After pouring two cups of hot water, Natsuki took the cup and walked towards the kotatsu. Tachibana Aya was lying on the kotatsu table, not playing with her mobile phone, looking bored.
"Give."
"I want to drink juice..."
"Drink it all."
Xia Zhi didn't lie. The juice had indeed been drunk. Today, he was supposed to buy some and put them away, but because he was too busy and had to come back to make dinner, Xia Zhi completely forgot about it.
Fortunately, Tachibana Aya is not an unreasonable person, but even if she is unreasonable, Xia Zhi will let her buy it herself.
She grabbed the cup with both hands, but still did not stand upright. Instead, she stared at the cup in a daze. This was not consistent with the previous image of Tachibana Aya, and Xia Zhi couldn't help but take a second look.
But after just two more glances, Xia Zhi withdrew his gaze and sat in the kotatsu, holding a cup in his hand. The space rarely became quiet, and Xia Zhi felt a familiar sense of comfort. Someone felt that
Xia Zhi didn't care about his situation, so he couldn't pretend anymore and asked: "Don't you feel bored?"
"well enough."
Being bored is actually quite good as long as you get used to it. Being able to spend so much time feeling the beauty of life is really something to be thankful for. Being bored will not cause any trouble to others, nor will it cause any trouble to others.
It consumes energy for no reason, but it's actually pretty good.
But Tachibana Aya, who was born incompatible with Natsuki, obviously didn't think so.
"It's boring now! Let's play something!"
Tachibana Aya has always been a person who cannot calm down.
"I don't have much to play here, right? If you want to play board games, please let me refuse. That's too tiring."
"No, to be honest, I don't really want to play those two board games. Although Xie Dao was relatively fun to play at the beginning, it became quite boring after its true nature was exposed."
Isn’t this quite clear?
"Since you also know, either stay quietly or come back quickly to save me from having to send you back in the middle of the night." Xia Zhi almost couldn't remember spending the evening alone leisurely a long time ago.
It’s such a nostalgic situation.
"Wouldn't it be more boring to go back? If I died because of boredom, wouldn't my body be discovered for several months?"
"Don't say such horrible things in such a light tone." Xia Zhi looked at her. Tachibana Aya's sight was blocked by the cup, but Xia Zhi could still see her indifferent expression as if everything was fine:
"I think if you disappear for no reason, you will be found home by Mayumi and her classmates in an instant."
Judging from what I saw in the school this afternoon, Tachibana Aya's status in Yuhuagao is probably not that of a cult leader to some extent. If the leader suddenly disappeared, Yuhuagao would not be able to explode.
.
"No one knows where I live...but you do. Do you want me to give you a key to my house so that you can go on night raids or something like that?"
"No need." Xia Zhi flatly refused.
"Then why don't you give me the key to your house, and I'll do the night raid."
"Don't even think about it."
There is nothing more normal in this man's mind.
"If you have nothing to do, go back to work. Why haven't you finished writing it after half a year? Please take your work seriously."
"Although this is correct, what you said, Natsuki, seems a bit subtle." Tachibana Aya moved the cup in front of her, looked at Natsuki and blinked: "Aren't you a typical lazy person at work?
person?"
"What nonsense are you talking about? I am working seriously." Xia Zhi didn't feel guilty at all when he said this, because he was indeed working seriously, but the place where he worked was really not lively. After he became proficient, Xia Zhi
It was easy to deal with it, probably because of this, so it seemed a bit unserious.
But there are still many differences between the appearance and the actual behavior.
"What I'm talking about now is your business. Why haven't you finished writing the novel after half a year? Do you not want to do it anymore?"
"No, you are asking too much. Normally, after writing a novel, the next one will be released about a year later. It takes a certain amount of time to write a novel and a certain amount of time to promote it. After all, it takes a certain amount of time.
If you promote it well, more people will buy it.”
"So you have written so many books before, do you want to say that you have been writing novels since you were ten years old? Even in novels or animations, I have only heard of female high school student writers, never seen a female elementary school student
Writer, who do you trust?"
