"Couldn't find him."
Senior Yulia returned to the dormitory looking dejected. She had ridden her bicycle around outside for over half an hour, but hadn't seen any sign of Nagisa.
If Mei Xi hadn't insisted that she really had seen him, Yulia wouldn't even have left the dorm, let alone gone looking for someone.
"Couldn't find him..." Mei Xi lowered her head, deep in thought.
"Could it be because you miss Nagisa too much, Mei Xi?" Shinji suddenly said.
But under the table, the moment he finished speaking, Senior Yulia viciously stepped on his foot. Shinji broke out in a cold sweat from the pain, then fell silent in fear and lowered his head to eat.
"I'm a little tired. I'll go back to my room and rest first... Just leave the dishes here after you finish eating. I'll clean them up later."
After saying that, Mei Xi left the dining room.
The two of them were left staring at each other.
Shinji hesitated before saying, "Yulia, why don't I clean up? You should go rest too. You trained all day, so you must be tired."
"You don't need to play the good guy here," Yulia said with a cold laugh. "What, do you really think that living with two beautiful girls makes you the protagonist? Put away that pathetic tenderness of yours. It's worthless! Even if I wanted a man, I'd want a strong one!"
"I... I didn't mean it that way."
"Tsk! Even that bespectacled guy in our class is better than you."
"That's going too far..."
"Get lost!"
Yulia threw down her bowl and chopsticks and clattered upstairs. Shinji let out a breath of relief and slowly sighed. Before long, he curled up on the sofa.
He began to doubt himself.
*Am I really such a weak