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Shinme High School, a vertically elongated classroom located at the very end of the second floor of the building closest to the gymnasium.
Commonly known as the literature club room.
A classroom with a single door at the entrance and two windows in the back.
It was furnished only with desks facing each other in a two-by-three arrangement and a single cleaning supply locker.
In that club room belonging only to the two of us, Yuzu senpai’s figure was present.
“Good work! I’m sorry! I’m late!”
Carrying over the athletic club mentality from my junior high track team days, if a senpai was already there, greeting them came first.
“—Hmph.”
Giving me a quick glance, Yuzu senpai puffed out her cheeks blatantly and turned her head away.
Now then.
Where should I start organizing this?
My delusion, combined with expectation, combined with deduction, was that Yuzu senpai wasn’t actually mad.
The reason was that the spot where Yuzu senpai was sitting wasn’t her usual left-center, but the right-back… meaning right next to the seat where I sat.
In the first place, ever since she said something amazing like Ah, do it to me lots later… in the cafeteria, she had kept her hand resting on my thigh the whole time, so there was no way she could be angry.
She… she was testing me…!
Right now, I was being tested by Yuzu senpai, who was putting on this glaringly obvious bad-mood act, to see which seat I would choose and what I would do!
“It’s hot again today. With it being this hot, what’s July going to be like?”
“Hmph.”
Without missing a beat, I sat down right next to Yuzu senpai, which was my usual seat.
Any other seat was out of the question.
Yuzu senpai still had her face turned away.
Her puffed-up cheeks, viewed from right beside her.
Cute.
“You’re cute.”
“Eh!? …F-F-Hmph!”
Her composure collapsed all at once, but she quickly recovered and turned her face away again.
Extremely cute.
Her cute profile, even her ears were red.
…Hmm.
“Yuzu senpai.”
“Whoaah!?”
Clatter!
When I called her name right by her ear to return the favor from earlier, she jolted up, taking her chair with her.
Yuzu senpai pressed her left ear and breathed heavily from her shoulders.
Cute.
“M-Moo–!”
“Sorry, you were just too cute.”
“Y-You can’t just think saying cute makes everything okay!”
I got scolded.
I almost told her that her angry face was cute too.
That was close, close.
“Ugh…”
She was groaning, cute.
Yuzu senpai, having righted her disordered chair, sat down right beside me.
“K-Kakeru-kun…”
Murmuring that, Yuzu senpai leaned against my right arm.
It was like the situation where she rested her head on my shoulder. But since Yuzu senpai was small, her arm seemed to be at its limit.
She had leaned on my lap many times before, but today it was from the chair next to me.
Our first physical contact in the club room… The phrasing felt a bit weird, but since it was a fact, I’d leave it as is, yet even though there should have been less contact than usual, my heart was racing like crazy.
“Kakeru-kun… Kakeru-kun… Kakeru-kun…”
“W-What is it…?”
“The amount I couldn’t say today, saving it up to say now…”
Ah, cute!
What even is saving it up to say now!
Every time my name was called in Yuzu senpai’s cute voice, somehow, like this… I felt so happy!
“It’s unfair, Hime-chin… Calling Kakeru-kun by his name right from the start…”
“Ahaha… W-Well, the way we met was kind of like that…”
“T-That’s true, but still…”
Yuzu senpai let out a huge sigh while leaning against my arm.
That’s right. Actually, the way Yuzu senpai and I met couldn’t be called good; if anything, it fell into the bad category.
At the time, I was jaded by the reality that I couldn’t run due to an injury… Well, thanks to that I got to meet Yuzu senpai, though… It was certain that just as there were good things, there were bad things too.
“B-But…”
“S-Senpai!?”
“Mmph.”
“Y-Yuzu senpai!?”
“There, there.”
Pat-pat.
Surprised, I accidentally dropped her honorific.
Today of all days, if you don’t stay conscious, habits are hard to break.
Now then.
Where was the spot Yuzu senpai patted while saying “there, there”?
The answer was my right thigh.
The same sight as in the cafeteria, but this time she was patting it up and down.
The sensation of Yuzu senpai’s hand transmitting through her school uniform.
And, um, sort of… I thought this wasn’t good for various reasons.
“B-Because this place is mine…”
Yuzu senpai’s face turned beet red as she said it herself.
Extremely cute.
However, my face was also extremely hot.
And this flow was the usual, sitting…
“H-Hey…?”
She didn’t sit.
“Do you want me to… sit on you, Kakeru-kun?”
While patting my right thigh, Yuzu senpai raised her beet-red face.
She stared straight at me.
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