Action! (Continued)

Then he would go along with what he wanted.

Turn it into a deal.

That was what Ai Hayasaka was thinking.

But.

"Hayasaka-senpai really does see everything. Yes, I need to recover my popularity," Oreki said. "After all, everyone in my year is hostile to me, and they're all spreading bad rumors about me."

"That really is awful!"

"And yesterday, my father kicked me out too. If things keep going like this in the future, and with me only being an adopted son, then after I graduate, I'll probably be thrown out on the street, and I may not have any decent employment prospects either."

He said, "But."

"Fujiwara-senpai has already agreed to go out with me."

"With Fujiwara-senpai's help, my negative image should be dealt with very quickly."

"After all, if I really were that terrible, wouldn't that mean Fujiwara-senpai was blind?" underclassman Oreki said.

"..." Ai Hayasaka!

Ai Hayasaka looked to the side.

Her mind began turning rapidly again.

Then.

Since you already have a way to solve your current problem, why are you still trying to make trouble for her?

Or was the current situation too troublesome, so she should simply give underclassman Oreki a shoulder throw, or slam his head?

Make him lose the memory of what had just happened?

Or... none of that would work...?

Ai Hayasaka hesitated.

And Oreki quietly watched her.

The polite fake smile on Ai Hayasaka's face had already faded somewhat.

He already understood that the photos he had taken were a huge problem for Ai Hayasaka.

And she was very smart, so she had also understood that he had taken her photos because he wanted something.

In other words.

What kind of methods would the Shinomiya Family's close attendant, a maid of the strongest great family in this world, use