Isshiki Iroha, Lin Ye's underclassman, was far more forward toward Lin Ye than one could imagine. It was just that Lin Ye wasn't all that interested in this cute underclassman—otherwise, he'd have won her over long ago!
Haruno thought to herself.
And now, hadn't this very opportunity just come along?
Haruno's mind was suddenly filled with delightful thoughts.
If the chance arose, she wouldn't mind doing this and that.
Haruno's heart instantly grew feverish, looking forward to today's life at Sobu High.
She only hoped today's Body Swap would last a little longer, and longer still—best of all, the entire day—so she could have her fun to her heart's content.
"Senpai, why didn't you come to class yesterday?! I sent you messages and you barely replied."
Isshiki came up to Haruno's side and naturally hooked her arm around Haruno's, intimate without the slightest distance, completely at ease.
This showed it wasn't the first time Isshiki Iroha had done something like this—she was already able to make such an intimate gesture even with Sobu High students all around.
"I was very busy yesterday, really busy."
Having said that, Haruno even shot a glance at her sister—that look, that gaze, full of insinuation.
"Wuaaah, so Senpai really did go off into a world of just the two of you with Yukinoshita-senpai. I wanted to spend a world of just us two with Senpai too."
As she finished,
Isshiki Iroha was stunned,
"Sure, that's fine!"
Faced with Haruno's agreement, Isshiki Iroha could hardly believe her ears—was she hearing things?
"Sure! My cute underclassman is asking so earnestly—how could I, as her Senpai, bear to refuse!"
As she finished, from a very discreet angle, Haruno pinched Isshiki Iroha's waist.
Yukino Yukinoshita didn't notice, but Isshiki Iroha, the one it happened to, felt it keenly—that unprecedented sensation stimulated her, making her body tremble slightly, and a blush surfaced on her face.
When had Senpai become so forward, even learning to take advantage of her?
In the past, no matter how she hinted, even throwing herself at him practically up to his lips, Senpai wouldn't bite—but now he was actually taking the initiative to pinch her and take advantage of her.
Was this for real?!
Beyond her disbelief, Isshiki Iroha even felt like crying.
This sudden change made her want to cry.
"Lin Ye,"
Yukino Yukinoshita immediately warned.
This woman, her sister, had actually agreed so casually—how could that be allowed?
"What is it, Student Yukinoshita?"
Haruno said calmly. She knew that Lin Ye and her sister Yukino hadn't announced their relationship as lovers and engaged couple at school,
and at Sobu High no one else even knew.
And this was precisely something she could make use of.
"Please mind your words."
Yukino also realized her sister's intention, which made her all the more furious. Her sister's visit to Sobu High this time would surely not be peaceful—she feared she might not quite be able to keep her in check.
"I'm minding them very well. My cute underclassman's invitation—I absolutely must accept, I can only accept. If I refused, wouldn't my cute little underclassman be heartbroken?"
Hearing this, Isshiki Iroha nodded vigorously, nodding like mad.
"Mhm, mhm, Senpai's absolutely right—if Senpai refused, I'd be so sad and miserable. And besides, Senpai already promised me, so he definitely won't go back on it. Heh heh heh, Yukinoshita-senpai, even if you wanted to ask Senpai out, you won't get the chance—today Senpai belongs to me."
There was absolutely no possibility of Isshiki Iroha letting up.
Today she had the impulse and the drive to push her relationship with Senpai a step further—that was what Isshiki Iroha was thinking at this moment.
Yukino Yukinoshita withdrew her gaze from Isshiki Iroha. She'd long known this little underclassman had her heart set on Lin Ye, hinting at it and stating it outright many times. Had Lin Ye not been so resolute, any other boy—just going by Isshiki Iroha's looks—would likely have fallen for her ages ago, and even if he hadn't, he'd have done something with the idea of just toying with her.
It was only that Lin Ye was resolute and kept refusing—but what about her sister?
Surely her sister wouldn't want to use this chance with Lin Ye's body to actually do something only a man could do?!
Yukino grew a little afraid—if that really happened, then in Yukino's eyes Lin Ye's body would be defiled too!
That wouldn't do, absolutely would not do.
She did not want to see Lin Ye's body have relations with another woman.
"Student Isshiki, I'd advise you to keep your distance from Student Lin."
"Why is that, Senpai? Don't tell me you... have feelings for Senpai?"
As Isshiki Iroha's words fell, even several Sobu High students passing by cast curious glances over.
The ice queen of Sobu High had someone she liked—now that was interesting, something they couldn't help but be curious about.
