Nagisa's POV

Our school days progressed as usual.

Except now, we have Iyo-chan tailing behind us. The blonde girl sighed as she closed her eyes, the wind blowing her hair.

"It's too bad Karma-senpai isn't in this school..." She said.

Arisa-chan looked at the girl as she rested her head on her hand. "Geez, Iyo-chan... And wait, why are you eating with us?"

Iyo-chan opened her bento and took out her chopsticks. "Iyo must observe her rival!" She looked at me.

"Hahaha..." I sweat dropped.

Iyo has been appearing here and there ever since we met in the first day of the school year. Especially when Karma's around.

I noticed Chiyuki-chan looking at Iyo-chan's bento with her eyes sparkling. Iyo-chan's bento had high-class food in it, which can make anyone drool.

"I-Iyo-chan..." Chiyuki-chan stuttered. "That's quite a bento you got there..."

"Hm? Iyo's bento?" Iyo-chan looked at Chiyuki-chan. "The chef at Iyo's house made this."

"Chef?!" Arisa-chan put her arms up. "As expected of the Yamaguchi family..."

"But doesn't that just mean she can't cook?" Sasahara-kun laughed.

"I-Iyo can cook! Don't underestimate her!" Iyo-chan shouted back. "Now that you mention it, Iyo will make a bento for Karma-senpai one day!"

"Oh, no need to do that, Nagisa-chan already makes it for him," Arisa-chan said.

"Nagisa-senpai does?!"

"Yeah. Well, not all the time."

Iyo-chan smiled, "Then Iyo will make a bento for him when Nagisa-senpai doesn't!" She smiled proudly.

"How positive, Iyo-chan," I looked at her with a smile.

"Of course! Iyo needs to give her all to compete with her rival."

"Wait, Nagisa-chan! You're not supposed to root for her!" Arisa-chan sweat dropped as Chiyuki-chan and Sasahara-kun nodded.

Iyo-chan looked at me with a smile. "Is Karma-senpai coming here today?"

I replied, "Hm, I don't know. It depends on him."

"So he just felt like coming here the other day?"

"Yeah, I guess so."

She crossed her arms. "Ahh, Karma-senpai... When will you do that for Iyo?" She blushed.

She pointed her finger at me with a confident smile. "Iyo makes a better girlfriend for Karma-senpai!"

"How can you be so sure?" Sasahara-kun questioned her.

"Because Iyo is cuter than Nagisa-senpai!" She put a hand on her chest.

I sweat dropped.

Arisa-chan narrowed her eyes. "If you're cute, then Nagisa-chan is beautiful!"

"Yeah, that's right!" Chiyuki-chan agreed.

The blondie smiled, "No one can resist Iyo's cuteness."

"Yeah, yeah," Arisa-chan deadpanned as she continued to eat.

"Iyo definitely won't give up!" Iyo-chan stood up. "Not when she's found her perfect prince!"

"...Akabane-kun as a prince? It's kinda hard to imagine..." Arisa-chan sweat dropped.

I smiled at Iyo-chan. "I like her spirit."

"I want to meet Karma-senpai later! He's in the station, right?"

Arisa-chan stood up and looked at Iyo-chan. "Wait, you're going the station to meet Akabane-kun?! If that's the case, then I'm going too! Who knows what you'll do to him?"

"My, aren't you getting a little worked up, Arisa-senpai?" Iyo put her fingers in front of her mouth. "It's just a meet-up."

Arisa-chan stood frozen in place. "'Senpai'..." She seemed happy to be called senpai. "Senpai!"

Chiyuki-chan looked at Arisa-chan. "Arisa-chan seems happy..."

"I'll tag along too! This seems fun," Sasahara-kun said as he put a smile on his face.

Iyo-chan frowned at him. "There's no need for you to go, Sasahara-senpai."

"Too bad, still going."

"Iyo does not like your presence!"

I chuckled at them. "Seems like I'll have to tell Karma that we'll be having extra guests today."

-Time skip-

"Karma-senpai~" Iyo-chan ran to Karma and clung onto his arm. "Iyo has been looking forward to meet you!"

"Iyo-chan!" Arisa pulled her away from Karma. "Don't be so touchy!"

The blondie pouted at her.

"Yes, Iyo-chan... Too touchy." I seemed to agree with her.

Arisa-chan scolded her. "That's another person's boyfriend you're clinging onto, you know?"

"Iyo suits Karma-senpai more!"

Chiyuki-chan sweat dropped. "No, Karmagisa is OTP, Iyo-chan..."

The three of them continued to rant. They got stares from people walking by, which they didn't seem to realize at all. Sasahara-kun was just saying "Sorry for all the fuss" to all the people who were passing through.

Karma looked at me with a smile, "Things are more hectic now, huh?"

"Haha... I guess you could say that," I replied with a laugh.

Arisa-chan pinched both of Iyo-chan's cheeks. "Still though, you sure are a copy paste of Yamaguchi-kun..."

"Do not touch Iyo like that!" Iyo-chan complained.

"But your personalities are completely different," Sasahara-kun added.

"Now that I think about it, you're right," I looked at Iyo-chan.

"Are you really that guy's little sister?" Karma asked.

Iyo-chan released herself from Arisa-chan and said, "Senpai, living beings called brothers are entities that deny the existence of their younger sister  from their very roots."

She pointed her finger upwards, "And Brother is one of those entities."

We looked at her with silence.

"So what you're saying is you don't get along with Yamaguchi-kun?" Arisa-chan asked.

Iyo-chan crossed her arms. "Brother was very upset when he heard that Iyo was going into the same school as him."

She shivered, "He had a strange aura around him that day... Iyo stayed away from him."

I thought about it.

Iyo-chan is afraid of Yamaguchi-kun, even though he's her older brother. I myself don't have any siblings, so I may not know the feeling. "I see."

"But when Iyo first saw Karma-senpai, all of the bad thoughts went away!" Iyo-chan waltzed next to Karma.

"Alright, we get it now," Arisa-chan pushed the girl away from Karma once again.

"Karma-senpai is Iyo's prince!" Iyo-chan blushed in happiness. "That's why she's not going to lose against Nagisa-senpai!"

I looked at my underclassman who was looking right back at me with her confident and sharp eyes. "As I thought, I really like her spirit."

"What do you think, Akabane?" Sasahara-kun turned his head to Karma.

Karma hummed. "Hm... I still like Nagisa." He gave a smile. "I just consider you as Yamaguchi's little sister.

"How blunt, Karma..."

"Ha!" Arisa-chan pointed a finger at Iyo-chan.

"Th-that doesn't matter right now! Iyo will capture Karma-senpai's heart and make him hers!"

Arisa-chan and Iyo-chan started arguing.

A pair of arms wrapped around me. "The train is coming soon, Nagisa, Shiraishi-chan."

"I-I kinda want to see how this will end..." Chiyuki-chan laughed.

"Really." Sasahara-kun followed.

I gave them a chuckle before looking at the bickering girls.

"Seems like we have a lively addition to our group."
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Welcome, Iyo, to the group!!

(Just to put it out there, I really liked Iyo as a character in the manga lol)

Thanks for reading this chapter~