Why does the Ruined King still fall in love?

Following Isshiroha's suggestion, let's take a bite of Hikigaya Hachiman, this moment.

"...Well, isn't that senior Hikigu and the student council president?"

"Wow, are you already together at this time. Could it be... a sleepover?"

Going home only in the morning is called an overnight stay in the common sense, and a sleepover in the literary sense.

"No way? Hikigaya-senpai and Yukinoshita-senpai are unmarried couples, how can the dedicated Hikigaya-senpai do such a thing...?"

"That's right...Masaka! Could it be that the student council president... seduces, seduces a married man?!"

From the inside of the shop came the muttering of someone who seemed to know Hikigaya Hachiman and Isshiroha.

Hey, hey, just whisper, don't plot loudly!

Hearing this muttering, Yishiroyu's body immediately stiffened reflexively.

- That's not okay.

Isshiroba, who was shaken for a moment and forgot the situation of the previous moment, suddenly lost the sense of distance, and let his body lean forward more than the necessary distance.

And that turns out to be...

"So hot--!?"

"senior--!?"

The scorching pancake that Isshiroha handed out pointed at Hikigaya Hachiman's forehead.

Hikigaya Hachiman was suddenly branded and shrank back, while Isshiroha was so frightened that his eyes opened wide.

"No, are you okay? Sorry, senior!"

"It's okay, the muffins are not very hot."

Hikigaya Hachiman put a towel on the area scalded by the muffin to let it cool down, and looked in the direction of the muttering just now.

However, no one was there.

Hikigaya Hachiman looked towards the exit instead, and caught the back of a person wearing a suit similar to Isshiroha's as he walked out of the store.

Not bad, as expected, it should be a girl in the same grade as Isiroha.

"...Did you run away because you noticed that this side also noticed it?"

Although it is not clear who it is, but the figure that disappeared at that moment just now is almost like a ninja.

Dongda University is really full of talents. I didn't expect that there would be ninja classes in this small university.

"Senior—! Forget about this, let me see your face, is it hurt?!"

When Hikigaya Hachiman was thinking about these things in his heart, he seemed very worried that Hikigaya Hachiman's Ichishiroha was also peeping at Hikigaya Hachiman.

"Well, I don't think it's a big problem."

Hikigaya Hachiman took the wet towel away and showed Isshiroha his forehead, as he said, there is no big problem.

It's just that the skin that touches the muffin is slightly rosier, and Isshiroha's expression of relief after confirming it has also softened.

"Looks like it's just going to be a little red. If that's the case, it'll be back to normal today, right?"

However, after finishing speaking, Shiroyu's expression darkened.

"But, I did not pay attention to it just now. I'm sorry, it's really hot, right?"

"I just said that those little things don't matter. It's not a big deal."

"But......"

"If you care too much, I will feel very uncomfortable here too. Before I know it, Iroha has started to care too much about her surroundings."

After Hikigaya Hachiman complained, Isshiroba's expression finally slowed down.

"Um...thank you."

"Ah. Well, it's really not good to be too concerned, but I think it's Iroha's strength to be so considerate of the other party."

"...? What do you mean, woo, senior...! You're playing tricks on people again!"

Seeing Isshiroha's eyes wide open, Hikigaya Hachiman smiled with the feeling that the prank was successful.

"So, how many praise points did you get just now?"

Hikigaya Hachiman asked jokingly, and Isshiroha also showed a happy smile.

"One... one hundred points. That's great, the homework can be finished now?"

"Okay, this is the so-called interdependence of fortune and misfortune, right?"

It was a good thing to be able to finish the homework just in time, and Hikigaya Hachiman made a small victory gesture.

After breakfast and homework were finished, the two began to return to school.

Then, the moment they stepped into the multi-purpose classroom, the strange atmosphere... or rather, the eyes were focused on Hikigaya Hachiman and Isshiroha.

To be exact, it was more concentrated on Yishiyu.

"Ah, it's Isshiki and Hikigaya-senpai. Good morning!"

At this time, a female student in the classroom accosted the two of them.

"Well, good morning."

"Good morning. Now, don't you think the atmosphere is a bit strange?"

Isshiroha asked the female student with an uncomfortable look.

Then the girl looked at it with a pointed gaze, almost all of her attention was on Hikigaya Hachiman's Isshiroha.

"No...well, there are some rumors about whether the two of you slept out overnight and then went back to school?"

While the girl was explaining the situation, Yi Shiroyu also felt that the students in the class were pricking up their ears to listen to the conversation here.

......I see.

It seems that those guys in the tea shop seem to have released subtle rumors.

"That's a rumor. My senior and I just, just met up in the morning and had breakfast together~~ Hahaha, it's not like the rumors! I'm not the kind of girl who would dig into Yukinoshita-senpai's corner Woolen cloth!"

