"Master...please sit here..."

The maid who had been serving the other girls before had already diligently arranged a seat for me... Well, is it okay to be in maid form today? That way, I can feel a little more at ease.

"Strange...Mai-kun didn't meet Kasumi before arriving?"

Yujian Mingye on the other side turned his head in confusion.

"Hey? That...that...actually..."

"And...yesterday, wasn't Caifenghui also with Chengjun?"

Unlike Yujian Mingye, the questions raised by his sister Huang Wuyuan Youyang seem to have become established facts.

"About this...it's actually because...well, I was too tired from the two-person three-legged match yesterday."

I'm telling the truth. After all, if you use your middle leg frequently, no matter who you are, you will feel tired, right?

"...Is that so? But...Lafla and Anya don't seem to be here either."

...it's over.

After the girls analyzed the truth in a few words, Charlotte, who had just received such special treatment the day before, dealt the final blow to me.

"It looks like... Cheng may have done something H-like again, right?"

"Gu..."

Unable to object, I could only admit my guilt, lowered my head, and without hesitation said the words that could solve all problems if necessary——

“I’m so sorry”

"Sometimes, apologizing can't solve all problems..."

Charlotte, who was smiling, seemed to have no intention of letting me go from the beginning today, and was chasing after my concession.

"A person who promised something to a girl but couldn't do it because of another girl... will be run over by a train ten times..."

...Does that mean that even nine lives are not enough to die? I don’t know why, but at this time, I suddenly began to sympathize with the former owner of a certain meat slave raised at Sakakino Academy.

"But... it is a rare summer festival after all. It is excusable for Cheng to be like this, right? So... I will reluctantly forgive you this time."

Clapping her hands gently, Xia Lu's face suddenly showed a lovely smile that was brighter than the sun.

I heard that there is a syndrome called Stockholm Syndrome. The general situation is that "the kindness shown by the criminal to the victim of the crime will make the victim feel dependent on the criminal"...Okay, am I in this situation now?

What about my psychological state? I always feel that every time I am treated in this way by girls, the girl in front of me suddenly becomes cuter.

All in all, after temporarily gaining the girls' forgiveness for the crime of being late, I sat in the stands with Rei Ayanami, but then, I seemed to encounter... a strange situation?
Chapter completed!