"Hmm? Is something wrong, Nanaya?"
Seeing Fang Li fall into thought, Kushida Kikyo tilted her head in apparent puzzlement.
"...No, it's nothing."
Fang Li immediately suppressed the question in his heart.
However, he had merely pushed the question aside. It had not disappeared.
Fang Li had still noticed what Kushida Kikyo truly cared about.
"You seem very concerned about Horikita."
As always, Fang Li struck straight at the other person's weak point.
When it came to that sort of talent, there was probably no one better than Fang Li.
Kushida Kikyo's expression stiffened for an instant, as though it said, "You noticed," and she looked somewhat awkward.
Then, Kushida Kikyo gave this answer.
"Because Horikita is the only one in the class who doesn't want to get along with me. It hurts my feelings too."
The answer Kushida Kikyo gave was very much in character for her.
As she said it, Kushida Kikyo stuck out her tongue and sighed, seeming genuinely troubled by it.
Fang Li really wanted to say something.
"I don't recall ever getting along with you either, do I?"
Still, compared to Horikita Suzune, Fang Li's attitude toward Kushida Kikyo was already fairly good. At least he would talk to her like this. Unlike Horikita Suzune, who only ever rejected and shut her out no matter what Kushida Kikyo did, perhaps Horikita Suzune really was the only person in the class who had not improved her relationship with Kushida Kikyo.
For a girl who claimed she wanted to be friends with everyone, that was probably quite painful.
Though Fang Li could not really understand forcing herself on someone only to get rebuffed, Kushida Kikyo was recognized as Class D's angel. It was not strange for her to patiently try to communicate with people she did not get