Someone Hurry Up and Marry Her! 12k (continued)

Oreki followed her toward the small cubicle.

"Ms. Hiratsuka, aren't you a Japanese teacher? Why are you also teaching natural science?" Oreki said as he followed behind her, looking at the back of her white lab coat.

Shizuka Hiratsuka.

His mother had already shown him an actual photo of her yesterday.

She was tall, and as long as she dressed herself up a little, she would be an exceptionally beautiful woman.

And when her lips were pressed together lightly, she looked like a quiet, refined beauty.

But that only applied when she was not speaking.

Yes.

As long as she did not get carried away by her emotions, she was a very beautiful older sister type.

Shizuka Hiratsuka sat down.

"Why am I a natural science teacher? I'm not the natural science teacher. I just occasionally help her grade assignments."

"She said she was getting old and couldn't handle so much at once..."

"After all, this is a young person's job, and I'm still very young, aren't I? Though there is a suspicion that I'm being ordered around by her... Wait, why am I telling you this?"

"Houtarou Oreki."

"Class 2-C."

"Ordinary student."

Shizuka Hiratsuka quickly took back control of the conversation, deliberately stressing the words "ordinary student."

It carried something of a double warning.

Because...

Oreki's actions were highly unusual.

How could he confess to her?

And...

He had even sent her Setu.

No matter which act it was, neither was something an ordinary student should be doing.

So perhaps he was a problem student.

Shizuka Hiratsuka had encountered quite a few problem students in the past. Among them was someone who seemed healthy on the surface but was actually extremely abnormal—Yukino Haruno.

But Haruno had eventually become her friend.

So right now, she really did not want