Hayato's hand, which he had raised to greet, moved forward slightly.
He made a gesture as if to hold her back.
He stared straight ahead. If he were to blurt out "Ziwei" now, it would be a deadly move.
But considering that his friends here probably wouldn't understand this old meme, Hayato didn't waste his breath.
Kobayashi Ayaka did not stop.
She zipped off into the distance.
Hayato looked down at Shiina Chizuru, who was nearly thirty centimeters shorter than him.
Shiina Chizuru blinked her red agate eyes, also looking completely bewildered.
"How many times... have you harassed her?"
Had he also threatened that fair-skinned, beautiful, long-legged beauty?
"It's a misunderstanding."
Hayato lowered his hand, then said very calmly, "It must be that the way I greeted her just now was wrong."
"Then what should it be?"
"Anyway, for now, I need to find a time machine to restart this world line..."
Hayato appeared calm and natural, but in reality, his mouth was also twitching slightly.
Even his mind couldn't comprehend what had happened.
The woman who fled just now was definitely Kobayashi Ayaka... In fact, from the very beginning when he entered the school, Hayato had seen her back as he passed the sports field, but he had things to do then, and he thought Ayaka wouldn't possibly be here, so he didn't pay much attention.
He even thought he had mistaken her.
He even muttered, "Is it an illusion because I haven't seen Ayaka-senpai for so long recently?"
But when he saw Hachisuka Hidemichi and heard that Kurashiki Reina was shooting a magazine here, he largely guessed that what he saw was not an illusion... So he came to the sports field where they were filming to wait for her. However, this was not an unexpected encounter in the way he had imagined; in fact, it was completely unrelated.
"...Huh?"
With a clear, soft 'huh,' Hayato, who was pulling out his phone, turned to look. He saw Kurashiki Reina twisting a bottle cap, her bright emerald eyes filled with surprise.
She looked at Hayato.
Although her feet were planted and unmoving, she actually had the same thought as Kobayashi Ayaka, who had just fled.
—He, how is he here?
"Ah."
Only then did Kurashiki Reina realize why Kobayashi Ayaka had fled in such a panic... No, she still didn't understand the whole situation, but she had deduced that Kobayashi Ayaka's escape was most likely related to the young man in front of her.
But as for why, Kurashiki Reina still didn't know.
She didn't even want to know.
How could he be here?
Kurashiki Reina asked herself again, then came up with an answer: "What does it have to do with me?" He can be wherever he wants.
Kurashiki Reina retracted her gaze. She twisted the bottle cap, but whether it was because his sudden appearance surprised her too much, her fingertips trembled slightly while twisting the cap.
She twisted it several times, but the cap remained tightly sealed on the bottle mouth.
"...Tsk." Kurashiki Reina clicked her tongue and looked around.
Mr. Hayashi, that guy, is never around when you need him!
She was about to ask the Female staff for help.
"Here, give it to me."
Hayato walked over.
Kurashiki Reina had originally intended to deliberately ignore him, so she stood with her back to him. When she heard him speak, she was startled and her shoulders trembled slightly.
"N-no need..." Kurashiki Reina tried to pierce him with an icy gaze.
Hayato, however, seemed oblivious to the malice in her emotions, and reached out to take the drink bottle.
The two of them had only placed their hands on the drink bottle, a thoughtless touch.
Kurashiki Reina felt a current of electricity surge through her palm, making her shiver uncomfortably, and she immediately let go.
Hayato, with a wrist much stronger than an ordinary person's, twisted it, effortlessly opening the bottle cap.
"Here."
"...Oh, oh." Kurashiki Reina nodded somewhat unfamiliar, and she cautiously took the drink bottle.
Her tension was as if she were afraid Murae would suddenly attack her.
But until the bottle touched her lips, Murae didn't do anything strange.
"...Huh, did they just start talking?"
The surrounding students, of course, saw this scene, and they blinked in surprise.
"If I had known that picking up girls was this simple, I would have gone for it too."
"You? Don't you see what kind of person he is and what kind of person you are? Not to mention that she wouldn't willingly give you a drink she'd already sipped from, even if she did, with your scrawny arms, wouldn't it be a laughingstock if you couldn't open it either?"
"Nonsense, you can question my looks, but you can't question the stoutness of my right hand. Do you know who accompanied me to sleep during those seventeen years of being single, day and night!"
"Eh, but a beautiful girl is a beautiful girl, ah. Look, that guy is quite handsome, but you still have to be proactive to have a story..."
"At least he has a story, if we went, it would only be an accident..."
"They look quite well-matched, I'm shipping it, I'm shipping it."
"Cough, cough... cough cough..."
Kurashiki Reina adopted a posture of not wanting to bother with Murae, naturally not deliberately looking his way. This, in turn, made her hear the conversations of the students on the other side.
Then Kurashiki Reina coughed.
Huh!?
Kurashiki Reina almost shouted, 'Wipe your dog eyes clean and look closely, I'm well-matched with him!? Huh!?'
"...Drink slowly."
Seeing Kurashiki Reina coughing badly, Murae reminded her.
"...Oh."
After the coughing stopped, Kurashiki Reina quietly agreed.
"What's wrong with Ayaka?"
Seeing Kurashiki Reina twist the bottle cap back on, Murae asked.
He had already dialed Kobayashi Ayaka's phone number several times—or rather, he had been dialing the number the entire time he was talking to Kurashiki Reina.
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