My childhood sweetheart is Nishimiya Glass

Chapter 363 In Class?
"Ha ha……"

Seeing the changing expressions on the three men's faces, Nishikata suddenly realized he had asked a stupid question, and a burning sensation ran down his spine. He could only manage an awkward laugh.
"Just pretend I didn't ask..."

"It's coming, it's coming!"

Just as Ayumi Ajitani was about to continue speaking, Shoko, who had been watching Tanaka Rinko and the other girl, suddenly spoke up.

Tsuna and the others subconsciously turned their heads to look at the male and female protagonists of the night.

"Sorry, I have someone I like."

After saying that, the neighbor turned to leave, but Tanaka instinctively reached out to stop her.

"What are you going to do?" The neighbor took a step back warily.

"me……"

Ayumi, who was hiding in the shadows, thought that Tanaka was going to do something bad. Just as she was about to rush out to help, Tsuna grabbed her shoulder.

Tsuna didn't say anything, he just shook his head at her, his gaze still fixed on the two people under the moonlight.

Seeing this, Ayumi Azurani could only swallow her words and fall silent.

"I...can I ask who you like?"

Tanaka noticed the wariness in the girl's eyes, withdrew his hand from the interception, gritted his teeth, and still asked the question.

"Huh? That's it?"

"You seem a little... disappointed...?"

The neighbor rolled his eyes at him, but the wariness in his eyes disappeared. "You can guess, it's in our class."

"Our class?" x7
Almost everyone present spoke in unison, except for Tsuna, who remained silent.

Under the soft moonlight, the neighbor smiled faintly and nodded. "Hmm. Why don't you... guess?"

The moonlight reflected in her eyes seemed to shimmer with tiny, dancing specks of light.

"May I?"

"Why not? I'll just nod when you say that name." As she spoke, her gaze unconsciously drifted toward the hiding place of Tsuna and the others.

"Wait... it seems like the neighbor knows where we're hiding."

"An illusion, probably an illusion."

Takagi refuted Ayumi Ajitani's statement without even thinking.

"I also think it's an illusion. Class monitor, you're probably seeing things."

"Yeah, yeah, I'm still more curious about who my neighbor likes!"

"..." Shoko was unusually quiet tonight.

As Nishikata finished speaking, everyone's attention returned to the two men's faces.

Tanaka pondered for a moment before slowly speaking, "Kitano?"

The neighbor was speechless: "Please tell me your full name. There are so many people with the same surname in our class, how am I supposed to know which one you're talking about?"

Tanaka paused for a moment before slowly revealing Kitano's full name, who was also watching intently from the shadows.

"No, that's not it." The neighbor pursed her lips and shook her head.

The boy hiding in the shadows suffered his second major emotional blow of the day.

"Then...Naoto Nishikata?"

She shook her head again.

Tanaka went through the names one by one, but all he got in return was his neighbor shaking his head. In the end, only a few names remained, which were the ones he thought were the most likely to be the most likely.

But all she got in return was the girl shaking her head in denial.

"Not yet?" Tanaka was surprised. He had just recited the names of all the boys in the class who didn't have girlfriends yet.

"There are still a few more, why don't you keep reporting them?" The neighbor put his hands behind his back and stared at the boy in front of him with a mischievous grin.

"..."

...

……

.........

One after another, until only the last two remained, which he still considered to be the ones with the highest overall scores in the class.

"An Jingyu...?"

"No, not really." The neighbor shook her head again.

But this same denial instantly shocked everyone hiding in the shadows. Of all the names Tanaka had read, only Tsuna remained undeniably excluded.

"This this……"

"Isn't it!?"

Ayumi Ajitani and Nishikata's shocked gazes kept shifting between Rinko and Tsuna's faces.

Perhaps because of the series of surprises that happened tonight, Takagi seemed unusually calm, simply crossing her arms, resting her chin on her hand, her gaze fixed on the two people.

"Shoko, if you keep pinching, you might start bleeding."

Tsuna and Shoko were whispering to each other, but the pressure on their wrists was gradually increasing.

Seeing that she didn't react and was still staring intently at the two people, Tsuna raised his hand and gently tapped her head, which earned him a pitiful look from her.

"Calm down, the neighbor hasn't finished speaking yet, okay?" He pinched her puffed-up cheek after he finished using sign language.

This also confirmed his statement; the two continued their conversation under the moonlight.

"No way!? Miyamura???"

"Haha..." After enjoying Tanaka's surprised expression, Linzi continued to shake her head in denial: "No, not really."

She had just sensed a blazing killing intent, but it vanished quickly, leaving her no chance to break out in a cold sweat.

"Huh?" x4
The exclamation included Tanaka, Kitano, Nishikata, and Ayumi Ajitani.

"You...you said the person you like is in the class?" Tanaka was too lazy to control his expression, and the look of surprise was still on his face.

"Yes, it was in class." The neighbor nodded, her face sincere.

"But that person...—"

"I didn't say it was a boy."

"Huh?" x7
Apart from Shoko, who was deep in thought, everyone else exclaimed in unison.

She was frowning, wondering if her neighbor had lied, and didn't pay much attention to the two people under the moonlight.

"What's that noise?" The neighbor looked east and west, but could only vaguely see the source of the sound.

"But...it might be some kind of small animal."

Tanaka wiped the sweat from his forehead, mentally adding a note to the list of unreliable Kitano. As for the others? Who would be so idle as to hide in the shadows and spy?

"Oh……"

Fearing she wouldn't believe him, Tanaka quickly continued to ask, "You said you like girls?"

"correct."

The neighbor didn't pay much attention, smiled, and nodded.

"..."

The two fell silent for a few seconds. The surroundings were deathly quiet, with only the soft rustling of the wind through the bamboo leaves.

Tanaka was still persistent: "Can...can I continue asking...?"

The girl gently shook her head: "It's getting late, I'm going back."

"Okay then—"

“However!” the neighbor’s voice suddenly rose again, “As for the answer, I can tell you directly.”

"Huh?" The question echoed through the room like a gentle breeze.

"Ha~"

The neighbor chuckled softly, shaking the phone he had just pulled out. The screen glowed faintly in the darkness, displaying the time.

"Huh? What was that answer? Do you want to hear it or not? If you don't, I'm leaving."

"Listen, listen, listen." Tanaka nodded like a chick pecking at rice.

The neighbor smiled, her gaze quickly sweeping across the surrounding shadows before finally settling precisely in the direction of Tsuna's group.

She cupped her hands around her mouth, like a megaphone, and her clear voice pierced the night:
"Ayumi-chan! Are you still there? Were you guys hiding nearby spying on us?"

"!?"

"What? We've been discovered?? Should we make a sound?"

"The best thing to do at this time is to pretend you didn't hear it," Ayumi Azurani said softly, suppressing her surprise at being caught.

(End of this chapter)