After Yukino agreed, the teacher excused herself. That left Yukino and Lin alone in the activity room. For ordinary students, such a pause would lengthen awkward silence and raise a dozen tiny anxieties about what to say next. What came instead was surprising: genuine conversation. They compared tastes in tea, made small jokes, and the space between them became an outline filled with unspoken curiosities rather than discomfort.
Yukino moved with quiet confidence. She set a chair for him, asked whether he wanted tea, and showed a small, almost domestic concern about trivial details. Lin accepted these gestures as both courtesy and a window into her personality. He noticed small cues: the way she corrected her posture when the door opened, the way she kept her voice steady. Those little things conveyed the depth of her discipline.
It was not all soft moments. Lin had to contend with practical social puzzles too. For example, when it came time to go home, how did he manage transportation with his injured leg? Who would escort him? The teacher had promised to drive him, but plans changed, and Lin found himself negotiating routes, times, and options with the calm, tactical approach he used for other small problems. The "train dilemma" was less about trains and more about how to coordinate care without making others feel burdened.
He also noticed how Yukino watched others with a cool distance. She understood people's social expectations and how to navigate them. That gave her an edge in running a service-oriented club. Her solutions never leaned on drama; they were precise and quietly effective. Lin concluded that joining the club would teach him ways of helping that were far more practical than the vague good intentions people usually offered.
In the end, the train dilemma was solved with a mix of practicality and a little performance. Lin walked out from the club with his new membership confirmed and a plan in place. The small logistical victories mattered to him because they turned goodwill into workable steps, each of which could produce reward for the system. That realization made logistics interesting.