When they arrived at the restaurant, Machida Sonoko hadn't arrived yet. She still had a bit of work to finish and would only be able to make it in half an hour.
However, it wasn't quite dinner ti yet, so they weren't in a hurry and chatted while drinking tea in the private room.
Hearing Eriri ntion her juniors, she surprisingly said, "Wait, those two Chuunibyou juniors you ntioned—I rember you saying before that they weren't in the sa grade, right? How did they both manage to get into Toyosaki now?"
"Uh... huh? Oh, right!"
Eriri froze for a mont before realizing it, then looked at Kaede. "Kaede-kun, why didn't you ntion it?"
"I didn't pay attention either. Who cares about that?" Kaede shrugged and said, "Dekomori Sanae probably had good grades and skipped a year. They have such a close relationship that if one was in middle school and the other in high school, Dekomori Sanae probably wouldn't have liked it, so she just skipped a grade? Anyway, skipping grades isn't uncommon these days. For a Chuunibyou like her, whether the people around her are a year older or not isn't important to her."
To be honest, if Utaha hadn't brought it up, Kaede really wouldn't have thought of it. After all, the last ti he saw those two girls was last year, and it wasn't until school started today that he realized they had both gotten into Toyosaki.
Taking a sip of tea, Kaede sighed with emotion, "It's a good thing there are only these few. If Honoka and the others hadn't gone to Otonokizaka and ca to Toyosaki instead, it would truly be a chaotic spectacle."
Eriri nodded in agreent. "Exactly! During lunch and break ti, Mizuki and I went for a walk and noticed that the quality of the female freshn this year is even higher than when we entered last year. Since it's already like this, if Honoka and the others joined, the boys would absolutely go crazy."
To be fair, that was true. Honoka, Umi, and Kotori represented three different types of beautiful girls. If they were all gathered together, no adolescent boy wouldn't pay attention to them.
Kaede himself?
They had known each other for so long that if he were going to be aroused, he would have been already. They were sisters, all sisters.
"Sigh... Let's not talk about those two. Every ti I run into them, they give a headache." Sighing, Eriri waved at Utaha, took out her phone, and said with a smile, "Hehe, let show you the new person our Art Club recruited. She's really cute, has blonde hair just like , and her na is Colette!"
Then, Utaha saw a photo of Eriri and Colette together on Eriri's phone.
"Mm~~~ She is indeed very cute."
Utaha leaned closer to the phone and nodded, saying, "She shouldn't be half-Japanese, right?"
"That's right, she's not mixed, but she's been in Japan for six or seven years, so there are absolutely no issues with the language, and she loves drawing!" Eriri said with a smile. "From now on, besides drawing manga during club activities, I have another thing I can do, which is ntoring Colette. Ah~~~ I feel like it will be very rewarding!"
Watching Eriri start to fantasize, Utaha shook her head helplessly. "You really are... sothing. Asakura-kun, aren't you going to rein her in?"
"Isn't this a good thing?"
Kaede scrolled through his phone indifferently and said, "Colette is indeed a very interesting junior. She's lively, and her joining the Art Club hasn't made anyone feel uncomfortable. Eriri has developed a lot of interest in being a Senpai now, and I won't stop her, as long as it doesn't interfere with her regular work and studies."
"Mm~~~ So that's how it is."
Nodding, Utaha looked at Eriri and said, "So, would you say this counts as a hidden sister complex trait?"
"Of course not!" Eriri retorted without hesitation. "I'm an all-complex!"
"...I almost forgot. Your scope of interest is much wider than mine."
After chatting for a while longer and Utaha and Eriri finalizing the date for the illustrations, Machida Sonoko finally arrived.
"Sorry, sorry for being late!" As soon as she entered the private room, Machida Sonoko apologized. "I had a lot of things to deal with, but I rushed over as soon as I finished."
"It's fine. There's absolutely no rush on ti."
Kaede smiled as he poured Machida Sonoko a cup of tea and asked, "You didn't speed, did you?"
"Don't worry, I'm an old hand. I know exactly how much to press the accelerator." Taking the teacup and drinking a large gulp, Machida Sonoko gave everyone a thumbs up. "Alright, have you guys ordered yet? If not, let's call the waiter over. I've been busy all day and I'm starving."
After calling the waiter and ordering a bunch of food, Machida Sonoko didn't order alcohol and drank cola just like everyone else.
As the dishes arrived one by one, Machida Sonoko quickly ate a few bites, which seed to relieve her hunger quite a bit. Her eating speed slowed down, and she started chatting with everyone.
Biting into a piece of tempura and nodding in satisfaction, Machida Sonoko asked, "How was your first day of school? The freshn must have been quite lively, right?"
"It was alright, about the sa as when we entered last year."
Eriri picked out the shredded carrots in her bowl and said, "It's just that I feel like this batch of freshn is even more gossipy than last year's. It's only been one morning, and the news about Kaede-kun and I being engaged has already spread everywhere. Everyone knows."
"Ah~~~ Is that so?"
Machida Sonoko sounded sowhat surprised yet unsurprised. "After all, you're both wearing matching rings. It's normal for people to see them, get curious, and then gather information. But Eriri, you can relax, no one will co trying to confess to Kaede now, right?"
"Hmm, that's true."
Eriri nodded in agreent, saying, "While I'm not too worried, the main thing is that it's quite troubleso if people co looking for us. Frankly, if today's representative speech had still been Utaha's, Kaede-kun and I might have received a little less attention."
"Don't drag into this," Utaha said without hesitation.
"Opening ceremony speeches are a tornt. You have to write a draft for the teacher to check, and then wait backstage. I don't have that kind of patience. I think it's perfectly fine to let Asakura-kun handle it. At least in my opinion, he perford better than I did back then."
"No… I don't want to go next ti."
Kaede also refused, saying, "Sothing like this, once is enough. I don't want to beco a regular, it's quite boring. While I don't get stage fright, I also don't like the feeling of giving a speech. Sitting below and slacking off is much more my style."
"Exactly, exactly, slacking off is so much better!"
Eriri smiled and picked out the shredded carrots, placing them in Kaede's bowl, earning her a roll of his eyes.
"You two…"
Sighing, Utaha felt like she was falling further and further behind their rhythm. They were just chatting, and suddenly they started dishing out dog food.
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