Just then, a cute girl with shoulder-length golden hair entered from outside the dormitory. She wore an adorable smile, an expression that seemed friendly toward everyone, making her seem like a little angel.
She was none other than the Kushida who had just been the topic of conversation.
However.
Kushida had merely been passing by, but she found the conversation between those two ahead of her quite unpleasant.
What did they mean by saying they could still rest easy about Classmate Sakayanagi because Kushida was the one who had been treated unfairly?
And besides.
This was clearly a public lobby. Could they really just say things like that so casually?
Yet even after Kushida walked around to the elevators, waited for one to open, entered it, and watched its doors close, Hachiman and Classmate Sakayanagi did not seem to pay her any particular attention.
"..."
That meant the topic they were discussing had little to do with her, or rather, they had only mentioned her in passing.
Kushida was not important.
Still, Kushida knew that strategy and intelligence were her weaknesses.
So it was only normal that she was not noticed at a time like this.
These were never fields she excelled in, so there was nothing wrong with being inferior to others.
And now, she planned to visit Hachiman's room.
Suzune Horikita had suddenly messaged her and asked her to arrange a meeting with Ichinose, Hirata, and Kanzaki.
But after she had gathered them, Horikita told her she could leave.
In other words, that was it, wasn't it? Use her and toss her aside.
Hachiman sometimes said Horikita had grown, but Kushida could not understand it. Wasn't Horikita still terrible at dealing with people?
So, in a bad mood, Kushida decided to return to Hachiman's room first. After all,