it came to the actual operation, she didn't need anyone else to help her at all. Create an opportunity and just take it herself?

"There is some trouble. Yuigahama-san and the two of them... seem to be having a conflict without our knowledge."

While Xia Ran was thinking wildly, Yukinoshita also ended the call. She put down her arms and said with a frown.

"Huh? What do you mean by having a conflict?"

"That's the literal meaning. I don't know what misunderstanding happened between her and Hikigaya." The girl sighed and said in a cold voice, "Anyway, I heard that her tone sounded sad. It is said that Hikigaya-san has also gone back. Well, the two of them seemed to have broken up on bad terms..."

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So, what is going on?

Isn’t it a normal club activity today? What about the book club you promised? Why are there so many twists and turns? ! Is it because I didn’t look at the almanac when I went out today?

Xia Ran didn't know what to say. He even began to suspect that if he looked at the traditional calendar at this time, the taboos for today must be written like this -

"It is advisable to move, move into a house, pray for blessings, relieve yourself, and chase your sister."

"Avoid traveling, starting work, trading, performing sacrifices, or dating between two people."

It's a pity that he didn't allocate points in the prophecy system, nor did he master the systematic means of divining good and bad luck. Otherwise, at least you can make some preparations in advance.

The two of them stared at each other like this. After a while, Xia Ran said helplessly: "Then what should we do? There is no need to continue this reading club, right?"

The so-called reading club was originally a club activity for Yuigahama Yui, but now even the main owner seems to have no idea what kind of blow he received, and he left the show before it even started...

So, if there are only two of them left, is it necessary to continue this reading club?

Xia Ran and Yukinoshita, one is first in grade, the other is second in grade, one is an extraordinaire, and the other is a real genius... There is no need to use extracurricular tutoring to improve their grades. This is for them. Talking is simply a waste of time.

After all, normal study can reach the progress bar to 100%, so after extracurricular tutoring, the completion rate of the progress bar is still 100%. Anyway, the upper limit will not change dynamically due to this...

"I don't know either, what do you think..."

Yukinoshita had a headache and rubbed the center of her brow, with a distressed look on her face, and then shook her head feebly. She probably felt that today seemed to be particularly unsatisfactory.

——It was as if someone had cursed me. Nothing good happened from beginning to end... Well, maybe except for the guy in front of me. He easily got the contact information of two strange girls. Isn't that a good thing?

Thinking of this, Yukinoshita stared at him displeased.

Xia Ran didn't know what the girl suddenly thought of, and she didn't think it was because of other reasons that she was suddenly stared at like this. Instead, she thought this was normal. If Yukinoshita wasn't cold, would she still be Yukinoshita?

So he just held his chin in contemplation, feeling that it was really not suitable to continue at this time, whether it was a reading club or other activities.

And not to mention the issue of embarrassment or not, now that something like this has happened again, the girl in front of him must not be in that mood, and he himself can't let go of what he just discovered in the underground space of that shopping mall...

Of course, this is the most rational consideration, and people should not be so rational sometimes, otherwise it will give people a feeling of indifference.

"Then... let's find a place to sit down first. As we planned before, we don't have to worry about other things for the time being."

After thinking quickly, Xia Ran spoke calmly.

"Or you can first ask what happened to Yuigahama-san. To be honest, it's hard for me to imagine her having conflicts with others, but if the target is Hikigaya, I can't tell who is the cause. On his body."

"What you said makes sense."

Yukinoshita nodded in agreement. Only on this matter, she and Xia Ran had surprisingly consistent views.

Because Yuigahama Yui is such a person, she always regards other people as more important than herself, has a gentle and kind personality, and is good at observing other people's faces, but because of this she often cannot express her thoughts frankly. It seems that he is naturally stupid, but in fact he often hides his thoughts deeply. To some extent, natural stupidity is a cloak put on to fit into the current group.

It is precisely because she is very good at catering to others and understands the complexity of interpersonal relationships. In order to protect herself and maintain corresponding friendships, she unconsciously acts based on other people's faces... Therefore, it is difficult to imagine that this girl would take the initiative to interact with others. Others are having conflicts.

If it really happened, then there is no doubt that the source is definitely because of the person opposite!

It should have been like this, but this time the target was Hikigaya Hachiman, which made people feel that there was a paradox in this law... After all, Hikigaya Hachiman's rotting dead fish-eyes didn't want to take the initiative to interact with the outside world. Contacted.

Is it really possible for a guy who often isolates himself to actively provoke others?

"Then you should call Hikigaya-san and find out what happened."

Yukinoshita thought about it silently, and did not raise any objections to Xia Ran's suggestion. She just sighed and said this, intending that the two of them should divide the work and cooperate to figure out what was going on as quickly as possible.

"Well, let's forget it... I don't have Hikigaya-san's contact information." Xia Ran thought for a while and confidently rejected such a proposal.

"You don't have his contact information? Are you still friends?" It felt like she had heard something incredible. The girl looked at him in shock.

"Hey, Hikigaya and I are already friends?" The young man seemed to be more shocked by this statement than she was.

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Five minutes later.

Because this time there was no need to consider the problems that the other two companions were going to find, so based on the basic principle of staying away from Yukinoshita Yukino's sister Yukinoshita Harano, the two of them stayed away from the shopping mall.

