Horikita Suzune's Defeat Animation

Room 1201.

"Eeeeeeh?!"

Ichinose's startled cry was especially conspicuous in the silent room.

Horikita Suzune, meanwhile, kept her arms folded and looked at the two people involved with disdain.

It had to be said that Kamigami Haruo was so stunned he could not speak, his spoon stopping in midair just before reaching his mouth.

"No, no, I don't like Kamigami-kun! The one I like is Honami!"

In trying to clear up the misunderstanding, Shiranami Chihiro exposed an even bigger secret. Once she realized it, she covered her mouth and turned into an ostrich.

"Eeeeeeh?! Me?"

Horikita Suzune shifted her gaze to a new target, her disdain growing even stronger.

"Whoa, that's even worse. That was basically a self-destruct truck."

Kamigami Haruo quipped before patting his chest and saying,

"As long as it's not me."

"Don't make Chihiro's feelings sound worthless, Kamigami-kun."

After collecting her flustered emotions, Ichinose said something to Kamigami Haruo.

"That's not what I meant. It's just that stuff like that feels very distant to me."

Kamigami Haruo said it with an indifferent expression.

The others did not notice it, but Horikita Suzune could hear the strain in his voice.

Perhaps because it had come without any warning, leaving no time to prepare before she was confessed to face-to-face, Ichinose quickly gave her answer.

"Chihiro, I'm very grateful for your feelings, but I'm not ready for a relationship yet, so I can't respond to you right now. Can we be friends first?"

"I-I-I won't give up!"

Knowing she could no longer play ostrich, Shiranami Chihiro gathered her courage and gave a firm reply.

Perhaps it was still too soon and her feelings were not that deep, so she was not too heartbroken. If they had built up for two months, she probably would have run out crying.

"Commendable courage. Now, let's play Aeroplane Chess."

Ignoring the awkward atmosphere, Kamigami Haruo directly tore open the packaging and opened the box.

"I have never experienced defeat. You are the one who should be afraid."

Horikita Suzune said confidently.

"Then let's make a wager. How about it?"

"A very good suggestion. If you lose, you'll be my assistant forever."

"Fine. Then you'll be my cook forever."

Horikita Suzune had never encountered a cheat before, or she definitely would not have agreed.

The two people who could not read the room began bickering on their own.

"I'll take yellow. You'll take red? You two pick your colors."

"O-Okay!"

After soothing Shiranami Chihiro, Ichinose chose blue, leaving green for Shiranami Chihiro.

After one round of dice rolls, Shiranami Chihiro went first.

After several rounds, everyone else's pieces had left the hangar, while Kamigami Haruo's still had not moved a single step.

That was until Horikita Suzune's piece appeared three spaces behind Kamigami Haruo's hangar.

Kamigami Haruo rolled a six to come out, then rolled a three, directly capturing Horikita Suzune's piece.

Ignoring her murderous gaze, he passed the die to the next player.

Over the next few rounds, everyone except Kamigami Haruo was more or less dumbfounded.

Using his physical advantage, Kamigami Haruo rolled an average of three sixes per round before stopping.

The game ended quickly, with Kamigami Haruo as the final winner.

Horikita Suzune came in last, having been continuously targeted by Kamigami Haruo.

Until Kamigami Haruo won, not one of her pieces reached the finish.

"You cheated."

Yep, her voice was practically grinding through clenched teeth.

"A loss is a loss. Don't forget your promise, or I'll go complain to Brother. I recorded it, you know."

With one sentence, Kamigami Haruo blocked all the words Horikita Suzune had been about to use to refute him.

There was no recording at all, but unwilling to cause trouble for Brother, Horikita Suzune chose to compromise.

"I'll do it..."

"Alright, now for the punishment game."

"I never agreed to any punishment."

Kamigami Haruo took out a marker and prepared to draw on Horikita Suzune's face.

Then the two started wrestling.

Yep, Kamigami Haruo got beaten up right in front of everyone, all so he could draw an X on Horikita Suzune's face.

The two at the side were already used to this, simply eating cake and watching the show.

After that, everyone rejected Aeroplane Chess because of Kamigami Haruo's cheating. Even his promise not to cheat again was useless.

They could only take out the backup playing cards from the shopping bag and play Old Maid instead.

Yes, Kamigami Haruo had anticipated this outcome.

Shiranami Chihiro kept darting guilty glances around.

Ichinose Honami had an expressive face.

Then there was the poker-faced Horikita Suzune.

And Kamigami Haruo, whose expression was impossible to tell whether it was genuine or fake.

"Is it this one? Oh? Looking at your expression, this must be the Old Maid. Then I'll draw the other one. Hehe."

Kamigami Haruo lied. Ichinose's expression had already told him which card was the Old Maid, but he still pretended to draw it, disguising it as a normal card.

When putting it into his hand, he pretended to search for a card with the same number, then took out a pair he had prepared beforehand.

He had deliberately not played that pair earlier for the sake of the disguise. And it was not just one pair—there were many.

All those pairs had been disguised to look like a single card.

Horikita-san, can this move reach your heart?

Kamigami Haruo casually took out a disguised pair, pretending he had not drawn the Old Maid. He put the Old Maid into his hand, then arranged things so Horikita Suzune would draw it.

Sure enough, Horikita Suzune drew the Old Maid.

Seeing Kamigami Haruo's smug grin, Horikita Suzune immediately felt unwilling to accept it. In the next round, she placed the Old Maid where it was most likely to be drawn.

Sure enough, Shiranami Chihiro drew it.

Then Ichinose Honami, being clever, drew it from Shiranami Chihiro, whose guilty conscience made her unconsciously glance around.

Afterward, Kamigami Haruo once again identified the Old Maid through Ichinose Honami's expression and drew it away, though he did not disguise it this time.

This time, facing the poker-faced Horikita Suzune, Kamigami Haruo used the art of expressions.

He mixed up looks of guilt, joy, sadness, anger, and anticipation, then randomly picked one.

When Horikita Suzune's hand hovered over the Old Maid, Kamigami Haruo revealed a smile.

Looking at Kamigami Haruo across from her, Horikita Suzune thought that he would definitely try to give her a false impression, making her think he was using a smile to conceal that a normal card was actually the Old Maid.

So when he had a sour face, that was the Old Maid. Then, looking at his smiling face, she drew the Old Maid.

Alright, now Horikita Suzune only had three cards left, and this time the Old Maid was not drawn away.

After a full round, Horikita Suzune once again failed to draw a pair. As though cursed by bad luck, the Old Maid remained in her hand.

The ending was obvious: Horikita Suzune lost.

Frustrated. That was Horikita Suzune's mood right now.

Wasn't this supposed to be a game of probability? How had it turned into a game of luck?

What Horikita Suzune did not notice was that Kamigami Haruo had been constantly signaling behind her to Shiranami Chihiro, whose eyes kept wandering around.

And so, the two started fooling around again, leaving many wounds on Kamigami Haruo's arm from the compass.

However, what the four of them did not notice this time was that Kamigami Haruo had casually taken a permanent marker from Horikita Suzune's pencil case to use.