Yukinoshita's Correction Method

"I have two hands." Dong Yunshan flipped over his other hand. "I also have two Aces hidden in my other hand."

Yui Yuigahama recalled the scene from before, "How did it fly out like that?"

"Flick with your fingers." Saki Kawasaki also uses some techniques when mixing drinks. "By mastering the force and rotation, you can flick the cards out."

"How did you all know?" Yui Yuigahama puffed out slightly. "What about that instant card change?"

Yukino Yukinoshita looked at Dong Yunshan: "Demonstrate it to her again, and that should be about right."

Dong Yunshan picked up an 8, pinched it between his right middle finger and thumb, and flicked it with his left finger, instantly turning it into an Ace.

"That's it! How come... huh?" Yui Yuigahama tilted her head and saw the 8 hidden behind the Ace by Yui Yuigahama Dong Yunshan. She then looked at Dong Yunshan's index finger and thumb, which were pinching the Ace. "You picked up two cards, and then, when you flicked them, you used your middle finger to push the 8 to the back, right?"

"So we need to get rid of this 8 later." Dong Yunshan picked up four Aces, "So I used another little trick."

The four Aces appear to be sandwiched among the other cards, but they are actually sandwiched behind the other cards, protruding slightly towards Dong Yunshan's body.

When Dong Yunshan bends his palm, causing the other cards to pop out, Dong Yunshan only needs to pull out the four Aces sandwiched on top to create the illusion that he has pulled out four Aces from the rapidly falling cards.

"Now that you mention it..." Yui Yuigahama said eagerly, "I feel like I could do it too!"

Yukino Yukinoshita sighed, "That's assuming you have his physical abilities."

Yui Yuigahama: "... Oh right."

Dong Yunshan arranged the cards. "I can teach you two simple magic tricks that don't require too much skill."

Saki Kawasaki looked at Yukino Yukinoshita: "I thought you wouldn't agree to him using that method."

"If the other party were to play the game openly and honestly, she certainly wouldn't agree," Dong Yunshan answered before Yukino Yukinoshita could speak. "But from the moment they broke the rules by communicating with coded messages and added conditions, the duel turned into gambling, and the essence of gambling is a duel of cheating methods."

"I'm glad you're gradually recognizing the true nature of things. Although it's the result of my corrections, this request was completed by you." Yukino Yukinoshita brushed aside her long hair that fell over her shoulder. "State your request."

Saki Kawasaki, confused. "A request?"

"This is their little secret..." Yui Yuigahama, "... a little game."

Saki Kawasaki: "?"

Volume 6: Chapter 268 Wedding Planning

"I've finished eating." Yukino Yukinoshita pushed her bento box toward Dong Yunshan.

Dong Yunshan took it and put the rest into his own lunchbox.

Yukino Yukinoshita rested her chin on her hand, tilted her head, and looked at Dong Yunshan, who was eating heartily. "Is this what you asked for?"

Previously, in order to check on Dong Yunshan's cooking progress, Yukino Yukinoshita asked Dong Yunshan to make her a bento.

In return, Yukino Yukinoshita would also bring lunch boxes for Dong Yunshan.

The two of them would take turns making lunchboxes for each other, one day at a time.

Then on the day it rained...

Yukino Yukinoshita announced that Dong Yunshan's cooking skills were good enough to graduate, so they agreed that after a week, Dong Yunshan would no longer need to bring Yukino Yukinoshita lunches, and Yukino Yukinoshita naturally would also stop bringing Dong Yunshan lunches.

Dong Yunshan's request was... that Yukino Yukinoshita be in charge of making lunch boxes for the last week.

"We won't be able to eat this anymore, so we have to make up for it this week." Dong Yunshan took a sip of tea. "The thought of not being able to eat this anymore is making me lose my appetite."

Yukino Yukinoshita a soft snort, "I didn't realize."

"I've finally gotten to eat it," Dong Yunshan said, lowering her head to continue eating.

"Slow down, no one's going to take it from you." Yukino Yukinoshita lips, her eyelids slightly lowered. "It's only for this week, you'll get used to not having my... 371.7... bento box sooner or later."

"That's easy." Dong Yunshan already had an idea. "Next time, I'll win again, and then we can extend the contract for another week, right?"

"Heh." Yukino Yukinoshita raised her eyes with a cold laugh. "You're quite confident. I'll prepare the ingredients. When you lose, you can come and get them from me."

"Then I'll prepare something too." Dong Yunshan felt this was a good idea, it was like ordering food for herself. "When you lose, just come to my place to get it."

"...Alright." Yukino Yukinoshita raised her chin slightly. "Then let's see who wins."

"Actually, the main problem is exam week." Dong Yunshan took out her phone and glanced at the calendar. "Final exams are on the 3rd of next month, and club activities will stop a week before the exams, so I need to request something this week."

