In the next three days, Makoto managed to complete all the tasks for the new club without delay.
Aside from him, Ichika, Itsuki, and Yukino had all actively filled out their application forms.
According to Ichika, Yotsuba might join this week, but she was unsure about the other two.
During these three days, Ichika had received a role, so besides meeting Makoto at school, she was busy and could only chat online and, of course...
Send him what she thought were well-taken photos of herself as a cute girl.
Makoto's response was: "Your photography skills are still as average as ever."
Whenever this happened, Ichika would take a picture of her beautiful legs and attach a line of text:
"Since you're so good at taking pictures, why don't you come take one of me?"
This was no longer an ordinary provocation. It was time for a heavy counterattack, an offline one-on-one takedown!
Makoto already had a plan in mind.
Mayu had also returned to normal these past few days. Whenever she saw him, she no longer had the shy, evasive gaze she had back then.
After all, the fact that she personally made soy milk had made her quite shy.
During this time, Makoto also received a call from his parents in this world.
His father expressed that the Yukinoshita family from Chiba had visited several times, behaving very politely the entire time and frequently mentioning Makoto with an attitude of admiration.
"That Yukinoshita lady is preparing to do business with us. I'm a little worried, are you very familiar with their family?" His father, who was an ordinary employee, expressed concern.
"Don't worry, because I have a very good relationship with the Yukinoshita family, and they genuinely want to help us," Makoto reassured.
With his repeated assurances, his parents finally felt at ease.
The actions of Mrs. Yukinoshita had indeed exceeded his expectations.
He had thought that the beautiful lady would only occasionally invite him to dinner, and through those meals, try to get closer to Yukino.
But who would have thought that Mrs. Yukinoshita's response would be so quick, going straight to attacking their family's crystal base.
If things go as expected, the elders of the two families would interact more frequently, and due to their interest in mutual benefits, their relationship would improve even further.
Due to the time loop, Makoto had become less concerned about money than he was before traveling through time.
However, since Mrs. Yukinoshita was willing to help his family make money, he wouldn't turn her down.
"Aunt Yukinoshita has employed a siege strategy," Makoto remarked at lunch.
Yukino, who had been dragged over to eat with him, looked up and said expressionlessly, "You've been secretly talking to my mother again?"
"Secretly? Yukinoshita, even though you're second in your grade, sometimes your word choice is really off," Makoto corrected.
Yukino had long figured out his personality, so she chose to ignore him and continued, "What did you talk about with my mother?"
"Not much, just that I could tell from her words that she probably wants me to join the Yukinoshita family."
"…"
Yukino didn't respond this time.
This was indeed something her mother would do.
Therefore, she wasn't sure whether Makoto was joking.
But she also had her own way of handling it: "So, you really want to marry into the family?"
Makoto smiled, "I still stand by what I said, why don't you marry into my family instead?"
Yukino didn't blush this time; instead, she smiled playfully, "If you're planning to court me now, I'm quite looking forward to your plan."
"You're that eager?"
"Although you're first in your grade, your word choice still isn't quite accurate," Yukino shot back.
Then, she said leisurely, "You should know, after I've prepared myself mentally, the difficulty of you trying to court me has increased drastically."
Makoto said, "It's okay, I can always go after Miss Haruno."
Yukino's face froze.
She couldn't help but sigh, "If only you were more serious, I'd probably be really happy to have you as a friend."
Makoto calmly replied, "If I were that serious and uptight, I probably wouldn't have been able to survive the time loop."
Yukino fell silent.
After a moment, she quietly said, "I overlooked that."
She could sense Makoto's emotions.
Those days must have been extremely tortuous for him.
He wasn't wrong—if he were the uptight type, he probably would have gone crazy from the endless time loops.
Yukino was about to change the topic when she noticed that Makoto seemed to be scrutinizing her.
She couldn't help but ask, "What's up?"
Makoto smiled, "I just realized that the gentle version of Yukinoshita is even cuter than the shy version."
Yukino put her hand to her forehead and looked at him with utter disdain. "Can't you think of something serious to do besides these things?"
"Speaking of which, I've already completed the short film plan for the club."
"Huh?"
Yukino hadn't expected the topic to change so quickly.
But being an excellent girl, she immediately kept up with the conversation:
"I've checked the information these past few days. Even for just shooting a short film, there are many things to do."
Makoto replied, "I can handle all of it."
"?" Yukino was surprised.
"I've studied lighting, sound, directing, all those jobs."
"Going off to study again, huh?"
Yukino replied calmly, but in her heart, she couldn't help but feel a little impressed.
She believed that the other party was not joking.
But precisely because of that, she admired him even more.
At this moment, Makoto remembered something: "Oh right, I haven't thoroughly studied the soundtrack yet. Give me some time, I'll take care of it."
He planned to handle this task during the time loop.
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