"I'll just go with Miyu-senpai."
Miyu-senpai! Why 'Miyu'! Huh? Does MIYU from Miyuki's name just get read as Miyu?!
Just as Kaguya was filled with shock, as if her entire worldview was being reshaped.
Unaware of Kaguya's strange reaction, Miyuki smiled and nudged Ishigami with his elbow, saying:
"Do you need me to call you 'Yodin'?"
"Spare me."
"I'm just going to call you that, I'm just going to call you that."
"No, no, no."
At this moment, watching the two of them, Ishigami and Shirogane, chatting in a pleasant atmosphere that actually hid 'murderous intent', Miyahito also chimed in.
"Oh, oh, Miyu-nii? That's a nice title."
"Miyahito! You brat." Backstabbed by his 'younger brother', Miyuki turned his head with a wounded expression, looking at Miyahito, whose face was full of schadenfreude.
"Did you forget whose side you're on?"
"I didn't forget." Miyahito sat up a little straighter, standing firm like a loyal retainer, and swore solemnly, "But what does that have to do with me calling you Miyu-nii?"
"Besides, 'Miyu' is so cute."
"Exactly, exactly." With a thoroughly satisfied smile on his face, Ishigami secretly gave Miyahito a thumbs-up.
As expected of a good brother. Come on, come on, here's a like for you.
Noticing Ishigami's little gesture, Miyahito proudly lifted his chin slightly and returned an 'of course' look.
Watching the tacit cooperation of his two juniors, Shirogane Miyuki, who already lacked experience in dealing with such interactions, could only helplessly admit defeat.
"Fine, have it your way, you two."
"Ooooh, please take good care of me, Miyu-nii?"
"Yeah, me too. Please take good care of me, Miyu-senpai."
"You two.... sigh...."
I see! A nickname, huh?
Staring straight at the interaction between the three boys, Kaguya thought seriously to herself.
Since calling him by his first name gives off a shameless, frivolous vibe (at this moment, an image of Chika, tied to a bunch of balloons and slowly ascending into space, flashed through her mind).
If she used a nickname instead, wouldn't that solve the problem entirely?
Not only that, if she could come up with a cute nickname like Ishigami's "Miyu-senpai," it would surely add a few points to her "Shinomiya is so cute" impression in the President's heart!
Thinking of this, Kaguya secretly tried to imagine the scene of her greeting Miyuki with the nickname "Miyu-senpai."
Yeah! Absolutely no problem at all!
With that decided, Kaguya made up her mind. I'm claiming the nickname 'Miyu'!
Determined, Kaguya suddenly stood up. Lowering her face slightly, she spoke softly to the boys who were chatting enthusiastically.
"I'll go get some drinks too."
Slowly raising her head, her face still wearing that gentle, faint smile, her gaze landed on Miyuki, who was looking at her. Kaguya spoke slowly.
"You want iced coffee, right, Miyu... President."
Aaaaaah! Why is it so hard to say out loud!!
Her cheeks gradually flushing red, Kaguya involuntarily dodged Miyuki's gaze, her entire demeanor becoming shy and awkward.
Chika, looking somewhat bewildered at the suddenly bashful Kaguya, calmly deadpanned:
"I told you, he's not the President anymore."
Waiting until Kaguya followed Chika to the drink bar to get their beverages.
"Hoh~~"
Watching Kaguya being led away by Chika, Miyahito's eyes sparkled with the gleam of someone who had just found something highly entertaining.
He glanced back at Miyuki, who was reminiscing about the past year of the Student Council with Ishigami, and then looked at Kaguya, who was chatting with Chika at the counter.
The corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl into a playful arc.
Miyuki-nii is really something. Kaguya-senpai has made her feelings so blatantly obvious. Staring straight at Miyuki, who was completely oblivious to what was happening right in front of him, Miyahito internally roasted his bro's inexplicable views on romance.
Then again, these two are really something. What does 'status' even matter for a couple who truly loves each other?
It's not like they're fighting for world domination. What does it matter who has the higher or lower status in a relationship?
Not to mention looking at how he and Utaha interact... Wait, if he remembered correctly, Miyuki-nii's formula was: The one who confesses first = Loser = The one with the lower status in the relationship.
So, right now... seemingly, probably, if he wasn't seeing things wrong.
He, Aragaki Miyahito, was indeed completely whipped by his Utaha. From daily life, to studying, to work, she had inadvertently arranged everything for him perfectly. Did this count as the legendary "Family 'Little Brother' Status"?
Subconsciously, Miyahito took out his phone to check the time.
Seeing "8:23 P.M." on the screen, he reflexively opened LINE, preparing to send Utaha a message to report his itinerary.
Just as his thumb was about to touch the virtual keyboard on the screen.
In an instant, he froze.
Right at that moment, Miyuki noticed Miyahito's dazed look out of the corner of his eye, turned his head, and looked at him in confusion.
"What's wrong, Miyahito? Why did you suddenly freeze?"
".....I suddenly feel." Miyahito looked at Miyuki's somewhat bewildered expression with complex eyes. After letting out a deep sigh, while silently sending the message detailing his schedule, he said with an emotional tone.
"What you said earlier was completely right, bro....."
"?"
Slowly typing a question mark into the void, Miyuki stared blankly at his junior, whose vibe had suddenly shifted to pondering the meaning of life.
What is going on?
Why is Miyahito calling me 'bro' just like Kei does?
....
Meanwhile, at Miyahito's apartment.
"Hmm, hmm, hmm~~"
The clacking of the keyboard, a light, cheerful humming, and the occasional rustling sound of a pen scratching across paper.
In this quiet yet faintly warm and lively atmosphere, the aura surrounding Utaha was... incredibly serene and content.
「The moment I awoke from that strange dream, the fingertips brushing against my cheek suddenly felt a faint trace of moisture.
Did I cry?
No, why would I cry?
However.
Not knowing why I cried is a common occurrence.
Just like how one can never quite recall the fragments of a dream.
It's just that, a sense of loss over something disappearing, I could never quite adapt to.....」
Looking at the lines of text appearing on the computer screen in the document titled "Your Name," Utaha unconsciously slowed down her typing.
'If I write it like this, will it be a bit too overly sentimental?'
Subconsciously wanting to hear her boyfriend's opinion, Utaha, without lifting her head and keeping her gaze fixed on the screen, suddenly called out.
"Miyahito...."
Oh, right. Miyahito went out to hang out tonight, he's not home.
Shaking her head with a helpless smile, Utaha withdrew her gaze from behind her and turned back around.
However, when her gaze fell upon her black-screened, wine-red smartphone resting by her hand, a trace of indescribable trance inadvertently appeared in her eyes.
"Seriously, we've only been separated for a few hours, and I'm already missing my boyfriend this much?"
Muttering to herself with a faint smile of longing and helplessness, Utaha reached out and picked up her phone.
Lighting up the screen.
"Since when did I become so clingy? Utaha."
The moment the words fell.
A LINE message from the contact saved as "Kissy Hubby" suddenly popped into her wine-red eyes.
Subconsciously tapping to open it.
[Miyuki-nii and the others and I are having dinner here [Location]. I listened to you and didn't go anywhere sketchy, okay? —by Kissy Hubby.]
Mhm, mhm. He didn't forget to report his safety while having fun.
Hmph, hmph~~ I'll count you as a good boy this time. As a reward for being a good boy.
I'll allow you to come home half an hour late, around 10 PM!