Part 2
Summer vacation was soon approaching, and it was now July 6th. The entire group, apart from Akito, who went to his club, gathered by my seat near the classroom door. This was because we had agreed to go to Keisei’s room together afterwards.
“Ayanokouji-kun, can I talk to you for a second?”
As we were leaving the classroom, Kushida called after me.
“What’s up?”
Since the number of times Kushida had come to talk to me had decreased lately, this sudden call was a bit of a surprise.
Even though I had to give her my points monthly based on our contract, it was merely a monetary exchange. Since everyone in the class receives the same amount of private points, there was no need for her to double check.
“Actually, a 1st year student told me that they wanted to meet you, Ayanokouji-kun… Is this a bad time?”
After a sorry look at Haruka and the others in the group, Kushida continued.
“They asked me to arrange a meeting with you. I think it’ll probably take about an hour. ”
“What, what?? Kiyopon, don’t tell me a kouhai girl’s confessing?”
Airi panicked upon hearing Haruka’s joke.
“Eh-ehhh!? I-is that true?!”
“If that’s the case, I don’t think we can allow them to meet.”
She’s the one who brought the topic up arbitrarily, but now she’s also promptly deciding that I wasn’t allowed to go.
“… Is that the case?”
Just in case, I decided to check with Kushida first.
“Eh? Ah, that… It’s actually a boy that wants to meet you… Sorry.”
Kushida apologized with a troubled expression.
No, she didn’t need to apologize for that at all.
Although I didn’t think it was something like that to begin with, I still felt relieved.
“Isn’t that great? It’s good to communicate with the 1st years, right?”
“Right. After all, our group isn’t particularly good at interpersonal relationships, so it wouldn’t be a bad thing if Kiyotaka could gain some acquaintances in the 1st year.”
Putting the objective of the first year student aside for now, both of them felt that I should show up to the meeting. Airi also grew relieved after hearing that it wasn’t a confession, and was sending me off happily, so I had no particular reason to refuse.
“Okay. What should I do?”
“Thanks! Well, let me tell him you said yes.”
Kushida took out her phone and gave him a call.
“Then we’ll go now. See you later.”
After a brief talk, the members of the Ayanokouji group went back to the dormitory.
“Sorry about this.”
It seems like he hasn’t picked up the phone yet, Kushida apologized to me again as she held her phone to her ear.
“It’s not a big deal. Nobody in the group will complain about it.”
The 1st year boy picked up the phone shortly after.
“Ah, hello? Ayanokouji-kun said that you could meet him now. Uh-huh, ah, is that so? Then we’ll wait here.”
Kushida hung up in less than ten seconds.
“He seems to be heading this way already, so let’s just wait here, so that we don’t miss him, okay?”
The 1st year student who wanted to meet me seemed to be already on his way over.
“So, it seems like you’re already on good terms with the 1st years?”
“Ehhh? It’s July already, it’s been a long time…”
“… That’s true.”
It’s been over three months since the 1st years joined the school. If you look out the hallway window, you could see the highly raised sun burning the ground.
It will soon be time for the cicadas to begin singing their cantatas.
Yagami asked me, who had been listening quietly all this time.
“It’s because I joined the student council. I took the opportunity to ask President Nagumo about the uninhabited island survival exam held two years ago, and he kindly told me. At that time, they were divided into groups of four within the class, and a total of 12 groups competed.”
The rules of their special exam were different from the rules we had been given last year.
We can say that, apart from a few exceptions, there basically won’t be special exams that are exactly the same.
“How did the 2nd years spend their time on the uninhabited island? I might be able to learn from that.”
Even if Kushida and I had kept Yagami in the dark, someone else could still tell him, so there was no need to deliberately hide it from him. Also, Kushida would definitely tell him anyway.
As expected, Kushida started to explain to him in detail about the uninhabited island exam last year.
I listened in silence as I followed them.
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