After Kei came to this school, the friends around her were the gyaru type.
At the same time, she dressed like a gyaru herself.
But how someone dressed, looked, or carried themselves was their own freedom.
Yet Oreki realized that this might have been Kei protecting herself.
She had been bullied in middle school. Although it had been stopped, she had come to a new place for high school.
What should she do when she did not know whether she would be bullied again?
And...
On her first day, when she hugged him, her affection for him had been maxed out.
So she did not want him to misunderstand her relationships with boys in other classes.
In other words, had she completely severed her ties with the boys in her class?
And the same way to accomplish both of those things was...
To become the kind of unreasonable gyaru people imagined.
The boys would keep their distance from her, while the girls would not dare bully her because of the tough image she put on.
That way, she would not need to ask him to protect her again.
It was clear that Karuizawa had put a great deal of thought into this.
But that gave him a headache, because in the Precognitive Dream from ten years later, the person he ultimately dated was Classmate Sakayanagi.
And the winner who married him was Horikita Suzune.
So how could he keep Kei from losing?
Thus.
After being interrupted, Sakura hurriedly ran away.
Oreki stood on the deck, leaning against the railing as he felt the sea breeze blowing toward him.
The sunset only lasted a little over ten minutes, and now the sun had completely set.
The sky had darkened considerably as well.
"What were you doing just now?" At that moment,