"Yugao, thank you for all your hard work."
Knowing he was in the wrong, Shinichi readily admitted his fault. "I was wrong. I've dumped everything on you lately. It's all my fault."
When you made a mistake, you owned up to it. When punishment came, you took it on the chin.
Besides, she was such a beautiful, understanding girl. Shinichi had no reason to cling to his pride.
"I thought you'd forgotten all about me!"
Yugao sighed softly, her beautiful eyes filled with hurt reproach.
Ever since she became Vice Principal, Shinichi had been completely free, lazing around at home all day. She, meanwhile, had been run off her feet. If Haku hadn't been there as her capable little assistant, she probably would have quit in a fit of anger long ago.
On that subject, a certain shameless fellow deserved a thorough condemnation.
"Of course not!"
Shinichi hurriedly explained, "I just didn't quite dare come see you. You know how it is when you have a guilty conscience."
"Even Konoha's great hero can have a guilty conscience?"
Perhaps because she so rarely saw Shinichi looking embarrassed, Yugao's lovely lips curved slightly, and she couldn't resist teasing him. "I thought you were a fearless man, Shinichi! Who would've thought even you could feel guilty in front of someone..."
"I won't fear any enemy, and I won't let anyone's words sway me."
Shinichi looked at Yugao with a complicated expression and sighed softly. "But I'm very afraid of letting a good girl down."
At those words, both of them fell silent.
After who knew how long, Yugao seemed to muster tremendous courage and said evenly, "Then what are you thinking now? Since you're here, surely you have something to say?"
Though her tone was calm, her grip on her pen tightened slightly,