Yukino Yukinoshita frowned slightly. "That depends on whether Teacher Hiratsuka has noticed any troubled students."

The Service Club will accept requests from students to help them solve problems.

The Service Club is not open to the public like other clubs. Apart from students who have received help, the only channel is through Teacher Hiratsuka.

Did Shizuka Hiratsuka notice any troubled students?

No.

Bang!

Shizuka Hiratsuka threw a bunch of things onto the table.

She's the one in trouble.

Yui Yuigahama curiously rummaged through the pile of things; there were magazines and some other documents.

Yukino Yukinoshita accurately identified the key proposal, and upon understanding its contents, a look of confusion appeared on her face.

Saki Kawasaki noticed the title above. "[Love Marriage Chiba Wedding]?"

Yui Yuigahama placed her small hand on Yukino Yukinoshita's shoulder and leaned closer to look at the contents of the proposal. "A special feature on young people's weddings?"

"That's right." Shizuka Hiratsuka explained, raising her index finger as if lecturing in class, "This magazine is part of revitalizing the Chiba region—they collaborated with the local government, nearby wedding planning companies, and hotels with wedding ceremony venues to create this project so that young people can better understand the meaning of marriage."

Dong Yunshan flipped through the magazine and found that they were all similar projects involving collusion between officials and businesses... projects promoted through cooperation between the government and the private sector. "Are these meant to be used as references?"

Yukino Yukinoshita pressed one hand to her temple, put down the documents with the other, and tapped them lightly twice. "The question is, why did you bring these things here, teacher?"

"This... um..." Shizuka Hiratsuka awkwardly looked away. "Uh... because... the school's higher-ups asked us to provide some perfunctory assistance, and I was assigned to be in charge..."

"But why was it assigned to a teacher?" Dong Yunshan asked, puzzled. "This kind of activity has nothing to do with teachers, right?"

"How can it not be related!" Shizuka Hiratsuka suddenly stared at Dong Yunshan, as if she were about to transform into a demon. "Of course... young people... getting married... should be related to me, right? Right?"

"What I mean is, these kinds of activities should generally be handled by people with relevant experience," Dong Yunshan corrected herself promptly. "Why was it given to a busy homeroom teacher?"

"It wasn't a particularly formal event; I was only in charge of a part of it." Shizuka Hiratsuka gazed out the window. "This type of work is usually left to younger people at the school—after all, I'm still relatively young..."

"Young people should do more work; the more they do, the faster they grow. Young people shouldn't be afraid of hardship; it's all about accumulating experience. We all went through this back then..." Dong Yunshan saw right through her. "These are classic lines from seasoned veterans in the workplace, used to exploit newcomers."

"Who... who told me I'm young?" Shizuka Hiratsuka couldn't suppress a slight smile. "After all, I'm so young."

I'll say it three times because it's important.

"Bringing these things here means the teacher wants to entrust this task to us—the problem is..." Yukino Yukinoshita tapped the proposal document twice more, "Why does the teacher want to entrust this task to us?"

"Oh right." Yui Yuigahama, who was flipping through a magazine, looked up. "Isn't this a teacher's job?"

"I... I..." Under their gazes, Shizuka Hiratsuka, letting out a helpless sob, "Waaah... because... I... I have absolutely no experience with marriage..."

Dong Yunshan looked at Yukino Yukinoshita and Yui Yuigahama expressionlessly. "You two made the teacher cry."

He had just made Shizuka Hiratsuka very happy.

Yui Yuigahama wanted to comfort the sobbing Shizuka Hiratsuka, but was afraid of saying the wrong thing, so she seemed quite at a loss.

Yukino Yukinoshita sighed, looked helplessly at Dong Yunshan, and gently raised her chin.

It means: Say something quickly.

Dong Yunshan blinked.

Yukino Yukinoshita nodded.

"Although we students, who are just as young as you, also lack experience in marriage..." Dong Yunshan conveyed Yukino Yukinoshita's meaning, "We are willing to help."

Shizuka Hiratsuka sniffed, her voice still trembling with tears. "Really?"

Yukino Yukinoshita nodded. "Really."

"Um..." Shizuka Hiratsuka wiped away her tears, looking aggrieved. "Thank you."

Volume 6: Chapter 269 On Marriage

Saki Kawasaki made Shizuka Hiratsuka a drink to calm her down a bit.

Yukino Yukinoshita quickly skimmed through the proposal and summarized it simply. "A local magazine in Chiba has provided a few pages and hopes that students from Sobu High School can help write a report."

"But..." Yui Yuigahama her arms over her chest... "How should I write it?"

"First, there's the time," Yukino Yukinoshita, looking at Shizuka Hiratsuka. "How much time did the magazine give us?"

"Um... the manuscript is due next week." Shizuka Hiratsuka avoided her gaze. "The proofreading needs to be finished the week after next."

