After deciding to give up, I became popular

“It's Hamster Taro!”

Summer River Melody: “……”

“Secretary Fujiwara, secretly keeping animals from the breeding garden violates school regulations. My suggestion is that you quickly return it.” Kaguya Shinomiya looked at the hamster in Chika Fujiwara's hand with a gaze as if examining livestock, her voice cold.

That damned big-breasted cow, daring to interrupt her private time with the president, is unforgivable!

“Eh? I don't want to, I just picked up Hamster Taro, let me play… play with it for a while.”

Of course, Chika Fujiwara was unwilling to return the hamster just like that, so she ran forward and hugged Kaguya Shinomiya's arm, acting coquettishly.

“Eh? Kaguya-chan, you changed your hairstyle?! It looks so good!”

“Ah… um, you noticed…” Kaguya Shinomiya said perfunctorily, then glanced at Summer River Melody without leaving a trace.

She felt a little regret in her heart. Although it was happy to be noticed, why wasn't it the president who noticed first?

Summer River Melody's breathing paused, and countless thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant.

Except for individual cases, people usually only choose to change their hairstyle when their mood changes drastically. This theory naturally also applies to Kaguya Shinomiya.

But why? Why suddenly change her hairstyle? Has something happened in the past few days that changed Kaguya Shinomiya's mood?

Apart from his resignation, there is nothing… No! There is still something!

Not because of his resignation, but because of the impact of his resignation—

After the position of student council president was vacant, Miyuki Shirogane turned the tide and resolved the crisis of the student council's disintegration, coupled with the fierce eyes caused by lack of sleep…

Yes, if there was no interference from him, an outsider, Kaguya Shinomiya would naturally fall in love with Miyuki Shirogane, and even if he tried to stop it, it would only delay the process.

So he really can't win after all. A fake can never replace the real thing… Or, should he put it another way? He didn't even notice that the girl he liked had changed her hairstyle at the first moment. He had already lost the qualification to like Kaguya Shinomiya.

Summer River Melody was now extremely grateful that he didn't confess to Kaguya Shinomiya at the beginning, otherwise it would have been another self-inflicted humiliation, and he wouldn't even have had the chance to be friends with everyone in the student council.

Unprecedentedly, Summer River Melody began to find Chika Fujiwara pleasing to the eye. If she hadn't suddenly appeared and interrupted, he would have made another unforgivable mistake.

015. The Shinomiya Family's Women Never Admit Defeat!

“Why did you suddenly want to change your hairstyle? Kaguya-chan, your previous hairstyle was very beautiful.” Chika Fujiwara looked at Kaguya with curiosity. Her amazing sixth sense told her that there must be something strange about this!

Sniff… it's the smell of a special event!

“It's nothing, I just suddenly wanted to change my mood…” Kaguya Shinomiya pushed away Chika Fujiwara's bear hug, then secretly glanced at Summer River Melody.

Seeing that he had no reaction, she couldn't help but feel disappointed.

She had listened to Hayasaka's advice and changed her hairstyle, thinking that she could attract the president's attention, but the president didn't notice at all! How insensitive!

But it doesn't matter! It's impossible for her to give up just like that!

If there is no topic, then forcibly create a topic. If there is no good impression, then constantly create common events. If the heart rate value is not enough, then rely on the suspension bridge effect! Nothing can stop her from moving forward. Love is war, and she will never admit defeat!

“Speaking of which, there's someone I've been paying attention to recently…” Kaguya Shinomiya supported her cheek with one hand, with a smile on her face, her eyes full of tenderness.

“Eh eh eh? Someone you're paying attention to? Could it be… I want to hear it, I want to hear it!”

“Well, how should I put it… He's a very cute boy, hardworking, strong, never defeated by difficulties, and very good at pleasing me…”

“Ugh! Isn't that love! Who is it, who is it? Kaguya-chan, tell me quickly!”

“Eh, do you want to say it here?” Kaguya Shinomiya looked shy, looking very embarrassed.

“Um… who is it? President, who do you think it could be?”

Kaguya Shinomiya looked at Summer River Melody, but the latter just shook his head and didn't take up the topic.

“I personally think this is your private matter, Shinomiya. There's no need to tell it just to satisfy Fujiwara's curiosity. It's better to let it happen naturally.”

