Kushida conscientiously refrained from spending the night in Hoshino's room.
A little after nine that evening, she quietly slipped back to her own room. After showering, Kushida sat on the edge of her bed wrapped in a bath towel. She picked up her phone, thought for a moment, then pulled up several contacts and began typing rapidly.
At this point in time, perhaps not across the entire school, but within the first year, no one had a wider social circle than Kushida.
It did not take long for Kushida to learn almost everything about Sudo's situation. After exchanging a few more pleasantries, she closed the chat windows one by one.
Finally, she opened Hoshino Akira's profile picture and began entering the information she had gathered. Halfway through typing, she suddenly stopped. After hesitating for a moment, she deleted everything she had just written.
"If I give it to him too quickly, it'll make me seem overly eager." Kushida stared at Hoshino Akira's name and lightly bit her glossy lower lip. "If the information comes too easily, he won't value it either, and he won't see how important I am..."
After thinking for a while, she made up her mind, turned off the screen, and tossed her phone onto the bed.
It was already nearly eleven. For a beautiful little fairy, staying up late was the greatest enemy of beauty!
Untying her bath towel, Kushida looked down and spotted several bruises on her chest, particularly conspicuous against her fair skin.
"Hmph! I'll give him the information tomorrow afternoon—no, tomorrow night! It's his fault for having no sense at all and hurting me!"
Kushida lay down on the bed, quietly thinking to herself.
Nothing particularly special happened at school the next day.
Although Kushida had only been gone for a single day,