Even If It Was an Accident, How Am I Supposed to Move Past This?

After the sports festival ended.

The students needed to move the things they had left downstairs back to the school building.

So most of them had to help carry things back.

Natsume Chikage and Saionji Nanase happened to be assigned by the infirmary teacher to take the medical equipment back to the infirmary.

As they walked.

Saionji Nanase looked at Natsume Chikage, blinked, and innocently asked, "Natsume, when we were eating lunch today, I heard Aoi calling your name."

"You seemed to call her by her name too. Why did you suddenly change how you address each other?"

Natsume Chikage looked awkward and coughed. "It's just that we've gotten so close already, so continuing to call each other by our surnames felt kind of strange."

"So that's how it happened."

Saionji Nanase blinked and happily said, "Then can the two of us call each other by our given names too?"

Natsume Chikage nodded. "Of course."

Saionji Nanase was delighted, though there was a touch of shyness in her expression.

"Then, Chikage—"

Natsume Chikage had no resistance or wariness toward this naturally innocent girl, and he smiled. "Nanase."

Hearing him call her that, Saionji Nanase's heart filled with joy.

Very soon.

The two of them put everything into the infirmary.

However, just as they reached the stairs.

Someone suddenly called out to them from behind.

"Wait, you two."

They both turned around.

The infirmary teacher called out to Saionji Nanase again.

"Saionji, could you help me throw this away at the garbage area behind the school?"

Saionji Nanase smiled and walked over to take it.

"No problem."

"Then I'll leave it to you two."

With that, the infirmary teacher returned to the infirmary.

Saionji Nanase turned around and prepared to go down the stairs.

But just then, she suddenly felt herself