Chapter 21: Facts that are not about personal wishes
After dinner, Miyano Makoto's dormitory returned to its deserted state.
He took a comfortable shower and looked at the empty dormitory with his mind wandering.
A single dormitory should look like a single dormitory!
Miyano Makoto thought so and moved to the first floor of the dormitory.
He is waiting for an old friend.
"Hello, your name is... Ayanokoji, right? I look forward to your guidance in the future."
In front of the vending machine, Miyano Makoto greeted a boy who was buying hot milk.
"You are...? Miyano-san? What you said yesterday was really hurtful. We have already experienced hell today."
It is such a cruel fact, the dissatisfaction of being assigned to Class D, or the despair of a life with zero income in the next month or even several months.
There was no such emotion in the words of the boy in front of him. Miyano Makoto could only hear some emotional fluctuations, which might be correct to classify as an illusion.
"But I don't hear that feeling in Ayanokoji-kun's tone. Is it an illusion?"
"That's not the case. I think there's no difference in our tone."
"That's right. Are you here to buy hot milk too?"
Miyano Makoto saw the item in the other person's hand that he had just taken out of the vending machine. He also came to buy this.
That's a really good reason.
"Well, a bottle of warm milk before bed would be nice, don't you think so?"
"Yes, I have been drinking it every day since the start of the school year. Do you want to see my consumption records?"
Miyano Makoto bought a bottle of hot milk, and before Ayanokoji could answer, he showed Ayanokoji the points consumption record on his mobile phone.
There was no change in the other person's expression.
"Except for the extra purchase today, the only other time you spend is the points corresponding to hot milk. Don't you usually eat?"
Ayanokoji expressed his doubts directly, and he found this very strange.
How could a student in Class B be reluctant to spend money? Does he like to eat wild vegetable set meals?
What he did just now was also, why did he want him to see the record of point consumption?
"Actually, I am being kept by someone. I was just thinking that maybe I can keep someone else. How about that? I can treat you to hot milk every night."
"Excuse me for asking why, but I don't see how this would benefit you."
"This is the way boys express friendship. I think your behavior of drinking milk at night is very much to my liking, so I plan to ask you to drink it every day. In this way, we will be comrades who drink milk together before going to bed."
"Is that so? Thank you for your kindness."
Ayanokoji took note of this information. He learned that this kind of friendship could exist between boys.
"It's okay, just a little bit. I'll be waiting for you here at this time every day. Add me as your friend?"
The two exchanged contact information.
Ayanokoji noticed that the other person had about the same number of friends as himself.
Are they the same type?
He wasn't expecting it.
"Oh, that's great, it seems like my mission to make friends has been accomplished, yay!"
"?"
"You're talking as if you've never made friends before. Are you saying that I've been deceived by you?"
Ayanokoji felt like he had been badly tricked. Why did the other party seem even more bizarre than himself?
Although he didn't know what kind of relationship could be called friendship.
But this definitely shouldn't be the relationship, he thought to himself.
"What does it matter? Friends should be like this. I think this fits the definition very well. Just think about it. How unlikely is it to find someone in the vast sea of people to drink hot milk with at night?"
"I don't think anyone would use the definition of a friend to support this, right?"
"I just want to make my words more persuasive."
Miyano Makoto emphasized this point. He didn't want to admit that he was a friendless person.
"Okay, I'm convinced by you."
Ayanokoji thought of Kanji Ike and Haruki Yamauchi, and he didn't know how he became friends with those people.
I guess this is how friends are made.
"Then come for a walk with me?"
Miyano Makoto extended an invitation to Ayanokoji.
"Didn't we say we were friends drinking hot milk together before bed? Why did you suddenly say you wanted to go out for a walk together?"
Ayanokoji was a little confused.
"Drinking hot milk together only provided the fate for the two of us to meet, and now we are friends. Isn't it normal for friends to help each other?"
"Now it's normal for me to invite you to go out for a walk as a friend."
"Is… is that so?"
Ayanokoji followed Miyano Makoto out of the dormitory's first floor lobby, each holding a bottle of hot milk in their hands.
He couldn't think of a reason to refuse, and he was also very curious about what Miyano Makoto wanted to talk to him about.
Ayanokoji felt that up to now he should just be acting like a normal college student.
The other party might be trying to make friends with him, but it is unlikely that the other party is really just trying to make friends with him.
"Ah, here we are."
Ayanokoji was thinking about something when he suddenly heard Miyano Makoto, who was walking in front of him, say this.
Before he had time to think about where he was, a fist as big as a sandbag came towards him with a strong wind.
He quickly leaned back to create some distance between himself and the fist.
"What does this mean? Is this something that can be done between friends?"
Although he encountered a sudden attack, Ayanokoji's tone did not fluctuate much.
"You are very capable, so why do you look so harmless?"
Faced with Ayanokoji's question, Miyano Makoto chose to answer the question with a question.
"I don't understand what you are saying. I just went downstairs to buy a cup of hot milk, and then you called me out."
"Really? Your behavior just now was far from 'normal'."
Miyano Makoto chose to escape with one strike, rather than engaging in a passionate fight between men.
Because he had already taken a bath.
"It's just luck."
Ayanokoji said modestly.
This was also within Miyano Makoto's expectations. The other party was a talented person who could explain his 50 points in all subjects in the entrance examination and 50 points in the recent quiz as "accidental". How could he admit that he was different from others just like that?
He is a man who just wants to experience a peaceful life like a normal person, at least that's what he thinks in his heart.
"It doesn't matter how you want to explain it. I don't care about that. What I want to ask you is, what do you think of this school?"
Before, it was always others who asked Miyano Makoto this question, and now it's finally his turn to ask others!
This is really, really cool!
"Why are you asking me this kind of question? I think I can refuse to answer it."
"In my opinion, there are only two kinds of people in this school."
Ignoring Ayanokoji's dissatisfaction, Miyano Makoto continued to talk to himself.
"One is the one who aims at Class A, and the other is the one who doesn't."
"So, Ayanokoji, which category do you belong to?"
While speaking, Miyano Makoto kept staring into Ayanokoji's eyes. His expression was half-smile, and in his opinion, the sense of oppression was enough.
Whether the other party realized it or not is another matter, but in any case, he felt great.
"If I have to choose, I think it should be the latter."
After thinking about the two options Miyano Makoto gave him, Ayanokoji chose the latter.
In other words, those who don't aim to be in Class A.
"Unfortunately, things don't go as planned. Even if you really want it that way, the general trend will force you to become the former."
At this point, Miyano Makoto sighed lightly, fortunately he didn't have this worry.
Because he is neither of those two.
He is free!
temporary.
"I don't understand what you're trying to say."
Ayanokoji already wanted to go back. The other party's weird behavior made him feel very uncomfortable, as if he was stripped of all his clothes and asked to run naked on the street.
"I mean, it's impossible to live a peaceful life in this school."
"What do you think, Ayanokoji?"
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