Chapter 230

Hopefully, Eriri won't be up to any more mischief.

"Damn it! You..."

"Because you're good-looking, incredibly good-looking, so you're popular. Is that enough for you?"

"When I see you, I only feel disgusted!"

Eriri finished speaking in a fit of anger and hurried away.

She felt both hatred and fear toward Kitakami Yoru!

And as a well-known doujin artist, she was particularly terrified that Kitakami Yoru would discover she liked Aki Tomoya.

If, by any chance...

Kitakami Yoru acted like those doujinshi.

Eriri felt Kitakami Yoru was capable of anything, given how he had bullied her back then!

She absolutely must not let him know about the secret relationship between Tomoya and herself.

She had to stay away from Tomoya...

(Will resume frequent updates by the weekend at the latest)

(Will set up a group in a few days, wrote a piece about Eriri)

15: Matsushita's Confession

"Kitakami-san?"

Kitakami Yoru was staring at the exquisite porcelain doll-like Eriri as she left when a familiar voice came from behind him.

"Yuigahama-san."

Kitakami Yoru turned back to look and nodded slightly.

"Let's go together."

Yuigahama Yui lowered her head slightly and walked up to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with him.

"I wonder if Yukinoshita has arrived yet."

"Yuigahama-san, what do you think the probability of Matsushita-san's confession succeeding is?"

Kitakami Yoru asked casually while walking.

"Con... confession... I don't know."

"He seems quite confident, so the probability of success should be high, right?"

Yuigahama Yui secretly looked at Kitakami Yoru's handsome, perfect profile and replied, feeling inexplicably shy.

"Indeed, without absolute certainty, if a confession fails, you can't even remain friends."

Kitakami Yoru thought of the situation between Ebina Hina and Tobe Kakeru.

Chatting with the girl beside him all the way, they arrived at the top floor of the club building.

Matsushita Hidetoshi had been waiting for a long time, pacing anxiously. As soon as he saw Kitakami Yoru and Yuigahama Yui, he hurried over and said, "Great, you're finally here. I was worried to death!"

"Class just ended, did you skip the last period?"

Kitakami Yoru stopped walking; although confessing was important, there was no need to skip class.

There was plenty of time.

"No, I left early," Matsushita Hidetoshi replied.

"You need to wait a few minutes, Yukino-chan hasn't come to open the door yet. Also, did you set a specific time with the girl you're asking out?"

Yuigahama Yui added.

"She's on cleaning duty this Friday, which takes about fifteen to twenty minutes. The time is definitely enough, but I'm scared, so..."

Matsushita Hidetoshi laughed embarrassedly.

Three or four minutes later.

Yukinoshita Yukino walked quickly up the stairs, glanced at the three of them, and used her key to open the door to the Service Club.

"Look, how is the setup?"

Opening the door, Yukinoshita Yukino stepped aside.

Hearing this, Matsushita Hidetoshi immediately poked his head in to look, scanning everything carefully.

"Great, it's great!"

"Thank you all... so..."

The result of the Service Club's commission far exceeded Matsushita Hidetoshi's expectations.

The old classroom, once piled with useless desks and chairs, had been partitioned off with white curtains, decorated with small fairy lights and rose petals.

Floating balloons, a huge, gorgeous heart-shaped rose arrangement...

"I originally wanted to use a cake, but the preparations weren't quite sufficient."

"You still remember the previous plan, right?"

Yukinoshita Yukino looked at Matsushita Hidetoshi and asked.

"I remember. I confess loudly, you pop the balloons, sing..."

Matsushita Hidetoshi nodded vigorously, walked into the Service Club, and turned around to look.

"Let's leave first and hide."

Kitakami Yoru and Yuigahama Yui exchanged glances, and she guiltily avoided his gaze.

Yukinoshita Yukino took her guitar and followed the two of them out.

