"So you really want to try this?" He looked up at the time. It was currently eleven fifty-eight at night!
It would soon be midnight!
"Ah ha~" Covering her little mouth, Konoka yawned and gently rubbed the corners of her eyes. "We've waited until now already. I want to see whether what you said is real or not..."
Jiu Ming twitched the corner of his mouth. You really are taking this to heart. "It seems useless for people like us who don't have anyone we resent."
"...That's true!" After spacing out for a moment, Konoka lightly slapped her forehead. "It's so late and I still haven't gone back. Asuna will be worried too."
No sooner had she said that than her phone rang. How should he put it? It wasn't intuition, but something anyone could easily guess—this call definitely had to be from Asuna.
"Where are you? Why haven't you come back this late?" Asuna's rather anxious voice sounded from the other end of the call.
"I'm on a blind date. I'll be back in a little while. Mm~ I'm so sleepy." As she spoke, she couldn't help yawning again.
"What?! A blind date?!"
In the dormitory, Asuna's voice suddenly jumped eight octaves, startling Negi so badly that his hand jerked. The bottle of medicine he had been practicing compounding nearly fell to the floor.
A blind date? What blind date? Konoka?
Carefully setting his things down, Negi froze as well. No way! She was only a middle school student, yet she'd gone on a blind date!
"What kind of damned blind date has kept you from coming back until now?!" Asuna's voice grew more agitated. "You haven't been tricked, have you? Where are you? I'll come get you."
"Come on, it's fine. I'm very safe where I am." Konoka