I'm in a real religion, why are all the people who confess to me girls?

Amane moved her lips but ultimately acquiesced to Horikita Suzune's opinion. She had originally wanted to say that she had another friend with the same hair as her, and that they were somewhat related by blood, but seeing Horikita Suzune's frantic expression, Amane felt it was better not to add fuel to the fire.

"Are there any others?"

"Anything else? Let me think... Oh right! And the eyes! If the rare hair color is just a coincidence, then you can't say anything about the eyes, right? I don't believe you could be so lucky as to have purple eyes just like 'Arisu'!"

"Purple eyes?"

If Horikita Suzune hadn't pointed it out, Amane wouldn't have noticed that Arisu and she had the same eye color. She was probably used to it and didn't think there were so many coincidences, but now that she thinks about it, there are quite a few unexpected coincidences.

Are she and Arisu really sisters?

This is just too much to accept.

Moreover, Amane also felt a sense of rejection, as if she did not want Sakayanagi to be her sister. Even Amane did not know why she had this thought.

"So, besides being sisters, what other kind of relationship do we have?"

"Cough cough..."

While fast asleep, Sakayanagi suddenly coughed a few times unconsciously. Amane quickly got up and covered Sakayanagi with the blanket again, and reluctantly tucked Sakayanagi's warm little hand, which she had been holding, back under the blanket.

Horikita Suzune felt a pang of sadness as she looked at Amane's gentle demeanor.

"I think you two look more like lovers than sisters."

"Lover?"

Tianyin was no stranger to this term, because one of the most important roles in the disguise during her studies at the White House was that of a lover. In order to make Tianyin and the other students in the White House understand what a lover was, the instructor spent a lot of time explaining.

But...aren't lovers supposed to be a relationship between opposite sexes?

"The way you two interact is so much like my parents, you're practically a carbon copy of them, so the only thing I can think of is that you're lovers."

"But aren't all lovers two people who like each other..."

Do you like Arisu?

What does it mean to like?

Tianyin felt somewhat unfamiliar with the meaning of the word "like".

When talking about liking someone or romantic love, Horikita Suzune couldn't help but blush slightly.

Although it's quite normal for girls to talk about their crushes and gossip, the person she and Tianyin were discussing was another girl.

What would it be like if two girls liked each other?

Just thinking about two girls hugging each other with nothing on...

Horikita Suzune's face immediately turned bright red.

To hide her shyness, Horikita Suzune quickly lowered her head.

"Liking... liking is, well, two people wanting to be together forever, that's liking, and two people who like each other make a promise of love to each other, that's being lovers..."

Horikita Suzune has never been in a relationship, nor does she have anyone she likes. The only thing she is interested in at school is reading. She is completely clueless about things like liking or promises of love. When faced with Amane's sincere question, she can only give Amane a casual answer based on what she has heard and her imagination.

"I see, I understand now..."

Tianyin nodded thoughtfully.

I finally managed to fool them.

Horikita Suzune also breathed a sigh of relief, after all, chatting with 'Aya' was really too tiring for her.

Having to answer Aya's strange questions and analyze Aya's thoughts, Horikita Suzune's little head was almost too busy to keep up.

However, even Horikita Suzune was unaware that her brain would completely shut down in the next second.

"If we follow Horikita's approach..."

"Horikita Suzune."

"If that's what you're saying, Horikita Suzune... Arisu and I have been lovers for a long time."

"Oh, I see, no wonder... Eh!!!"

Startled, Horikita Suzune jumped to her feet and exclaimed in surprise.

"Shhh!!"

As Amane quickly covered Sakayanagi's ears with both hands, she mouthed a signal to Horikita Suzune to be quiet.

Realizing she was in a hospital room, Horikita Suzune covered her mouth and slowly sat back down in her seat.

"You and she are lovers? You two have even... you've done that?"

"What, that?"

Amane looked at Horikita Suzune, who was already somewhat incoherent, with a puzzled expression.

Horikita Suzune, on the other hand, began to struggle with how to express her desire to do "that kind of thing" to 'Aya'. After thinking for a long time, Horikita Suzune blushed and tentatively touched her two thumbs together.

