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She had no interest in listening any further, so she took the form handed to her by Shiina, looked at her pretty face, and began to ponder.
"Shiina-san, our club is indeed short of members. If you are willing to join, I welcome you, but I have to tell you in advance that club activities will be very tiring."
"It's okay." Shiina Mahiru opened her pink lips. "Even if I don't participate in club activities, my work after returning home won't be easy."
"I see." Yukino nodded in understanding: "How about I give Shiina-san an accurate answer after I discuss it with the other members?"
Shiina Mahiru glanced at Natsume and was very confident that she could join, so she stood up, holding the newly issued school uniform, nodded slightly to the two of them, and left the activity room.
"What do you think? Shiina-san is a suitable candidate, and we do need to recruit new people. You have a good relationship with her." Yukino talked about her strengths.
In the past, she was worried about the appearance of the girls she recruited. Even though Yukino was confident, she was not arrogant. Although she still felt that she was prettier than Shiina, she no longer had an overwhelming advantage.
"It's indeed a good fit." Natsume agreed, "And Shiina-san also likes to help others, which is indeed in line with the purpose of our club."
Natsume deeply understands a truth: if you want to say something bad about someone, the worst way is to slander the other person without any scruples.
He didn't want Shiina Mahiru to join the club, because that would make his attempts to keep a distance go in vain, but if he pushed too hard Yukino would become suspicious.
"It's just that the head coach has just transferred here. She needs to spend a lot of time to get familiar with the new place. She has few opportunities to participate in club activities. The campus festival is coming soon. I'm worried that she won't be able to fit in."
I quietly raised my concerns, without saying anything bad about Shiina-san, but just based on the actual situation.
"The most important point is that although Shiina-san has a good personality, he is terrible at making friends. I think it is enough to have only one student of this type in the club."
Yukino squinted her eyes, and deftly turned the tip of the pen with her fingers. Looking at Natsume's sincere face, she couldn't help but laugh.
"Are you worried about her joining?"
"According to your personality, you should have just introduced the situation and that would have been all. But you actually talked so much and repeated it twice at the end, implying that she was not suitable to join the club."
"Although I don't know what you are worried about, but out of instinct, the chief has decided that Shiina-san will be our third member!"
Chapter 70 You actually betrayed our Pure Male God Cult!
"Yukinoshita, are you sick?" Natsume Rin couldn't help but say after hearing her understanding.
There is no director who would change his mind in order to make things difficult for the club members!
It seems that the inheritance of the Yukinoshita family is not just paranoia, but also a strange characteristic that is hard to understand.
"You're in a hurry. My guess is correct." Looking at his glaring expression, Yukino made a calm judgment.
"...How is that possible? I can't control the minister anyway."
Natsume was worried that if they continued talking, it would no longer be a matter of urgency.
"So honestly admit your relationship with your new classmate. Could it be that you are owed a debt of love from the past?" Yukino guessed and stood up.
"Don't worry, when that innocent debt of love comes to you, you will be absolutely dumbfounded."
"Ah, ha, I don't believe it." A standard sarcastic smile appeared on Yukino's face, especially when she looked down at others, which would make people feel particularly uncomfortable.
Natsume also sneered in his heart. When the day comes when he is really discovered, he wants to see whether Yukino calls him brother or brother-in-law.
Laugh, laugh, sooner or later you will cry.
When the time comes, I’ll kick you out of the Yukinoshita family!
After leaving school and returning home, as expected, the hostess who had been away for half a month seemed to have found her place again.
Looking at the busy figures in the kitchen, Natsume put down his schoolbag.
"Shiina..."
"Natsume is back? Do you want to try the new dish I learned?" Shiina Mahiru poked her head out of the kitchen with a spoon filled with soup in her hand.
Looking at her cheerful appearance, Natsume, who was planning to end their dining partner life with her, opened his mouth, but the words that came out had a different taste.
"The minister has agreed to your joining the society."
Damn it, he still couldn't resist the temptation of a beautiful girl cooking...
He is guilty!
"Isn't this normal? After all, you're in there too, Natsume. Yukinoshita-san should ask for your opinion." Mahiru was not surprised. After letting him try the new soup he had learned to make, she returned to the kitchen and continued to work.
The idea is not wrong, but if she knew that it was because he opposed joining the club that Yukino urgently asked her to join, what kind of expression would she have?
"But Yukinoshita-san is very pretty. No wonder you, Natsume, always follow her to club activities during the summer vacation."
she asked casually in the kitchen.
Natsume smelled jealousy, mixed with a strong hint of vinegar.
Girls, especially high school girls, are so scary.
"Because my relationship with Yukinoshita-san is very complicated." Natsume mused.
"Ok?"
She took off the apron around her waist, brought the last dish and rice to the table, sat on the ground and looked at Natsume with some surprise.
