The impression he had asked Classmate Sakura about resurfaced in his mind.
[Eh, after shaking hands with someone of the opposite sex, your body feels inexplicably comfortable. You're asking me? How should I put it... it probably means your body really likes the other person.]
[Because it's someone you like, even a tiny bit of skin-to-skin contact can make you excited.]
But before Classmate Horikita could process that feeling, Oreki had already turned away.
At that moment, the boat ferrying the first-year students had docked, and Oreki boarded it as well.
His starting point was A6.
The boat heading out from the A6 departure point had already arrived.
There were twelve routes in total, with twelve departure points.
When he reached the boat, Oreki discovered that the school had not required students to line up, allowing them to sit wherever they liked.
The boat had fifty-five seats.
However, there were not many students in their A6 starting area.
So everyone could sit wherever they wanted.
Unfortunately, there were relatively few Class A students at this departure point, and Oreki was not the type to strike up conversations with others. Still, there was someone he knew sitting on the boat.
She was a girl from Class 2-D.
She had long brown hair and seemed to have rather refined taste.
Since they were sitting next to each other, he could smell the faint fragrance coming from her.
That scent was an expensive perfume Arisu had once recommended.
Of course, she had recommended it because she wanted him to buy it for her.
Still.
This wasn't a good thing, Arisu.
"If you keep staring at me, you won't get any useful information," Oreki said.
"Ah... yes... Oreki." Matsushita seemed somewhat uncomfortable interacting with him.
That could not be helped. Matsushita was Oreki's