Classroom of the Elite: Houtarou Oreki

"..."

Having already taken a bath, Sakayanagi Arisu changed into the inn's yukata.

The inn's yukata had vertical stripes.

It was a little old-fashioned.

Yet somehow, it gave her a mature air once she put it on.

How should it be described? She looked like a married woman.

Those were Kamuro's thoughts.

At the same time, he knew that Sakayanagi probably intended to do something extraordinary during this School Trip, because she had exchanged points for her current lodging.

The school valued points above all else. As long as one had points, one could buy anything.

That included the right not to stay with one's group members.

So now, she had this seventy-five-square-meter room all to herself.

She sat off to one side with tea steeping on the table. To her right was a huge floor-to-ceiling window, through which she could see the courtyard outside.

The weather had turned colder, and snow had begun to fall. It had started at four in the afternoon, and by now, the small courtyard attached to the room was covered in a thick layer.

It was like a silvery-white world.

"The snowy view is beautiful, isn't it?" Sakayanagi Arisu suddenly said after looking at her phone.

"It is rather pretty," Kamuro said.

His gaze turned toward the window, where large flakes of snow drifted down.

"I'm not talking about the snow," Sakayanagi Arisu said.

Oh.

So what snow were you talking about?

Kamuro, who had no experience with romance, naturally did not know that "the moon is beautiful" was a confession, and that "the snowy view is beautiful" could be interpreted in much the same way.

Although it was somewhat disappointing that Oreki had not come to her room as requested,

she roughly knew who had called him away.

And if he had chosen