Kushida had known for a long time that Sakayanagi liked Hachiman Hikigaya.
At the time, Kushida had laughed at Sakayanagi inwardly, certain that Sakayanagi would fail.
But now...
She was no longer so confident.
Because there was still that terrifying one-percent possibility that she would realize the clown had been herself all along.
"She probably hasn't succeeded in confessing yet," Yukino, who had remained quiet until now, said. "Since she's asking about it now, it means it hasn't happened yet."
"So if you want to stop her, it's still possible," Yukino suggested. "Stop Sakayanagi-senpai from saying it. I think Hachiman Hikigaya is the sort of person who knows everything, but if you don't say it aloud, he won't deal with it."
Yukino was a decisive person.
She disliked ambiguous attitudes.
If someone bullied her, she struck back, like a proud yet powerful lone wolf.
And now that Ichika Amasawa and Kushida-senpai were worried about this, the best plan was to keep President Sakayanagi from confessing.
However...
"Classmate Yukinoshita's suggestion is one option," Ichika Amasawa said. "But I wouldn't recommend it. It's better to guide the flow than block it."
In other words, even if they stopped Sakayanagi Arisu now, they could not keep stopping her forever.
So it would be better to let Sakayanagi-senpai suffer one crushing heartbreak and settle the future trouble in one go.
"..." Kushida.
If she could choose, she would probably have picked the plan Yukino Yukinoshita had suggested—stopping Sakayanagi from confessing.
And she could even do a little maneuvering herself.
Kushida had actually been thinking the same thing. There was one possible plan: talk Sakayanagi into waiting until graduation, or even university, before confessing.
By then, Hachiman would already be married to her.
So whether Sakayanagi confessed then would be irrelevant.
But that tactic was