It should be more clear than wavering that this is just suspicion, Yishiyu denied it with a firm attitude.

However, she was careful when she denied it, using "girl" instead of "woman".

She is indeed not a simple girl, but a "familiar" woman both psychologically and physically.

After all, she gave Hikigu Hachiman a few years ago for the purity of a girl.

Probably because the speech was very convincing, and the air in the classroom was also a little more comfortable.

"Is that so? Well, I thought so too... I should say, I still thought so until just now."

"what?"

After Isshiroha tilted her head to express her confusion, the female student looked embarrassed and pointed to the part of Hikigaya Hachiman's forehead that was scalded by the pancake.

"But seeing this trace of hickey no matter how you look at it, it's a bit..."

"Hey...that's not it! It's not a hickey or something!"

Isshiroha's face turned red immediately after being attacked suddenly, and he began to deny it. The resolute attitude just now has disappeared.

"Idiot, if the attitude becomes so obvious...!"

Hikigu Hachiman hurriedly tried to stop her, but it was too late.

The girls in the classroom had already started whispering.

"...This is really suspicious, right?"

"It's very suspicious..."

"Sleeping out, hickey...do I need to report to Yukinoshita?"

"Have you been able to draw a conclusion?"

Rumors spread in the classroom with great momentum.

After the news reached Yishiroyu's ears, she was shivering all over, her face flushed with shame.

"So, that's why it's not like that—!"

But except for Hikigaya Hachiman, no one put Isshiroha's shout into their ears.

In short, Yishiyu learned a lesson:

The morning muffin is the murder weapon.

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"Senior, you——, do you like me?"

Private こと好き?

It's actually "do you like me?"

However, Neon people insist on adding a few words in the middle to avoid being too direct. If boys are like this, let alone the more awkward Neon women.

In the student union office of the school, Isshiroha, the president of the student council in charge of duty, suddenly asked Hikigaya Hachiman who was sitting next to her.

Because I haven't spoken since I came here today, Hikigu Hachiman wondered if she was subtly depressed, but I didn't expect her first sentence to be like this.

"If you don't understand, just ask, is this some new popular slang word among girls? Or is it some kind of weird investigation of boyfriend's love degree?"

Hikigaya Hachiman is also quite used to Isiroha who is intermittently startled, so he continued to prepare for the work of the student union after responding to Isiroha's nonsense casually as always.

If that's the case, Isshiroha will probably not listen to others' narcissistic answers as usual——

"Is that so... that's right... I'm sorry, senpai..."

——No, but sitting with knees hugged in a corner of the office.

?

What, what's wrong?what happens?

"Hey Yishishiyu, what happened?"

Hikigaya Hachiman wondered if Isiroha had eaten something wrong today and took a peek, but she looked back at him with a gloomy expression.

"...I always feel that today is a day when nothing will go well. Just leave me alone...Senior, you don't have to pay special attention to me who doesn't like me. …”

Unbelievable level of negativity... eh, it's really Ishiroba, right?

Hikigu Hachiman, who was surprised, sat next to her first and watched her situation.

"Well, don't say such things. Let me hear what happened?"

Hikigu Hachiman urged, Isshiroha hesitated for a while before opening her mouth.

"...This morning, the divination on TV said that my fortune today belongs to the lowest..."

"what?"

Believe in TV divination or something... you are an adult female college student after all!Feudal superstition or something, it's really not advisable, okay?

"'Today's luck is the worst. Be careful what you forget. Work and study may challenge areas that you are not happy with. Be careful of getting hurt. Relationships with lovers will also become dangerous. Try to deal with it from another angle .』......That’s it. I’ve already collected a complete set of meals. I was also shocked when I saw it.”

"Eh... Is it just because of this reason that you are so depressed?"

Because the reason was more boring than imagined, it made me waver instead.

However, Isshiroba stared at Hikigaya Hachiman dissatisfiedly.

"I also thought, 'If that's the case, it's unlucky'—that's the end of it! But, the whole day today, I kept fulfilling the content of that divination. Even though I finished my homework, I forgot it in the apartment. In the test, there were some unprofessional questions that made me fail the first time, and I was hit on the head by the ball kicked by those reckless female members of the football club..."

Hikigaya Hachiman carefully looked at Isshiroha's forehead, um, it was indeed red.

Probably the marks left by the ball.

But it doesn't look serious, just a slight scratch, nothing serious.

"That's really a disaster..."

Facing Hikigaya Hachiman who couldn't help but sympathize with her, Isshiroha gave a slightly reproachful look.

"Hmm... But up to this point, I still think it's my fault, so I bet my last hope and questioned Senior just now, but it really doesn't work..."