Yukinoshita's Correction Method

"It is necessary." Yukinoshita Yukino's eyes were firm. "If Sasaki deliberately frightened Tanaka, then he deserves to be punished; if Sasaki didn't do it on purpose, then he shouldn't be wronged."

Dong Yunshan raised an eyebrow: "What did you say?"

"I'm only asking a question I already know the answer to." Yukinoshita Yukino brushed aside her soft black hair that fell on her shoulders. "Then, excellent Shinonome-san, you will admit defeat."

Volume 2 Club Activities: Chapter 37: One in Ten Thousand

"Okay." Azuma Yunshan folded his arms across his chest, imitating Yukinoshita's behavior at that time. "If you can really do it, you win twice."

"Oh oh oh oh oh!" Yuigahama Yui's eyes lit up, "Since Mr. Hiratsuka is not here, I'll be the referee this time—I approve! If Yukino can make Shinonome admit defeat with one question, then Yukino will win twice. But if she can't do it, then she will lose twice."

"It suddenly caught fire..." Hikigaya Komachi was confused and looked at the three people in astonishment, "What's going on?"

"This is a little love game between Yukino-chan and Azumo!" Under the gaze of Azumo and Yukinoshita Yukino, Yuigahama Yui changed her words in time, "The winner can make all kinds of requests to the other party!"

"You guys in the Service Club really know how to have fun..." Hikigaya Komachi stood up, "Miki should be in the Film Research Club right now, I'll go ask her if she's free."

"By the way, tell her one thing." A confident smile appeared on Yukinoshita Yukino's face, "I will solve Hojo's troubles as well."

"Huh?" Hikigaya Komachi was stunned for a moment. She didn't expect that Yukinoshita Yukino could even solve problems in painting. She agreed and went to the Film Research Society.

Yuigahama Yui saw Yukinoshita Yukino take out a pen and paper and asked in surprise, "Xueno, can you even draw?"

"I've studied it for three days." Yukinoshita Yukino took out a highlighter for marking key points and drew a line on the paper.

"Three days... If it were you, three days would be impressive enough. But even with your guidance, Hojo wouldn't improve that quickly, right?" Yuigahama Yui asked doubtfully, "Are you going to draw for him?"

Yukinoshita Yukino, who believes that it is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish, should not do such a thing as drawing for others.

And even if Yukinoshita Yukino drew a better poster, Hojo's troubles would not be solved.

It is difficult to determine who is better in art, and Yuigahama Yui feels that what Hojo cares about is not who draws the better poster, but that his childhood sweetheart Miki chose another person's work.

"I wouldn't do that." Yukinoshita Yukino shook her head, "There's no need to do that."

"Huh?" Yuigahama Yui was confused and was about to ask Azuma Yunshan, but found that he was playing with his mobile phone.

It seems like he is checking something.

Not long after, Hikigaya Komachi returned to the service club with the red-haired girl.

The female classmate was Miki, whom everyone had seen in the video before.

"Hello." Miki greeted everyone, and her eyes paused for a moment on Yukinoshita Yukino.

Most people at Chiba City Sobu High School have heard of this beautiful girl.

Yuigahama Yui waved enthusiastically, "Hello~"

Hikigaya Komachi briefly introduced the two parties, and Azuma Yunshan brought a chair and asked Miki to sit down.

"My question is..." Yukinoshita Yukino handed Miki a piece of paper with a line drawn on it with a yellow highlighter, "What color is this?"

"Huh?" Miki blinked, "Pink... right."

For a moment, all eyes were on Miki.

The yellow handwriting drawn by Yukinoshita Yukino on the white paper was extremely clear.

Yukinoshita Yukino looked at Azuma Yunshan. Under her gaze, Azuma Yunshan let out a long sigh, "I give up."

"Huh?" Yuigahama Yui looked around, "Why is it like this again?"

She didn't feel there was anything obvious wrong with Dong Yunshan's guess.

Why did you admit defeat so suddenly?

"Could it be..." Hikigaya Komachi thought of something, "When you dyed your hair before, did you really feel the same?"

"Dye your hair?" Miki blinked. "Ah...it's just a slight color difference."

"This isn't just a slight color difference," Yuigahama Yui reminded, "Flax Gold is yellowish, and Hime Kurumi is reddish—huh? Red-green color blindness?!"

"It's not red-green color blindness," Dong Yunshan showed the results of his mobile phone search, "but blue-yellow color blindness, which only occurs in one out of ten thousand people."

Miki bit her lower lip lightly, "I just discovered this recently too."

"Blue-yellow color blindness? That means you can't tell the difference between blue and yellow?" Yuigahama Yui didn't understand. "But Miki can't tell the difference between pink and yellow."

"The name blue-yellow color blindness is somewhat misleading. People with blue-yellow color blindness have difficulty distinguishing between blue and yellow. It's not that they can't tell the difference between blue and yellow, but rather that they see blue as a kind of green and yellow as a kind of red." Yukinoshita Yukino paused, "In other words, they can't tell the difference between red and yellow, and they also have difficulty distinguishing between blue and green."

