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

Ichinose glanced back at Amane, and then her entire demeanor hardened as she looked at Airi.

"Airi-kun, you're right. I plan to do Omega with Amane here. I hope you're satisfied with my clear answer, Airi-kun. So, could you please leave this dorm? Otherwise... I'll have to let Amane have a heart-to-heart talk with you. You know, right? Amane won't go easy on a girl like you~"

Ichinose leaned close to Airi's ear and whispered about the horror of Amane, then let out a few chilling laughs in an attempt to scare Airi away.

It has to be said that Airi was really startled by Ichinose's sudden change of expression, and even the camera in her hand was so startled that it fell to the soft mat on the floor.

Even when faced with a threat like Ichinose, Airi remained unmoved. Such behavior of lingering in someone else's room is extremely rude to anyone.

Especially when they are already being driven away but still refuse to leave, this cannot be explained by a lack of common sense or tact.

Airi must have something she wants to say to Amane, right? Or maybe there's some other reason.

"Can...can I stay?"

Airi's words surprised everyone in the dormitory.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Don't you already know what we're going to do? Do you think we'd let you stay and watch us do that kind of thing? Sakura-san, have you lost your mind?"

Horikita was already irritable because she had been separated from Amane for half a month, and Airi's 'unreasonable nagging' immediately set off her anger like a powder keg that had been lit.

Terrified by Horikita's angry appearance, Megumi burrowed into Amane's arms, only to be retaliated against by Amane giving her a few hard kisses.

Ichinose was somewhat intimidated by Horikita's anger. In order to prevent things from escalating and becoming unmanageable, Ichinose felt it was necessary to find out why Airi wanted to stay.

"Airi, why are you insisting on staying? From an ordinary girl's perspective, isn't it hard to accept the current situation?"

When Airi heard Ichinose ask her a question, she was about to answer when she met Horikita's furious gaze and shrank back, too scared to answer Ichinose.

Seeing this, Ichinose quickly stepped between the two to prevent Airi from facing Horikita's anger. For some reason, or perhaps it was intuition, Ichinose felt that Airi's answer would definitely shock everyone again.

"I... like Tianyin."

With Ichinose standing between herself and Horikita, Airi finally mustered the courage to say what she had kept in her heart for a long, long time.

At first, she felt that she was not worthy of being Tianyin's friend because she had betrayed Tianyin once, but after being forgiven by Tianyin, they resumed their friendship.

However, Airi, who should have been happy about the restoration of their relationship, felt like a greedy girl.

It was already fortunate that she could rekindle her friendship with Tianyin, but she still wanted to get closer to Tianyin and move even closer to her.

Just like Horikita Kazue and Ichinose.

Later, Airi learned that the girls and Tianyin were lovers.

This relationship, which was both familiar and unfamiliar to Airi, once made her hesitate.

The reason she was familiar with it was that the relationship of 'lovers' was no longer a secret to her. In this country, the relationship of lovers was almost rampant. In Ai's memory, since elementary school, there had been classmates around her who had romantic relationships.

However, in Airi's mind, romantic relationships only exist between opposite sexes, so Airi always thought that Horikita and Amane were just very close friends.

As for the rumors that had been circulating in the class for a long time about Amane and Horikita dating, Airi didn't care much. How could girls date?

until……

Karuizawa Kei publicly revealed her relationship with Amane, and at this moment Airi also realized that the rumors that Amane and Horikita could date were actually true!

But... Amane has added Karuizawa Megumi to her life without breaking up with Horikita... Won't this relationship cause chaos?

Clinging to a sliver of hope, Airi chose to continue hiding among the crowd, silently observing Tenne's every move.

It wasn't until Ichinose Honami was confirmed to be dating Amane that Airi belatedly discovered that Sakayanagi Arisu, who was particularly famous in their grade, was also Amane's lover.

This caused Airi's little brain to completely shut down, and it took her a long time to accept this cruel reality.

With all his time taken up by a group of girls, Tianyin could only spare a moment to chat with her, but he could no longer hold her hand and wander around the campus looking for beautiful scenery, and then take nice photos for her like before...

From that moment on, Aili understood her true feelings.

Sakura Airi falls in love with Miyako Amane.

Chapter 259: I'm Not an Evil Dragon

After realizing her feelings for Amane, Airi soon encountered another problem.

How can she tell Tianyin how she feels? If she tells Tianyin directly, it would be no different from confessing her feelings, although she does have the courage to do so.

However, Sakura Airi was afraid that if she was rejected, Tenon would distance herself from her again.

Having never been in a relationship, Aili's information about love and confessions mainly comes from TV dramas, romance movies, and gossip around her. This makes Aili afraid that if she confesses and is rejected, there will be a scenario where Tenon says that they are still good friends but never speak to each other again.

