Explanation Method

　　Shinichi's gaze was always calm, but carried a cold pressure.

　　Itsuki's entire body tensed. At this moment, she was caught in two thoughts.

　　The first was to ignore Shinichi and directly tell her sister what she had found.

　　Even though it was very impolite to do this, and she would be very embarrassed of Shinichi, and it was basically an invasion of privacy –, but the anger in her heart made her feel that it was the right thing to do.

　　The second is to pretend not to see it, keep Shinichi's secret well protected, and then learn the truth from him personally, so as not to get carried away by emotions and make wrong judgments temporarily.

　　After calming down, Itsuki knew that this was the choice she had to make.

　　Impulsiveness could easily lead to accidents, Shinichi had once told her. Not to mention, Itsuki really cares about him now.

　　So between justice and humanity, this time she will choose the latter!

　　Making a decision in her heart, Itsuki put the item back into the bag.

　　"Itsuki, what's wrong? You look a little suspicious."

　　"!?"

　　Of course, the Nakano family's quadruplets, including Rui, who had been paying attention to Shinichi, all saw the change in his expression from shock to pretending to be calm.

　　Unable to hide it even if she wanted to, Itsuki hypnotized herself in her thoughts, 'I'm a naughty girl,' then smiled.

　　"Is it true? I think it's okay."

　　"Very doubtful…" Miku complained, causing more drops of sweat to form on Itsuki's forehead, and she quickly waved her hand.

　　"It is nothing. Don't worry. It's just that my feet hurt a little when I kick something... Don't you think that when your little toe touches the table leg, it will hurt so much that you won't be able to talk?"

　　Ichika said in a casual tone: "That's true, but your acting skills are too bad, Itsuki~"

　　Hit where it hurts, Itsuki fell silent.

　　Yotsuba let go of Rui's thigh, sensing the atmosphere was a little tense, and quickly jumped in between everyone and Itsuki to smooth things over.

　　"Okay everyone, it's rare for us to gather again at Asada-san's house, so let's not waste time on trivial matters like that. Let's quickly think about what we're going to play before Ebata-san comes to pick us up!"

　　Rui complained: "Are you just here to have fun…"

　　While they were talking, Nino had stood up, walked behind Shinichi, lowered her head and asked seriously.

　　"Hey, can I also see what Itsuki just saw?"

　　"Nino..." Itsuki looked a little worried and wanted to say something, but Shinichi stopped her movements.

　　He turned to Nino and smiled.

　　"I thought you would hurry up and check it out. There might be something bad in it."

　　"Even so, it doesn't mean that I will touch your things casually," Nino said matter-of-factly, even with a hint of helplessness in her eyes, "Who do you think I am? About privacy is another thing..."

　　Halfway through her words, she blushed, looked around, leaned close to the side of his face, and whispered softly.

　　"…Because I like you, I should respect you, that's what I thought."

　　Nino smiled, a generous smile with a hint of shyness.

　　Miku stared blankly at their interaction from the sofa across from her.

　　It was impossible to say that Shinichi wasn't shaken by such a sudden attack. However, under the attention of the other girls, he kept his expression calm and took his bag.

　　Shinichi said calmly, "It's okay actually. What's inside is a souvenir I got from completing the game when I went to the game house with my friends from the student council."

　　He slowly took out a photo frame from the bag.

　　The photo frame is not big, the size of an A4 paper, and contains very beautiful photos.

Everyone turned to look at it. Suddenly, several different auras appeared around Shinichi. He kept his expression calm and, but he couldn't stop the physical contact of the group of people huddled together.

　　He didn't know whether it was intentional or not, but he felt a pair of soft objects on the back of his head.

　　This feeling must belong to Nino... After all, she is the only one behind him now.

　　Itsuki turned her head with worried eyes.

　　Because when everyone saw the photo clearly, the atmosphere became silent.

　　On a plain where thousands of flowers bloomed, a young man was holding a young girl.

　　Everyone could see that the man was Shinichi surrounded by beautiful girls.

　　This is a mysterious reward for completing the game.

　　Shinichi really didn't expect that the game organizers would "beautifully process" the photos, print them, frame them and give them to them.

　　He never expected to share this photo with the quintuplets and Rui.

　　Everything is truly unpredictable.

　　"The way Shinichi-kun hugs that girl is quite nice." Ichika chuckled but her eyes narrowed.

　　"How can we call it a princess hug?" Shinichi explained to her while paying attention to other people's expressions.

　　"Don't look at how beautiful this photo is. The situation at that time was so critical that we would fall into the octopus pool a second later. So tiring..."

　　"By the way, Yotsuba, you must know that girl?"

　　"…Ah, you asked me?" Yotsuba stroked her chin as she remembered.

　　"The student council, I know… ah, could it be Chika Senpai from the board game club?" She looked at Shinichi, and was stunned.

　　"That's right, I went on a secret mission for the student council today. Because we only had time, we went to play a large-scale game of life together, and we happened to be together. With Fujiwara Senpai from the Student Council to challenge the game together."

　　"As a friend, I finally managed to get past that crappy game and get this photo. "

　　Shinichi sighed tiredly.

　　"To be honest, the game was very tiring, and I really didn't want to play it a second time… Even though their photos were very beautiful, we looked much more embarrassed at that time."

　　The audience subconsciously nodded and agreed with his words.

　　Lies will be revealed one day, but hidden facts will not be revealed.

　　The most important thing is to focus on the important points and get to the point.

　　 Shinichi could only sigh in relief.

　　He once read in a magazine that women's unique perception thought was that they liked to stick to key nodes in sentences, which was also the main reason for lovers' quarrels.

　　Because men can't always understand why women are dissatisfied, but they don't know that they just make mistakes in certain words or words in speech.

　　Putting away the photo frame, Shinichi looked around at the girls around him, and an idea suddenly came to mind.

　　From the way he explained it, he looked like a fuckboy who had been cheating on me for a year and a half...