It was after school, and Soukichi and Kasumi were sitting together in their clubroom.
“Actually, now that I think about it...” Kasumi said, having remembered something all of a sudden. She was seated directly across from Soukichi today, as even he couldn’t allow his pride to be hurt any further after the teasing extravaganza he’d been forced to endure the other day . “We’ve known each for a year now, right?”
“True, but why bring that up now?” he asked.
“It just dawned on me that we were spending all that time in this secluded, out-of-the-way room all by ourselves. ”
“What are you getting at?”
“Nothing. It’s just kinda... naughty, in a way.”
“I don’t see what’s so naughty about it, to be honest.”
“Hmm? You really think so?” she questioned, flashing her trademark playful smirk. “Say,
