Let's do it again, Yukino.

Aside from the absence of a certain boy's boisterous voice, nothing seems different.

They left so quickly?

Yumiko, still sitting with her knees drawn up to her chest, looked at the empty space beside her with a slightly somber expression.

That guy is probably angry again because of what I just said.

But he doesn't seem like the kind of person who would get depressed just because someone says a few words to him.

However, in some magazines I've read before, there seems to be no shortage of people who appear to be thick-skinned and easygoing but are actually fragile and easily hurt.

The blonde girl shook her head fiercely at this thought.

However, that guy is really annoying, I'm not wrong, he's only slightly better than Yukinoshita who suddenly provoked and mocked me...

I was just about to turn around and look behind me,

At the very moment he turned around,

It was only a few centimeters away from me.

On the screen, which emitted a faint glow, appeared the bluish face of a boy who was planning a prank.

"I can make any friend I want!!! Yumiko-chan..."

The sound echoed eerily in the night wind.

Startled by the sudden scene unfolding before her, Yumiko's dark pupils contracted slightly.

She was sitting on the ground, but in her panic, she took a few steps back, lost her balance, and fell towards the lake behind her.

"!!"

I go,

Looking at the blonde girl leaning against him, Kasuga, who had only intended to give her a little fright, was also taken aback.

I forgot that there was a lake behind Yumiko.

Thinking things were going badly, Haruhi quickly reached out to grab Yumiko, who was about to fall into the lake.

However, this kind of hero-saves-the-damsel-in-distress scene seems to have a strange sense of déjà vu.

……

…………

And at this crucial moment

A third beautiful figure then appeared in the jungle.

With lightning speed, she arrived in front of the two and kicked the boy who was trying to grab Yumiko away.

Without hesitation, she reached out her hand and grabbed Yumiko's arm just as Yumiko's body was about to fall behind her.

With a slight effort, the beautiful figure pulled the graceful girl back to the ground.

The whole process happened in a mere instant.

"Are you alright, Miura-kun?"

Under the moonlight,

The voice was as indifferent as ever, just as I remembered.

The beautiful yet aloof face beneath the snow now came into Yumiko's view.

……

…………

With her hands on her knees, Yumiko was panting heavily, her breath coming in short, intermittent gasps.

Just a moment ago, she almost thought she was going to be soaked to the bone.

Although she can swim, Yumiko had just taken a bath.

She didn't want any men to see her clothes and body soaked through.

but,

Her gaze then fell upon the calm and composed figure beneath the snow.

"Huff... Huff... Yukinoshita, how could it be... you?"

"why?"

"Of course it's because of that idiot."

As she spoke, Yukino stepped on the boy, who was realizing the danger and trying to leave the dangerous area immediately, with her clogs.

The girl's voice was cold and dangerous at that moment.

The matter of that Ms. Hayasaka,

She had only recently heard about it from Kaguya Shinomiya...

"Do you really enjoy staging your own hero-saves-the-damsel-in-distress stories, Kasuga-kun?!"

Such a beautiful night view...

Chapter Twenty: I Won

Time flies.

The people beside you, even those who are just passing through your life.

Occasionally, I'll do something that will touch your heart.

However, this does not mean that the other person likes you.

Perhaps it was just a beautiful misunderstanding on his whim.

……

"So, you idiot, can you stop doing all this unnecessary stuff?!"

Xiaoxue's jade-like feet, clad in wooden clogs, kept patting against Chunri, who was lying on the open ground.

She had clearly seen what the boy had done in the jungle, and thinking of this, the girl, filled with anger, increased the force of her kicks.

It was this guy's unnecessary actions that made many things quite troublesome.

That's how it was in my past life.

This idiot who always likes to act like a big brother is always helping some guys pass on girls' love letters, which causes her a lot of misunderstandings that give her a headache.

Why does this guy never learn?!

"Stop it, Xiaoxue! Don't you think I don't have any pride?! Don't think I'm not fighting back just because I can't beat you. I'm just too embarrassed to fight back because you're all women!!"

While constantly protecting her vital parts with her hands and dodging her opponent's leg attacks, Chunri also tried her best to explain the reasons to Xiaoxue.

"I really didn't mean it. It's just that Yumiko-chan said I wasn't good enough to be her friend, which was a real challenge to my dignity. So I got angry and wanted to scare her a little. I didn't even think about being a hero."

That's right, it's all Yumiko's fault. I didn't do anything. She was the one who looked down on me, Kasuga Gian, first. I did nothing wrong.

"It's precisely because you, you idiot, didn't think that way that I'm even angrier!!!"

Xiaoxue raised a brow and shouted even more angrily.

Seemingly feeling unsatisfied with her clogs, Xiaoxue, nearly losing her temper in anger, threw them aside.

"I was wrong, Xiaoxue, really, I was disgusting, my flesh, my flesh, the stone on the ground poked my flesh, it hurts so much."

"I don't care about you..."

……

Suddenly,

"Crunch—"

Like a pebble falling into a lake,

"Pfft... Hahahaha..."

The barely suppressed laughter echoed like silver bells across the silvery lake.

"You idiot, you dare to laugh?!"

In the cold night, Xiaoxue frowned and subconsciously thought that the laughter was a provocation from the spring sun beneath her feet.

"That wasn't me laughing!! Over there, look over there!!!"

Haruhi, who had been thoroughly humiliated, quickly covered her face and shook her head, pointing at the blond figure on the other side.

After the lawsuit, their gazes simultaneously turned in the same direction.

Under the moonlight, the haughty and elegant Queen Yumiko was seen clutching her lower abdomen, as if she had witnessed a ridiculous scene. Her tall figure was trembling, and the loud laughter just now had come from her.

"So that's how it is, hahaha, so that's how it is... hahaha, I knew it! Why do they always appear at such a coincidence? So that's why... hahaha, it's really quite surprising..."

She seemed to be laughing so hard that tears were almost coming out, and Yumiko quickly wiped them away.

"I thought you would like that disgusting Hachiman or Hayato, Yukinoshita. I was even worried that Yuihama might not be able to compete with Yukinoshita. But now it seems that I was overthinking it. I overestimated your taste."

"Yumiko, what do you mean?! What do you mean by 'overestimating their judgment'?!"

As Haruhi was getting up from the ground, she angrily rebuked Yumiko for insulting her dignity, while at the same time supporting Yukinoshita, who was standing on one leg, like a chief eunuch supporting an empress. Yukinoshita seemed to have been too excited, causing the wooden clogs that she had flung off to fall somewhere in the forest.

"Miura-san, who failed to confess to Hayama-san, has no right to laugh at me."

Although standing on one leg in place

However, Xiaoxue's aloof and elegant temperament was not diminished in the slightest because of this.

"That's still a thousand times better than you, Yukinoshita. Can I ask you, Yukinoshita, what exactly happened that made you so despondent and choose this guy?"

At this moment, Yumiko even felt that it was like in many comics, where the ruthless and unreasonable Haruhi Kasuga used some underhanded means to force Yukinoshita to become her lover.

A gentle breeze blew by.

Xiaoxue: "..."