During the lunch break, four of us, me, Uehara-san, Chihiro, and Aizawa-san each brought our own lunch boxes and gathered around my desk.

Recently, the four of us have been getting together and eating lunch together more often.

Still…… until recently the only person I had lunch with was Chihiro, and I’ve changed a lot.

Incidentally, Chihiro noticed that I had cut my hair, but nothing was said to the others.

——It’s not like I’ve changed dramatically.

Incidentally, Uehara-san frequently invites Takai to have lunch with her, but she always refuses.

We are impressed by Uehara-san’s enthusiasm in continuing to invite Takai to lunch even when she is turned down.

「Tōyama, are you free today after school? Why don’t we all go to karaoke together?」

Uehara-san suddenly suggested that we go to karaoke.

She acts normally toward me as if we had never kissed when we parted the other day when I and Uehara-san went to see a movie.

「Aye! I’ll go, I’ll go! I haven’t been to karaoke lately, I need to go!」

Aizawa-san was the first to respond.

「We used to go together a lot, but lately everyone all fallen apart.」

Uehara-san said that the upper caste members who used to go to karaoke often have fallen apart since the group chat incident.

It seems that Kurashima and Taniguchi were suspended for slander, and it is significant that students other than Uehara-san and Aizawa-san were also left out.

Kurashima, but what was happening now was that he seemed to have taken in a student from another middle caste and made him the new center of the group.

Kurashima has that kind of personality, but for some reason he has charisma, and people seem to gather around him.

「What about you, Okita-kun?」

Uehara-san asked Chihiro.

「Are you going, Yuki? If that’s the case, I think I’ll go… I, I haven’t been to karaoke very often…」

Chihiro seemed to leave the decision to me, and he gazed into my face.

At first glance, Chihiro appears to be a boyish girl. I felt somewhat embarrassed as I stared at his cute face, which I didn’t think was that of a boy.

「Why are you guys staring at each other and embarrassed!? Tōyama is so unconcerned when I cross my arms and stuff!」

I’m not embarrassed when it’s Uehara-san, so why do I get nervous when it’s Chihiro……?

Is it like a gap moe thing?

「If Chihiro says so, I’ll go too.」

Chihiro’s pleading eyes got the better of me and I decided to go to karaoke, too.

「Marika, Okita beat you to it~ Nice, nice!」

Aizawa-san is patting Uehara-san’s head and comforting her.

「Tōyama is so boring! You choose Okita-kun over me. Hmph.」

Uehara-san sulked and turned away.

「Ah— Tōyama has made Marika angry.」

By all accounts, Uehara-san is not angry. Aizawa-san, please don’t be amused and agitated.

「You see, Chihiro is not used to karaoke, and I thought it would be better if we went together.」

「You’re making excuses! A man decides what he wants to say!」

Aizawa-san is moderately demanding.

「Okay! I’m going to karaoke! Shall we go together, Uehara-san?」

「Great! Then, I’ll go ask Takai-san to join us.」

With that, Uehara-san went to Takai, who was quietly reading a book alone as usual.

Still, it was unexpected that Uehara-san would ask Takai out. She… won’t be going to.

I can’t imagine Takai singing karaoke.

「Takai-san said she’s going.」

——Ehh!?

When Uehara-san returned from Takai, she had some unexpected words to say.

…I never thought Takai would go to karaoke with us… What kind of change of heart is this?

But since Aizawa-san was there, I hoped that we would take this opportunity to get to know each other and broaden our friendships.

After school, the five of us, including Takai, are walking toward the front of the station.

If I think about it, I and Chihiro are the only two men in the group. He looks like a girl at first glance, but now he is wearing a boy’s blazer so he doesn’t look like a boy, but from the side it might look like one plain boy walking with four girls.

Takai’s true face is beautiful but sober now, in sharp contrast to Uehara-san, Aizawa-san, and Chihiro. It’s like a yin and yang.

「Takai, what’s wrong with you today? That’s unusual, isn’t it?」

I wanted to know what kind of change of heart had occurred to Takai, who has been more alone than I have.

「It’s nothing. Uehara-san was biting back, and it was too much trouble, so I had no choice.」

「Haha, I’ll just leave it at that.」

After that, Takai said nothing.

It is probably true that Uehara-san was biting back, but that is why she usually gets hassle and refuses to do so. But Uehara-san was able to slip into Takai’s mind like a master and elicit a response from her.

It is clear that Uehara-san genuinely wants to be friends with Takai without gain or loss.

So perhaps Takai is beginning to see that Uehara-san has no ill intentions and is slowly opening up to her.

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