This was naturally his sincere words, but it also contained a hint of selfishness—he didn't want to hear Kaguya say she liked someone in person.

“Really, Old Man President, so rigid!” Chika Fujiwara stretched out a finger and shook it at Summer River Melody, indicating that she didn't agree with his point of view.

“Love is the fertilizer for a girl's growth! Love topics never go out of style!”

Love Detective Chika Fujiwara is here!

“If the president doesn't guess, then let me, the love detective, do it!”

Chika Fujiwara suddenly took out a detective hat from somewhere and put it on her head, then took out a magnifying glass and posed pretentiously.

“The truth is always one, and that is… Ishigami!”

Before Chika Fujiwara's voice could fade, Yu Ishigami, who was frantically snapping up fried noodle bread at a small convenience store, suddenly shivered.

“Why do I feel like someone wants me to take the blame?” Ishigami Yu's heart palpitated, but just as he was stunned, he was squeezed out of the battlefield by others.

“Damn it! My fried noodle bread!”

At the same time, in the student council room.

Kaguya Shinomiya looked at Chika Fujiwara with a dumbfounded expression.

In her prediction, the president should ask her with a look of anticipation, "Is the person you care about me?", and of course she wouldn't answer directly, but she wouldn't deny it directly either. She would only talk about other things to leave the president in suspense, and finally wait for the opportunity to ferment and then hint to the president to confess to her! Take it down in one fell swoop!

But what about the result? The president didn't seem interested in this matter at all! It looked like he didn't care who she liked at all!

If it was just like this, it would be fine, but the key point is that this stupid big-breasted cow is guessing people randomly. What if the president misunderstands?!

She even said she was the best sister… she doesn't understand her at all!

“Secretary Fujiwara, I really want to know what basis you used to infer that the person I care about is Ishigami? Don't you think this is… incredible?”

“Eh? Isn't it? But I think it's quite similar.” Chika Fujiwara scratched her head, a little embarrassed, “Hardworking, strong… Ishigami is very hardworking and strong! It's not easy for him to live to this day and grow so big!”

“Not defeated by difficulties… even if no girl likes him, he has never given up on liking girls!”

“Very good at pleasing Kaguya-chan… Doesn't Kaguya-chan often look at Ishigami with a smile on her face?”

Kaguya Shinomiya: “……”

Summer River Melody: “……”

To be honest, Summer River Melody was originally a little uneasy and uncomfortable, thinking about whether to find an excuse to go out for a walk to avoid this topic, but Chika Fujiwara suddenly made him unable to hold back.

As expected of you, Fujiwara-san!

“Cough cough… I think Ishigami-kun is quite good, not as… uh, unbearable as you said, Fujiwara.”

Summer River Melody coughed lightly and said some good words for Ishigami.

Unfortunately, everyone present except him was a girl, and they were all particularly individualistic, so his defense ultimately didn't have any effect.

“I have to admit, Secretary Fujiwara, what you said makes sense, but… it's not what you think.” Kaguya Shinomiya shook her head.

“If you want to say I care, I do care a little? But it's like a mother worrying about her unsuccessful son, not any other feelings.”

“Eh? Isn't it? So Kaguya-chan treats Ishigami like a child, what a strange way to play…”

Chika Fujiwara's expression seemed a little excited, without any frustration from being denied her inference.

“Then I guess… it's Shirogane, right!” Chika Fujiwara started operating again, “Studying hard, living strong, facing difficulties, the only thing I'm not sure about is pleasing you, has Shirogane done anything that made Kaguya feel happy?”

“Of course it's impossible!” Kaguya Shinomiya immediately retorted loudly.

Care? Like? He's just a rival in love! She even wished she could send someone to send Miyuki Shirogane to Siberia to dig potatoes, so as not to seduce attention in front of the president all day long!

“It could be anyone, but it can't be that guy Shirogane! Really, even if you want to guess, Fujiwara, you have to follow the basic law, right? The fabricated statement is simply untenable!”

“Eh, it's not Shirogane…” Chika Fujiwara now felt a little frustrated.

However, Summer River Melody on the side knew very well—Kaguya was lying.

In order to cover up the shyness of being told the truth by Chika Fujiwara, she deliberately retorted loudly. Not only that, but her demeanor and actions also betrayed her.

