Tokyo, Kaguya Shinomiya Castle.
After hanging up, Kaguya Shinomiya turned to the young maid behind her with a gloomy expression. After a long while, she said, "Hayasaka, I think I might be broken!"
Phew~! Ai Hayasaka sighed inwardly. "My lady, what is it this time...?" What had happened now?
"Hayasaka, I actually agreed to that bastard Doma's request to help confirm that the president has a mental illness! Ah..." Kaguya Shinomiya clutched her head in both hands and kept shaking it, looking deeply conflicted.
"My lady, what kind of act are you putting on this time?" Ai Hayasaka asked in confusion. "Did President Shirogane do something to upset you? Or..." Was this one of their ways of pursuing each other? But why couldn't she understand this routine at all?
Before she could say the rest aloud, Kaguya Shinomiya spoke with a smile on the verge of collapse.
"Heh... hehe... The president, you see, didn't do anything wrong at all..."
"..." Looking at her mistress, Ai Hayasaka found it hard to keep the smile on her face. She felt more and more like Hayasaka A-Dream. Not only did she have to fulfill her mistress's bizarre requests, she also had to soothe her heart. "My lady, if you don't want to cooperate, couldn't you just refuse? Surely that person from the Doma Family can't..."
"No, I can't!" Before Ai Hayasaka could finish, Kaguya Shinomiya cut her off with a stiff smile. "I can't refuse. If I refuse, the image the president has of me will..." It would collapse! No, it wouldn't just collapse—he might even label her a violent maniac, a tomboy, and all sorts of things. He might even be traumatized by her.
By then, the president would probably keep his distance from her out of fear...
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