The first period ended.
After sitting upright through an entire class, Houtarou Oreki raised both arms and stretched.
However, the person seated beside him was no ordinary classmate.
It was Sakayanagi's little princess, with her silver hair.
"It seems Classmate Oreki has been entangled by someone quite troublesome." Sakayanagi's little princess set down her note-taking pen and spoke.
"Why do you say that?"
"Even though I was already sitting beside you, you remained completely focused during class and never turned to look at me even once," Sakayanagi Arisu said.
"So I surmised that perhaps you had been entangled by someone troublesome and had lost your interest because of it," she said.
"Heh—"
Classmate Oreki seemed to want to laugh.
Because you're cute?
So he had to look at you during class?
And saying that meant you had been looking at him during class, didn't it?
Although Sakayanagi Arisu really was the cutest girl Oreki had met so far.
It seemed that, just like the girls in Class D, the girls in Class A also possessed quite considerable firepower.
So when he discovered Sakayanagi Arisu was seated beside him during class, he would get distracted.
That was why he had deliberately spent part of the lesson avoiding looking at his neighbor.
And that lowered his learning efficiency.
Oreki was already considering whether he should change seats.
Having a cute girl beside him made it troublesome to concentrate.
However, he still hoped Classmate Sakayanagi could become a Tool Person leading Class A, so there was no need to sour their relationship.
So he dismissed the idea.
"What Classmate Sakayanagi wants to ask about is the transfer of one million Points," Oreki said. "I went to the Student Council during lunch break."
"But they couldn't look up any information about the sender."