"Na... Nanaya!?"
Sakura Airi, who had been quietly listening to Fang Li and Horikita Suzune's conversation nearby, immediately panicked.
Yet regardless of Sakura Airi's panic, the entire Class D burst into noisy chatter.
"Shizuku? The idol?"
"Do you mean the Shizuku who was on the cover of that weekly magazine?"
"Friends with Shizuku?"
"W-What does this even mean!?"
The students in class instantly erupted into commotion.
Of course, not everyone reacted that way.
Only those students who usually read magazines and browsed blogs knew the name "Shizuku."
People like Horikita Suzune, Yukimura Teruhiko, and Koenji Rokusuke had probably never even heard that name. While quite a few students in the class made a fuss over it, they merely frowned.
Ayanokoji Kiyotaka, on the other hand, looked at the flustered Sakura Airi. In his utterly unchanged tone, he hesitated before voicing an extremely crucial question.
"Could Sakura be Shizuku?"
After all, Fang Li's words just now, along with Sakura Airi's current reaction, made that possibility clear enough.
"Th... That can't be true, right?"
"H-How could it be?"
Ike Koji and Yamauchi Haruki looked somewhat stiff as they pulled a magazine out from somewhere.
On the cover of that magazine was a photo spread of Sakura Airi, photographed as Shizuku.
Led by Ike Koji and Yamauchi Haruki, the boys in the class gathered together. As they compared the photos with Sakura Airi herself, their expressions gradually stiffened.
"Sh... She really does look a little like Sakura, doesn't she?"
"B-But Shizuku doesn't wear glasses!"
"Her hairstyle is different too!"
"More importantly, Shizuku clearly looks so cheerful. How could she be that plain, inconspicuous Sakura?"
Amid their uncertainty, the boys said something extremely rude.
But one thing was certain.
At this moment, everyone in the class had focused their attention on Sakura Airi.
"Ah..."