Although he'd already more or less ruled out his classmates as holders of Diary Copies, well, there was a difference between not putting on an act at all and putting on a little show.
They still deserved a basic level of respect.
"Of course... That's right!" Hoshinomiya Chie propped her head up with one hand and held her lesson plan in the other, swinging it back and forth. "Chabashira Sae and I go way back. You could say we're the very, very, very best of friends~"
"So, is there something you wanted to ask me about that has to do with Chabashira?"
"Do you want to know her measurements? Whether she's seeing anyone, or what kind of person she likes?"
As she spoke with a teasing smile, Hoshinomiya Chie suddenly remembered that the first person to ask hadn't been Asakusa Toru, but Shiranami Chihiro.
"Oh, but one thing's for sure: Chabashira's sexual orientation is perfectly normal, okay?"
After all, there'd been a strange trend of rumors about homosexuality among the students lately. And since she'd often felt that Shiranami Chihiro looked at Ichinose Honami in a rather unusual way, she decided she ought to offer a little reminder.
"...Nobody wants to ask about that." Kanzaki Ryuji spoke in a low voice.
One of the students quietly objected. "I kind of want to know, actually."
"It's that thing, you know, that thing." As if the conversation had opened the floodgates, the rest of the class suddenly came to life. "I heard Hoshinomiya-sensei and Chabashira-sensei used to be students at this school."
"Sensei, is that true?"
Please Set a Good Example for Your Students
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Hoshinomiya's smile stiffened slightly. She instinctively narrowed her eyes, but soon realized she was under the watchful gaze of all forty students in the class. They'd catch