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

"Huh? Amane, where are your shoes? Sakura-san, you're not wearing shoes either... What are you guys doing?"

Shiina's words made Airi blush slightly. She was initially happy that Shiina had finally noticed her, but in the blink of an eye, Shiina threw out a question that she couldn't answer.

She couldn't very well tell Shiina that she confessed to Amane in front of Amane's girlfriends and then Amane dragged her away.

This sounds...it sounds like they eloped, which makes it even harder for Ai to say.

Seeing Airi's shy expression, Amane was about to explain when Ibuki spoke first.

"I understand, they're doing this!"

P.S.: The power went out while I was writing, so I had to retype this chapter on my phone. That's all for today, please forgive me!

Finally, thank you all for your continued support!

Chapter 261: She's seeing someone else!

Ibuki's words left everyone present stunned.

For a moment, everyone's attention was focused on Ibuki, but Ibuki herself didn't seem to realize that she had said something strange.

"Huh? Why are you all staring at me like that? Did I say something wrong?"

Ibuki looked at Airi, who was so embarrassed by Ibuki's words that she covered her face, and then looked at Amane, whose expression was subtle and seemed a little unfriendly. Finally, she looked at Shiina, whose face was also flushed.

Seeing that Amane had no intention of explaining to Ibuki, Shiina, as one of Ibuki's few friends, felt it necessary to explain the meaning of that word to Ibuki. In case Ibuki misused that word in public, it would definitely frighten the other party into fainting or lead to accusations of harassment and the police being called.

"Mio, do you really know what 'foot O' means?"

"I know, is there something wrong with that?"

It was only then that Ibuki realized that she must have used the wrong word, which was why everyone's expressions were so strange. However, given her average level of education, it wasn't the first time she had ever misused words. Was it really necessary to make such a fuss?

Shiina's lips moved, but she still didn't know how to explain to Ibuki in a way that would make the other person understand what "foot O" meant. Moreover, Shiina felt that she would be too embarrassed to speak if Ibuki pressed her on how she knew.

"Heavenly Sound..."

Staring at Shiina's pitiful, pleading eyes, even Amane, who has a thick skin, felt it would be a bit unreasonable not to help Shiina.

However, Amane faces the exact same problem as Shiina: how to make a girl understand what "foot O" means, and how to prevent Ibuki from asking Amane questions that Amane finds difficult to answer after learning the specific meaning of the term.

"Mio, tell me first, in your understanding, what does 'O' mean?"

Upon hearing that word, Shiina covered her ears in embarrassment.

"It's a way of making friends by playing games with your feet...isn't that right?"

Judging from Shiina and Airi's reactions, even someone as oblivious as Ibuki would realize that the true meaning of this word might not be so good. This gave Ibuki a bad feeling, but she couldn't go online to search for the meaning of this word in front of so many people. So even though she knew that Amane's public explanation of this ominous word might embarrass her, she still had to bite the bullet and ask.

"It's really hard to imagine that you, Mio, could be so innocent..."

Tenon sighed and then whispered an explanation in Ibuki's ear.

Ibuki's expression changed after she had only explained a few words.

"What do you mean by doing it with your feet...?"

Ibuki quickly covered her mouth, and Amane couldn't help but let out a mischievous laugh. Ibuki, who was already extremely embarrassed, felt her face heat rise even higher when she heard Amane's laughter.

Seeing that Ibuki's temperature was a bit too high, Tenon didn't dare to upset her any further, so she finished explaining the rest of the explanation to Ibuki.

"Um...it seems there's a fire in my room, I need to go back."

Ibuki lowered her head and tried to run towards the dormitory building, but was stopped by Amane.

"Mio, your excuse is really lame."

"Leave me alone! Let me go back right now!!!"

Ibuki struggled, her face flushed. Now that she knew the meaning of "foot O," all she wanted was to escape. If she could, dropping out of school wouldn't be an option; she couldn't stay here any longer.

If it were only Shiina and Amane here, Ibuki could simply throw a tantrum and cover it up. But now that Airi is here, if Airi spreads the word, she will have nowhere to hide in the entire school.

This is what is commonly known as social death.

