Love Comes After Learning

"I...as long as Shinichi likes me and wants to be with me, everything else can be tolerated."

Putting her bangs in front of her eyes, Sanjiu lowered her head slightly, and said softly, "Obviously I think so, obviously no matter how many people he likes, it has nothing to do with me... What is it? This dark feeling in my heart."

Between the strands of hair, the faint blue pupils gradually lost their light, and the originally expressionless face became even more gloomy.

"Even if it's me, I can't support you in this matter, Asada-kun."

Wu Yue frowned tightly, her lips pursed into a line, and her face bulged into an angry bun.

"It's not incomprehensible that even Teacher Tongxu wants to take action, but this is too contrary to common sense and has no moral and ethical concepts! It's a shameless beast!"

Seeing the dangerous atmosphere gradually spreading, Yotsuba quickly jumped out to ease the atmosphere, lest they get more and more angry and turn around to settle accounts with someone on the spot.

"Everyone, don't be angry, be optimistic, and look at it from another angle!"

Although there is also subtle anger ignited in her heart, Nakano Yotsuba understands that what she has to do now is not to vent her anger with the enemy, but to let them and Wenli settle their suspicions.

"You think, if Asada-san likes everyone, there's no need for us to be rivals in love, right?"

"It's like the referee, regardless of the game process, insists on judging the two teams to advance at the same time because they don't want to see anyone lose. No matter how much they compete with each other, it's just a waste of effort. The super capricious referee has already decided the result of the game. "

"So, well, the conclusion is simple—"

"Because Asada-san is such a scumbag, there is no need for us to become rivals in love!"

Seeing Yotsuba racking her brains, trying to organize her words, and trying to persuade them, Nino and Fumino couldn't help but look at each other.

That's right, obviously the result is determined by him, but the few of them here regard each other as rivals in love, arbitrarily arguing and confronting each other, fighting each other...

I always feel kind of stupid.

"……puff!"

Guqiao Wennai suddenly burst out laughing.

As if she had let go of all the burdens, awkwardness and discomfort, she smiled very naturally, and said to Nakano Nino:

"Actually, I've been thinking about this since I got off the Ferris wheel."

"It's one thing to like him, but it always feels a little worthless to affect my interpersonal relationship for him."

"So, I want to apologize to you first, Nino."

Wen Nai suddenly stopped and bowed his head slightly towards her.

"The things I said at noon were just to scare you."

"I just said that on purpose because I hated you kissing him in front of us and wanted to protest that bastard a little bit."

"I know that Asada-kun will never leave the five of you. I also know that rather than quarreling with each other, he hopes that we all get along in harmony, just like working in the student council room, so he won't be tempted by us at all. threaten……"

"I'm sorry, saying that kind of thing made you worry all afternoon, and this autumn outing was wasted."

Fumino Guqiao scratched his cheek in embarrassment.

"In retrospect, what I said back then was really childish, it was too impulsive, haha..."

She raised her head with a dry smile, only to find that Nino also bent down hard towards her.

"I'm the one who said I'm sorry!"

"Since that day, I've actually wanted to say it... I don't use any means for the sake of love, and I still feel very normal when I do it right now, it's a matter of course.

But I had a cold war with you, even if I met in the corridor, I avoided my eyes as if I didn't know each other, I couldn't chat as usual, I couldn't drink tea together in the student union room, and even when you told me to break up with you ..."

The fist at the side was clenched again, this time, it was clenched because of regret and awakened feelings.

"I just found out that I actually regret it. I regret stimulating you in that way, and I also regret ignoring my friend's feelings for a jerk."

Nino lowered her head and said, her voice seemed to tremble with the ups and downs of her tone.

"I, I'm really an idiot..."

She laughed at herself and slowly straightened up.

"I keep saying that love comes first, and I have to go forward bravely for my own happiness—but I don't even look at who I like."

"I'm the same as you, I like that [I like you, and I like everyone] super playboy!"

"Arguing because of this kind of bastard, and talking about turning against each other, turning friends into rivals... Don't you think this is the stupidest thing this year?"

Nakano Nino took a deep breath, adjusted her expression, said with a smile on the corner of her mouth, and said in a serious tone.

"So Wen Nai, if you don't mind, can you continue to be my friend? I will teach you how to barbecue."

The first confrontation seems to be at the lunch roast at the school in the woods.

Guqiao Wennai was stunned for half a second, then pursed his lips, nodded vigorously, and then showed the most cheerful smile today.

"In that case, I, who is in the top [-] of the grade, will teach you to study? It will definitely improve your grades rapidly!"

Once in the Cherry Blossom Pavilion, the quintuplets strongly intervened in his teaching with them.

Recalling the various experiences after they met, Er Nai and Wen Nai looked at each other and couldn't help but smile even brighter.