"Girls with romance on the brain always like to think in terms of romance."
"Well, that's because it's Senpai! I'm not like a girl such as Yukinoshita-senpai—I still want to have a rose-colored romance during my high school years,"
As she said this, she cupped her cheeks, then reached out and shook Lin Ye's hand. "Senpai, Senpai, don't you want to fall in love?!"
This was already stating it outright.
But Haruno felt her sister Yukino's gaze—a reminding, warning gaze.
She'd deny it... as if.
At a time like this, such an interesting time, how could she deny it?!
"I do, I want to fall in love too,"
Isshiki Iroha blinked her big eyes, radiating a bright expression.
It was excitement, it was hope—she faintly sensed that Lin Ye's attitude toward her had changed,
that this was heading in the direction of dating her. Isshiki Iroha's thoughts grew lively.
"Then, then... then... that's very fitting,"
Yukino Yukinoshita's navy-blue eyes had already turned cold, as if the next second she could release a flash-freezing ray and freeze Haruno solid.
"Senpai, why don't we..."
"Student Yukinoshita, fall in love with me!"
In the very instant Isshiki Iroha had opened her mouth to speak, Haruno spoke up at once. She grasped Yukino Yukinoshita's small hand, her expression earnest. "Student Yukinoshita, go out with me! Fall in love with me! I've liked you for a very, very long time."
Off to the side, Isshiki Iroha had already frozen up like a dumb goose.
This development was a bit different from what she'd expected.
And the cold-eyed Yukino Yukinoshita was also dumbfounded by this sudden scene.
Her sister had confessed to her.
As for the people around, they too got a fright.
But honestly, a boy confessing to Yukino Yukinoshita was, for them, something you could say they'd grown quite used to.
"Someone still confessing to Yukinoshita even now—that takes some courage."
"Confessing first thing in the morning—didn't sleep well last night, huh?"
"I want to see the tragic, grief-stricken look on this guy's face when he gets rejected."
"Reject him, reject him, hurry up and reject him—then we'll have our entertainment for today."
...
More and more students stopped to watch.
And someone even recognized Lin Ye as precisely the male lead who had formally confessed to Miura Yumiko a few days ago.
"Holy crap, holy crap, didn't that guy confess to Miura Yumiko before?"
"He's got a girlfriend already and he's still confessing to Yukinoshita?"
"Isn't he afraid of Miura Yumiko flying into a rage? Doesn't he want his blonde girlfriend anymore?"
...
As more and more students joined the discussion, the situation grew increasingly complicated.
Haruno also heard the students chattering around her. The talk about rejection and such was normal enough, but this business of 'Lin Ye confessing to Miura Yumiko, having a girlfriend'—that she was hearing for the very first time.
Miura Yumiko, a second-year student at Sobu High, was pretty and had a good figure—but as she recalled, didn't Miura Yumiko like Hayama Hayato?
How had it turned into liking Lin Ye, and even becoming Lin Ye's lover? She'd heard nothing of it at all.
After a few seconds,
Yukino Yukinoshita caught on. She realized her sister's intention—besides considering Yukino's feelings, she was also teasing Isshiki Iroha.
This underclassman was just about to throw herself at the door, and her sister acted all ambiguous, only to reject her at the very last step—this was utterly, completely teasing her, and this was her sister's twisted sense of fun.
Yukino felt a moment of silent mourning for Isshiki Iroha—seeing Isshiki Iroha's current dumb-as-a-goose look, she even felt a bit of sympathy.
"Once you've ended things with Student Miura Yumiko, then come tell me about liking me."
It seemed like a rejection, yet not quite a complete one—not the crisp, clean-cut rejection of before.
Of course, many of the bystander spectators cheered—just as they'd predicted, Yukinoshita had chosen to reject him. A small portion of the bystander students who knew Yukino Yukinoshita a little better, however, found it a touch odd,
They felt that Yukinoshita seemed to actually still have feelings for Lin Ye—if Lin Ye kept working at it, it was entirely possible he'd succeed in winning her over.
As this possibility surfaced, several of them were suddenly dazed—how on earth had they arrived at such a conclusion?!
And at the scene, the most heartbroken was none other than Isshiki Iroha.
A moment ago, she'd thought she and Senpai were just about to become a thing, but then Senpai turned right around and confessed to Yukinoshita-senpai. Though she'd long ago considered the possibility of Lin Ye confessing to Yukinoshita-senpai, doing it at this critical moment, during this very topic where things were ambiguous with her,
no matter how Isshiki Iroha thought about it, she felt unhappy, and at one point even wondered whether Senpai had done it on purpose, deliberately teasing and toying with her.
