"Liar!"
"But his eyes seem to be dark green! The one eye Oreki usually shows is dark green too."
The students finally reacted.
The boy walking together with Fujiwara-senpai, President Fujiwara, was their classmate, Houtarou Oreki.
"No way!"
Their reactions were pretty much all like that.
Yet Oreki and Chika walked past them without changing expression, then headed straight into the school, making the students lingering by the roadside hurriedly follow after them.
"Trouble will probably start showing up now," Chika said softly once they were in the school corridor.
She was often confessed to, and although she did not think much of it, now that it had been announced that she was dating a boy, trouble would probably keep coming nonstop.
Just now, she had felt like she was about to become the most watched person in the entire school.
Even though before this, Kaguya had always been the one getting all the attention.
"Isn't that pretty good?" Oreki-kouhai said. "Fujiwara-senpai has become a popular figure. Speaking of which, you like being the center of attention, don't you?"
"Oh, come on, how could I possibly like something like that?"
"If it were with Kaguya..."
Here, Kaguya referred to Kaguya Shinomiya.
Oreki had read the Kaguya-sama manga. In it, Chika Fujiwara could be paired with just about anyone, but by the ending, she had no official pairing.
However, she often made remarks along the lines of, if it were Kaguya, even in a situation where only one person could be saved, she would want Kaguya to live.
So this person was very likely bisexual.
Of course, it was also possible that Kaguya was so cute that people lost sight of gender and liked her anyway.
But that kind of thing was not important to Oreki.
All he had to do