Although in public places like the classroom they couldn't do anything too extreme, just giving Little Hiki some benefits and doing a little something that would make Minami reprimand them was already incredibly exciting.
This kind of sneaky behavior and the special parties at the Hikigaya household, who knew which one was more thrilling, but the sense of immorality in the classroom was definitely stronger.
Especially during class, sneaking around would absolutely be more exciting. Unfortunately, their seats were a bit far from Hiki's. If only they could always sit next to Hiki.
Rin regretfully glanced at the seat next to Hikigaya Hachiman, where Gabriel sat, and the seat by the wall on the far side of the classroom, Miura Yumiko's seat.
These two seats, no matter whose they were, weren't easy to switch. Even switching for just one or two periods wouldn't be convenient.
"By the way, I have something to give you all," Looking at Minami and Rin's two pairs of beautiful legs shining before his eyes, Hikigaya Hachiman exchanged a helpless smile with Yuina, then took out three pink sympathy wristbands from his backpack and handed them over.
"Huh?"
"For us?"
"Little Hiki, did you make a mistake? Shouldn't this kind of thing be given to Gabriel?"
Seeing the pink wristbands Hachiman took out, Minami and Rin couldn't help but freeze, and even the intentionally swinging legs stopped. Yuina quickly grabbed Hachiman's arm, whispering in his ear while sneakily glancing at Gabriel who was watching them.
Little Hiki shouldn't be that dumb. Recently, he and Gabriel had made great progress, he should be seizing the momentum to directly win Gabriel over.
"...", Gabriel clearly heard Yuina and the others whispering, silently raising her head to look at the ceiling.
"Actually, these wristbands work almost the same as those silver bracelets, just a little different. Once worn, they can't be taken off casually. But normally you can switch the empathy target by pressing here. Once the energy inside is used up, they stop working, you'll need to get more energy from Lala."
Hachiman beckoned Minami and Rin over, motioning them to lower their heads as he explained the wristbands' specific functions.
"Similar to that silver bracelet? Uh...", After hearing Hachiman's explanation, Yuina and the others looked at each other.
They'd also experienced the empathy bracelets before. With just a brief explanation, they instantly understood why these sympathy wristbands couldn't be given to Gabriel.
After all, Gabriel hadn't progressed that far with Little Hiki yet, she definitely wouldn't accept such a gift.
But as for them... hehe...
"Little Hiki, you're the best!"
Minami immediately put one wristband on her wrist and gave Hachiman a strong kiss on the cheek.
They'd originally been worried that now that Gabriel had moved next door to Little Hiki's house, it'd be hard to go over and play after school. They couldn't sneak around all night every time and would have to slip away early in the morning to avoid being discovered by Gabriel.
They didn't expect that Little Hiki would now give them sympathy wristbands that could be turned on and off at any time.
After school when they went home, it didn't even need to be said. And even when Hiki skipped class to go hang out with other girls, couldn't they still "play" with him in the classroom? Hehehe...
"Minami, Gabriel is still watching," Yuina was also very happy to receive the magical sympathy wristband. Without the limitation of the bracelet only syncing two people, they could now play online games with Little Hiki from home.
But when she saw Minami showing such intimate behavior with Hachiman in front of Gabriel, she immediately pouted and nudged Minami.
A bit of teasing was fine. Even hugging and cuddling could be explained by their close relationship. But kissing Little Hiki was probably too much.
Classmate Gabriel looked like a little angel, but she wasn't dumb, there was no way she'd completely not mind this kind of thing. If it caused a cooling in her relationship with Little Hiki, that would be terrible.
"Ah, sorry! I just got a little carried away just now, Gabriel, don't misunderstand! Hiki and I are just good friends!", Minami also realized the problem, quickly hopping down from Hachiman's desk and bowing deeply to Gabriel in apology.
Little Hiki liked Gabriel so much, they absolutely couldn't ruin his romance.
"...", Gabriel, who had been watching them fool around with Hachiman, twitched the corner of her mouth slightly, her gaze drifting across Minami's ample chest.
Misunderstand what? She didn't think she was misunderstanding anything.
She was very clear about the stage of their relationship with Hachiman. They'd already played bunny girl games at Hachiman's house with Iris and the others. What more was there to misunderstand?
