"By the way, is there any club you want to join?" Yui Yuigahama asked curiously.
Mio Shirai temporarily suspended her wandering thoughts and began thinking about the club issue.
Speaking of clubs, one had to mention the behind-the-scenes power controlling the Sobu High student council in Oregairu—the Service Club.
She didn't know if this club had been established yet, but even if it had, Mio Shirai didn't plan to join.
Her intuition told her that joining this club would definitely lead to many troublesome matters. Moreover, if she came into contact with Yukino Yukinoshita, given the System's nature, it would definitely issue a task.
Yukino Yukinoshita wasn't like Yui Yuigahama or Mashiro Shiina, those innocent girls. Completing her task would probably be extraordinarily difficult.
Actually, Yukino Yukinoshita was fine. If she accidentally encountered Haruno Yukinoshita and triggered a task, she might as well just give up.
"Has Yui joined any clubs?"
Yui Yuigahama unconsciously twirled her hair, saying somewhat embarrassedly, "The Going Home Club."
"I don't know what club to join either. I'll go take a look after school this afternoon."
Mio Shirai remembered that when she was in high school, because she liked watching anime, she'd been somewhat interested in clubs. However, her high school didn't have clubs, and by the time she got to university, she'd lost interest in them.
Now, rarely having returned to high school, she'd just casually look around. But if nothing unexpected happened, she'd probably be in the Going Home Club just like Yui Yuigahama.
"By the way, it's the weekend the day after tomorrow. Yui, will you have time then?"
"Hmm? What's up?"
"If you have time, could you come shopping for clothes with me?"
Her wardrobe now only contained her school uniform and two sets of initial dresses, so she needed to buy some everyday clothes. Since she had no confidence in her fashion sense, she thought about pulling Yui Yuigahama along.
As for tasks and such, she couldn't avoid them anyway, so let the System do whatever it wanted.
She couldn't just keep avoiding contact with people forever.
As soon as she heard about shopping for clothes, Yui Yuigahama's eyes instantly lit up brightly, and she said without hesitation, "No problem."
"Then it's settled."
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Afternoon, after school.
Mio Shirai packed up her things, then picked up her bag and walked out of the classroom.
She was now planning to find Mashiro Shiina and tour this school's clubs together.
Originally, Yui Yuigahama was going to accompany her, but she suddenly had something come up, so Mio could only take Mashiro Shiina to look around.
Before she even reached the entrance of Class 1-C, she first encountered Chihiro Sengoku.
"Shirai, are you planning to find Mashiro?"
"Yes, does Chihiro-sensei need something?"
"Nothing much. I have a meeting this afternoon that probably won't end early, so I wanted to ask you to help me take her home."
"Okay."
Just as Chihiro Sengoku was about to leave, she seemed to think of something, then turned back around and said, "I almost forgot to mention—Mashiro joined the Art Club. Could you also trouble yourself to take her to the Art Club?"
"Chihiro-sensei really has no reservations about ordering students around."
Chihiro Sengoku said with an unchanged expression, "Tell me what you want to eat, and I'll bring it back tonight as thanks for your help. How's that?"
"No need. I was just saying that casually. Mashiro is my friend—I'd help even if Chihiro-sensei didn't ask."
"Then I'll trouble you."
After Chihiro Sengoku left, Mio Shirai went to Mashiro Shiina's classroom, then immediately spotted the blonde beautiful girl sitting properly at her desk.
Mio Shirai walked over to Mashiro Shiina and smiled, saying, "Mashiro, Chihiro-sensei asked me to take you to the Art Club."
"Will you join the Art Club together?"
"Me? I'll see."
After asking someone for directions to the Art Club, Mio Shirai brought Mashiro Shiina to the Art Club's activity room.
The Art Club president had obviously been informed in advance that Mashiro Shiina would be joining the club, and even knew Mashiro Shiina was a world-class genius artist, so she appeared very excited. She didn't even pay much attention to Mio Shirai.
After arranging things for Mashiro Shiina, she finally focused her attention on Mio Shirai.
"So beautiful." The Art Club president carefully looked at Mio Shirai and unconsciously exclaimed, then said, "Shirai-san, would you like to join the Art Club too? Even if you have no foundation, it's fine—you can start as a model."
"I'd like to check out other clubs first."
Just then, a somewhat familiar voice sounded behind her: "President, sorry I'm late."
Hearing the voice, Mio Shirai unconsciously turned around, then immediately saw a blonde beautiful girl with twin-tails running over while panting.
Eriri Spencer Sawamura.
This name naturally surfaced in Mio Shirai's mind.
"You only heard her name at lunch, and you encounter her in the afternoon. If this isn't fate, what is?"
"Please have Eriri voluntarily reveal Eri Kashiwagi's identity to the host within one week. Successfully completing the task will reward you with an Eriri series card set or item reward. Failure will result in drawing from the punishment card set."
"Please work hard, host. You have a whole week for this task, so you don't actually need to be too anxious."
"I suspect you're making things difficult for me."
Mio Shirai couldn't help but complain. Eri Kashiwagi was Eriri's alias—the alias of an 18+ doujin artist. How could she possibly voluntarily reveal it to a stranger? If it were her, she'd rather die than let anyone know she was drawing adult content.
In other words, this was a task that made someone voluntarily commit social death.
No wonder this task had a whole week—the difficulty was right there.
How should she even approach this?
"Doesn't the host have that free card? Just use that card and you can complete the task, can't you?"
"You want me to use that card that badly?"
"Not at all. I'm just offering the host a suggestion. Don't think of me so badly, okay?"
"Tch."
Eriri looked at the white-haired beautiful girl standing at the club entrance. A flash of admiration crossed her blue pupils.
This girl is so pretty. Why haven't I seen her before? Could she be today's transfer student?
Confused as she was, she didn't proactively strike up a conversation with Mio Shirai, only brushing past her to walk into the activity room.
Mio Shirai looked deeply at Eriri, then walked over to Mashiro Shiina, who was preparing her art supplies, and said, "Don't leave when club activities end. I'll come find you."
"Mm."
With that, Mio Shirai turned and left the Art Club, beginning to tour the other clubs.
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