𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐮𝐬 -「 𝗻𝗼𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗮 + 𝗱𝗲𝗸𝗶𝘀𝘂𝗴𝗶 」

I'd ride your paper boat

"ah.." he awkwardly scratches the back of his head. i really need to play reverse psychology with him.

"that's not what i meant" he says.

"then what did you mean? you'll work hard now?" I'm clearly pushing him to a corner and i hope he'd just give in.

"well, you see, dekisugi-kun.. wouldn't it be better if you just offered to change my point of view and show me a new world where maths is fun?"

i stare at him blankly.

"no, because it's not. math is exhausting and requires you to work your brain even if you're on the verge of tears. i have no plans on convincing you otherwise" i say with a dead serious expression. Because i am indeed dead serious.

he suddenly giggles, covering his mouth with his hand as he tries his best to not laugh out loud while he fails at it miserably.

"you're really honest with everything" he barely speaks between his light laughs as i do nothing but watch him have the time of his life.

"..well, i have to be" i look at my left to avoid looking at his eyes that are looking up at me with amusement that I don't understand.

"is there anything else you want to add?"

what? so now you're not even going to hide it and make fun of me so openly in broad daylight?

"whatever.. all i can say is it is true that studying is tiring and annoying, it makes you want to pull out your hairs and scream from the top of a 27 storey building. you want to snap at anyone who smiles in front of you while you're struggling to solve a question you've clearly easily done just last month or try to remember something you've read over fifteen times.

it's annoying, you keep wanting to not do it today but the fact that you'll have to do it one day keeps popping up and you can't even enjoy your time off of it. you could've been slacking off but you have to sit up straight and tell your brain to listen to yourself, of course you feel like breaking the ceiling fan and wish it'd fall on your head"

I take a deep breathe mixed with a small sigh.

"but the catch is, so is everything. go try learning martial arts and it'll be the same. go try learning to draw and it'll still be the same. go try learning to play an instrument or to control your vocal chords and you'd want to stab yourself in the stomach. go try to teach kids and you'd wish you could just throw them off a cliff. go try being a mom and it'd still be all the same.

if you are going to do something, it is going to take something in return. this fan works only when it recieves the required electrical energy, and that electrical energy only comes into existence when you work on the mechanical energy. everything in this world needs something in exchange. you too, you believe you deserve good results if you work hard, right?"

he barely even nods, almost lost in all my words as he looks into my eyes. atleast i know he's actually listening to all this Socrates stuff.

"so it's not about you hating studying, it's you either hating doing what it needs in return or not knowing how to do it. because everything is hard, and everything is easy, difference is the point of view. which, in this case, yours sucks. this isn't a speech, it's facts.

but when you actually try doing it even though all of this exists, you'll surely not regret the results. even if they're bad it'll be a feeling I can't tell you about, you'll have to experience it yourself"

"so... hard work doesn't always work out?"

"no, as much as i know, it doesn't. or everyone would be winning the Olympics, but there is one thing which i personally believe in, you don't have to though"

"what is it?"

"your sincerity for that hard work matters alot, of course it doesn't guarantee success but it sets the satisfaction even higher. i think not falling isn't as important as knowing how to get up after each one and avoiding the same ways the best you can. like when you ride a bicycle, even if you've been doing that since childhood you could still fall any day.

but as time passed by you also learned how to avoid specific falling by either stopping it at the right time or balancing yourself. even when you fell, you learned how to get up and manage yourself. knowing how to control the situation is more important than knowing how to avoid it"

"..woah...." is all he says as i sit up straight.

"conclusion is?"

"it is?"

"that you have to look at things in a simpler way than they exist. even if it's a whole tree, try to think of it as a plant, and learn how to practice. solving new questions based on past ones won't be annoying if you do."

I give my closing statement like some pro lawyer who just got everyone in his trap and even the judge might start clapping any second.

Now, i truly hope my thoughts got accross to him and a megumi like self potential realisation magically comes to nobita-kun. I hope it does.

"..alright" he says as i come back from my thoughts.

"If you say so with this much confidence, let's try it. I'll give it my best for the first time so i hope it does work out well enough" he smiles at me with the most genuine smile I'd seen in a long while.

"Sure" i smile back but not diplomatically this time, it had been years since i last worked on something sincerely. So i hope our sincerities pay off, since that's what I've always believed in.

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Okay another chapter with no dekinobi fanservice? Y'all can hate me freely and i won't say a word😞 but for the people who can see it, i think there is some fanservice indeed?💕💕