Instead of going back to the previous McDonald's, I randomly found an ordinary cafeteria and prepared to sit down and eat something to spend the morning -

I didn't eat anything at McDonald's before, and I didn't even have time to take a sip of the drink. I had to retreat in a hurry because I encountered an elite monster.

——And figure out what happened to Hikigaya Hachiman and Yuigahama Yui.

"Classmate Xia Ran, wait..."

"Well, what's wrong?"

Xia Ran found Yukinoshita standing in front of the beverage machine, looking at or examining the machine seriously. Fortunately, the machine was a machine after all. Otherwise, she would probably have been under the sharp gaze of Miss Yukinoshita. Shivering.

As for herself, she was holding a brand new plastic cup in her right hand and holding it tightly with her left hand for some reason.

"Well, Yukinoshita-san, was it you who called me just now?" Xia Ran was a little unsure.

"I want to ask...where do you put the coins into this machine?" Yukinoshita said in a low voice without looking at him, but still looking at the drink machine with a careful look.

"...Are you kidding?" Xia Ran suspected that she heard wrongly.

What a classy family she comes from! Could it be that as long as the service is not like the previous McDonald's service, where the food and drinks are directly prepared and handed over to the guests, but the self-service provided by this ordinary restaurant...

She doesn't know what to do? Could it be that you really haven't seen it before, and it's just because of the nature of this event that it's close to meeting friends, that you come into contact with such a civilian... thing?

"What are you kidding me about?" The girl turned to look at him, her pretty brows furrowed.

"I'll do it..." Xia Ran reached out to her and wanted to take the cup in her hand. It seemed that Miss Yukinoshita had never come into contact with such a common thing.

Looking at his outstretched palm, after a moment of hesitation, Yukinoshita put his clenched fist up and gently stretched it. A coin with the girl's slight body temperature fell into Xia Ran's palm.

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Xia Ran looked at the 500 yen coin in his palm, then clenched it expressionlessly. When he opened it again, the coin had disappeared, as if by magic——

"That's not it, I mean the cup."

Yukinoshita glanced at his palm with curiosity, but did not ask where the coin went, but handed over the cup in the other hand.

Then, she watched from the side as Xia Ran pressed the button and the hot drink filled the cup directly. She said softly: "I see..." It made people break out in a cold sweat. This was no longer natural.

After loading up the drinks they wanted to drink, the two returned to their seats.

Yukinoshita thought about it, lowered her head to edit an email on her phone, and planned to send it to Yuigahama Yui. She had seriously considered it. Yuigahama-san seemed sad just now and was just forcing a smile to talk to her.

It would not be appropriate to call now, and text communication is more convenient. You can speak in more detail, and you can repeatedly consider and modify it when editing, leaving a lot of room for both parties.

As for Xia Ran, he didn't do anything. He just lowered his head and seemed to be playing with his mobile phone... He didn't really care about anything. Instead, he searched online for various supernatural and mysterious events in Chiba, focusing on the shopping mall just now. into the search.

In such a developed information age, many things cannot be hidden, especially if serious problems occur frequently...

But the result was nothing. The shopping mall seemed to be very normal, and nothing strange had happened before... In this case, Xia Ran could not come up with many explanations.

Either that thing is constantly moving and has just arrived at that shopping mall in the past few days... or that thing is really harmless to humans and animals and has never been attacked by ordinary people. It's just that he, an equally unscientific person, approached it. That's what caused that thing's stress response...

Maybe you can let the dog go and take a look now?

After all, the distance is very close, just a few streets away, so he doesn't have to take the tram alone tonight to investigate the situation... and the distance between them is too far, and the spiritual chain cannot be stretched so long.

At that time, there is no way to directly control the actions of the demon pet. You can only rely on the preset program and the certain wisdom given to it to let it act alone. Only if Xia Ran can come back safely afterwards will he know what happened. What.

He did what he said and glanced at Yukinoshita opposite, who was frowning and thinking hard. The air next to Xia Ran was distorted in a very obscure way, as if something completely transparent appeared directly, and then he ran out of the store in a hurry.

Even if you stare directly, it will take a while for the average person to be able to see some outlines, so this is almost the same as being invisible. Although this kind of invisibility is a trick, it is enough that ordinary people cannot see it.

Anyway, it was not until today that he confirmed that there were indeed some mysterious and unique factors in his world, but it was impossible to say that he would meet an extraordinary person all at once... This is what Xia Ran thought.

"Huh? Whose shikigami is this?"

The surprised voice came from the soul chain through the demon pet's hearing.

In an instant, Xia Ran and the summoned dog froze at the same time... What the hell? I didn’t say it out loud. Is this setting a flag?

Under Xia Ran's subconscious control, the latter turned around and saw a man with long green hair and a snake and frog hair ornament appearing on the street in front of him. His hair was twisted into a strand on the left side with a white snake. A girl with a frog-shaped hairpin at the root of her hair.

And she was wearing what should be a miko costume, with a white upper body and a blue skirt on the lower body.

Seemingly catching the subtle mysterious connection in an instant, the girl turned her head in surprise and looked directly into the restaurant next to her. Her eyes immediately met someone's...