But then Isshiki Iroha recalled Lin Ye's character and felt that he really wasn't the kind of person with the twisted hobby of toying with others' feelings, which set her mind at ease a little.
She could only keep persevering—she couldn't very well give up over a little setback like this!
Isshiki Iroha sighed—she, a beautiful and adorable young girl, was now truly loving someone she couldn't have. It was just too painful.
She really did want to harden her heart and give up, to leave Senpai right then and there—but as expected, she couldn't bring herself to harden her heart.
"Senpai, after school I'll treat you to a meal—heh heh, to comfort this wounded heart of yours."
Whatever she felt inside, Isshiki Iroha still raised a smile at this moment. "Your little underclassman will always, always care about you, heh heh heh."
Never mind Yukino—even Haruno was impressed.
Even after being targeted like that, Isshiki Iroha still endured it, and on top of that offered to comfort her.
A girl like this—if she were Lin Ye, she really would agree on the spot to date her first; you can't let a good girl slip away.
"Good—it's still my underclassman who cares about me, my underclassman's the best. If I hadn't fallen for Student Yukinoshita first, I would definitely have fallen for you, my underclassman,"
Those words made Yukino Yukinoshita feel that her sister was an utter scumbag.
Yes—if her sister really had a man's body, she'd absolutely be a thorough scumbag prowling through the flowers, a scumbag who deceived countless girls out of their affections and their bodies, the sort who would sooner or later die under a woman's machete.
Now, she felt Lin Ye was better—though Lin Ye was a flirt, he hadn't reached the level of a scumbag, and he wouldn't mess around.
Otherwise, she would surely break up with Lin Ye for good and absolutely not keep associating or dating him.
"Senpai."
Isshiki Iroha didn't even know whether she should laugh or cry.
Putting it that way makes it sound like I'm just a backup, like I can't compare to Yukinoshita-senpai at all. Even though I admit that compared to Yukinoshita-senpai I fall far, far short, if you really put it like that, it does make me sad too.
Inwardly, Isshiki Iroha silently wiped away her tears.
"You're touched, aren't you?"
The moment those words left your mouth, I didn't feel the slightest bit touched,
if anything I just felt even sadder.
It was too painful.
Isshiki Iroha grieved to herself.
As the brief confession incident came to an end, the curious students one after another continued on toward the gates of Sobu High.
The three of them also arrived at the school gate.
The moment she entered Sobu High,
Haruno spotted a familiar figure,
Shizuka Hiratsuka,
her former teacher, and now also her good friend.
Meeting Shizuka Hiratsuka in Lin Ye's body was also a first.
Haruno's heart instantly grew lively—shouldn't she do something?
Haruno couldn't help thinking.
But considering the two's current relationship, she knew certain behaviors would be inappropriate—though certain words could still be said.
"Shizuka,"
As she walked up, Haruno spoke up directly,
Shizuka Hiratsuka was briefly taken aback, sinking into self-doubt.
This guy was getting ruder and ruder,
"Mind your words and conduct—I'm your teacher, don't be so disrespectful,"
she reminded him,
"I understand, Shizuka-sensei,"
This form of address was also quite strange—Lin Ye would never have said it this way before; if anything, it gave off a thoroughly Haruno-like feeling.
Could it be that Lin Ye had already been in contact with Haruno?
That possibility did exist.
That siscon would never let off a man who'd gotten this close to her sister Yukino—clearly, Lin Ye had gotten some information about her from Haruno's side.
"Hurry off to class. Don't go confessing again first thing in the morning—and besides, don't you have a girlfriend already?"
What were these young people thinking these days? She couldn't quite make sense of it anymore.
Miura Yumiko was a great beauty too—of course, she also couldn't figure out why Miura Yumiko, who clearly liked Hayama, would suddenly confess to Lin Ye, and even become his girlfriend.
"I get it, I get it!"
Haruno nodded. Now that even Shizuka Hiratsuka-sensei was saying so, it must be a fact.
In a little while she'd find a chance to ask Yukino—she figured Yukino must surely be in the know.
Not far from Haruno, Yukino felt her sister's gaze and understood her meaning.
She began thinking about how to explain it clearly to her sister Haruno in the briefest possible words.
As for the matter of secrecy, she didn't think her sister would leak it, but the chance of her stirring up trouble was far too high.
At this moment,
Yukino Yukinoshita silently offered a moment of mourning for Miura Yumiko.
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