The Energetic College Girl Is a Schemer

“Is it true you’ve had a girlfriend before, Masato?”

“Yeah.”

That was probably about three months ago.

I’d asked him on the train, when it was just the two of us on our way home after taking a class with Koiumi and Masato.

I’d heard from Koiumi that “apparently Masato had actually had a girlfriend before” (I’ll leave aside how a little scary Koiumi looked when she told me), and I’d asked about it out of curiosity.

“Ooh! That’s a little surprising!”

“Are you making fun of me...?”

“No, no! Not at all!”

I hurriedly denied it as Masato, sitting beside me, gave me a dubious look.

What I found “surprising” wasn’t that Masato had had a girlfriend...