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"How is it? How do you feel now?"
Asakura's voice continued to echo in the video.
"When I was dating her, I was already mentally prepared... It's just this level... this level..."
(Gritting teeth)
Yuigahama & Yanami: "Stare..."
Yakishio Lemon nervously averted her gaze.
"In that case, even if Yakishio-san has the bonus points for a sports student, it's impossible for you two to go to the same university, right?"
"...I was already prepared for it."
"Is it the resolve to deliberately fail for her, or the resolve that it doesn't matter even if you're in different places? Do you know the breakup rate for long-distance relationships? To put it another way, do you think Yakishio-san would be happy if she knew about your so-called resolve? Would she be moved by it or feel guilty?"
"Mitsuki..."
Yakishio Lemon murmured, a mix of emotion and guilt in her voice.
"Even if you say that..." Ayano Mitsuki still seemed to disapprove of Asakura's suggestion.
Asakura was not in a hurry, he just continued to persuade him with an inciting tone.
"Actually, if you think about it carefully, you'll find that Yakishio-san's grades are quite interesting. I checked her grades in junior high, and they were similar to her grades at Soubu High School, both on the lower-middle end."
"So what? Yakishio-san has always been this silly, and that's also her charm!"
"No, not that silly..."
Yakishio Lemon muttered, but her face couldn't help but show a nauseatingly sweet smile that made the other two feel inexplicably sour.
"The problem is that Soubu High School is a typical college-preparatory high school, and its deviation score is considered high even in Tokyo, while Yakishio-san's junior high was just a very ordinary rural school. The difficulty of achieving that score range between the two is actually completely different."
"Huh, is that so?"
Yanami asked curiously.
"I'm not too sure either..."
Yakishio Lemon scratched her head.
"And she got into Soubu High School through the regular admission process. According to the admission standards at that time, even if she just barely passed the cutoff, the grades required would have been at least upper-middle level in her junior high. Her grades at the time of her junior high graduation were still lower-middle, but in order to catch up to someone's pace and attend the same high school, her grades improved to what could be called a sky-high level in just three months of entrance exams."
Yanami and Yuigahama both looked at Yakishio Lemon with admiration, who scratched her face, revealing a somewhat embarrassed smile.
In order to continue studying at the same school as Ayano Mitsuki, she had signed up for the Soubu High School entrance exam and had indeed studied desperately for a period of time. She had thought no one would ever know, but she never expected to be publicly shamed in this way.
"Lemon actually went to such lengths? And I, because of my pointless pride, only confirmed her feelings until recently. I'm such a rotten person..."
"No, no, no, that's not true! Mitsuki, you're not wrong! I'm coming to find you right now!"
"Lemon-chan, calm down, this is just a video, don't climb on it!"
"The monitor is shaking, quickly pull her down!"
The girls' commotion did not affect the AV-quality video, which continued to play. Asakura's voice still carried an unusual allure, and he simply, unhurriedly, narrated what he wanted to say.
"Not only that, but in many places, it can be seen that Yakishio-san is not as stupid as she claims. She just prefers sports and dislikes using her brain. She almost always just casually glosses over her studies, which is why her scores are so bad. As long as she studies seriously, plus the bonus points for sports specialties, even if you two can't go to the same school, you should be able to attend universities in the same physically close area."
"But..." It was clear that Ayano Mitsuki still had some doubts.
"Considering that there are professional courses and elective courses, even if you attend university together, you often won't have classes together. As long as it's a nearby situation, adjacent schools and the same school are essentially not much different. In fact, by that time, you two will already be adults or close to adulthood, so even sharing an apartment wouldn't be an issue, right?"
"Waking up and seeing each other's sleeping faces, sharing favorite flavors while eating, 'Ah~' and so on are just small daily pleasures, shopping and watching movies together are just weekend routines, falling asleep at night embracing each other and listening to each other's heartbeats, and even some naughty things are not impossible to happen; in fact, it's inevitable when living together..."
Asakura was painting a picture for Ayano Mitsuki. "Isn't this better than a long-distance relationship where you can only constantly worry and miss each other in various ways every day?"
"If only that were true." Ayano Mitsuki's voice also sounded somewhat longing for such a life.
"That's right, for now, I'm just tutoring Yakishio-san. Don't worry, sign this consent form, and leave the rest to me, as the top student in the grade..."
"Thank you, Asakura, I'll leave everything to you!" Ayano Mitsuki's voice was full of gratitude.
The surreptitious recording ended.
Asakura's figure reappeared on the screen.
Yakishio Lemon looked at his image, her feelings complicated, unsure what to say.
Then she saw Asakura slowly bend down, lie on the ground, and start pounding the floor with laughter.
"He believed it! He really believed it! He believed all of it, hahahahaha!"
"Mitsuki, you were tricked by this guy! Ahhh—!"
Yakishio Lemon ran over in a fit of pique, wanting to tear down the monitor.
Naturally, she was held down by Yanami and Yuigahama, one hugging her waist, the other her legs.
Although both of them also showed expressions similar to 'give me back the emotion from just now,' they were clearly much calmer than Yakishio Lemon.
"The condition for leaving the room is that the total score of the three of us is 180 points, which averages out to just 60 points per person," Yuigahama Yui said, "Anna and I can take on a bit more of the score, Lemon-chan just needs to put in a little effort and we can get out! Then it won't be too late for you to tell Ayano about Asakura-kun's joke!"
"That's right, and we need him to cough up the money we paid for the family restaurant yesterday!"
Yanami, chewing on a compressed biscuit, ground her teeth and said fiercely, "Even if he doesn't pay, at least the daily snacks should be upgraded from dried kelp to Umaibo!"
"Aren't those two pretty much on the same level?"
Yuigahama Yui complained.
"Eh eh eh—?!"
"No, is it really such a big blow to you, Anna, that Umaibo and dried kelp are on the same level? You didn't even show such a disturbed expression when you were locked in the 'room where you can't leave unless you XX'!"
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