My childhood sweetheart is Nishimiya Glass

Chapter 324 Countdown

Ignoring the two who were starting to playfully fight, Tsuna took out his phone from his pocket and started scrolling.

After waiting a while, Takagi and Nishikata entered the classroom one after the other through the back door, and Ayumi Ajitani immediately noticed them.

However, she knew that this was not the time to say it.

After exchanging greetings, the sharp-eyed Nishikata immediately noticed Tsuna's unusual behavior and asked curiously:

"Miyamura, what's wrong with your upper lip?"

The three of them turned their attention to Tsuna's face after hearing his words, but Shoko silently lowered her head, somewhat afraid to meet his gaze.

She never expected to be discovered so quickly, especially since Nishikata was the first to notice...

Tsuna noticed Shoko's ostrich-like behavior and her reddened ears, and casually waved his hand:

"I wasn't paying attention last night and got bitten by a cockroach."

"..."

Without considering whether it was true or false, the three of them subtly distanced themselves from him.

Shoko suddenly raised her hand and lightly slapped Tsuna's arm with a "smack," the force not strong.

However, her shifty eyes and increasingly red ear tips led Takagi and Ayumi to guess the general truth of the matter.

As for Western films...

He was still wondering what kind of cockroach could be so fierce, able to bite Tsuna when he wasn't paying attention, and even began to wonder if Tsuna would become 'Cockroach Man' later on.

He took Shoko's light slap as just another example of their usual playful banter.

Ignoring the two bickering, Ayumi pulled her chair over and sat down in the aisle between Nishikata and the other two.
"Takagi-chan, do you know?"

"What do you know?" Takagi's curiosity was piqued by her mysterious demeanor.

Ayumi Ajitani didn't speak, but her eyes kept giving her hints, glancing repeatedly at the two people in front of her.

"Squad leader, are your eyes bothering you? Are you having cramps? I brought eye drops with me today, do you want some?"

"Pfft..." Takagi quickly covered his mouth.

"..."

Ayumi Ajitani suppressed the urge to roll her eyes at Nishikata; after all, he meant well and cared about her, so she laughed it off.

"No need, you can keep it for yourself. My eyes are fine."

After saying that, he repeated his previous actions, this time the smarter Nishikata chose to play on his phone.

With more than ten minutes left before class started, he didn't want to leave his seat.

In the end, Takagi couldn't stand her winking and refusing to speak, so he slapped her to make her stop:
"Ayumi-chan, just say what you want to say. If you keep talking like this, I can't guess what you're trying to say..."

Seeing that she wasn't getting the kind of fun she wanted, and with her eyes starting to sting a little, Ayumi Ajitani repeated Shoko's words in the most indifferent tone.

"Oh……"

Why are you reacting like this?

Seeing how calm she was, Ayami, still not believing it, reached out and manipulated Takagi's expression: "Shouldn't you be very surprised after hearing this?"

"Should...should I?"

"Shouldn't they be together? They're definitely dating!"

"Crack...!"

Both of them looked to the left at the same time. Nishikata's phone was lying on the floor. Ayumi saw his surprised expression and thought that this was a normal reaction.

She then pointed at him and said, "Takagi-chan, I still think Nishikata's reaction is normal, okay?"

"Um……"

"Ayumi-chan, think back, before they got together, every time we went out, didn't their affectionate actions resemble those of a couple?"

Seeing her rubbing her temples and trying hard to remember, Takagi added, "Apart from the kiss, when did it not seem like a couple in a relationship?"

And if you tell other people this, their reactions will probably be similar to mine.

As soon as he finished speaking, Takagi noticed out of the corner of his eye that he picked up his phone with a pained expression, and found it somewhat amusing. "Except for Nishikata."

“Hiss…” “That makes sense?” she said, and to verify Takagi’s statement, she stood up and quickly strode into the small group of girls at the front of the classroom.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I have something very important to say!"

"No classes today?"

"The school festival next week has been canceled?"

"Has the school started assigning boyfriends?"

"Kimura is hiding from debt collectors and planning to hold another concert tour??"

"Have An 'accompanied' Shinzo and Yamagami Tetsuya reconciled?"

Seeing that the five people in front of her were talking more and more outrageous, Ayumi Ajitani quickly interrupted, "What are you thinking? Apart from what the neighbor said, each one is more outrageous than the last..."

Before the others could ask questions or refute her, Ayumi Ajitani blurted out what she had been holding in:

"Shoko and Miyamura are together and plan to get married right after graduating from university. They are already engaged."

Fearing that few people would be surprised, Ayumi Ajitani stubbornly modified the 'slight' part of the content, still feeling that it was almost identical to the truth.

"what?"

"Are you sure what you're saying isn't more outrageous than what we're saying?"

"Ayumi, where did you get this information from?"

The neighbor, who saw through her lie at a glance, removed the two most outrageous statements, drew a conclusion, and then asked the question that had been bothering her:

"So they're really together?"

Ayumi Ajitani nodded, which earned her a surprised look from the five people. She felt a little relieved, thinking that Takagi-chan was wrong.

But... something feels off, like something's wrong somewhere...

Within minutes, almost the entire class knew that Tsuna and Shoko were together.

During the class, Tsuna noticed that more people were looking at the back of them, and he was a little confused.

It wasn't until after class, when some girls gathered around to chat with Shoko, that he roughly understood what had happened. Ayumi Ajitani's brief ten minutes of help played a significant role in that.

Seeing her smug little expression, as if she wanted to show off to Tsuna that this was her masterpiece, he felt utterly speechless.

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

"Yumi, are you alright...?"

In an inconspicuous corner of the classroom, a blue-haired girl looked at her friend sitting next to her with a worried expression.

"what?"

The girl, who had been clutching the pink envelope with her head down, looked up in surprise, only to meet her friend's worried gaze. She quickly waved her hand, indicating:
"I'm fine."

As she spoke, she smiled at the girl in front of her and patted her chest to reiterate, "I'm really fine, really!"

"..."

"Then... do you still want me to deliver this letter for you...?"

"No need." The pale-haired girl shook her head. "That letter is no longer of any use."

"Sigh... I should have done it yesterday—"

"Even if it were a week or two earlier, I still think it's unlikely. It's just something I'm keeping in mind."

"..."

The girl looked regretfully at someone who had fled to the corridor to keep watch.

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"Boom...!"

"Alright everyone, that's all for today. We'll start setting up the scene and props tomorrow."

Ms. Nanase knocked on the wooden door of the dance studio and waited for everyone inside to stop their rehearsals before going in.

(End of this chapter)