"I can't tell the difference between red and yellow, so I think flax gold and walnut are about the same color." Hikigaya Komachi looked at Yukinoshita Yukino with admiration. "Did you guess it just based on my words?"

"There are three more pieces of evidence," Yukinoshita Yukino reminded. "Remember those two glass bottles of soda Miki bought?"

Hikigaya Komachi adjusted the video progress bar to check, "The green taste of cantaloupe and the blue taste of blueberry..."

"You can tell which flavor the soda is by its color." Yukinoshita Yukino pointed to the handheld screen. "But when you took the soda, you turned the bottle in the plastic bag to read the label, right?"

Miki nodded slightly.

Yuigahama Yui couldn't wait to ask, "What about the other two pieces of evidence?"

Yukinoshita Yukino picked up two posters, "The second one is the poster."

The poster drawn by Sasaki depicts four people, three men and one woman. Behind the four people with different expressions is a huge human face in a color that is almost cyan and dark blue.

The poster drawn by Hojo is more subtle. It also shows three men and one woman walking together towards a western-style building surrounded by dense jungle.

The color of the jungle's shadows was adjusted to be close to dark blue, and with the help of the clever distribution of branches and shrubs, the outline of the blue ghost was secretly outlined.

"Sasaki's poster clearly highlights the theme of the Aoki, but Hojo's uses the jungle's dark cyan shadows to outline the Aoki," Yukinoshita Yukino pointed at the dark cyan shadows. "If you can't distinguish between blue and green, then the green bushes and branches and the dark cyan shadows will blend together, making it difficult to distinguish, and yet they take up a lot of space."

Hikigaya Komachi suddenly realized: "That's why you didn't choose Minister Hojo's poster, Miki."

"I didn't notice it at first. I thought he didn't draw Aoki. The poster should at least have a theme." Miki raised her hand and drew a few lines on the poster. "But then I looked closely and saw the difference between light and dark, so I chose Hojo's painting again... But he still wasn't very happy."

Volume 2 Club Activities: Chapter 38 The Third Evidence

"I thought..." Hikigaya Komachi recalled her previous guess with a complicated expression.

Yukinoshita Yukino said pointedly, "There's no need for me to repeat the gap between misunderstanding and reality."

"Hehe..." Hikigaya Komachi smiled and changed the subject, "What about the third piece of evidence?"

"This involves Touno-san's biggest mistake." Yukinoshita Yukino tilted her head slightly in Touno-san's direction. "Do you want me to tell you or do you want me to tell you?"

Although she knew that there was nothing between the two of them, but after hearing Yukinoshita Yukino's words and seeing her expression, Hikigaya Komachi still felt...it was really like a wife scolding her husband who had made a mistake.

It's that feeling of "Do you know where you went wrong?"

Such a strong sense of déjà vu made Hikigaya Komachi feel itchy.

I want to say it, but I don’t dare to say it out loud.

If she really said it, Yukinoshita Yukino would probably have to repeat the gap between misunderstanding and reality again.

Such an interesting thing cannot be shared with others... Just as Hikigaya Komachi was thinking this, her eyes met Yuigahama Yui's.

Just by making eye contact, Hikigaya Komachi knew that Yuigahama Yui felt the same way.

We understand each other so well that everything is said without words.

"Let me start from the beginning." Azuma Yunshan tapped his temple lightly, trying to gather his thoughts. "After Sasaki and Tanaka brought the Aoki model downstairs for the first time, Miki and Hojo asked you to go to the prop room and get a model to use as a reference for him. When you entered the prop room, you saw a strange model—right?"

"How do you know..." Miki's eyes widened in surprise, "Komachi... No, Komachi doesn't know either. Did Sasaki tell you?"

"It was a guess based on the information we had," Dong Yunshan continued. "Thinking about some clues from the past, you realized that the model was the girlfriend Sasaki had mentioned. You didn't want to expose him and embarrass him, so after Sasaki went upstairs, you told him that his girlfriend had left first, implying that you would keep it a secret for him."

"You can actually guess this far..." Miki breathed a sigh of relief. "I knocked on the door, but no one answered. But when I went in, I saw the figure on the curtain. I apologized to the figure, but still no response. I felt something was wrong, so I walked over, and saw..."

Miki's face was pale, and her expression was a little frightened. "Behind the curtain was a foam model, wearing clothes, a wig, and lipstick. The painted eyes seemed to be staring at me... and smiling. I was startled and accidentally caught the cloth under the model, bringing it down. Then those eyes... were still staring at me. I didn't dare move, so I could only cover them with the cloth beside me."

Just by listening to Miki's description, Yuigahama Yui felt a chill all over her body.

Among a bunch of strange-looking green ghost models, there was an abrupt human-shaped model, staring straight at him... It was normal to be scared.

"After Sasaki and Tanaka went down, they were absentmindedly playing with their phones," Dong Yunshan continued. "They were talking to you about that model."

"After listening to him, I wasn't so scared anymore." Miki ruffled her hair nervously, "Although I still had a nightmare afterwards."

