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"It sounds like you have a clear understanding of Hikigaya's true nature."
"It's quite rare to find someone as awkward as him..."
"Yes, that's why I..." Hiratsuka Shizuka wanted to discuss this issue with Ling Wuji in depth, but soon remembered the purpose of her visit to him and said, "Well, I'm getting off topic. Why is Yukinoshita's attitude towards you so strange?"
"Oh, because her sister recently became my employee."
"Employee? Wait, what's going on? How could she, the eldest daughter of the Yukinoshita family, become your employee? Did you use some shady means?"
"For example?"
Ling Wu Ji asked Hiratsuka Shizuka out of curiosity, wanting to hear from her how normal people imagined those methods.
"Anyway...anyway, what's going on?"
"It's too much trouble to explain. Just think that she became my employee just to get in touch with the eldest daughter of the Gongfuyuan family."
"The eldest daughter of the Gongfuyuan family?"
"She is my...friend." Ling Wu Ji said a little uncomfortably.
Shizuka Hiratsuka immediately looked the boy up and down. She never thought that the boy's casual joke was actually true. But even so, she still found it hard to imagine that her favorite student would become an employee of this boy who was only a high school student. She wanted to dig out more details from him: "What job does Haruno do under you? Secretary? Or are you actually the son of the CEO of a multinational company? Has something happened in your family recently so you need someone like Haruno to help?"
Ling Wuji immediately looked at his teacher with a squint: "Teacher, it would be a waste of your talent if you don't write a novel."
"So what's going on?"
"Nothing." Ling Wuji still gave an answer that was not too far-fetched. "I have a cooperative project with the Gongshengyuan Foundation, and I need her to help me deal with things I'm not good at. That's basically it."
Hiratsuka Shizuka's eyes were immediately filled with suspicion, but this young man was always unexpected. Now that he said so, maybe it was true. Besides, she could ask Yukinoshita Haruno for confirmation, and she didn't have to argue with him about this matter. She just said, "But if that's all, Yukinoshita wouldn't have that kind of attitude towards you, right?"
"That's because Yukinoshita Haruno seems to have fallen in love with me."
"puff!"
Shizuka Hiratsuka immediately spat out all the water she had drunk halfway.
PS: Happy National Day? Actually, I am almost desperate about my hellish routine.
Volume 4: Where is Penglai: Chapter 20: Career Considerations and Dedication
Ling Wuji didn't really think that Yukinoshita Haruno, whose mask was as thick as the exoskeleton armor of the IS, really liked him. However, Ling Wuji felt that she was in a dilemma. She might not dare to take off the mask and face his anger. But this would lead to an interesting proposition: if a person has been acting for a lifetime, is she the image she has portrayed? Or is she the image that only she knows in her heart but dares not reveal?
Ling Wuji actually doesn't have such a bad taste.
However, he really found this kind of thing interesting, so he temporarily suppressed his other thoughts and wanted to watch Yukinoshita Haruno's performance.
After hearing what Ling Wuji said, Shizuka Hiratsuka was immediately furious. After coming to her senses, she said to Ling Wuji earnestly, "I say, kid, maybe Yang Noi's attitude towards you has given you some illusions. She is a person who always uses some small tricks to create intimacy in order to get closer to you. Although I know you always feel good about yourself, Yang Noi is really not that kind of person."
"So, teacher, you're saying that she's the type of..."
Ling Wuji was about to blurt out the English word that started with B and ended with H. Shizuka Hiratsuka knew exactly what he was thinking, so she waved her hand and said, "It's not that excessive, but anyway, if you assume that she will like you without authorization, the result may not satisfy you."
"Teacher, your opinion is very valuable for reference, but whether she really likes me or not, and whether I think so or not, is actually not important. Anyway, I have no interest in it for the time being," Ling Wuji said, "It's just that the problem seems to be that Yukinoshita thinks her sister likes me, so her attitude towards me is so strange."
