Yukinoshita's Correction Method

"That's... Miki?" Yuigahama Yui thought of a possibility, "Haven't you all seen Sasaki's girlfriend? It's very likely Miki, and then she was almost discovered by Tanaka..."

"When Tanaka went upstairs, Miki was at the Film Research Club." Hikigaya Komachi shook her head. "She couldn't have teleported to the prop room all of a sudden, could she?"

"Hmm... that could be Miki." Yuigahama Yui picked up the poster. "Miki likes Hojo and wants to support his new poster. But Hojo hasn't finished drawing the new poster yet. To buy time for Hojo, Miki took the key to the prop room and hung a model of the Ao Oni outside to scare Tanaka and delay the progress."

"But that would be discovered by Minister Hojo." Hikigaya Komachi adjusted the progress bar to the spot where the cyan object was photographed. "It's outside the window of the Film Research Society. To be more precise, it's a little below the window. Although it's hanging there, it can't be seen from inside the Film Research Society. However, if we throw it down from the prop room, we can see it from inside the Film Research Society."

"Not necessarily." Dong Yunshan dug out a rope from the junk at the back of the activity room and tied a book to the end. "Just throw it sideways like this."

The book at the end of the rope flew horizontally for a distance, then moved in a circular motion with the rope as the center, swinging slightly back and forth, and finally came to rest.

Dong Yunshan pointed to the fan-shaped pattern drawn by the rope and said, "As long as the length of the rope is controlled, this fan-shaped pattern will encompass the windows of the Film Research Society, ensuring that no one inside the Film Research Society can see the green foreign object."

Hikigaya Komachi fiddled with the rope: "But the rope will still be seen. Even if it's a fishing line, it will be noticed if it swings back and forth."

"I know that!" Yuigahama Yui skillfully adjusted the progress bar of the handheld video player. "Look, the curtains of the Film Research Society are partially drawn."

It seems that Hojo pulled down some of the curtains in the activity room in order to find inspiration to create a dark feeling.

Even if a large object passes by, it will still cast a noticeable shadow on the curtains.

But the shaking of the fishing line will definitely not be noticed by the people in the Film Research Society.

"Could it really be Miki?" Yuigahama Yui bit her lower lip lightly, "She has such a good personality, how could she..."

"The recycling problem." Yukinoshita Yukino tapped her notebook with the tip of her pen. She had already drawn a diagram when Azuma was demonstrating. "If Miki did it on the third floor, she needs to consider the recycling issue. She can use Azuma's method when putting it down, but not when recycling it. And if she lifts it up, Hojo from the Film Research Society will still find out."

"Can't we just hang it there first?" Yuigahama Yui tilted her head, "We'll collect it later."

"Miki and Hojo are childhood sweethearts. They always walk home together after school. Even if she says she forgot something, Hojo will come back with her." Hikigaya Komachi paused. "And we also have to consider the possibility that Tanaka or Sasaki will come over to check."

Then he would be caught on the spot.

"So the only person who has the time and motivation to quickly release and recover it is Hojo," Yuigahama Yui murmured, "and he also has the Aoki model. As long as he keeps Miki away for a while, he can complete the whole process."

"Both Miki and Hojo are trying to scare Tanaka." Yukinoshita Yukino closed her notebook. "But how can they be sure that they can scare Tanaka by doing this?"

"Try your luck?" Yuigahama Yui, who gave this answer, felt that it was unreliable. "Besides Tanaka, the only one who can control the direction of Tanaka's camera is... Sasaki!"

"Shinobu-kun," Yukinoshita Yukino's voice was clear, "Are you going to continue hiding this?"

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Volume 2 Club Activities: Chapter 35: No One in the Bathroom

Dong Yunshan scratched his head irritably. "I'm just making a guess based on my...friend's experience and the information I have available."

"Everyone's just guessing," Yukinoshita Yukino ruffled her hair, "Do you think your guess is the unquestionable truth?"

