Kushida, Please Don't Make Things Difficult! Part 2! Two-in-One!

And then...

"I'm not interested in what you think." Horikita's voice rang out. "So I have no reason to reply to you."

"But—"

"I can't understand how you, as a member of Class A, can't even tell the nature of other people's relationships."

"If this is the level of your Class A, then our class will surpass you sooner or later."

Horikita's attack power was formidable.

It could be said that while Hashimoto had initially wanted to ask about Horikita's feelings, Horikita had answered him with their class rankings instead.

She was already attacking Hashimoto.

She's really hard to handle, Hashimoto thought.

Yet he wore a regretful expression.

At the same time, he realized he would not be able to get an answer about the relationship between Horikita and Hachiman.

Just as he thought that, he heard Horikita's voice again.

"Just as you can see," Horikita said. "Hachiman and I have been dating since we enrolled."

"If you still intend to interfere in someone else's relationship after that, then my opinion of Class A students will drop even further."

"Is that so?" Hashimoto scratched his head, then left in the opposite direction.

It counted as a failed confession.

"What a pointless nuisance," Horikita seemed to mutter before turning and leaving as well.

Hachiman and Sudō remained where they were.

"So, Hikigaya, isn't your relationship with Horikita pretty much unbreakable?" Sudō asked Hachiman.

Hachiman did not deny it this time.

Because both Hachiman and Horikita knew they were not dating, but keeping their relationship close could spare them certain troubles brought on by adolescent hormones—namely, being pestered by other boys and girls.

Saying they were already dating, or that they already had a boyfriend or girlfriend, was enough to make those people back off.

In other words, they served as each