Yukinoshita's Correction Method

"The latest rumor." Hikigaya Komachi closed the door, "Shinobu and Yukinoshita are dating..."

Volume 6: Chapter 231 Verifying the Conjecture

Yukinoshita Yukino tilted her head slightly, her face showing no anger or shyness. Her calm voice couldn't tell whether it was questioning or surprised: "What?"

"I overheard it by chance..." Hikigaya Komachi's eyes flickered. She looked at the expressionless Yukinoshita, the puzzled Saki Kawasaki, and the surprised Yuigahama Yui. "So you haven't heard about it?"

Both Kawasaki Saki and Yukino Yukinoshita looked at Yuigahama Yui.

Both of them have few friends and are not very well-informed about this kind of news.

"I heard some of it, but I didn't take it seriously." Yuigahama Yui recalled, "Someone mentioned it at the beginning of the school year, saying that they saw you two together."

Yukinoshita Yukino: "...That's culinary training."

"And then there was the tennis incident."

Yukinoshita Yukino: "...That was a club activity."

“And in family restaurants.”

Yukinoshita Yukino: "...That's a book club."

"That's all I heard." Yuigahama Yui smiled awkwardly, "Because I have a good relationship with Yukino-chan, no one told me any further rumors."

"I overheard it by chance," Hikigaya Komachi nodded. "Once they realized I was listening, they shut up."

"It seems those guys also know that this is an irresponsible rumor." Yukinoshita Yukino snorted coldly, "There is absolutely no factual basis."

The others looked at each other.

Well... Yukinoshita Yukino said so.

"I understand." Yukinoshita Yukino sighed deeply, as if she was fed up with it from the bottom of her heart. "Some people are just too bored and make random guesses—right?"

"I'll try to talk to Yumiko." Yuigahama Yui came up with an idea, "Let everyone stop spreading this rumor."

"But Yumiko's group can only affect our class at most," Hikigaya Komachi reminded. "I heard people from another class and seniors talking about this earlier."

"If you ignore them, the rumors will disappear naturally," Saki Kawasaki offered sound advice. "Rumors are the kind of thing that the more you pay attention to them, the more troublesome they become."

In Saki Kawasaki's opinion, no matter how much she explains to those who spread rumors, it will be a waste of effort.

Besides, Yukinoshita Yukino and Azuma Yunshan did date, so the more she explained, the more unclear it became.

Not only are the explanations of the parties involved useless, but even those who help to explain will be tortured and attacked, and even fabricated and slandered, developing into more complex and astonishing rumors.

"Yeah, just don't mind it." Yuigahama Yui tilted her head, her knowledge not keeping up with her words, "What's this called..."

"Just deal with it coldly," Hikigaya Komachi added. "That's probably the best way to handle this situation."

"So..." Yuigahama Yui comforted Yukinoshita Yukino, "As long as you don't let the rumors affect you, they're just rumors. Don't take them to heart!"

"I don't care about other people's misunderstandings, nor do I care about such boring rumors, and I won't be affected by them." Yukinoshita Yukino narrowed her eyes coldly, "But some people do."

"Huh?" Yuigahama Yui was puzzled. "Someone will...what do you mean?"

Kawasaki Saki's eyes moved slightly: "That's why he..."

Hikigaya Komachi was confused. "What?"

"I don't understand either... No, I do understand!" Yuigahama Yui suddenly realized, "Yunshan, he's basically not in the Servant Club recently. He said he's busy helping someone open a shop outside."

"Maintaining distance..." Hikigaya Komachi understood instantly, "That's one way to deal with it."

"I thought he had made some progress, but it turns out his understanding of things is still superficial. He thought that this kind of formal treatment could solve the essential problem." Yukinoshita Yukino showed an almost ferocious expression, and black air was almost coming out of her body.

It seemed like he was even angrier than when he heard the rumors about himself.

Yuigahama Yui tugged at the corner of Hikigaya Komachi's clothes: "I don't understand now. Isn't Yunshan's approach a good one?"

