Amamiya Natsuki spread his hands. "Since I like you so much, senpai, could we make it a little shorter? Just nine minutes."
"Nine minutes is still a long time!" Tsubame-senpai gritted her teeth, her pretty face flushed as she stammered, "At most—at most three minutes!"
"Three minutes is too short." Amamiya Natsuki shook his head. "At least eight minutes."
Tsubame-senpai said, "No way! Five minutes, tops!"
Amamiya Natsuki smiled. "Great, we have a deal."
Tsubame-senpai: "..."
Seeing the delighted smile on Amamiya Natsuki's face, Tsubame-senpai immediately realized she'd been tricked. Her cheeks puffed up on their own.
How outrageous!
This was too much!
Her junior had never actually wanted ten minutes. He'd only exaggerated on purpose to leave himself room to bargain!
She was so gullible. How had she not noticed at all...? Five minutes definitely wasn't his bottom line!
"I changed my mind!" Tsubame-senpai puffed out her cheeks. "I'm going back!"
Amamiya Natsuki grabbed her wrist and pulled her into his arms, lowering his voice. "You can leave if you want, senpai, but please pay the cancellation fee first."
"Huh?" Tsubame-senpai froze. "What's that?"
"I made you an offer, and you just accepted it. Since we both expressed our genuine intentions, that means we have a contract." Amamiya Natsuki spoke with complete seriousness. "If you unilaterally break the contract, of course you have to pay a cancellation fee. That's only natural."
"..."
Tsubame-senpai felt like something was off, but it did sound like he had a point.
While she hesitated, Amamiya Natsuki continued in a low voice. "Little Aoi is definitely still waiting for you to come back, right?"
"If you go back empty-handed, Little Aoi will definitely be disappointed."
"Senpai, you don't want Little Aoi to be disappointed, do you?"
"..."
While Tsubame-senpai was caught up in her