Haruhi Suzumiya's Suspicions

Seeing Eriri Spencer Sawamura's gossipy expression, Kasumigaoka Utaha knew that this girl was definitely overthinking things.

Her relationship with Miyauchi Hiyage Himakage is completely innocent; so far, they have only ever been a simple senior-junior relationship.

"A very pretty transfer student transferred to our school today. I'm a little curious about her, so I'm going to go and get to know her."

She brought Eriri Spencer Sawamura along because she wanted to find someone to share the burden of her attacks.

After all, Haruhi Suzumiya's "wish-granting" power was something she wasn't entirely sure about, and having Eriri Spencer Sawamura, who was equally conspicuous, by her side gave her some peace of mind.

Eriri Spencer Sawamura could clearly hear the caution in Kasumigaoka Utaha's tone.

Wow, what kind of transfer student could make a super beautiful girl like Kasumigaoka Utaha feel insecure and anxious?

In that case, she really should go and meet him.

Immediately, she forgot all about Aki Tomoya.

Anyway, we've all grown up together, and our relationship has improved a bit recently. We still have three years of high school left, so there's no need to rush.

So she followed Kasumigaoka Utaha into the cafeteria without any hesitation.

Two campus beauties who had been involved in a scandal when they first entered university, and whose relationship had only recently calmed down, were spotted together in the cafeteria, a sight that certainly attracted a lot of attention.

However, the two, who were used to being pointed at and whispered about, simply ignored the stares. After buying two bowls of noodles from a window that wasn't crowded, Kasumigaoka Utaha headed straight for Kato Megumi.

"Kato-kun, do you mind if we share a seat?" Kasumigaoka Utaha greeted Kato Megumi, who was taking small bites of her meal, with a smile.

Kato Megumi looked at the two prominent figures on campus standing in front of her, paused for a moment, and then nodded.

She has always been very easygoing about these things.

I'm just a little unaccustomed to the way people around me are looking at me.

After all, she had never been the center of attention from childhood to adulthood.

Being able to become friends with Miyauchi Kouka has such a nice personality, and Shiina Mashiro, who is incredibly beautiful, is something she never imagined before.

At lunchtime, she usually brings her own lunch and gathers in the classroom with Miyauchi Kouka Shiina Mashiro.

However, on the first day after the holiday ended, she lingered in bed a little longer than usual on the first day of school, just like any other student, and didn't get up to make lunchboxes.

Shiina Mashiro was dragged to the rooftop by Miyauchi Hiyage, while Miyauchi Kouka was on her period these past few days and had gone to the infirmary to take a nap at noon, so she was able to come to the cafeteria for a rare meal.

Then it's the same as before.

The school cafeteria is not big, and there aren't enough tables and chairs. It's almost always full of people at lunchtime.

Many people simply buy some bread and sandwiches and eat them outside the teaching building.

But the place where she was sitting, just like her own inconspicuous presence, was subconsciously ignored by people.

She should have gotten used to this inconspicuous feeling by now.

But for some reason, she felt a strange sense of loneliness, which she hadn't experienced in a long time, making her wonder if she had been relying too much on Guanghua these past few days.

No, that shouldn't be considered dependence, right?

Despite Miyauchi Kouka's seemingly carefree demeanor, she should actually be the one taking care of both Miyauchi Kouka and Shiina Mashiro at the same time.

She just didn't dislike the feeling herself.

After all, for an inconspicuous girl like herself, just being noticed by someone immediately is already something to be happy about.

These days, the people who notice me are mostly girls, and among the boys, only Miyauchi Hiyage is special.

Thinking that she would go to the infirmary to check on Miyauchi Kouka's condition after eating, Kato Megumi felt a strange figure carrying food approaching her.

"Aren't there empty seats here?"

Kato Megumi looked up and saw an exceptionally beautiful and dazzling long-haired girl.

The other person wasn't wearing Toyosaki's school uniform. Was they a new transfer student?

Kato Megumi has pretty good reasoning skills.

Then she saw the girl looking her up and down with an unceremonious gaze.