Now that she knew who Hachiman's "ideal partner" the others had mentioned before was, it was natural to understand that they were trying to pair her with Hachiman. Their concern now that she might misunderstand wasn't surprising.
Of course, that was the only thing that wasn't surprising.
She could see that Yuina and the others genuinely wanted to match her with Hachiman, wanting them to be happy together. But she didn't understand why they were also frequently going to Hachiman's house to play.
Hmm... it felt similar to Miura Yumiko's reasoning, wanting to prevent Yuina and the others from bullying Hachiman by choosing to bully him herself to satisfy him and gain his acceptance. A kind of absurd beauty.
All she could say was: human society really was complicated, no wonder both angels and demons needed to experience the mortal world.
"Wait... could it be that Gabriel and Little Hiki are already in that kind of relationship?", Seeing Gabriel's indifferent and calm look, Yuina suddenly felt a twinge of doubt and cautiously asked.
Gabriel had even moved next door to Little Hiki and cooked for him. Their relationship must have advanced quite a bit.
But now Gabriel didn't react at all to Minami kissing Hachiman. Did that mean that Gabriel and Little Hiki were already so close that she didn't mind these small intimacies?
"Ah? That kind of relationship? Second base? Or already a home run?", Minami froze, then widened her eyes.
That fast? They hadn't even done much themselves yet.
Could it be that during that time in swim class, surrounding Gabriel with Ichinose Honami had worked? Did Gabriel secretly make a move on Little Hiki?
"What does that mean?", Gabriel looked puzzled at Minami's odd reaction.
"Just now, what Minami did counts as about second base. As for home run...", Looking at Gabriel, pure like a little angel, Rin gave an evil smile, raising her right hand to her mouth in a suggestive gesture.
Seeing Rin's vivid description, Gabriel's delicate face instantly turned red.
What were they even imagining? How could she and Hachiman have done something so shameful, just feeding her was already embarrassing enough.
"Actually, my relationship with Little Gabriel is still very pure. We haven't done anything over the line. Like yesterday, I just brought her dinner and fed her. After feeding her, I left," Seeing Gabriel's shy look, Hachiman chuckled and explained.
"Don't listen to Hachiman's nonsense. That feeding thing was just a normal punishment," Hearing Hachiman try to help explain, Gabriel immediately panicked and hurried to clarify.
Why did Hachiman have to mention feeding? Was he going to bring up what he accidentally saw too?
"Ohhh~ We get it, we get it. Just feeding, right~"
"Didn't expect you don't even need our help anymore. Little Hiki, you're amazing~"
"Don't worry, Gabriel. We won't tell anyone about your relationship with Little Hiki!"
Originally, Minami and Rin had somewhat believed Hachiman's explanation. But seeing Gabriel flustered and blushing to her ears, they instantly understood and gave Hachiman a thumbs-up.
Little Hiki was so sweet, even trying to cover up for Gabriel and hide their relationship.
"Don't misunderstand! Hachiman hasn't even been to my room! He went to Vignette's room! She was also fed by him!", Feeling their misunderstanding deepen, Gabriel quickly pulled out Vignette as an excuse.
But she forgot, Minami and her friends weren't ordinary girls. That kind of excuse wouldn't convince them.
"Vignette was there too?"
"Little Hiki fed two people at once?"
"Three people..."
Minami, Rin, and Yuina were all stunned, staring at the angelic Gabriel.
They'd been in several parties together, even pulled Miura Yumiko in to play bullying games. Hearing "three people," "together," "feeding," all these key words immediately triggered some very indecent associations.
They believed Hachiman could successfully win over Gabriel. After all, they'd been helping. But they never expected Gabriel would also be with Vignette...
Hiss... could it be Gabriel, like Iris and the others, only appeared proper, but actually had a hidden interest in such things?
In that case, couldn't they help push Gabriel and Little Hiki's relationship further in that direction too?
"Wait! You're all completely misunderstanding! Hachiman, help me explain already," Seeing the strange looks from Yuina and the others, Gabriel immediately grabbed the snickering Hachiman and pleaded with him to explain that neither she nor Vignette were that kind of person.
