Higo was taken aback when his name was mentioned out of nowhere, and when he realized what was going on here, the boy was so flustered that his face turned red as a tomato. Kumiko was never stingy with her praise, but he was still quite weak in receiving it.
To make it worse—or better, if Higo had to be honest—the girl looked at him with pride and admiration, and that was enough to make a butterfly flutter in his stomach.
The applause around also died down immediately when they realized the ambiguous atmosphere between those two, and in the end, Makino had to cough here. "Oi, Chibi, don't you have something to say here?" He asked, his tone was full of jealousy.
"What?" It was enough to snap Higo from his thought, as he stared at the captain confusedly. "Should I say that it is nothing? But I am sure that my performance is far from nothing, right?"
This time, most of them had the corner of their lips twitching speechlessly.
