In the end, Nogami Izumi still couldn't come up with any conclusion.
But during this time, the hostile gazes that both Hinata Sae and Sanada Minako cast at her made her feel very pleased.
Before, they had looked down on her with considerable contempt.
Now, however, they were looking at her again, seeing her as a formidable opponent... and seemingly quite wary.
"Scum will always be scum."
Nogami Izumi murmured a curse, "They're just lower animals. With a slight move from an upper animal like me, they can only end up defeated."
Oh, foolish women, hate me, fear me, detest me, and then... lose by my hand.
Then it was lunchtime.
After two classes of deep thought, Nogami Izumi decided to take the initiative.
She went to F Class of the second year, which was Hayato's class.
Through the classroom door, she could see the main character sitting at his desk, eating his bento. It must be said that Hayato's appearance was quite striking throughout Shiraki, and if he was only in F Class, he would stand out even more...
Or perhaps it was because flowers still needed green leaves to set them off.
The two people beside him were quite ordinary.
Nogami Izumi had investigated Hayato before and knew the composition of his friends. The Mr. Hayashi's name was Anshi Seiji... Hinata Sae's description of him was simple but not simple: he was an idiot.
As for the other one, she didn't know him well.
But from Anshi Seiji's loud voice, he seemed to call him "Yamamoto"...
"Brother Kobayashi, aren't you going to accompany your sister-in-law today?" Yamamoto asked.
"She's busy," Hayato said quietly.
"Then what about the other sister-in-law?" Yamamoto asked again.
"..."
"Sorry, I didn't say anything." Yamamoto chuckled awkwardly: "Busy, all busy, busy is good... Speaking of which, Anshi, what are you doing?"
Anshi Seiji's fingers were tapping on the virtual keyboard of his phone, looking very busy.
He smiled proudly: "Of course, I'm chatting with my wife."
"What!"
Yamamoto's shock was no less than learning of a small boy falling from the sky. His face began to contort. How, how could this guy have a wife?
Although Hayato seemed calm, he actually dropped a piece of chicken with his chopsticks. He looked back at Anshi's phone screen, thinking which female ghost could have taken this demon, and then...
"You chat with your wife in a group chat, right?"
"That's right." Anshi Seiji lifted his chin: "Everyone in the group is my wife."
"They're all guys, right?" Hayato said, watching the rapidly scrolling lewd images in the group chat.
"Impossible," Anshi Seiji said, listing them off, "For example, this group member, he talks very manly, so he's a tomboy wife. This one talks more effeminately, so she's a delicate beautiful girl wife. This one making dirty jokes is an erotic-attribute wife, and this one who stubbornly refuses to admit she's a beautiful girl is a tsundere wife…"
What an idiot.
Nogami Izumi thought to herself.
"This one cursing me is a short-tempered wife," Anshi Seiji added.
Hayato silently looked at the rapidly scrolling phone screen again.
Then he smiled gently at Anshi Seiji, "Consent to pulling the plug…"
Nogami Izumi was eager, but after thinking it over, she primly pulled back a male classmate who was about to walk inside.
"Um… could you please call Senior Kobayashi for me?"
She knew this male classmate; he was another one of Hayato's good buddies, named Aiya Hiroshi…
Aiya Hiroshi recognized Nogami Izumi at a glance: "…You…"
"Senior Kobayashi helped me just now, so I wanted to thank him," Nogami Izumi acted shy.
"…Mm," Aiya Hiroshi nodded.
At the same time, he silently recited in his heart:
Yayoi-nee, don't blame me. It's not that I, your brother, am disloyal… I'm just a messenger. Everything depends on Senior Kobayashi's performance, Yayoi-nee, don't blame me…
He strode into the classroom, quickly slipping next to Hayato: "Senior Kobayashi, someone's looking for you… it's that junior girl you saved earlier."
Hayato wasn't surprised, as if he had expected this scene. He just nodded and said:
"Mm, let's eat first."
"…She's right at the door," Aiya Hiroshi said.
"I know, let's eat first," Hayato said.
"Aren't you going to see her?" Aiya Hiroshi asked.
Hayato glanced at Aiya Hiroshi: "If I don't eat now and starve to death next time, I won't give you money for food."
Aiya Hiroshi: ...
Better eat quickly…
When Senior Kobayashi said that, he always felt like his breakfast was in jeopardy again. What was going on?
"Wow, Senior Kobayashi is really popular. Another beautiful girl has her eyes on him…" Yamamoto whispered to Anshi Seiji. He had just caught a glimpse of Nogami Izumi at the door and then sighed: "I'm so envious, Anshi. When do you think we'll find partners?"
Anshi Seiji scoffed, "I have a wife."
Yamamoto Sakito: ...
…
Nogami Izumi waited…
After about twenty minutes, when she was so angry she wanted to stomp off, Hayato finally emerged from the classroom, leisurely.
With a lazy and weary look in his eyes, he leaned his tall frame against the doorframe, looking at Nogami Izumi with a calm and indifferent gaze:
"Something wrong?"
"...Why did you help me?" Nogami Izumi squeezed these words through clenched teeth: "What exactly are you planning?"
"If there's nothing, I'm leaving." Hayato repeated, sighing as if extremely impatient, and even rubbed the back of his head: "So annoying…"
"You explain yourself clearly—"
Nogami Izumi, however, reached out her fingertips and grabbed the boy's shirt hem: "What do you want?"
"Tsk, I helped, so I helped. There's no 'why'," Hayato clicked his tongue. He seemed to have thought of something and emphasized again: "But don't misunderstand, I don't have any interest in you… Don't get carried away with self-delusion. I told you before, I don't like girls like you."
"Why!?" Nogami Izumi asked subconsciously.
Only after asking did she feel startled by herself… Of course, she didn't need Hayato's affection; in fact, she now wished the latter would just die.
However, after asking, she was quite curious about the answer.
"You're a wicked girl," Hayato said with a smile: "Don't think I don't know, your reputation, Nogami Izumi, is quite well-known among the first-years, it's just that none of it is good… "
Nogami Izumi narrowed her eyes, glaring at him, and sneered:
"Is that so? Then you wouldn't be unaware that I, Hinata Sae, and Sanada Minako are a group, would you?"
"How could I not know," Hayato said: "I knew from the very beginning."
Nogami Izumi froze, then narrowed her eyes as if sensing danger: "You really approached them with some kind of agenda from the start…!"
"Yes," Hayato said.
His candor left Nogami Izumi somewhat flustered.
"Aren't you afraid I'll tell Sae or Menako?" Nogami Izumi asked.
"Who do you think they'll believe now, you or me?" Hayato retorted.
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