"Show it to me when you're done, okay? I'm looking forward to it."
"Sure, but don't get your hopes up too much."
Totsuka waved to me and left the classroom. Keep it up today too, president.
Mm, I was fired up... but I didn't dislike how simple-minded I was.
I looked toward the back of the classroom, where Yuihama and Ebina were chatting.
"No way! Hikigaya-kun... Chiba-kun... and then... because of love... using Chiba-kun's tongue..."
Yuihama seemed to be discussing mascot designs with Ebina too.
The other students' chatter drowned them out, so I could only catch fragments, but what I heard was a little terrifying.
"Maybe you could call him ambitious... If it only happened once, cheating might even add some spice! But Hayama and Chiba-kun belong to completely different worlds! Ebina adjusted her glasses and fell into deep thought...‼"
That was no longer a fragment. Her excited voice reached me loud and clear.
There was a female teacher who wanted to marry Funassyi, and a male student cheating with Chiba-kun. Sobu High School was doomed.
Since we were designing a mascot, I wanted to work out its character setting too.
There was no helping it. Times like this called for asking Zaimokuza.
I arranged to meet Zaimokuza behind the school building and asked if he had any good character settings we could add to the mascot—
"Hm-hm, so you recognize true talent, Pretty Cure. To seek advice from me on character settings—what discerning eyes you have!"
He immediately flipped up the hem of the coat he always wore, rushed over, and tightly grabbed my arm.
"Wait, Zaimokuza, forget I said anything."
"Allow me to bestow these treasured character settings upon you, whose love for Chiba is so uniquely insightful!"
Like a steam locomotive belching vapor, he made his