"You're dating?"
"So Sakayanagi Arisu is your rich senior, Oreki?"
"Sakayanagi, don't you think it's too much to make Sakura a mascot?"
"Oreki, do you really want to date a girl while you're still in school?"
No matter which topic it was, it was bound to annoy someone.
Kushida didn't want her evaluation to drop.
Especially with Oreki.
After all, the new students would be enrolling soon. To Kushida, Oreki's usefulness had immediately become more prominent.
She didn't want his favorability toward her to drop by one point.
But after Haruka said that, everyone looked at her expectantly.
Hey, hey, hey.
Weren't you bitches just relieved that you could dump the responsibility on someone else?
Because if someone went to ask, you could keep watching the drama instead of being told to ask yourselves.
And Sato, you were the one they were standing up for in the first place, yet you wouldn't even ask yourself. How did that make any sense?
Now everyone was focused on her.
Those gazes were full of expectation.
These were the gazes of the Kushida Empire that Kushida had once longed for, but now she didn't want to become some annoying Tool Person.
But rejecting them too directly wouldn't be good either.
Fortunately, she turned her head from side to side and immediately spotted someone suitable.
It was a blue-haired girl eating alone in a corner.
Following Kushida's gaze, everyone noticed that [suitable candidate] as well.
Mio Ibuki from Class C.
The one who had greeted Horikita in the elevator earlier, only to be completely ignored.
"Wouldn't that be a little too much?" Chiaki Matsushita said.
She was also Sato's friend and usually hung out with Karuizawa and the others. Naturally, she had joined this group activity for Sato's sake. At the same time, she