Yukinoshita's Correction Method

"Yes, there is such a thing." Dong Yunshan sat down next to Yukino Yukinoshita. "Have you got an inspiration now?"

"It's not exactly inspiration..." Yukino Yukinoshita tried her best to ignore the heat emanating from Dong Yunshan and focused her attention on thinking. "It's just a vague idea."

Dong Yunshan raised one eyebrow. "Tell me about it?"

I'm thinking about it!

Yukino Yukinoshita puffed out her cheeks slightly. "Well... the current results of the correction are partly due to my efforts, and partly due to yours."

"You mean..." Dong Yunshan suddenly realized, "We should encourage Sister Haruno's initiative?"

"Yes." Yukino Yukinoshita's eyes lit up. "My sister is now just like what Teacher Hiratsuka said before—recognizing her own limitations and realizing that there's only so much she can do. So she's starting to face and accept her incompetence, rationally allocating her time, and tolerating her tendency to run away—that's what adults are all about, and that's what we need to change!"

Dong Yunshan: "... Did the teacher say that?"

Volume 14, February

Chapter 757 Unwilling to Admit

"So it wasn't what the teacher said after all?" Yukino Yukinoshita puffed out her cheeks slightly. "I was a little surprised when I first heard it; it doesn't sound like something Teacher Hiratsuka would say. So where did she get it from... um?"

Yukino Yukinoshita stared at Dong Yunshan: "Did you tell her that?"

"Ah... um." Dong Yunshan nodded, "Yes."

"..." Yukino Yukinoshita rested her knuckles on her chin, her beautiful ice-blue eyes slightly narrowed. "What are you hesitating about?"

"Really?" Dong Yunshan tilted her head. "I don't think so."

Yukino Yukinoshita's eyes flickered slightly. "When you were saying these things to the teacher, was the topic related to me?"

Dong Yunshan: "... Why did you guess it so quickly?"

"Otherwise, what are you hesitating for?" Yukino Yukinoshita's lips curled into a cute smile as she leaned towards Dong Yunshan. "What did you say?"

"You mean those things you just mentioned?" Dong Yunshan avoided Yukino Yukinoshita's gaze, "The so-called adults and stuff..."

Yukino Yukinoshita closer relentlessly. "Is that all? What about the parts that concern me?"

"What's related to you... is orthodontic treatment." Dong Yunshan met her gaze. "Weren't we undergoing orthodontic treatment back then?"

"It's still in progress right now." Yukino Yukinoshita put her arms around Dong Yunshan's shoulders. "The definition of an adult, and the correction of me, and the content related to these two topics... Back then, you considered yourself an adult, and thought you were cooperating with the teacher to correct me."

"... Yes." Dong Yunshan nodded honestly.

"But this isn't exactly a secret, you don't need to hesitate at all, there must be a deeper reason." Yukino Yukinoshita noticed something in Dong Yunshan's frank attitude. "When the teacher told me these things, it was right after the Film Research Club's commission ended, so when you told her these things... it should have been around the same time—she won't remember for long."

Dong Yunshan: "The teacher is crying."

"You had just lost to me once back then." Yukino Yukinoshita bit her lower lip lightly. "I know, you can't accept defeat?"

"Who can't accept defeat?" Dong Yunshan raised one eyebrow. "I'm a man of my word."

"That's exactly the reaction." Yukino Yukinoshita nodded in satisfaction. "Given your personality, you definitely wouldn't be a sore loser, so you'd say things like you're a mature adult and wouldn't stoop to the level of a child, which is the so-called definition of an adult."

"Impressive." Dong Yunshan breathed a sigh of relief. "That's exactly it."

"That's absolutely not how it is." Yukino Yukinoshita pondered the passage carefully. "Recognizing one's own limitations, being aware of the limitations of what one can do, and rationally allocating one's time... the theme of these words is to give up what one should give up."

Dong Yunshan: "... It was just something I said offhand."

"What would you be giving up on if you talked to the teacher about giving up?" Yukino Yukinoshita's eyes darted around. "Corrections! You think my personality is too troublesome and you want to give up on me!"

"It's normal to have that kind of thought, isn't it?" Dong Yunshan blinked. "Why don't you think back to how you treated me back then?"

"The focus now is on you..." Yukino Yukinoshita said, turning around and stepping away as usual... "Hiss~"

The muscle aches caused Yukino Yukinoshita to furrow her brows.

Dong Yunshan supported the stiff Yukino Yukinoshita and held her in his arms. "The important thing now is you~ How are you feeling? Is anything particularly painful?"

