My System Always Wants to Force Me to Confess
Chapter 235: The Value of People Cannot Be Generalized

Chapter 235: Chapter 235: The Value of People Cannot Be Generalized

"Shirakawa~ You’re finally back~ I missed you so much!"

As soon as they met, Tsukimi Sakurazawa rushed over and playfully punched him on the chest, feigning anger: "You actually hid it from me and went traveling with Hayakawa Kashi! That’s a crime of the highest order!"

"Are you saying that if I let you know next time, it’ll be okay?"

"Of course not! By the way, Shirakawa, how did you and Hayakawa Kashi get so close? You even traveled together." Tsukimi Sakurazawa asked suspiciously, "Are you secretly flirting with her behind my back?"

"Do I need to hide it from you if I’m flirting with her?" Shirakawa Sawahei glanced at her and said, "With your observational skills, we could get married tomorrow, and you wouldn’t even notice."

"What’s wrong with my observational skills! You just try letting me follow you every day! I guarantee you won’t make a move without me seeing it!"

"And... what’s with this marriage registration you mentioned? You two aren’t really going to register tomorrow, are you?"

The three girls present immediately focused on Shirakawa Sawahei, leaving him speechless: "Can’t you even recognize a joke? That was just a metaphor... Anyway, Hayakawa Kashi and I have a perfectly normal relationship!"

"In what sense normal?"

"Normal as in participating together in a piano competition, then going scuba diving as a trip; it’s that simple."

"Scuba diving? Did you take the chance to sneak a peek at her?"

Shirakawa Sawahei: "..."

"Why do you care so much? Hurry up inside to enjoy the air conditioning, it’s scorching outside."

He changed the subject with a single sentence, then led Miss Tachibana Tomoku into the restaurant, leaving the two suspicious girls muttering to each other.

"Sakurazawa... I believe in your deductions!" The slacking girl said earnestly, "I once happened to see Shirakawa Sawahei using his phone, and when he was clearing his photo album, there were pictures of him and Hayakawa together!"

"And it was at Ocean Park! With dolphins in the shots!"

"What?! Shirakawa is so awful! He actually took Hayakawa Kashi to Ocean Park!" The whiny girl’s anger exploded: "Back in freshman year, when I asked him to go, he said he was busy with a part-time job!"

"If I had known he was so free now! I would have asked him to accompany me!"

"Eh~ Sakurazawa, you want to go to Ocean Park too? You should have said so earlier, the three of us could’ve gone together!" The slacking girl joyfully said, "I just wanted to pet some dolphins, I’ve heard they like to nuzzle pretty girls. I wonder how many dolphin admirers I’d get then~"

"He’s already been once, it’ll be hard to get him to waste time going again... Shirakawa is the worst! Unless I force him with that bet from the last birthday party... but then... a seaside workshop... ugh, I’m so torn..."

The whiny girl mumbled to herself for a while, seemingly giving up on the matter for now, then tugged on Ise Yu saying: "Forget it, let’s go, Shirakawa’s probably already started ordering."

"Eh~ You’re letting the Ocean Park topic drop? I was looking forward to it... Oh... Sakurazawa, wait for me..."

The two girls reached the restaurant, Shirakawa Sawahei had indeed already placed the order, handed the menu to the waiter, and upon seeing them approach, casually said: "You’re here?"

"The dishes are already ordered. Your tastes should still be the same, right? If there’s anything you don’t like or want, we can add it."

"Hmph, since you remembered our preferences, I won’t fuss over too much~" The whiny girl huffed, then said: "Shirakawa, what about the souvenirs you mentioned? Hurry up and show us."

Shirakawa Sawahei glanced at Ise Yu Yuzhijin, pulled out two white conch shells from his bag.

"Wow~ Conch shells, did you go to the seaside, Shirakawa? And bought such exquisite souvenirs..."

When Tsukimi Sakurazawa asked, Shirakawa Sawahei lightly coughed and replied calmly: "I didn’t buy them, I just happened to come across them while diving and thought of souvenirs, so I grabbed them."

"As long as you like them."

Ise Yu Yuzhijin couldn’t help but sigh inwardly upon hearing this.

Shirakawa is great in every way, just too blunt... The effort and thought behind such gifts are what matters most.

Even if you’d claimed you dove twice especially for them and retrieved two conch shells, that would be better than your current explanation! Girls are emotional creatures, if you say things like...

What???

The slacking girl looked at Miss Tachibana Tomoku’s response, bewilderment written all over her face. The shy, unnoticeable girl held the white conch shell with a smile she couldn’t hide, as if she had received a rare gem, her eyes glistening like stars.

Backstab damage from the quiet ones: +10086...

Hey, Tachibana, it’s just a conch shell! Someone who didn’t know might think you received a giant desert diamond! Could you slow down on the face-slapping please!

Never mind, never mind, Tachibana is gentle by nature, doesn’t want to embarrass Shirakawa, it’s understandable... Sakurazawa... Sakurazawa surely...

Huh???

Even you!

In the slacking girl’s sight, long-legged cutie Tsukimi Sakurazawa wore a mixed expression, like she wanted to seem displeased but couldn’t hide her happiness. Although she appeared a bit aggrieved by Shirakawa Sawahei’s blunt words, her eyes sparkled with joy, so obvious it became unsettling for the slacking girl to watch...

It’s over... Sakurazawa has fallen... Shirakawa’s old mathematician act once again proves the existence of two angels...

I’ve lost... I’ve lost to Shirakawa’s premonitions...

Shirakawa Sawahei looked at the dejected Ise Yu with satisfaction, thinking to himself, you’re the only one who makes a fuss, everyone else is easy to please...

"Shirakawa! You’re too dismissive! You just picked up a random conch shell and gave it to me!" The whiny girl reenacted her mood many times, finally erasing the smile from her face and said with a pout: "I was looking forward to some tasty local specialties from you..."

"Then give it back, I’ll go buy some souvenirs outside..."

"No way! Once it’s given to me, it’s mine!" The whiny girl tucked the conch away safely into her bag, feeling delighted: "Want to take it back? No chance."

"Alright, stop chattering, let’s eat... the food will be ready soon."

"Hmm? Shirakawa, didn’t you say this outing is to celebrate something? What are we celebrating?"

He glanced at the guilty-looking slacking girl and replied: "We’re celebrating my safe return from a trip, isn’t that reason enough?"

"Well~ although it’s a bit of a stretch~ but if you’re treating me, Shirakawa, then no problem..." The whiny girl checked Shirakawa Sawahei’s expression, added: "But why didn’t you treat us right after you came back~?"

"Jet lag."

"Nonsense! You didn’t even leave the country! There’s no passport!"

"Environmental adjustment, need a few days to recover."

"?????"

Watching Shirakawa Sawahei spout nonsense earnestly, the whiny girl, unable to argue, switched the subject sulkily: "Fine, don’t say if you don’t want to... By the way, you promised to go to Summer Comic with us before."

"No matter what, you shouldn’t go on trips with Hayakawa Kashi for a while!"

"..."

"Isn’t that the reason I came back? Why else do you think I wouldn’t stay longer to enjoy a few more days of diving over there?"

"There are three adorable girls waiting for you to go to Summer Comic, and you think you’re at a loss, Shirakawa! Do you even know how to do math!"

Shirakawa Sawahei calmly replied: "I do, you and Ise Yu together don’t add up to Hayakawa Kashi’s worth."

Slacking girl: ???

Whiny girl: ???

Thanks, I’ve been offended.