"Ahem...... Ladies and gentlemen, please be quiet, there is a transfer student in our class today: Ru Furukawa. Please stand on the podium and introduce yourself."

I was dozing off by the window, and I woke up in a daze when I heard the teacher's words, rubbed my eyes and looked at the podium: I saw the transfer student with shoulder-length goose-yellow short hair, a short skirt, a slightly oversized dark blue sweatshirt, and a red hairband on the left side of his hair - he looked very careless, bowed slightly to the stage with a blank face, and wrote his name on the blackboard.

Is this the beautiful girl transfer student who will definitely appear in the anime? You can't sit next to me...... I don't have Tawai-san as a ...... What's the big one next to me, Tawai?!!!

I clutched my head and thought carefully about the few things that Tawai-san had said to me yesterday this semester...... It looks like their family is moving or something...... It turns out that this means that he is also going to change schools!

"Hmm...... Furukawa-san, if you look at the empty seats in the classroom, you can sit on them...... Furukawa-san?"

The yellow-haired beautiful girl on the stage kept looking at the few empty seats left in the classroom, and she didn't know why, but she hadn't moved her steps for almost three or four minutes.

"Is there something wrong with Furukawa-san?"

「…… It's not."

The girl named Furukawa Lu spoke for the first time, and her voice was very crisp, with an ethereal inspiration of a yellow oriole in the forest.

"Furukawa-san, if you don't mind, you can sit next to me!"

"Furukawa-san, my place here is still vacant!"

Yes...... The unlucky guy in the classroom, who has no one next to me, is already winning the favor of her beautiful girl classmates.

You can't keep being so unsociable...... Anyway, I tried it, and I didn't suffer a loss or be fooled.

"Uh...... That classmate, I also have a place here."

The sound was so small that I could barely hear it...... Kita-san looked at me in surprise. No, I finally took the initiative once, as for showing such a surprised expression?

Furukawa-san, who was on the podium, still didn't move, and finally simply closed his eyes? Is this some kind of new form of performance art?

Just when everyone in the classroom was looking at me with question marks, Furukawa, who had been on the podium for more than ten minutes, finally opened his eyes suddenly, quickly stepped down from the podium, sat down next to me, and glanced at me from time to time.

……？ Is it because I have sleep marks on my face due to the pressure of my arm?

「…… Now that Furukawa-san is seated, let's start class."

……

This class passed quickly with the help of Furukawa-san, but it was very rare that the surrounding students seemed to have discussed it, and no one went around the transfer students to ask this question and that. Is it really because of the weird behavior just now?

Furukawa seemed to be used to this atmosphere, so he naturally took out his mobile phone and plugged in the headphones, stuffed the earphones into his ears, and wrote something in the homework book.

"That, Furukawa-san...... Hello? I'm Kita, and I'll ask for a lot of advice for the next three years......

Kita, a shining courtesan in Class 5, stood next to Furukawa and tried to communicate with her.

「…… Yes? Sorry......"

Furukawa covered his homework book with lightning speed and took off the earphone in his left ear:

"I'm Furukawa, please advise."

"Can you ask what Furukawa-san was writing just now?"

"Uh...... I'm sorry, I suddenly remembered that there is something else, I'm sorry Kita-san, let's talk about it next time."

Quickly stuffing the textbooks on the table into his desk, Furukawa-sans stood up and left the classroom in a hurry.

Seems like a difficult person to get along with......

I yawned and buried my head back in the crook of my arm, but I always felt an inexplicable familiarity with the name...... Have I seen her before?

……

I'm running out of ingredients at home again.

I'm carrying a shopping basket provided by the supermarket and picking up half-price pork in the ingredients section, and it's rare to have a big sale today, so let's buy a little more and go home......

Hey, isn't that guy a transfer student today?

As I passed by the supermarket's beverage section, I caught a glimpse of a petite figure with a red belt on his head crouching in front of the shelf, holding different drinks in each hand and looking distressed.

"That, is that Furukawa-san?"

"Huh?! That ......."

Furukawa-san's jump when she heard my voice, even though she didn't quite understand why she hid the drink behind her back......

"Speaking of which, I haven't introduced myself yet...... I'm Ikusaku Kawakami, your new tablemate, please advise."

「…… Hello, Kawakami-san."

She put the drink in her hand back on the shelf and sighed softly:

"I still don't know what to choose......

"Furukawa-san, do you want to buy a drink?"

"Isn't it half price today...... I thought I'd buy something to go home and stock up."

Hoarding?

I looked at Furukawa-san, who didn't take anything empty-handed, and couldn't help asking:

"Furukawa-san, this is just entering the supermarket?"

"I'm ashamed...... It's been more than half an hour......

Is this what a half-hour walk around the supermarket should look like?

Seeing that my face was full of disbelief, Furukawa-san's words quickly explained:

"It's really hard to choose, this kind of thing, whether it's half-price pork, half-price beef, orange juice, or coke...... I thought I wanted to buy something, but when I held it in my hand, I felt like it was good...... I kept struggling in my heart, thinking about it, and I had been squatting here for half an hour......

「…… Could it be the reason why Furukawa-san stood on it for so long this morning?"

"Ah, in the morning."

Furukawa-san, scratching his head, said embarrassedly:

"Actually, I'm just wondering where to sit......

"What about those with your eyes closed?"

「…… Point the soldiers, point the generals, and sit where they are."

Why is such a naïve selection method still used in high school......

"Anyway, why does Furukawa-san look at me from time to time today?"

"Ahem...... It's because Kawakami's position is special."

"The King's Homeland?"

「？！ I didn't think you knew that!"

What is this tone of surprise that seems to have found its own kind...... Furukawa-san, your status in my heart has changed from an iceberg beautiful girl transfer student to a two-dimensional dead house with serious choice difficulties, right?

"I thought Furukawa-san was the kind of person who didn't get along well."

"Hey...... No wonder Kawakami-san's aura is the same as mine...... It turned out to be the same kind~"

Looking at the smiling classmate Furukawa, I silently added a "middle two" label to her in my heart, is it true that people can't be good-looking?