COTE: A Man On A Mission || Love is War?

Little angel Kushida-chan also sat obediently in her seat, which made it very easy for Kamuro-san, who was assigned by Sakayanagi to keep an eye on her.

However, it is concerning that Kushida seems to be in a somewhat depressed mood.

Yes....Kushida-chan is in a slightly depressed state right now.

Originally, Hikigaya hadn’t told her that he would be participating in the performance, so she felt a little left out, which made her feel uneasy.

Now, Ichinose Honami has become extremely dazzling again.

Kushida-chan knew before that she could not compare to Ichinose Honami in many aspects.

Now, her eyes are fixed on the shining brilliance of Ichinose on stage, girl like this will surely attract Hikigaya’s attention.

Eh....So Kushida’s going to lose here?

She had even received the ticket that Hikigaya-kun had given her to move up to next class, but she hadn’t been able to wait until graduation, and now she was going to lose.

Oh no....

Kushida-chan suddenly thought that although Hikigaya dated her in order to relieve her psychological pressure, he also performed his duties as a boyfriend well.

’He will appear when he is needed. In other words, he is a responsible person. Well, since he has already paid me, it means that he is ready to take responsibility, right? So, responsible boss would not abandon his daily sexy worker, right? So, Kushida-chan, you haven’t lost yet! This man has a bottom line. Hmph!~’

”Oye, what’s wrong with you?” Kamuro-san noticed that Kushida seemed to be full of fighting spirit again.

This is changing so fast.

So it turns out that she is not very good at guessing what others are thinking, and that is probably why Kamuro-san is alone and has few friends.

But Ichinose is really amazing.

As a spectator, Kamuro-san was also attracted by performance on stage. ’Then....Sakayanagi you are an idiot!’

Kamuro-san thought of how Sakayanagi deliberately showed the piano music to Hikigaya Hachiman on the ship, but she didn’t shine, but made other girls attractive in Hikigaya’s eyes as well.

Can you really win?

Kamuro-san was very skeptical.

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The last song ended quickly.

”Encore! Encore!”

But the atmosphere was still lively, and some members even started to make noise and wanted the show to continue.

”Just give me one night! One night!!”

”I’ll I’..fucking will tame you!~”

As for this rude request... or rather, request of not preparing other songs at all, Hikigaya-kun and Ichika quickly rejected it.

”Thank you all for coming. As the tour brochure says, current time is half past four, and five o’clock is time for off-campus guests to leave.”

”Everyone’s time is precious. I don’t recommend continuing this.”

The vice president of student council, Hachiman Hikigaya, took microphone directly from host on the side.

And just a few short sentences instantly made the students keep quiet, plus faculty and staff also realized essence of this school.

As for guests, they realized that if they continued to stay here, would not be able to say goodbye to their families later.

After all, many of the guests are students’ family members, so naturally hope to stay with their children for a while longer, or talk to them more.

”Damn it! Thu....”

The guests stopped complaining, calmed down, and began to leave in an orderly manner.

”Brother has indeed become a little different.” Komachi said goodbye to her brother who was still standing on the stage, and then did same to her ’sister’ Sakayanagi and started walking in the direction of Horikita Manabu.

On one hand, she is now shouldering Sakayanagi Arisu’s mission.

On other hand, she finally met Manabu’s younger sister, Horikita Suzune.



She is a super beautiful big sister with long straight black hair coldly glaring at random people who blocked their way with a stupid face.

The moment she saw Suzune, the corners of Komachi’s mouth curled up slightly.

She had the urge to complain crazily.

’My brother really won the prize. The girls he meets, or the girls he looks for as backups, are all super beautiful. No wonder when he found me staring at Yukinoshita-senpai in a daze, he said I had never seen the world! Yes, if you always look at such super beautiful girls, you will definitely have resistance! But Onii-chan, don’t you think that there are too many beautiful older sisters in your school?’

While looking at Horikita Suzune’s appearance, Komachi continued to update her evaluation of her brother.

’He didn’t choose Sakayanagi-nee, is it because he likes older sisters with long black hair? What an excessive boy! He has no idea that girls nowadays still have potential for development. So, it’s stupid Onii-chan, Hachiman!’

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”What a great success!”

”Amasawa-daimo!”

”Yukinoshita-san!”

”And Hikigaya-senpai.”

The first-year class A students who were in charge of work inside venue spoke excitedly while waiting for Hachiman and others to leave the stage.

In fact, they knew turnover of this project before, andclass would definitely win, so they could get an additional 300 points in evaluation score.

