Yukinoshita's Correction Method

Before Hayama Hayato could say anything more, Rumi Tsurumi avoided the gazes of the other four members of the group and retreated to the shade of a tree next to the cooking area.

A bewildered Hayama Hayato glanced in Rumi Tsurumi's direction, a somewhat forlorn smile on his face, before turning to the other elementary school students. "Since this is a rare opportunity, how about adding a little bit of our secret recipe? Does anyone want to add anything?"

The gazes that were originally fixed on Rumi Tsurumi shifted to him, and the elementary school students eagerly raised their hands, suggesting all sorts of ideas such as coffee, chili peppers, and Choco.

"Me! Me! Me!" one of them raised his hand the highest. "How about adding some fruit? Momo would be great."

Hayama Hayato's expression froze. He walked over and whispered something to her.

Yui Yuigahama left a large group of children who supported her, feeling dejected.

Noticing that Yukino Yukinoshita was looking in the direction of Rumi Tsurumi, Dong Yunshan hooked her finger. "Shall we go and rest for a bit?"

Yukino Yukinoshita nodded gently. "Keep your distance."

"Indeed." Dong Yunshan took the lead and walked over, but did not directly contact Rumi Tsurumi. Instead, she went to another tree a few steps away, jumped up, grabbed the thicker branch, and did a few pull-ups.

Rumi Tsurumi cast a questioning look at her.

"This situation, where good intentions lead to bad outcomes..." Dong Yunshan murmured, switching from a forehand to a backhand, "Is really difficult."

Rumi Tsurumi pursed her lips. "Are you talking to me?"

"Compared to no one talking to you..." Dong Yunshan continued doing pull-ups, "You probably hate it more when high school students talk to you and make you the center of attention, right?"

Rumi Tsurumi Rumi's eyes flickered, and she turned her head in another direction. "Name."

"Before asking someone's name," Yukino Yukinoshita stopped on the other side, "You should state your own name first."

Rumi Tsurumi's gaze flickered, and noticing that the two high school students were looking in another direction, she ignored them and said, "... Rumi Tsurumi."

"I am Yukino Yukinoshita." Yukino Yukinoshita looked ahead. "That's Dong Yunshan over there."

Compared to the previous attempt at conversation, Rumi Tsurumi clearly preferred this kind of conversation that didn't quite feel like a casual greeting...

"I'm Yui Yuigahama." Yui Yuigahama stood in front of Rumi Tsurumi. "Hello, Rumi, nice to meet you."

Rumi Tsurumi's body tensed instantly, but when she saw Yui Yuigahama standing right in front of her, she relaxed slightly and nodded gently.

"Huh? What's going on?" Yui Yuigahama vaguely sensed something, looking left and right. "Why is there this atmosphere where the family of three, who were chatting and laughing, suddenly became quiet, like strangers have come to visit?"

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Chapter 342 Exploring Weaknesses and Attacking

Yui Yuigahama is always so perceptive when it comes to atmosphere.

"You shouldn't have come here in the first place. You're better suited to that side, chatting and laughing with them." Rumi Tsurumi paused, "Just like I did before."

"Huh?" Yui Yuigahama blinked and asked Yukino Yukinoshita, "Is this your sister?"

Yukino Yukinoshita: "Of course not."

"That's true..." Yui Yuigahama asked earnestly, "Rumi, don't you like playing with everyone?"

"I'm surrounded by... a bunch of brats." Rumi Tsurumi spoke slowly, as if she were thinking or confirming something. "I used to do pretty well among them, but then I felt it was pointless, so I stopped—anyway, I can live perfectly well on my own."

"Huh?" Dong Yunshan looked again at the loosened spruce Yui Yuigahama. "Is this your sister?"

Dong Yunshan: "I only have one younger sister Xixi."

"That's true..." Yui Yuigahama, "But, but, friends and memories from elementary school are also very important and meaningful."

"I don't need that kind of thing..." Rumi Tsurumi looked up at the sky. "I can make friends with students from other places after I go to junior high school."

As the sun sets and the sky gradually darkens, glimmers of light emerge, like scattered hopes... or perhaps like Rumi Tsurumi's own expectations.

Everything will be alright once you enter a completely new environment.

Rumi Tsurumi believed this.

"I'm very sorry, but that's impossible." Yukino Yukinoshita ruthlessly burst those illusory bubbles, and under Rumi Tsurumi's almost resentful gaze, she stated bluntly, "Your elementary school classmates will go to the same middle school as you, and everything that's happening now will be repeated—you should be well aware of all this, right?"

