Standing here would make him conspicuous enough. But he had prepared for that. Any direct conversation would be seen by others, so he had written a note asking to meet by the fountain that evening.
All he had to do now was pass along the information quickly when the other person entered.
However.
"My, my..."
Before the person Hachiman had been waiting for arrived, a troublesome figure came here first.
"I thought I had mistaken you for someone else, but it really is Hachiman, copying Ryuen and playing gatekeeper at the cafeteria entrance."
So other Class A students had spotted Hachiman playing gatekeeper here and reported it directly to Sakayanagi.
Everyone's phones had clearly been confiscated, yet the Class A students were still so skilled at gathering and passing along information.
Sakayanagi's gaze rested on Hachiman for a moment before seeming to shift toward Ryuen beside him.
"Ryuen, are you continuing to play gatekeeper today as well?" Sakayanagi asked.
"If you're trying to get information from me, Sakayanagi, you've got the wrong idea." Ryuen glanced at Sakayanagi, then walked directly inside after standing in the sunlight at the cafeteria entrance for a while.
Although Sakayanagi appeared to be speaking to him, what Ryuen read in her eyes was, You're in the way. Do you still have business here? If not, could you leave first?
And now that Sakayanagi had directly spoken to him, he could at least confirm that she knew he was deliberately contacting people from Class A.
Then let Sakayanagi take the bait on this open scheme next.
However.
Although the Class A students were wary of Ryuen standing at the cafeteria entrance for three consecutive days, and Sakayanagi was intelligent enough to see that Ryuen was being so obvious because he wanted to force her into acting,