"Okay." Dong Yunshan took a long breath, "I..."

"You have a friend." Yukinoshita Yukino continued expressionlessly, "For the sake of convenience, let's assume that your friend is you."

"This time it really is a friend of mine." Dong Yunshan's eyes were complicated. "One Christmas, this friend's roommate went on a date, leaving my...friend alone in the room."

"You should just pretend that this friend is you," Yuigahama Yui suggested. "That way it's easier for you to say it and for us to listen to it. Just pretend that this friend isn't you."

"It wasn't me originally..." Dong Yunshan cleared his throat. "Let me tell it in the first person. On that Christmas Day, I turned on the bathroom light and turned on the hot water, and the bathroom was filled with mist and light, like a miracle.

“I was online in a room across from the living room, posting and pretending I was waiting for a woman to finish her shower and come out to be with me.

“But actually I was the one who turned on the water and there was no one in the bathroom.

“My roommate came back with a girl and he looked at the bathroom in surprise and asked if I had brought a girl back.

“I should be honest, but the truth is so sad.

“So I said yes, I brought a girl back.

“My roommate patted my shoulder, smiled secretly, and went into his room with his girlfriend.

“Later, my roommate told people that I had a girlfriend.

“People ask me, is this true?

“All I could say was yes, I couldn’t tell them I turned on the water and there was no one in the bathroom.

“So I had a rough time.

“I can’t go to Bachelor After get off work events anymore because they heard I have a girlfriend.

“People around me are curious about my girlfriend and want to get to know her.

“But I don’t have a girlfriend, I turned on the water, and there was no one in the bathroom.

“I kept declining, and they thought we had had a fight, so they asked me to buy her some gifts.

“Some cute little gifts and a lipstick shade I couldn’t place.

“My girlfriend would be very happy to receive it if I had one.

“To avoid suspicion, I even bought sanitary napkins, unpacked them and placed them in my room, pretending someone needed them.

“It’s like I need someone like this to exist.

"Gradually, everyone believed that I had a girlfriend.

"No one knew I was the one who turned on the water. There was no one in the bathroom."

"This is my... a friend's personal experience." Dong Yunshan let out a sigh, "So when I heard that Sasaki had a girlfriend, but no one had seen her, my first reaction was—what's wrong with you guys?"

"I'm sorry, I didn't expect..." Yuigahama Yui sniffed, "Touyun, in fact, there are many girls who like your type."

"No..." Dong Yunshan held his forehead helplessly, "This is really my friend's experience."

"Yeah, I understand." Hikigaya Komachi's eyes were slightly red. "Can you tell me the type you like? I might have someone around me, and I can introduce you to them."

"I don't have any plans to fall in love right now." Dong Yunshan sighed, "Don't get me wrong, this is not my personal experience."

Yukinoshita Yukino smiled softly, a rare sight, her eyes filled with concern. "I know there are several banks whose ATMs are particularly beautiful..."

"You're the worst!" Dong Yunshan complained angrily, "Why are you already introducing ATMs?"

Yukinoshita Yukino: "I remember this is your type."

"Who would like an ATM?" Dong Yunshan snorted coldly, "I like rich women. Why don't you introduce me to any?"

Yuigahama Yui and Hikigaya Komachi looked at Yukinoshita Yukino, then turned to Azuma Yunshan, "Oh~~~"

"Anyway..." Yukinoshita Yukino glared at Azuma Yunshan, "Sasaki's girlfriend is very likely fake."

"Huh?" Yuigahama Yui suddenly brought the topic back to her, and asked in confusion, "But why is he..."

Dong Yunshan reminded, "There is a pair of childhood sweethearts in the club."

"And Miki clearly chose her own poster, but because she was concerned about Hojo's feelings, she changed her choice, so Sasaki..." Yuigahama Yui adjusted the video progress bar, "Wait, didn't Tanaka take a picture here?"