"Such a short time?" Yukino Yukinoshita looked at Shizuka Hiratsuka reproachfully. "Shouldn't it have taken longer?"

"That's just how work is..." Shizuka Hiratsuka gave a tired, bitter smile. "I thought I'd deal with it later, but then I forgot about it, and by the time I remembered, there wasn't much time left... It's especially true for tricky tasks."

"Deadline Warriors..." Dong Yunshan flipped through the details of the proposal, "At least divide it into quadrants."

"Quadrant?" Saki Kawasaki asked curiously, "What's that?"

"Divide tasks into four quadrants based on their urgency, non-urgency, importance, and unimportance to aid in time management," Dong Yunshan explained. "Do important and urgent tasks immediately, plan to do important but non-urgent tasks, delegate urgent but unimportant tasks, and minimize or eliminate unimportant and non-urgent tasks."

"So this falls under the category of urgent but unimportant work." Saki Kawasaki came up with a good idea, "Let's delegate it to someone else."

Shizuka Hiratsuka gave a thumbs up. "That's exactly what I think!"

Yui Yuigahama let out a long sigh, slumped onto the table, and flattened her face. "And then it became our mission."

"Continuing to outsource is just a waste of time," Yukino Yukinoshita murmured. "After all, we only have a week left."

Shizuka Hiratsuka lowered her head humbly.

"Isn't this plenty of time?" Dong Yunshan raised an eyebrow. "An hour is enough."

In an instant, all eyes were focused on Dong Yunshan.

"Choose the easiest-to-operate theme, use existing materials, simplify the interview process, fill in the content with templates, highlight regional characteristics, pay attention to value orientation, resonate from the perspective of young people, showcase the complexity of marriage issues, and at the same time provide valuable exposure for partners, achieving a win-win situation in terms of social significance and communication effect." Dong Yunshan rattled off, "Start with personal experience, copy hotel brochures and government documents in the middle, write a few short student reviews at the end, add a few pictures to fill the page, screenshot official data to fool people, and then fabricate a few questionnaire survey results..."

Yui Yuigahama was completely confused, Shizuka Hiratsuka Hiratsuka's eyes grew brighter, Saki Kawasaki seemed lost in thought.

Yukino Yukinoshita pressed her temples as if she had a headache. "The feasibility is actually that high... but it won't work."

"Huh?" Yui Yuigahama, puzzled. "Is it not allowed? It sounds really impressive..."

"It's precisely because it's so impressive, it's produced through the standard process. Even though it was written by a high school student, it will definitely be considered outsourced after submission—or so it would be." Yukino Yukinoshita glared at Dong Yunshan, "Their requirement was to write a report at a high school level."

"Yunshan's thinking is nothing like that of a high school student." Saki Kawasaki nodded, then looked at Yukino Yukinoshita, "Of course, so are you."

Yukino Yukinoshita lowered her shoulders. "I don't disagree with that."

"And I don't have many friends. The only ones who are really like high school students are..." Saki Kawasaki's gaze fell on Yui Yuigahama.

"Huh?" Noticing Saki Kawasaki's gaze, Yui Yuigahama paused for a moment, then noticed everyone else's eyes were also focused on her. "Me?"

Shizuka Hiratsuka muttered irritably, "Otherwise, would it be me?"

Dong Yunshan thought for a moment and said, "So, it seems that Yuzuriha Sanji is indeed the one who most resembles a high school student."

"I'm a high school student!" Yui Yuigahama looked around. "Aren't we all high school students? What's with this atmosphere where only I'm different?"

"It's an atmosphere that only you can create," Yukino Yukinoshita earnestly encouraged. "Tell me your thoughts."

"My thoughts..." Yui Yuigahama and lightly touched her chin, then tapped her temples with two fingers together, then hugged her head, and finally drew circles on her head with two index fingers.

"Cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck..."

Yukino Yukinoshita patted Dong Yunshan, interrupting his background music.

"Oh!" Yui Yuigahama small fist and tapped it against her palm, making a crisp sound.

Dong Yunshan vaguely saw the little light bulb shining on her head. "Sister Ikkyu, you have an idea?"

"Hmm, I just realized..." Yui Yuigahama waved her little fists in annoyance, "Who's Ikkyu-nee?!"

Yukino Yukinoshita patted Dong Yunshan again. "I already did it for you."

"It's not quite about flirting... ahem." Yui Yuigahama raised her index finger, "How about we hold a public contest for wedding dress designs!"

Yukino Yukinoshita shook her head. "There aren't many people who can draw, and even fewer who have design skills. Plus, there's not enough time."

"A wedding dress beauty pageant?"

Dong Yunshan succinctly stated. "Too small a scale is meaningless, too large a scale is too time-consuming."

"The wedding planning?"

Saki Kawasaki spoke up to remind them, "This is tantamount to stealing work from our partners."