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

Because she truly loved being a teacher.

But she was sorry to say that today, she had not stayed behind because of her work as a teacher.

Sigh.

She looked at the pitiful eraser she had sliced into a pile of shavings with her ruler.

Sigh.

For the past hour, she had been doing something this pointless.

Because as long as she stayed here, she could not do her teacher's work, so she could only spend time.

Kill time? Why not just go straight home?

She could not go home right away. Instead, she had to stay at school a while longer and wait.

Because...

She had just tried to take a commemorative photo of Oreki, only to be discovered by him.

So if he saw her when she walked out of the school gates, she would be so ashamed she would not want to live anymore.

Thus...

She decided to stall for time here first.

At last.

"Ding-dong—"

The school-closing bell rang.

Then another twenty minutes passed.

Looking at the watch on her left wrist, Shizuka Hiratsuka let out a sigh of relief.

She had a very expensive Patek Philippe watch, but a school was a place for teaching and nurturing students, so what she was wearing now was a cheap, ordinary women's watch that cost ten thousand yen.

Because she was still a little worried that Oreki might not have left school yet, she sat there all the way until eight o'clock.

Then, looking at the time, she finally stood up.

She took off her white lab coat.

Then she turned off the lights and walked out.

It was already pitch-black outside.

Thud.

Because she was somewhat distracted, she had not looked ahead.

Thud!

The corridor outside the office used voice-activated switches.

Because she had to drive home,