"The following is my mistake." Dong Yunshan adjusted the progress bar of the video. "Sasaki did want to take the model home, but he had no intention of scaring Tanaka."

"No plans to scare Tanaka?" Yuigahama Yui was puzzled. "Then how can he avoid being discovered by Tanaka?"

"Just the right height..." Azuma Yunshan showed Yuigahama Yui the paused video, "and the right color."

On the handheld screen, the green package hanging outside the special building looked like a green smiling face twisted among the branches full of green leaves.

"I initially thought Sasaki hung the package outside the second-floor window to eliminate suspicion. But actually, only by hanging it outside the second-floor window would the package be located right between the treetops, not above them." Azuma Yunshan tapped the spot outside the third-floor window where there were no dense branches obstructing the view. "The cyan color is very conspicuous among the branches, but if it were green, it would be almost invisible. Komachi mentioned that a green screen was used during filming, so there must be green cloth in the prop room."

"Well, there are a lot. So why didn't Sasaki use the green cloth..." Hikigaya Komachi paused, then exclaimed, "Not Sasaki!"

"That's right. When Tanaka came up to look for Sasaki, Sasaki hadn't even hung the package outside yet. To be more precise, he hadn't even wrapped up the special model yet." Azuma Yunshan put down the handheld. "But Tanaka insisted on waiting for Sasaki to leave together. So Sasaki had to ask the only person who knew about this—Miki—to help him with this."

Sasaki, who left with Tanaka, had been fiddling with his cell phone, communicating with Miki, asking her to help him wrap the model with green cloth and hang it outside the second-floor window, hiding the green package with the green tree canopy.

There was nothing wrong with the plan, and Miki did her best to complete it.

The problem is that......

Miki is blue-yellow color blind, she sees yellow as red and blue as green.

"I thought I was using green cloth..." Miki lowered her head, "It wasn't until Sasaki asked me why I was using blue cloth that I realized I had taken the wrong one."

Sasaki reacted quickly. Although he didn't know the specific reason, he immediately pulled Tanaka away after seeing the blue package.

"I heard that Tanaka was frightened. I've been wondering what to do..." Miki twisted her fingers nervously together, "I don't want Tanaka to be so scared all the time, and I don't want to reveal Sasaki's secret... Sasaki begged me to wait for two days, and I don't know what to do except wait."

Hikigaya Komachi held Miki's hand: "It's not your fault..."

Yuigahama Yui comforted her softly, "You just wanted to help, you didn't mean to scare Tanaka."

Dong Yunshan made a phone call gesture, "Hasn't it been two days? Contact Sasaki and see if we can work out a solution."

Yukinoshita Yukino's expression was calm, and her voice was even calmer: "This is the third piece of evidence."

The air in the service club's activity room was quiet.

"What?" Seeing everyone looking at her, Yukinoshita Yukino tilted her head in confusion, "Aren't we discussing this topic?"

Volume 2 Club Activities: Chapter 39: Neither Gives in

"The matter is clear..." Yuigahama Yui tugged at the corner of Yukinoshita Yukino's clothes, "but how to eliminate Tanaka's fear has become a new problem."

"Just tell him the truth," Yukinoshita Yukino replied as a matter of course, "If he knows what the blue alien object is, who hung it there and why, Tanaka's fear will disappear - this is something that was determined from the beginning."

Hikigaya Komachi hesitated, "But if that's the case, what about Sasaki..."

"Aren't there enough people who know about this now?" Yukinoshita Yukino asked back, "What difference would it make if one more person knew about it?"

Yuigahama Yui and Hikigaya Komachi looked at each other...I think that's what happened.

"You clearly have the reliable truth, but you want to pin your hopes on false lies..." Yukinoshita Yukino stared at Azuma Yunshan, her cold eyes narrowed slightly, "Especially you."

Based on past experience, Dong Yunshan was the first to guess that Sasaki's girlfriend was fake.

But Dong Yunshan thought the truth was too sad, so he wanted to hide it for Sasaki.

By making up a plausible lie.

It was not until Yukinoshita Yukino exposed his lies again and again that he was forced to express his guess.

It was precisely because of the desire to conceal the truth that Dong Yunshan lost the opportunity to further find out the truth.

He wanted to help Sasaki hide the secret, but almost wronged Sasaki.

In his guess, Sasaki wanted to take the model away without being discovered by others and scare Tanaka at the same time.

But the truth is, Sasaki had no intention of scaring Tanaka at all.

"Ah... I figured it out." Dong Yunshan's eyes turned, "Sasaki's girlfriend is real."

"Huh?" Yuigahama Yui's eyes were full of confusion, "But you just said..."

"I just said it, these are all my guesses." Dong Yunshan waved his hand. "There's a chance I'm right, but there's also a chance I'm wrong."

Hikigaya Komachi shook Miki's hand: "Sasaki..."

Miki shook her head slightly: "He told me that there is no..."

"People can lie, right? Just because something is said doesn't mean it's true." Dong Yunshan looked up. "Let me think about it... He had a girlfriend, but they broke up some time ago. Out of nostalgia, he couldn't bear to part with her things, so he even made a model to pretend that she was still with him."