186 "Princess" (1/2)

Hoshi finished speaking to the other students.

Seiji was also finally able to face reality.

”Senpai...”

”Let’s go outside the classroom to speak.”

The stares from the other students were still a bit painful to bear.

”Senpai... you seem rather fatigued; have you been having a difficult time recently?” Hoshi seemed concerned for Seiji as they walked into the hallway.

‘Yes, I’m having a difficult time. All my fatigue is because of you, damn it!‘

”It’s okay... some stuff happened, but it’s already taken care of.” Seiji sighed.

”Was it about Kagura-san?” Hoshi blinked in seeming realization.

Seiji nodded.

”I knew it! I figured that Senpai must have been working behind the scenes for Kagura-san’s sake!” Hoshi clenched his fist as his eyes began sparkling. ”And now, Senpai’s dealt with every problem and saved Kagura-san! Right?”

”Saved... I suppose.” Seiji awkwardly averted his gaze. ”But I didn’t take care of every problem. I could only deal with some of them.”

”Senpai, you’re being humble again.”

”Not at all; I’m just telling you the truth... Eh? I feel like I’ve said something like this before.” Seiji fixed his gaze on his junior. ”Don’t overestimate me. There are things I can’t accomplish either, so please remember that.”

Hoshi didn’t reply and merely looked at him with a bright smile and stars in his eyes.

There was nothing vicious whatsoever about Hoshi’s expression.

'Why can I still feel a chill, then?' Seiji's eyebrows shot up.

He wanted to say something else, but before he could speak, Hoshi began talking again.

”How’s Kagura-san doing now? She hasn’t been coming to school ever since that day, so I was a little worried, but when Senpai stopped coming to school as well, I guessed that she must have been together with you...”

”Yeah. She and I... got involved in some things that are hard to talk about.” Seiji scratched his face. ”Now... she’s become my adopted sister... we’re going to live together.”

Hoshi was rendered speechless.

”Wha-?” Two seconds later, he finally realized what he had heard and made a sound of astonishment.

Ever since that phone call that day, Hoshi had been imagining how the situation would be resolved.

But this result was far beyond his imagination!

”Adopted... sister? Live together!?” The handsome boy (in female clothing) was utterly stunned.

Seiji nodded in embarrassment.

”Even though I wanted to wait for you guys to finish talking, I’m no longer able to just stand by after hearing this,” a voice said from beside them.

It was Chiaki.

Chiaki and Mika had been waiting on the side, but she couldn’t help interrupting at this point in the conversation.

The tomboy flashed a dark smile.

‘Even Chiaki is acting like this... this is too much!’ Seiji felt helpless about the situation.

He didn’t want to deal with this right now.

'I'll use the decoy substitution technique!'

”I already told everything to Mika, so just listen to her explanation. I’m going to go help out in the classroom now!”

After giving them a decoy, he instantly fled.

”Senpai!”

”Seigo!”

Seiji merely responded to the shouting behind him by waving his hand.

...

Under the direction of the class representative Koji Hoshihara, Seiji put on a cosplay uniform. The role assigned to him in the café was a waiter.

This cosplay uniform was a butler-style humanoid fantasy creature. Seiji didn’t know where his class had borrowed it from, but the uniform’s quality was quite high. Thanks to his excellent figure and appearance, it looked really cool on him. It was almost as if he were a handsome guy who had jumped out of a female-oriented fantasy manga.

There was also a hood attached to the cosplay uniform as well, but all the girls present strongly insisted that he couldn't wear it after they saw his appearance in this outfit.

That turned out to be a wise decision.

As the poster boy for their classroom to attract customers with, he was surrounded before long!

All the visiting students and guests took pictures of him nonstop with their cell phones and continually requested him to take various poses or capture selfies together with them.

Of course, most of them felt obligated to visit the class’s confectionery store after having taken pictures, which was why Year 1 Class 5’s confectionery store was filled to the brim with a huge line of customers waiting outside!

All the waiters were overwhelmed by the work.

That’s when Seiji shouted loudly: ”Get out of the way; let the professional do this!”

...Okay, that was made up.