What was going on here? Clearly Yuina and Minami had done much more intimate things with Hachiman, yet she was the one being teased and misunderstood.
It was all Raphiel's fault. She would definitely make Raphiel accept Hachiman's punishment today and experience her and Vignette's awkwardness.
"Explain? What am I explaining? Are you saying the punishment you and Vignette received was fake?", Hachiman looked regretfully at Gabriel, who was shaking his arm. Unlike with the other girls, he didn't feel anything when Gabriel did it.
As expected of a little angel, no matter how intimate the action, she made his heart calm like still water.
"...Hachiman?", Noticing Hachiman's gaze, Gabriel froze and regretted deeply.
She knew it was a bad idea to let someone who liked her feed her, now Hachiman was probably thinking about last night again.
But she couldn't say anything. She hadn't expected Hachiman to ignore her holy light barrier.
All because Vignette accepted the feeding punishment, forcing her to accept it too. And during the feeding, he even saw her body. Now she was completely on the back foot!
"Ahem. I didn't mean anything. Marin, Nijika, good morning~"
Seeing Gabriel's strange expression, Hachiman thought his gaze had offended her. Just then, Miura Yumiko and the others walked into the classroom, and he quickly greeted them to divert attention.
"Hikigaya-kun, good morning. What were you all talking about? So lively this early?", The first to enter was Kitagawa Marin, who saw Hachiman, who'd been absent all day yesterday, surrounded by Gabriel and the others, laughing and chatting. She was curious.
Hikigaya really was impressive, he was barely ever in the classroom, yet still maintained such a good relationship with Gabriel and the others.
"Hachiman, why did you only call our names but not Yumiko's? Did you two have a fight?", Following Yumiko was Ijichi Nijika, who was more perceptive than Marin. She quickly noticed the omission in Hachiman's greeting.
Hachiman had a close relationship with Yuina and the others, and a vague one with Yumiko. After the train incident, she thought he was a good friend. Being close and using first names was fine.
But why greet everyone else and not Yumiko, whom he was closest to?
Did Yumiko really get jealous and fight with him?
After all, last time when Hachiman sent her and Ichinose Honami home, Yumiko kept calling him a pervert and told her to stay away from him.
But when asked what exactly made him a pervert, Yumiko just blushed and stammered. She felt Yumiko was jealous and didn't want her getting too close to Hachiman.
"We were just chatting casually. How could I fight with someone as nice as Miura?", Hachiman looked at the golden-haired trio of Ijichi Nijika and the others and smiled, shaking his head.
Gabriel was blonde, they were blonde, even among the gyaru trio, Minami was blonde, he really was surrounded by golden-haired beauties.
"As long as you didn't fight. If you run into trouble, feel free to ask me and Marin, we'll help you."
Seeing that Hachiman didn't badmouth Yumiko at all, Ijichi Nijika nodded inwardly, also hinting that he could count on them.
As expected, Hachiman had a great personality. Even if Yumiko threw a tantrum, he didn't take it seriously or show any dissatisfaction.
As Yumiko's good friend, she knew Yumiko had a bit of a bad temper and lacked common sense, but wasn't a bad person. She was just too proud to admit fault. With proper communication, she could be a wonderful friend.
That kind of Yumiko was a perfect match for the gentle and understanding Hachiman.
Looking at Gabriel next to Hachiman, Nijika silently apologized in her heart.
'Sorry, Gabriel. Even though you're just as gentle, cute, and understanding, a true little angel, and you and Hachiman are also a great match, maybe even better.'
'But Yumiko is our dear friend. Marin and I have to side with her and help her find happiness.'
"I said you misunderstood, Nijika. I don't have a good relationship with this guy. Isn't it good that he didn't call my name?", Miura Yumiko, hearing Nijika still insisting that she and Hachiman were just having a spat, snorted and got even more annoyed with Hachiman.
She didn't want Nijika misunderstanding, but after the train incident, Nijika's opinion of Hachiman skyrocketed. She didn't believe Yumiko and almost thought Yumiko was trying to slander Hachiman out of jealousy.
Seriously, did she need to slander this guy? If she hadn't been impulsively dragged into bullying Hachiman by Yuina and the others back then, she wouldn't have cared whether he lived or died.
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