"So, if you have that intention, then you can't afford not to work hard now."
"I've already lowered my requirements. If you still can't meet them, then that's regrettable. Think it over carefully." Classmate Sakayanagi clapped lightly and prepared to stand.
Though she was both the leader of the tutoring group and Sakayanagi-sensei, she wasn't the one going without lunch, so she was naturally heading to the cafeteria.
And from what she knew of Hachiman, he had definitely already prepared her meal.
Meanwhile, in the cafeteria.
Sakura looked somewhat uneasy at the fragrant food laid out on the table.
"Beep beep!" She noticed the phone Hachiman had placed on the table vibrating, apparently having received a message.
"Um, Hachiman, is it okay not to check it?" Sakura had come with Hachiman to the private room Classmate Sakayanagi had reserved long-term.
Since they were being tutored by her, in addition to free meals as a reward, they could naturally also use the private room included with lunch.
Although the dining hall had a nice atmosphere too, Hachiman still preferred somewhere quieter like this.
Sakura rarely had the chance to come here, so she felt rather flattered.
"It's probably a message from Karuizawa. Wasn't she just in Sakayanagi's room?"
"It probably isn't anything important," Hachiman said.
Still, he tapped open the notification on his phone and saw Karuizawa's message.
The content wasn't anything important either.
[Your girlfriend seems to want to get you a dog. How terrifying, your girlfriend.] —Karuizawa
?
Even the considerate Hachiman couldn't understand what she meant.
Still.
Karuizawa had once said she wanted to give him a kitten, and he remembered that, but she had never actually given him one.
Fortunately, Kamuro was a good classmate and never stingy. Her cat was everyone's cat.
So Hachiman could be