Unable to Accept Choices

"Eh?! Ogata Rizu! Aren't you supposed to be walking over there?"

Seeing Rizu suddenly appear in front of her, Sawako immediately panicked.

"I just took the wrong path, and now I'm heading back." Rizu replied calmly, "Also, how do you know my name?"

"Of course, because you're famous at school!"

Sawako was a little embarrassed to explain.

"Am I famous at school?"

Rizu tilted her head, somewhat confused.

"You're a science genius, and this time you ranked 16th overall in the second year in one breath. Clearly, you weren't on that list before." Sawako stated the information she knew like treasure, "Also, your science scores are higher than mine, and even Shinomiya's science scores are slightly worse than mine."

Ren didn't doubt her words, as what the other party said was true.

Shinomiya Kaguya's performance was strong in all aspects; she had very high scores in both liberal arts and science. However, when it came to science or liberal arts alone, she certainly wasn't as good as Rizu, Sawako, and Fumino.

"So that's it."

Rizu believed her explanation.

"In that case, Kamikawa, what are you doing here?"

She didn't forget the main purpose of coming here.

Just as Ren was about to answer, Sawako lowered her voice and said to him, "Don't tell me about when I secretly followed Ogata Rizu and took pictures of her. Keep it a secret for me, I'll treat you to a meal when you get back."

"You're admitting it now."

Sure enough, what he just saw was true.

"Hmmm..."

Seeing them whispering to each other, Rizu felt like she came at the wrong time.

"I'm Sekijo Sawako from Class C first year..."

Sawako didn't want to be called a student by Rizu, so she introduced herself again, exactly as before.

"Hello, nice to meet you for the first time."

Since she already knew her name, Rizu didn't introduce herself.

"Ah, hello."

Sawako seemed a little embarrassed and dared not to look at Rizu.

"We just met here, so we chatted for a while."

Complying with Sawako's "terms." Ren searched for an excuse.

"So, is Sekijo-san Kamikawa's friend?"

Rizu felt she understood the current situation.

"Not a friend, just an acquaintance."

While Ren hesitated to admit it or not, Sawako answered first.

"Oh."

This way, the reason for their coming here to chat could be explained clearly.

"By the way, Ogata, what are you going to do?"

Ren clearly heard her say she took the wrong path.

"I'm going to try another udon place." Rizu handed the note in her hand to Ren, "I wanted to go to this place today, but I couldn't find it."

"No wonder you keep wandering around, Rizu."

Sawako nodded, pondering.

"Hah? What did you just say?"

Her words aroused Rizu's suspicion.

"Nothing, it's nothing."

Sawako realized that she seemed to have let slip a secret and hurriedly denied it.

"I know where this place is, I'll take you there."

After confirming the location of this udon shop with his superpower, Ren took the initiative to lead her and said.

"OK."

Rizu then asked, "Kamikawa, can you accompany me to try the udon at that restaurant?"

"No problem."

Ren had nothing else to do now, so it was okay to try udon with her.

"Thank you."

After thanking him, Rizu looked at Sawako.

"Sekijo-san, do you want to come with us?"

"Can I go with you?" Sawako said in surprise.

"Um, because I want to try other people's udon today, other people's opinions are also important." Rizu said seriously.

"Since you initiated to invite me, I reluctantly agree."

Sawako agreed with a smile on her face, and there was no sign of reluctance on her face.

"Why were you just following Ogata?"

After returning the note to Rizu, Ren asked Sawako.

"...I just wanted to investigate my competitors, or my rivals."

After hesitating for a moment, she answered hesitantly.

"Rival?"

Ren felt her choice of words was somewhat strange.

"Yes, Rizu is the best person in the entire class in the field of science. As the second best person in the field of science, I need to know myself and my enemies if I want to defeat her." Sawako said without beating around the bush.

"If you know yourself and your enemies, do you still need to use a camera to take pictures?"

Ren didn't forget her strange behavior.

"You don't need to worry about this. Anyway, Ogata Rizu and I are just competitors in science." Sawako said firmly.

"Actually, you don't need to worry too much. Ogata plans to apply to a liberal arts college in the future, so you don't need to worry that she will continue to compete with you in science."

After thinking about it, Ren decided to comfort her.

"What did you say?!"

As if hearing something extraordinary, Sawako hurriedly approached Rizu and verified to her, "Rizu, which school are you planning to apply to in the future?"

"Liberal Arts College."

Although she didn't quite understand why the other party would suddenly ask this question to herself, Rizu still answered honestly.

"What do you think? Why are you planning to apply to a liberal arts college?"

Sawako couldn't accept this reality.

"Is there a problem if I apply to a liberal arts college?" Rizu blinked in confusion.

In the past, if her scores in liberal arts weren't good, she would be stopped by others, but now her scores were very good, why should she be stopped?

Sawako said loudly, "I'm your rival in science. How can you choose to run away?"

"My scores in science have always been number one."

Rizu didn't expect she would be considered a rival.

"You're not interested in me, the second best student in science, right?"

Sawako seemed to have guessed her answer.

"Besides, I didn't know you before." Rizu said softly, "And I think you can't surpass me in science."

"In that case, if I surpass you in science, won't you apply to a liberal arts college?" Sawako suddenly had an idea.

"No, I will still apply to a liberal arts college."

Rizu's attitude was very firm.