Hiratsuka Shizuka was suddenly speechless.
Although Yukinoshita Haruno is her favorite student, and she knows some of her favorite student's hidden thoughts, Yukinoshita Yukino is the sister who lives with Haruno day and night. Although she has moved out temporarily, it is hard to say that Yukinoshita Yukino is not clear whether her sister is just playing around...
not always.
After all, she was indeed deliberately plotted by Yukinoshita Haruno for many years.
But at this point, things seem to have become an unsolvable knot.
"Besides, teacher, why do you care about this?"
"How can a teacher not care about a student's bad relationship?"
"In my opinion, this is the norm, right? Especially in the Japanese education sector, not to mention that she and I are not classmates, but members of the same club," Ling Wuji disagreed with Hiratsuka Shizuka's words, and just said, "Isn't it normal for a member of a club to have a conflict with another member? Besides, her family conflict has been resolved now. The only thing left seems to be whether she can get out of the shadow of her childhood?"
"But weren't you the one who pushed her into this situation?"
"It's not my business!"
Ling Wu Ji felt that Hiratsuka Shizuka was just looking for trouble.
She wanted herself to help her solve the family problems. Although she wanted me to help her run for the student union president, Ling Wuji had already helped her solve the problem of Yukinoshita Haruno, and Yukinoshita Haruno had persuaded her parents. No matter how you look at it, he had done a good enough. He had not started any student movement or anything like that, and had limited the scope of solving the problems to a few people. Just for this reason, Shizuka Hiratsuka should give him a banner!
"I think it's better to give you a warning!"
Hiratsuka Shizuka was so angry that she said.
"In short, the problem with that person is that she puts pressure on herself. She is simply too competitive," Ling Wuji said. "In my opinion, you should let her find a normal, stupid, but simple friend instead of coming to me."
"why?"
"what why?"
"I mean, the standard of the friend that person you mentioned asked her to go to."
"You see, she is so competitive that she must find a friend who is a little stupid so that she can always maintain her advantage over that friend. If ordinary people have such a friend, they will be a little jealous, but simple people will only admire her. Finally, she has been so self-important for too long. It's time for her to find a normal person as a friend so that she can see how normal people think."
Hiratsuka Shizuka nodded repeatedly and said, "I didn't expect a kid like you to know all this. You might be a good teacher in the future. I suggest you choose education as your major."
Ling Wuji sighed and said, "I am not as warm-hearted as you, teacher, and I am not as patient as you, teacher, and I will communicate carefully with students to find out their problems. For me, teachers, doctors and lawyers are the professions I least want to choose."
"You've killed off the few professions in Japan that can be called 'Mr.'," Hiratsuka Shizuya knew that Ling Wuji was the kind of person who didn't care about social status at all, so she said, "Then what about politicians?"
Ling Wu Ji immediately looked at her with a very strange look.
"how?"
"Weren't you the one who said that I would never be elected as the student union president?"
"You can also go after you return home..."
"Let's not talk about the fact that China doesn't have an election system like yours that separates bureaucrats from politicians. Those who can be called politicians are basically old bureaucrats with many years of experience. As for my personal problem, my experience as an overseas student in my teenage years alone is likely to prevent me from passing the civil service review."
Hiratsuka Shizuka asked, "Is it that strict?"
"It's not that you won't be able to pass the test if you have that experience, but it depends on who you come into contact with, but..."
Ling Wuji examined his interpersonal relationships after coming to Japan. The ones he was relatively close to were bourgeois ladies like Arisa Kouin and Fujino Asagami. As for people like Awashima Yerri, their apparent identity was just Japanese bureaucrats!
He immediately shook his head, put these questions behind him, and said, "Anyway, you don't need to worry about my personal future. It will definitely not be a political career."
Seeing this, Hiratsuka Shizuka could only nod.
At the same time, she was thinking about Ling Wuji's suggestion and was also prepared to bring a normal person into the club to liven up the atmosphere of the club.