"I captured a silhouette." Hikigaya Komachi played the video. For a brief moment, the silhouette didn't move at all. "For Sasaki, the prop maker, it wouldn't have been difficult to create a model that cast a shadow on the curtain—but surprisingly, no one noticed."

"Hojo must have discovered some clues, but he didn't know that Sasaki's girlfriend didn't exist. Instead, he suspected Miki was Sasaki's hidden girlfriend." Yukinoshita Yukino pointed at the poster, "That's why he stayed up late every day drawing posters at school, and even left the door open."

"In that case, the action here makes sense." Yuigahama Yui watched as Sasaki in the video walked out of the prop room, put the model aside, and reached into his pocket. "He wasn't looking for fishing line, he wanted to lock the door. But when he thought about his fictional girlfriend being inside and someone locking the door, it would seem strange, so he didn't lock the door."

"Then, while Sasaki and Tanaka were filming downstairs, Miki went to the prop room to get a model for Hojo to use as a reference." Hikigaya Komachi followed this line of thought and analyzed, "Miki should have knocked on the door first, asked if anyone was inside, and when there was no response, she walked in and saw a figure on the curtain. She thought it was Sasaki's girlfriend, asked a few times but got no response, so she walked over to the curtain to see..."

"She probably saw a model wearing clothes and a wig... Thinking about the clues from the past, she figured out what was going on." Dong Yunshan felt the scene must have been quite eerie. "Perhaps wanting to take a closer look, or perhaps because she was frightened, Miki accidentally knocked over Sasaki's 'girlfriend'."

"And when Sasaki saw something moving in the prop room, he knew someone else had entered, so his face looked so grim." Yukinoshita Yukino looked at the video playing. "After going upstairs and seeing the model of the Film Research Society, he knew it was Hojo or Miki who had entered the prop room."

Volume 2 Club Activities: Chapter 36: The Way of the Man

"Hojo wanted to get a feel for the props," Miki explained sheepishly on camera. "Since you weren't here, I went to get them myself. I'll bring them back to you later."

Sasaki said nothing, just looked at Miki.

"Right, right." Miki suddenly seemed to remember something. "Your girlfriend asked me to tell you that she left early because of something."

[“…I understand.”] Sasaki nodded and walked away quickly.

"This is Miki explaining why she entered the prop room. Miki didn't want to expose Sasaki's affair, so she found an excuse to help him conceal it." Hikigaya Komachi immediately understood the somewhat strange interaction between Miki and Sasaki. "And here, Sasaki deliberately piled the props at the door to prevent Tanaka from entering the prop room, so that he could check the situation inside."

When Tanaka arrived at the prop room, Sasaki had already thrown the Ao Oni model at the door and walked in alone.

It took Tanaka a while to bring the Aoki models into the prop room one by one.

This period of time is enough for Sasaki to confirm the situation.

"When we went down to shoot with Tanaka again, Sasaki seemed absent-minded and kept playing with his phone. He must have been communicating with Miki." Yuigahama Yui felt embarrassed just thinking about it. "After being discovered by Miki, he also felt his own... In short, he thought he should stop this... um..."

Yuigahama Yui paused several times, trying to find the right words, but found nothing.

"Sasaki, immersed in his own fantasy, felt an indescribable emptiness from the complex emotions he couldn't express when someone broke into his dream." Azuma tapped his temple. "So when Tanaka asked about it, Sasaki, wanting to end it all, told Tanaka that he had broken up with his girlfriend."

Yuigahama Yui nodded repeatedly: "It has to be someone who has had the same experience..."

Dong Yunshan looked at her expressionlessly.

"...my friend's description is more accurate." Yuigahama Yui avoided his gaze and changed the subject. "But this matter was exposed because of Tanaka's sudden arrival. So Sasaki went back to the prop room and hung the blue foreign object outside to scare Tanaka."

