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Finally succeeding the dreadful scouring of the calcined remains on the stove, Akane eyed on languid Kise — with empirical consideration without compromising, she acquired a profound ire for Kise's impudent and uncooperative behaviour. Substantially due to his lack of assistance regarding to cleaning the kitchen. Incitement of lacerating him was imminent — Kise was certainly too lax, not to mention that he was the one that made everything go pear-shaped.

This boy

To her chagrin, she's not much of a truculent person but the thought of smothering him was not a bad notion to have.

"A-akane-senpai, why are you smiling like that?" As if disconcerted by her unforeseen conniving grin that speaks of brutality, Kagami took a step back away from her.

"Eh?" She frowned at Kagami not apprehending the anxious demeanour he was putting on and what he just said.

Was I smiling?

Slowly, Kagami hesitantly inched away from his intimidating senpai, undoubtedly unnerving his own overwhelming persona. It's humiliating to say but his pride was making it's way succumbing to her.

It's just like before, their first encounter — a deplorable encounter indeed, a painful encounter that could left a dent on her cranium, fortunately there wasn't any indentation but the sting might have left an abhorrent impression towards him. Inevitably was the lour presented to him. Recalling that incident only filled him with indefinite contrition and that the fact first impression is truly critical.

Who knew how painful a basketball could be.

Is he okay...?

"It's nothing...hahaha..." Trying his best to laugh it off as a gesture of conciliation and hoping for her to overlook the situation.

"If that is so"

Kagami internally sighed; the sign that she wasn't going to press him solaced him. With that, he assimilate another mandatory cognizance that Akane is analogous to a sweet but sub rosa possessing a sadistic disposition heroine and imbibing this knowledge provide Kagami to always choose the right timing before approaching her, to not precipitate her from doing before.

Drawing himself irresolute closer to Akane, timorously attempting to broach up a indispensable hitch that is significant to prospective adverse lookout. Not that Yukio will be perturbed by her detached response, instead more concern when she'll stare at him deeply with her physiognomy comparable to a sweet course serving Charlotte and an accompaniment of profiterole, Puits d'amour and a cup of fine English tea — simply satiating him with utter adoration.

"I-ito-san, there's something important I need to tell y-you"

"Yes?"

In regards of discomfiture, his fight-or-flight response spontaneously triggered off, adrenaline goes untrammelled like an unfettered wildfire, vasodilation was causing his blood to flow to his cheek. He's at the state of being fevered. Breathing and heart rate is escalating in unbridled embarrassment. In anyway, looking at her was highly infeasible.

Ruddy complexion and tremulous countenance adorned on his usual flinty physiognomy was rather unsettling, a very unusual façade indeed. However not too unexpected for Akane, considering how he behaved when they first met.

"What's the thing you needed to tell me?" Still waiting rather patiently for a complete elaboration to his last-mentioned statement.

"O-oh-h! You s-ee my fri-end Moriyama we-ent into your room earlier on..."

WHAT?!

Certainly, there's nothing eminently compulsive or terribly fascinating in a bints room, barring undergarments and items worth privacy, there's just nothing. Unless, he's a sycophant seeking oodles of benefits. Much to her annoyance, precisely, almost instantaneously, Moriyama gingerly entered the kitchen as if he did nothing weirdly peccadillo or anything libidinous.