So Many Geniuses in Omni-Anime! What's Wrong with Adding Me?

He narrowed his eyes and slowly walked to her side, bending down to press a hand on her shoulder as he breathed, "Then~ what if what I said was true?"

"...What do you want?" Ticklish, she shyly shifted her twin spiral ponytails to the other side.

"Nothing much... I just think the knee-high socks Senpai Arisa is wearing today are pretty cute..."

"Wah?!"

"Too scared?"

"W-Who's scared?! It's just being touched! F-Fine, do whatever you want."

She forced herself to keep up the bearing of a third-year senior, then asked confidently, "And if you lose?"

After all, they had been teased plenty by a certain senior who loved touching people everywhere. This was nothing.

"Then I'll do whatever you want~" he replied indifferently.

"Hmph~ You said it!" She curled her lips smugly, as though her scheme had succeeded. "I'll make you join the Student Council! I'll assign you work every day!"

"...So that was your goal?" He stared at her blankly. That was an angle he had never considered.

"Arisa is so sneaky~~" Toyama Kasumi and Yamabuki Saya teased in unison.

"Shut up!"

"..."

The next day, Monday, June 23.

If there was anything special about today, it was probably this: it was Natsuki Nakagawa's birthday.

So although they still gathered at his house that evening, he did not make them continue training. After bringing out a cake to celebrate with her, he sent them home.

Then, that night—

"Lately, I just haven't felt motivated to do anything~"

"Mm~ mm~"

"No, I still go to class, and I still work at BAMBOO, but..."

"Yeah~"

"Don't just give me some halfhearted reply. Say something."

"Then I'll say it, okay? In other words, have you figured it out?"

"...It's not like there's anything to figure out, is there? Ha... I don't