Ishigami was startled when Kobachi was about to fall, and it was fortuhat he was just about to search for another book.

  'If I didn't catch her...'

  Still, he had to say, was she quite heavy, or was he too weak?

  However, he also realized that he wasn't a harem protagonist since if he was ohen when Kobachi fell on his face, squeezing him with her slehighs and showing him her panties.

  Regardless, he wanted her to stand up as soon as possible.

  "... you stand up?"

  "Ah, um, thank you, Ishigami."

  When he saw Kobachi wao stand up immediately, he quickly reminded her to be careful. "Slow down. Don't be in a hurry. Calm down."

  "O-Okay..."

  Naturally, Kobachi was still in shock after she fell, so she o lean on him for a while, but somehow, she took her time. Still, fortunately, Ishigami didn't hurry her or embarrass her by teasing her.

  "Are you okay?"

  "Yeah, I am fihanks, Ishigami."

  "Be careful, girl. Rest there first. I will help you."

  When Kobachi let him go and sat oool nearby, Ishigami sighed in relief since he had been on his limit before.

  "Sit there. I will help you to put the books back."

  "Um, thank you."

  Kobachi didn't refuse him and just watched him, helping her, as she rested quietly, watg his figure from the side. She had been watg him, so she knew him well, yet at the same time, she also didn't know him mubsp;

  She might have watched him, but the distaween them was too far, and it was her first time him from a close distanbsp;

  His figure was straight, his features were sharp, and whehought about how he had held her before, she could feel how strong and firm his strength was.

  Was it all due to him joining the gym?

  Kobachi recalled that Onodera had asked him a question about what he did after school, aold Ohat he had joined a gym. Even though it was only for a short time since he had joined, she could tell that his features were no longer as weak and listless as before, which made him beore attractive, yet she hoped that his body wouldn't be all muscles.

  "...I have heard that you joined a gym, Ishigami."

  "Well, yeah."

  "Do you want to bee a bodybuilder like a Terminator?"

  "...no, why did you think that I wao have such a body?" Ishigami eechless. "I just want to have a healthy body."

  "That's good then." Kobachi sighed in relief inwardly, but then she asked, "But why were you here? Are you done flirting with Tsubame-senpai?"

  "Flirting?" Ishigami g Kobachi and said calmly, "We were studying. We weren't flirting." He never really flirted, but Tsubame was all touchy ale, so it might appear like they did so from the outside. However, he had to fix this misuanding.

  "...I am sorry if I made a mistake..." Kobachi apologized since she khat she might have said too much. "But what do you think of Tsubame-senpai? Aren't you happy to have such a beautiful senior to teach you?"

  "Being taught by a beautiful senior aside, I am grateful to her since my grade isn't that good, and she is good at teag."

  "...was that the point?" Kobachi eechless. "Don't you feel anything wheaught you?"

  "What do you mean? How about you be clear to me instead of asking me in such a roundway bout?" Ishigami looked at Kobachi, staring at her and waiting for her to say what she wao ask from her mind.

  "...."

  Kobachi fell in silehinking that Ishigami really had ged, but then, was it all due to her being too pushy?

  She khat they hardly talked to each other and that they had just started talking to each other retly. While she had known him for so long, she khat with how their retionship had been previously, she khat her questions might be excessive.

  "I am sorry."

  "No, it's fine. I guess it is normal for you to think that I might have fallen for her or something."

  "Do you like her?" Kobachi quickly asked without much thought.

  "...you sure ask such a straightforward question."

  "But I guess it is normal of you to fall for her, and if you do, I will support you."

  Instead of being with Iino or Onodera, Kobachi wished Ishigami would fall for Tsubame because that would make him happy.

  As for her feelings?

  There was o worry about those since she wished for him to be happy, and she was sure that Tsubame would make him happy.

  'Not Iino or Onodera...'

  It had to be Tsubame, so that way...

  "I 't deny that she is likable, but I think it is too early for me to say that I love her or I want to make her my girlfriend, right?"

  "Nht? Then, as you get close to each other, there is a ce for you to fall for her and wish to make her a girlfriend iure, right?"