When they were talking about "Is it Yu Ishigami?", Kaguya could still face the two of them with a calm posture, but when they talked about "Is it Miyuki Shirogane?", she became visibly emotional, obviously being told about something she cared about.

Doesn't this prove that she has fallen in love with Miyuki Shirogane?

Summer River Melody couldn't learn to deceive himself, otherwise when he was rejected by others, he would definitely use various excuses to explain it for them instead of choosing to let go with self-awareness.

“What, I can't guess at all! I won't guess!” Chika Fujiwara puffed out her cheeks, put away her detective hat and magnifying glass, and chose to give up.

“……” Kaguya Shinomiya opened her mouth, unable to speak.

In her heart, she felt that this big-breasted cow was too much! She took up the topic on her own and chose to end it on her own.

Isn't there three boys in this student council room?! Then you should guess the most important president once?!

She had clearly prepared ten thousand sets of arguments to hint to the president to confess to her, but they all fell through, all because of this cow monster!

Damn it, now that things have come to this, she can only forcibly continue the topic!

“Actually, the person I care about…”

“I suddenly feel so hungry… Eh? What smells so good!”

Chika Fujiwara's brain circuit has always been peculiar. One second she was playing a detective game, and the next second she transformed into a top food-seeking foodie.

She ran to Summer River Melody following the "fragrance", then looked at the bento box on the table with shining eyes.

“Big harvest! Did the president make it himself? I haven't eaten it in so long!”

“Yes.” Summer River Melody nodded.

After he didn't have to be busy with student council affairs these days, he became idle, so he simply started DIY again, purely to pass the time.

“But it's a little cold, if you want to eat it, I'll do it again tomorrow…”

“It's okay, it's okay, as long as it's made by the president, it's delicious even if it's cold!” Chika Fujiwara waved her hand, not caring at all.

She was even so anxious that she directly opened the bento box and took out a piece of cuttlefish sausage from it.

“Ugh! Delicious! My brain is alive!”

“……” Summer River Melody opened his mouth, but ultimately couldn't stop her.

He really wanted to remind Chika Fujiwara that he had already eaten this bento, didn't she mind it at all?

But seeing her eating so happily, he was embarrassed to interrupt her interest.

Forget it, since she doesn't care, then why is he still entangled?

016. A World Where No One Is Hurt Is Completed

Out of line, self-willed, whimsical, things that she is interested in, she will definitely grab and never let go, and once she loses interest, she will immediately discard it… Chika Fujiwara is a very free person.

She is naturally free and easy, keen on change, like an unconstrained lark, singing her own happy life every day, but never feeling tired.

She and Kaguya Shinomiya are completely opposite people…

When did the two of them meet?

It seems… it was in the fourth grade of elementary school, when she found Chika Fujiwara sitting in front of the piano with a tired look, she casually said, "If you don't want to play the piano, don't play it."

What was she thinking at the time?

Did she think the other party insulted art? Or was she using the opportunity to evaluate her to persuade herself? Or was it because she envied her freedom?… She couldn't remember clearly.

What she didn't expect was that after she said that sentence, Chika Fujiwara really didn't play anymore, but instead came to bother her every day.

“Kaguya-chan, let's go eat together!” “Kaguya-chan, let's go home together?” “Kaguya-chan, let's be friends!”…

Every day, every day! She couldn't remember how many times she had been bothered by her, she only remembered that she finally made an agreement with her under unbearable circumstances—compete in playing games, and if she lost, she would become Chika Fujiwara's friend.

So… she lost.

Impossible, right? She… actually lost? Lost to someone with a half-baked awareness! Did the other party cheat? Or… did she actually let the water go?

Um… she doesn't remember any of those things, she only remembers that she seemed quite happy at the time, because she had her first friend.

And now she has entered the high school department, but she still only has one friend, Chika Fujiwara.

She thought she could be friends with Chika Fujiwara for a lifetime—if she hadn't seen Chika Fujiwara looking like livestock, frantically arching and eating the delicacies in the president's bento box!

Where is your reserve?! Where is your elegance?!! Are you a hungry ghost reincarnated?!!! Put down my president's bento box, you humanoid livestock!!!

Ah, now that things have come to this, even if you suddenly die tomorrow, I won't save you…