“As expected of everyone’s Hiiragi Shuichi?”
“Huh?”
Facing Kosui Taki’s words, Hiiragi Shuichi couldn’t help but question.
“Pfft—”
On the other side of the club room, Komuro Ayumi heard the conversation just now, couldn’t help but snicker, then picked up a book to cover her face, trying to bluff her way through.
But her constantly trembling shoulders still gave her away.
‘What on earth is so funny…’
‘Where on earth can Hiiragi Shuichi still stay at ease today?’
‘I feel like it’d be better to go to work…’
Kosui Taki glanced at the endlessly laughing Komuro Ayumi, her meaningful gaze instantly withdrawn, returning to those dull eyes:
“Huh? What is Komuro-san laughing at? Oh! Did you think of something happy? Share it with me, I want to have this happiness of Komuro-san too! Happiness, happiness, happiness…”
Kosui Taki’s braids swayed gently like willow branches along with her cheerful words.
“Hey, hey, hey, shut up!” President Koyuki raised her index finger to shush: “If you keep making noise, I’ll kick you out!”
“Eh? I’m not being noisy?”
“I said if you keep making noise, I’ll kick you out…”
Kosui Taki, whether too slow or too dull, actually continued to test President Koyuki’s bottom line.
But faced with President Koyuki’s threat, Kosui Taki neither cowered nor got angry, only tilted her head in distress, ignored it, and naturally walked over to Komuro Ayumi’s side:
“Komuro-san… you’re actually reading a reference book? Ah! It’s about bread! I love bread the most! I heard Komuro-san’s mother runs a bakery, Auntie’s skills must be great, right?! I really want…”
Kosui Taki just calmly said some incredible things, and then under Komuro Ayumi’s silence, Kosui Taki just kept repeating a set of “I like” and “I want” over and over, as if she could never finish.
President Koyuki seemed to know Komuro Ayumi’s situation, as her expression clearly became surprised, but she didn’t know what to do, and her eyes turned, indeed seeking Hiiragi Shuichi’s help.
Hiiragi Shuichi sighed.
In order to respond to President Koyuki’s expectations, he thought for a moment, and temporarily set aside yesterday’s entanglement with Komuro Ayumi.
He stepped forward a few steps:
“Kosui-san, no matter what, even if this isn’t a library, as a reading place, it’s better to keep quiet.”
Kosui Taki turned around, and said with a weak gaze:
“Eh…”
“What?” Hiiragi Shuichi asked.
She shook her head: “Nothing, I just thought Hiiragi-san is indeed very gentle.”
“Is that so… then thanks for the compliment. You and the president still have things unresolved…”
Hiiragi Shuichi wanted to bring up the club fee dispute between Kosui Taki and President Koyuki again to change the subject, but Kosui Taki cut the topic off at the waist:
“Hiiragi-san should also have unresolved student council matters, right? Actually, I have some too? Why don’t we go back together?”
“Huh?”
Seeing Hiiragi Shuichi confused like a cow, Kosui Taki thought in distress for a while before saying:
“Sorry, I just remembered, it seems my self-introduction wasn’t complete? Hello, Hiiragi-san! Let’s get reacquainted!”
“My name is Kosui Taki, from Class 1-A, and my current position is Student Council Secretary.”
“Sigh, I didn’t expect Hiiragi-san to not know me… I’m so sad…”
“Does this count as ‘everyone’s Hiiragi Shuichi’?”
Then, Kosui Taki said that the sports festival planning meeting should be prepared, and skipped away from the Classic Literature Club, leaving three faces looking at each other.
“What’s with that guy…”
President Koyuki said in distress, turned around, sat down, and started flipping through a book.
Hiiragi Shuichi wanted to remind President Koyuki about the club fee issue regarding Kosui Taki, but the words got stuck at his lips.
Not only because Hiiragi Shuichi actually hadn’t paid either…
Hiiragi Shuichi looked at Komuro Ayumi beside him, and Komuro Ayumi’s gaze quickly shifted away.
“Ah…”
‘Was Kosui Taki just now…’
‘Did she step on three people’s landmines all at once?’
Hiiragi Shuichi thought of this and didn’t say more.
If Kosui Taki used this method to escape President Koyuki’s deadly either-or choice (either pay the club fee or return the club funds), and also naturally slipped away from the Classic Literature Club…
‘Then she really is worthy of being a member of that kind of student council…’ Hiiragi Shuichi grumbled in his heart.