"Those who spread rumors are anticipating the person's reaction, anticipating the impact their words will have on others. The essence of the cold approach is to not respond to these expectations, not react at all, and not be affected by the rumors." Hikigaya Komachi patiently explained, "Perhaps Yunshan believes that he and Yukino are too close, which has led to the spread of these rumors. If he keeps his distance from Yukino, the rumors will disappear."

"But that's not the case." Kawasaki Saki said with a slightly irritated look, "Such an action would only make those who spread the rumor think he's guilty."

There is no three hundred taels of silver here.

"So... it seems so." Yuigahama Yui recalled what Hiratsuka Shizuka-sensei had said before. "So, has the 'real reason' that Hiratsuka-sensei mentioned been found?"

"What's going on?" Hikigaya Komachi was not there just now.

Yuigahama Yui briefly explained the whole story.

"I see." Hikigaya Komachi blinked, "But is it really like that?"

Everyone's eyes were focused on Yukinoshita Yukino.

"If it were him before, it's almost certain to be like this. But after my corrections, he should have made some progress. But I haven't been with him recently, and I don't know if the effects of the corrections have worn off." Yukinoshita Yukino pressed her temples as if a headache arose. "I just felt that the corrections were effective, so I felt safe letting him go out and about. But now... he's a real worry."

Saki Kawasaki understands this feeling all too well.

She feels the same way about taking care of her younger siblings.

I feel that my younger siblings are sensible enough that I can let them move around freely.

But if you don't take care of it, trouble will arise.

"That is to say, the specific situation still needs further verification," Hikigaya Komachi summarized simply. "After verification, we still need to find a suitable method to bring Yunshan back."

"But how should we do it specifically?" Yuigahama Yui couldn't think of any good method.

We can't really let the two of them break up, right?

No, I almost forgot, they haven't started dating yet.

"Test his attitude first. If he avoids interacting with me, then I can be sure he's avoiding me. Then show him the correct way to handle rumors and let him know what true cold treatment is." Yukinoshita Yukino picked up a magazine on the table, flipped it open, and pointed to the advertisement page: "Use this."

There is a particularly eye-catching line of promotional text on it:

【Tokyo Cat and Dog Show】

"Ah!" Hikigaya Komachi's eyes lit up. "You want to invite him to a cat and dog show?"

Yuigahama Yui exclaimed: "Going on a date!?"

Yukinoshita Yukino said with a straight face: "It's correction."

Volume 6: Chapter 232 I'll Listen to You

"So..." Kawasaki Saki sipped her drink, "You want to just ask... to correct him?"

"He'll resist then." Yukinoshita Yukino lowered her eyes slightly, "There still needs to be a reasonable reason..."

After pondering for a moment, Yukinoshita Yukino looked up at the others.

Saki Kawasaki: "..."

You want to date your ex but don't want to find a way yourself, and you want us to help you come up with a reason?

"If you could say you got free tickets for other exhibitions..." Hikigaya Komachi spread her hands regretfully, "But the Tokyo Cat and Dog Show doesn't require tickets."

"By the way, how about just calling it a collective activity of the Servant Club?" Yuigahama Yui suggested, "General clubs have such collective gatherings, right?"

Kawasaki Saki nodded: "It's indeed a good reason."

When the time comes, just find a reason to leave and let them be alone.

"Club activities...?" Yukinoshita Yukino took out her phone, "I'll contact him now."

The call is connected.

“This is East Spruce.”

Yukinoshita Yukino turned on the speakerphone: "Are you free on Saturday?"

"Saturday..." Dong Yunshan's voice was a little chaotic. "I might have to go check on the material supplier. What's going on?"

Yukinoshita Yukino pursed her lips and said, "This year's Tokyo Cat and Dog Show is in Chiba. I want to go and see it."

Yuigahama Yui was stunned.

Didn’t you say we should all go together?

How can Yukinoshita Yukino directly...

Dong Yunshan's voice rang on the phone: "Sorry..."

Yukinoshita Yukino's face darkened.

Yuigahama Yui immediately understood what Yukinoshita Yukino meant.

