"Do you… hate your pervy bro?"
Ginjo's eyes slightly widen at her question and then sighs. He then sets his sights on his brother, who was talking about perverted stuff with his friends.
"No… I wouldn't say I hate him," Ginjo says before looking back at Koneko. "I'm more or less disappointed in him. When it comes to his breast fetish and how he's unable to control it, and other perverted tendencies, he could be the most frustrating person to deal with."
His eyes then soften as he looks towards the ground.
"But deep down, he's a really great brother to have. I know it's hard to believe me, but I speak the truth when I say that he does have a good side. It's just that his breast fetish and other pervy things involving women are preventing him from having that good side of him turn up."
Koneko raises an eyebrow at Ginjo's statement. The tone used in his voice told her that he was telling the truth. But, as Ginjo predicted, she had a hard time believing him, judging from the look he saw on her face.
Koneko then looks up towards the sky and narrows her eyes at the clouds.
"Siblings can be quite troublesome…"
Ginjo heard what she said, and laughed gently.
"You can say that again."
Koneko's eyes slightly widen, surprised that Ginjo heard what she whispered. She turns her head to him and was about to say something else to him.
"Look! It's the lost prince!"
The two first years blink when they hear a girl shout out to the other girls of the school. They follow where the boy was pointing and their eyes lay upon a handsome second-year man with short blonde hair, blue eyes, and a mole under his left eye.
Ginjo knew him as Yuuto Kiba. He was known by most of the girls as the Lost Prince of Kuoh before Ginjo earned the name the Midnight Prince because of how dark of a black his hair is, and every time one of his fangirls try to ask him out on a date, like one of them was attempting to right now, he would always turn down their offer, which happened to be the same fate as the girl he saw asking him out.
Ginjo rolled his eyes at his fangirls, which didn't go unnoticed by Koneko.
"Honestly, those girls can try all they want, but they'll never score a date with him."
Koneko nods in agreement, keeping her neutral stare on him.
"You got some girls after you too, you know," she reminds him. "To be honest, I'm quite surprised you turn them down."
Ginjo chuckles at her statement while looking up towards the sky, remembering some of the girls who walked up to him and asked him to date them right out of the blue.
"I'm not like most guys, Koneko-san. I refuse the girls who ask me out because they ask me right out of the blue and I don't know them. Sure, they are cute and beautiful, but it's always important to not judge a book by its cover. You have to know their likes, dislikes, hobbies, etc. And most importantly, your date needs to see you as you. If I were to get a girlfriend, I want the girl I'm dating to accept me for who I am inside and out. I don't give a damn about their breast size, butt size, or anything like that, I just want them to see me as me, and accept me as me. Plain and simple."
Koneko was taken back by his speech, and how serious he sounded when he spoke those words. The passion he had when it came to talking about a significant other truly surprised her. It made her opinion on Ginjo change in the most positive way possible. She first thought of him as a sane guy who wasn't as big of a pervert as his older brother and never gets into the tendencies his brother gets into with his friends. But after that speech, she now sees Ginjo for who he really is at heart: A man who's respectful to other people.
"Oh yeah, Koneko-san?"
Koneko was snapped out of her thoughts when Ginjo called out to her and shot her eyes at him.
"Y-Yeah?"
"I've been meaning to ask you," Koneko was having a weird feeling with how he said that sentence, seeing that he was scratching his cheek while his eyes looked away shyly, but decided to keep listening, not wanting to jump to conclusions. "You've always talked to me like a normal person despite me being the younger brother of Ise-nii, even after we started knowing each other more a few days later. Why is that?"
Koneko blinks at his question. She blinked again, and again until she finally answered:
"Because you have more self-control than your pervy bro." She then turns away from him, and a rare, small smile forms from her lips as she finishes with: "You're also a very sweet man."
"Eh?" Ginjo didn't hear the last part since she said it in a quiet tone. "What was that?"