Chapter 084 Do You Think Someone Is Hiding Here On A Date?
"Hikigaya, stand still and don't move. Let me get a few kicks in..."
Slap!
"Why did you block it?!"
"Any normal person would block that!"
Hikigaya nimbly caught the sole of the foot she had kicked toward him. Size 36.5—slightly larger than Komachi's, but still what one could call petite and dainty. However, having worn crew socks all day, the texture wasn't great, and they were still radiating heat.
"Hey!
W-What are you doing?!"
Kushida Kikyo was suddenly startled. She watched as Hikigaya casually pulled off her sock, exposing a fair, smooth, and jade-like foot to the open air.
"I don't like these nylon socks; they're stuffy and don't breathe," Hikigaya said with a look of disgust, holding the steaming sock.
"Who asked you to like them?!
Besides... I don't have enough points! I can only claim these free, coarse socks." Kushida Kikyo's cheeks flushed, looking quite embarrassed.
"Then you're having a tough time too. I'll lend you a few pairs of cotton-blend socks later."
Hikigaya considered that the upcoming special exam would likely last a long time. If she wore nylon socks for several days in a row, those "jade feet" would turn into "rotten feet"! Of course, he couldn't rule out the possibility that a tiny minority of people might actually be into that. Hikigaya, however, belonged to the category of normal people.
"Uh, why are you helping me...?" Kushida Kikyo stared at him blankly.
"It's one thing to be kicked by someone, but I don't want to be kicked by a smelly foot." Hikigaya looked helpless.
"You—yours is the smelly foot!
DIE!!"
Kushida Kikyo suddenly turned her shame into anger and aimed a barefoot kick upward.
'Hiss~ A fatal strike... You can't kick there!'
Hikigaya's pupils contracted. Fortunately, his reactions were swift; he squeezed his thighs together with force, firmly trapping her leg.
"Let go of me, you perverted foot-fetishist!" Kushida Kikyo shouted and cursed while struggling vigorously.
"I won't! That is a man's dignity we're talking about." Hikigaya looked serious.
He wasn't joking. Even a powerhouse like Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson would go down if he took a solid, fatal strike to that spot!
Just then, the sound of voices drifted over from not far away.
"Maya, I'm asking you, what exactly is this about?"
"Being all mysterious and insisting on coming to a place like this to talk?"
"Hey~ Chiaki, this is a huge secret I discovered at noon today!"
'Shit! Someone's coming!'
In the darkness, Hikigaya and Kushida Kikyo stared at each other with wide eyes, tacitly choosing to stop their entanglement.
"It's the voices of Matsushita and Sato-san..." Kushida Kikyo's expression tightened.
Hikigaya was beyond speechless.
'Why is it Matsushita again? Is she an NPC that automatically spawns wherever there's gossip to be had?'
"Take this chance to run through that small path over there..." Hikigaya lowered his voice.
"...Let's listen to what secret they're talking about first." Kushida Kikyo's eyes lit up, a thick look of interest appearing on her face.
'You're a gossip-monger too, aren't you?' Hikigaya's mouth twitched.
In the few seconds they delayed, Matsushita Chiaki and Sato Maya had already walked nearby. At this point, it was impossible to leave without alerting them.
"Eh? Are those fishing rods on that wooden barrel over there?"
'Not good! They're coming toward us!'
Kushida Kikyo was suddenly struck with panic.
'Serves you right! You wanted to "eat the melon" (listen to gossip), and now you're about to become the "melon" yourself, aren't you?' Hikigaya felt a sudden surge of schadenfreude.
But jokes aside, if they were discovered in this position at a time like this, it would be absolutely impossible to explain.
"!!!"
Kushida Kikyo's eyes widened. Hikigaya put an arm around her and pulled her into a recessed corner.
"Shh... this is force majeure..." Hikigaya whispered into her ear.
The exhaled breath blowing against her ear gave Kushida Kikyo a tingling, numbing sensation that made her feel uncomfortable all over. However, since she was the one who caused this situation in the first place, she could only turn her head and glare at Hikigaya.
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"Sigh~ Forget about the fishing rods. Just hurry up and tell me, Maya," Matsushita Chiaki urged.
"At noon, didn't we go to the Western restaurant on the second floor?
At the time, we were being mocked by the Class A people, and then Hikigaya showed up and scolded them until they ran away with their tails between their legs..."
'Hey, hey? You guys came to such a remote place in the middle of the night just to talk about me?' Hikigaya was utterly speechless.
"~"
Kushida Kikyo nudged his chest with her elbow, her eyes gleaming with subtle teasing.
'You actually stood up for the gyaru group? Which of the three did you take a fancy to?'
"Nothing of the sort. I just don't like the look of Yahiko," Hikigaya told the truth.
"...?" Kushida Kikyo frowned, thinking for a moment before she remembered the somewhat unfamiliar name.
"A-Class's Totsuka Yahiko? Are you close with Totsuka-kun?"
Hikigaya shook his head. 'I'm not close with Yahiko.'
"???" 'What on earth is this guy talking about?'
"And then?" Matsushita Chiaki blinked and deliberately teased her friend. "Could it be that you... have fallen for Hikigaya?"
"No, it's not me!" Sato Maya ran her fingers through her hair and continued, "It's Kei... You don't know, the way Kei was staring at Hikigaya at the time—it was very unusual!"
Karuizawa Kei!
Kushida Kikyo was suddenly very surprised. In her view, Karuizawa Kei was a girl with a strong personality who liked to stand out.
Furthermore, the "gyaru" persona usually only liked handsome guys, like the Hirata Yosuke type. How could she be interested in a gloomy guy like Hikigaya?
"Don't look at me, I don't know what the situation is either." Hikigaya's eyes narrowed slightly. A certain suspicion was beginning to form in his mind...
Step~
Kushida Kikyo's bare foot stepped hard onto the bridge of his foot. Her voice carried a hint of sarcasm: "How nice for you~ You've been noticed by the class beauty."
Putting aside her figure, Karuizawa Kei's looks were definitely among the top tier in Class D.
"?" "Chi... did you hear some strange sound?" Sato Maya looked toward the location where the two were hiding with a suspicious gaze.
"I think I heard something too." Matsushita Chiaki opened her eyes wide. However, since there were no lights in this area, it was impossible to see what was happening.
"Heehee~ Do you think... maybe there are people hiding here on a date?" Sato Maya said with an excited face.
"Should we go take a look then?" Matsushita Chiaki suggested.
Hearing the footsteps of the two getting closer and closer, Kushida Kikyo looked panicked and squeezed herself hard into Hikigaya's embrace. Their bodies were almost completely pressed together...
With his chest being pressed by two very substantial "softnesses," Hikigaya felt like even breathing had become difficult!
Relying on his tenacious willpower, Hikigaya controlled his brain to stop imagining strange images.
Sigh...
The "big head" (brain) was easy to control, but the "small head" was a different story.
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