"It just hurt a little when I wasn't expecting it, it wasn't particularly painful." Yukino Yukinoshita said this, her relaxed body pressing against Dong Yunshan's chest. "So... it'll only be a little while."

"Can I hug you a little longer?"

"That's fine too." Yukino Yukinoshita buried her face in Dong Yunshan's neck and gently nuzzled her. "But you didn't give up."

"Still researching?"

"We haven't finished researching it yet," Yukino Yukinoshita muttered softly. "You considered giving up, but you didn't. Why?"

"Because I'm still young." Dong Yunshan gently massaged Yukino Yukinoshita's thighs. "I'm not at the age where I'll give up at the first sign of difficulty."

"So how did you realize you're still young?"

"Huh?"

"If that's what you thought from the beginning, you wouldn't have said it in the first place. You consider yourself an adult, and the definition of an adult is what you say to your teacher, and also what you say to yourself. You're telling yourself that you should make a rational choice." Yukino Yukinoshita looked up. "But something made you change your mind, made you make an irrational decision, made you truly realize that you're still young... and now, when you bring it up, you hesitate a little."

Dong Yunshan didn't avoid her gaze. "Nothing can be hidden from you..."

"It was okay before, but not anymore." Yukino Yukinoshita gently poked Dong Yunshan's chest with her delicate white fingertips, twisting it slightly. "Because I'm here."

"Actually, I was talking to the teacher about you at that time..." Dong Yunshan hesitated for a moment, but still said it directly, "At that time, I felt that you were a child who was severely neglected and wanted to be recognized."

Yukino Yukinoshita blinked, then buried her face in Dong Yunshan's neck and whispered, "And then?"

"It seems like correcting it would be too troublesome, so I was considering giving up. But..." Dong Yunshan tightened her arms around Yukino Yukinoshita slightly, "I saw it, I can't pretend I didn't see it."

Yukino Yukinoshita asked weakly, "Is it because you pity me?"

"I didn't want you to think that way, which is why I hesitated to say it." Dong Yunshan's eyelids lowered slightly. "I don't deny that there was some pity involved, but there were other things... that touched me. I truly saw your predicament, and I also saw you in that predicament—still persevering and striving."

"So you pity a child in distress." Yukino Yukinoshita raised her head, her slightly reddened eyes reflecting Dong Yunshan's face. "And what you like is me, who is fearless in the face of adversity."

"Back then, it wasn't to the point of liking him yet..." Dong Yunshan's lips curled up. "It was more like admiration... longing?"

"Anyway, you just want to be with me. You've only known me for a short time and you already want to be with me." Yukino Yukinoshita moved even closer, her nose touching Dong Yunshan's. "Still don't want to admit it?"

"Okay, I admit it." Dong Yunshan gave her a light peck on the lips. "I wanted to be with you from the very first time we met."

"That's way too fast." Yukino Yukinoshita puffed out her cheeks slightly. "Terrible~"

"When would be a good time?"

"Hmm..." Yukino Yukinoshita thought for a moment, "Now is just right."

"Then I'm starting to like you now."

"It's too late!" Yukino Yukinoshita glared at her fiercely, and feeling that it wasn't enough, she lowered her head and bit Dong Yunshan's shoulder.

As they nibbled, it turned into a kiss.

The gentle kiss moved little by little, finally landing on Dong Yunshan's lips.

"Well, I won this time." Yukino Yukinoshita smiled smugly. "I never even considered giving up on the correction."

Dong Yunshan argued, "I only thought about it for a moment, and I didn't give up on it afterward."

"Giving up was your idea, change is the result of my correction." Yukino Yukinoshita's moist cherry lips curved into a beautiful smile. "If you count it that way, then I've won twice."

"You won twice, and I didn't win, so you win again," Dong Yunshan declared earnestly. "That means you won three times."

"No, that's not it~" Yukino Yukinoshita glared at him. "Seriously, it's about my sister..."

"Sister Haruno... it seems unlikely that my transformation will be replicated in you." Sister Haruno Dong Yunshan gathered her thoughts. "After all, if she were truly moved like I was, she would have already been moved by you."

"Perhaps...she was already moved long ago," Yukino Yukinoshita sighed softly, "Which is why she's so resolute now."

Dong Yunshan could see Yukino Yukinoshita's hard work and perseverance, and as her older sister, Haruno Yukinoshita could naturally see it too.

Dong Yunshan chose to change herself and continue with the corrective treatment.

Haruno Yukinoshita chooses not to change her mind and becomes the successor.

Although the decisions were different, the starting point was the same.

