Back in first year, students mostly talked about milk tea—pearl milk tea, coconut jelly milk tea, Grand Slam, and the like. But this year, milk tea seemed to have been abandoned overnight, with most students choosing fruit tea instead.
Fruit tea cost twice as much as milk tea, yet it still seemed to have plenty of fans.
And now.
She took a light sip and immediately felt refreshed.
"Even though I know milk tea and fruit tea are junk food, marketed as healthier while definitely containing excessive amounts of sugar."
"The taste is indeed quite good, though," Kiryuin-senpai said. "Drinking it once in a while is harmless."
Then she noticed that Asahina seemed to be spacing out.
"What happened? Or did I say something wrong?" Kiryuin asked.
"Um... do you also think I'm going to lose, Kiryuin?" Asahina sighed regretfully. "I know that if we're not in the same year, I'll definitely graduate before him. And I don't feel like I've made much progress, either."
"Didn't someone say recently that Sakayanagi confessed to Hachiman Hikigaya?"
"Even Sakayanagi got rejected..." Asahina said. "I'm hopeless too."
Then she began sighing despondently.
"..." Kiryuin.
Kiryuin had thought from the beginning that Asahina would probably only end up as a loser in love.
But seeing her display that defeated-loser appearance right in front of her...
Romance really was a troublesome thing.
Still, even if Kiryuin wanted to say something, she did not have any particularly insightful advice.
But she had never considered love to be a short battle. Love was for marriage, and marriage lasted ten years at the least, thirty years at the most, perhaps even fifty. With such a long road ahead, one had to prepare for a hard fight during the relationship itself.
So.
It was indeed too early to show