"You bastard! This is none of your business!" Masaki Ichijo said fiercely.
"Uh, I wasn't worried, just checking in on you. But judging from your appearance, you seem to have recovered? Then see you at the Monolith Code main tournament next year~" Yunyi said with a smile.
"I..." Masaki Ichijo almost had the urge to bite Yunyi to death, but unfortunately, the occasion wasn't right, otherwise he really would have challenged him to a duel.
Seeing Masaki Ichijo get his comeuppance, Mayumi Saegusa and Miyuki Shiba both covered their mouths and snickered. This scene infuriated Masaki Ichijo.
Fortunately, Tatsuya Shiba walked over at that moment. He looked at Miyuki Shiba and said, "Ichijo-kun invited you to dance?"
"Yes, that's right, brother," said Miyuki Shiba.
"Eh? Shiba? Could it be that you two are siblings?" Masaki Ichijo looked at the two in surprise, he had never thought of this before.
"We both have the same surname, Shiba, isn't that obvious? I'm telling you, you're not only interested in that girl's sister and ignoring Tatsuya, are you?" Yunyi teased from the side, making Masaki Ichijo's face turn red.
"No! I also care about Tatsu Shiba..."
Masaki Ichijo instinctively blurted out a rebuttal, but he realized something was wrong as soon as he finished speaking.
"Seriously, Yunyi, stop bullying Yitiao." Tatsuya Shiba said helplessly.
However, the word "bully" in his words was like an arrow piercing Masaki Ichijo's forehead.
" Miyuki, are you going to accept Ichijo's invitation?"
However, Tatsuya Shiba's next words immediately brought Masaki Ichijo back to his senses. He looked at Miyuki Shiba, who was tilting her head slightly to him, and bowed slightly, extending a hand in invitation.
Watching the two walk hand in hand onto the dance floor, Yunyi said with a smile, "This kid from the Ichijo Family is more interesting than the Chief Jumonji."
" Yunyi-kun, really!" Mayumi Saegusa Nanagusa sighed, rubbing her forehead.
Just then, Shizuku Kitayama and Honoka Mitsui arrived together. Upon seeing the two of them, Yunyi immediately pulled Mayumi Saegusa aside to let them pass, entering "watching the show" mode.
Honoka Mitsui stood awkwardly in front of Tatsuya Shiba, looking like she wanted to look at him but didn't dare, and wanted to speak but didn't know how to start. She looked both anxious and pitiful.
In normal circumstances, Shizuku Kitayama would speak up to help her out. But this time, Shizuku Kitayama stood aside like a spectator, saying nothing.
"My esteemed guest, I believe that in this kind of situation, the invitation should be extended by the man."
Suddenly, Erika Chiba appeared out of nowhere and said something behind Tatsuya Shiba, then patted him on the back twice.
Tatsuya Shiba was slightly taken aback, then realized that Honoka Mitsui wanted to invite him to dance. After a moment's hesitation, he followed his understanding and extended the invitation to her.
When Tatsuya Shiba's hand came into view, Honoka Mitsui immediately became excited. She hurriedly extended her own hand, slightly pulling back when it touched Tatsuya Shiba's.
After watching another couple enter the dance floor, Yunyi wanted to invite the little vixen beside him to join in the fun. However, out of the corner of his eye, he saw Shizuku Kitayama watching them.
" Kitayama -kun?"
Mayumi Saegusa had just taken a glass of juice from Erika Chiba's tray, also noticed Shizuku Kitayama's actions. She looked at him questioningly. "You mean, you want to invite Yunyi-kun?"
"Yes, I want to thank you for the magic," Shizuku Kitayama said softly.
Yunyi blinked blankly. He had only wanted to watch the fun and hadn't genuinely offered to help, so he didn't feel he deserved gratitude. But the girl had already made her feelings clear; it wouldn't be good for him to refuse.
Thinking of this, he looked at Mayumi Saegusa and whispered, "Could you help me refuse? I was just doing it for fun."
Mayumi Saegusa rolled her eyes at Yunyi Yunyi, then pulled her arm away from his and gently pushed him away. "Then go dance with Kitayama. Remember, don't bully her, okay?"
Yunyi looked at Mayumi Saegusa in horror. He never expected that this vixen would betray him again!
However, seeing that the expectation in Shizuku Kitayama's eyes seemed to be fading, Yunyi couldn't bear to see a girl like her lose face, so he had no choice but to extend his hand and extend an invitation.
Yunyi, leading Shizuku Kitayama onto the dance floor, didn't show his helplessness, even if he felt it. He danced along with Shizuku Kitayama's steps, and only after finishing a song did he speak, "Don't worry about magic. I just wanted to watch the fun."
"Yes, I know," Shizuku Kitayama replied, but it sounded like only half a sentence.
As for the second half of her sentence, she didn't seem to intend to say it. Yunyi waited a moment, and seeing that she had no other reaction, she said, "Then I'll go back to Mayumi's place. Have fun, Kitayama -kun."
"Yes, thank you."
After saying goodbye to the taciturn girl, Yunyi searched for Mayumi Saegusa in the auditorium. The fairy seemed to sense Yunyi's return and potential retaliation, and had disappeared somewhere.
He searched around but couldn't find anyone, and almost ended up being pestered by some people. Luckily, because he was known Mayumi Saegusa's boyfriend, the girls who wanted to invite him out didn't dare to keep bothering him after he refused.
On the other hand, Tatsuya Shiba, after ending Honoka Mitsui's invitation, was invited by several other people. Even Mari Watanabe and Suzune Ichihara, who didn't seem to like these kinds of occasions, danced with him, making many people envious.
Unable to find Mayumi Saegusa, Yunyi stopped wandering around and, after Tatsuya Shiba had some free time, the two of them went to a corner together.
They had originally intended to slack off, but then Miyuki Shiba walked over.
Seeing this, Yunyi nudged Tatsuya Shiba and said, "Looks like you're not going to get any rest. Go on, go dance with your little sister."
Tatsuya Shiba blinked. Knowing his younger sister as he did, he figured she was more eager to dance one last time with him. So, the person she was inviting him to was probably the one next to him?
"Hasn't the relationship between Yunyi and Miyuki always been rather delicate?"
Just as Tatsuya Shiba was thinking this, Miyuki Shiba walked up to the two of them. She first greeted her older brother, then looked at Yunyi and said, " Yunyi, may I invite you?"
"Huh!?" Yunyi looked at the girl in front of him in surprise, somewhat confused as to what was going on.