I.W.B.A.L

　　"Ichika, you've been too close to that Miyamizu lately, haven't you? There's a strange rumor in the class that you like that Miyamizu guy, but he doesn't seem to be interested in you."

　　On the way to school, Nino's eyes fell on the eldest of her sisters, Nakano Ichika. Looking at the face that was similar to her own, she slowly looked forward and seemingly casually mentioned the rumors she had heard in class.

　　Nakano Ichika, who was looking at her phone, slowly raised her head after hearing Nino's words. There was not much dissatisfaction on her face. Instead, she looked at Nino with a smile.

　　"Eh~ There is such a rumor. So in the eyes of others, Kento and I are not a good match?"

　　"What?! So Ichika likes Miyamizu-san?"

　　Yotsuba came between Ichika and Nino in surprise, as if she had heard some explosive news. She couldn't help but look at Ichika with a look of surprise on her face.

　　The voice was a little louder, causing Miku to look over at the three people. As for May, she just took a glance and then silently withdrew her gaze. She didn't think that Ichika would really fall in love with a boy she had only known for less than a week.

　　The school has just started for such a short time, and we haven't really gotten to know each other yet. We haven't even memorized most of our classmates' names. How is it possible to fall in love with someone so easily?

　　"Hmm - do you like it or not? Although I really want to answer that I don't like it, I feel that Kento is still a little different from other boys. At least he has a calmness that other boys don't have, and the way he speaks is a bit like an uncle I know."

　　Tapping her cheek with her fingers, Ichika seemed to have considered it seriously, and under the curious gazes of the other sisters, she gave her answer with a smile.

　　"If the other party doesn't mind, I would like to try dating him/her, but it still depends on his/her attitude."

　　"real?"

　　Nino looked at Ichika in surprise, she didn't expect Ichika to give such an answer.

　　"Nino, don't you like handsome guys? Are you not interested in Miyamizu-kun? Or do you think Miyamizu-kun is not handsome enough?"

　　With a sly smile, Ichika's eyes fell on Nino and he gently poked Nino's waist twice with his fingers, causing Nino to distance herself from Ichika and look at her with dissatisfaction.

　　"Well, I really like handsome guys, but we just met, so we can't really be considered acquaintances. We're just classmates in the same class, and we don't even know each other well enough. I can't rashly confess to him. "

　　"Oh wow~ So Nino is thinking about confessing?"

　　Ichika covered her mouth with her hands and chuckled as she looked at Nino beside her. She was a little surprised that Nino seemed to be really interested in Kento.

　　"That's not the case. I just think it's too early to discuss these things now. Isn't there still that blond Sawamura-kun? I saw it. Last time when you were chatting happily with Miyamizu, that Sawamura-kun was watching you from the side. His eyes were a little scary."

　　"Sawamura-san?"

　　After hearing what Nino said, Ichika was a little surprised. At the same time, she also remembered the last time when Sawamura fainted, he was the first one to stand up and send Sawamura to the health room.

　　"Come to think of it, the first person to stand up was Miyamizu-san, right? He picked up Sawamura-san like a prince and rushed out of the classroom. He seemed to care about Sawamura-san a lot. Could it be that the person he actually likes is Sawamura-san?"

　　Yotsuba, who had been listening to the conversation between Ichika and Nino, suddenly spoke up and expressed her own conjecture, which made Nino look at Yotsuba, feeling that it made sense.

　　"I don't know if Miyamizu is interested in Sawamura-san, but that Sawamura is definitely interested in Miyamizu."

　　Her eyes fell on Ichika, Nino raised her arm and gently touched her long hair with her hand, and made her own judgment. She had no interest in competing with others for a man, let alone a man she did not like that much.

　　"Is Sawamura-san interested in Kento? That's really unexpected news, but after knowing it, I feel excited."

　　Looking at Ichika, Nino's expression was subtle. She did not expect that Ichika would have this reaction after knowing the news. She could not help but distance herself from Ichika again.

　　Instead, Yotsuba excitedly approached Ichika and asked her about Kento and her opinion of him...

　　After leaving Kiyoura's house and tidying up in his room, Kento went straight to school, a little later than usual. Unexpectedly, he ran into the five Nakano sisters who were going to school.

　　Originally, I wanted to go up and casually say hello to Ichika, but when I got closer, I heard Nino suddenly mention something about herself and Ichika to her.

　　While you were hesitating, you heard something that didn't seem good?

　　Slowly and lightly stepping down his steps, Kento quietly followed behind the five sisters, watching Ichika, Nino, and Yotsuba chatting about their own things, all the way into the campus.

　　"Um, Ichika?"

　　"Um?"

　　"Do you feel that the way other people look at us seems a little strange?"

　　After entering the campus, Nino felt that the gazes around her seemed to be a little strange, but she couldn't tell what was wrong.

