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"Come on, do you Nakano Quintuplets really expect me to tutor all of you alone?"
Kisaragi Rin spread his hands. In fact, he didn't plan on teaching even one of them.
If it really came down to it, he'd just have Spider Mother go tutor them in their dreams.
"Is one person's energy limited?" Nakano Ichika coughed, deliberately putting on airs as she looked at her four younger sisters. "Since that's the case, let's make who gets tutored by Kisaragi the goal of a great century war among The Nakano Quintuplets!"
"...How could our relationship as sisters be affected by an outsider?" After a moment of silence, Nakano Miku asked, "So who are you planning on handing us over to?"
"Yuigahama and Shiina, of course."
From the start, Kisaragi Rin never intended to let Yukinoshita Yukino teach these equal parts.
Her strictness and seriousness were even stronger than Mafuyu Kirisu's. If she were to teach these girls, she would probably be so angered that she'd disband the Service Club the very next day.
Kisaragi Rin looked at the pink Dango. When Kisaragi Rin mentioned Yuigahama Yui, her expression quickly became confused, and she opened her mouth uncertainly toward Kisaragi Rin.
She seemed to want to say: Me?
"That's right, it's you." Kisaragi Rin confirmed again.
"...The problem is that my grades are only slightly above the passing LINE. Compared to you guys, how can I possibly teach anyone with these grades?" Yuigahama Yui hurriedly explained, feeling that having her tutor classmates was simply too absurd. Even in Class F, no one would ever ask her how to solve a problem.
"No problem. The Nakano girls don't need particularly advanced tutoring to improve their grades; just covering the basic knowledge points is enough.
Looking at it that way, Yuigahama Yui might be exactly suitable as a tutor.
After all, Shiina Mahiru and I subconsciously find many problems simple, but Yuigahama Yui, who hovers near the passing LINE, knows better which questions are easy and should be learned to score points."
"Huh? Really?" Nakano Itsuki looked bewildered. Recalling the gold-medal private tutors she had hired before, she somehow felt that what Kisaragi Rin said made a little sense.
Meanwhile, Yuigahama Yui had started complaining.
"I can actually have a purpose, even while hovering near the passing LINE."
Although the issue with Shiina Mahiru made her reluctant to look Kisaragi Rin in the eye, Yuigahama Yui quickly hid that fact.
Nakano Yotsuba looked around and said, "So, that's the plan?"
"Let's stick with this for now. We'll only know if the tutoring can proceed smoothly after we try it."
Ultimately, after Yukinoshita Yukino promised not to participate in the tutoring unless absolutely necessary, and Nakano Nino demanded that only the Service Club President, Kisaragi Rin, could help her with her studies, The Nakano Quintuplets, Shiina Mahiru, and Yuigahama Yui exchanged LINE IDs, officially declaring that the request had been entrusted to the Service Club.
Since it was lunchtime, none of them stayed long, choosing instead to return to their respective classes to wait for the afternoon dismissal before starting the tutoring session.
"Hey, why are you following me?" Kisaragi Rin noticed Nakano Nino and Nakano Miku following him together.
Had they boldly switched positions this afternoon, despite being caught by Mafuyu Kirisu just this morning?
"Because Kirisu-sensei told me that starting today, I'll be transferring to Class E." Nakano Nino smiled demurely, though the hands clasped behind her back were twisting into a knot.
Judging by Nakano Nino's demeanor, she had probably completely forgotten the dissatisfaction she expressed toward Mafuyu Kirisu this morning, and had instead gained a considerable friendship.
"I'm going to sit in the seat next to you later."
"No, someone is already there."
"Are you an idiot? There's no one there!"
"You're the idiot. A cute girl named Kato Megumi is currently sitting there."
"Huh? Speaking of that, I wanted to ask why the Service Club is full of beautiful girls!" Nakano Nino raised her fist and waved it. She had actually noticed long ago that Kisaragi Rin maintained strange relationships with many girls at Soubu High—intimate in small details, yet not so intimate in the realm of romance.
The people she knew were Shiina Mahiru, Kasumigaoka Utaha, and Yukinoshita Yukino. One was the Angel, though that Angel seemed gentle toward everyone. The other was the cold Senior, but Nakano Nino hadn't seen Kisaragi Rin interact with her much; their relationship was strangely like that of familiar strangers.
Hmm... familiar strangers.
As for Yukinoshita Yukino, Nakano Nino glanced down at her nearly invisible toes and felt that this Ice Beauty posed no threat to her.
"Are you complimenting yourself by calling yourself a beautiful girl?" Kisaragi Rin found this kind of question genuinely difficult to answer.
Mystically speaking, this was a kind of "gravitational pull"; even if he hadn't chosen Chiba Soubu High back then, he would have encountered other girls at other schools just the same.
After all, his charisma wasn't fake.
Of course, the charisma mentioned here wasn't the charisma attribute that constantly increased after becoming a Player, but something Kisaragi Rin possessed naturally.
Hmm... The Tsubakihara Family wanted to invite him to dinner last time.
Thanks to the Tsubakihara Family, Kisaragi Rin had no intention of dating while at Soubu High until he recently became a Player.
And scientifically speaking... there was no science. Kisaragi Rin wasn't following the path of technology; why should he care about science or lack thereof?
"Do I need to be complimented on being a beautiful girl?" Nakano Nino haughtily brushed the hair beneath her Butterfly Hairpin and declared, "Without a doubt, I am a perfect beautiful girl."
"There are four other perfect beautiful girls just like you," Kisaragi Rin retorted.
"Huh? What do you mean by that?" Kisaragi Rin: "It means your base charisma has received a fivefold enhancement."
Twins bring double the joy, so The Nakano Quintuplets naturally bring five times the magic.
Only choosing one... while pure romance is beautiful, it would ultimately be a little regrettable.
"What did you mean by that statement?" Nakano Nino glanced at Nakano Miku beside her. Miku was calmly playing on her phone, but Nakano Nino understood this Miku, who was the complete opposite of herself; Miku was definitely eavesdropping on her conversation with Kisaragi Rin.
"You're not satisfied with just me? Do you perhaps want a hundred female protagonists, like in those harem anime set in Other Worlds?" Nakano Nino put her hands behind her back and said seriously, "Unless there's a Zombie Outbreak, a Global Freeze, or some kind of isekai to another world, a harem is absolutely impossible!"
Kisaragi Rin, who had already experienced a Zombie Outbreak and transmigrated to another world three times, had a question mark appear above his head. Why did he feel like this Nakano Nino was setting a flag?
"So, what did you mean when you said you weren't satisfied with just me?" Hearing Kisaragi Rin's question, Nakano Nino hesitated for a few seconds before recalling that she had indeed just said that. High-temperature gas was already steaming from the top of her head like a moving train.
"Oh, right, because I'm transferring classes, I need to go find Kirisu-sensei now. She's supposed to officially lead me to the new class."
Nakano Nino turned around with her hands behind her back, feigning composure. Her cute shoes somehow clicked like stage heels as she walked away. Kisaragi Rin and Nakano Miku watched her, ultimately allowing Nakano Nino to flee the scene.
A single sentence shattered Nakano Nino's defenses.
She and Kisaragi Rin hadn't known each other long; she hadn't yet evolved into the state of the Love Runaway Train.
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