"It's like... a promise of love followed by a union of love... I've only heard about this kind of thing from other people."

If a promise of love is a pledge, then what is the union of love?

Seeing Horikita Suzune lightly touch her thumb, Amane immediately thought of the scene where Sakayanagi suddenly kissed her that day.

Thinking of this, Tianyin nodded seriously.

"We have already been united in love."

"Eh!!!"

Chapter 129: All You Can Think About Right Now is Me

They've...gotten together? Are you kidding me? Aya should be about the same age as her, she looks even younger than me, and she's already done *that* with Arisu who looks even younger?

Help!

This world is too chaotic.

Horikita Suzune held her head in her hands, seemingly unable to process such a shocking event for a while.

"So...you and her are really lovers?"

After thinking for a long time, Horikita Suzune finally accepted the reality that Aya had said. However, with a last glimmer of hope, Horikita Suzune decided to confirm with Aya again.

Didn't you say we were like lovers?

"..."

Horikita Suzune looked at the bewildered Amane in front of her, hesitated for a long time, and then slowly loosened her clenched fist.

They've already gone that far, what else could they be but lovers?

Realizing that she would go crazy if she continued to dwell on this issue, Horikita Suzune tried to change the subject.

"I'm a little hungry, would you like to come with me to find something to eat?"

Amane hadn't felt hungry before, but Horikita Suzune's mention of it made her feel a little hungry. She hadn't eaten much these past few days to save food. When she was on edge, she could ignore the effects of hunger, but as soon as she relaxed, hunger would come rushing to her along with her fatigue.

"It shouldn't be a problem to get something to eat now," Amane thought, and was about to agree to go with Horikita Suzune to find some food when she suddenly glanced at Sakayanagi, who was lying on the hospital bed with his eyes closed. After her gaze lingered on Sakayanagi for a full half minute, Amane licked her lips and gently shook her head.

“Arisu’s condition is very bad right now. She needs someone to take care of her here. If Arisu wakes up when we go to eat and sees that I’m not by her side, she will definitely be scared.”

Amane's reason for refusing left Horikita Suzune speechless.

"Since you're not going, then I'll go first..."

goo goo...

The rumbling sounds coming from Tianyin's stomach were so noticeable in the quiet ward.

The food she ate at noon was far from enough to sustain Amane's immense physical exertion. After Horikita Suzune aroused her appetite, hunger surged like a tidal wave. Despite Amane's best efforts to endure it, her stomach finally rumbled due to extreme hunger.

Horikita Suzune looked at Amane but found that Amane had turned her face to the other side, and a faint blush could be seen on her still expressionless profile.

It seems she was really hungry.

What would you like to eat?

"Anything is fine."

Amane's voice was so soft that Horikita Suzune had to put her ear right up to her lips to hear what she was saying. Horikita couldn't understand her until Amane repeated herself three times.

Suzune Amane shrugged helplessly at the awkward personality of Horikita Suzune.

"You wait here, I'll go see if there's anything to eat."

"Thank you for your help."

Horikita Suzune nodded casually, picked up her small wallet, and walked out of the ward. Buying food for two people with her allowance wasn't too difficult. The key issue was that it was too late. It was already evening when she arrived, and after waiting in line and receiving treatment, it was almost ten o'clock. She was already grateful that the hospital still had vending machines working at this hour.

As the door to the ward closed gently, the ward returned to its tranquil atmosphere. Amane moved closer to Sakayanagi and poked Sakayanagi's cheek with her fingertip.

"Alright, stop pretending to be asleep, Horikita... she's already gone out."

Seeing that his act of pretending to be asleep had been exposed by Amane, Sakayanagi reluctantly opened his eyes.

How did you know I was awake?

Sakayanagi's complexion had returned to its usual rosy hue, but her voice was still very weak.

However, more than her own health, she was curious about how Tianyin saw through her 'exquisite' disguise.

Compared to Kiryuin, who is only half-baked at managing his facial expressions, Sakayanagi is confident that she is already quite skilled at it. Even when she is pretending to be asleep, she will not burst out laughing like Kiryuin if someone is next to her.