　　The quintuplets would indeed attract the attention of people around them, but this time the gazes seemed different from usual. It seemed as if they were looking at the five sisters, but also as if they were looking behind them, especially at the girls they met on the road.

　　After hesitating for a moment, Nino looked behind her.

　　"...."

　　Looking at the boy walking behind her with a smile, Nino's confused expression froze on her face. She silently withdrew her gaze, lowered her head and walked forward without saying a word, but her pace became a little faster.

　　Ichika looked at Nino who was walking faster and faster, and couldn't help but look behind her.

　　".....Kento?"

　　She blushed a little, but she was not as ashamed as Nino. She was cheerful to begin with, so she was just a little surprised at the moment. Her shame disappeared in a brief moment. Instead, she slowed down her pace, walked to Kento's side, carried her bag in both hands and put it behind her back, looking at him with a smile.

　　"Could it be that he has been following us from the beginning and eavesdropping on our conversation?"

　　"I just happened to meet you, but I saw you sisters were having a great time chatting, so I didn't have the heart to disturb you."

　　"Where do I begin?"

　　"You like me, but I'm not interested in you."

　　"What actually happened?"

　　Ichika moved closer to Kento, their bodies touching, feeling the girl's body and the softness rubbing against his back. His eyes wandered for a moment, and he slowly gave his answer...

　　Image: "Sister Ichika", Location: "Images/1637765109-100277911-108006184.jpg"

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　　I'll write one more chapter before going to bed. I hope I won't dream about Okinawa tonight.

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Cherry Blossom Season: 70. Then there is only one truth, the culprit is

　　"When you have money, you can support me again."

　　After giving his answer with a chuckle to Yihua, Kento walked towards the teaching building. Yihua couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, then she chuckled and followed Kento's footsteps, walking towards the teaching building together.

　　After opening the shoe cabinet, Kento looked at his empty shoe cabinet. It had been three or four days since school started, and he had not received any confession letters. This was normal, but after being asked by Qingura Mai, Kento couldn't help but pay attention to this matter and vaguely doubted his own charm.

　　I thought about it carefully and it seemed that I received the love confession letter half a month after school started.

　　In today's society, even elementary school children have gained a certain understanding of love and desire under the influence of adults. Even if it is more of an ignorant curiosity, and they clumsily imitate the adults they see in TV dramas, they are basically familiar with them by the time they reach middle school.

　　Some guys with bad behavior in college will even specifically target those girls in middle school who are longing for adults and love and have not yet fully understood the world.

　　A prosperous city like Tokyo breeds all kinds of desires, and allows some boys and girls to prematurely come into contact with the world they have never been involved in, and gradually sink into those desires...

　　Even in a rural area like Itomori, Kento had heard rumors about girls from neighboring towns or even his own town dating adults and then being abandoned. In a place like Tokyo, the rumors would probably be even more numerous.

　　He had no interest in judging whether it was true or false, as it had nothing to do with him. But with rumors like that, even if they didn't exist, some of them would become true to some extent.

　　The right and wrong in middle school is no less than that in the general adult society, and is even more extreme and intense. When you reach high school, such a special stage is even more complicated. Even the more conservative girls in middle school will start to think about love at this time because of the people around them.

　　Kento could not understand why girls at this stage would feel ashamed of their virginity, nor did he understand why graduating from virginity could be equated with becoming an adult.

　　He casually took out the indoor shoes from the shoe cabinet, put them on the ground, took off his own shoes, put on the indoor shoes, and put his shoes back into the shoe cabinet. When he was about to enter the teaching building, he occasionally caught a glimpse of the girl bending over, the grace under her skirt, he glanced at it inadvertently, and walked towards the stairs silently.

　　As a teenager, he didn't have any special feelings about this trend. He thought it might not be very good, but he was more excited.

　　But now that he is mentally a complete adult, he just wants to criticize this bad habit.

　　Ask why.

　　He didn't want his daughter to turn out to be like this one day.

　　He walked into the classroom silently and looked at everyone who had arrived. He slowly came to his seat, sat down, and casually hung his schoolbag beside the desk. As soon as he took out the book and put it on the table, he suddenly remembered what happened yesterday.

　　Glancing at the people around him, Kento slowly moved his seat, pushed it back a little, and gradually turned his head to look at his desk.

　　A piece of folded pure white lace lay quietly in the table, which should have been empty.

　　"....."

　　He didn't expect that the other party would commit the same mistake repeatedly. He thought that once would be enough and that the other party might have walked into the wrong classroom or put the things on the wrong desk. However, he never expected that the other party would do it a second time in addition to the first time.

　　Pursing his lips, he sat up straight as if nothing had happened, slowly picked up the schoolbag beside him, and quickly put the things into the schoolbag just like yesterday, and then put the textbooks on the desk.

