Chapter 329: Women Fighting
The parade was still ongoing.
I wonder if those staff members in mascot suits are hot inside?
"Saki-kun, do you have any plans for the new semester?" – Chika felt the warmth of his hand in hers, she leaned close to his ear and asked.
It was too noisy around, so she had to move closer.
"Nothing specific yet, why? That's so sudden."
Spring break wasn't even over, and she was already thinking about the new semester, way too eager.
"What if we're not in the same class?" – Chika said worriedly.
She felt that the biggest reason she was "surpassed" by Hayasaka Ai last year was because the two of them weren't in the same class.
"Class placement depends on the preferences, right? External admissions in one group, and internal admissions in another."
"Yeah, but the external admissions group has two classes, what if… we don't end up in the same class? Then I'll lose my chance again!"
"Huh?" – Sakurai Saki didn't really get it.
"It's the chance to drive away all those sneaky cats, of course!" – A dark ominous aura seemed to emit from the top of Fujiwara Chika's head.
Seeing that, Saki quickly pulled her into his arms.
"Don't be mad anymore."
"I'm not mad, I'm jealous!"
…Aren't those two the same thing.
Chika's voice came from inside his chest: "Kiss me."
"But this is right in the middle of the parade…"
Chika tugged at his shirt, acting spoiled: "She did it, so why can't I?"
"That's not the point…"
"Kiss me."
Sakurai really didn't know what to do with this girl anymore. He tilted his face slightly and leaned down.
The two of them quickly met lips.
When Sakurai closed his eyes, savoring her soft lips, Chika did not close hers — her eyes glanced across the street where the parade was passing.
There, Hayasaka Ai stood with Shinomiya Kaguya, both glaring at her with murderous looks.
'Keikaku doori!'
(≖⩊≖)
Chika had already seen them earlier, and all the coquettish actions just now were deliberate.
If it weren't to provoke Hayasaka, she absolutely wouldn't dare ask for a kiss in such a crowded place.
Chika was just an ordinary girl and knew how to be shy like anyone else.
'…Saki-kun, you're too skilled now.'
She gently closed her eyes and wrapped her arms around his back.
...
"When did Secretary Fujiwara turn into that kind of delinquent girl?" — Shinomiya Kaguya propped her chin on her hand as she watched the man she liked kiss her second-best friend.
What a terrible scene.
Moreover, Sakurai didn't refuse at all.
Heh~
Truly the kind of person who once said "I want to play both sides" — a real scumbag.
Half a minute later, Kaguya couldn't take it anymore.
"Tch, can they finish any faster?"
This must be what jealousy feels like, Kaguya told herself.
This was the first time she felt jealous — such a strange feeling.
"She's always been a wicked woman." Hayasaka Ai exhaled; she had almost rushed across the street to punch Chika a moment ago.
But the surrounding crowd held her back.
"Never mind, it was just a kiss."
Hayasaka Ai tried to force herself not to care about it.
After Shinomiya Kaguya's previous "spontaneous outburst," Ai-chan could now face the harsh reality.
After all, if her childhood friend who played with her could stab her in the back, what couldn't happen? Especially since that person had long coveted her boyfriend.
Calm down, Hayasaka Ai, calm down...
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No, she was still angry!
Holding back made things peaceful, but stepping back made her feel at a loss!
"Ai-chan, are you okay?" Shinomiya Kaguya noticed Hayasaka Ai showing that terrifying expression for the first time and felt a little afraid.
"I'm fine." — The words were nearly ground out through her teeth.
A few minutes later.
"The parade is almost over. Should we go look for them?" Kaguya scanned around; the crowd was thinning.
"Ding dong." — a phone notification sound.
Hayasaka Ai took out her phone and found a message from Fujiwara Chika.
Quite the provocation in person.
"Secretary-chan is calling us over there."
The meeting point was under the nearby castle.
There would be fireworks here tonight.
The four of them had not planned to go home today; they'd prepared to go to a hotel tonight and had booked two rooms already.
"Ai-chan~ why are you so slow?" Fujiwara Chika tilted her head and asked.
What she meant was: ["Ai-chan~ why are you so slow? I already ate up your boyfriend, ehe~."]
"Aren't you going to explain a bit? About what just happened?"
Chika pretended to be clueless: "What are you talking about? I don't know anything."
Hayasaka Ai: "Really?"
"Umu, I didn't do anything." — Even though she had done it on purpose just now, she absolutely could not admit it now.
Hayasaka Ai shot her a glance.
Don't sleep too deeply tonight! Be careful or I'll stab you!
...
In the evening, after dinner, when the fireworks were about to begin.
They lined up to get on the giant Ferris wheel.
The cabin was for four people — Sakurai Saki sat next to Kaguya, opposite him were Chika and Ai-chan, the two holding hands tightly, as if they were competing.
"Why are you two suddenly so close?" Kaguya didn't even realize the two of them were secretly fighting each other.
Sakurai Saki, however, picked up on a few clues, but he didn't want to interfere.
But if those two kept going like this, forget about watching the fireworks — they might actually start fighting later.
Sure, men like watching women fight, but there's one condition — those two women must be strangers.
If your mom and your girlfriend fought, who would you help?
Help your mom? Your girlfriend would break up with you for sure.
Help your girlfriend? Then you'd become "a rebellious son."
No solution, brothers, no solution at all!
Wait a second.
…What the hell am I thinking?
Sakurai Saki snapped back to his senses and turned to ask Hayasaka Ai: "Ai-chan, do you want to sit next to me?"
The Ferris wheel slowly began to rise. It was pretty big, and one round would take more than thirty minutes. Looking outside, you could see the sparkling neon lights of the city in the distance.
There were about ten minutes left before the fireworks.
Most likely, by the time the Ferris wheel reached the top, the fireworks would explode in the night sky.
"Okay…" Ai-chan only got halfway through her sentence when she realized Chika was holding onto her arm tightly, not letting her move.
"I don't want to switch seats. This direction has a better view of the fireworks." Shinomiya Kaguya had no concept of Ferris wheels at all.
Today, she had sat with Sakurai Saki on almost every ride.
When the stork and the clam fight, the fisherman benefits — Kaguya was that "fisherman."
She hit the jackpot!
"See, Ai-chan, even Kaguya-san says so." Chika leaned her head against her shoulder, her voice dripping with implication: "Ai-chan, are you jealous? Which wicked woman made you so mad?"
Ai-chan: (◉_◉)
Secretary-chan, since when did you master "green tea" skills like this?
And you still have the nerve to ask me that?
"Are~? Could it be me?" Chika pointed at herself.
It's stiff! Hayasaka Ai's fist had already gone stiff!
Right at that moment, Kaguya-sama suddenly shuddered.
"I just realized something." Shinomiya Kaguya lowered her head to look down, then looked up with a despairing expression: "This Ferris wheel… is really high!"
Her random comment instantly defused the tension from just now.
"Well, it is a giant Ferris wheel after all~" Fujiwara Chika dropped the idea of provoking her love rival and instead chose to comfort her dearest friend Kaguya.
"Kaguya-san, do you want me to hug you?"
Shinomiya Kaguya shook her head, then leaned against Sakurai Saki, hugging his arm, her face showing relief as if she had just escaped a disaster: "Hugging this is enough."
Chika: ∘ ∘ ∘ ( °ヮ° ) ???
Kaguya-san, aren't you being a little too bold?
Are you trying to start a war?