"Ah, Yuki-chan, welcome back!"
When Yukinoshita Yukino returned to the Service Club from the infirmary, only Yuigahama Yui was left in the activity room.
In front of the orange-haired girl was a bento box wrapped in a pink cloth, which seemed unopened. Next to her bento box was another one wrapped in a blue cat-patterned cloth.
It was clear that Yuigahama Yui was waiting for the owner of the cat bento box to come back and have lunch with her.
"Huh, Yuki-chan, why is your face so red? Are you feeling unwell?"
Yuigahama keenly noticed the detail.
On her snow-white skin, two faint pink blushes spread, making her already beautiful face even more stunning.
Yukinoshita Yukino's face was slightly red, and she instinctively pressed her jelly-like, crystal-clear lips together:
"It's nothing, just a bit hot."
"Hot?"
Yuigahama Yui tilted her head in confusion and looked out the window.
The cool breeze of late spring chased the early summer sunlight, with spots of light shining through the green leaves onto the stone pavement. On such a pleasant day, as long as you weren't exercising under the sun, you shouldn't feel hot, right?
"Ahem, don't think too much. Let's eat first, lunch break is almost over."
Yukinoshita Yukino was getting better at changing the subject naturally.
"That's true!"
At least it was enough to fool Yuigahama Yui.
She pulled Yukinoshita Yukino to a seat, and they started eating lunch with the little time left in the lunch break.
"That's a lot of food."
Yuigahama Yui looked at Yukinoshita's lunch box, surprised. "I didn't expect Yuki-chan, who looks so slim, to have such a good appetite."
"This is the result of carefully considering a balanced diet."
Yukinoshita Yukino said without changing her expression.
Thanks to a certain parasite, her physical fitness had improved greatly, and her appetite had increased as well. This made preparing lunch and cooking a bit more troublesome every day.
At home, Haruno had also teased her about her increased appetite, but Yukinoshita Yukino wasn't the type to care about such comments, just like she wouldn't tell anyone that she could now punch a cow to death.
Yukinoshita was really strong.
"Yuki-chan, do you prepare your own lunch? My mom makes mine."
The bun-haired girl sucked on her chopsticks, thinking seriously, "Should I try making my own lunch too?"
Yukinoshita Yukino couldn't help but look sideways. Yuigahama, are you serious?
"I suggest you don't."
For Yuigahama Yui's safety, Yukinoshita Yukino said,
"Cooking isn't hard to learn, but it requires experience. It's better to learn step by step... Making lunch is still too early for you, Yuigahama."
"Well... okay."
Fortunately, Yuigahama Yui was self-aware and listened to advice. After recalling her first attempt at making cookies, she quickly gave up the idea.
But she was determined to learn cooking from her mom when she got home.
One day, she would make everyone in the service club look up to her!
"By the way, Yuigahama, can I ask you for a favor?"
After finishing lunch and packing up the lunch boxes, Yukinoshita Yukino spoke.
"What is it? I'll definitely help!"
Hearing Yukinoshita Yukino ask for her help for the first time, Yuigahama Yui was immediately interested.
"I have something to do recently. If there are no requests for the service club, I want to go home early. Can I leave it to you?"
Yukinoshita Yukino said, taking out her phone to exchange contact information,
"If there are any requests, I'll come back to continue the club activities."
Is it a family matter?
Yuigahama Yui instinctively thought of the short-haired lady she had met at the school gate earlier.
Since it was a family matter, she didn't ask further, just smiled and nodded, agreeing readily,
"Got it, leave the service club to me and Hikki!"
"Thank you, Yuigahama."
"It's no problem, Yuki-chan has helped me a lot too!"
After exchanging contact information, the lunch break ended.
After the afternoon classes, under Hayashizaki's direction, Yukinoshita Yukino didn't head to the school gate but went up the stairs to the rooftop of the school building.
The rooftop was originally off-limits to students, and the iron doors leading to it were locked, but one of the locks was broken. This was known among many girls.
This means Yukinoshita Yukino didn't know this unimportant information.
She directly used brute force to open the locked door, breaking the lock in the process.
Of course, this rough method was instigated by Hayashizaki.
"Where should we start?"
Yukinoshita Yukino stood on the empty rooftop, looking out over the city as the cool wind brushed her cheeks.
"Start from the surroundings."
With Yukinoshita's permission, Hayashizaki took over her body. He stretched his joints, making a series of cracking sounds.
In the next moment, Yukinoshita Yukino's figure disappeared from the rooftop.
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Even though Totsuka Saika injured his knee during training at noon, he still planned to attend the club activities after school.
The tennis club members had become quite lazy. If they saw their captain skipping club activities, the tennis club might as well disband.
Although he couldn't train, he could at least supervise the others.
Totsuka Saika arrived at the tennis court, where six members were playing tennis. Their movements were so casual it looked like they were playing with girlfriends who didn't know how to play. The ball moved slowly and straight, and they didn't even need to move their feet to hit it back.
One person was squatting and playing with his phone.
Including Totsuka Saika, there were eight members in total.
This was the entire tennis club. Others had either quit or were busy with their studies in their final year.
"Sorry, Matsushita, my knee is injured, so I can't practice with you."
Totsuka Saika apologized to the member playing with his phone.
"No problem, captain. Let's rest together."
Matsushita said lazily, his tone low and dispirited.
"Ha ha..."
Not knowing what to say, Totsuka Saika could only laugh awkwardly. He didn't play with his phone but looked at the other members with a worried expression.
However, within his field of vision, some things invisible to the naked eye began to move.
Five curse spirits, floating like ghostly flames, left their targets and flew to an empty tennis court.
The tennis court, where the curse spirits gathered, had residual cursed energy that attracted them like honey.
After hovering for a moment, the five curse spirits followed the residual cursed energy left by someone.
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