The confrontational atmosphere during the noon call and the tense atmosphere when they met just now no longer exist. At this moment, there is only a re-germinated friendship that fills the gap between the two.

Wu Yue watched this scene, and couldn't help showing a satisfied smile.

"...That's about it."

"What's the same?" Clover looked puzzled.

"It refers to the emotional dispute between us and Asada-kun." Wuyue thought for a while, and suddenly waved to the others to get them closer.

Then he turned his head again, and said to someone who kept a certain distance and followed behind them:

"Asada-kun, walk slowly!"

"??"

Shinichi Asada had a question mark on his face, but he still slowed down as he said, watching them walk forward and gather together furtively, putting on a strange appearance of whispering in public.

"First of all, we have to agree on one thing...cough!"

As the host of this "meeting", Nakano Wuyue clenched his palms into fists and placed them in front of his chin as a microphone.

She cleared her throat first, then said in a deep voice:

"Everyone here, do you have romantic feelings for Asada-kun?"

Yihua, Miku, Yotsuba, and Rizu nodded without hesitation, Fumino and Nino looked at each other, and shrugged their shoulders helplessly.

"Then..." Before she finished speaking, Sanjiu's calm and gentle voice sounded from the side, interrupting her.

"Mayue, have you finally admitted it? You, too, have feelings for Shinichi..."

Wu Yue's expression froze, her fair and pretty face blushed faintly, she quickly shook her head in denial.

"It doesn't matter what I say! Anyway, we are quintuplets. If the four of you don't want to leave him, I will sooner or later... Ahh, it's nothing, don't worry about it!"

As if it was too embarrassing to continue talking, Wuyue tried to forcefully cut off the topic; but judging from the sighing and teasing expressions of the others, it is estimated that they have already reached a "consensus" on this.

"All in all, everyone likes Asada-kun, and Asada-kun also said that he likes everyone, even more people... In this case, let me use Yotsuba as an analogy, just like running in a track and field competition. It will soon be declared No.1 by the referee, either continue to run, or leave the track directly."

"It's no longer a question of who is going to be the winner, but a question of who is willing to stay and accept that everyone is the winner."

"So, I'll check again - is there anyone who is disappointed with this game, with this referee, and wants to leave?"

The voice fell solemnly, and Wu Yue looked around the crowd seriously, but was surprised to find that they just shook their heads helplessly, without showing any signs of wavering or hesitation.

Sanjiu raised her eyes and looked at the orange-tinged sky in the distance. The corners of her mouth were slightly curved, showing a soft and firm arc.

"After all, I already knew that he was this kind of person... And earlier than that, I fell in love with him deeply and didn't want to be separated from him."

She lowered her head and met Wuyue's eyes.

"Mayue, what about you? If you don't want to leave Shinichi, you should be able to understand our thoughts, right?"

"me?"

This time, May did not choose to escape.

She pursed her lips and thought about it for a while, then she smiled the same as everyone else.

"Yeah, I know it all. He is a sentimental, gentle, indecisive bastard who doesn't want to hurt others."

"Why hasn't my admiration for Asada-kun diminished at all?"

Asking herself like this, Wuyue gently closed her eyes and whispered.

"Of course I will be disappointed, and I really hope that he can be more dedicated and make a serious choice... But now, I don't even feel surprised that he will make such a whimsical choice."

"It can't be helped, he is this kind of person. I, who always look at his back, must know better than anyone else what he is working hard for."

"Better than anyone else, he understands what he values ​​and why he refuses to give up."

"In this case, I might as well think about how to share some of the pressure for him, so that he doesn't always put on a frowning expression in the student council room-now, this is probably the idea?"

After finishing speaking, May herself felt it was funny, and looked at the others helplessly.

"I might regret it in the future, but right now, I just want to stay by his side."

There were chuckles all around, and the sense of identity connected the seven girls at this moment.

"We're all the same."

Nakano May said so.

"So, let's unite... As Shuzhiin Academy No.60 [-]th Student Council, we are also the girls who love him and are liked by him."

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"..."

From a distance away, Asada Shinichi, who never looked away but still couldn't read what they were discussing, suddenly trembled from the soles of his feet to the top of his head, and a bad premonition came to his heart.

"What's going on? Is it because of them? Could it be that they are discussing how to cut off my troubles and want to get rid of my troubles forever?"

Asada was anxious, vigilant, and various thoughts kept popping up, but even if everyone arrived at the meeting place and lined up to get on the bus separately according to class, no one was willing to solve his doubts, and he was perfunctory when he asked.

The only thing that can make him feel at ease is probably the atmosphere between Wen Li and the quintuplets.

It seems that they have opened up their hearts, and their relationship is much more harmonious than usual. Except that they don't seem to want to talk to him very much, everything is moving forward.

In the midst of this development that made Asada quite inexplicable, the sky completely darkened, and the bus drove for a while and stopped in front of a large hot spring club