Yukino Yukinoshita Doesn't Hold a Candle to Me! Yukinoshita: !? 12k (continued)

During lunch break, her brother said that Shizuka Hiratsuka had rejected his proposal.

But he believed Shizuka Hiratsuka would come to like him. That she would fall for him.

At the time, Iroha Isshiki had thought Brother was just being too full of himself.

But.

Judging from Shizuka's behavior now, that clearly wasn't a lie.

Because.

If she didn't care, how could she possibly have come over to secretly take photos?

Ah.

Iroha Isshiki noticed that just as Shizuka was about to pick up her phone and take another picture, Brother, who had been playing ball with a classmate, came walking over from the other side of the net.

Then he broke into a quick jog, seemingly heading toward Shizuka.

He had probably seen Shizuka.

!!

But for Shizuka Hiratsuka, this was terrifying.

Like a startled little rabbit, she immediately fled in panic.

To describe it more specifically...

She gripped her phone, then seemed to panic and hurriedly jogged away.

"..." Ah.

Where had this pure-hearted maiden come from?

Shizuka Hiratsuka was acting so innocent that even Iroha, who had always tried to stop this, didn't know how to stop it anymore.

"If it's a free romance, we have no reason to stop it," Yukino Yukinoshita said.

She had already learned from Iroha Isshiki that Oreki liked Shizuka Hiratsuka.

And that he really had proposed.

Being able to like Shizuka Hiratsuka, and being liked by Shizuka Hiratsuka, both made one a warrior.

And right now, interfering with someone else's romance here would be a very excessive thing to do.

"Also, your matter needs to be dealt with quickly too," Yukino said to Iroha Isshiki. "Take me to your class now. Those classmates of yours from middle school haven't left the school yet, right?"

"Mm." Iroha nodded. Though she was a