The Classmate Who Is Adored by Everyone Smiles Teasingly Only at Me-Chapter 1Volume 2 .8 - Hospitality Comes with a Soufflé

Hospitality Comes with a Soufflé 8

“Hey, can you stop having such a pointless argument in front of someone’s house?”

“Ah, right. This isn’t the time to be doing this. Ichinose, I’ll be coming into your house.”

“Whatever, do as you like.”

Turning them away here would only lead to more weird misunderstandings, which is scary.

“Thank you. Then I’ll come in without hesitation. Oh, Kikuchi, thank you for showing me the way here. It was very helpful. See you tomorrow at school.”

“Huh!? Wait a minute! Isn’t that a bit too harsh!? After I’ve spent my whole Sunday following you around?”

As Miki quickly tried to close the front door, Shōhei clung to it, raising a pitiful voice and protesting that it was too much.

“You’re just going to eat the sweets Sōma made, right? I can smell something good from inside the house. In that case, I don’t think there’s any harm in letting me join as well.”

“I don’t mind if you’re going to give proper feedback.”

“Ichinose, keep quiet. It’s for me to decide.”

“Uh… but this is my house…”

After silencing Sōma with a glare, Miki began to ponder what to do. Then, she opened her mouth with exaggerated seriousness.

“Kikuchi, you’re going to see something unbelievable once you enter this house. Hell itself. Are you confident you can withstand it?”

“H-hell?”

Shōhei was surprised.

“Yes, the hell of this world. It might seem like heaven at first glance, but the truth is different. It’s a hell like a poisonous swamp that slowly corrodes the heart of the observer. If you keep watching, the more you might writhe in agony and want to scream. You might even feel like banging your head against the wall.”

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“What’s that? That’s actually scary.”

“Knowing that such danger awaits, do you still have the courage to enter this house?”

She’s talking nonsense.

Don’t call someone’s house hell without permission.

“It’s such a dangerous place, but you’re going in, right, Saito-san?”

“Yes, I will go inside to protect my best friend.”

“Th-then, I’ll go in too.”

Shohei, who took Miki’s threat seriously, nodded solemnly.

“And one more thing, promise me not to speak of what you’re about to see to anyone. Can you promise me that?”

“I can promise, but… um, what happens if I break that promise?”

“I’ll spread all sorts of unfounded rumors about you among the girls, and I’ll make sure your social standing plummets to rock bottom. Imagine, you won’t be able to have a single conversation with any girl for the rest of your high school life.”

“That’s scarier than hell!?”

Shōhei’s face turned pale, and he was genuinely terrified.

“Um, but I’m kind of curious about this ‘hell’. It’s okay as long as I don’t say anything about it, right?”

“I guarantee it.”

“If so, I swear not to speak of it. I’ll even sign a contract or a blood oath if necessary.”

“Very well. With that resolve and oath in your heart, pass through the gates of hell.”

“I will accompany you to hell then!”

After such a pointless farce, Shōhei also entered the Ichinose house as well.

“Hey Saito, that’s way too much.”

“What? Watching the two of you is hell for anyone who sees it. I won’t accept any objections.”

He complained to Miki as she took off her shoes, but she wasn’t listening.

“We never do anything weird.”

“The only ones who think that are the two of you.”

His protests were only met with a snort of laughter.

“Seriously, don’t go making weird delusions on your own.”

That said, he can’t say he completely doesn’t understand what Miki is saying.

Chika sometimes loses her sense of personal space and clings too close. That must be what’s causing the misunderstandings. It might be better to be more careful.

Most importantly, what is about to take place is a serious study session.

There’s no chance for Chika to get too close.

When he returned to my room with the two of them, Chika, who had been waiting and preparing for the study session, was taken aback.

“Huh? Miki-chan! And… um, Kikuchi-san?”

It wasn’t just Chika who was surprised, Shōhei was too. He looked back and forth between Sōma and Chika in a flurry,

“Oh, what’s this? Why is Satomi-san in Sōma’s room? Don’t tell me, that kind of relationship? If so, it’s not just surprising, it’s shocking.”

“No, no”

He waved his hands to deny the expected misunderstanding from his best friend.

“It’s not like that. You see—”

And so, he briefly explains the cooperative relationship between Sōma and Chika.

At first, Shōhei listened with a puzzled look on his face, but he let out a ‘haha’ after hearing the whole explanation and looked convinced.

“That’s very Sōma-like, really. Plus, I’ve been thinking that Sōma has been acting suspicious lately, so this makes sense now.”

“Don’t call me suspicious… Wait, have I really been acting strange?”

“Well, you sneak out of class as soon as it ends. Anyone would think that’s suspicious.”

“Seriously?”

Sōma almost choked on his words, but as he calmly reflected on his recent actions, he realized that he had been leaving the classroom as if he was trying to erase his presence.

Whenever he had plans with Chika and his classmates invited him with ‘Let’s go home together!’ or ‘Let’s hit the arcade!’, he had no choice but to decline while emitting a ‘don’t talk to me’ aura to avoid the hassle.