Gabriel's Thoughts

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Ren didn't understand why Gabriel suddenly changed her mind, didn't she reject him yesterday afternoon on the grounds that watching stars was too boring?

"Okay."

Even though he didn't know the reason, he still agreed.

As long as Ren can go wherever he wants to go with Gabriel, it doesn't matter if he doesn't know the reason.

"Then you still want to hang out with me?"

Thinking about what Gabriel promised him before, Ren asked.

He was a little worried that after she agreed to accompany him somewhere, she wouldn't hang out with him.

"Up to you. If you don't want to come with me, it's okay to cancel."

Gabriel stretched and turned her attention back to Ren, a hint of teasing in her tone.

The reason why she changed her mind was just to compensate him, after all, they were also good friends.

As his best friend, it was only natural for her to accompany him wherever he wanted to go.

"I think," Ren answered honestly.

Of course, he wanted to hang out with Gabriel.

"What do you think?"

Gabriel seemed interested and kept asking him questions.

"I want to hang out with you," Ren followed her words.

"Then I will continue to follow the previous agreement, and I will decide the time."

Gabriel didn't think about rejecting him in the first place.

She had made a promise to Ren, and she would not break it.

She can still do this.

"Um."

After talking to him, Gabriel turned around and saw Raphiel looking at her with a smile.

"Gabriel, you have changed a lot."

When she noticed that Gabriel was looking up, Raphiel said with a smile.

"You've said this once before," Gabriel sighed and complained.

"But this time I'm talking about another aspect," Raphiel glanced at Ren, who was standing next to Gabriel, then said, "You should know what I'm talking about."

"I don't know at all." Gabriel shook her head and pushed her a little. "Just tell him what you want to say. Don't be pretentious. I don't want to play boring guessing games early in the morning."

"If you insist on saying that, then I can't say anything else, but I still have to remind you."

After saying this, Raphiel leaned into Gabriel's ear and whispered, "Gabriel, you are an angel."

"...I still know this, I don't need you to remind me."

After a moment of silence, Gabriel slowly spoke.

"So you plan to..."

Before Raphiel could finish speaking, Gabriel interrupted her.

"No, there is still a long time."

"Yeah, there's still a long time," Raphiel agreed, "There's still three years."

"Not necessarily," Gabriel paused and said in a somewhat complicated mood, "The games in this world are very fun."

"Gabriel, isn't that so..."

Raphiel suddenly made a bold guess.

"Ah, we're at school."

Gabriel once again interrupted what she was about to say and changed the topic.

"Let's go quickly before it's too late."

While saying that, Gabriel pulled Ren and ran into the school.

"Kamikawa Ren."

Watching their retreating figures, Raphiel read his name softly.

"The world seems more interesting than I imagined... I'm really looking forward to the future."

Shaking her head, throwing some complicated thoughts out of her mind, she followed with a smile on her face.

Since Gabriel wanted to do that, she could only support her.

However, before that, let's see if Ren is worth it.

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Class B for 1st year.

Maybe it's because there is a holiday this week, so even though today's weekend has just ended, the students are very excited to chat in groups about where to go during the holiday.

Ren, Gabriel, and Vigne had just entered the classroom when they saw Fumino, Rizu, and Itsuki gathered together and chatting about something.

"Ah, Kamikawa-san is here."

As soon as they entered the door, Fumino immediately noticed them.

"Hm?"

For some reason, Ren felt that Fumino and the others seemed very excited after seeing him come.

"Kamikawa-san, you should know that you will have an exam when we return from the Golden Week holiday," Itsuki said immediately.

"It is said that this exam seems to be a preliminary exam."

Rizu next to her added the news she heard.

"Eh? Do we have to take the exam after returning from vacation?"

Vigne only paid attention to the holidays and didn't pay much attention to the exams.

"Why do we still have to take the exam?" Gabriel expressed her dissatisfaction.

Exams are the most annoying thing.

Ren wasn't worried at all about this so-called exam.

For him, things like exams were just a formality and didn't need to be cared about at all.

"Kirisu Sensei should probably talk about the exam at the class meeting later," Fumino said.

"It seems like during this Golden Week, we can't just focus on going out and having fun. We need to look further."

Vigne calculated the time and found that there should be enough time, and felt a little relieved.

"Yeah, we think so too," Fumino nodded in agreement, "So we're planning to hold a review study session to prepare for this exam."

For stupid students like them, study meetings were very necessary, and they might be able to get better grades than before.

"Study meeting?" Vigne was excited. "It feels really good. May I join?"

"Of course we plan to invite you," Fumino agreed without hesitation.

If there were only three people in this study group, it would be very unreliable.

After all, these three are not good at studying.

"Kamikawa-san, and Tenma-san, do you want to participate?"

Then, Fumino looked at Ren and asked hopefully.

"Okay," Ren agreed.

Since they all agreed, as an ordinary person who sided with the majority, of course he would not refuse.

"I'm not going," Gabriel refused.

Learning is not as interesting as playing games.

Besides, after agreeing to Vigne and Ren's suggestion to go out together, there wasn't much time left during the holidays.

In that case, she didn't want to waste any more time studying.