Chapter 258: The Approaching Christmas

In the Student Council office during lunch break, the atmosphere carried an extra layer of pre-exam tension compared to usual.

“Sengoku-kun, how do you solve this problem?”

“Let me see.”

Casually putting down the pen in his hand, Sengoku Sho leaned in close to his girlfriend, looked at the math problem her pen tip was lightly tapping, and thought for a moment.

“Try drawing an auxiliary line here and see.”

“Is it these two diagonal auxiliary lines?”

“Yeah, look, the problem already states that the outermost shape is a square. According to the theorem, the diagonal of a square can divide it into two isosceles right triangles…..”

Just as Sho was earnestly explaining the geometry problem to his girlfriend, Ayasaki Remi, a few discordant sounds interrupted the harmonious little couple.

Sneaking a glance at the President-elect, who was slumped over the desk, fast asleep and occasionally letting out a few snores, Remi curiously reached out and tugged on her boyfriend’s school uniform sleeve. She leaned in intimately to his ear and asked in a lowered voice.

“Hey, Sengoku-kun, do you know what’s wrong with the President? I’ve been seeing him sleep very often lately.”

“That question….”

Sho looked up at Miyahito, who was sleeping soundly, and let out a silent sigh.

“I don’t know either.”

“Eh? No way.”

Remi widened her eyes slightly, her tone carrying a hint of puzzled questioning.

“But, yesterday I saw the President drag you to the corner of the school building to talk. Good grief, and you won’t even tell me.”

“….It’s not that I don’t want to tell you.”

Hearing this, Sho’s expression became somewhat troubled.

“Miyahito-kun specifically told me not to tell anyone else.”

As he spoke, Sho caught sight of his girlfriend puffing her cheeks and pouting, looking at him with clear dissatisfaction.

Giving a helpless, bitter smile, Sho secretly complained in his heart about a certain someone who was currently fast asleep.

Good grief, if I had known, I would have just left after talking yesterday. I shouldn’t have listened to Miyahito-kun’s reasoning.

A date is just a date. Why does it have to be some big surprise? No matter how big the surprise is… girls probably prefer it if you just honestly spend the whole day with them, right?

Unconsciously recalling Miyahito’s lecture yesterday about “the meaning of Christmas date surprises for girls,” Sho quietly turned his head to glance at the girlfriend beside him.

Hmm… thinking about it, given Remi’s personality.

What kind of surprise should he prepare for their Christmas date?

Just simply giving a gift?

Or should he be like Miyahito, preparing a “candlelight dinner,” “roses,” and “surprise gifts” to create a romantic date that fulfills every girl’s imagination?

“Hmm?” Seeing her boyfriend staring blankly at her, Remi blushed and averted her gaze. Feeling a bit embarrassed, she reached out and gently pushed Sho, who was gradually leaning closer to her, and called out shyly.

“Sengoku-kun.”

“Ah, sorry.” Snapping back to his senses and realizing his lapse in decorum, Sho quickly sat up straight and turned his head away, his face full of embarrassment.

Remi also turned her flushed face away, her gaze dodging, not daring to look back at her boyfriend.

Unknowingly, a sweet, yet slightly immature and bittersweet atmosphere secretly emerged in a certain corner, lingering around the two of them, who didn’t dare to make eye contact and didn’t know what to say.

That pink aura, radiating sweetness and immaturity, carefully examined the two embracing each other. Seeming somewhat dissatisfied with the distance between them, it gradually pulled this young, slightly awkward couple, who had only been together for a short while, a little closer.

A short while later.

“Mmm….”

A weary, sleepy murmur rang out. Still half-asleep, Miyahito rubbed his eyes as he sat up, asking in a mumbling voice.

“What time is it?”

As the words fell, Miyahito lowered his hand from his eyes. The next second, the scene of a loving little couple, intimately stuck together like glue and warmly enjoying this moment of quiet study time, reflected in his eyes.

“…”

Good lord, how long did I actually sleep?

Looking at the little couple in the Student Council with a hint of speechlessness in his eyes for a short while, and realizing that Sho and Remi were completely ignoring him, Miyahito expressionlessly raised his hand. He curled his five fingers into a loose fist, placed it by his mouth, and then.

“Ahem.”

A light cough broke the glue-like sweet atmosphere between Sho and Remi.

Subconsciously, Sho and Remi both looked up in the direction of the sound at the same time. Meanwhile, noticing their gazes, Miyahito spoke with a deadpan expression and a monotone, robotic voice.

“Oh, you finally noticed me?”

“Listen, Miyahito.” Glancing sideways at Remi, who had her head lowered, cheeks flushed, and looking completely at a loss, Sho turned his head to Miyahito, whose face showed no expression, and said with a darkened, annoyed face.

“If you can’t wake up, you can just keep sleeping.”

“…..”

Are you saying I’m throwing a waking-up tantrum?

“Um.”

Seeming to have skin that was simply too thin, unable to bear the shame of “being seen being intimate with her boyfriend,” Remi lowered her head and stood up.

A bit flustered, she gathered the textbooks and documents on the desk. Then, hugging the books and stationery, Remi turned around, gave a slightly panicked, slight bow to the stunned Miyahito, and stammered.

“Um, it’s about time. President, I’ll head back to the classroom first….”

“Ah, oh, I…”

Before Miyahito could finish his sentence, the blushing Remi had already hurriedly gathered her things and fled.

“Got it….”

Looking at the open door of the office and the slightly swaying door panel, Miyahito turned his head with a blank expression. His confused and slightly aggrieved gaze met Sho’s complaining stare, and he said in a small voice.

“I… I didn’t even say anything…”

“Sigh….”

Looking at Miyahito’s wounded expression, Sho thought about his girlfriend who had suddenly fled just now, and let out a helpless sigh.

Forget it, forget it.

Remi is just that kind of person. Expecting his thin-skinned girlfriend to roast this guy like Kyoko does is simply impossible.

…..

Just as Remi fled from the Student Council office, and Sho began to nag and complain about Miyahito for ruining the atmosphere.

At the vending machine in a section of the first-year classroom hallway.

“Hey, hey, Utaha.” Holding a warm can of red bean soup and taking small sips of the sweet liquid, Yoshikawa Yuki, whose pretty face was written all over with the word curiosity, smiled cheerfully as she looked at Utaha, who was bending over to retrieve her drink from the vending machine slot, and asked.

“How are you planning to spend Christmas with Miyahito?”

The moment the words fell, Utaha’s action of retrieving her drink paused for a moment, and then.

“Nothing special.” Answering Yoshikawa Yuki in a somewhat nonchalant tone, Utaha stood up straight calmly.

“No way.”

At this moment, Hori Kyoko, who was drinking canned hot milk tea nearby, paused, and said in a somewhat casual tone.

“I actually saw Miyahito planning his Christmas date constantly lately.”

“Eh? Is that so!?”

Yoshikawa Yuki froze upon hearing this.

Good lord! Miyahito is actually planning a Christmas date!?

“I don’t know anything.”

Seeing the curiosity in her two best friends’ eyes growing thicker, Utaha timidly took a small step back and interrupted the topic with a somewhat stiff tone.

“Let’s not talk about this. Let’s hurry back to the classroom.”

“It’s freezing outside.”

Having said that, without waiting for Kyoko and Yuki to react, Utaha took the lead, turning on her heel and marching toward the classroom.

Watching Utaha’s retreating back, which looked almost as if she were fleeing in a panic, Hori Kyoko and Yoshikawa Yuki exchanged a silent glance.

Yep, something is definitely up!

“Hey, Kyoko, should we stalk them on Christmas?”