Matsushita Hidetoshi closed the door. The light inside the Service Club dimmed slightly, and the atmosphere instantly surged with excitement.

"The Service Club is too good. Should I help them promote themselves properly?"

Turning on the colorful fairy lights, which flickered with rainbow hues, Matsushita Hidetoshi muttered nervously.

Hiding in the corner of the stairs leading to the rooftop, Kitakami Yoru wiped the steps clean and sat down next to Yukinoshita Yukino.

"Yukino-chan, are you nervous?"

Yuigahama Yui chose to stand, one hand against the wall, taking deep breaths while patting her chest, which was far less developed than her mother's.

"You're not the one receiving the confession, what's there to be nervous about?"

Kitakami Yoru raised his eyelids.

"Oh my, Kitakami-san..."

Yuigahama Yui puffed out her cheeks and looked at him with displeasure.

"He has a point."

Yukinoshita Yukino held her guitar with both hands, her expression terrifyingly calm.

"You two, hmph..."

Yuigahama Yui quickly scanned the two of them, then turned to look at the gap in the stairs, staring for a long time.

Occasionally, she would secretly turn her head to observe Kitakami Yoru.

Why is Kitakami-san so good-looking? I can't take my eyes off him!

What's going on!

Yuigahama Yui felt strangely anxious to death inside...

Twenty minutes later.

Yuigahama Yui saw someone slowly walking up the stairs below, and she immediately perked up.

Getting closer and closer...

It was a girl with long hair.

"It looks like she's here!"

Yuigahama Yui hurried to turn back and said, almost certain.

The next second, the three of them held their breath, not daring to make a sound.

The sound of footsteps grew louder...

Seibu Akane was a bit puzzled. Matsushita-san had called her to the club building, saying he wanted to start a club.

Even if she didn't want to join, she could just put her name down to make up the numbers.

But he wouldn't explain the specific details to her.

"He's really something, always liking to tease me..."

Seibu Akane smiled slightly as she reached the top floor.

Beneath her long hair was a face that was passable, with looks slightly above average, and a figure that was also average.

"Is this it?"

Seibu Akane arrived at the stairs, looked left and right, confirmed the location of the Service Club classroom, and walked over.

The stairwell.

Kitakami Yoru and the other two stood up, not daring to go out, afraid of breaking the quiet.

The surprise was gone.

"Little Yukino, I'm so nervous..."

Yuigahama Yui spoke quietly in an extremely faint voice, reaching out to touch Yukinoshita Yukino.

Yukinoshita Yukino responded with a speechless look, grabbed Yuigahama Yui's hand, and placed it on Kitakami Yoru's shoulder.

The meaning was: stop bothering me ò?ó

Speechless...

"Actually... I'm a bit nervous too..."

Kitakami Yoru turned his head and smiled slightly at Yuigahama Yui.

Immediately, he noticed Yukinoshita Yukino and Yuigahama Yui both turn their heads away in unison.

"Hey? You dislike me?"

Kitakami Yoru muttered.

The two girls exchanged glances, seeing in each other's eyes exactly what the other was thinking.

A faint shyness...

Why are you smiling at yourself for no reason?

A few seconds later, a puzzled Seibu Akane knocked on the Service Club door and called out.

Matsushita Hideyoshi answered.

The sound of the door sliding open rang out.

Kitakami Yoru and the other two immediately walked down on tiptoe.

"Mats... Ha... What is this..."

Seibu Akane walked in, and just as she started to speak, she froze upon seeing the giant heart-shaped rose arrangement on the floor.

In a scene like this, anyone could figure out with their toes that it was a confession!

Matsushita Hideyoshi pulled the door shut, turned around, and waited quietly for Seibu Akane to react.

Kitakami Yoru and the others could also take their positions.

After counting to five in his heart, Matsushita Hideyoshi locked eyes with Seibu Akane.

Seibu Akane seemed to realize something; her face flushed a faint pink, and she lowered her head in shyness.