The thought of becoming a laughingstock on campus and in the school forum made Ibuki lose all attachment to the school.

"You said such hurtful things to me and Airi and you think you can just leave without apologizing to us? There's no way you'll get away with that so easily."

After speaking, Amane picked up Ibuki directly. This sudden action caused Ibuki to gasp in surprise. Even Shiina was worried for a moment, but thinking that Amane was unlikely to hurt Ibuki, she did not stop her. Instead, she picked up a frog plush toy and held it in front of her, afraid that Amane would notice her and pick her up and carry her around too.

"Put me down! I know! I apologize! Is my apology enough?"

With a flushed face, Ibuki pressed her skirt hem tightly with her hands. When Amane picked her up and started tossing her around, Ibuki was completely unprepared. It wasn't until she spun around a few times and saw Shiina's strange behavior of covering her face with a doll that Ibuki realized she had exposed herself. She immediately shouted for Amane to put her down.

"Hehe~"

Amane readily placed Ibuki on the ground. As soon as Ibuki's feet touched the ground, her legs went weak and she almost fell. Amane tried to help Ibuki up, but Ibuki slapped Amane's outstretched hand away.

Clearly, they no longer trust Tianyin, that scoundrel.

Seeing this, Amane could only stick out her tongue like Shiina.

This infuriated Ibuki, but her immediate priority was to apologize and escape Amane's clutches, so she didn't care about the churning in her stomach or her buzzing head.

After quickly glancing around and seeing no one passing by, Ibuki reluctantly approached Airi.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said anything carelessly just now. Please forgive me."

Airi nodded instinctively in the face of Ibuki's insincere apology.

After seeing Airi nod, Ibuki turned around and tried to leave, but Amane grabbed her by the scruff of her neck and pulled her back.

"I've already apologized, what more do you want from me?"

"You haven't apologized to me yet."

Amane pointed with her finger, and Ibuki gave her a look of disgust.

"Hey! What's with that expression?! Hiyori! Look at her!"

Amane knew that Ibuki would never swallow her pride and apologize to her, so she directly sought help from outside.

Having just been saved by Amane, Shiina had no choice but to come over and persuade Ibuki when Amane called out to her.

"Mio... what you just said could have caused a misunderstanding. How about you apologize to Amane? I can give you this frog plush toy I just caught~"

As Shiina picked up the frog doll, she saw Ibuki looking at the doll with even more disgust.

"It's so ugly, I don't want it, and I won't apologize to that guy! Humph."

"It's so ugly... But... I think this frog plushie is actually quite cute if you look at it for a while..."

Shiina's attention was completely focused on the first half of Ibuki's sentence. The two of them went to the arcade at Keyaki Shopping Center that afternoon to play the claw machine. Ibuki not only tried to get a plush toy with 20,000 points but also had to pay 18,000 personal points for breaking the control lever with her fist. Losing 40,000 personal points in one go would make anyone unhappy. On the other hand, Shiina only used 100 personal points to get a plush toy and even chose a frog plush toy to try and get it on her first try.

This made Ibuki mutter about it the whole way.

Now Shiina wants to give her this thing that bears witness to her humiliation, but Ibuki says she would never accept something that's like a consolation prize.

"What do you think, Tianyin?"

Shiina looked at Amane with hopeful eyes.

"Well..."

Amane and Shiina gazed at each other for a moment with their bright, watery eyes, then the corners of their mouths turned up slightly as they spoke in a gentle tone.

"It is a bit ugly."

Click.

It looks like something has broken.

"Hmph! Mio and Amane are both bad people, I'm ignoring you."

After saying that, Shiina squatted down on the ground, hugging her frog doll, feeling dejected. Airi gently patted Shiina's back, trying to comfort her.

"You really aren't going to apologize?"

"...No, no apology!"

Despite being bullied by Amane every time, Ibuki believes that she must stand up for herself when necessary.

"Then how about making it up to me with some real actions?"

Amane deliberately licked her lips as she looked at Ibuki's legs, which were both supple and firm due to years of training.

Ibuki naturally noticed Amane's gaze, and just as she was about to turn around and run away, Amane pulled her into her arms.

“You used to be very docile.”

