"What exactly is love?"
In the girls' dormitory, Xin's sudden question left everyone stunned.
"Xin? What made you suddenly ask that?"
Mirai swung her legs as she sat at the head of the bed, looking at her. Xin lowered her head, her face slightly red.
"S-Sorry, I was just a little confused... After all, we don't understand this stuff at all..."
"Love, huh..."
Hearing this, Ichigo sat up from her bed as well and put down the paperback in her hand.
"I think love means wholeheartedly liking one person. That's what the book says, anyway..."
As she spoke, Ichigo raised the paperback in her hand. It was the romance novel she had brought back from the bookstore—a story about the romance between a boy and a girl at school.
"Huh? Is that so? But Mirai's book says that as long as you like someone, that's enough to be love."
As she spoke, Mirai showed them the paperback she had gotten from the bookstore as well. It told the story of a male protagonist who inherited the family business, his fiancée whom he had been betrothed to since childhood, and his first love, forming a love triangle that ultimately ended in a happy harem ending.
But...
"That's a book for adults, isn't it?"
Ichigo glanced at its somewhat embarrassing cover, then lowered her head with a faint blush.
"That's exactly why it's right."
Mirai said this while patting the paperback in her hand hard.
"Adults read books like this, so isn't this what adult romance is like?"
"I still think love should be devoted to one person."
Ichigo shook her head.
"But then wouldn't everyone else be too pitiful?"
Mirai was referring to the novel in her hands. Although the male protagonist and his fiancée had been betrothed since childhood, they