Because she was too afraid of ending her relationship with Amane, and because of the presence of Horikita Suzune, Airi hesitated to take any action. It wasn't until she arrived at the forest school and saw that Amane had many admirers even among the first-year students that Airi finally realized she shouldn't wait any longer. So Airi and Horikita had that question-and-answer game.

Although she lost the quiz game, she managed to convey her feelings for Tianyin through the game.

Airi thought that Amane would eventually respond to her, so she started waiting. But she waited for several months, from the end of the special training until the survival special exam. During this time, she and Amane met many times and chatted occasionally, but Amane never mentioned Airi's confession to her during the quiz game.

If that's all there is to it, Airi might feel sad, but time will gradually fade that sadness. Besides, Amane hasn't avoided Airi's situation, so maintaining a friendship until graduation isn't a bad thing.

At least, she could finally stand aside and watch Tianyin.

However, the appearance of Shiina Hiyori made her feel threatened. It seemed that Shiina mistook her for a girl who was too afraid to confess to Amane and kept encouraging her. She also revealed to Airi that Ibuki and Shiina themselves liked Amane very much.

At first, Airi didn't take Shiina's words too seriously, because Airi thought that Amane rejected her because Amane had too many girls around her. Amane would need a lot of time to maintain relationships with everyone, so naturally she couldn't spare any precious time for other people.

Then, Airi saw the two girls, Amasawa and Nanase, nestled in Amane's arms.

At this moment, Airi finally realized the problem: it wasn't that Amane didn't have time, but that Amane herself was avoiding her confession.

After receiving this devastating news, Airi was plunged into despair. It wasn't until before the start of the second semester of her second year that Sakayanagi found Airi and extended an invitation to Amane's birthday party.

After receiving the invitation, Airi subconsciously asked who would be attending, only to hear from Arisu about the ridiculously long list of names. Arisu also emphasized that everyone had to wear a swimsuit to see Amane.

The nature of this birthday party is almost self-evident.

Feeling heartbroken in love, Ai Li threw the invitation on the ground and said in a huff that she didn't want to attend this kind of birthday party.

Arisu did not get angry at Airi, nor did she stand up for Amane or criticize or blame Airi.

Arisu laboriously squatted down to pick up the invitation, carefully brushed off the dust, and then put it back into Airi's hand.

“I understand your situation to a general extent, Sakura-san. Based on my analysis, you should be happy to accept the invitation. But obviously, the actual situation is not quite what I imagined. Although I don’t know what happened to you, Sakura-san… what I want to tell you is that if an invitation falls on the ground, I will brush off the dust and hand it to the person who should receive it. But if a person is covered in dust and remains silent, then she deserves to be forgotten.”

Arisu tapped the ground lightly with her cane, then turned and walked towards the elevator.

Airi stood there in a daze at the entrance of her dormitory. She didn't know how much time had passed, but when she chased after Arisu to apologize for her earlier attitude, Arisu was nowhere to be seen. Instead, a note on the wall caught her eye.

"Your destiny is only true destiny when it is in your own hands. Whether you go or not is your decision."

Airi clenched the note in her hand and finally agreed to attend Tenon's birthday party.

At Tianyin's birthday party, she stunned everyone when she appeared in a swimsuit, and even Tianyin stared at her intently.

This made Airi think that her confession would be foolproof, but something unexpected happened.

Because so many people wanted to get close to Tianyin and play with her that day, it was almost impossible for Airi to squeeze into Tianyin's side. In particular, all the girls who were with Tianyin in the end were girls with various complicated relationships with her, so there was no suitable opportunity for her to confess.

It wasn't until the very last moment of the revelry that Airi belatedly realized she had made a fatal mistake.

Airi chose to do something at the wrong time that didn't fit the atmosphere at the time; it would be truly incredible if she succeeded.

A birthday party is not a suitable occasion for confession. If she really came to Tianyin and confessed to her in front of everyone, it would be even more difficult.

What will Namie think that day? Will she think that Sakura Airi is trying to use this situation, which she can't refuse, to force her to accept the confession?

Even if Amane didn't have such thoughts, would Horikita and the others just sit idly by and watch her steal the spotlight from the entire birthday party?

That's also impossible.

The ending was predictable: Airi's confession plan failed, failing without any progress.

Afterwards, Airi thought about going to Arisu and hoping that Arisu could give her another chance, but when she thought about Arisu's identity as Amane's lover, she could only choose to give up.

Airi felt that if it was just about helping her fulfill her wish to confess, Arisu might be willing to help her meet Amane, since Amane was the one who made the decision.

But surely no lover would allow a girl to keep pestering their partner?

