Only One Person Was Still Sane

Room 404.

Kamigami Haruo and Ichinose Honami sat upright, facing Horikita Suzune across from them.

"So this is the popular, wildly sought-after cuisine you were talking about?"

Although she had already guessed, Horikita Suzune could not help questioning him.

"Isn't it? Look, don't the upperclassmen in their second and third years eat the Mountain Vegetable Set Meal every day? And look at the sheer value of me going out without spending a single point. Do you even understand?"

Kamigami Haruo raised his chin with a perfectly justified expression.

"I'm digging in." ×2

The two of them stopped paying attention to Kamigami Haruo and began eating.

"Shouldn't you wait for the head of this household to start eating first?"

"..."

Kamigami Haruo was answered by silence and the two girls staring at their noses, their noses staring at their hearts.

The sage said: sleep after eating your fill, eat after sleeping your fill.

Lying on the floor, Kamigami Haruo was now in exactly that state.

"You can't lie down after eating. Come on, get up."

Ichinose called out helplessly.

"No."

Kamigami Haruo ignored her completely.

Only after Ichinose's patience ran out did she say, face flushed red.

"Please... please get up already."

"Huh?"

Kamigami Haruo rose to his feet on the spot like a zombie and looked at their great angel, Ichinose, in slight surprise.

"What did you say? Horikita-san, did you hear that?"

"I heard it, but I wish I hadn't."

Ignoring the elegant words behind him that could make one lose their mind, Kamigami Haruo looked at the bright-red Ichinose and extended his sinful hands.

"Excuse me..."

Ahem, ahem.

After dressing herself up, Shiranami Chihiro slung her backpack over her shoulder, twisted open her door handle, and headed toward the room of the person she admired.

Ding-dong, ding-dong.

"..."

Ding-dong, ding-dong.

"..."

Huh? What was going on?

Shiranami Chihiro took out her phone and opened her friends' location tracker to check their positions.

To her surprise, the location on her phone appeared at Room 04 on every floor.

04? 04... Could it be!?

Tap, tap, tap.

Only a gust of wind remained where she had stood. The running figure looked exactly like Klee from Genshin Impact.

Masaka? You're an OP fan too? Excited round-faced glasses guy panting heavily.jpg

Outside Room 404.

With both hands nervously clutching her backpack straps, Shiranami Chihiro cautiously extended one hand toward the half-open door.

"Excuse me..."

After saying that, Shiranami Chihiro peeked through the entryway toward the living room, then instantly turned to stone at the sight before her.

Before her eyes were a man and woman whose faces were less than five centimeters apart. In reality, Kamigami Haruo was simply kneading Ichinose's cheeks.

"Separate already! What are you two doing?!"

Shiranami Chihiro hurried forward to pull them apart, but she tripped over her own feet in her panic, resulting in the three of them embracing.

"I know you like both of us, Chihiro, but there's no need to throw yourself into our arms like this, right?"

Kamigami Haruo inhaled the scent of the two girls, suddenly becoming a little intoxicated as he spoke with feeling.

Meanwhile, after the blushing from before, having her cheeks kneaded, and now being caught in a three-person embrace, Ichinose had practically turned into a steam engine with spiral eyes.

"I told you, I don't like you!"

As for why she did not push Kamigami Haruo away? That was open to interpretation.

"I said that's enough, you two. If no one stopped you, who knows how disgusting this might become."

Someone had finally been unable to stand it any longer. That familiar tone, that complete inability to read the room, and that constant rationality—truly, it could only be Horikita Suzune.

Ahem, ahem.

After clearing his throat theatrically, Kamigami Haruo released the two girls from his arms, left them to chat, stood up, and walked over to the sink to wash the dishes.

With that blissful expression of his, if not for his decent-looking face, he would have been a textbook creep.

Beep, beep, beep, beep...

Kamigami Haruo looked toward the source of the sound and discovered Horikita Suzune holding the remote and raising the air conditioner's temperature.

He could not stand it. Not for even a second.

"What are you doing~? I've had it set to sixteen degrees for weeks straight."

"You really spare no effort when it comes to wasting the school's money."

Horikita Suzune made that jab, then sat down and took out a book to read.

This was the agreement the two had reached: one would cook, and the other would handle cleanup.

"If I don't waste some of the school's money, I feel uncomfortable all over."

"Is that so."

Although she was reading, Horikita Suzune did not forget to respond.

"Yoshi, such lovely ladies—three of them, too. More, more."

If any of you guys were that chair, you would definitely think the same thing.

Kamigami Haruo looked enviously at the chair beside him with three people sitting on it. In his next life, he wanted to be reincarnated as a chair that only beautiful girls sat on.

Standing before the automatic movie ticket machine, Kamigami Haruo looked over the films that were about to start. They were all old movies.

Looking at the three beautiful girls beside him, he had no choice but to reluctantly pick a horror movie.

After buying four adjacent seats, three buckets of popcorn, and drinks for each of them, they waited to enter.

Kamigami Haruo was actually quite troubled. He was troubled over how they should arrange their seats.

By the adorable logic of a man, he wanted very much to sit between the two Class B girls. That way, he could feast his eyes and experience having both arms hugged.

But after looking at his little chef, he sighed. He should keep her company instead. After all, he had invited her, and the fact that she had accepted was already a huge step forward.

Horikita Manabu, if you lay a hand on Ayanokōji like you did when you first met him, I'll crush your balls and turn you into Horikita Manako, then make our Prison Sister suffer as a sister-con.

While waiting, they also ran into the Idiot Trio. Just from their choice of a hot-blooded movie, it was obvious they were pathetic. What couple watched a hot-blooded movie together?

He could sense even more envy, jealousy, and hatred.

Ignoring the three boys' noise, he took out his phone to get things started. Fortunately, the game came loaded with intense emotions right from the beginning.

Ta-da, the mobile version of Five Nights at Freddy's 3.

"Horikita-san, Honami, Chihiro, come over."

Although he said it extremely casually, before long, they would think of it as the devil's whisper.

Horikita Suzune was the exception. Not long after the game began, she took out her novel and started reading.

This girl probably only showed weakness in front of her Brother.

"Yoshi, everyone, let's go."

Kamigami Haruo called over the still-shaken two Class B girls and the uninvolved Horikita Suzune, then entered the theater carrying popcorn and drinks.

After taking their assigned seats, the arrangement became: Shiranami Chihiro in the first seat, Ichinose Honami in the second, Kamigami Haruo in the third, and Horikita Suzune in the fourth.

It was perfectly reasonable. After all, beautiful girls were surrounding him.

But in the end, he had miscalculated. After Shiranami Chihiro got scared at the start of the movie and clung to Ichinose, the two began keeping each other warm.