The result... seemed not to be like that.
And the other side had grasped even more.
Thinking that,
she saw Oreki raise his hand.
Then he reached it toward her.
"??" Horikita Suzune looked at him in confusion.
"Shake my hand again," Oreki said. "Once a day for the next few days."
"..." Horikita Suzune.
Even Horikita Suzune felt that Oreki's actions might... be implying something.
"If you're going to confess to me, then I'll reject you," Horikita Suzune said immediately after pondering for a moment.
Oh.
You thought that too.
"Don't worry, I won't confess to you," Oreki said. "I have complicated feelings about my future. I won't casually confess to a girl."
Oh.
So what exactly were you talking about?
Besides, hadn't he previously been firmly convinced that high school was for studying seriously, not dating?
Horikita Suzune felt that she couldn't understand him.
"Then you came back with Kikyou Kushida—" She had seen Oreki appear together with Kikyou Kushida.
"My relationship with her has grown closer," Oreki said. "And then... I could feel myself wavering."
Oh.
Horikita Suzune understood.
Houtarou Oreki had been hit by Kikyou Kushida's beauty attack again.
And his current actions were actually... him wanting to gain some experience points from her to resist Kikyou Kushida's beauty.
Although Horikita Suzune was very aloof and did not understand atmosphere,
she also knew that she was quite pretty.
At the same time, she knew that Kikyou Kushida often deliberately used beauty attacks on Houtarou Oreki.
And Oreki's resistance was extremely low.
Moreover, Kikyou Kushida had not gotten a share in this plan to divide up Class D.
So perhaps because of that, Oreki had been harassed by her.
Horikita also knew that although Kikyou Kushida looked like a little angel, she was actually quite troublesome, and