"Shinomiya-senpai is my brother's girlfriend, right?"
The moment Miyahito's words fell, everyone except the still daydreaming Miyuki froze in unison.
The next second.
Shinomiya Kaguya: Her pretty face flushed slightly, her gaze shifting away guiltily.
Chika: Her expression froze, her look toward the instigator clearly saying, 'Are you kidding me?'
Yu: The corners of his mouth twitched uncontrollably.
Looking at everyone's varied reactions, Miyahito, who already knew the answer, nodded almost imperceptibly.
Interesting! This is super interesting!
The little person in his heart laughed villainously, but in reality, Miyahito's face remained completely unchanged. He even put on a very 'authentic' expression of confusion and ignorance.
"Senpai? And Ishigami-kun? Why are you guys looking at me like that?"
As soon as he finished, the frozen expression on Chika's face instantly melted. She laughed heartily and patted Miyahito's shoulder, who was playing dumb perfectly.
"Really, blurting out nonsense like that."
"Eh?" Miyahito turned his face cooperatively, his expression even more 'authentic' than before, looking at Chika, who had a 'I can't help you' look on her face.
"Isn't she?"
"Of course not."
Chika nodded, then put one hand on her hip and raised her index finger, shaking it in front of Miyahito.
"At first, I thought there might be 'sparks of LOVE' between the President and Kaguya-san, but..." Saying this, Chika spread her hands and looked at Miyahito with a helpless expression. "It's been almost half a year, and there hasn't been a single spark."
"Also, as far as I know, Kaguya-san and Shirogane-kun are both single, you know."
Suddenly, a crisp clink rang out.
Subconsciously, Miyahito and Chika both turned their eyes toward the source of the sound.
At this moment, Kaguya, a faint blush still lingering on her cheeks, calmly set her cup back down. Then, she glanced at the loose-lipped Chika with a completely unruffled gaze.
"Fujiwara-san, please don't say unnecessary things. You'll teach our Miyahito-kun bad habits."
"?" Hearing this, Chika pointed at herself in disbelief. "Me teaching Miyahito-kun? Why? What unnecessary things did I say?"
Kaguya didn't speak. She just gave Chika a 'figure it out yourself' look. Then, with a gentle smile growing even softer, she reached out and picked up the teapot on the coffee table. Her movements seemed to carry a hint of joy as she poured a cup of fragrant black tea for Miyahito.
"Miyahito-kun, although I think the President is a very excellent President, my relationship with him isn't like that, okay?"
"Ehh..." Miyahito widened his eyes slightly, showing extreme surprise at this 'fact'.
Then.
"I just assumed." Lowering his voice unconsciously, Miyahito 'secretly' glanced at Kaguya and Miyuki across from him, his tone carrying a meaningful weight. "I thought Miyuki-nii had a lot of dating experience."
"After all, back then, if it weren't for Miyuki-nii's encouragement, I might not have been able to make up my mind to confess to my girlfriend."
Deliberately speaking with a rhythmic cadence, Miyahito looked meaningfully at Kaguya.
However, before he could see the reaction he wanted.
"Eh! Miyahito-kun already has a girlfriend?!"
"Oho, how unexpected! Miyahito, you traitor!?"
"...." Looking at Chika and the grinning Yu, who had instantly surrounded him with an almost imposing aura, Miyahito nodded with a look of feigned terror.
"Yeah, is there a problem, Fujiwara-senpai?"
"Hmph~" Crossing her arms, Chika let out two hums and looked at Miyahito with an intriguing smile. Then, she suddenly raised a hand and pointed her index finger at him.
"Come clean!"
"?"
"Confess the details of your romance to your senpais!"
"Hah?"
Miyahito turned his head in shock, looking at Yu, who was enjoying the show.
"Tell the truth." Spreading his hands, Yu also joined in the teasing. "This time, I support Fujiwara-senpai."
"Eh!!"
Feeling the crisis averted, Kaguya subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief. After a light cough, she smiled and echoed Chika's words to Miyahito.
"Mhm, I'm also a bit curious. After all..." Secretly glancing at the distracted Miyuki beside her, who was still lost in thought, Kaguya sighed lightly in her heart. Keeping a gentle smile on her face, she continued, "I'm curious about how the President encouraged Miyahito-kun to confess."
"....."
Feels like I've trapped myself...
Miyahito chuckled helplessly in his heart. Then, under everyone's curious gazes, he slowly began to recount what had happened back then.
After listening to Miyahito's story, Chika nodded with a sigh of emotion.
"So that's how the whole thing went down."
"Yeah." Miyahito smiled. "If Miyuki-nii hadn't burst into my house back then and scolded me awake."
"I'm afraid it would have taken me a lot longer to confess to Utaha."
As Miyahito finished speaking, everyone's eyes unconsciously turned to Miyuki, who had been AFK for a long time.
And at this moment, Yu also muttered a sentence that only he himself could hear.
"It's a lot like my situation back then."
It was the same—bursting into the labyrinth of a high heart-wall, and being scolded awake by an irrefutable words... However.
Unlike himself back then, who was misunderstood by the girl he liked and had sworn to protect in silence, and wrongly accused by everyone...
Miyahito was protecting a girl he liked, and who liked him back. And he wasn't crushed by malice like he was.
Miyahito was just overthinking things.
'This is better.' A trace of bitterness flashed across Ishigami's face, but the next second, he hid the bitterness well. He turned his head to look at Miyahito, whose face was full of hidden happiness, and smiled.
It's enough for only me to experience that kind of thing.
Miyahito... no, Miyani must be happy. Only then can I hear happier, sweeter music.
While Ishigami's mind was wandering, lost in thoughts of old, dusty memories, Miyuki finally ended his AFK state. However, the moment he came to his senses, his eyes met the gazes of everyone else in the room.
Instantly, Miyuki was completely stunned.
"What? Why are you all looking at me?"
Hearing Miyuki's bewildered tone, everyone looked at each other in unison, then replied in perfect sync.
"Nothing at all, President (Miyuki-nii)."
"You guys."
Hearing their synchronized reply and seeing how close everyone's relationship was, Miyuki couldn't help but shake his head with a smile.
Seeing this, everyone couldn't help but laugh along with him.
Just like that, in this somewhat serious Student Council office, besides the happy smiles on everyone's faces, even the faint air was filled with a light, yet incredibly reassuring sound of laughter.
Until the hands of the clock went round and round.
This peaceful warmth, full of friendship, still lingered, unwilling to dissipate.