章 1435: Picking up Hina

"Have I kept you waiting?" I smilingly asked as soon as I stepped inside their clubroom where she was left alone.

"Yeah. You did." Hina teasingly answered. She then stood up and waited for me to approach her before jumping in my arms.

Well, in a way, I truly kept her waiting because I still failed to drop or cut off with my usual routine.

It's been more than half an hour since the club hours concluded. The sky was already in a darker orange hue, sending out the last vestiges of sunlight from the west.

Even though the first thing I did after escorting the girls from my club was to come here and tell her to wait for me so we could ride the bus together, I still got stalled for a bit because I added more routes to take.

For example, I visited Shizu and Watanabe at the Student Council to personally thank them for their earlier help. And with Shizu still in the mood for teasing me, I failed to leave right away.