CHAPTER 408: CHAPTER 405: OF COURSE, STUDY HARD BEFORE HALLOWEEN!

"Has Shirakawa already been booked by someone?"

"I’m not a host, what’s this talk about bookings." Shirakawa Sawahei’s face turned black: "Christmas... should be during winter break, right?"

The Evil Little Arrogant asked with interest, "Why? Do you want to give me your winter break time?"

"No way." Shirakawa Sawahei pouted and decisively said, "If I gave all my winter break time to you, I’d be doomed."

"Why?"

"New Year’s." Shirakawa Sawahei retorted, "Aren’t I supposed to go back for New Year’s?"

"No worries, if you want, I can take you back." Hayakawa Kashi said in a calm tone, "Anyway, I travel back and forth quite fast."

"..."

"Better forget it." Shirakawa Sawahei refused, "My aunt hasn’t met you yet, if she sees me going back with an unfamiliar girl, who knows what wild thoughts she’ll have..."

Miss Kaori oh so flatly.

Shirakawa Sawahei, holding grudges +1...

"So, I heard you plan to bring Kaori back?" The Evil Little Arrogant asked seemingly unintentionally, "I saw that Kaori asked before if you could wait for her to start the New Year’s visit."

"Kaori?"

Shirakawa Sawahei shook his head with a strange expression, "Although my aunt has met her, that girl will definitely be troublesome."

"Then who do you plan to bring?"

"I plan to..."

Shirakawa Sawahei instinctively wanted to voice his thoughts but suddenly realized the impending crisis, looked up at the Little Arrogant’s expression, and indeed found something amiss.

"What? Is Shirakawa trying to avoid even this question?" Miss Kaori said with a playful smile, "It’s normal to gossip as friends, right? I’m not your girlfriend, what are you afraid of?"

"I..."

I’ve seen this trick before! Tsukimi did this kind of fishing before!

A true man won’t take the bait a second time! Following this principle, Shirakawa Sawahei decisively made his response.

"I’m not bringing anyone back."

"Oh?"

"Not bringing anyone back, huh." Shirakawa Sawahei said puzzled, "Why would I bring a classmate home for New Year’s? This action is quite bizarre, isn’t it? The family would definitely misunderstand, right?"

"Well, that’s true." Hayakawa Kashi smiled, "I misunderstood, sorry."

"No problem."

Shirakawa Sawahei pretended to forgive the Little Arrogant’s mistake and then asked, "Hayakawa, you should be free now, right?"

"I’ve always been free..."

Great, as expected from my brightest study buddy, coaxing you wasn’t too hard.

"How about you, Shirakawa? You don’t have any problems, do you..."

"Me? What problems could I have."

"Great. Then for Christmas... I’ll start preparing without any expectations?"

"???

Wait a minute, when did I agree to anything with the Little Arrogant? Speaking of which, we’ve been discussing winter break the whole time, how did the conversation suddenly get led by Hayakawa to Christmas plans?

Fine, fine... Shirakawa Sawahei thought about it and ultimately decided not to argue this point further with Miss Kaori... After all, he really didn’t have any substantial plans for Christmas, save for after agreeing with the Little Arrogant, when Tsukimi Sakurazawa and cute little Ise Yu asked, it might get a bit troublesome.

However... Miss Kaori suddenly asking me out on Christmas... could she really be planning to go shopping?

After the sports festival of the second semester ended, in just a few days it was almost November. Two more months and it would be holiday time.

When it comes to longing for holidays after the school starts, students all over the world are practically united. Even if they start missing the daily school days once vacation lasts too long or after leaving the campus, it doesn’t affect their current feelings.

Unless there’s a major event that can divert students’ attention, like class reshuffling.

Or perhaps... midterms shortly after the class reshuffling.

Shirakawa Sawahei: It’s time to show my real skills. Next, I’ll make my two tutorees pass every subject with flying colors and beyond.

The battle risking the honor of the study god is about to begin again...

After being backstabbed by the crybaby last time during finals, Shirakawa Sawahei resolved to take a subjective initiative and make the two girls fall in love with studying, enjoying the joys of learning.

However...

The goofing-off girl and the crybaby were indeed enjoying themselves, but obviously not the joys of learning...

"Shirakawa~ how do you do this problem..."

How do you do it? With a pen!

"Shirakawa, this is so hard... could the question be wrong?"

Good gracious, Ise Yu! No wonder, even your confidence puts me to shame...

The two problematic apprentices were giving Shirakawa, the legendary study god, quite the headache. Sometimes, watching the two girls naively holding the questions while acting cute, his fists harden and soften, back and forth, a complete ordeal.

The crybaby was alright, at least she had a solid foundation; the real trouble was the goofing-off girl, originally imaginative and with quirky ideas, her peculiar trait shone especially in math problems, every time making Shirakawa want to directly drag Ise Yu into a room and press her against the wall to ask why she would turn geometric shapes in math problems into illustrations of pretty girls.

I know your drawing skills are high-level, but you don’t have to do it on math papers like this!

And you, Tsukimi Sakurazawa! You...

Can’t you properly sit up straight when doing problems? Isn’t it tiring to rely on your bosom to support your body? Think about the desk’s feelings!

After much consideration, Shirakawa Sawahei finally decided to slightly relax the requirements for the two girls — for his own mental and physical well-being, and for the girls’ joyful youth, just allow them some leniency.

Feeding experience to boost high school education skills... could work... after all, the goofing-off girl became a study buddy, the conversion rate is quite decent, not much cutback by middlemen in the system...

As for Tsukimi, let’s just go with the flow... give as much as she can take...

Thus, from the two girls’ perspective, Shirakawa Sawahei started from the Great Demon King form, suddenly becoming kind and gentle, even asking if they wanted to drink some milk tea and take a break.

The crybaby: !!!

The goofing-off girl: !!!

Something’s odd! Definitely something’s odd!

"Shirakawa, you just rest, we’ll do it... ourselves."

"Yeah, Shirakawa, you’ve helped us so much, it’s time for you to rest, we’re not tired, studying, it’s not tiring at all!"

The goofing-off girl said as a tear dropped.

Eh? So strange... why am I...

Shirakawa Sawahei: "..."

"I’m not going to eat you... just letting you rest for a bit."

"Really, we can rest?"

"Really, you can rest."

The crybaby cautiously glanced at Shirakawa Sawahei’s face, noting nothing unusual, she sighed in relief and said half-jokingly, "Geez, Shirakawa, I thought you really planned on working me to death."

"Ah... finally can take a break!" The goofing-off girl stretched and said, "I thought we’d spend the whole time before Halloween like this..."