Furuhashi was a little confused.
Because Shinichi was sitting next to her, for some reason he became close to Itsuki.
To be precise, the two of them were about to discuss the itinerary, progress and other things that sounded very advanced during their recent class break, with serious expressions.
After asking curiously, she learns that Itsuki joined the forest school executive committee chaired by Shinichi and she became vice chairman, which made communication between the two more frequent.
And it's not just her, all the quintuplets of the Nakano family have become members of the executive committee, led by Shinichi, and the six are in charge of this year's forest school together.
After sighing at this extraordinary combination, she conveyed her blessings and wishes for the formation of the committee. Furuhashi was planning to skip the matter and continue to think about how to match up Shinichi and Ogata when she was suddenly taken aback.
As if a certain switch in the mind was turned on, countless clues started connecting one by one in the mind, and gradually came to a conclusion.
Shinichi is the leader, and there are only five members of the Nakano Quintuplets under him. The forest school committee consists of one boy and five girls.
Ichika is one of the Nakano quintuplets, and has four sisters as assistants – right time, right place, and right person.
Due to forest school, Furuhashi and Ogata couldn't hang out with Shinichi for too long. The distance slowly widened.
All male travelers are great – so if the remaining four have Itsuki's figure, Ogata is utterly defeated, and Furuhashi is not qualified to compete with her on the same stage.
Suddenly she really wanted to punch Shinichi.
But now wasn't the time to care about that.
"Is there another crisis?!"
Furuhashi's expression immediately changed.
"Oops, it's dangerous for Ricchan to be like this! I'm so slow and oblivious that I don't contact Asada-san unless necessary, and now there are so many competitors. After a month like this, perhaps Asada-san will prostrate under Ichika's pomegranate skirt, and ignore us from now on..."
Thinking of this, Furuhashi quickly calmed herself down.
"It is said that men and women who work together are the easiest to develop feelings for. Even though Asada-san looks serious about studying, if at any point he suddenly becomes enlightened or hot… cough cough… Emotional, there's no guarantee that she won't be immediately caught by Ichika..."
Thinking of a good idea, her face was full of joy.
"That's good! Why don't I confess to Asada-san first, and take the position of his girlfriend, so he can't interfere with—"
The idea just popped up halfway, then...
Explosion!
With a stiff expression, Furuhashi slammed her head straight on the table.
Shinichi was shocked, and almost lost the information in his hands: "What's wrong with Furuhashi? Is this a new way to fall asleep?"
Furuhashi just put her face on the table, stretched out her hand and gave a thumbs up, indicating that she was fine, but didn't speak.
(My recent self is really weird! If I keep caring about Asada-san like this... I'll feel even more sorry for Ricchan.)
Furuhashi closed her eyes and smiled wryly.
"I also want to be like you, don't think about anything, Ricchan..."
...
After school.
In a corner of the fourth floor of the teaching building, in a small conference room that was secluded and quiet, voices could be heard faintly at this time.
"...You understood the original plan, and the information was shared. You know what to do, so I won't repeat it."
"If you have any questions, you can ask me, or ask Itsuki directly saying, don't do things with the mentality that it doesn't matter if you don't understand, our goal is to do our best, and we will never allow tolerance!"
Shinichi swept across the audience, seeing that they were nodding in the same way, his expression suddenly lightened.
"Okay, the meeting's over... Let's take a break and start doing the chores ourselves."
Ichika and Miku lay down at the conference table together, and Yotsuba leaned weakly against the back of the chair, Itsuki closed her eyes and rested in silence.
Only Nino took a pile of documents neatly wrapped in a folder, and walked towards Shinichi.
"For you."
Throwing away these documents and sentences, Nino stood aside with an indifferent expression, but silently watched Shinichi's reaction.
Shinichi flipped through the information, raised his eyebrows for a moment, then calmed down, his eyes carefully scanned the name, phone number and position above, and quickly made a decision.
"This is information from the members of the 3rd year student forest executive committee, as well as the club cadres who have helped organize the activities, and even information from the instructors… Did you fulfill this week's assignment?"
Nino smiled, and waved her hand casually: "It's fine, I can do something trivial like this in one night, and it doesn't take much time at all."
Nino thought that she would see Shinichi's surprised look, but she didn't expect that he only stared at her for a moment, then put the file back.
"I showed you the formula to moisten your throat, have you seen it?"
"Eh? Yes..." The unexpected response made Nino not know what to answer.
"As long as it's available, I'll arrange a new schedule for you later, take it slow, don't be in a hurry..." Shinichi sorted another pile of documents. "As chairman of the committee must control the physical condition of each member of the committee. If you ask for time off because you lose your voice, the whole team will be in trouble. If you don't control the rhythm well, it's like trying your best in the first ten kilometers of a marathon, but nothing is achieved in the end…"
Nino stared speechlessly at him who started babbling like an old woman.
Nino really wanted to complain like this, but after holding on for a moment with a complicated expression, she sighed and said reluctantly.
"You too. If you have too much work, it's fine if you give it to me. After all, I'm pretty free... If you're tired, who knows what to do next."
Shinichi raised his eyes, Nino looked away.
"…I'm fine, I don't have much to do, and I go to bed at ten on time every day."
Shinichi lowered his head, he turned his gaze back again.
"Very relaxed? Then is it fine for me to go out with my friends in the next few days?"
Shinichi looked up, Nino looked away reflexively.
"Since you've said it, I'll give you a task."
When Shinichi lowered his head to search for information, Nino looked at him again, but at this moment, Shinichi suddenly raised his head and the eyes of the two of them met.
"!?" A panicked expression crossed her face, Nino's eyes moved quickly left and right, then fixed on Shinichi's face, looking at him sharply.
"Aren't you going to give me a task?"
The corners of Shinichi's mouth curved slightly, and Nino gritted her teeth.