"I thought you were some kind of incredibly ugly woman, which is why everyone ignored what was wrong with you. But looking at you more closely, aren't you quite pretty?"

"So, are you being ostracized by the entire school?"

Such blunt words make her seem even more direct than Miyauchi Kouka.

As Kato Megumi had this thought, Haruhi Suzumiya, without receiving a reply, simply sat down.

"My name is Haruhi Suzumiya. I just transferred here today. What's your name?"

"Kato Megumi".

Kato Megumi softly uttered her name, then after a few seconds emphasized, "I'm not isolated, I'm just usually not very noticeable."

Faced with someone who noticed her, Kato Megumi was still willing to exchange a few words with them.

To everyone's surprise, her explanation only made Haruhi Suzumiya's expression suddenly become much more enthusiastic.

"Not particularly noticeable? Why?"

Kato Megumi frowned slightly. "To be honest, I don't really know why. I'm just easily overlooked in a crowd. Even my relatives sometimes forget I'm there."

She paused for a moment, then gave a faint smile, "However, things improved a lot after I entered high school. Now I have quite a few friends who notice me."

Then, to her surprise, the transfer girl in front of her suddenly had a glint in her eyes. "So you're Espers?"

In fact, Haruhi Suzumiya's actions were even more exaggerated. She took out the diary in her hand and wanted to confirm whether Kato Megumi could see its existence. "Can you see this diary?"

Kato Megumi blinked, then shook her head matter-of-factly. "No, how could there be Espers in the world? I'm just not very noticeable."

However, as she said this, Kato Megumi inexplicably recalled the scene when she first met Miyauchi Hiyage, a scene that felt like seeing the sun.

Although that special feeling gradually disappeared after Miyauchi Hiyage and Shiina Mashiro met, if there really were Espers in the world, she felt that Miyauchi Hiyage was more like a so-called Espers than herself.

Of course, these things are secrets, and Kato Megumi wouldn't casually tell these things to someone she's just meeting.

After confirming that the other person had noticed the existence of the Diary like everyone else, Haruhi Suzumiya felt a little disappointed, but she was still very interested in Kato Megumi's situation.

She examined Kato Megumi's entire body more closely.

"No, no one understands what teenage boys are thinking better than me."

"You're good-looking, have great skin, a good figure, and your personality seems alright too."

"A girl like you should be the type who gets confessed to the most in the class, how could you be so inconspicuous? It must be because you have some kind of superpower that confuses others, making everyone ignore your presence!"

"Not everyone, and I'm not as low-key as you described, Haruhiko-san," Kato Megumi Keihei replied.

Although she is easily overlooked in class, at least half of the students can still call her by name after a month of school.

Haruhi Suzumiya touched her chin.

Miyauchi Hiyage is already her deskmate. She'll just go over there and make a move on him as a beautiful girl. He definitely won't be able to refuse her.

So her current focus is still on figuring out what's going on with this girl whose presence is so mysteriously faint.

Just as she was pondering how to further verify that the other party possessed superpowers without realizing it, the arrival of Kasumigaoka Utaha and Eriri Spencer Sawamura interrupted her train of thought.

She looked in the direction of the sound and immediately recalled that eye contact she had made when the first class ended that morning.

It was Kasumigaoka Utaha, the upperclassman who had a better figure than her and was suspected of having an ambiguous relationship with her deskmate, Miyauchi Himekage.

Could the other party also sense Kato Megumi's presence?

Or is it that the other person only noticed Kato Megumi because of her?

No, even if she only noticed Kato Megumi of me, the other person just called her by her full name.

In other words, they already knew each other before this.

Under what circumstances did they meet?

Thinking this, she turned her gaze to the blonde twin-tailed beauty behind Kasumigaoka Utaha.

A morning was enough for her to figure out the current situation at the school.

This beautiful girl, who is no less Kasumigaoka Utaha, must be the half-Japanese, half- Eriri Spencer Sawamura.

But why is the other person still lingering around her and Kato Megumi?