Perhaps I didn't expect that just asking casually could actually yield some results.
"I used to live with my relatives, Yukinoshita's family. According to our original situation, we should be cousins, but since we grew up together, we are not much different from siblings. It's just that I won't call my aunt mother."
Mahiru's eyes softened, and any slight hint of wariness he had was gone.
Can this be said to be motherhood suppressing women's hunting instinct?
She stretched out her warm hands and grasped Natsume, showing a rare display of genuine affection.
"Natsume-san..."
"Ah?" Natsume Rin sensed something was wrong.
He was just speaking the truth, but did he find something wrong with Shiina?
Shiina Mahiru, with an angelic maternal glow on her face, held Natsume's hand tightly and said firmly: "Although I am not Natsume's relative, I hope to become a member closer than a relative in the future."
Some people will laugh at people who are more miserable than themselves because of their own tragic experiences, and thus gain a little insignificant sense of satisfaction.
Some people will sympathize with those who are more miserable, because it is because they have experienced that kind of pain that they can understand the pain of others.
Shiina Mahiru is obviously the latter type of person.
Having experienced a childhood of discord between her parents, she has great empathy for Natsume, who lost both his parents.
Natsume Rin was confused by her words which could be regarded as a confession, but for a member who was closer than family members, he really had some strange thoughts.
"Mom..." he asked tentatively.
"Puchi." Mahiru, who was still immersed in strong emotions, was so angry at his nonsensical name that she laughed out loud. After she came to her senses, she picked up the pillow on the bed, covered Natsume's head with it, and muttered hatefully.
"I told you to call me mom, I told you to call me mom! Do I look that old? And what on earth is your brain made of, Natsume? How can you call someone your own age mom?"
"Oh, hurry up and get out of here..."
Haha, stupid Shiina Mahiru. There are many people like her, not only her peers, but also those who call the elementary school students on the screen "Mom".
"Don't call me like that anymore, I'll be angry." After letting him go, Mahiru looked at his handsome face which was a mess because of the mess she had made. She felt angry and amused at the same time, so she helped him to tidy up his hair.
Feeling her gentle movements, Natsume no longer jumped, but he always felt that there was nothing wrong with that title.
The way Shiina Mahiru behaves is definitely not the way normal people of the same age should interact with each other.
"I can't help myself."
After glaring at the grinning man, Mahiru withdrew his hand angrily and sat back in his seat.
Rather than being a difficult mother, she would rather Natsume Rin call her Mahiru.
Just looking at the current situation, it will take a long time before he shouts out.
The next day, Natsume Rin showed up at school looking lifeless again, and Totsuka, who usually sat behind him and chatted with him, borrowed the front seat today and complained to him.
"Just because of a new classmate, Natsume, you treat me like this!"
"...Don't act like a nagging woman. I'll accompany you to study." Natsume yawned.
Last night Shiina Mahiru was really like a curious baby, asking a lot of unnecessary questions, and in the end I almost slept in his house again.
"Hey, don't think of me as someone who would betray his principles just for a little benefit!" Totsuka protested quietly, and after seeing that no one in the circle paid attention to them, he added a few more words: "But your help in studying is still effective. I feel that my grades have improved significantly."
"Are the results out today?"
"Well, probably during the break."
They chatted for a while, and other classmates came in one after another. When they saw Shiina and Natsume Rin yawning in exactly the same motion, Totsuka Ayaka's eyes became strange.
Although I've long realized that they might be having an affair, there's no need for you to be so obvious!
"Natsume, you actually betrayed our Pure Boys' Cult!"
First, he had definitely never joined a sect whose name sounded ridiculous.
Second, he really doesn’t seem to be a pure boy anymore…
Chapter 71: Yeah, the ultimate humiliation for you!
Following the ringing of the bell, Hiratsuka-sensei walked in with a very happy expression on her face. Natsume guessed that either her blind date was a success or her salary had increased.
But can her blind dating career really succeed?
Natsume has no hope for this, so there is only one answer.
You are obviously a rich woman, can't you have a little awareness and not be swayed by money?
Shizuka Hiratsuka looked around the classroom and was very satisfied with the quiet learning situation. When she saw Natsume in a daze, she would have walked over to remind him in the past, but today she mercifully chose to ignore him.
After class, she gently reminded that the grades were posted and that students who were interested could go to the hallway to check.
Looking at the crowd gradually gathering in the corridor, Natsume pinched his chin and began to count.
"1, 2, 3... Totsuka you're slowing down!"
It took several seconds longer than usual for Totsuka Ayaka to squeeze out from the crowd and report her ranking as expected.
"Natsume, you're first again this time."
As expected, he knew that he would not lose, but unfortunately Yukino sensed the bad atmosphere in advance and tried to find an excuse to avoid punishment.
"But there is someone with the same score as you, that's your rumored girlfriend, Minister Yukinoshita."