Let's do it again, Yukino.

The gaze beneath the snow was cold and sharp.

That's right,

On this rooftop at this moment,

It was clearly sunny and bright.

However, Yukino's gaze towards Nagato and Kasuga remained deathly silent, yet it carried a hint of inexplicable irritation beneath its coldness.

After seeing Xiaoxue, who had inexplicably appeared on the rooftop, Chunri, who had been somewhat withdrawn and lifeless just moments before, naturally perked up, stopped sighing, and silently stood up, leaning against the corner of the wall.

And she distanced herself from Nagato Yuki, who knew nothing about hell.

What a joke! Look at Xiaoxue's murderous gaze. If Chunri doesn't stand up and do something to stop the situation from getting worse, he'll really be in deep trouble.

Seeing a man she knows with a strange woman on a rooftop, such an extremely private place, would make any woman suspicious.

"Shizuka—cough, Yukinoshita, let me explain, I was just..."

"Shut up……"

Yukinoshita glanced lightly at Haruhi standing in front of her, her icy gaze emanating a voice as if from the depths of hell.

"Alas……"

However, she didn't say much to Haruhi in front of her. She gently pushed Haruhi away and walked to Nagato Yuki, who seemed not to understand what had happened. She bent her slender waist and a smile of apology appeared on her usually cold and beautiful face.

A rather insincere apologetic smile.

Looking at the snow-covered landscape, Chunri felt even more miserable.

Yukinoshita spoke to Nagato in a fairly polite tone, "Excuse me, Nagato-kun, could I borrow this Kasuga-kun for a while?"

Nagato looked at the girl she didn't know with some confusion. She, who always maintained a calm and expressionless face, couldn't help but take two steps back under this somewhat eerie aura.

The visitor is up to no good...

"..."

"I understand, then I'm sorry to have bothered you..."

Without waiting for Nagato's consent, she turned back to Haruhi's side, biting her lip slightly, her cold voice gradually softening.

"Come with me."

She said to Spring.

"it is good."

After saying that, the girl reached out her icy hand without hesitation, took Haruhi's tie in her palm, and habitually tugged it gently in her direction. Then, in Nagato's eyes, Yukino, as if leading a dog on a chain, hurriedly pulled Haruhi away from the rooftop with the speed of a gust of wind.

In an instant, only the bespectacled girl remained alone.

The girl stood motionless on the rooftop.

The wind on the rooftop was cold, and it blew up her skirt.

She wanted to clear her mind a little.

Not far away, one could faintly hear Chunri's groans of pain coming from inside the rooftop doorway.

"What are you doing? My neck, oh dear, loosen it a little, I can't breathe, slow down, slow down, Shizuka, you just made Gian lose face in front of his friends."

"Shut up……"

……

a long time,

A beam of light reflected from the girl's glasses.

Nagato seemed to understand something, and nodded almost imperceptibly.

Those two really do have an interesting relationship.

Kasuga-kun, I'm really looking forward to it!

She pushed open the door and walked out onto the rooftop.

The empty rooftop once again fell into a state of desolation and emptiness.

……

…………

Watching the warehouse door slowly slide down,

Immediately following was a heavy sound.

Yukinoshita slowly withdrew her hand, which had been tugging at Haruhi's tie, from the boy's chest.

As if she had just woken up from a dream, her eyes, which had previously held some anger, became clear and bright.

She looked around; the surroundings seemed somewhat familiar.

Isn't this the school's sports storage room?

The girl recognized the place in an instant.

But how did I suddenly end up here?

Xiaoxue's heart was filled with questions at this moment.

The panting sound beside her caught her attention again.

Looking down again, she was surprised to see Chunri squatting by the air cushion, untying her tie and panting heavily.

The boy's face flushed red, and his voice was rapid and labored as he complained to the girl.

"Phew... I almost thought I was going to die again. Miss Shizuka, could you please be a little nicer to me in public next time? Do you know how much you embarrassed me just now?"

"How...did I get here?"

Yukino looked at the red mark on her hand from holding the tie for so long.

"Huh? Shouldn't I be asking you that, Xiaoxue?"

Looking at Xiaoxue, who had turned her back on him, Chunri was completely dumbfounded.

Could it be that this guy has completely forgotten what just happened? A goldfish's memory? Seven seconds?

"wrong."

Yukinoshita vaguely remembered what had happened before, and her gentle eyes turned sharp as she walked to Haruhi's side.

"I remember now, what were you and Nagato doing sneaking around on the rooftop just now?"

In a fleeting glance, Yukino saw Haruhi passing by in the hallway outside her classroom. She noticed the distraught expression on the face of the somewhat smitten Gian. So, unusually, Yukino raised her hand during Hiratsuka-sensei's class, made an excuse with Hiratsuka Shizuka, and quietly left the classroom to follow him.

Just as she pushed open the rooftop door, she vaguely saw Nagato Yuki with her back to her, bending down as if pressing her face against Haruhi's body.

As a result, Yukinoshita misunderstood something and lost her memories of what happened afterward.

"I think it must be because of the perspective. At that time, Nagato was just asking me if I wanted to go to the infirmary."

"The infirmary?"

He wasn't sure if it was just his imagination, but even though Haruhi was explaining the reason clearly, he found that the girl's expression seemed even more dangerous because of his explanation.

"Did she ask you if you wanted to go to the infirmary?"

The boy, unaware that he was standing at the gates of hell, nodded with his eyes half-closed.

"Yeah, she even asked me if I didn't want to go to the infirmary to rest... Wait, something seems off."

Haruhi opened her eyes in sudden realization, but before she could explain again, she saw the girl already in the starting stance of Aikido, leaping towards her.

"Don't come any closer!!!"

In the quiet warehouse, only the boy's scream could be heard.

A moment later, the screams stopped abruptly.

……

The wounded boy, sitting cross-legged on the air cushion, stared at the girl sitting in the corner, still seething with anger.

Suddenly, as if he understood something, a mischievous grin spread across Chunri's handsome face.

Suppressing the urge to shout out his laughter, he turned his face to the other side, his shoulders trembling uncontrollably.

"You were just now, were you jealous? Jealous of Nagato, weren't you?"

After thinking for a moment, he walked over and patted the soft, boneless shoulder of Yukinoshita, who was facing away from him.

"No way! Why would I be jealous of someone who has nothing to do with me?"

The girl shifted slightly, shaking off the boy's hand that was on her shoulder.

"Okay, don't be angry. It's just that I ran out of the classroom, and the teacher was worried about me, so she asked the student in front of me, Nagato, to come out and find me. I don't have the kind of relationship you're thinking of. Don't worry. I'll only ever be bullied by you in this life. Have you ever seen any other woman ride roughshod over me?"

"Hiratsuka Shizuka-sensei..."

A sullen voice came from over there.

"That doesn't count. I considered her my teacher, and a teacher is a teacher, not a woman."

Chunri half-embraced Xiaoxue, coaxing her with a mix of amusement and exasperation.

After a while,

"But you promised me, Fat Tiger, that you would never betray me again in this life."

She was tightly clutching the boy's shirt at the chest.

"Yes, I won't let you down. This time, even if your mother puts a knife to my throat, I won't let go."

……

People often say that jealousy in love is like an appetizer, but jealousy in marriage is just nauseating.

Well, it's not entirely right, but it's not entirely wrong either.

Springtime, who never walked down the aisle with Xiaoxue,

At this moment, I truly feel that...