Show You My Manicure, and You Give Me Cold Medicine?

After parting ways with Shiina Hiyori, Tatsuya Sakuya trained in the gym for an hour before returning to his dorm.

His routine was roughly ten minutes of warm-up, followed by core training, including shoulders and back, then some cooldown exercises.

This level of intensity was nothing new to him. After all, he had undergone harsher training before. Going to the gym and working up a sweat was simply one way for him to relax his mind.

After resting for a while, he was about to take a shower.

Knock, knock, knock.

Who was knocking at this hour? Ayanokoji? Hirata? Karuizawa? Horikita? Kushida? It couldn't possibly be Yamauchi, could it?

"Wait a moment, I'm showering."

Tatsuya Sakuya had only been in the shower for a short while when he suddenly heard someone knocking, so he had no choice but to speed things up.

The person outside should have heard his reply, or perhaps they had simply left. Either way, the knocking had stopped.

With a dry towel in hand, he casually dried himself, got dressed, and walked to the entrance to open the door.

A petite figure stood outside.

It was his employer, Karuizawa Kei, dressed in her usual gyaru-style outfit. Though she could no longer really be called his employer now. She was more like his partner... or perhaps his...

"Good evening, Shiba~"

When Karuizawa Kei saw Tatsuya Sakuya standing behind the door in nothing but casual clothes, her large eyes visibly lit up for a moment.

With both hands tucked behind her back, she leaned forward slightly, a particularly brilliant smile curling across her lips.

"I didn't interrupt anything, did I?"

Tatsuya Sakuya rested one hand on the doorknob, gave her a serious look, and raised his wrist to indicate the time.

"It's 9:05, Karuizawa. According to school regulations,