"Honami? And Nanaya too? Why are you here?"
The moment Kushida Kikyo saw Fang Li and Ichinose Honami walk in through the door, she wore an extremely surprised expression.
It was not just Kushida Kikyo. Even Hirata Yosuke looked somewhat astonished, while Horikita Suzune showed a faint moment of surprise the instant she saw Fang Li.
In contrast, when Katsuragi Kohei saw Fang Li, an unprecedented seriousness surfaced in his eyes as he fixed his gaze tightly on him.
The heavy atmosphere in the Dragon Group, where three sides had been facing off, shifted somewhat with Fang Li's arrival.
"You came?"
Ryuen Kaito, completely unlike everyone else, still wore a delighted smile. He spread his hands and addressed everyone present.
"Don't be so tense. They're guests I invited. Anyway, the one-hour standby obligation is already over, so this room can be freely used. The school said so too, didn't it? Then it should be fine to use it to entertain guests as well, right?"
Before the one-hour standby obligation ended, students were not allowed to leave their rooms, so naturally, entertaining guests was out of the question.
But now that the standby obligation had passed, the school had indeed not forbidden members of other groups from entering rooms that did not belong to their own groups. Going by the rules, there was no issue.
But having no issue with the rules did not mean there was no issue at all.
At the very least, Fang Li's appearance seemed to have clearly changed the situation in the room.
"Ryuen invited Nanaya...?"
"That really is surprising..."
Kushida Kikyo and Hirata Yosuke made no effort to hide their astonishment.
Forget Kushida Kikyo and Hirata Yosuke—even Horikita Suzune frowned.
Anyone would have been surprised, wouldn't they?
The two people who had practically fought to