Room 404.
"Why are you holding a victory banquet in my room again?
Besides, there isn't even anything worth celebrating, is there?"
Hikigaya's dead-fish eyes drooped, his face a picture of listlessness.
"Exactly! Airi and I are celebrating with Hachiman; what are you people doing crowding in here?"
Hasabe Haruka stood with her hands on her hips, trying to shoo them away.
"Huh? On what basis do you two get to monopolize Hachiman-kun?"
Karuizawa Kei glared with furrowed brows, retorting head-on.
Clack~
Horikita Suzune skillfully took a pair of slippers from the shoe cabinet and said coldly: "Move. Don't block the doorway."
"Pardon the intrusion~"
Kushida Kikyo squeezed into the room with a beam.
"Um, I bought snacks and soda."
Sakura Airi had brought her own provisions.
"The more the rrier; it feels like this will be very interesting."
Matsushita Chiaki was very much in the mood to enjoy the drama.
"Hey, hey~ rather than talking about that, shouldn't we look at the super handso guy with glasses!"
As soon as Sato Maya said those words, the originally noisy room suddenly fell silent.
"Uh, did I say sothing wrong?"
Sato Maya pulled her neck back, acting cautiously.
"Maya, you hit the nail on the head!"
"Yeah, how could I have forgotten the biggest gossip in the whole grade!"
The girls present simultaneously focused their burning gazes on Hikigaya.
Kushida Kikyo secretly felt a pang of regret.
Back then, she shouldn't have sought a mont of satisfaction by revealing Hachiman (Handso Glasses Version) to the public during the scavenger hunt.
If she had known, she would have kept him hidden away—wouldn't it be better to enjoy the feast alone behind closed doors?
"What handso guy with glasses... are you referring to President Horikita Manabu?
I heard he took first place on the overall boys' leaderboard; truly impressive."
Hikigaya praised him loudly; although his words were a bit exaggerated, the content was genuine.
"What does this have to do with my brother?
Even though he is handso, it's a completely different thing compared to you!"
Horikita Suzune responded with a frown.
"Both involve glasses; where exactly is the difference?"
Hikigaya tried to elaborate from that point.
"Hachiman-kun, please do not change the subject.
No matter how much you try to detour, I will keep bringing the topic back."
Kushida Kikyo stared at him with a smile.
"Yeah, it's useless for Hikigaya-kun to escape reality.
Your Handso Glasses Mode."
Matsushita Chiaki acted like soone enjoying a spectacle, continuing to fan the flas.
"Sigh~ I'm telling you, you guys are really bored."
"Turning into a super handso guy just by putting on glasses... that setting is way too Light Novel-ish."
Hikigaya said with a face full of speechlessness.
"Anyway, don't worry about that. Just put them on.
Airi, did you find them?"
Hasabe Haruka and Sakura Airi began rummaging through the room.
"Found them! The glasses!"
Sakura Airi found an exquisite glasses case in a drawer.
"This isn't sothing you bought yourself, right?"
Horikita Suzune smartly realized the key point.
"Uh, it was a gift from a friend I t last ti I went out for the Club."
Hikigaya had no choice but to explain.
"Went out and t a friend?
I assu this 'friend' Hikigaya-kun speaks of is another beautiful girl."
Matsushita Chiaki said aningfully. If one thought about it carefully, which of the girls Hikigaya knew wasn't beautiful?
"I guess you could say that..."
The image of Yukinoshita Yukino's face flashed through Hikigaya's mind; it was truly hard to say she wasn't good-looking.
"Oho~ he's reminiscing right in front of us."
Kushida Kikyo's smile didn't reach her eyes.
"Ahem~ Please don't focus on those minor details."
Hikigaya tried to laugh it off.
"Alright, alright~
Hurry up and put on the glasses. I want to see the mont Hikigaya-kun's appearance seal is broken!"
Sato Maya urged with an impatient face.
"Hachiman-kun, please~"
Sakura Airi stood on her tiptoes, looking at him with a red face and eyes full of expectation.
"Sigh~ I really can't do anything with you all."
Facing the strong demands of the girls present, Hikigaya couldn't decline and could only choose to accept.
"They're on..."
Sakura Airi personally put the glasses on him.
In the next second, everyone in the room seed to have been hit by a freezing spell, standing in a daze and staring at him without blinking.
"I say, is it necessary for you to be so dramatic?"
Hikigaya reached up to adjust the glasses. His original dead-fish eyes, frad by the glasses, took on a few degrees of sharpness and composure.
"During the sports festival this morning, I only saw from a distance.
Looking up close now, you're even more super-duper-unbeatable handso!!"
Hasabe Haruka pressed her hands together, stars literally appearing in her excited eyes.
"Mhm, mhm! You could straight up be the cover model for a Bishounen magazine!"
Sakura Airi clenched her small fists, speaking with total certainty as soone who had actually been a cover model herself.
"I have to admit... current you is even handsor than my brother."
Horikita Suzune was dead serious, her eyes shimring with a strange light.
'Hey, hey! What kind of talk is that? If Onii-san heard that, he'd be very sad!'
"...Even though it was supposed to be my exclusive possession..."
Kushida Kikyo gritted her teeth, muttering so unintelligible words under her breath.
"...I really like it!"
Sato Maya's cheeks were flushed crimson as she loudly proclaid her heart's desire.
'Oh no! Is she planning to take the lead and confess?'
"I—I also super-duper like Hachiman-kun!"
Karuizawa Kei felt anxious and forced herself to throw a direct ball.
"Who doesn't like a handso guy?
Tell us sothing we don't know."
Matsushita Chiaki teased.
"Hey, hey!
What are you guys doing?
Everyone trying to steal a lead!"
Hasabe Haruka scolded everyone with a dissatisfied look: "Airi and I were here first!"
"In this kind of matter, there's no such thing as 'first co, first served'..."
At this point, Kushida Kikyo couldn't help but reveal herself, issuing aggressive words: "It can only be decided by a grab!"
"Kushida-san certainly has the nerve to say that.
Do you think that just by yourself, you can snatch him from ?"
Hasabe Haruka stood up, her chest puffed out high; her "great heart" needed no further words.
"And you guys.
Forgive for being blunt..."
Hasabe Haruka extended one finger and shook it gently, not finishing her sentence.
"!!!"
The other girls couldn't help but gasp one by one, their hearts filled with indignation. But as the saying goes, a difference in "rank" can crush a person; in terms of physical assets, they truly could not compete with her.
"Hmph! Truly a foolish and superficial view.
A person's value is not determined by a certain part of their body."
Horikita Suzune stood up and took the initiative to move closer to Kushida Kikyo, standing side-by-side with her. Kushida Kikyo's brow twitched; though she was unwilling in her heart, she had to bite the bullet and temporarily accept this 'ally relationship' in the face of reality.
"That's right!
We don't think we're inferior to you in any way!"
Karuizawa Kei and the other two stood on the sa front with tacit understanding.
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