Hachiman's Meritocracy Classroom

Hey, hey, hey.

Hachiman, you never said your family would be coming to the Cultural Festival.

Meanwhile.

Not far away, a girl who had been watching the scene took out her phone.

With a click, she snapped a photo of the moment.

Kikyo Kushida Began Considering Her Future Family Relationships

Kushida carefully studied the girl before her.

The other girl was blinking softly. She was petite, with smooth short hair, remarkably pretty eyes tinged slightly green, and a distinctly visible ahoge atop her head.

"Are you Hachiman's little sister?" Kushida asked directly, then introduced herself. "I'm Kikyo Kushida, Hachiman's classmate."

"Eh!"

Only then did Komachi realize that she had casually used the excuse of looking for Kushida-senpai to avoid awkwardness.

And the girl she had run into now was Kushida-senpai?

No wonder her expression had been so strange earlier. She probably didn't know Komachi and thought she was lying.

But if her brother married Kushida-senpai, then in a sense, Kikyo Kushida really would become Komachi's older sister.

So Komachi hadn't actually been wrong.

"I'm Komachi Hikigaya. I just came from my brother's... no, I was able to come here today as an off-campus guest."

"And I'd always wanted to meet the Kushida-senpai my brother mentioned in his letters."

"And now..."

"Are you Kushida-senpai?" Komachi asked.

She had changed her words midway through. What she had originally meant to say was that she had just separated from her brother, but if she mentioned him now, Kushida-senpai might take her to find him. Then she would see him with that incredibly beautiful black-haired girl.

And that might affect the relationship between the two of them.

That was why Komachi had changed her phrasing halfway through.

It wasn't a good thing to do, but subconsciously, Komachi realized she had instinctively covered for her