"Komachi, even though your brother stopped writing the Divine Realm diary and the organizational report," Azuma Yunshan turned his gaze to Hikigaya Komachi, "what happened to his past diaries and reports?"

"I found a large box and sealed it away carefully." Hikigaya Komachi's eyes flickered. "Are you saying... that green object is actually Sasaki's girlfriend?"

"Even if it's fake, Sasaki's feelings for it are real. Whether it's to seal it up or say goodbye, he wants to take the model of his girlfriend home." Azuma Yunshan shook the rope holding the book. "But if he takes it down directly, Hojo, who's painting with the door open, will find out. So he used the method I just mentioned. He wrapped the model of his girlfriend in a blue cloth and hung it outside the window of the Film Research Society."

"That way, if he could scare off Tanaka outside, he could get outside the special building and take his girlfriend home without being discovered by Hojo and Tanaka." Hikigaya Komachi suddenly realized, "But Tanaka, worried about Sasaki's mental state, didn't see the blue package and went upstairs to find him."

"That's why Sasaki reacted like that before leaving the prop room." Dong Yunshan pointed at the handheld console. "Seeing that Tanaka cared about him, Sasaki didn't want to scare him anymore and planned to take the cyan package back."

"I... that... um..." Tanaka hesitated in the video. "Let's go back together."

[“I have something else to do.”] Sasaki refused coldly.

[“Then I’ll wait for you.”] Tanaka walked into the prop room and found a place to sit down.

"...Never mind. We'll talk about it later." Sasaki walked out of the prop room. "Let's go."

"But Tanaka said he wanted to wait for him, so Sasaki had no choice but to leave with him." Yuigahama Yui finally understood everything. "But on the way out, Tanaka kept following Sasaki, leaving him no time to retrieve the package. Plus, provoked by Tanaka's question, Sasaki deliberately turned the camera towards the special building."

Tanaka noticed the blue foreign object and was startled.

Sasaki dragged Tanaka away from the scene, and after sending the frightened Tanaka away, he came back to take the package.

"I have another question!" Hikigaya Komachi raised her hand like an elementary school student. "How is Sasaki going to retrieve the package if it's hanging so high up?"

Dong Yunshan: "I..."

Yukinoshita Yukino continued: "You have a friend?"

"I really know how to do this." Dong Yunshan picked up the rope, passed it through the handle of the schoolbag, wrapped it around the steel pipe, and tied the two ends together. "Just tie a slipknot, and this loop of rope can hang the package. Then leave the rope a little longer, tie a heavy object to it, let it fall to the ground, and pull it from below-"

Dong Yunshan pulled the rope end, untying the knot. The loop of rope became a rope, and the schoolbag could be taken out naturally: "Then I can put down the hanging package. This is a basic knot. If you can tie shoelaces, you can do it easily."

"So that's what happened..." Yuigahama Yui quickly went over the whole story in her mind, "No wonder you didn't want to tell me at first."

Azuma Yunshan's conjecture solved Hikigaya Komachi's doubts.

What is the blue foreign object?

Who put it there and for what purpose?

At the same time, it can also eliminate Tanaka's fear.

But this requires telling Tanaka the fact that Sasaki is pretending to have a girlfriend.

"This hypothesis is easy to verify... All we need to do is ask Miki what she saw in the prop room." Hikigaya Komachi lowered her head and repeated what Azuma Yunshan had said at the beginning. "If I guess wrong, the problem is not solved. But if I guess right... that's not good either."

Just like what Dong Yunshan said when he told his friend's story:

"I should be honest, but the truth is so sad."

It's so sad... that revealing the truth has become cruel.

Hikigaya Komachi raised her head helplessly: "I...what should I do?"

"Contact Miki," Yukinoshita Yukino's voice barely fluctuated, "Please ask her to come over."

Yuigahama Yui: “Huh?”

"I knew it would be like this. You are worthy of me." Azuma Yunshan looked at Yukinoshita Yukino helplessly, "Is it necessary?"