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“So, Sakura-kun, how is it?”

Right as the clock struck 12 and the lunch time bell rang, Suo was already seated in front of Sakura’s table, sitting primly as he dropped such an ambiguous question.

“How’s what?” Sakura was slightly taken aback. Was there any issue he should be aware of?

“Dating Shishitoren’s second-in-command?”

Sakura’s skin bristled like a cornered cat. “W-why do you care?! Mind your own business!”

Matters of Sakura’s newly established relationship with Shishitoren’s Togame Jo was not some sort of top secret. The matter of fact was that even if they tried to keep it on the downlow, Tomiyama’s penchant for chatter and Umemiya’s desire to get updated in each of his juniors’ lives would ensure the secret’s early death. As it was, Sakura and Togame never expended effort to keep it a secret.

But Sakura hoped that his relationship with Togame being public didn’t mean being put on the hotseat by no more than his friends.

“Well, it’s just that, since you’ve never really known Bofurin before, there are certain…rules you may not be aware of.”

At this point, Nirei who was just a table away, already sensed another load of nonsense coming from Suo’s mouth. But before he could put a stop to it himself, Suo threw him a knowing glance and a smile, as if to say, Nire-kun, trust me with this one, okay?

Now curiouser, Nirei sat next to Suo and decided to hear more.

“Like what?” Sakura, for his part, was suddenly concerned.

Sure, his friends accept him for who he is. But he had no intention of endangering his place at Bofurin even just by slighting the smallest rule.

With a serious and cold demeanor, Suo declared, “Though Bofurin members are allowed to date, until you’ve graduated, you are not allowed to kiss.”

“K-k-kiss?!”

Since it's watermelon season!

The owner of the drone was so impressed by the brilliant attack that he suggested organizing a competition for bringing down “dragons” with short spears next year.

On the seventh day of May in the year of 2016 on hither spot the mighty warrior Ulf hath slain a dragon with his spear.

But brushing your teeth for 30 seconds is better than not brushing them at all when that 2 minutes seems exhausting.  Doing ten minutes of yoga is better than 10 minutes of sitting when 30 minutes of cardio sounds impossible.  Changing my clothes is good when a whole shower is impossible.  Standing on the porch for a few minutes is worth it after being in the house for three straight days because I don’t have the energy to go anywhere.

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mango currently has 72 available languages and dialects (that's right! different courses for french or canadian french! spanish or latam spanish!). it's set up basically like an audiobook with text. the idea is that the narrator explains the words while you read, and you repeat after them or say the translation out loud when prompted. there's a daily review where you go through flashcards. you can also use the flashcards at your leisure and create your own. at the end of each chapter there's a listening comprehension quiz and a reading comprehension quiz. i cannot emphasize how effective this all is. and it's free with a card.

if you're not in the US or Canada and/or looking for something more like duolingo (don't use duolingo btw tldr they fired translators and replaced them with "ai"), then try BUSUU! it only has 14 languages atm but the lessons are really descriptive and effective. it also has a feature where you can correct other people's open-ended speaking/typing exercises. you set your fluent languages, and exercises by people learning those languages will appear in your feed for you to correct. you can even add others as friends! and, much like duolingo, it has a streak and leaderboard system for you to strive for, minus the guilt-tripping owl.

busuu is free (you watch ads to unlock lessons and they're all skippable after like five seconds), although it also has paid premium/plus versions (i don't use the paid version—the language courses are available for free, and the ad system is Really unobtrusive).

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