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Hayakawa was very satisfied and reached out to rub Yotsuba's head. Her freshly washed hair still felt damp.
Even if it's your own apprentice, you can't be inferior to others... Well, although you're already much weaker than many people in terms of grades, given Yotsuba's grades, she'll most likely become a sports specialist in the future, so being good at basketball is an advantage.
"Ugh…"
Hayakawa thought of Yotsuba's dismal grades and felt a sense of helplessness and sadness.
It's not that he can't teach, or that he lacks ability; in fact, Hayakawa is already very capable.
Take those senior teachers who have over ten years of tutoring experience, teach dozens of students in one class during the holidays, and charge over 200,000 yen for a summer tutoring session, for example. If they were to take the exam against Hayakawa, it's hard to say who would win. After all, Hayakawa's target has always been those two who got full marks, so they are definitely not inferior to others in terms of ability.
However, the Nakano Five Sisters were clearly not students that ordinary teachers could teach, especially before they were taught. Their single-digit grades were like mountains that could crush even the most incompetent tutors. The highly capable Hayakawa teacher was no less capable than carrying a mountain on her back when teaching them.
What should I do...?
Hayakawa rubbed his temples, feeling a headache coming on, and pondered what path he should take in the future.
"Yotsuba, have you had lunch?"
At this moment, May, who had been watching from the sidelines for a long time, suddenly spoke up.
"No...".
Yotsuba scratched her head, a little embarrassed, and said, "I rushed back right after the match and didn't eat anything."
"Hey, you've already gone out to compete, why don't you just eat something before coming back?" Hayakawa glanced at her. "What's the big deal if you're hungry now?"
"I'm not very hungry, we can eat together tonight." Yotsuba clearly didn't want to take up Hayakawa's time and said without hesitation.
"No."
Hayakawa refused without hesitation: "Let's order takeout."
"Oh fine."
Seeing this, Yotsuba stopped talking and took out her phone to order something for herself. Meanwhile, May had brought down several bags of snacks and placed them on the table.
"If you're hungry now, have some snacks to tide you over."
May pushed the potato chips on the table toward Yotsuba: "The delivery is still pretty slow."
Yotsuba looked at May gratefully: "Thank you, May."
"Start studying immediately after finishing your meal."
Hayakawa said from the side, his face expressionless.
"..."
Is this the difference between sisters and that despicable scumbag? The level of care they show is so different.
Chapter 586 Hayakawa is a devil
Strangely enough, Yotsuba, despite her love of sports, doesn't eat much. In contrast, Itsuki, who has never been interested in sports, is the one who loves food the most among the five sisters. This clearly does not conform to the law of conservation of energy.
Yotsuba ordered some takeout, mostly bread and milk—things not worthy of being considered a proper meal—but with the snacks May provided, she was able to eat her fill.
After they finished eating, Hayakawa continued to teach the two girls until 3 p.m., when Nakano Ichika, who had been busy outside all morning, finally returned.
"Ichika, why are you so late?" Upon seeing their elder sister return, Yotsuba and Itsuki breathed a sigh of relief and complained with a mix of reproach and worry, "So what on earth did you go about?"
"Ahahaha, sorry sorry."
Ichika scratched her head a little embarrassedly, then turned her head to change the subject, saying, "I also have my own private matters."
It's not time to tell my girlfriends about becoming an idol yet, so I can only keep it a secret for now. I just hope Hayakawa-kun won't suddenly say anything that causes trouble.
As Ichika spoke, she couldn't help but glance in Hayakawa's direction. Seeing that he was still as silent and indifferent as ever, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
That's one of Hayakawa's good points; she never meddles in other people's private affairs. Even if she herself is found to have revealed suspicious points in her phone messages, Hayakawa will not ask about them at that time.
"Have Nino and Miku not returned yet?"
Ichika thought for a moment, then steered the conversation toward something more serious to grab attention: "It's been a whole day, they should be alright by now."
"With Mr. Jiang Duan here, there will definitely be no problem." Seeing this, Siye comforted her older sister instead: "If there really was something wrong, Mr. Jiang Duan would have sent a message long ago. The fact that he hasn't said anything means that everything is fine. They will probably be back tonight or tomorrow morning."
"Yes Yes."
May nodded repeatedly: "We'll buy lots of food and have a celebration to congratulate them on their recovery."
What else is on your mind besides food...?