"Simply touching her will only make her more determined." Dong Yunshan pondered deeply. "We should add something else... The key thing we need to change is her mindset that everything is unchangeable."

"It's about having a more youthful mindset..." Yukino Yukinoshita asked, "How did you do it?"

"To correct your condition."

"Besides me?"

"Besides you..." Dong Yunshan tried, "There's not much left, and even less related to a younger mindset."

Yukino Yukinoshita nudged him. "You were so busy with the Odd Jobs Agency before, you didn't go to school every day."

"Yes, it's been going on for a whole year, and nothing has changed."

"Until you met me, at school..." Yukino Yukinoshita paused, "That's right, school!"

"She's a university student now, although she doesn't attend many classes."

"No, I mean... the environment." Yukino Yukinoshita's eyes lit up. "You've been coming to school often since you met me."

"You mean..." Dong Yunshan murmured, "To find a reason to remove her from family affairs and let her experience high school life more?"

"You also went through a transformation at school," Yukino Yukinoshita, her eyes sparkling. "While it might not have an immediate effect, it should still have some impact."

"That's certainly an idea," Dong Yunshan nodded. "The problem is how to get her out of family affairs and participate in activities with high school students in a reasonable way?"

--

"The Cultural Festival!" Upon hearing their idea, Yui Yuigahama immediately suggested, "Didn't Sister Haruno participate in the Cultural Festival before?"

Saki Kawasaki cautioned, "Cultural Festival can't be held every day."

"If school activities don't work out..." Komachi Hikigaya clapped her hands, "Movies are good too! Watching and making movies together would be fun!"

"That's true..." Dong Yunshan shook her head, "But that can't be a reason for her to give up family affairs."

Yukino Yukinoshita frowned slightly. "But if the reason is reasonable enough, the content must be comparable in importance to family affairs. This kind of high school activity..."

Yui Yuigahama slumped weakly onto the table. "High school activities are nothing compared to family inheritance..."

The room fell silent for a moment as everyone focused on their thoughts.

Until the electric heater emitted a series of ear-piercing noises.

The electric heater placed in the corner of the activity room has been malfunctioning lately; after prolonged use, it starts to make a slight vibration sound.

Lately, quiet periods have been getting shorter and shorter, and what were originally subtle noises have become increasingly louder, to the point where it's become unbearable.

I reported it to the teacher, but the maintenance personnel have yet to arrive.

Dong Yunshan brought tools with her when she came today.

At that moment, the electric heater started up, so he took out the tools he had prepared, turned off the power, and disassembled the machine.

Yui Yuigahama a little worried, her heart pounding with fear. "Little Yukino, are you really okay?"

"The equipment in the school should be the responsibility of professionals, but currently, no professionals are in charge." Yukino Yukinoshita pulled out the instruction manual from her phone. "What we're doing now is just basic troubleshooting... How about that?"

"The power cord is fine." Dong Yunshan quickly checked, "The air inlet and outlet are also fine... the fan blades are not obviously deformed..."

Komachi Hikigaya leaned closer. "So... it's okay?"

"So far, there don't seem to be any major problems that require professional help." Dong Yunshan cleaned away the dust, "Let's try reinstalling it."

Knock knock knock.

There was a knock on the door.

Yui Yuigahama panicked immediately. "Yunshan, hurry up and get it packed, someone's coming!"

"We're not doing anything wrong, what's there to be afraid of?" Dong Yunshan continued working with her hands. "Please come in!"

"Yay~" The door to the activity room opened, Iroha Isshiki walked in. "Ugh! The hallway is so cold, or is it inside...? Huh? Is it a little cold inside?"

"There's something wrong with the electric heater, it's being fixed." Dong Yunshan waved the screwdriver in his hand. "What's wrong?"

"Ah... um? Shouldn't we call someone to fix this?"

"Someone needs to come too," Dong Yunshan replied, having almost finished assembling the electric heater. He checked it carefully one last time, tightened the screws, told the others to stay away, and then turned the power back on.

Under the tense gaze of everyone, the electric heater started working again.

The piercing noise from before has finally disappeared.

"Is it really fixed?" Komachi Hikigaya incredulously. "It was just taken apart and put back together... it wasn't fixed at all."

"It's probably caused by a loose bracket. Prolonged high-temperature heating can cause the screws and clips of the bracket to deform or loosen due to the heat. When the heating element is working, the thermal expansion and contraction can cause the loose parts to shift or collide slightly, thus producing vibration and noise," Yukino Yukinoshita analyzed. "He tightened it a little when he reinstalled it, so the noise disappeared."