"What are you doing?"
The slow voice of Uesugi Sakura quietly entered her ears.
Hanamaru Hanabi, her nose covered by the sheet, suddenly opened her eyes wide, "Uh—!" as if startled.
She quickly pulled up the sheet to hide her suddenly blushing cheeks, like a frightened little rabbit trembling in hiding.
Uesugi Sakura couldn't see her face hidden behind the sheet, but based on her behavior just now, he understood what was happening without needing to guess.
He deliberately, slowly asked, word by word:
"Hanabi... are you doing something strange?"
The sheet tightened inward a bit more.
A while later, Hanamaru Hanabi's extremely shy voice came through the thin sheet.
"H-Hanabi isn't..."
"Lying isn't allowed."
Uesugi Sakura smiled, grabbed the corner of the sheet with both hands, and pulled away the sheet covering her blushing face in one swift motion.
"No, don't!"
