Oh, My Foolish Imouto-This Is What Your Onii-chan Can Do for You! (Continued)

"I didn't mind the flaws you hated," Oreki said.

As he spoke, he began blacking out the flaws he had written down with a black pen.

Scratch, scratch, scratch.

The only sound left in Shizuka Hiratsuka's car was the sound of Oreki's pen moving across the paper.

Beep beep.

Her car finally arrived at the school.

It traced an arc through the parking lot before coming to a steady stop.

Beep!

Only then did she realize that Oreki had already blacked out the paper.

"You hate these flaws, but I think they're fine."

"Because accepting all of them is what this is, isn't it?"

Oreki lifted the note for her to see.

She had previously written more than a dozen of her flaws on it. Yet incredibly, after Oreki blacked them all out, the blank space left in the middle formed the word [like].

"When you like someone, you can accept one, two, three, or over a dozen—even twenty—of her flaws."

"Shizuka Hiratsuka, I like you!" Oreki confessed.

!!

Shizuka felt as though her heart and lungs had stopped.

Ahhh...

Was this really this deadly first thing in the morning?

Could someone actually do something like this?

Just moments ago, she had been feeling depressed over having so many flaws pointed out.

"A-Anyway..."

"We're at school now, so don't... don't act like this." Shizuka felt her chest growing increasingly restless.

"So you don't want this note?" Oreki directly tore apart the note he had blacked out, the one that said like.

"Ah—"

Shizuka cried out the moment she saw it.

"What is it?"

Oreki asked.

"N-Nothing." Shizuka felt it was such a shame. She might have been able to keep it as a memento.

O-Of course, that did not mean she had fallen for Oreki.

But she still wanted