The chance to confess was probably given to her out of pity by Arisu, and it was yet another instance of her failing to control her own destiny. Airi felt too ashamed to ask Arisu for help again.

And so, in this way, love can only continue to wait in pain.

Then Ibuki and Kamuro came to Class A. Even Airi had heard rumors from others that Ibuki and Amane had broken up, not to mention that Amane later had rumors that she took Kamuro on a date.

After one girl after another beat her to it and started ambiguous relationships with Tianyin, Airi finally couldn't bear to wait any longer because of her cowardice.

And so the scene we see today unfolded. Even though she was terrified of Ichinose's changed expression and Horikita's anger, Airi found courage when she thought of Amane watching her from the side.

Even if she is rejected, even if Tianyin never associates with her again, Airi knows very well that she only has this one chance to confess.

If you can't truly tell Tianyin your feelings, then it's meaningless to be treated as an insignificant friend until graduation.

Liking a girl was something that seemed absurd in the context of being loved in the past, but I never thought that one day it would actually happen to her.

"I like Miyako Amane."

Airi whispered once again the confession she had rehearsed countless times.

After hearing Airi's confession, Ichinose looked relieved, and her expression returned to its previous gentleness and tolerance.

Wasn't she like this before? She liked Tianyin, who was in the same grade but was incredibly talented. She developed feelings for her, but at the same time, she felt ashamed of her feelings for girls.

When she was betrayed, everyone stood against her and wanted her to drop out of school. Only Tianyin took her hand and stood by her side. She even went so far as to force the school to change the rules of the special exam by dropping out herself.

Then, it cost a large sum of points to protect her...

It was from this point that Ichinose resolved to face her feelings for Amane honestly.

Back then, Ichinose would blush for ages just saying she liked Amane. Some people laughed at her for being too easily embarrassed, but only Ichinose herself knew that it took immense courage to say those words.

Now someone else is taking this path, Sakura Airi. Will she succeed? Or will she go down a path completely opposite to her own?

Ichinose sighed softly and stepped aside to let Airi face Horikita directly.

The most difficult hurdle in this room is Horikita. Only if you get past Horikita will Amane be willing to accept her confession. If Horikita objects to Airi's joining, Amane might reject Airi's confession out of consideration for Horikita's feelings.

However, in Ichinose's opinion, Amane's rejection would likely be the last straw for this girl named Sakura Airi.

When Horikita heard that Airi's persistent pursuit was actually for the purpose of confessing her feelings, her anger immediately dissipated. Horikita had already acknowledged Airi's feelings for Amane after the last quiz game.

What she didn't expect was that she would hear those words again here, which meant...

Tianyin didn't respond to Airi at all.

'This heavenly sound…'

Horikita sighed. If Amane had taken the initiative to handle things properly, things wouldn't have turned out like this. She's being made to look like some heinous villain.

Does that mean everyone who likes Tianyin has to come to her and get her permission before they can confess their feelings to her? Who is spreading these rumors behind her back?

If Horikita catches her, she'll be in big trouble!

At that moment, Arisu, who was making coffee in the room, sneezed twice in a row.

"It's getting cold, looks like I need to wear more clothes. How about I take advantage of this free time... and knit a scarf for Tianyin?"

……

Horikita's sigh sent a chill down Airi's spine.

Seeing Airi's mood gradually sinking, Horikita guessed that Airi had misunderstood her. Just as she was about to explain, a figure suddenly passed through her and Ichinose and grabbed Airi's wrist.

"Come with me?"

Airi looked at Tenon's smile and nodded as if possessed. Then Airi felt a tremendous force pull on her wrist, causing her body to instinctively start running.

Tianyin opened the door and rushed out with Airi without saying a word.

The three were left looking at each other in bewilderment.

What are they doing?

Horikita pointed to the open door of the dormitory room with a puzzled look on his face.

"Tianyin is probably afraid that your rejection of Airi will cause Airi too much heartache and lead her to give up on herself, right?"

With a hint of emotion, Ichinose walked to the door and gently closed it. Even if Horikita chased after her now, it would definitely be too late.

"That's just how Amane is. She didn't just grab Sakura's hand, she clearly grabbed Sakura's heart."

Having been by Amane's side for a long time, Megumi has gained a deep understanding of Amane's logic and has figured out Amane's thoughts to a degree comparable to Horikita's. Therefore, what Ichinose could see, Megumi also saw, and thus opened the dormitory door for them in advance.

Otherwise, it would be quite difficult for them to escape so smoothly. If Horikita reacts, it will be difficult for Amane to grab Airi and escape.

"But the problem is, I didn't say I wouldn't agree! Besides, why not just tell Tianyin directly? What's the point of telling me?"

Horikita's words left both Megumi and Ichinose stunned.

Horikita couldn't help but sigh and rub his forehead.