"You bastard! You forced me to do all that before!"

"Forced? Do you mean if I pat this spot, your penis will react?"

Amane patted Ibuki's buttocks, and then Ibuki's shirt was stretched up by two firm O-shaped nipples.

"Don't look! Don't look!!"

After struggling for a few moments, Ibuki gave up resisting.

Amane knew her body too well. If she continued to resist, Ibuki knew that Amane would not mind making her look bad in front of Shiina, so she simply gave up and let Amane bully her.

Anyway, with Shiina and Airi at Amane, the most they can do is hug and touch each other, what else? Let's just say she's unlucky.

"Still as soft as before..."

Tenon whispered those embarrassing words into Ibuki's ear, and Ibuki, in order to prevent Tenon from succeeding, simply lay motionless in Tenon's arms, playing the role of a dead fish.

After Shiina witnessed this scene, she immediately had an idea.

From Shiina's perspective, Ibuki and Amane broke up because Ibuki had a boyfriend and did *that* kind of thing, which Amane found out, leading to an argument and the breakup.

Because Shiina didn't dare go into the restroom to check that day, she had no idea that it was Amane who was giving Ibuki a hard time that day.

This leads Shiina to still believe that Amane is definitely angry with Ibuki. However, it's unrealistic to expect Amane to forgive her for something like this. But if Ibuki apologizes when their relationship is still relatively harmonious, although the chances of them getting back together are still almost zero, Amane shouldn't hold onto that matter with Ibuki anymore. In that case, Ibuki might be able to live a more comfortable life in Class A.

Thinking of this, Shiina had a bold plan: to make Ibuki apologize for what happened back then. But... could Ibuki, who was unwilling to apologize even for saying the wrong thing, really apologize for 'cheating'?

Shiina couldn't even imagine such a scene, and Ibuki might even think that it was Amane's fault for having so many girls around her and wanting to 'cheate,' so she would never apologize to Amane. Therefore, Shiina had no choice but to step forward and help Ibuki at this time.

Because they're best friends.

Having made up her mind, Shiina put on a serious expression and walked up to Amane.

When Amane saw Shiina approaching, she quickly and subtly pulled her hand out of Ibuki's clothes.

But who knew that Shiina would start her speech with a bombshell when she came to Amane.

"Tenon... I know it's not quite right for me to take Mio's place, but I still hope you can forgive Mio for what she did back then! Please!"

Shiina immediately gave Amane a perfect dogeza (a deep, prostration gesture).

This left not only Amane speechless, but even Ibuki was dumbfounded.

"What did you do back then? Does Hiyori need to apologize for you like this?"

Amane looked at Ibuki, who had been like a dead fish just moments before, with a strange expression.

"Don't look at me, I don't know either."

Seeing Ibuki, Amane was also confused. She quickly let go of Ibuki and tried to pull Shiina up, but unexpectedly, the usually gentle and considerate Shiina used all her stubbornness in this way. No matter how Amane pulled Shiina, she just wouldn't get up.

"I will only get up if you forgive Xiaoling, Tianyin. Otherwise, no matter how many times you pull me up, I will still kneel here."

Shiina's stubbornness left Amane with no choice but to try to figure out what Ibuki had done to make Shiina apologize so vehemently.

"But the prerequisite for forgiveness is that you have to let me know what Xiaoling did that requires my forgiveness."

"Tianyin, don't you know that Xiaoling does that kind of thing with the opposite sex...?"

As soon as Shiina opened her mouth, Airi trembled violently as if she had been electrocuted, and countless tiny bumps started to appear all over her body.

Shiina, kneeling on the ground, froze in that moment.

The smile on Amane's face gradually disappeared, and her cold gaze shifted from Shiina's face to Ibuki.

"Who did you do that kind of thing with behind my back?"

"That's not true! I didn't! Only you, Tianyin, have ever touched my body. I've never done that kind of thing with anyone else!!"

Ibuki frantically tried to explain.

Why did Nari say such a thing?

With a gentle lift of her fingers, Tenon pulled Shiina up from the ground and pressed Shiina's forehead against her own.

"Answer me, Hiyori, is everything you said true? Who is she with?"