Chapter 89: Social Talent Maxed Out

Time came to Friday after school.

Today was the day of the first activity of the Mystery Research Club.

This island vacation plan was for three days and two nights.

Therefore, they weren't leaving tomorrow, but today.

For the Friday trip, they had prepared the luggage they needed to take a day in advance.

Of course, because everyone was in different places, the pick-up work was entirely the responsibility of the activity organizer, Kaguya Sigong.

Naturally, the boat to Moon Shadow Island was also the responsibility of Kaguya Sigong.

Just after returning home, Ren Amamiya pulled the luggage he had prepared long ago and walked out the door.

Taking the elevator down, he saw a large camper van already parked in front of him.

The camper van opened the door on the lower side, where many suitcases were placed.

Ren Amamiya took the opportunity to put his suitcase inside.

Then he walked onto the camper van.

The camper van was already full of people.

Almost all the members of the Mystery Research Club had arrived, and he was the only one left.

Everyone had changed out of their school uniforms and into their own clothes.

Only, this made Ren Amamiya feel a bit uncomfortable.

Except for him, almost everyone in the camper van was a girl; he was the only boy.

Where should I sit?

The whole camper van seemed to have many seats, but it seemed that every empty spot was occupied by someone.

This felt like he was choosing a concubine.

Scanning around, Ren Amamiya finally chose to sit next to Chika Fujiwara.

"Eh! Amamiya chose me?"

"..."

Hearing this, Ren Amamiya understood that the seats being full on the camper van was a trap set for him.

"I was wondering why all the seats happened to be full."

"You guys didn't bet on my choice, did you?"

All the girls in the camper van cooperated by shifting their gazes elsewhere.

"So, who bet that I would sit next to Fujiwara?"

The girls present looked left and right; obviously, no one could remember who had bet that Amamiya would sit next to Chika Fujiwara.

"No one bet on me winning."

Chika Fujiwara pouted, obviously very angry at this result.

"More people bet on sitting next to Sonoko."

"And there were also people who bet on sitting next to Kaguya; only I had no one betting on me."

While angry, Chika Fujiwara curiously turned to look at Amamiya.

"Amamiya, what were you thinking? Choosing to sit next to me?"

Ren Amamiya was silent for a moment, then gave a simple answer.

"With Fujiwara, I feel I shouldn't be too restrained."

"With others, I feel I would be a bit... unaccustomed."

This answer made all the girls in the camper van freeze.

They looked at Chika Fujiwara, then at the others around them, and the next moment they all reacted.

"Pfft!"

Amamiya would feel unaccustomed when facing other girls, but not when facing Chika Fujiwara.

Didn't this sentence mean that Amamiya didn't view Chika Fujiwara as a girl who would make him feel restrained?

Chika Fujiwara, who realized the key to the problem, immediately widened her eyes.

The angry state from just a moment ago was now aimed directly at Amamiya.

"What do you mean?"

"Amamiya, don't you view me as a girl?"

He glanced at Chika Fujiwara, who was glaring at him.

"No, Fujiwara is clearly a girl."

"However, Fujiwara doesn't give me the feeling that I need to be as careful as I would be with other girls."

"It should be said that the feeling Fujiwara gives off makes people feel easy to approach."

Ren Amamiya wasn't just saying this.

He truly felt that Chika Fujiwara was easier to get close to.

He was really a bit unaccustomed when facing other girls.

"Eh? Do I have such a strange temperament?"

Chika Fujiwara didn't quite understand.

She looked at herself, then at Kaguya.

Although it was a bit impolite, she was much more like a girl than Kaguya.

But what Amamiya said wasn't false either.

In other words, Amamiya didn't define a girl as easy to approach based on her figure, but based on a special temperament.

But she found it strange.

She didn't remember having such an approachable temperament.

"Oh! There is indeed that feeling!"

Sonoko Suzuki was the first to jump out and support her.

"Chika does have that strange feeling."

"When I first met Chika, I could talk to her easily."

"Also, the Big Ice Cube too."

"She is famous for being cold at Shuchiin; except for Chika who can interact with her, others just feel she is a big ice cube if they interact too much..."

Then she looked at the Big Ice Cube, whose face was no longer as cold as it once was.

"This guy, only Chika can talk to her."

"Also, let me add, the Big Ice Cube actually cares quite a bit about certain things."

Hearing Sonoko Suzuki's cryptic remark, Ai Hayasaka subconsciously looked at Miss Kaguya's chest.

She compared it to Chika Fujiwara's unusual size.

Indeed, even now she felt strange about why Miss Kaguya would become friends with Chika Fujiwara.

They were clearly two people whose personalities and figures were opposites.

But Ai Hayasaka quickly looked away.

Because she noticed Miss Kaguya's face had already turned a bit dark.

But Chika Fujiwara didn't notice Kaguya Sigong's dark face and shifted the topic elsewhere.

"Then what about Nagi?"

Nagi?

Ren Amamiya looked at this person, Fujiwara, with surprise.

The name Nagi was quite intimate; it was a name only people familiar with Nagi Sanzenin would use, and he didn't expect Fujiwara to use it.

"As for Sanzenin, she doesn't have much to say when she meets people she isn't familiar with."

"She should belong to the same slightly homebody personality as me."

"But in front of people she is familiar with, she will have a lot to say."

Chika Fujiwara looked enlightened.

"So that's why you didn't choose to sit next to Nagi, to avoid making her uncomfortable?"

Thinking carefully, it seemed Nagi really did have such a problem.

But she remembered that when she interacted with Nagi, Nagi didn't have any discomfort.

Combining it with Amamiya's words just now, Chika Fujiwara looked like she understood.

"No wonder I had absolutely no burden when I interacted with Nagi before."

"She didn't have that much restraint in front of me, and it was very convenient for us to talk."

"However, Nagi's skills in games are really poor."

Nagi Sanzenin felt the veins on her forehead throbbing wildly.

"Who is poor!"

"You even cheated when you played cards with me, and you have the nerve to say I'm poor!"

"Did I? I don't remember."

Chika Fujiwara shifted her gaze out the window with a guilty conscience.

— Author's Notes —

PS: New book is out, asking for data.