"Hinata, are you not going to Archery Club with Saya today?"
"You two are usually like conjoined twins, why are you separated today?"
After getting "leave" from Saya, Hinata walked out of the school gate with her non-club-member (homebound) classmates. Outside the gate, Hinata pretended to search for Rin Ito's figure.
She quickly spotted Rin Ito waiting for her at their agreed-upon spot.
"Rin-Senior~~~~"
Before she even got close, Hinata raised her hand from afar to greet Rin Ito. Seeing her wave, Rin Ito raised his hand in response.
The classmates next to Hinata immediately lit up. Drama!
"Rin-Senior? Who's that? Come on, tell us, tell us! He looks so handsome."
"Are you two dating?"
"Heh heh... No wonder you took leave from the Archery Club, so you have a boyfriend now."
"I thought you and Saya would eventually fall for the same person."
The girls clustered around Hinata, chattering away. Listening to their slightly envious tone, Hinata felt a strange sense of superiority, and her lips curled upward involuntarily.
"Rin-Senior is just Rin-Senior... He graduated from here, and we met when he came back to visit his teachers a while ago... He's a very dependable senior."
"Oh... I'm so jealous."
"Come on, have you two kissed? Or, have you already done it?"
One girl smirked, making an obscene gesture: curling one hand into a fist and poking it with the index finger of the other hand.
"O-Of course not! W-W-W-What are you saying!" Hinata nervously pressed down on the classmate making the vulgar gesture. "That sort of thing... we'll wait until after graduation."
"Heh heh... I've done it with my boyfriend, you know."
"Really? What did it feel like?"
"Mmm... It didn't feel like much. He's tall and on the basketball team, but his dick (○-sized) was surprisingly small. It wasn't exciting."
The topic quickly spiraled out of control, and Hinata quickly pulled it back.
"What are you saying in public!"
"Heh heh, Hinata is shy~"
Just as Hinata was walking toward Rin Ito, surrounded by her classmates, a small figure with orange hair suddenly rushed past Hinata and grabbed Rin Ito's arm. She then energetically declared to Hinata's classmates:
"This is the boyfriend I told you about, the one with the massive dick!"
"....?" Hinata's expression froze, and her classmates turned their confused gazes towards her. Hinata herself was completely bewildered.
W-W-W-What is going on!? Rin-Senior isn't Kaede's boyfriend? Who is this orange-haired girl!?
"Pfft...." Kaede, who was observing discreetly with Suzu nearby, muffled a laugh. Who else constantly talks about dicks? Of course, it was Megumi Jinno.
Rin Ito and Kaede had forgotten one thing yesterday: Megumi Jinno also attended their school, just a different grade.
It was understandable they forgot; Rin Ito had only briefly pretended to be Megumi's boyfriend to interact with Maki and Ami and scare them away from toxic online friends. The matter had long passed, and both Rin Ito and Kaede had forgotten. However, in the eyes of Ami and Maki, Rin Ito was still Megumi Jinno's boyfriend.
Megumi frequently boasted to her classmates about having a boyfriend with a massive dick. When the three girls (Megumi, Ami, and Maki) were walking home with other classmates, Maki said, "Isn't that your boyfriend?" upon seeing Rin Ito.
And then, kaboom.
Megumi had no choice but to run over and claim him.
Rin Ito's gaze darted between Megumi and Hinata... How the hell am I supposed to handle this!?
Rin Ito was completely flustered. If it were just Megumi and Hinata, it would be fine, but both Megumi and Hinata had their classmates present. For a moment, even Rin Ito's brain crashed.
Soon, Megumi's classmates noticed Hinata talking with Hinata's classmates nearby.
"Megumi! That senior said your boyfriend is cheating on you! Don't worry, Megumi, we'll help you!"
"Hinata, what's going on over there? Did your boyfriend cheat on you with another underclassman from the same school? Don't worry, Hinata, we'll help you too!"
Both sides' support groups were ignited. Megumi and Hinata exchanged glances. Although they didn't know each other, they instantly understood what was happening in that moment of eye contact.
"Big brother, who is that senior?"
"Rin-Senior! Who is she? Do you like that flat-chested short girl?"
Though they understood each other, there was no way they could back down in front of so many classmates. Meanwhile, Rin Ito's legitimate girlfriend was hiding in the crowd, stifling a laugh. Kaede was immensely grateful that she had never openly flaunted Rin Ito to her classmates; otherwise, she would be publicly humiliated today too.
"Big brother, which one of us is your girlfriend?"
"Rin-Senior, which one of us is your girlfriend?"
Megumi and Hinata spoke in unison.
Looking at the two girls—who were clashing, at least on the surface—Rin Ito felt a retort rising in his throat... He had never encountered a situation like this before! And choosing either of them would be bad. If he could, Rin Ito truly wanted to just pick Kaede.
But... Rin Ito carefully glanced at Kaede in the crowd. After receiving her threatening look, Rin Ito took a deep breath.
"Stop fighting, both of you."
Both groups, as well as the surrounding onlookers, fixed their gazes on Rin Ito. His choice was:
"I love both of you equally! I want them all!"
In this situation, choosing one would inevitably lead to public scorn for the other. There was nothing for it; Rin Ito could only sacrifice his reputation with a scumbag declaration to protect their images. He had already graduated, after all.
Hearing Rin Ito's declaration, both Hinata and Megumi breathed a sigh of relief. They then seized the opportunity to follow through.
"Big brother, you can't be promiscuous! Hmph! I'll prove I'm better than that cow!" Megumi crossed her arms over her chest and challenged Hinata with her chin up.
Hinata, in turn, straightened her waist, aiming her massive chest—far superior to Megumi's—directly at Megumi.
"A little girl with no chest and no ass... Heh heh, you want to compete with me? Dream on!"
"Hmph!"
"Hmph!"
The two girls simultaneously snorted and turned to leave, and Rin Ito quickly bolted as well.
Rin Ito, Megumi, and Hinata all wanted to defuse the situation, but someone, in particular, loved watching a good spectacle.
In the Girls' Archery Club dojo, Saya was instructing a junior's shooting posture when she heard hurried footsteps. Turning her head, Saya saw the person was Kaede.
"Kaede? What's wrong?"
"It's terrible! Saya, listen to me..." Kaede gasped a few times, feigning urgency. "You know what? Hinata almost got into a fight with someone else at the school gate over a man!"
Hinata almost got into a fight over a man!? Did she take leave today just to fight over a man!?
????
When Saya's brain threw up question marks, it wasn't because there was something wrong with her, but because she felt there was something wrong with Hinata! And it was a huge problem!