As a student in Class A, they felt relieved.

However, performance had not yet ended, so everyone was suppressing their excitement.

Now that everything has settled, they can finally relax a little.

”You have worked hard, but you have to clean up the scene today and restore it to its original state,” However, Amasawa quickly dismissed these people who are trying to get out of their job by changing subject.

She was now well-aware about these people’s slacking off.

”Good! Good!”

The first-year class A students around her responded with a straight face.

Very self-disciplined.

There was just a little commotion backstage at the entrance here.

”Sorry. This is backstage. No outsiders are welcome to enter for time being.”

It seems like someone wants to come backstage.

”Eh...really? But I’m leaving school soon, so I really want to see my sister again.....”

Voice of the person who was about to come here sounded familiar.

”It’s just—” The student who was performing his duty to stop the person looked troubled.

”Let her come over.” At this time, Yukinoshita, who had just come down from the stage and was drinking water, walked over.

”Yes, Mam!” The person on duty immediately let Yukinoshita pass when he saw that it was her.

”Hey, isn’t Yukino doing a good job?” The older sister who was allowed to pass and looked 70% similar to Yukinoshita Yukino.

She is very beautiful, but her style seems to be different from Yukino’s.

”This is.....” Random boy in charge made a dumb face.

”My sister. She’s causing you trouble.”

”No, no.” The student who actually dressed as a gate boy but was actually a girl said quickly and stepped away.

’Yukinoshita-san was so dazzling today. I used to think that she was not as good as Amasawa-san and not as strong as her, but she was also extremely outstanding!’ She is about to become a fan of the other party.

”Hey-hey!” Seeing there was no one in the way, Yukinoshita Haruno directly handed the large bouquet of flowers in her hand to Yukinoshita Yukino.

”You did a good job, Yukino. I look forward to the day when you graduate.” As said this, she really pushed the flowers to Yukinoshita Yukino.

Yukino probably didn’t expect her sister to do this, so she was stunned for a moment.

By the time she reacted, a large bouquet of flowers had already fallen into her arms.

Hikigaya-kun, who was standing nearby, was surprised. ’She actually did it. This sister got the flowers from Hiratsuka-sensei and used them as a gift....what a shameless person...’

”Hmm... Hikigaya-kun, right?” After throwing the flowers to her sister, Haruno looked at Hachiman with a probing brain, ”Actually, bouquet just now belonged to my friend. She wanted to give you a return gift, but she thought it would have a bad influence, so I borrowed the flowers to offer to you.”

Is that so? It turned out that the flowers were not for her, so her sister didn’t recognize her. Haruno was just teasing her.

Yukinoshita Yukino’s expression seems to be a little depressing. It’s very easy to understand.

Return gift?

Amasawa Ichika, who was also paying attention to this place, focused her big eyes over.

”Is that Hiratsuka-sensei?”

”Yes. Shizuka is very happy about your performance in this school. And you should go, Hikigaya-kun, after all, Shizuka is your benefactor. Now there is still half an hour before the guests leave school. She is waiting for you at the railing....”

’Oh? Shizuka Hiratsuka? A name I’ve never heard of. She is also Hikigaya-senpai’s benefactor?’ So, Amasawa remained quiet but paid her full attention to what was going on.

Ichinose was called out just after she returned to backstage. The guests were leaving soon, so she had to go see her mother and sister again.

After all, normally, the next time we meet would be a year and a half later.

Hikigaya-kun, on the other hand, went to where Hiratsuka-sensei was according to the location indicated by Haruno.

The position given by other party is very subtle.

’Because that was the place where I first saw Horikita being scolded by her brother, where me and Kushida also kicked the railings together....’



While Hachiman was resisting, he happened to see Hiratsuka-sensei with her hands in her pockets, staring at the artificial lake in front of her.

The wind blew towards her, causing her beautiful long hair to float gently.

’I don’t know why, but even though she’s a female teacher, she gives people a very cool feeling....’

Perhaps she noticed someone coming, so Miss Hiratsuka put her hand on the railing and said, ”Hikigaya, I didn’t expect to be back in this school again. This place is very familiar. It’s the place where I first encountered Hoshinomiya kicking the railing and scolding Chabashira.”

”I was also surprised at that time. If it were you, what would you do if you encountered such a situation?”

”.....”

Good job.

Hikigaya-kun instantly realized that this Hiratsuka-sensei didn’t just come back as a guest to return the favor.

Although the big bouquet of flowers she brought was taken away by Haruno, she returned the gift in another way.

We will share the experience of us seniors who are graduates of this school.

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