"And you don't want something like what happened to Komiyama and Kinoshita to happen again, do you?"
"Or rather, you don't want to drag anyone other than Ayanokouji into this," Oreki continued. "So you need to deal with this as soon as possible."
"Uh..."
"Oreki-senpai." Tsubasa Nanase finally looked over with bright eyes. "Just how much do you know?"
How much did he know?
Of course, he knew nothing at all.
He had merely tossed that out casually, yet this junior had been so easily baited into revealing herself. It was a little worrying how naive she was.
She was even easier to fool than Kushida.
"Before you enrolled, Principal Tsukishiro and I met once," Oreki-senpai added.
But after saying that, he fell silent.
Because the junior's expression had already begun to change, becoming complicated.
Clearly, Tsukishiro knew about her circumstances.
Tsubasa's Secret!
Tsukishiro knew Tsubasa Nanase's secret. Or rather, he would never have arranged for her to enter this school if he knew nothing about her.
So she had gotten in through the back door.
That was also why, despite having decent academic ability, excellent athletic ability, being polite to others, and kind-hearted, she had been assigned to Class D.
However.
"I don't think it's a good thing for Oreki-senpai and Ayanokouji-senpai to be together," Tsubasa Nanase said.
But hearing words like that, Oreki felt that even Sakayanagi would flip the table.
What did she mean, he and Ayanokouji were together?
Tsubasa, there were some things one could not say carelessly.
"You harbor hatred toward Ayanokouji," Oreki-senpai said.
"..." Tsubasa Nanase.
This time, Nanase did not immediately respond. Instead, her left hand slowly clenched into a fist.
"If you're thinking of attacking me right now, it won't work," Oreki-senpai said. "You saw that even Housen could only behave himself