……
Ling Wu Ji didn't go to the club afterwards and just ran away from school.
But outside the school gate, a slender figure seemed to have been waiting for a long time.
"It's you?"
When Ling Wuji saw the man's figure from afar, he frowned and immediately spoke.
"Nice to meet you, Your Excellency Ling Wuji."
Liliana said respectfully.
"looking for me?"
Ling Wuji was about to go back to pack up and rush to Romania. He really didn't want to talk nonsense with irrelevant people. Although if he said that, Shizuka Hiratsuka could be regarded as an irrelevant person, but he had always subconsciously separated himself from the mysterious side and seldom took the initiative to expand his social circle in the mysterious side. On the one hand, it was the sequelae brought by the cult, and on the other hand, it was because his current identity was too troublesome, so he was too lazy to deal with those things.
"I would like to join your service, what do you think?"
Even though Liliana had little contact with Ling Wuji, she had many guesses about Ling Wuji's nature and felt that he might not be patient enough to dwell on such matters, so she spoke directly.
Ling Wuji immediately frowned and said, "I remember that you were a minister of Vauban, right?"
"Yes, but I don't like his style, so..."
"So, if you don't like the way I act, you'll do the same with him?"
Liliana took a deep breath and said, "That's right! I heard that there is an old saying in your country, 'A good bird chooses a tree to inhabit, and a wise minister chooses a master to serve'..."
IV⑥VII
"Don't get me wrong, I don't have any opinion on your style. After all, we are in a modern society, and I don't want to engage in feudal blind loyalty of lifelong employment," Ling Wuji waved his hand and said, "We have reached a consensus on this point. Anyway, I don't like that old man very much. However, I am not accepted by everyone. You want to serve under me. What do you want from me? And what can you give?"
"Get...what?"
"Why, do you also want to work for me for free for twenty years like someone else?" Ling Wuji said in surprise, "Isn't that right? I can pay you secular money as salary according to the rules of secular society, but you don't seem like someone who would lack that kind of thing, right?"
Liliana Kranichal certainly hadn't thought about that question.
In her opinion, it is only natural for a magician to be loyal to a godslayer and devote herself to them, and she will naturally gain the fame and honor she deserves in the process of devoting herself. This is the "chivalry" she pursues.
But Ling Wuji himself is certainly not a godslayer.
This rule does not apply to Ling Wu Ji.
Moreover, judging from Ling Wuzhi's style of doing things, he is not like a god killer who would easily make earth-shattering news. He rarely takes the initiative to start wars with outsiders. Even if a war occurs, he can handle it calmly and will not necessarily leave the matter to his subordinates to solve.
But in this case, what kind of reward should she ask for from Ling Wuji?
While she was hesitating, Ling Wuji had already turned around and walked towards his home: "If you haven't thought it through yet, think it through first."
Liliana immediately turned around, stood in front of the young man, and said word by word: "All I want is honor, but those are just irrelevant issues. Your Excellency, do you want to go to Romania to participate in the Holy Grail War next?"
"how?"
"Please take me with you, sir."
Ling Wuji immediately looked the girl up and down, then shook his head: From the perspective of martial arts, she is just a congenital one. Although he is not unable to take care of her now, he is unfamiliar with Romania. He has only met this person once, and now she comes to him and says she wants to join him. What if she is an undercover sent by Vauban and stabs him in the back at a critical moment?
Although he is not afraid, it is disgusting, okay?
"I heard that you are an expert in spiritual magic. You should be able to tell the truth from my words, right?"
The silver-haired girl suddenly said.
"But even if you are really well, there is no need for me to take you there, right?"
Ling Wu Ji just said.
The silver-haired girl suddenly took a deep breath and said, "Your Excellency guided Vauban to participate in the Holy Grail War in order to reduce the number of God Slayers in this world, right?"
"Weren't you there?"
"So, your manipulation of the secular company to develop that game was also based on your hostility towards the God of Disobedience?"
"You might as well think so."