When Asakura returned to the classroom, he found only Yuigahama Yui left inside.
"Where are the others?" Asakura frowned, asking the girl who was still diligently making paper rings.
"Ahaha... They all had things to do and left. But it's okay, I can finish it by myself." Yuigahama Yui was startled by Asakura's voice. After looking up and seeing it was him, she showed a relieved expression and smiled as usual.
"'Ahaha' your head." Asakura walked up to her, rolled up a piece of colored paper, and tapped her head with it. "Being too nice has a limit!"
"Aw..." Yuigahama Yui looked at him pitifully, holding her head.
Asakura couldn't help but sigh at the sight.
This child was too honest, but in this world, honest people were the most easily taken advantage of.
He snapped his fingers. "Snake."
The untouched colored papers instantly disintegrated into numerous small Snakes, piled densely together. If someone afraid of Snakes saw this, they would probably faint instantly.
The small Snakes seemed to receive a silent command, swiftly intertwining their bodies, then biting their own tails in an Ouroboros shape. In just a few minutes, they transformed into long Snake chains.
Asakura waved his finger to dispel the spell.
And so, in the next instant, the small Snakes reverted to paper pieces. Despite having no glue, they remained firmly connected end-to-end. The paper chains, which would have taken a lot of time and effort to complete, were finished in an instant.
"Oh~ That's wonderful~" Yuigahama Yui clapped for Asakura, her eyes full of stars.
As a result, Asakura tapped her head again with the rolled-up colored paper.
Although it didn't hurt at all, the girl still held her head and looked at him pitifully.
"You're not allowed to handle the coloring or anything else afterwards! Let those guys do it themselves, got it?!" Asakura warned her sternly.
"Um..." Yuigahama Yui fiddled with her slender, pale fingers, looking at him a little awkwardly.
Asakura raised the colored paper stick as if to tap her, and the girl quickly covered her head again, but instead, Asakura pinched her nose.
"Aw..." She could only let out a somewhat comical grunt. "I, I got it..."
"Let's go, the Magic Club has a gathering today." Asakura then tossed the colored paper aside and said to the girl.
"Takuma-kun, is very gentle..." the girl said softly, looking at Asakura's back.
Asakura shivered, re-rolled the colored paper, and tapped her head again. "You speak properly to me."
"Huh?" Seeing Asakura's almost allergic reaction, the girl tilted her head and asked, puzzled, "I was complimenting you?"
"Yui, do you know? Saying 'gentle' is like the comment on a report card that says 'This child is very smart but just doesn't apply herself to studying.' It's what you say when there's nothing else to compliment."
"Takuma-kun's view on gentleness is too biased..." Yuigahama Yui muttered, but seeing that Asakura genuinely disliked being called 'gentle,' she didn't press the issue further. "Speaking of which, why are we having a club gathering today? Is it to celebrate something?"
"If I had to say..." Asakura thought for a moment and replied, "it's probably to celebrate the increase in Yanami."
"Increase in what?" The girl asked, puzzled.
"Yanami..." Asakura said.
Yuigahama Yui felt as if the conversation didn't make sense. "?"
Until a few minutes later.
Inside the Service Club clubroom.
"It really increased!" Yuigahama Yui was completely stunned, looking at the two Yanamis in the clubroom.
"Increased what?"
"Yanami... No! Takuma-kun, don't joke around..." Yuigahama Yui asked incredulously, "Why is this happening?"
"If I knew why, it wouldn't be so hard."
Asakura spread his hands.
"Could it be a Curse rampage?" Yuigahama Yui asked softly.
As one of the veterans of the Magic Club, the girl naturally had more knowledge than the likes of Chihaya Anon.
"We've tested it; it shouldn't be that..." Asakura shook his head.
"I see. Is it a curse, like the one Kaju experienced?"
"That can probably be ruled out too..." Asakura shook his head again.
"..."
The young girl had run out of ideas.
"Since things have come to this..." Asakura patted her head and comforted her, "Let's eat first."
"Oh..." Yuigahama said dejectedly.
By the way, at this moment, the Yanamis were pestering Yukino to exchange the items she ordered online for snacks.
"This Matatabi biscuit looks delicious, let's buy this!"
"That's for cats, right? For dogs, I recommend small dried meat treats!"
"Shut up, you aren't real dogs!"
Yukinoshita Yukino was so annoyed by these two that her eyes were starting to resemble those of a dead fish.
"Oh my..."
Just then, Chihaya Anon and Asagumo Chihaya slowly walked into the club room. Asagumo Chihaya looked at the two Yanamis and couldn't help but show a hint of surprise: "Mitosis?"
"That kind of situation usually doesn't happen in human individuals, does it?" Chihaya Anon muttered softly.
"Chih... Asagumo, could you please make some tea for everyone?" Asakura put away his phone and waved to Asagumo Chihaya. "Gokou will take a while to get here, so let's have some pre-meal snacks first."
"Okay..." Asagumo Chihaya skillfully took out the tea set and refreshments from the nearby cabinet (Yanami: Why does she know the safe's password?!), then, while making tea, asked, "Is Kaju not coming?"
"Kaju-chan said if she doesn't go home, her older brother will starve to death..." Asakura replied.
"Who are Gokou and Kaju-chan?"
"Was I a fake club member all along?" Yanami couldn't help but complain loudly when she heard their conversation.
The gentle Yuigahama immediately went to comfort her, but instead, she was flustered by the two Yanamis working together.
After this mitosis (?), she seemed to have become even more willful.
"You've met Gokou; she's the junior who borrowed your uniform. She'll bring it back today, so the Yanami staying overnight tomorrow won't have nothing to wear..." Asakura said. "As for Kaju-chan... well, she's Nukumizu Kaju's younger sister."
"That uniform might be a bit uncomfortable to wear..."
"Thank you, Asakura-kun, for the perfunctory introduction." The two Yanamis, due to their different future situations, had different concerns.
But Asagumo Chihaya, who was making tea, suddenly stopped what she was doing.
"Staying overnight?" She looked at Yanami suspiciously. "Yanami... are you staying somewhere overnight today?"
"Because I've become like this now..." the Yanami who needed to stay overnight replied innocently, "So one of me has to stay here... But it's okay, Asakura-kun will stay with me tonight, so it should be fine."
Then she noticed that Asagumo Chihaya's expression not only didn't relax but became even more serious.
It, it should be fine... right?