Hayakawa glanced at May with disdain, then looked away and coughed lightly with a reserved air: "Ahem, I was talking about Ichika."
"What...what happened?"
When Ichika heard Hayakawa suddenly call her name, her heart skipped a beat: Was he going to ask me what I was doing outside?!
"It's nothing. I understand you missed class because of personal matters; after all, no one can avoid having to go out unexpectedly. But even so, studying is the most important thing. I can understand you skipping class because of something, but you can't just let the missed lessons slide, so..."
Hayakawa launched into a long speech: "So, you'll have to make up for the lessons you missed this morning on your own!"
Nakano Ichika: "..."
Ah, so that's what it was about.
"And for the classes that Yotsuba and the others are struggling with, I hope you can ask May to tutor you privately later,"
Hayakawa looked serious and pulled a stack of practice problems out of his bag without thinking: "And this is the homework I'm leaving you for today. Find some time to finish it after I leave."
Yihua instinctively reached out to catch it, but almost failed.
Wow, this is heavy! What is this, an Oxford dictionary? It's so thick!
"Hayakawa-kun, what you're doing..."
Nakano Ichika glanced at the thick workbook in her hand, then at her two younger sisters, whose faces were pale with horror, and couldn't help but ask, "Is this really homework for us?"
That was a very tactful way of putting it. What Ichika really meant was, "Is this homework for people?" It's more than the summer homework that school teachers give!
However, Hayakawa never understood such euphemisms. He simply smiled sincerely and said, "Yes, yes, I have them all, I have them all."
There are all of them?! Does that mean they need to weigh 5?!
Nakano Ichika felt a sudden wave of dizziness, even doubting whether what she was seeing was real. The next moment, she realized what was happening and pushed the "dictionary" back into Hayakawa's hands without hesitation: "I guess I'll just give it back to you!"
"Don't be shy, please accept it."
With a smile, Hayakawa handed the dictionary to Ichika again.
"No, no, this gift is still too precious for us. Please take it back, Hayakawa-kun."
Ichika, with a serious expression, forcefully pushed the test paper back into Hayakawa's hands, and the two began to push and shove each other. Seeing this crisis, Yotsuba and Itsuki realized that this was the Nakano family's only chance to save themselves and quickly stepped forward to help.
"No need. The daily lessons are already saturating for us. Adding more wouldn't allow us to absorb any more. We can't force things to grow faster, Hayakawa-kun."
"Yes, yes, having Hayakawa-san to teach us is enough. I don't think we need any other test questions!"
"..."
With the combined efforts of the three sisters, Hayakawa was ultimately forced to abandon her planned brutal rule, sighing as she took the exam questions back.
"Alright, since you all put it that way, let's focus on the lectures for now."
Hayakawa glanced at the "brick-moving" in his hand and said with some regret, "Actually, these questions are quite good. I carefully selected them for a long time and thought they would be very suitable for you. But now it seems that we should use them later."
So you were planning to use it in the future.
The three sisters looked grim, wondering what this person was lamenting about. They thought it was them who should be the ones lamenting.
Hayakawa unzipped his backpack, grabbed the "bricklayer" and stuffed it back into the bag, then zipped it up. Ichika took the opportunity to glance into the bag, and that glance made the girl turn pale instantly.
Inside, it was completely filled with the same stack of test questions as before, each one bound together with plastic rope, making them incredibly thick and heavy.
When Ichika saw the contents of that backpack, she felt as if she were looking at the bag that armed robbers forced bank employees to fill with cash after robbing a bank. It had the same heavy feeling and the same sinful heart that was full of harming others.
So you actually prepared a whole backpack full of these "bricks"? And you even carried such a heavy thing all the way from home by tram, what inhumane thing are you trying to do to us five sisters?!
"Gudong..."
Ichika's throat bobbed slightly. She was incredibly relieved, feeling that something even more worthy of celebration than Nino and Miku's recovery had happened.
The eldest sister did everything in her power to save the Nakano family's precious winter break from the devilish Hayakawa.
Chapter 587 The Seriously Studying Nakano (Part 3)
Hayakawa was not upset that his carefully prepared exercises were rejected. After all, he was not a rigid old scholar and was understanding and willing to listen to students' suggestions.
"Next, I will continue to tell you the rest of the content."
Hayakawa glanced at Ichika and the three women, who had almost rested, and pushed out the blackboard for lecturing.