Tachibana Aya blinked her eyes.
"Isn't it because inspiration came to me like raindrops at that time and I just entered the peak period of creation? Now I have run out of inspiration and am in the trough of creation. There is nothing surprising."
Although Tachibana Aya didn't show any strange expression fluctuations, Xia Zhi could tell at a glance that all the things this person said were excuses. Half a year was enough to understand the true nature of this person.
You don't have to think about it, she just wants to have fun and not work. If she really wanted to write a novel, she wouldn't run here every two days. She has such a thorough understanding of the fish, it's a good thing that she is also a popular light novel writer.
"Bah" was a bit impolite, so Xia Zhi could only chuckle twice to show that he believed it.
Tachibana Aya saw Natsuki's distrustful look and actions, and immediately sat up, slapped the table with her hand, and made a moderate voice: "Why don't you believe it?"
Because you are such a bad person, I can't believe it. Xia Zhi thought about it for a moment and did not say this.
"I know you don't believe it, but I'd better tell you something special!" She suddenly became arrogant, holding her hands with a arrogant look: "I have finished writing the outline of the novel!"
???
"Even a layman knows that the novel itself and the novel outline are two completely different things, right? Is it possible that you are writing the novel outline for others to read this time?"
Tachibana Aya raised a finger and shook it.
"No, no, no. With a complete outline, the novel will be written very quickly. It is only 200,000 to 300,000 words. At my speed, it only takes a few days to finish. Then I will submit the manuscript to the publishing house for proofreading.
You can directly promote and publish the book.”
After writing two to three hundred thousand words in a few days... Is this guy still a human being? Xia Zhi considered her authenticity as a human being.
"It's just that we still need a little preparation now." She touched her chin: "Because I really can't imagine it, so..."
Tachibana Aya raised her head.
"Let's go on a date again!"
"hehe."
I almost believed her.
"I said it very seriously!"
"It's already here, is it useful to add a last word temporarily? Who are you kidding? Don't you just want to go out and have fun?"
"Combining work and entertainment is a popular advanced working method nowadays. Aren't many people saying it? If you feel bored at work, you should find fun in your work. This is called infusion
Something of the soul.”
"I feel like this is a little different from what I know about infusing souls."
And injecting souls doesn't seem to be used in this way. But it doesn't matter. It's better to go to bed early than to compete with Tachibana Aya. It would be easier to let her get high by herself.
"So let's go on a date?"
"It's obviously just going out to have fun, can't you change the word?"
"I think you might be happier if you use this word." Tachibana Aya pointed at herself: "After all, I'm super cute."
Xia Zhi has already hehe a lot of times today. Hehehe who keeps hehehe has no soul.
Xia Zhi gave a clean "Bah".
Tachibana Aya glared at Natsuki: "What do you mean by bah?"
"What it means on the surface."
"Is it possible that you want me to lie and say that I'm not cute?"
"To be honest, you are the first and only person I have ever seen who can carry out narcissism so thoroughly."
There should have been another candidate, her name is Yamamoto Ryoko, but considering that Yamamoto Ryoko only talks about words and is not as resolute in action as Tachibana Aya, I decided to forget it. Tachibana Aya's "cuteness" has already made her popular in the summer.
Zhi's face showed its bright future.
Although it is only in front of Xia Zhi, after all, it is not appropriate to maintain the image of being cute in front of more people.
"I just told the truth, so do you want to go on a date?"
"What do you want to do? I have decided to control this weekend by myself. No one can shake my determination."
In the second half of last year, almost all weekends were taken turns by Shiraishi Rika and Tachibana Aya without even realizing it. Natsuki felt that she couldn't go on like this anymore. Instead of being dragged out by them to experience some happy but too fulfilling time
,Xia Zhi currently hopes that he can stay in the apartment and spend his time lazily.
Although the lazy life is gone forever, it will not affect Xia Zhi's yearning for the original life.