  "That's the question of the future. We have only met each other, and there is o be in a hurry."

  Regardless, Onodera could tell that Ishigami was attracted to Tsubame, which she didn't feel surprised or even happy to see, but then, she also asked, "Do you want a girlfriend?"

  "I do." Ishigami nodded. "I am a normal high school student, after all. I think it will be abnormal if I don't have su i."

  "Well, that's true."

  "Then, how about you?"

  "Eh?"

  "You have been asking me so many questions." Ishigami looked at Kobachi and asked, "Have you thought about getting a boyfriend?"

  "Well..." Kobachi stared at Ishigami, who asked such a question. If there was a reason why she looked like this, it was because she didn't expect him to ask such a question.

  "i-san?"

  "Ah..."

  Kobachi took a deep breath, trying to calm her heart, then said calmly, "I haven't fallen in love with someone now."

  Lie.

  "Then, if you fall for someone, you will date him?"

  "No, I haven't thought of getting a boyfriend in high school."

  Lie.

  Kobachi thought so, but she khat she didn't have a right to be with him, especially when she knew she just watched from the side when Ishigami was in torment.

  This was her punishment, and it was also something that she had decided since she had chosen a friendship over her feelings, but as they tio talk, it was hard to tain her feelings.

  "Many guys will be disappoihen."

  Ishigami khat Kobachi opur, and even many students from different schools came to visit her, which made him speechless, thinking that high school really had nothing to do.

  It was just—

  "Are you too?"

  Somehow, those words blurted out from her lips.

  Kobachi wao take those words back, but it was too te, and her heart beat rapidly as she saw him staring at her. Within the aisle, between the bookshelves, there were only the two; no one was around. The library was quiet, and no one was around besides them.

  His expression was calm, staring at her softly, yet firmly, like a man, which made her anticipate the ahat she had been waiting for, but—

  "Yuu-kun, are you here?"

  Tsubame looked around and found Ishigami. "Ah, here you are. Have you found the book?" She also found Kobachi, which fused her. "Koba-?"

  "Sorry, Senpai. i-san almost fell before, so I helped her to return the books to the shelves."

  "Ah, are you, okay, Koba-?"

  "...yes, I am fihank you, Tsubame-senpai."

  'Yuu-kun...'

  Yet, inwardly, Kobachi felt gloomy, w how long it had been sisubame started to call Ishigami by his first name.

  However, wasn't this good?

  'This way...'

  As Kobachi saw how gentle and attesubame was, she khat it was best for Ishigami to be with Tsubame.

  "You should call me Yuu-kun. I will e to help."

  "It was so sudden after all."

  With Tsubame's help, soon, they finished returning all the books to the shelves aurogether before Ishigami and Tsubame started to learn once again, and Kobachi returo her usual pce as she sat down quietly, reading without b them.

  Still, a petite figure suddeered the library and looked around quietly, seemingly anxious yet also filled with anticipation.

  Kobaoticed this figure and called her softly, "Iino."

  "Koba-." Iino Miko her friend, then found the person that she had been looking for. She pursed her lips and sighed in relief, thinking that Ishigami really wao improve, which made her happy, but then she wasn't so happy when she saw that he wasn't alone.

  "That's... Tsubame-senpai? Why is she here with Ishigami?"

  Kobachi pushed the frame of her gsses and said, "She taught him to study."

  "Oh?"

  Watg the fusion on Iino's face, Kobachi said softly, "They might start to date each other iure."

  "...."

  Those words made Iino fall into silence, l her head, taking a deep breath, and then sn. "Hmph! He is dreaming! Tsubame-senpai is out of his league!" Even so, she also felt that Tsubame was a good girlfriend for Ishigami, especially when she could see how close they were.

  "I will go ba patrol first."

  "Okay, do your best."

  Watg Iino walk out of the library to tirolling as a member of the Public Morals ittee, Kobachi let out a sigh quietly. It was just that Iino wasn't the only person who came to the library to visit Ishigami, and unlike Iino, she couldn't stop her. So, at this moment, she could only watch this girl e toward Ishigami and Tsubame, destroying the good atmosphere between them.

  "Yuu? Tsubame-senpai?"