The air fell silent for a moment.

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Even Yui Yuigahama, who is good at breaking the ice, didn't know what to say at this moment.

Rumi Tsurumi clutched the hem of her clothes, her head bowed helplessly.

Yukino Yukinoshita pressed her lips tightly together, as if she were enduring something.

"Just as I thought..." Rumi Tsurumi murmured softly.

"I think... you've probably misunderstood." Dong Yunshan tapped her temples lightly with two fingers together. "Yukino means is that if we place our hopes on the future to escape our current predicament, then the problems that weren't solved in the past will still occur in the future."

Yukino Yukinoshita's gaze flickered slightly as she looked at Dong Yunshan's icy blue eyes, which shone brightly in the twilight.

"I..." Rumi Tsurumi's lips moved, "... did something incredibly stupid."

Yui Yuigahama asked gently, "What happened?"

"There have been a few times when everyone in the class broke off all their friendships... but this always ends eventually, and then everyone starts talking again. It feels like a trend." Rumi Tsurumi calmly said something chilling, "Each time, someone brings it up, and everyone just follows suit."

Yukino Yukinoshita narrowed her eyes slightly. "And then?"

"Once again, a girl I was very close to and often chatted with was cut off from all the friends, so I kept my distance from her too..." Rumi Tsurumi's voice trembled slightly, "But without realizing it, it became me who was cut off, and it's always been me."

Yui Yuigahama looked distressed. "You told her a lot about yourself, didn't you?"

Rumi Tsurumi nodded slightly. "Mm."

"Huh?" Yukino Yukinoshita's head popped up with a question mark. "What's going on?"

Yukino Yukinoshita has some understanding of loneliness, but her understanding of the subtle relationships between people is very limited.

"It's that kind of best friend, the one you can talk to about anything." Yui Yuigahama explained considerately, "Best friends can talk about anything, and conversely, ordinary friends can share secrets with each other, which can also bring them closer."

Yukino Yukinoshita glanced sideways. "Using form to drive substance, that feels like a method you often use."

"So-called business socializing follows the same logic," Dong Yunshan tapped his temple. "It's all about proactively lowering defenses to promote communication and create a shared experience."

"I understand," Yukino Yukinoshita said suddenly, "Self-disclosure in social penetration theory."

"I don't understand," Yui Yuigahama said, completely bewildered. "My explanation was much easier to understand."

"It's the same idea I was talking about." Yukino Yukinoshita realized the problem. "You shared your secret with that girl, but instead of keeping it, she used it to connect with others and escape the situation of being cut off from friends."

"You can also use her secret..." Yui Yuigahama's voice faltered, "You don't want to, do you?"

Rumi Tsurumi pursed her lips tightly.

"These elementary school kids nowadays..." Dong Yunshan sighed, "They've even come up with the 'weakness detection attack' technique."

Yui Yuigahama's eyes were filled with a thirst for knowledge.

"It's a widely applicable business strategy," Dong Yunshan explained simply. "Randomly test multiple targets, switch targets when counterattacked, and eventually lock onto a weakness for sustained attack. For example, test competitors' reactions by conducting small-scale promotions or launching new products in different regions. When it's found that a competitor in a certain region is slow to react or unable to retaliate, concentrate resources to launch a fierce attack on that point."

"So, a collective breakup is a way to probe for weaknesses. Things return to normal after a while because the people who were broken off with took effective counterattacks." Yui Yuigahama understood quickly. "If there were no counterattacks, it would become a weakness that can be continuously attacked..."

Because of the previous random breakups, when a weakness of not being able to retaliate is discovered, everyone who doesn't want to be the next target of a breakup will try to keep the current breakup going.

"Since there are examples in business..." Yukino Yukinoshita bit her lower lip lightly, "There should also be corresponding countermeasures."

"Short-term over-exploitation counterattacks shatter the opponent's probing attacks, ensuring they suffer losses; feigning weaknesses depletes the opponent's resources to lure them into a counterattack; industry alliances raise competition costs to achieve victory without fighting." Dong Yunshan rattled off these examples with ease, "Essentially, they all aim to increase the cost of probing, making it unprofitable for the opponent."

Yukino Yukinoshita shook her head. "These are only useful in the early stages. Right now, the opponent has already identified our weaknesses..."

"The first step is to stop the losses in time, isolate the business, and freeze costs."

