"What's this." Pouting, Chika cupped her cheeks, her face full of disappointment. "I thought it was going to be a passionate drama of love and ethics."
"And it was just about Aragaki-kun? Disappointing...."
Listening to Chika ramble about soap opera plotlines that could only be seen at 8 PM, Miyuki and Kaguya calmly sipped their coffee and tea.
Yeah, we're used to it.
If this pink-haired tornado ever goes a day without saying something completely off-the-wall, that would be abnormal.
Let's just leave her to air out for a bit and let her brain clear first.
"So, President!"
Just as Miyuki and Kaguya expected, after only a few seconds of disappointment, Chika was back to her full-energy self.
"When are you going to let us meet Aragaki-kun?"
"Yeah, about that." Putting down his coffee cup, Miyuki thought for a moment, then picked up his notebook and flipped through his schedule.
"This month is already packed, but next month should be fine."
"Ah, a whole month?"
Chika blinked, then slumped onto the desk in disappointment, muttering in a slightly dissatisfied tone.
"That's way too long, President!"
"There's no way around it. School just started, and the Student Council has a lot of things to handle."
Noticing the faint difficulty on Miyuki's face, Kaguya chimed in to support the President while gently patting the head of the pouting Chika.
"There, there, Fujiwara-san. We can't make things difficult for the President."
"Kaguya-san." Pouting, Chika looked at Kaguya with slightly unwilling eyes.
"Don't you want to meet the kouhai-kun the President values so much?"
"You know, apart from Ishigami-kun's case, this is the first time the President has been this serious about doing something!"
"Well..." Unable to deny it, Kaguya averted her gaze slightly, feeling a bit guilty.
"I'm a tiny bit curious. Just a tiny bit, okay..."
"See, President!"
Kaguya's reaction instantly gave Chika the confidence to 'rebel'.
"Why don't you ask Aragaki-kun right now if he wants to come hang out at Shuchiin?"
"I remember Aragaki-kun is a student at Toyogasaki, right? Toyogasaki gets out of school much earlier than us. Why not invite him over for a bit later, President~"
"That's probably not a good idea." Knowing the situation, Miyuki didn't agree immediately. After all, unlike them who were still single, his kouhai was currently a normie radiating the sour smell of romance.
However.
"Fine, I'll ask."
Faced with the curious, sparkling gazes of the two girls, Miyuki ultimately couldn't resist. 'Shinomiya! So cute!!!' he screamed internally, while desperately keeping his facial muscles tense to maintain a nonchalant expression.
Taking out his phone, he skillfully found Miyahito's contact in his directory.
Beep—beep—
"Hello, Miyuki-nii?"
Wait! That form of address!
Her sharp ears instantly caught the form of address leaking from Miyuki's phone, and Kaguya was inwardly startled.
He's calling the President 'Miyuki-nii'? Even Ishigami-kun, who jokes around and seems to have a good relationship with Shirogane, has never called him that.
'It seems it's necessary to observe this kid closely... If possible, it would be best to recruit him to my side.'
Calculating something in her heart, Kaguya cast a meaningful glance at the phone in Miyuki's hand.
...
Meanwhile, Toyogasaki Academy, the rooftop.
"Get out of school? Yeah, we get out around three... I should have time... Utaha? I need to ask her..."
Glancing at Miyahito, who was on the phone on the other side, Yoshikawa Yuki turned her face and looked around at her good friends sitting together eating lunch. Finally, her gaze landed on a certain girlfriend sitting with her legs tucked to the side, her face radiating a faint, composed elegance.
"Hey, hey, Utaha. Do you know who Miyahito is talking to?"
Drinking her ice-cold sports drink, Utaha looked up and glanced blandly at her best friend, whose face was practically written with the word 'curious'.
"I don't know."
"No way."
Yuki looked at Utaha with utter disbelief.
"Miyahito's phone was just taken out from your bag. How could you not know?"
"Even so." Utaha helplessly raised her hand and lightly tapped Yuki's curious-baby head.
"That doesn't mean I definitely know who's calling, does it?"
"Uuu... Whatever you say, goes."
"....."
Seeing this, Hori Kyoko smiled and said to Utaha.
"Come to think of it, Miyahito doesn't seem to mind you holding his phone at all?"
"Yeah, yeah." Hearing this, Yuki, who had just lowered her hand from her forehead, nodded and asked curiously, reverting to her old self.
"How do you manage that, Utaha? Don't guys hate it when their girlfriends look at their phones?"
"Not at all."
Utaha smiled faintly, glanced at her boyfriend who was still on the phone, then turned back to look at her two curious-baby friends with a somewhat smug and proud expression.
"Miyahito never minds these things. On the very first day we got together, he told me all his passwords for his phone, computer, and everything else."
"Oh, and also, the two of us are currently using a single bank account to save money."
"Aren't they basically a newlywed couple?!"
Hearing Utaha state these astonishing facts in such a flat tone, Kyoko and Yuki exchanged a glance and loudly tsukkomo'd in their respective hearts.
"Utaha... you and Miyahito are the strangest couple I've ever seen." Feeling a mix of amusement and helplessness, Kyoko looked complexly at the girl in front of her, then at the boy not far away.
I feel like you're taking a subtle dig at me and my lover, but I have no proof.
"What's strange about it?" Glaring at Yuki, who was nodding in frantic agreement with Kyoko, Utaha rolled her eyes at her two giggling friends.
"I told Miyahito all my passwords. Isn't that completely normal?"
"Yeah, yeah, whatever you say is right, Utaha."
"Totally, totally. Ah, I really envy the relationship between you and Miyahito."
"Seriously! Kyoko, Yuki! You're not allowed to laugh!"
Blushing deeply from shyness, Utaha shot a glare at her two best friends. They were laughing so weirdly, looking like doting elders.
'Still laughing? Keep it up and I'll break your legs!'
Noticing the highly threatening look in Utaha's eyes, Kyoko and Yuki skillfully danced on the very edge of her explosive temper, instantly wiping the teasing smiles off their faces.
Faced with her best friends' practiced evasion, Utaha, unable to vent her frustration, nearly choked on her own anger.
Just then.
"What's wrong?"
Having finished his call, Miyahito walked back with his phone. Seeing his girlfriend's darkened face, he leaned against Utaha and sat back down, subconsciously saying with a completely oblivious smile.
"Why do you look so frustrated, like 'I'm super mad but I can't take it out on anyone'?"
"Who bullied you?"
"...."
Then, under the 'As expected of you' looks from Kyoko and Yuki, Miyahito ultimately took the blame for everything.
Later, when Tooru returned from being sent to buy snacks...
"Miyahito... what happened now?"
Looking at Miyahito grimacing and rubbing his reddened cheek, and Utaha sitting beside him with a somewhat displeased expression.
Holding drinks and ice cream, Tooru carefully skirted around the clearly off-balance couple and went over to Hori Kyoko and Yoshikawa Yuki, who sat with their arms crossed, happily watching the show.
"Did he do something stupid again?"
...Good lord, did you two guys plan this?
You're both just getting better and better at twisting the knife, huh?
"Did I say something wrong? Why are you all looking at me like that?"
"...."
"Hey! Hori, Yoshikawa, can you stop looking at me like that? It's creepy!"
"...."
"Don't look at me ahhh!!"