"Huh? Why is everyone here?"
When the elevator doors opened, a slightly surprised voice reached everyone's ears.
Everyone turned toward the sound.
The next second, they saw them.
"Are you all heading out to have fun too?"
With that cheerful laugh, Ichinose Honami appeared with two girls.
Of the two girls, one was Shiranami Chihiro, who maintained a subtle distance from Ichinose Honami. The other was a girl who often spent time with Ichinose Honami, a rather lively person named Tsunaura Asako.
"Honami?"
Kushida Kikyo was similarly surprised, seemingly not expecting to run into Ichinose Honami here.
"It's you?"
Horikita Suzune's attention was diverted as well. She looked at Ichinose Honami, completely failing to notice the expressions of immense relief on Ike Koji, Yamauchi Haruki, and Sudo Ken's faces, as though they had been saved.
"I-Ichinose..."
However, when Sakura Airi saw Ichinose Honami, her expression became somewhat complicated.
After all, the girl before her was Fang Li's rumored girlfriend.
Even Kushida Kikyo seemed to have thought of something, smiling as she spoke.
"Could it be that Nanaya invited you too, Honami?"
At those words, all the girls from Class B, including Ichinose Honami, froze.
"Nanaya?"
Ichinose Honami tilted her head. Just as she was about to speak, Shiranami Chihiro beside her beat her to it.
"That's not it at all!" Shiranami Chihiro said crisply, sounding extremely displeased. "Ichinose is going to the pool with us. We made plans to go together, so it has nothing to do with Nanaya!"
Shiranami Chihiro did her utmost to emphasize that point.
"I-Is that so?"
Kushida Kikyo immediately looked as though she had been startled, revealing a somewhat forced smile.
Only Ayanokoji Kiyotaka noticed the important part.
"You're going to the pool too?"
Ayanokoji Kiyotaka asked in his flat voice.
But it was Tsunaura