The Heroines Want to Confess

Chapter 437 437: As Expected, Still Not Changing Anything

Seeing that he seemed unable to refuse the fate of being hung on the wall to "become eternally immortal," Shirogane Miyuki simply lay flat, giving up resistance altogether.

If he was going to be hung, then let him be hung.

Anyway, once Iino Miko successfully runs for student council president, this LCD screen would surely retire with honor. After all, Iino Miko couldn't possibly have the same strange hobby as Sakurai Saki, right?

"When are you guys going to the beach? It's almost the 15th already..."

"Seems like the 18th?"

By the way, today is the 11th.

Kaguya said she had already prepared the yacht. Hayasaka Ai said she would pilot it herself, not even needing to hire a professional, because she herself was the professional.

The fact that a former maid had mastered operating such a vehicle was truly baffling.

"That's amazing. I heard from Kei, you even get to sit on a yacht." Shirogane Miyuki felt a surge of envy.

He wasn't jealous because Sakurai Saki was traveling with a bunch of beautiful girls, but because he wanted to ride a yacht.

After all these years, he had never come into contact with such luxury.

"A small yacht... it's not as grand as you think. And if we go normally, we can reach the destination in one day."

"Destination?"

"Umu. A small island to the south. Although it's private property of the Shinomiya family, there are still quite a lot of natives living on it..."

"Natives? Savages?" Shirogane Miyuki had never heard that this trip involved fighting savages.

Fujiwara Chika chimed in: "Not savages. It's just that the Shinomiya family doesn't use that island, so they don't force the people living there to move away."

Basically, it was an island with no real value.

It didn't have oil or gold mines... just felt boring.

Fujiwara Chika had been hoping for an exciting adventure so she could use the treasure detector she bought at a second-hand shop for 10,000 yen to show off her skills. Unfortunately, no such thing would happen.

"Stop talking, finish your homework first!" Sakurai Saki displayed a teacher-like sternness.

To prevent Chika from repeating last year's tragedy, Sakurai planned to make her do her homework first!

"It's just homework, right?"

Fujiwara Chika dragged out her voice, reluctantly saying: "I knooow!"

She wasn't dumb, nor was she the type to completely neglect homework like Ishigami Yuu. Last year, she didn't finish mainly because the trip was too much fun...

Damn it! Thinking like that means she totally can't refute Saki-kun now!

"How about you ask everyone around if anyone hasn't finished yet? Even Kei-chan finished all her homework in advance when she went on that mountain trip last time. Isn't that right?" Sakurai Saki wasn't trying to scold her, but the truth was that no one wanted to bring homework stress to a beach vacation.

"No, I feel like there's definitely one person who hasn't finished!"

Fujiwara Chika stubbornly declared.

Sakurai Saki glanced at her, cutting off her fantasy: "Let me tell you straight— the person you think definitely wouldn't finish homework first — Ishigami Yuu — has already finished everything!"

"...Eh? Really?"

No way! Fujiwara Chika absolutely refused to believe that someone like Ishigami Yuu, the "Give Up God," had finished homework early. The probability was zero! Zero!

"He said it in the LINE group a few days ago, didn't he? This time he's not going on the beach trip."

"That's right. Ishigami is the gloomy otaku type after all..."

Shirogane Miyuki cut in: "Secretary Fujiwara, your impression of Ishigami is still stuck a year ago... In reality, lately Ishigami has evolved to the point where even I can barely understand him. At school and outside school, he's like two different people. He's not going because he has to study to try for better grades."

"...?" Fujiwara Chika felt an entire stomach full of rebuttals but couldn't say a single word.

Evolved? Ishigami evolved? Is he a Pokémon?

"That's right, Chika, maybe you don't know. But Ishigami now is practically a 'super riajuu' as everyone calls it... He knows all the trendy expressions that riajuu use, and his EQ when interacting with people is extremely high, probably because he used to hide in corners observing others. Basically, he's no longer the Ishigami Yuu from before."

After listening to all that, Fujiwara Chika showed an expression as if the sky had collapsed.

Huh? Ishigami — that gloomy otaku — is a riajuu now? That makes zero sense! It feels incredibly wrong!

"Maybe this is what people call prejudice."

"That's right. Prejudice is very harmful."

Under the coordinated attack of the two, Fujiwara Chika squeezed her pen, fingers tightening.

Her mood right now was extremely conflicted.

Ishigami Yuu — Kouhai-kun — improving in a good direction was something she was of course happy about.

But!

"Why is Ishigami in the student council exactly the same as before!? And he keeps mocking me!"

Let him show me that high EQ part!

Sakurai Saki explained: "Boys are creatures who are very lazy. They only show their good sides to the girls they like."

"For example, male birds spread their tails to court the females. If they want the female to like them, the male puts up its beautiful tail. What Ishigami is doing now is exactly like that."

As for why he can't show his riajuu side inside the student council room——

'Ishigami already sees the student council as the harbor of his heart, doesn't he?'

It's a place that shelters his weakness, pushes him to grow. The student council occupies a very important place in Ishigami Yuu's heart. And the more important a place is, the more important the relationships are — and the more scared people become of ruining or changing things...

Seeking benefit and avoiding harm is human instinct.

"My mood right now is really complicated."

"Chika, don't pay attention to such things. Even though Ishigami sometimes targets you, most of what he says actually makes sense."

"Saki-kun, you mean what I say doesn't make sense?" Fujiwara Chika demonstrated the natural talent of girls: immediately finding a loophole in his words.

"..."

The Sakurai ship has sunk.

After saying that, he had no idea how to follow up.

Girls can always stir up trouble in places normal people can't understand.

But fortunately, Chika wasn't too unreasonable——

"Fine, I admit it, I'm indeed a bit airheaded in some areas." Fujiwara Chika pouted. "But Ishigami-kun is always sharp-tongued with me! Can't he be gentler?"

"Boys are only gentle with the ones they like."

This line didn't come from Sakurai, but from Shirogane Miyuki.

Hearing that, Fujiwara Chika looked toward the student council president with curiosity: "You clearly don't like anyone, so why do you speak like someone experienced?"

"... Secretary Fujiwara, that is exactly the kind of thing that makes Ishigami annoyed with you!" Shirogane Miyuki held his face and slammed his forehead against the table.

He felt personally attacked.

Is it strange to not have a girlfriend for all three years of high school?

'Once I get to America, I must get a girlfriend immediately!'

Shirogane Miyuki had made up his mind.

"I feel like, Chika, if you could fix that habit of yours, people would like you more."

The reason Fujiwara Chika was disliked by Ishigami Yuu was precisely because she always blurted out things others wouldn't say.

"Eh?"

Fujiwara Chika understood nothing.

"Forget it, just stay the way you are, Secretary Fujiwara."

"... If she could awaken by herself, she wouldn't be Chika anymore." Sakurai Saki also nodded.

Fujiwara Chika was exactly that kind of girl, never stopping.

"Oi oi oi! I'm not weird at all!!"

Shirogane Miyuki lifted his head, smiling in exasperation: "As expected, still not changing anything at all."

However, that was fine.

The secretary of the 68th student council should be like this. It would be strange if she changed.

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