Don't try to win back friends you've already lost, and don't dwell on secrets that have already been exposed.

"Secondly, we should release counter-smoke screens to make the opponent realize the danger and throw them into disarray."

To make others believe that you know more about other people's secrets and are ready to reveal them to the public.

"Finally..." Dong Yunshan shook her head and didn't continue.

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Finally, there is technical suicide reorganization.

The attacked business will file for bankruptcy protection, with a new entity acquiring its valuable assets and the old entity assuming the remaining debts.

If this kind of business practice were to be replicated in interpersonal relationships, it would be like starting a new business with a different account.

You absolutely cannot tell Rumi Tsurumi, you can't even mention it.

The first two steps are enough.

Abandon your original relationships, use the secrets of old friends to gain new ones, or make up a few to make others believe they do.

"I..." Rumi Tsurumi's voice trembled, choked with sobs, "Why did it have to become like that?"

A cheer erupted from the cooking area, shattering the sound of Rumi Tsurumi's departing footsteps.

Yui Yuigahama wanted to say something more, but her outstretched hand could only remain suspended in mid-air.

Rumi Tsurumi's statement that she did something incredibly stupid means she knows what a smart thing to do is.

But she didn't want to be that smart.

Rumi Tsurumi to the team, and the three members of the Service Club also returned to the camp.

Near the cooking area were wooden tables and a pair of benches, where people served themselves their meals and took their seats.

On a long bench, Yukino Yukinoshita sat on the side, with Komachi Hikigaya next to her, followed by Yui Yuigahama, Hina Ebina, and Yumiko Miura.

Tobe Kakeru sat opposite Yumiko Miura, next to Hayama Hayato, and then Saika Totsuka.

Dong Yunshan was originally sitting opposite Yukino Yukinoshita, but was pushed by Shizuka Hiratsuka- sensei to Komachi Hikigaya.

Shizuka Hiratsuka is definitely not a qualified member of the FFF group.

"It feels like we're having a school lunch," Saika Totsuka remarked softly. "And the food is curry too."

"Boys seem to really like curry?" Yui Yuigahama recalled, "I would get super excited every time I saw curry on the menu."

"That's right, that's right!" Tobe Kakeru stirred the curry. "The students responsible for spilling it always get the worst scolding when they mess up the curry!"

"After all, boys like curry," Hayama Hayato chuckled. "Girls seem to like malt jelly too."

"Yes, yeah." Yumiko Miura looked nostalgic. "The malt jelly was amazing!"

"Malt jelly?" Dong Yunshan raised an eyebrow curiously.

"Huh?" Komachi Hikigaya was taken aback. "You haven't tried it before?"

"No, there really isn't."

"You went to junior high school Nagoya Yunshan, right?" Hayama Hayato looked over. "It seems that only the school lunches in Chiba Prefecture have malt jelly."

"Really?" Hina Ebina exclaimed incredulously.

"Is that so?" Saika Totsuka tugged at Dong Yunshan's sleeve. "Then let's go eat together sometime."

Dong Yunshan smiled and agreed, "I'd like to try everything you've mentioned."

Yukino Yukinoshita looked up. "The school lunches in Nagoya should also have some things that other prefectures don't have."

Yui Yuigahama asked curiously, "What is it?"

Dong Yunshan: "Miso ice cream."

The dining table fell silent immediately.

"Very good, that's the reaction." Dong Yunshan nodded in satisfaction. "I never get tired of watching it."

"Miso ice cream..." Shizuka Hiratsuka tried hard to imagine the taste, but finally gave up. "I'll just go and try it later."

Dinner ended amidst laughter and conversation. The elementary school students gradually dispersed, while the high school students at the table brewed some black tea.

Shizuka Hiratsuka walked a little further away from the table and lit a cigarette. "It seems... you're worried about something."

Hayama Hayato put down his paper cup. "There's a student who's always all alone..."

"Yes," Yumiko Miura chimed in, "So pitiful."

"Being alone isn't so bad..." Yui Yuigahama's eyelids drooped slightly, "But she was maliciously ostracized."

"So," Shizuka Hiratsuka exhaled a puff of smoke, "What do you plan to do?"

"I want to..." Hayama Hayato began with difficulty, "To help her within my means."

Yukino Yukinoshita's voice was icy. "But it's beyond your power."

"Well, maybe so..." A bitter look flashed across Hayama Hayato's face as he clenched his fists tightly. "But things are different now."