This was Suzune Horikita, a black-haired girl with a sharp yet proper bearing. Once a student of Class D, she had now transferred to Ryuen's class with a class transfer ticket. Her eyes were narrow and foxlike.
Upon seeing Horikita, Karuizawa, who had been struggling with the matter, seemed to think of something and took the initiative to make a little room for her.
"Um, Horikita, a friend just asked me something."
"I don't have a particularly good solution, though. Could I hear your advice?" Karuizawa said.
"What?" Although Horikita often kept to herself, that did not mean she was completely oblivious to human feelings.
Besides, Suzune knew that Karuizawa was Hachiman's useful pawn. So perhaps the trouble Karuizawa had encountered was also that guy's trouble.
"One of my friends might be confessed to by someone of the opposite sex," Karuizawa said. "He's already decided to reject them, but he wants to hurt them as little as possible."
"So, saying that he won't get involved in romance during high school?" Suzune joined the conversation at this point.
"That should work. It would count as a polite rejection, but what if the other person refuses to give up and confesses again at graduation?" Karuizawa did not speak, but Matsushita chimed in.
"Even then, he could still reject them. But that person would have continued liking him for all that time."
"If you don't make a clean break, you'll only hurt each other more deeply," Matsushita said with a frown.
She was actually a little curious. Was this how Horikita rejected boys who had feelings for her?
Then perhaps she and Hachiman... weren't in a relationship after all?
"You could just say you already like someone," Suzune continued.
"I-I don't think that's a very good plan." At that moment, a girl standing