Nijika looked at Bocchi-chan, whose left and right brain hemispheres had begun to fight each other, and sighed, giving up the argument. "Fine, fine, Hitori-chan is the most popular. Shall we clean up now then?"
"Wait!" Bocchi-chan pulled out her phone. "I'll prove it to you right now! I just wasn't in a rush before, that's all. If I wanted to, I could successfully capture Kanzaki Saku anytime!"
Nijika crossed her arms, wearing a face that clearly said, 'I'm just watching your performance.' "Sure, prove it."
Then, Bocchi-chan sent that message Kanzaki Saku had seen: "Are you there?"
Ijichi Nijika leaned over to take a look, the corner of her mouth twitching as she couldn't resist roasting her: "Hitori, do you know how the internet evaluates this kind of opening line?"
"How do they evaluate it?" Bocchi-chan stiffened her neck.
"The Clown's Opening Move," Nijika said expressionlessly.
"This is called playing hard to get!" Bocchi-chan insisted stubbornly, not wanting to admit that she had actually never chatted with Kanzaki Saku online at all.
The message was sent, and the four of them held their breath waiting, but there was no reply for quite a while.
Yamada Ryo was the first to break the silence. "Does he really like you? Why isn't he replying to your message?"
The mobile screen shimmered faintly, illuminating Gotoh Hitori's face, which was getting redder and redder, increasingly resembling a cooked prawn.
"He might be busy!" Bocchi-chan's voice was a bit weaker than before, but her finger poked the screen with even more force. "Who doesn't have their own matters to deal with? He'll reply to me immediately!"
Ijichi Nijika hugged her chest with both hands, eyebrows raising beneath her blonde bangs. She didn't speak, but her eyes clearly wrote: Continue, I'm watching your show.
By now, Nijika already believed that Kanzaki Saku's name had been secretly written on the form by Gotoh Hitori herself.
After another while, just when Nijika was getting impatient from waiting, the phone vibrated once.
"Gotoh-san? Is something the matter?"
Concise, polite, and carrying a subtle sense of distance.
Bocchi-chan, however, seemed to have received some kind of encouragement. Her eyes lit up, and her fingers tapped rapidly on the screen as she spoke loudly while typing.
"See! He replied! Isn't this proof he has me in his heart?!"
Nijika held her forehead. "...Is there a possibility that he just happened to be looking at his phone?"
Bocchi-chan was already completely immersed in her own logic and didn't care about Nijika's 'jealous' remarks. She replied swiftly.
"Kanzaki-san! I saw your name on the Club application form! Did you write it?"
Sent.
A few seconds later, a reply.
"Yes, I wrote it. Because I was very interested in the band Gotoh-san mentioned, I added myself when I saw your application form."
After seeing Kanzaki Saku's reply, Bocchi-chan acted as if she had grasped some incredible evidence, waving her phone excitedly.
"See, he wrote it himself! It's probably specifically for me, but he's too embarrassed to say it directly, so he's expressing it euphemistically! Men are all duplicitous like this!"
Nijika sighed. "Hitori, wake up a bit. It's fine to fool the sisters, but don't fool yourself as well. It really doesn't matter if the sisters are fooled by you; we'll just laugh it off. But if you take it seriously yourself, that would be too much of a clown move."
"He's just interested in the band, not interested in you."
"No, no, no, you don't understand. Kanzaki-san knows absolutely nothing about music! He definitely came for me!" Bocchi-chan shook her head back and forth, beginning to feign profundity.
"Just watch my operation. I'll send him some witty banter first, make him feel that I'm an interesting person."
"Haha, I just knew Kanzaki-san had been secretly paying attention to me."
"You call this witty banter?" Nijika looked at the single line of text Bocchi-chan typed out after deleting and editing in the chat box.
On the other side, Kanzaki Saku saw the message sent by Bocchi-chan, which carried a bit of a strong scent.
He thought to himself, She isn't wanting to confess to me right now, is she? That won't do.
If she confesses now, wouldn't my 'Rain Confession Rewards' and 'Love Song Confession Rewards' be gone? Who would make up for that then?
Think, how would a goddess react when facing a simp? Take a bath and sleep, or simply not reply?
Kanzaki Saku ultimately replied with a single sentence.
"Gotoh-san, I am only interested in the band."
"Kanzaki-san is still too shy. He says he's interested in the band, but isn't the band just me? I am the soul of the band! He is essentially saying he is interested in me!"
Nijika really couldn't stand Bocchi-chan's clown performance anymore and went for a straight-ball torture session. "Hitori, let me translate for you. His meaning is: Classmate, who are you? Are we close? Don't be delusional."
"Impossible, absolutely impossible! If Kanzaki-san really had no interest in me, then why does he always seek me out to chat and not others?" Gotoh Hitori waved her hand, denying Nijika's statement.
"It's completely possible! Hitori, is there a possibility that he's actually like this with everyone, and it's just you who thinks he treats you specially?"
"I already said it's different, why won't you believe me!" Bocchi-chan got anxious.
Yamada Ryo inserted a word at the appropriate moment: "I feel that if a person was truly interested in you, shouldn't they have actively confessed to you long ago?"
"Ryo! Why are you helping Nijika speak too!" Bocchi-chan's eyes widened, then she immediately comforted herself again.
"You guys don't understand, boys are all like this—saying no with their mouths but their bodies are honest! He is definitely testing me!"
Nijika stopped Yamada Ryo, who wanted to say more. "For normal people, a confession is a triumphal song of victory, not a charging march for the attack. But for you, Gotoh Hitori, a confession is the opening gong of a circus. Once the gong strikes, everyone is amused by your performance."
"Not listening to reason, huh? Fine, you continue. I actually want to see the expression on your face when he rejects you."
Bocchi-chan completely ignored Nijika's final persuasion, thinking she only said that because jealousy had twisted her.
"You guys just watch! I'm going to launch the final strike now! This strike will thoroughly shatter his reserve!"
"What kind of girls does Kanzaki-san like? Just curious asking!"
What is the meaning of this? Kanzaki Saku looked at this newly sent message. Is Bocchi-chan iron-willed on confessing online this time?
It shouldn't be. Judging by her reward-seeking nature, an online confession simply has no cost-performance ratio. Unless someone is egging her on from the side, making the blood rush straight to her head.
As for who it is, I don't even need to think to know it's either Nijika or Yamada Ryo, or the two of them together.
Good lord, they've even got Strategists involved now. However, Kanzaki Saku still had to stifle the possibility of a confession in the cradle.
The first reason is that although he, Kanzaki Saku, messes around with friend relationships in private, he is still a pure, kind, and devoted good boy, and his girlfriend is only Yukino.
The second reason is that an online confession doesn't allow him to see Bocchi-chan's expression, nor is it easy to use [Reversal] to make her experience her original mood.
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