Chapter 358: Dog or Cat?
After that, the three of them watched another horror movie.
After finishing it, Shirogane Miyuki felt his stomach churning, so he decided to surrender.
"Secretary Fujiwara, actually the reason we're watching bloody movies is because of next week's home economics class."
"Home economics class?" Chika tilted her head, then recalled what the home economics teacher had said at the end of today's class.
"Because I'm really scared of fish, I can't handle things like cleaning or preparing them at all." Shirogane Miyuki said, thinking to himself that Fujiwara Chika would definitely mock him for it.
But unexpectedly, Fujiwara Chika didn't laugh. Instead, she comforted him: "It's okay, everyone gets scared when dealing with live fish themselves."
'Secretary Fujiwara, so you actually know how to comfort others, huh.' Shirogane Miyuki sighed inwardly.
In his eyes, the possibility of Fujiwara Chika stepping on someone who had already fallen into the well was far higher.
"But for a male student like Shirogane-kun to be this afraid of fish, that's pretty rare." Fujiwara Chika covered her mouth and giggled twice: "Weak~~~."
(ꐦ○_○) (•̆ꈊ•̆ ) weak~
I knew it!!! I knew this woman could never actually comfort anyone! Shirogane Miyuki cursed his own naivety and stupidity in his heart!
Just because of one pleasant sentence from Secretary Fujiwara, he thought she was a good person!
That was like being blinded by a leaf—only seeing what's right in front while ignoring the filthy, nameless things lurking beneath Fujiwara Chika's shiny exterior!
"Umu, I really am weak, so I want to ask someone for help."
The moment Shirogane Miyuki said that, fear briefly flashed across Fujiwara Chika's face.
At that moment, Chika also recalled the memory of when she had once taught Shirogane Miyuki how to sing.
Her voice trembled as she said: "President Shirogane, this is something… you'll have to overcome on your own."
(｡Ó﹏Ò｡)
Chika wasn't afraid of fish, nor of blood or gore—the thing she feared most was Shirogane Miyuki.
"It's fine, I'm just… not very good at it."
"Not very good? Are you sure it's just not very good?" Fujiwara Chika immediately reacted like a robot hearing a trigger word.
She had heard that phrase "not very good" from Shirogane Miyuki more than once—and everyone knew how those had turned out.
"Actually, I wanted to rely on my own effort to overcome it… but there's no time left." Shirogane Miyuki sighed.
Fujiwara Chika suddenly said: "Shirogane-kun, there's something I'm really curious about!"
"Why do you always come to ask Saki-kun or me to teach you?"
Shirogane Miyuki replied naturally, "Because the only ones who can see this weak and miserable side of me are you two!"
"If anyone else found out, I'd want to die."
In the student council, the only ones who knew Shirogane Miyuki was actually useless were Sakurai Saki and Fujiwara Chika.
In the eyes of the two kouhai and Shinomiya Kaguya, Shirogane Miyuki could completely be called a genius.
There was nothing he wasn't good at.
"…Just us." Fujiwara Chika muttered, a sense of mission rising in her heart!
This foolish boy—he seemed like he could only rely on his "father and mother," which were her and Saki-kun!
Chika: ( ⸝⸝´꒳`⸝⸝) ara~
"Leave it to me!"
Fujiwara Chika, a kind girl, once she's decided to help someone, she won't easily give up.
Sakurai Saki had planned to escape, but he soon realized there was no way out.
Every retreat had been blocked by Fujiwara Chika.
"Shirogane, do you want to try touching the fish first?" he asked.
Compared to watching bloody movies, it was better to just try doing it directly.
Many things become much simpler once you actually do them.
"Alright."
...
The next day.
"So this is the reason you guys brought fish into the student council room?" Shinomiya Kaguya sighed.
The number of people who knew the "useless" side of Shirogane Miyuki had increased by one!
"Actually, I already noticed that President Shirogane wasn't very skilled in certain things."
This went back to that one time at the karaoke.
His rap was unbelievably bad—so bad it was unlistenable.
Other things too, like when she heard him speaking French last time—Shinomiya Kaguya didn't think it was much better.
The school was about to hold a welcoming event for exchange students from France, so Shirogane Miyuki—who knew absolutely no French—had started practicing. Previously, he had studied English to prepare for university life abroad, and now he had to learn French as well. The pressure must have been enormous.
"Not a fish! It has a proper name! It's called Nametaro." Fujiwara Chika squatted beside the bathtub, reached her hand into the water, and played with the little fish she called Nametaro.
This fish seemed to be a kind of ornamental fish, so it had a rather pretty appearance, with a long, shimmering tail.
"You even went as far as naming the fish…" Shinomiya Kaguya rested her right hand on her cheek, supporting her right elbow with her left, her face filled with helplessness.
"(ノ _ <,, )
Kaguya felt that only Chika would do something like this.
Now she had given the fish a name, so what would they do later? Wasn't this fish supposed to be used for President Shirogane's knife practice?
"Good boy~" Fujiwara Chika released the fish, then looked toward Shirogane Miyuki. "Shirogane-kun, you should try too."
Shirogane nodded.
Before touching the fish, he asked, "This fish… it won't bite me, right?"
"Shirogane-kun, this isn't a piranha."
Besides, piranhas don't actually eat people.
"It feels… kind of acceptable." Shirogane Miyuki said as he touched the fish's body.
Sakurai Saki, sitting on the nearby sofa, watched as the three of them surrounded the fish.
"Oh oh, it's moving."
Wasn't that obvious?
"Geeh, it splashed water on my face."
Watching the three of them play as if with a pet, Sakurai Saki asked a "forbidden" question: "Do you guys like dogs or cats more?"
The debate between cat lovers and dog lovers is like the debates of Intel or AMD, Genshin or Wuwa, T1 or Gen.G — all topics that can easily ignite a war.
The argument between cat people and dog people isn't about whether cats or dogs are cute — obviously, both are.
But which one is cuter? — that's the real trigger.
"..." The three of them stopped moving at the same time.
Shirogane Miyuki was the first to give his opinion: "I like cats."
The two girls replied, "Dogs."
There's no need to mention Fujiwara Chika — she already had a pet dog at home.
As for Shinomiya Kaguya, she had been scratched by a cat when she was little, and since then had developed a fear of them.
And so, the faction war immediately erupted!
"Shirogane-kun, cold-blooded creatures like cats, who could even like them? And they always act like they're so smart."
"Cold-blooded? That's just because cats are shy, which makes them seem distant — and that's exactly what makes them adorable!" Shirogane Miyuki retorted passionately!
"President Shirogane, dogs are loyal, straightforward, and caring — don't you think dogs are way cuter than cats?"
One side was the "noble master," the other the "loyal servant."
People who like cats are all total M-types!!! (Extremist statement purely represents Shinomiya Kaguya's personal opinion)
"Cats are cuter!"
"Dogs are cuter!" ×2
After saying that, all three turned toward Sakurai Saki. "Sakurai/Sakurai-san/Saki-kun, which do you think is cuter?"
Sakurai Saki rubbed his chin.
After a few seconds of thought, he replied:
"Dogs or cats, either's fine. Personally, I like orcas more."
Between cats and dogs, he chose orca.
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