Chapter 369: The Club Without Ogawa (2)

"Err… She's right, Onoda-kun. Stop that. You're not intruding at all, these guys are just not used to having you around."

Arisa-senpai hurriedly said as she scanned the room with her eyes to get their agreement.

However, not everyone answered favorably to that statement. There's Izumi-senpai with her knitted eyebrows as she mouthed something to Arisa-senpai. And there's Tadano who kept his silence.

Either way, I expected this outcome.

If anything, it's the truth that my presence was disrupting the harmony in this room.

When Nami released my cheeks and I turned my head to Arisa-senpai, we couldn't help but exchange wry smiles to each other.

"Alright, I won't apologize. Instead, please let me stay here!"

After saying that in a louder voice than normal, I stood up and bowed once more.

Startled by my voice, Izumi-senpai ended up being taken aback and Tadano frowned deeply.

In the end, the two released a sigh before finally giving their acknowledgement.

"That's a great shout, Ruu. Now sit, this is a rare chance, let me be this close to you." With a meaningful smile, Nami pulled me back down before resting her head on my shoulder. One of her arms also slipped behind me as it ended up holding me to my waist.

As the other members of the club saw that, they all had different reactions. Naturally, the most notable was Hina who looked as if she wanted to do the same.

However, with our sitting arrangement, Nami was sandwiched between us so there's no way for her to do the same.

In the end, she settled with stealthily stretching her arms from behind Nami and tugging onto the hem of my uniform. She's asking for me to hold her hand.

When I took her hand, I could imagine that we became similar to that notable photo on the internet.

Holding another girl's hand when the guy's girlfriend was leaning onto him.

Soon enough, they finally resumed their Club Activity with me as an observer.

If not for Arisa-senpai, the time would most likely run out with a thick veil of awkwardness inside the room.

They're the Student Support Club so their activity was actually from their 1st client and no, it's not from Shizu's Student Council.

It's from a teacher in charge of the Mentor Program.

He tasked the club to sort out the report sent by mentors.

Right. As it turns out, the Mentors had the duty to report what happened during the program.

Thinking back to why Izumi-senpai was somewhat against my presence here, it solved the mystery.

She probably didn't want me to read about her report on me.

Naturally, it got me curious that I whispered to Nami to look for Izumi and Arisa-senpai's report.

Still with that meaningful smile of hers, Nami nodded.

With a lot of hands working here, there's a possibility for her to miss it but that's fine.

Because when I whispered to Nami, I made sure that Izumi-senpai was looking at me.

As soon as I finished, I met Izumi-senpai's slightly glaring eyes.

Naturally, I also gave her a smile but the effect was… Izumi-senpai raised a fist as if warning me that I would taste that if I continued with what I was thinking.

"Izumi, what are you doing?"

And seeing her friend's silly antics, Arisa-senpai couldn't help but ask.

Before she could follow Izumi-senpai's gaze, I took back my gaze and acted as if I was focusing on watching Nami.

"Look here, Ruu."

A few minutes later, Nami lifted a paper and showed it to me.

Looking at the handwriting and at the name of the Mentor, it was Arisa-senpai's report.

"Hey! No reading!" And noticing her familiar handwriting, Arisa-senpai shouted before lunging forward to take it from Nami.

She's successful but I already read the first half of the content.

Although she wrote Ogawa's name, what was written there was what happened to us in that abandoned classroom. Obviously, minus the fact that I tried hugging her and telling her that I am interested in her.

She just noted that 'Ogawa-kun' was a great mentee that had the true passion to learn from someone.

"Onoda-kun, why are you smiling?"

"Nothing, senpai. Ogawa's lucky to have you as his Mentor."

"You don't say. You also have Izumi as your Mentor, Onoda-kun." And from the side, Kikuchi lifted a paper with Izumi-senpai's name on it.

"Hey, Noriko put that down!" Izumi-senpai instantly shouted. Because of the distance, she couldn't do what Arisa-senpai did.

Using only her voice naturally resulted in failure.

Before she could stand up, Kikuchi began reading it.

"Onoda-kun is an exemplary mentee. He's easy to teach and he's someone easy to get along with…"

The first half goes like that but the second half which probably pertained to Tuesday flipped over.

"Onoda-kun is a hateful and shameless guy. Instead of learning from me, I ended up learning something new from him. I honestly don't look forward to seeing him again but for this program, I will persevere."

When Kikuchi finished reading the whole report, Izumi-senpai was already slumping down her desk with her exposed ear as red as a ripe tomato.

"Is this true, Onoda-kun? That you're hateful and shameless?" Ignoring the overheating Izumi-senpai from embarrassment, Kikuchi asked me a question.

When that happened, everyone in the club except Izumi-senpai perked their ears to hear my answer.

Well, the five girls here apart from Kikuchi herself already know the answer from it but perhaps they're anticipating how I would answer it, everyone's gazes fell on my person.

"Am I hateful and shameless? The answer is yes."

"Wow. Admitting it like that. Can you elaborate about it?"

"Let's see. If Izumi-senpai is fine with it then… I will say it."

"Don't you dare!" Izumi-senpai roared and this time, she stood up and went over to my side.

Due to that, Nami and Hina, who's connected to me with both of their hands, removed their hold on me.

As soon as Izumi-senpai arrived behind me, her arms put me in a chokehold. However, instead of my neck, she covered my mouth.

And because of that, my head pressed onto her soft hills. Although it's not as big as my Kana, I believed that it would spill in my hands if I tried cupping it.

Ah. Wait. My perverseness acted up again. How did I even analyze it through my head?

"Nami, I'm sorry but I need to silence this boyfriend of yours."

"Un. Feel free to do that, Izumi. Just don't break his neck. I still want to walk with him today."

Nami winked at me while keeping that meaningful smile. Just looking at her eyes, this girl was enjoying this.

In any case, I was also enjoying this part. Although Izumi-senpai was restraining me, a little exertion of force could release me.

Her hold was weak after all. Or I was just sufficiently stronger than her.

Nonetheless, I wouldn't do that, I was still enjoying the soft sensation behind me. And until now, the girl was clueless about it.

She had a smug smile as if I was currently in the palm of her hand.

"Rest assured. Arisa, take that paper from Noriko."

Arisa-senpai who was watching everything unfold had an expression of helplessness on her face. For sure, she wanted to reprimand her friend for what she's doing but seeing how elated Izumi-senpai was, she could only shake her head and follow her.

In the end, I was only released by Izumi-senpai's hold when Arisa-senpai managed to take the paper from Kikuchi.

Ah. That's a nice experience but the girl in question was oblivious to that… I turned that pseudo-victory of hers to my favor.

Without Ogawa, this club was turning out to be fun. Ah, except that frowning Tadano.