And the next day.
During lunch break, Oreki still chose to eat with Little Sakayanagi.
It was the only choice.
Or rather, after discovering that she had still posted her public declaration of dating him after becoming Student Council President on the bulletin board, Oreki had been very considerate of her.
After all.
Her possessiveness was strong.
Thus, as a qualified boyfriend, Oreki gave up eating with Little Kushida, who was under considerable psychological pressure, and ate with her instead.
As usual, he sent Kamuro to fetch their meals.
Only.
"Kamuro, I don't recall asking you to invite anyone over," Oreki said.
Little Sakayanagi had gone to pick flowers, so he was the only one seated there at the moment.
Yet Kamuro, who had been sent to get food, had not returned with food. Instead, she had brought back two people.
A boy and a girl.
The boy was tall and thin, but he was neatly dressed and seemed to care greatly about his appearance. However, the hands tucked into his trouser pockets looked rather powerful.
He was the calm, little-prince-of-fighting type.
As for the girl, her looks were above average.
She had short blond hair, roughly the same length as Kushida's current hair, though she apparently was not very good at interacting with others.
There was little expression on her face.
She resembled Horikita when she was alone sometimes.
Yet she also gave off the same emotionless feeling as Ayanokouji.
Oreki had seen information on both of them before.
They were both distinctive underclassmen whom he and Little Sakayanagi had noticed while dating in the Student Council... no, while reviewing files.
Both were students from Class 1-C.
The boy was Riku Utsunomiya.
And the girl was Sakurako Haru.
"They kept following me, which was annoying," Kamuro said. "And with