Reward Arisu Sakayanagi with Black Stockings! Part 1

Oreki: The higher someone stood, the more pressure they bore inside.

Oreki: So if someone else were to trigger Puberty Syndrome, she would be a very likely candidate.

Chika: I wanted to argue with you, but for a moment, I can't.

Because Chika and Kaguya had been friends since middle school.

The friends around Kaguya had come and gone, and only she had stayed. And though Kaguya seemed like a block of ice, Chika knew that Kaguya was a good person.

She didn't want to see such a good girl left without even one person she could talk to.

So she had always stayed by her side.

At the same time, she also knew Kaguya must have been under a great deal of pressure.

So when Oreki, her underclassman, reminded her like this, it made her take the matter seriously.

Chika: Then, Oreki, if you think Kaguya also triggered Puberty Syndrome, what sort of phenomenon do you think she would cause?

Oreki: ...Probably a split.

Chika: A split?

Oreki: Isn't she under a lot of pressure? And the Supernatural Phenomena caused by it are all similar to a way of escaping from the difficulties one is facing. The ice-sculpture-like state Kaguya Shinomiya is showing right now isn't her true self, is it?

Oreki: The current her is like absolute rationality itself. I think it's very likely that, in order to relieve the pressure inside her, she split off different personalities long ago to take over.

Oreki: And her current ice-sculpture-like state is already a sign that she has begun relieving her own pressure.

Chika: ...

Chika: ...

Chika: Hmph! I hate you!

"...?"

Oreki looked strangely at the message Chika Fujiwara had sent.

Because why had their friendship suddenly ended?

However, Chika Fujiwara quickly gave him the reason.

Chika: I