"This is a sketch, and I'm going to scrape off some paint with a spatula when I'm done tomorrow, and I'll have to paint it two or three more times at least... I guess it will be delivered the day after tomorrow. ”

Oil painting, either dry or wet.

Tsukasa Higashino chose the dry painting method here, and then continued to color the oil painting after it was dry, and at present this painting will be used as a base for the time being, and when he comes tomorrow, he will scrape a thin layer and continue to cover it with new paint.

This method is actually not very suitable for impression painting, but Higashino Tsukasa can't help it, the school studio only allows such a short time, if he uses the wet painting method, then it will be eight or nine o'clock in the evening when he fills in the specific paint.

So Tsukasa Higashino would rather work slowly and carefully.

After all, if you are willing to paint an oil painting, ten days and half a month are the number of days that can be reached casually.

As for the protagonists of novels who can paint a particularly good oil painting in half a day...

That can only be said that Higashino Tsukasa is short-sighted and does not have that ability.

And—

Seeing that Ryoka Konoe looked like she wanted to say something, Higashino Tsukasa asked her incomprehensibly, "Do you think this manuscript is very good...?" No way? ”

"Uh..."Hearing this, and looking at Tsukasa Higashino's somewhat unbelievable look, Ryoka Konoe was confused.

It's very beautiful... But why does Tsukasa Higashino still look like, 'This painting is too low-level, it's not good at all'?

She really couldn't understand it at all, so she could only look dumbfounded and look at Higashino Tsukasa stupidly.

“... Never mind. You sit down. ”

Higashino didn't continue to embarrass this idiot, just said hello and asked her to sit down, and then said to her with great momentum:

"By the way, I borrowed your paint, so I'll tell you."

"Huh? Oh, oh, I see, thanks. ”

Higashino's bold appearance made Konoe even feel like she was asking him to borrow paint, so she whispered a thank you.

"What are you thanking for? I borrowed your paint. Why are you so stupid? ”

Higashino Tsukasa looked at Konoe Ryoka in disbelief, completely unsure why she thanked her.

"Huh? Oh... Thank you..."

"You're here again?"

"Uhhhhhh

Ryoka Konoe hurriedly closed her mouth, not daring to say 'thank you' anymore.

Seeing her like this, Higashino Tsukasa inexplicably had a feeling of hating iron but not steel.

It's really an inexplicable feeling.

It's clear that Ryoka Konoe is not her own person, but watching her get angry... Even if the source of his anger was himself, he was a little blind.

So he put the palette down and began to ask Konoe Ryoka:

"Was my attitude good? Why do you want to thank me? You shouldn't have thanked me just now, you know? ”

"Huh?" Konoe blinked in confusion, her body shrinking back in fear, looking a little helpless.

Because she didn't know how to answer Higashino's question.

"Do you usually do the same to other people? So often being bullied? ”

Seeing her timid appearance, Higashino asked again.

"Yes, I'm sorry." Ryoka Konoe doesn't know why she apologizes, but Tsukasa Higashino is so scary...

She subconsciously apologized.

"Now I'm bullying you, so you don't have a place to be sorry for me at all, you know? You have to speak up in the face of people like me, you know? ”

Speaking of the halfway way, Higashino Tsukasa found that something was not quite right, so he took two sips:

"Phew! What kind of person like me - is it that when you face the wicked, you have to dare to speak up, you know? ”

"I'm sorry..."

"Here you go again! I-"

Tsukasa Higashino raised his hand and almost didn't give Konoe Ryoka's little head a hit, but I really wanted to hit her... Tsukasa Higashino was also a little reluctant.

Inexplicably, I feel that this little girl needs to be cared for.

So he raised his hand and put it down again, scratched his head, and shook his head a little speechlessly before emphasizing: "Don't say sorry again!" ”

"Huh? Oh... Oh..."

Ryoka Konoe nodded stupidly.

"Do you understand? You just nodded? ”

Tsukasa Higashino's words came out, making Ryoka Konoe shake her head in fear.

"......" Tsukasa Higashino.

He really lost his temper.

Obviously, I wanted to make Konoe Lianghua a little more confident, so as not to let her be bullied too much by others, but it turned out to be good, as if she had been bullying her.

We've got to figure out a good idea.

Seeing Tsukasa Higashino sitting there without speaking, Ryoka Konoe swallowed her saliva as well, and then carefully took out a can of drink from her shoulder bag.

This is the drink she just bought, and it's her favorite peach juice.

I'm also a little thirsty after talking to Tsukasa Higashino for so long.

She opened the drink and took a grunt.

"What to drink? So delicious? I'll swap with you! ”

Higashinoji's voice came, and then Konoe Ryoka felt that other drinks were stuffed in his hands, and the peach juice he had just taken a sip of was also taken by Higashino Tsukasa.

He grunted and muttered three times and divided five by two to dry up the peach juice of Konoe Lianghua, and added after drinking: "It's not that delicious." ”

Konoe Lianghua's eyes straightened.

It's also the big pure eyes that are blocked by bangs, otherwise Higashino Tsukasa would definitely be able to see her expression of surprise beyond addition.

However, her surprised expression didn't last long, as Higashino turned and left.

It seemed that he had his own things to do, and when he left, he still carried the peach juice in his hand and shook it.

Faced with this situation, Ryoka Konoe could only lower her head again and look at the drink can in her hand.

Sugar-free black coffee...

Konoe Ryoka's face suddenly became bitter.

But it's all in hand... If you don't drink it, it's some...

She clicked, pulled the tab open, and carefully took a sip in her mouth.

And then—

Her face, which had already turned into a bitter gourd, was even more twisted.

It's so bitter...

Just when she was hesitating to go down and buy another jar of peach juice—

"Give."

A jar of cool peach juice suddenly came to his face.

Ryoka Konoe looked up in confusion.

I just happened to see Tsukasa Higashino smiling at her with peach juice in his hand.

It turns out that Tsukasa Higashino went to buy peach juice when he left just now...

Konoe Lianghua was slightly stunned, and then heard the other party's voice:

"You can't drink black coffee, what are you doing?"

Tsukasa Higashino took the black coffee she had only taken a sip from her hand and exchanged it for new peach juice.

While drinking black coffee, he asked Ryoka Konoe, "What have you learned through this incident?" ”

"Huh...? Yes... That one... To prepare two cans of peach juice...? ”

Ryoka Konoe cautiously probed.

"It's learning to say no!"

Tsukasa Higashino almost didn't get out of the old blood by Konoe Lianghua.

He flicked it directly at Konoe Ryoka's head, and watched her cover her head with an expression of wanting to cry before continuing to speak:

"I'll tell you something."

"What, what's the matter?" As she spoke, Ryoka Konoe held the peach juice on her chest, for fear that Higashino would snatch it away again.

Seeing this scene, Higashino Tsukasa shook his head and said I'm not a water dispenser, why do you always worry about your drink?

"I want to say that in the future, I will only be able to bully you like this, and no one else will be able to. You have to say 'no' to those who are bullying you. Do you understand? ”

“... Got it..."

Konoe Ryoka nodded her head very aggrievedly, looking like she had agreed to the unequal treaty and died generously.