After a long while, Kaguya Shinomiya was the one who stepped forward and asked, "Do you need me to take you back?"
Akasaka waved a hand. "No need. I can head back on my own. I'll take the chance to look around This School, too. Honestly, I'm pretty curious about Japan's finest aristocratic school."
With his hands in his pockets, Akasaka left the Student Council Office.
It was only after he had been gone for quite a while that the Student Council members—Chika Fujiwara, Miyuki Shirogane, and Yu Ishigami—completely exploded.
"W-what the heck is going on?! Kaguya! You're that familiar with Prime Minister Akasaka? I'm so jealous! Ah! No, wait!" Chika Fujiwara did not even know what she was saying anymore. She clutched her head in both hands, her mind a complete mess.
She actually knew that Kaguya had helped him so much during Japan's last prime ministerial election. It would have been strange if the two of them were not close.
She should have figured that out just by thinking about it, but she had no brain... She had even forgotten about it...
Miyuki Shirogane looked as though he wanted to say something, but stopped himself. He wanted to ask what exactly Kaguya Shinomiya's relationship with that man was.
But after thinking about it, he realized he had no right to ask.
What was he to her, anyway?
A friend of Kaguya Shinomiya's? Not really. He was only pining for her on his own, while Kaguya Shinomiya still seemed not to care about him.
Miyuki Shirogane was still in love with the girl named Princess Kaguya. To make her notice him, he had stayed up every night studying until he finally surpassed her in grades.
They had even ended up in the same Student Council.
Yet after all this