I Bought Mr. Pan, So Why Can't I Win You Over! (continued)

Shizuka Hiratsuka suddenly remembered a career-path survey from when Yukino was in middle school that Haruno had once shown her.

Question: What is your ideal?

Yukino: I want to become someone as outstanding as my older sister and inherit the family business.

Question: Inheriting the family business will be very difficult. Not only will you need knowledge in all aspects, you'll also have to handle interpersonal relationships well.

Can you do that?

Yukino: Not yet. But I'll give it everything I have.

Yukino had a goal and wanted to give it everything she had.

That was why she had no attention to spare for anything outside that goal.

"Yukinoshita, what do you think about starting a club?"

Shizuka Hiratsuka suggested.

"A club?"

"Yes. Just like what happened with Iroha today, the biggest difference between you and Haruno is that you're not good at getting along with other people. So try helping others first.

"How about trying to close the distance between you and other people little by little?" Teacher Hiratsuka suggested.

Teacher Hiratsuka and Haruno were friends.

She also knew that Haruno cared very much about this younger sister of hers.

So Yukino had always wanted to become like Haruno, but her outstanding older sister Haruno absolutely hated that her younger sister was chasing after that version of herself.

It was just that Yukino didn't know, and was still working hard.

As an outsider, Shizuka Hiratsuka couldn't interfere, but no matter what, she hoped Yukino could become someone more easily understood by others.

Yukino's way of conducting herself was extremely independent.

And a person like that wasn't necessarily lonely. She could also be proud.

But people like that weren't bad people.

So as long as others came into contact with her, they might be able to understand that she was