Although unsure of the situation, seeing Hayasaka's expression, Ren walked obediently, planning to see what was happening.
Perhaps Hayasaka needed his help.
With this thought, Ren approached Hayasaka.
Before he could speak, Hayasaka came to him with a smile, holding his arm tightly.
"Let me introduce you, this is my boyfriend, Ren."
(Boyfriend)
Hearing this word, Ren was momentarily stunned, becoming even more confused.
If he remembered correctly, his relationship with Hayasaka was just a classmate relationship, and it was highly impossible for her to be called him boyfriend.
"Hayasaka, you really have a boyfriend! I thought you were joking."
The short-haired girl standing with Hayasaka and wearing a different school uniform looked at Hayasaka and Ren in surprise.
"They say I have a boyfriend, but you still don't believe it. It's true..." Hayasaka looked very pressured and seemed to blame them.
"I'm sorry." The short-haired girl took the initiative to apologize.
"No problem." Hayasaka said indifferently.
When a guy standing nearby saw this scene, his expression wasn't too good, he seemed a bit embarrassed, and his eyes towards Ren also showed a hostile attitude.
Ren remained silent; he wouldn't easily speak without clearly understanding the situation on the ground.
Hayasaka didn't stay with him for long before she was pulled aside by the girls and started talking privately.
"Hayasaka, your boyfriend looks ordinary and not handsome at all."
This time, a long-haired girl looked at Ren and asked in confusion.
The other girls around Hayasaka didn't speak, but their eyes continued to stare at the two of them.
Although not spoken aloud, the meaning behind their gazes was clear, feeling that Ren wasn't worthy of Hayasaka.
With Hayasaka's appearance and personality, no matter how they looked at it, she could find a high-quality, very handsome guy who ranked at the top of the school, rather than an ordinary-looking guy like Ren.
Facing their questions, Hayasaka held back her smile.
Wasn't Ren handsome?
They had never seen him take off his glasses!
Of course, it was impossible for her to say such words aloud; she could only complain inwardly.
After thinking for a moment, Hayasaka smiled and explained, "Isn't Ren handsome? I think he's very handsome! I especially like the way he wins in the kendo club."
"Kendo Club?"
The long-haired girl paid attention to the specific term mentioned by Hayasaka.
"Yes, Ren is good at kendo. Although he just entered high school, he is liked by the club president and was asked to prepare for next year's national competition."
As she said this, Hayasaka intentionally raised her voice so that Ren and the other guy standing there could hear it.
"That's true."
After listening to her explanation, the girls could almost understand.
The identity of a sword genius was indeed very attractive.
On the other hand, the guy who was initially a bit hostile towards Ren immediately disappeared after hearing the news.
Being a kendo ace who could compete in the national competition was not bad at all.
"???"
Why did Hayasaka say that he was very skilled in swordsmanship? He was just an ordinary person.
So Ren explained, "No, my sword skills are very average."
In fact, he had never learned swordsmanship at all, and it wasn't even considered average.
His words could easily be interpreted as politeness, while Hayasaka had already told him that he was a sword expert.
Seeing this, Hayasaka smiled satisfactorily.
"How about that? Ren and I have other things to do, so let's move on. Goodbye."
Feeling that the time was almost up, Hayasaka returned to Ren's side, continued holding his arm, and bid farewell.
"See you."
Then, Hayasaka pulled Ren away from there. After making sure that the two of them had completely disappeared from the view of those people, she let go of his arm.
"Sorry, I just used you." Hayasaka immediately apologized.
"No problem. Why did you say I'm your boyfriend?"
Ren didn't care about this; he was more curious about this question.
"Because I was tricked into joining the party, and I had no choice but to do this to escape." Hayasaka sighed and explained.
As a competent intelligence gatherer, of course, she had to maintain friendships with many people to get information from them, and she often attended gatherings among friends.
The same thing happened this time; she came to attend a meeting of girls who had a good relationship with her when she was in junior high school.
Because the admission threshold to Shuchi'in Academy was very high, some people didn't have high enough grades or strong connections, so they had no choice but to continue to another school.
And these girls fell into this category.
To maintain the shallowest friendship with these girls, she had to come to this junior high school girls' meeting.
Although the usefulness of these girls was now very low, what if they were useful someday?
Hayasaka came to participate with this idea.
But when she came here, she realized that this was not what was called a party but a blind date.
So, to avoid causing trouble, she said that she already had a boyfriend and couldn't attend the party as an excuse and prepared to leave.
People didn't believe her at all, and a guy even said he would send her home.
She had no choice but to deceive them by pretending that her boyfriend was nearby and would pick her up later, but no one believed this lie either.
At this moment, she found Ren wandering around and made him as her boyfriend.
Hayasaka had to say that her reluctance to speak was very useful at times like this because there was no need to worry about her being exposed.
And to avoid Ren getting into trouble, when she introduced him to those people, she only mentioned his first name and didn't mention his last name. She also added the genius kendo player personality to him.
In this way, she didn't need to worry.
Even if those people went to the kendo club to check, they wouldn't find any results.
Anyway, she had decided not to associate with those girls again, and she didn't care what they thought.
"Oh."
Ren didn't quite understand the meaning of friendship, but he pretended to understand.
He didn't want to reveal his ignorance in front of Hayasaka and let her know that he was not an ordinary person.
"As a thank you, let me buy you a cup of coffee."
After checking the time, she found that there was still plenty of time, so Hayasaka extended the invitation.