I Swallowed Expired Medicine, Hoping It Could Cure My Past

Before Tatsuya Sakuya could react, Karuizawa Kei had already puffed up her cheeks, risen onto her toes, and leaned right up to him.

She lightly poked Tatsuya Sakuya's cheek with her fingernail, leaving several faint crescent marks behind.

"I hate you the most."

Karuizawa Kei snatched up the cold medicine on the table and stuffed it haphazardly into her pocket, then rushed toward the entrance without looking back.

After yanking the door open, she could not help turning back and making a face at Tatsuya Sakuya inside the room.

"Idiot. Big idiot."

Bang!!

The door shut behind her with a dull thud.

Room 217 fell quiet again, while her hurried footsteps gradually faded down the hallway.

Tatsuya Sakuya stood where he was, raising a hand to touch the spot on his cheek where her nail had poked him. The faint warmth of her fingertips still lingered there.

He stared at the empty doorway as the scene from moments ago replayed belatedly in his mind.

Karuizawa Kei had deliberately spread her fingers wide while holding the cup, raising her hand high beneath the light...

So after all that effort showing off, she had not been flaunting her seventy-four-point test paper at all. She had gotten a manicure and come over eagerly hoping to hear a compliment?

In truth, Tatsuya Sakuya had not paid attention to her nails at all. But he had never imagined that she had come all this way specifically to share that with him.

She... wasn't angry, was she?

Girls really were strange creatures.

Girls' thoughts really were hard to guess!

Girls' dormitory, Karuizawa Kei's room.

Click.

The instant she twisted the lock shut behind her, every bit of pretense vanished from Karuizawa Kei's face like a receding tide.

The room was pitch-black, with only a faint