My new Neighbor's an Idol!?

Our Final Culture Festival (Vol. 2 End)

"What are you doing up there!?" Between all of them, it was Ryugi who was most shocked at this sight. "Were you spying on us?"

"No." That was Chinae's simple response as she jumped off from the tree branch, landing on her feet. While in the air, since she was wearing the school's uniform, her skirt flew up which lead to a clear view of what was under it. Though since she wore black tights under it, the girl wasn't concerned with Ishi being there to see it. "You're the ones who disturbed me."

After the dating game show ordeal, she was feeling pretty tired about things. Since the girl figured that she had satisfied the requirements at the school of participating in the culture festival, she decided that taking a nap hidden away in a tree was fine. "Guess I overslept a bit, it's already getting dark."

"Yeah, the bonfire's already started." He commented. "Doubt you care about that, so go ahead and go home already."

"You want to get rid of me? Even after saying you wanted to kiss me?" She had an arrogant grin that he wished to wipe off. "Or maybe being surrounding by four girls is getting you a little nervous."

"Heh, yeah keep it up." Ryugi cheered her on in this attempt at teasing. "I've known him for years, but he's never even blushed once." Perhaps that might make for a good goal to try before she graduated from high school.

"Really?" Somehow, that shouldn't come as a surprise to Rinse. Though, she thought that his hesitation earlier came close. "You've never been embarrassed before?"

"First off, I'm not concerned with all of you around me." He was annoyed that they'd assumed he would react like the other boys in his grade. Especially after all this time that they had known him. "And secondly, of course I feel embarrassed sometimes, I just don't show it." Usually it was feeling embarrassed from the people he associated with. As much as that would be blaming it on others, he did question why he let certain individuals near him.

"I've known you for a long time too." Youna spoke up, now feeling a lot more pressure now that there were three other girls with them. She had only been planning for him to be with her alone, so this was something she had yet to mentally prepare for. "And you've always been so steady."

"Ah well." Ryugi gave up, squatting down by the tree to relax and enjoy the view. "I'm sure that I'll get to see you blush before I die."

"I'm not trying to hide anything." He didn't get what was up with everyone paying so much attention on him. The boy sat back onto the tree besides her to rest up from an eventful day. "You guys act like I can't get surprised by things."

"You were definitely shocked to see me as the mystery girl." Chinae laughed, not that she wasn't even more caught off guard by things. What were the odds that she'd pick him out of a choice of three? Well, chance wasn't the reason he was selected, but it was too shameful for her to admit that she was genuinely interested in the mystery boy she was asking questions to. On the bright side, they didn't have to honor the date prize that was set up, even if it was disappointing to the other students that it was wasted on people not wanting to use it.

"I think I'd rather put that in the part of my memory where I don't remember it." Apparently that was a thing in his head given his inability to recall his time during the play. Odd, since he was able to recall his youth when he met Youna for the first time.

"You're certainly full of surprises." Said Ryugi. "That was cool what you did for your cousin."

"Right, getting them to switch the leading actors so they'd both be happier." Rinse took note of it when she was watching the play with Youna. She figured that he had something to do with that change up.