　　"It's noon now. Hey, Kento, shall we go to the cafeteria together?"

　　During the whole morning class, Kento seemed absent-minded. At noon, Ichika Nakano came to Kento and extended her invitation.

　　Seeing the close relationship between the two, many people in the class have already regarded Kento and Ichika as a couple. Some girls think that Ichika acted too quickly and was a little unethical, while the boys looked at Ichika, then at the other Nakano sisters, with complicated expressions.

　　"The cafeteria? That's fine."

　　Kento did not prepare any lunch today, so he would either have bread or eat in the cafeteria. After thinking for a while, he decided that healthy eating is better. Looking at Yoshii Akihisa who was "eyeing him hungrily" at the side, Kento waved his hand and agreed to Ichika's invitation.

　　"Are Nino and the others okay?"

　　"It's okay, it's okay, let's go together!"

　　Nakano Ichika smiled brightly, put her arm on Kento's shoulder, and pulled Kento directly out of the classroom door. Nino, Miku, Yotsuba, and Mayu, who were sitting in the classroom, looked at the two people walking out of the classroom with helpless expressions on their faces.

　　The helplessness was not towards Kento, but towards the eldest sister among her sisters - Nakano Ichika.

　　Originally, Nino thought that Ichika was just interested in Miyamizu, but with the current developments, it seems that it is not just an interest anymore.

　　Looking calmly towards Sawamura's seat, Nino was surprised to find that Sawamura had left the classroom at some point.

　　"Gone?"

　　Nino couldn't help but murmur softly.

　　"What?"

　　Yotsuba moved closer to Nino, and seemed to have heard Nino's whisper. She looked down at Nino with a face full of curiosity.

　　"No, it's nothing. Since Ichika has chosen to be with Miyamizu, the four of us should go to the cafeteria together."

　　"Can't we have six of us together?"

　　"…."

　　Since Ichika didn't choose to go with the four of them, it means that she wants to be alone with Miyamizu. I don't know if Yotsuba is...

　　Looking at Yotsuba with an innocent face, Nino thought for a moment and felt that maybe she really didn't understand.

　　He rubbed his forehead, then reached out and grabbed Yotsuba's shoulders, dragged her directly towards Miku and Mayu, and led the other two towards the cafeteria.

　　"Don't cause trouble for Ichika!"

　　Normally, the sisters do some pranks to each other, but today, when she asked Ichika about her attitude towards her, it didn't seem like she had no interest at all. Maybe she really had feelings for her. Nino would not let Yotsuba cause trouble for Ichika at this time!

　　When they arrived at the cafeteria, Kento ordered a pork chop bowl set meal, while Nakano Ichika, who was following him, chose a grilled meat set meal. The two chose a relatively quiet place in the cafeteria and sat down together.

　　After Kento sat down, he looked at Nakano Ichika who was sitting opposite him.

　　"Not with your sisters?"

　　After looking at the people lining up to order food, Kento chose to sit down not far from the two of them, his eyes vaguely looking towards him as the other Nakano sisters, and asked Ichika.

　　After putting down her plate, Ichika Nakano knew that her other sisters sat not far away from the two of them, but she didn't care.

　　"If I leave now, Kento will have to eat alone, right? If I accompany Kento like this now, can I give him some friendship discount when I support him in the future?"

　　Looking down at the golden fried pork chop in front of him, Kento nodded.

　　"If you share some of your barbecue with me, I might consider it."

　　"real?"

　　Looking at Ichika who was sitting opposite her, she picked up a piece of grilled meat with chopsticks, held it in her left hand and handed it to Kento, as if she was going to feed him, which made Kento stunned for a moment.

　　"Fake."

　　"What a pity."

　　Yihua didn't mind at all, and put the barbecue into her mouth with a happy expression on her face.

　　Even though there are some rumors now, it is not something worth worrying about for Kento. He and Nakano Ichika do not really have any relationship. But if he really bites the other party's chopsticks and eats the barbecue she feeds him, it will be really troublesome.

　　Looking down at his pork chop donburi, Kento always has a special liking for this legendary "police station special". Compared with other set meals, he always can't help but order this when he sees it.

　　Picking up the chopsticks, he picked up the fried pork chop and started eating quietly. His quiet and graceful eating movements fascinated the four sisters who had been sitting in the distance and watching them.

　　"Those two people didn't seem to be talking about anything, but was Ichika about to feed him just now?"

　　May blinked, picked up a meat bun and stuffed it into her mouth, then turned to look at Miku beside her.

　　Miku, who was eating quietly, did not answer, but Yotsuba beside her had a surprised expression on her face. In the morning, she just thought Ichika was joking with them, but now it seems that it is not just a joke.

　　Nino bit her chopsticks, looked at Kento who was eating, then silently cast her gaze on Ichika, clicked her tongue somewhat unwillingly, and silently started eating the lunch in front of her.