Although he hadn’t seen her in the student council, she seemed to know all the student council affairs very well.
If he needed to work with her…
Suddenly feeling mentally exhausted, Hiiragi Shuichi slowly sat on the chair beside him, watched the setting sun, and slowly closed his eyes.
But there are always a few girls who don’t want him to rest.
Hiiragi Shuichi’s arm was shaken.
He opened his eyes and saw President Koyuki’s eager gaze as if she were looking at a Buddha statue cast entirely in gold.
This was the first time in Hiiragi Shuichi’s life that he felt he was being looked at with the lewd gaze of a crazy woman.
“President, what, what are you doing…”
“No, nothing… hehe…”
President Koyuki said, and buried her head in her arms.
In that instant, Hiiragi Shuichi had the thought, ‘I’m going to take out my notebook and write to her right now.’
But the next second he realized he didn’t know which boy would be suitable… so he gave up on that thought.
Hiiragi Shuichi’s eyes, with nowhere to rest, drifted around for a while.
He felt uncomfortable all over, wanted to leave the seat but felt there was nowhere to go.
His gaze drifted over to Komuro Ayumi’s side.
Komuro Ayumi still half-covered her face with the book, but she seemed to read Hiiragi Shuichi’s predicament, moved over, and left a sufficiently wide space on the sofa.
Hiiragi Shuichi understood her meaning, but he didn’t react for a moment.
Komuro Ayumi thought Hiiragi Shuichi didn’t understand her meaning, so she winked at Hiiragi Shuichi, looked at Hiiragi Shuichi, then at the empty space beside the sofa.
But should Hiiragi Shuichi really go over and sit beside her?
Although they could indeed fit, that sofa was still very small…
‘Squeeze in? No, no, no, impossible, right?’
‘And sitting together with her, too?’
In this silent half-moment, at some point, President Koyuki had left the vortex of silly laughter and took this scene into her eyes.
Komuro Ayumi saw that no matter how many times she signaled, Hiiragi Shuichi had no reaction, and couldn’t help but get angry.
She closed the book, puffed her cheeks, and walked over to Hiiragi Shuichi.
Then she grabbed Hiiragi Shuichi’s arm and tried to drag him onto the sofa.
But…
As expected, he wouldn’t budge.
“Hey… what are you doing?” Hiiragi Shuichi pulled his arm away and asked.
“What do you mean what am I doing? Are you an idiot?! Don’t make me do those embarrassing things!”
“You sit, sit there!”
Komuro Ayumi was a bit agitated, and her volume naturally exceeded the decibel limit set in the club room.
The other students in the club room all turned their eyes toward them.
There were those simply curious, and those who looked over angrily with a “so annoying” look…
Hiiragi Shuichi glanced at President Koyuki.
She was staring at Komuro Ayumi with one eye big and one eye small, and began biting her fingers hard.
The atmosphere in this crappy club room was even worse than the Student Council Room.
Hiiragi Shuichi’s first attempt to use the method of “if you don’t want to go to the student council, you can use the club as a cover” seemed to have failed.
But the reverse is also true!
If you don’t want to stay in the club, you can also use “I need to go to the student council” as an excuse.
Goodbye, everyone.
“President, it’s about time. I should go back to the student council, otherwise Vice President Aoba might come looking for you…”
“See you.”
With that, Hiiragi Shuichi got up and left.
After Hiiragi Shuichi left, everyone else’s gaze focused entirely on Komuro Ayumi.
Komuro Ayumi obviously couldn’t withstand this awful atmosphere either, and she also had the urge to run away.
President Koyuki, however, felt resentful about Hiiragi Shuichi’s departure, and she immediately questioned Komuro Ayumi:
“What is your relationship with Hiiragi-san…”
It would have been better not to say it.
Saying it gave Komuro Ayumi an excuse to leave.
Komuro Ayumi forced a smile and deliberately put on a smug posture:
“What relationship? Just the relationship of having been in my room…”
“Huh?”
“So… I’m going… I’m going to find him! President, you know what I mean, bye-bye~”
As soon as Komuro Ayumi finished speaking, her momentum deflated.
In order not to be exposed at this time, she hurriedly ran out of the club room.
Leaving only President Koyuki with her eyes still uneven, her expression as if she had eaten a fly.