"So… who exactly is she?"
After finishing the kiss with Kamijou Mutsuki, Miki Sayaka barely managed to calm her emotions.
She looked at Wakaba Mutsumi on the other side. Her expression didn't carry much hostility, but it definitely wasn't friendly either.
She, the great Sayaka, had only been away from Kamijou Mutsuki for a while—and a green-haired girl had already stolen her home base?
Was that reasonable?
"Sayaka, let me introduce you,"
Faced with his childhood friend's question, Kamijou Mutsuki calmly introduced the girl beside him.
"This is my fiancée, Wakaba Mutsumi."
"Fiancée?"
Hearing Kamijou Mutsuki's introduction, Sayaka instantly turned gray.
Since when did Kamijou Mutsuki have a fiancée?
Could this be the legendary political marriage between big families?
Then wouldn't she, a completely ordinary childhood friend, be totally doomed?
After learning Mutsumi's identity, Sayaka suddenly lost her confidence.
After all, she was only a childhood friend. Their relationship had never even been officially confirmed.
Strictly speaking, she and Kamijou Mutsuki were just friends!
So what right did she have to interfere with the relationship between Mutsumi and Kamijou Mutsuki?
"And Mutsumi,"
Just as Sayaka was sinking into an emo mood, Kamijou Mutsuki began introducing her as well.
"This is my childhood friend, and also my girlfriend—Miki Sayaka."
He said I'm his girlfriend?
The Sayaka who had just been drowning in self-pity was instantly sunk.
Her cheeks turned bright red, as if her head were about to start steaming.
"Who's your girlfriend?"
Even though she was incredibly happy inside, the girl's shyness and reserved nature still made her instinctively retort.
"I never agreed to that!"
Wait, you're still acting tsundere at a time like this?
What kind of born losing-heroine constitution is that!
In fact, the moment Sayaka finished speaking, she immediately regretted it.
Acting tsundere normally was fine, but right now the green-haired fiancée was already right in front of her face.
Wasn't she just making things harder for herself by acting like this?
Could it be that the great Sayaka had already been eliminated?
"Then…"
However, Kamijou Mutsuki didn't indulge tsundere behavior at all. He directly pulled the girl into his arms.
"Sayaka, would you be willing to be my girlfriend?"
He looked straight into the girl's eyes as their gazes met.
"Eh—eh—eh?!"
Was Mutsuki… confessing to her?
The girl once again turned into a steam engine, her brain completely losing the ability to think.
"Completely wrapped around his finger…"
Sitting to the side, Wakaba Mutsumi watched the scene before her and couldn't help but sigh like this.
But wasn't she the same?
And yet, she was perfectly happy with it.
"…Saying something like that,"
At this moment, Miki Sayaka finally regained the ability to think.
"Isn't that way too sly?"
How was she supposed to refuse?
"You've always said things like this before, but you don't actually want to build a harem, do you?"
Even without recovering memories from a previous life, Kamijou Mutsuki had always been a very honest person since childhood—someone who never bothered to hide his thoughts.
So as his childhood friend, Sayaka's reaction wasn't as intense as it might have been.
Of course, expecting her to accept it immediately was clearly unrealistic.
"Sayaka, if a boy has one girlfriend, that's reasonable, right?"
Facing Sayaka's question, Kamijou Mutsuki didn't answer directly. Instead, he gave an example and asked in return.
"…Reasonable."
Although she didn't understand what Kamijou Mutsuki was getting at, she still answered.
"Then if a boy has a fiancée, that's also reasonable, right?"
"…That's right."
"Then—"
A smile appeared on Kamijou Mutsuki's face.
"If I have one girlfriend and one fiancée, that's also reasonable, right?"
Wait—this is how your logic works?!
Sayaka was utterly shocked.
"The marriage law isn't going to listen to your sophistry!"
The girl narrowed her eyes and said this.
"Marriage law?"
Hearing Sayaka's words, a smile appeared on Kamijou Mutsuki's face.
"Something like that can just be changed, can't it?"
Perhaps the current Kamijou family didn't yet have that ability—but it wouldn't take long.
"Don't go casually changing the law!"
The girl couldn't help but retort.
"Forget it. I can't control you anyway."
Sayaka knew that once Kamijou Mutsuki had made a decision, it was basically impossible to change it.
"If she keeps throwing a tantrum, wouldn't she just be pushing her childhood friend straight into that green-haired girl's arms?"
As for leaving on her own initiative, that option had never existed from the very beginning.
"However…"
Miki Sayaka looked at the green-haired girl in front of her.
She had to admit—she was really beautiful, almost as delicate as a doll. No wonder Kamijou Mutsuki liked her.
"You're Wakaba Mutsumi, right? Mutsuki and I are childhood friends—I came first, so that means I'm the big sister!"
The uniform she was wearing… that was from Tsukinomori Girls' Academy, right?
And with that kind of temperament, she was clearly a rich young lady at a glance.
Someone ordinary like her absolutely couldn't show any weakness.
"…Big Sister Sayaka."
Hearing that, Mutsumi nodded and said so.
She had never cared about things like this anyway, and Sayaka really had come first.
"Eh?"
Mutsumi's reaction completely caught Sayaka off guard.
That wasn't how it happened in the manga she read!
Shouldn't romantic rivals be confronting each other head-on?
What was with this girl?
She was way too obedient and cute!
"Mutsumi-chan, from today on I'm your big sister,"
That single "big sister" from Mutsumi instantly made Sayaka feel a little lightheaded, completely forgetting her original purpose.
"From now on, the great Sayaka will look after you!"
"…"
It seemed that Mutsuki's childhood friend wasn't someone difficult to get along with.
"Master,"
At this moment, Sakiko Togawa, who had already changed into her maid outfit, walked over.
"Dinner is ready."
"Eh? Master?!"
Sakiko's appearance instantly put Sayaka on alert.
There had always been maids in Kamijou Mutsuki's household before, but never a girl the same age who was this beautiful.
Could this be some kind of strange play?
Had her childhood friend started playing this wildly outside?
The girl instantly imagined some unhealthy scenes, and her cheeks turned red.
"Saki-chan…"
However, when Mutsumi saw maid Sakiko, the expression on her face became somewhat complicated.
After all, that incident had just happened earlier.
"I—"
"Do you need something?"
However, Sakiko interrupted before she could finish speaking.
"Madam."
"…"
Mutsumi bit her soft lips and didn't say anything more.
Wait—what kind of attitude is that?
I brought you here just so you could bully my Mutsumi?
This is rebellion! A mere maid daring to bite the master!
If you leave this villa, there won't even be a place for you to stand in Tokyo!
"Hey, what kind of attitude is that?"
Before Kamijou Mutsuki could say anything, Sayaka couldn't hold back anymore.
Bullying the little sister she had just recognized—wasn't that giving zero face to the great Sayaka?
"Mutsuki, is she part of your harem too?"
Sayaka had always been someone who spoke her mind.
"Huh? Harem? Me?"
Hearing that, Sakiko instantly failed to maintain her cold, aloof posture, and her cheeks turned bright red.
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