Editing Absolute Duo:Volume 5 Chapter 4 (section)

===Part 2===

The 1st year girls would sometime host a tea party with no males allowed.

If there are times only for talk, they would sometimes play games, or sometimes make food; this is a time for the girls to enjoy in various ways.

During those moments, they aren’t <<Exceeds>> aiming to be members of the Ethanarch but rather they will be showing their faces as normal high school females.

And for tonight; they were making cookies with Miyabi as the center.

They borrowed a kitchen oven and were waiting for the cookies to bake while talking at a corner of the cafeteria.

The baking process ended after around 10 minutes later, “Oh it smells good”, while making a commotion on how weird the shape changed, the cookie was taken out from the oven was transferred  to plates-----

“I-I am going to share some of this with Kokonoe-kun. Everyone go to the discussion room first”

After saying that, Miyabi put a portion into one bag before heading out from the cafeteria with the bag.

Due to what Miyabi said, it’s only natural that the topic of the remaining girls would be about Miyabi.

[She went to grab him by the stomach huh] [She’s so assertive recently] [She’s brave, a good girl, and have big breasts; there should be a limit on how much a herbivore  Kokonoe is to not fall for her………]

And right after a girl said that, all of the girls looked towards the silver girl at the same time.

[Isn’t his manhood weird the moment he did not lay his fingers on Julie?] [It’s true that Julie’s super cute but, she feels more like a sister right?] [Kokonoe feels like the athletic type so, he probably washed off his desires together with his sweat] 

Tooru has been feeling troubled about this topic too but, this is how he’s being treated by the side lines.

Although Julie was being compared to Miyabi; Julie and Tomoe took one cookie each and was enjoying the baked flavor.

“It’s so soft and delicious”

“Fufu, that’s true. But, let’s eat the rest in the discussion room”

“Ja--. Let’s do that”

After Julie nodded, Tomoe told the others to move to the discussion room.

After the girls moved out from the cafeteria as a group, the girls poured their preferred tea or juice in the lounge before heading to the discussion room located at the 3rd floor which is the girl’s floor.



“Julie, I have something I want to ask you”

“What might that be?”

When Miyabi wasn’t around-----

One of the girls gathered in the discussion room threw the question most of their classmates were wondering before, towards the silver girl.

“Julie, are you in love with Kokonoe?”

(((She said it-----!!)))

Most of the girl waited for Julie’s answer in interested as if “This was finally asked”.

Tomoe was mixed inside too.

But for Tomoe’s case, she wasn’t interested but rather she was deeply conscious that there might be a rival.

“If you’re talking about Tooru, then yes I am………what about it?”

(((I knew it-----!!)))

The reason why that answer was understood by the girls was because they normally see the attitude Julie shows when she’s with her adored Tooru.

“T-then, how do you feel about Miyabi being your rival?”

The reason why she didn’t ask about Lilith was because they know about the fact that Julie does not go well with her unlike Miyabi.

“-----by rival, you mean?”

The atmosphere filled with [Huh?] popped up when Julie tilted her small head.

“E-errr, apparently Miyabi loves Kokonoe too but, how do you think about that………..”

“I am happy that Miyabi has fallen in love with Tooru. Tooru is a very gentle person after all”

The girls felt further troubled when they heard the silver girl’s reply.

“Errr…………..what do you like about Kokonoe, Julie”

Thinking that there might be something else, one of the girls questioned her again.

“…………….the part on how he’s gentle like a papa”

“…..i-I see……….”

(That’s just too far off……..) (A father complex huh…….) (I feel sorry for Kokonoe if he’s aiming for Julie……..)

“-------?”

Julie tilted her small head again and was feeling “What’s wrong” while looking at the girls talk.

Tomoe felt relieved while looking at Julie acting like that----

She then felt a question to her feelings.

(Why did you feel relieved, just now……?)

After a while of thought, the pure girl reached a conclusion.

(………..I see. I feel relieved that she didn’t become Miyabi’s rival huh, Umu)

There’s a strong rival even under normal circumstances called Lilith so, she thought her <<Duo>> was in a huge trouble; Tomoe nodded at her own thoughts.

This girl is pure to the bone.



When asked on what she likes about him-----

The event that occurred a few days ago in the clock tower floated in Julie’s mind.

The expression Tooru showed and the words Tooru said.

That short time was the reason.

Julie does not know why this event appeared in her mind.

That’s why she said her normal thoughts in the end.

It’s an unnoticeable small change that no one knew-----


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