"Seibu-san, I like you. Please go out with me!"

Matsushita Hideyoshi's voice was loud and resonant.

Outside the door.

Yukinoshita Yukino rested her fingers on the guitar and slowly opened her pink, delicate lips.

At the same time, Kitakami Yoru pressed the balloon detonator.

The "Bang, bang, bang!" of explosions arrived right on cue.

Everything went exactly as it had in the rehearsal.

The shock of the balloon explosions, the scattering of rose petals... Yukinoshita Yukino's cheerful performance...

Inside the door, in the Service Club classroom.

A little boat of emotion set sail from the harbor, heading toward the boundless, stormy sea.

Outside the door.

Kitakami Yoru and Yuigahama Yui exchanged a glance, then looked together at Yukinoshita Yukino, who had slowly stopped singing but continued to play the guitar.

The three of them felt a similarly strange mood.

All of them were single since birth, had extremely high standards, and had never been in a relationship...

Yet they were helping someone else confess and become a couple.

"It worked!"

Yuigahama Yui was the first to whisper.

"Yeah, let's wait a moment."

Kitakami Yoru replied while looking at the Service Club door.

Inside, the normal process after a successful confession was taking place.

Sweet talk, hugging, or kissing, and so on...

After being left outside for ten minutes or so, Matsushita Hideyoshi pulled open the Service Club door while holding Seibu Akane's hand.

"Look, it was Yukinoshita-san, Kitakami-san, and Yuigahama-san who helped set up the scene, Akane-chan..."

Matsushita Hideyoshi introduced the three people outside the door confidently and generously.

"You... they..."

Seibu Akane was shocked by Kitakami Yoru, Yukinoshita Yukino, and Yuigahama Yui—the three members of the Service Club.

"Congratulations."

Yuigahama Yui let out a sigh of relief, clapped her hands, and celebrated for Matsushita Hideyoshi.

"Congratulations."

Kitakami Yoru followed suit.

Yukinoshita Yukino glanced at the two people beside her, pursed her lips, and put away her guitar.

"Hee hee..."

Matsushita Hideyoshi touched his head and laughed foolishly in shyness.

Suddenly, the bold Seibu Akane stood on her tiptoes and kissed Matsushita Hideyoshi.

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Matsushita Hideyoshi's eyes widened; he felt disbelief and shyness at first—there were other people here...

Then he closed his eyes and responded.

"Wow!"

Watching this scene, the hearts of the three pure-hearted people pounded wildly.

Yuigahama Yui became reserved and shy; for some reason, her little hand grabbed Kitakami Yoru's hand in a panic, using it as support.

Yukinoshita Yukino was startled, her eyes widening, and she instinctively leaned toward Kitakami Yoru, almost pressing against him.

"This is too..."

Kitakami Yoru was in the best situation; after all, he had kissed Eriri many times.

Who knew these two would get more and more intense, even making sounds...

Someone else wasn't adapting well either; the hand Yuigahama Yui was holding somehow ended up with their fingers interlaced.

Yukinoshita Yukino's delicate hand was also pinching the flesh on Kitakami Yoru's waist, venting the shock and shyness in her heart.

No way!

Making out in front of everyone was one thing...

But to...

To be so intense...

If this were a hotel, they'd definitely have to go all the way to finish it...

"E-enough..."

Yukinoshita Yukino forced herself to stay calm and scolded them.

The sentence brought Kitakami Yoru back to his senses; he looked down at his palm, then followed his gaze upward.

Yuigahama Yui was holding his hand with her fingers intimately interlaced, her eyes dazed, her face slightly flushed.

Because!

Yuigahama Yui had been watching and got too absorbed, her mind wandering to the scene where Kitakami Yoru confessed to her at noon.

Aided by the passionate kiss between Seibu Akane and Matsushita Hideyoshi, she had imagined...

It was so embarrassing!

"Sorry..."