Chapter 34: You are so.... Cute
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Although this dormitory room looks quite small, it has everything you need: air conditioning, a bed, a desk, a bookcase, chairs, window curtains, a stove, a bathroom, a washing machine...
And the furniture looks new, not old.
Rin Matsuoka placed the backpack he was carrying on the desk in the room, while the chubby Shiina Hiyori pointed to the only chair in the room.
"Rin-san, please sit down and help me register for LINE."
"Okay."
Following the host's wishes, Rin sat down on the chair without hesitation. As Shiina Hiyori took out her cell phone, Rin casually asked, "Shiina, which step do you need help with?"
"Um..." Shiina Hiyori replied, a bit embarrassed, "I can't find the LINE app."
Rin's mouth twitched.
This isn't a matter of not knowing what to do; you haven't even found the app yet!
And really, Shiina, you just spent more than three minutes and still couldn't find the LINE app on your phone?
You are so... cute.
This is one of those times where cuteness makes up for everything. When a pretty girl does something like this, it's seen as adorable, while if it were an unattractive girl, it might be seen as frustrating.
The same goes for her not understanding cell phones. Rin just found Shiina Hiyori's confusion cute; he didn't think of her as some primitive person who couldn't handle technology!
Actually, this can't be entirely blamed on Shiina Hiyori.
The school provides students with special mobile phones that come preloaded with a lot of software. If a student isn't very familiar with smartphones, it can take some time to figure things out.
"Please, Rin-san."
"Sure."
Rin took the phone from Shiina Hiyori's hand. With his help, Shiina successfully registered a LINE account using her student ID and added Rin as a contact.
"Luckily I met Rin-san; otherwise, I don't know if I could have registered a LINE account," Shiina Hiyori said happily, holding her phone with both hands.
"It's not that hard. I'm heading out now. We've already added each other on LINE, so if you need anything in the future, just contact me."
"Okay~ Take care, Rin-san."
Rin, holding the book "Whose Body?" that Shiina had given him, left her dormitory room. The elegant girl personally walked him to the door.
Afterward, Shiina Hiyori stood at the door and watched as Rin opened the door to Room 4.
Rin turned his head to look at Shiina Hiyori. "I'm going in."
"Alright, go ahead."
Shiina Hiyori watched Rin enter Room 4. Only after the door was closed did she turn around and go back to her room.
Looking at the phone in her hand, she whispered, "Rin-san is such a warm-hearted and kind person. I really want to be friends with him."
In truth, because Shiina Hiyori isn't good at communicating with others, she has very few friends.
How few?
So few that she almost has no friends at all.
But Shiina Hiyori is different from Horikita Suzune and Sakura Airi.
Sakura Airi has no friends because she is very shy.
Horikita Suzune has no friends because of her strange and aloof personality.
Shiina Hiyori, on the other hand, is not good at communicating with others and doesn't like to befriend people who have different interests from her.
It was for this reason that, after hearing Rin liked to read, Shiina Hiyori took the initiative to speak to him and actively recommended the famous books she liked.
Rin Matsuoka entered his dormitory room and took a look around. He found that his room was identical to Shiina Hiyori's.
Then, Rin checked the condition of the bed.
"The quilt and mattress cover are very clean, with no dust or stains. You can tell at a glance that they were carefully prepared. The school really cares about its students."
Rin sighed as he lay down on the bed. He picked up the dormitory regulations and flipped through them. Most of the content was basic common sense.
When Rin reached the end of the dormitory regulations, he saw a line that clearly stated: [Students are allowed to date but are prohibited from engaging in relationships that are inconsistent with their status as high school students].
"What does this mean? What do they mean by 'a relationship that is inconsistent with being a high school student'?"
Rin wore a subtle expression, hoping that the meaning of this sentence might be different from what he was imagining.
The underlying meaning of the last sentence of the dormitory regulations seemed to be—
You, a bunch of adolescent students with surging hormones, can date, kiss, hug, and even lift each other up, but there should be nothing beyond that.
Anything more is a no-no!
"This school actually forbids boyfriends and girlfriends from doing the most intimate things. Japan's declining birth rate is caused by people like you!"
Rin muttered and threw the dormitory regulations he had just read onto the desk. He picked up the book "Whose Body?" that Shiina Hiyori had given him and began reading it while lying on the bed.
In truth, Rin read this famous book with the thought, "What if Shiina asks about my thoughts after reading it?"
But after reading just four pages, he unexpectedly found that Shiina Hiyori had been right. The book was indeed captivating, and Rin felt the urge to read the entire series.
Although Rin became interested in reading the book, he closed it.
"Now is not the time to spend time on this book. I still need to buy daily necessities. I haven't even bought toothpaste and a toothbrush yet."
In fact, the most important thing was that Rin still had a task to complete. He needed to have 300,000 personal points by the end of the day.
Through a transaction with Chabashira Sae, Rin had obtained 100,000 personal points, bringing his total to 204,700.
It had been 205,000, but he had spent 300 points on lunch.
"First, I need to figure out how to get another 100,000 personal points, then go to the mall to buy daily necessities. I also have to buy a high-end laptop, which I'll need for my hacking skills."
Rin muttered to himself and sat up, pondering how to obtain the remaining 100,000 personal points.
Two seconds later, a good idea came to him.
"He should agree to my proposal, right?"
With a strange smile, Rin left his dormitory room and walked toward the chairman's building, following the map in the school guide.
That's right, the person Rin planned to visit was Chairman Sakayanagi. He wanted to get 100,000 personal points from the old man.
Firstly, Sakayanagi Narumori is the chairman of the board of directors of this school. As the most powerful person in the school, he must have a lot of personal points.
Secondly, as the chairman, he can transfer his personal points to students without needing to write a contract like Chabashira Sae did to avoid school penalties.
Lastly, Rin had won five consecutive chess games against Sakayanagi Narumori in the pavilion before, and he was sure the chairman would want to win back.
Rin only needed to play chess with Sakayanagi Narumori, with "personal points" as the stakes, and he should be able to earn 100,000 personal points quickly.
However... things were not as smooth as Rin had imagined.