"We don't have the weekend, how about I go over and play again tomorrow? I just stopped here today to look at the food and didn't do much. I obviously saw a lot of interesting things along the way." Tachibana Aya made her own calculation.
"It seems like there are a lot of fun things."
For example, the magic show in the playground and the spiritual descendant of the legendary haunted house seemed quite interesting. Because of the daily life of three o'clock and one line, many snacks that were not easily available were sold, and Xia Zhi still had some ideas. However,
Not realistic.
"But I have to look after the store. You can just go and play alone."
"Go alone, let alone go on a date. Even if you go together to play, there will still be few people, right? Don't you need a rest?"
Focusing on rest time is indeed a feasible plan, but Natsuki didn't give Tachibana a chance to take advantage of it: "When I have the most free time, you are in class."
It's better to let her recognize the reality.
"In that case, all I need to do is skip class and come here?" Tachibana Aya said as if she had found a solution to the problem.
???
"What did you promise me before, did you forget?"
"What did I promise you?"
She obviously forgot, Xia Zhi had veins popping out on his forehead.
"Didn't you say that you should take classes seriously and never skip school?"
"Did I say it?" She looked confused, and then she immediately "remembered" after seeing the look in Xia Zhi's eyes.
"It seems that there is such a thing."
Xia Zhi didn't think she really remembered it. But she tried very hard to pretend, and Xia Zhi couldn't expose her sweet dream.
"But doesn't this mean we can't play anymore? I said before that we could play together for a while, but suddenly I remembered that your school festival is from Monday to Wednesday. This is too cruel." Tachibana Aya lay down listlessly.
On the kotatsu table: "It's really boring after all."
I had indeed promised this before, and Xia Zhi has not forgotten it, but the reality is that I really don’t have much time to play with her. Although the coffee in this coffee shop seems a bit indifferent, it cannot be called a snack shop directly...
Otherwise, we can discuss it and give him some time to tell him that the coffee is out of stock. If that doesn't work, just ask Qingfeng and the others to come over and learn on the spot. Anyway, it's not a particularly high-end shop, and the coffee is not so particular, so just contact them and it will be fine.
"I'll see if I can spare an hour or so tomorrow. Anyway, strictly speaking, I'm just a dispensable role in this event."
If I had opened a snack shop and sold drinks, it wouldn't be so embarrassing now, right?
"What is a coffee shop without coffee?" Unexpectedly, Tachibana Aya, who thought she would become happy, retorted to Natsuki: "That is the job of injecting soul into the coffee shop."
"Just find someone to take my place. Making coffee is not a particularly difficult task. With a little contact, you can do it almost as well as me."
"Are you saying that the coffee you make is just as good as a little practice?"
"Basically."
Xia Zhi thought about it carefully. Apart from the fact that he was more proficient in making coffee for a long time and his speed was slightly faster, there was not much difference between him and people who made coffee slowly. It was just a little more indispensable knowledge.
.
In this time when everything has its own standards, Xia Zhi gives a dosage standard. As long as it can be implemented well, most people can achieve it. With a little practice, they can do it by themselves regardless of the standard.
"I really want to share some of my confidence with you."
"No, you don't call that confidence, you call that narcissism."
"it's the same!"
"It's actually different."
There is an essential difference between the two. Tachibana Aya glared at Natsuki: "I said it's the same."
Only when she was being unreasonable would Tachibana Aya dare to speak to Xia Zhi like this.
"Be more confident! You always say cool things when nothing important happens, but when it's your turn, you lose confidence. How come you can't become the protagonist in your life like this?"
"But the theme of my life is just to be a leisurely person."
"Isn't that just salted fish?"
"..."
Xia Zhi was still thinking that he wouldn't understand if he said he wanted to be a salted fish, Tachibana Ayai. It seemed that he was thinking too much.
"I will not allow others to say that my treasure is useless. Even you. Hmph."
Tachibana Aya snorted softly, turned away, pretending to be angry.