"Ok."
Ichika sat in the middle of the sofa and said lazily, while Yotsuba and Itsuki sat upright with serious expressions. It was easy to tell who the good student was at a glance.
"Be a little more serious." Hayakawa glared at Ichika, his threat clear.
"I'm very serious."
Yihua's beautiful eyes flickered slightly, and she blinked innocently.
Is this what you call being serious? If you really wanted to be serious, you should have taken out your pen and started taking notes while listening to the lecture.
……
Time flies when you're studying, and it's already 5 p.m.
Winter always brings darkness quickly, and the sky was already completely dark. Looking out the window, neon lights had replaced the sunset as the main theme of the city. Car horns honked back and forth, and with the evening rush hour trams, commuters walked wearily through the streets and alleys, either heading home or stopping at roadside eateries for a cup of sake and a couple of side dishes to relax and relieve the day's fatigue.
Working at sunrise and resting at sunset, it's time for a busy day to come to an end.
"this late?"
This time, it was Hayakawa who realized the time first. He looked at the three girls who were seriously doing their homework and couldn't help but feel troubled.
Around 3 or 4 o'clock, seeing that the lecture content was almost finished, I let the five sisters do practice questions on their own. If Nie Rong didn't understand something, she could come to me for help. After all, no matter how complete and detailed the lecture content is, it still has to be applied to the questions. As the saying goes, "No matter how many changes there are, it all comes down to practice questions" and "Practice a hundred times, and the meaning will become clear." No matter how solid your basic knowledge is, you still need to do more questions to become familiar with the logic of the exam. Therefore, I always set aside some time for them to do questions in each lecture so that they can better understand the content of the lecture.
However, based on previous tutoring experiences, the girls were already drowsy and half-asleep during the lectures, and when it came to doing exercises, they all seemed to be being humiliated. Their efficiency was not high, and their self-discipline was also very poor. Hayakawa didn't know what to do about it. After all, mechanically doing exercises is very boring. Lectures can be made more interesting and engaging, but doing exercises can only rely on willpower. He could only make them get used to it by writing and doing more exercises.
But for some reason, they didn't show the same desperate attitude they had before after studying all afternoon. In fact, they were quite serious and efficient when doing their problems, and it seems they absorbed the content of today's class very well.
This gave Hayakawa a bit of a headache. It wasn't that Hayakawa disliked it; on the contrary, if the five sisters could maintain this level of effort every day, he would be overjoyed and wouldn't know which foot to step with first. The problem was that in the past, seeing how tired they looked, he could simply say, "It's late today, let's call it a day," and then he could go home. The Nakanos would all see him off as if they had been granted a pardon. But today, their hard work and seriousness made Hayakawa a little...
I can't bring myself to ask, but I'm also a little reluctant to do it.
It's rare to see them so eager to learn. If I suddenly say get out of class is over, wouldn't that discourage their enthusiasm for independent learning?
Let's wait a little while.
Hayakawa thought for a long time and decided to work overtime. So he took out a book, sat on the sofa, and calmly began to read.
Then, I don't know how much time passed...
"Hayakawa-san, Hayakawa-san..."
A voice rang in his ear and gradually grew louder, startling Hayakawa awake.
"Um?!"
Hayakawa opened his eyes and saw May standing right in front of him, looking at him with concern.
"Are you alright, Hayakawa-kun?"
May looked at Hayakawa with a worried expression: "Why did you suddenly fall asleep? Is it because you're too tired?"
"No...it's okay."
Hayakawa immediately sat up, his eye twitched slightly, and his face looked somewhat embarrassed.
Oh my god, I actually fell asleep sitting up...
Hayakawa was unusually embarrassed. He had been asked to tutor the five sisters, but he had actually fallen asleep during the lesson, which was a real disgrace to him.
Why? Was it because of what happened at Guqiao last night that made my sleep quality drop, or because teaching those idiots was too much of a hassle? But even so, I shouldn't have fallen asleep like this.
Hayakawa couldn't figure out the reason at all, so he could only rub his temples and apologize to May: "Sorry, I accidentally fell asleep."
Sleeping on duty without permission is undoubtedly a dereliction of duty, and given Hayakawa's personality, he should definitely apologize.
"It's nothing, it's probably because they're too tired from teaching us."
May shook her head and handed Hayakawa a steaming glass with a smile: "Have some milk first."
"Well, thank you."
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