"This is just a draft. After it dries tomorrow, I will use a scraper to scrape off some of the paint. I will have to paint it at least two or three more times... I think it will be handed in the day after tomorrow."

Oil painting is either dry painting or wet painting.

What Higashinoji chose here is the dry painting method. He waited until the oil painting was completely dry before continuing with color. Currently, this painting is temporarily used as a rough draft. When he comes tomorrow, he will scrape off a thin layer and continue to apply new paint.

In fact, this method is not very suitable for impression painting, but Higashinoji can't help it. The school's studio only allows it to be used for such a short time. If he uses the wet painting method, it will be eight or nine in the evening by the time he has filled in the specific paint.

Clicked.

Therefore, Tonoji prefers to work slowly and carefully.

After all, if you are willing to continue painting an oil painting, ten and a half months is the number of days you can easily achieve.

As for those protagonists who can paint a particularly outstanding oil painting in half a day...

That can only mean that Higashinoji is short-sighted and does not have that ability.

and--

Seeing Konoe Ryoka looking like she wanted to say something, Higashinoji asked her in confusion: "Don't you think this manuscript is beautiful...? No?"

"Uh..." After hearing this and looking at Higashinoji's somewhat unbelievable look, Konoe Ryoka was confused.

It's very beautiful...but why does Higashinoji still look like, 'This painting is too low-level, it's totally unacceptable'?

She really couldn't understand it at all, so she could only look at Higashinoji with a blank look on her face.

"...Forget it. Just sit down."

Higashinoji did not continue to embarrass this fool, but just said hello and asked her to sit down, and then said to her with great momentum:

"By the way, I borrowed your paint, let me tell you."

"Huh? Oh, oh, I understand, thank you."

Higashinoji's confident look made Konoe Ryoka feel like she was asking him to borrow paint, so she thanked him quietly.

"What are you thanking? I borrowed your paint. Why are you so stupid?"

Tonoji looked at Konoe Ryoka in disbelief, not understanding why she thanked her at all.

"Huh? Oh...thank you..."

"Are you here again?"

"Woo..."

Konoe Ryoka hurriedly shut her mouth, not daring to say 'thank you' again.

Seeing her like this, Higashinoji felt inexplicably that he hated iron.

It's really a very strange feeling.

It was obvious that Konoe Ryoka was not someone he was, but seeing her being angry... even if the source of the anger was him, he couldn't stand it.

So he put down the palette and began to ask Konoe Ryoka:

"Did I have a good attitude just now? Why did you thank me? You shouldn't have thanked me just now, you know?"

"Huh?" Konoe Ryoka blinked in confusion, and shrank back in fear, looking a little helpless.

Because she didn't know how to answer Higashinoji's question.

"Do you usually treat other people like this? So you are often bullied?"

Seeing her timid look, Higashino asked again.

"Yes, I'm sorry." Konoe Ryoka didn't know why she apologized, but Higashinoji was so scary...

She apologized subconsciously.

"I am bullying you now, so you have nothing to say sorry to me, you know? You have to dare to speak up when facing people like me, understand?"

Halfway through the conversation, Higashino noticed that something was not quite right, so he took a few sips:

"Bah! What about people like me? When you face evil people, you have to dare to speak out. Do you understand?"

"sorry..."

"You're here again! I-"

Higashinoji raised his hand and almost hit Konoe Ryoka's little head, but if he really wanted to hit her... Higashinoji was a little reluctant to do so.

Inexplicably, I felt that this little girl needed care.

So he put his raised hand down again, scratched his head, and shook his head speechlessly before emphasizing: "Don't say sorry again!"

"Ah? Oh...oh..."

Konoe Ryoka nodded stupidly.

"Do you understand? Just nod your head?"

When Higashinoji said these words, Konoe Ryoka shook her head in fear.

"..." Higashinoji.

He really lost his temper.

Obviously he wanted to make Konoe Ryoka feel a little more confident and not let her be bullied too much by others, but the result was good, it made it seem like he had been bullying her.

You have to think of a good way to do this.

Seeing Higashinoji sitting there without saying anything, Konoe Ryoka swallowed her saliva, and then carefully took out a can of drink from her shoulder bag.

This is the drink she just bought. It is her favorite peach juice.

After talking to Higashinoji for so long, I feel a little thirsty.

She opened the drink and took a sip.

"What are you drinking? It tastes so good? I'll trade it with you!"

Higashinoji's voice came, and then Konoe Ryoka felt that other drinks were stuffed into her hand, and the peach juice she just took a sip was taken away by Higashinoji.

He drank up Konoe Ryoka's peach juice in three gulps, and after drinking it, he added: "It doesn't taste that good."

Konoe Ryoka's eyes widened.

Her big, pure eyes were blocked by her bangs, otherwise Higashinoji would definitely have seen her expression of surprise.

But her surprised expression didn't last long, because Higashino turned around and left.

It seemed that he had his own things to do, and when he left, he was still holding the peach juice in his hand.

Faced with this situation, Konoe Ryoka could only lower her head again and look at the drink can in her hand.

Sugar-free black coffee...

Konoe Ryoka's face suddenly turned bitter.

But I have already got them all... If I don't drink, it will be a bit...

She clicked it, pulled the tab open, and carefully took a mouthful.

Then--

Her face, which had turned into a bitter gourd, was even more twisted into a ball.

It's so painful...

Just when she was hesitating whether to go down and buy another can of peach juice——

"Give."

Suddenly a bottle of cool peach juice was handed to my face.

Konoe Ryoka raised her head in confusion.

Just then she saw Higashino Si holding peach juice in his hand and smiling at her.

It turns out that Higashinoji went to buy peach juice when he left just now...

Konoe Ryoka was stunned for a moment, and then she heard the other party's voice:

"You can't drink black coffee, so why are you trying to be brave?"

Tonoji took the black coffee that she had only taken a sip from her hand and replaced it with a brand new peach juice.

While drinking black coffee, he asked Konoe Ryoka: "What have you learned through this incident?"

"Hey...? Ah...Um...you need to prepare two cans of peach juice...?"

Konoe Ryoka probed cautiously.

"Learn to say no!"

Higashinoji almost got angry at Konoe Ryoka because of his old blood.

He directly aimed at Konoe Ryoka's head and flicked it hard. He looked at her covering her head and looking like she was about to cry before continuing to speak:

"Let me tell you something."

"What, what's the matter?" Konoe Ryoka said and held the peach juice to her chest, fearing that Higashinoji would snatch it away again.

Seeing this scene, Higashinoji shook his head and said to himself, "I'm not a water dispenser. Why are you always thinking about your drink?"

"I want to say that from now on I can only bully you like this, no one else can. You have to say 'no' to those who bully you. Do you understand?"

"...knew..."
Chapter completed!