Even when looking at Kato Megumi, Haruhi Suzumiya sensed a wariness emanating from her, as if she were seeing a rival in love.

Although she's never been interested in these messy, hormone-fueled affairs between underage boys and girls, Haruhi Suzumiya is genuinely curious to know how Kato Megumi became this girl's rival.

After Kato Megumi briefly introduced their names, Kasumigaoka Utaha sat down with Eriri Spencer Sawamura was slightly flustered.

So a loser is a loser.

Even with the plot already in such a mess, when facing Kato Megumi, their imagined enemy, they still subconsciously reveal this possessive behavior.

But Eriri Spencer Sawamura has definitely drawn all of Haruhi Suzumiya's attention away now.

Kasumigaoka Utaha pondered this.

Although it was unethical to use you as a guinea pig, you did sacrifice yourself for science.

I will make it up to you afterwards.

Chapter 239: Haruhi Suzumiya's Suspicion

Two famous beauties on campus, plus an equally pretty stranger.

One beautiful girl is already eye-catching enough, but now that three beautiful girls are sitting together, the curious and gossipy eyes in the cafeteria never stop.

Then, they naturally noticed the unremarkable girl who remained among the four.

Huh?

So there was another pretty girl there?

Although she wasn't as dazzling as those three girls, she didn't seem to be much less attractive than them when sitting next to them. How come they hadn't noticed her before at school?

As someone who had never been seen in public, this was the first time that Kato Megumi had felt so many curious glances. Even though she had a calm personality, she was still a little unaccustomed to the current situation.

Let's finish our meal and leave quickly.

Moreover, she could sense that this Kasumigaoka, Senpai's target wasn't her.

Haruhi Suzumiya only came over to greet her because of the new transfer student, Kasumigaoka Utaha.

As an insignificant extra, she should just give the stage back to the dazzling main characters as soon as possible.

Therefore, after greeting Kasumigaoka Utaha, Kato Megumi focused her attention on the lunch in front of her and did not react further.

Haruhi Suzumiya, however, is not a person who can stay still.

After Kasumigaoka Utaha and Eriri Spencer Sawamura arrived, she kept observing the two of them.

The former is Miyauchi Hiyage's friend, while the latter sees the inconspicuous Kato Megumi beside her as a rival in love.

Comparing the two options, Haruhi Suzumiya decisively chose the latter.

Miyauchi Hiyage was her deskmate. Although she only exchanged two words with her that morning, even when asked about the videos, Miyauchi Hiyage only gave a few simple answers and politely declined her offer to join in filming the videos.

Haruhi Suzumiya planned to take some time to watch all the videos this guy had filmed, then observe them for a while, and finally forcefully join the other party's filming team in a way that Miyauchi Hiyage couldn't refuse.

After joining the team, he will gradually take over the power of the team with his own abilities, eventually turning Miyauchi Hiyage into his subordinate!

So there's no need to worry about Kasumigaoka Utaha Miyauchi Hiyage isn't an important character either.

Let's figure out what's going on with the subtle relationship between Eriri Spencer Sawamura and Kato Megumi first.

So, Haruhi Suzumiya decisively asked the two people about the school.

She herself dislikes these meaningless exchanges, but she also understands their necessity. It's just that she doesn't usually think about these things, so she doesn't have to compromise herself for anyone.

However, when faced with something they are interested in, these slight reluctances are nothing at all.

Eriri Spencer Sawamura knew that Kasumigaoka Utaha had come for Haruhi Suzumiya, and out of curiosity, she also became somewhat interested in this transfer student.

Kasumigaoka Utaha, sensing Haruhi Suzumiya's inexplicable enthusiasm, remained wary and maintained her composure, subtly steer the conversation towards topics that Eriri Spencer Sawamura was more interested in.

For example, there's painting and anime/manga.

Haruhi Suzumiya is the kind of person who can talk about anything and never cares about what others think.

That frank attitude actually made Eriri Spencer Sawamura vaguely sense the aura of her childhood friend from the other person.

She quickly shook her head.