This is a verification process.

If Azuma Yunshan agrees to Yukinoshita Yukino's invitation, then he can take the opportunity to bring up the collective activities of the Service Club to justify this invitation.

If Azuma Yunshan rejected Yukinoshita Yukino's invitation, it means that he is very likely deliberately keeping a distance from Yukinoshita Yukino because of the rumors.

Then Yukinoshita Yukino proposed the idea of ​​a collective club activity and asked Azuma Yunshan to come out for further correction.

And now...the previous speculation has been verified.

"Wait a minute—Xiao Maki, come here." Dong Yunshan's voice was a little distant. "This partition isn't working. We need to redesign it. We want a hazy effect where you can't see people clearly but know they're there. People can take photos comfortably but won't feel embarrassed to stay for long. Embed mini lights in the ground to guide the camera position. It would be best to add some mirror-reflective material to assist in taking photos... Don't do it from the side, it will affect the photo editing..."

Saki Kawasaki: “???” It turns out that she was not rejecting, but communicating with the designer, but the content of this communication... was really about a milk tea shop?

"There's a lot going on here." Dong Yunshan's voice became clear again. "If you want to go, just go... Ah, you want to go with everyone, right? It just so happens that our club hasn't held any group activities yet, so this time will be fine—I'll ask my friend to arrange the tickets."

Hikigaya Komachi helplessly raised his forehead.

Has Azuma Yunshan never considered the possibility of Yukinoshita Yukino asking him out?

"...No ticket is needed." Yukinoshita Yukino's eyes were complicated, and she remembered what Azuma Yunshan had told her before, about helping transfer students integrate into the group when they were in junior high school.

Dong Yunshan probably thought that she was embarrassed to invite other people, so she asked him to organize a group activity together.

"Then it's settled," Dong Yunshan responded. "Let me know when you agree on the time and place."

"Okay." Yukinoshita Yukino hung up the phone.

The previous guess has not been verified yet, and Yukinoshita Yukino has a new guess in her mind.

With the addition of Yui Higahama and Saki Kawasaki, and the frequent visits of Komachi Hikigaya, Azuma Yunshan thought she had made friends.

Just like Yukinoshita Yukino thought she had corrected Azuma Yunshan, so she let him busy himself outside.

Azuma Yunshan also thought that he had corrected Yukinoshita Yukino, and that Yukinoshita Yukino had made many friends, so there was no need for him to stay in the service club all the time.

I see how charming the green mountains are, and the green mountains should see me as such.

Which one specifically? Or both?

Further verification is needed.

Yuigahama Yui had a complicated expression.

Although she has never been on a date, she has gone shopping with friends.

The phone call between Yukinoshita Yukino and Azuma Yunshan didn't have the atmosphere of a date, let alone good friends. It was just a business matter.

What went wrong?

Yuigahama Yui, who was thinking about this, suddenly found Yukinoshita Yukino staring at her: "Xiao Yukino?"

Yukinoshita Yukino's eyes were firm: "I have something to ask you."

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The so-called Tokyo Cat and Dog Show is a pet exhibition with cats and dogs. In addition to common cats and dogs, some rare pets are also exhibited.

The exhibition content covers pet food, beauty products, smart devices, healthcare, pet clothing, adoption services, etc., and there are also interactive experience areas and professional lectures.

Dong Yunshan was waiting at the agreed place, lowered his head to reply to two emails, and when he looked up, he saw a familiar figure.

The black twin ponytails tied with red ribbons form a strong contrast with the white dress, further highlighting the whiteness of the fair skin. Paired with a light blue jacket, it is like a refreshing sea breeze quietly approaching in the hot summer.

Yukinoshita Yukino stopped and looked around: "Are we the first to arrive?"

"It should be." Azuma Yunshan's gaze fell on Yukinoshita Yukino's waist.

The upper part of the white dress is a slim fit design, making the skirt look lighter.

The light blue cardigan adds a sense of layering, while the subtle length is just enough to cover the upper part of the dress.

But this is when Yukinoshita Yukino does not move.