Only.
Shiina noticed that Hachiman, who sat beside her, seemed somewhat distracted.
The entire morning had passed with him spacing out.
"Hachiman." In the end, Shiina kindly asked, "Did something happen?"
Yes.
Although they were now very close to Class A, Hiyori did not think Hachiman was the type to brood deeply over something like that.
Then there could only be one explanation for his strange state—he had run into some trouble.
Combined with the atmosphere around them, where students were eagerly discussing last night's incident involving a couple out in the open...
So.
Hiyori was wondering whether that exposed couple might have been Hachiman and Kushida.
Ichinose was also a possibility, but Hiyori did not feel that Ichinose would do such a thing. Kushida was more likely, while Horikita was absolutely impossible, since Horikita had considerable self-restraint.
Of course.
This was simply the topic the class had been discussing all morning.
They seemed curious about who exactly the couple caught by the Student Council had been. Some said they were first-years, while others thought they might have been second-years or even third-years.
Then the students began matching the rumors to the couples around them.
In Hiyori's social circle, the only people who seemed to be in relationships at the moment were Hachiman and his prospective brides.
So those were the only possible suspects. But judging by Horikita's behavior today, she definitely was not the female lead in that incident.
Then who was it?
"Actually..." Hachiman glanced at Shiina, whose hair color resembled Classmate Sakayanagi's. "A girl confessed to me yesterday."
"I can confirm that confessing to someone is very embarrassing."
"But..." He paused. "I never thought being confessed to could make it so hard to control my emotions."
Unable to control his emotions—that meant...
Hachiman's heart had been thrown