When she woke up from her sleep, she didn't rush to open her eyes. On the one hand, she felt a little dizzy, and on the other hand, Tianyin seemed to be talking about her with a girl whose voice she had never heard before.

Initially, Sakayanagi planned to wake up when the two of them stopped talking, but after hearing the girl say that she and Amane were lovers, Sakayanagi began to have the idea of ​​eavesdropping.

Judging from their conversation, neither the girl nor Amane seemed to have noticed that he was pretending to be asleep. Just as Sakayanagi secretly breathed a sigh of relief and planned to lie down for a few more minutes to give Amane a performance of how she woke up.

But to Sakayanagi's surprise, Amane actually saw through her act of pretending to be asleep. Even though Amane saw through her act, Sakayanagi was still very curious about how she had revealed such a flaw.

"Actually, I didn't realize that Arisu was pretending to be asleep at first, but I had a feeling that you were watching me, so I decided to test you. If you didn't wake up, I would just consider it a prank. I didn't expect that you would actually be pretending to be asleep."

Amane laughed very happily and even reached out to touch Sakayanagi's forehead.

Sakayanagi's forehead temperature had returned to near normal, but considering that Sakayanagi had always been physically weak, Amane still planned to have the on-duty doctor check on Sakayanagi's condition again after the IV drip was finished.

"What, it was just intuition..."

Sakayanagi pouted and muttered to herself.

For some reason, Amane felt that Sakayanagi's face seemed to have become even redder.

"Well, what can I do? You were too good at pretending. By the way, Arisu, why were you pretending to be asleep?"

When Sakayanagi heard Amane ask her why she was pretending to be asleep, she couldn't help but roll her eyes at Amane.

To wait until she had already admitted to pretending to be asleep for so long before asking about this, her reaction time is practically on the moon.

"Because there are strangers here, as you know, I have almost no experience in communicating with strangers. Even at school, I am too lazy to interact with other people, so I have no idea how to deal with the current situation. I can only pretend to be asleep in the hope of waiting for a time to be alone with you."

Sakayanagi's answer was fairly standard. Amane knew a thing or two about Sakayanagi's personality after spending so much time with her. If it weren't for Sakayanagi's initial resentment of being called the most outstanding genius of her generation by outsiders, and her desire to prove herself as the strongest genius, which is why she pestered Amane to prove her strength by dueling with her, Sakayanagi probably wouldn't have had any interaction with her.

Even her relationship with Guilong was initially at a freezing point, and it only improved after they spent a lot of time together. Even so, it seems that there is still some distance between them in private.

Amane knows all these things, but who you want to be friends with and what kind of friends you are are all up to Sakayanagi. Even Amane can't interfere in other people's lives at will. So Amane can only try her best to act as a lubricant between the two and mediate their conflicts.

Even with Kiryuin, they interact in this way, let alone with Horikita Suzune, whom they haven't even met yet.

"I see. But Horikita... is a good girl, you two should get along well."

After recalling how she met Horikita Suzune, Amane gave Horikita Suzune a very high evaluation.

However, Sakayanagi had a different opinion about Amane.

"From the snippets of your conversation, I can tell she's not a bad person, but we probably won't be able to connect."

"Hmm? Arisu, you're so gentle, and Horikita isn't an unreasonable girl either, so how come you two can't connect?"

Hearing Amane speak of her gentleness with such an air of self-righteousness, Sakayanagi couldn't help but smile bitterly to himself.

Her gentleness was only shown to Amane. No matter how outstanding Horikita Suzune was, Sakayanagi had no reason to give her a kind look.

not to mention……

“I have a feeling that the girl named Horikita Suzune and I might be the same kind of person, just like… me before I met you.”

Sakayanagi blushed with embarrassment when she recalled how she had insisted on challenging Amane to a duel.

The current Horikita Suzune is so much like she was back then, exuding an innate sense of excellence, arrogance, and self-importance...

Perhaps in the world of ordinary people she would be among the top of the pyramid, but in the ranks of geniuses she is nothing. Talent? Which genius doesn't have some talent?