Feel it with your heart?
Kaguya Shinomiya wondered if she might be hallucinating. And yet, the new knowledge in her mind told her it was all real.
Rei Ao: "@Kaguya Shinomiya, do you get it now?"
Kaguya blinked her wide eyes in bewilderment.
Tohru: "Oho? A newcomer."
Tohru: "Wait, Kaguya Shinomiya? That's the 'Lady' that Ai Hayasaka serves, right?"
Kaguya's head was full of question marks.
"Who is she? How does she know me?"
Ai Hayasaka: "It's because, yesterday, I told Rei Ao about the incident of being discovered. Sorry, my Lady."
"Oh, so it was you, Ai…"
Kaguya tugged at the corners of her mouth, realization dawning on her.
She understood everything now. Ai had joined this bizarre "chat group," which was the so-called "supernatural event." Ai…had even traveled to another world?!
Kasumigaoka Utaha: "@Rei Ao, what's going on? The student council president came in as well?"
Megumi Kato: "Actually, she just came to get Rei Ao a moment ago."
Yukinoshita Yukino: "Probably to ask him about that 'certain matter' Ai Hayasaka mentioned."
Eriri Spencer: "Emmm, so they had a conversation, and now she's in the chat group?"
Yukinoshita Haruno: "I bet Rei Ao's taken a liking to her. Wouldn't be surprising if every girl who joins the group is basically a 'prospective member of his harem'~"
Saki Kawasaki: "Huh? Th-that can't be true, right?"
Furuhashi Fumino: "No way!"
Kato Hiromi: "Ehh, I'm Kato's older sister, so Rei Ao invited me here to look after her. I think that was purely his reason."
Yukinoshita Haruno: "Is that so? But I'm Yukino's big sister, and Rei Ao and I…ah, never mind."
Yukinoshita Yukino: "Onee-san! That's enough!"
Yukinoshita Haruno: "Oh dear, little Yukino is embarrassed now. (￣︶￣)"
Kobayashi: "Stop, everyone. The important thing is how Rei Ao's conversation with that lady goes."
Rei Ao: "As you can see, she's pretty stunned."
Although Kaguya didn't want to admit it, she really was rattled—by the chat group's mere existence and by all their comments. She looked at Rei Ao, eyes full of surprise.
"You…you people…what kind of relationship do you have…?"
"Exactly what you think."
"You can ask her yourself."
Kaguya, thoroughly confused, gazed at Ai Hayasaka with a hint of helplessness. Ai sighed softly.
"My Lady, please don't misunderstand. There's nothing, uh…strange, going on between Rei Ao and me."
"Oh, thank goodness…"
Kaguya breathed a sigh of relief, though her cheeks were tinted pink. She sent Rei Ao a rather fierce glare.
"Even if you do have that sort of relationship with Yukinoshita and the others, as the student council president, I won't allow you to get up to anything…indecent at school!"
As if she'd let such chaos happen on campus.
"What kind of relationship? Huh???"
At that moment, a pink-haired girl burst into the student council room: Chika Fujiwara. Rei Ao couldn't help letting his gaze wander toward her…bountiful figure, inwardly thinking, She really is a force of nature.
Chika looked curiously at the three gathered in the council room.
"Rei Ao! Why are you in the student council room? And I thought I heard something about a relationship—who's in a relationship with whom?"
Her passion for gossip flared as she glanced between Rei Ao and Kaguya.
She gasped dramatically.
"Wha—could it be that Rei Ao and Kaguya-chan are secretly…?!"
"Secretary Fujiwara, please don't jump to conclusions. There's no—"
Kaguya reflexively tried to deny it. But then she remembered…they do share a secret bond. That bond involved the chat group connecting multiple worlds. It was something they absolutely couldn't tell Chika Fujiwara.
Kaguya hesitated, unused to lying.
Chika had only been half joking, aiming to lighten the mood. But Kaguya's obvious hesitation made her eyes light up, sensing a real scoop.
She opened her mouth, about to bombard them with further questions—
But Ai Hayasaka stepped forward.
"President, let's just leave it at that. Thank you for your help."
She bowed to Kaguya, then turned to Rei Ao.
Clearly, she was giving Kaguya an escape route. Rei Ao, seeing that, nodded. The two left the student council room one after the other.
Chika blinked in confusion.
"Kaguya-chan, did Rei Ao and that other girl come to consult you about something?"
Kaguya took half a second to catch up but followed Ai's lead:
"Yes, it was a personal matter. Anyway, please don't pry too deeply, Secretary Fujiwara."
Chika looked disappointed.
"What a shame! I bet it was a romantic issue. I mean, I'm a genius at solving love problems, but darn it, I arrived too late."
Kaguya scowled at her, not bothering to retort.
She's never even been in a relationship—how could she be a Love Detective Chika? This unstoppable pink creature is just in it for the gossip.
After Leaving the Student Council
"Rei Ao, thank you for cooperating."
"It's no big deal. Besides, now that it's settled, there's no reason to linger."
Rei Ao gave a casual wave of his hand.
"Rei Ao…did you invite Lady Kaguya to join the chat group just because I got exposed?"
Ai Hayasaka asked suddenly. In her mind, it made sense. She worried her slip-up had forced Rei Ao's hand, and that might have serious repercussions.
Rei Ao gently patted her shoulder and chuckled.
"Don't overthink it. Your little 'exposure' was trivial to me."
He gave her a knowing look.
"You could say I'm interested in your Lady Kaguya, which is why I did it."
Ai fell silent. That explanation actually sounded…believable. She gave Rei Ao a long look, her voice soft: "If that's the reason, I guess…it's not so bad."
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