Just as Hamazura Shiage thought he was really going to lose one or both hands, the girls of "Item" seemed to lose interest in him and withdrew their gazes.
"Isn't it super pointless to get worked up over a guy like this?"
"Super pointless."
"Honestly, Hamazura is super disgusting."
"It's okay, Hamazura. Even if you're this kind of Hamazura, I'll still support you."
Mugino Shizuri, Kinuhata Saiai, Frenda, and Takitsubo Rikou gave their respective assessments one after another, leaving Hamazura Shiage with the complicated feeling that he had clearly escaped disaster yet could not feel happy about it at all.
Especially what Frenda said next, which nearly made Hamazura Shiage's mentality collapse again.
"So, Hamazura likes flowers that already belong to someone?"
With an adorable smile, Frenda said something that sounded playful but was actually incomparably malicious.
"Even though that diva already has a man—the Seventh."
When Frenda spoke the words "the Seventh," the gazes of the Item girls all shifted slightly.
But Hamazura Shiage failed to notice it entirely.
"Th-That's just a rumor!"
The delinquent who had already transformed into a rabid fan insisted.
"N-No matter what, that can't be true, right? You don't believe something like that either, do you? Even if the subject of the rumor is an Lv.5..."
Hamazura Shiage began to waver just like that.
Until Kinuhata Saiai dropped a decisive line.
"Even if it's only a rumor, she still super wouldn't be interested in you."
That was the killing blow.
"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO—!"
Hamazura Shiage clutched his head and immediately folded over in despair.
Meanwhile, the Item girls merely looked at him as though he were something filthy, dealing a severe blow to the innocent youth's heart.
"W-What the hell?!"
Hamazura Shiage could only protest through a face full of tears.
"Of course I know I