I have a crush on Ren

Time passed and it was afternoon.

As soon as Ren arrived at the school gate, Asumi waited for him to grab his school bag.

"Hm?"

Ren didn't really understand why Asumi took his school bag.

Sensing his doubts, Asumi explained: "Yesterday, didn't you say that you would let me do a normal teaching assistant job, so I decided to help you carry your schoolbag. At least this helps, otherwise I couldn't accept the salary you give me with peace of mind.

"Oh." Ren nodded.

"Do teaching assistants need to help carry school bags?"

Fumino who followed him and heard the conversation between the two, asked Itsuki in a low voice.

Although she didn't know what a teaching assistant's job was, it was clear that carrying a backpack wasn't a teaching assistant's job at all, right?

"I don't know."

Itsuki shook her head, she didn't really understand this kind of thing.

"The relationship between the two of them is extraordinary," Said Rizu directly.

"Eh? Ricchan, why do you say that?"

Her sudden words surprised Fumino.

Itsuki also turned her head.

Rizu raised her glasses and said slowly: "Because the teaching assistant position is not needed. When there were no teaching assistants, Kamikawa-san also taught us well and nothing happened."

"And yesterday there was an additional teaching assistant, and the teaching was the same as before. That's Kamikawa-san's point of view. In fact, Kominami Senpai didn't do anything."

"It seems so."

Fumino thought about it carefully and found that this was indeed the case. Asumi didn't do anything yesterday. It didn't matter that she was a negligible assistant.

Then this is a negligible position. Why did Ren let Asumi be a teaching assistant?

After thinking for a while, she made a guess.

Because Ren didn't hire Asumi because he needed a teaching assistant, but instead wanted to hire her as a teaching assistant.

This is enough to explain why Rizu said that the two of them had a good relationship.

Feeling that she had found the answer, Fumino said: "But this matter has nothing to do with us. Maybe Kamikawa-san hired a teaching assistant to make things easier for himself."

"Um, it actually has nothing to do with us," Itsuki agreed softly, but somehow her expression was a little serious.

"I know."

Rizu didn't really care about this either.

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"I'm back."

After opening the door, Itsuki shouted into the room.

After changing into slippers, she came to the living room and saw Ichika and the four of them sitting on the sofa looking at her, which made her panic a little.

"You're back, Itsuki, come and sit."

Ichika patted the spot next to her with a smile on her face and pointed at her.

"This..."

Seeing their behavior so abnormal, Itsuki felt a little overwhelmed.

This was the first time she saw Ichika like this.

She walked towards it, but as soon as she reached her side, Ichika forcefully pulled her to sit down.

"Is there anything you want to ask me?"

Glancing at Ren, she found that he was arranging something and not paying attention to her, Itsuki asked Ichika very warily.

Ichika's appearance makes it hard not to suspect that she has bad thoughts towards her. Nino next to her also looked very strange, as if she was holding something back, and so did Yotsuba and Miku. She looked like she was eavesdropping.

"No."

Ichika first denied her speculation, then lowered her voice and said to her: "We already know what happened this afternoon."

"This afternoon? What happened?"

Itsuki didn't realize what Ichika said.

"That incident where you delivered water to Kamikawa-san. Don't try to deny it. We already confirmed it with the others and you were the one who went there." Ichika thought she was deliberately feigning ignorance.

"It's true that this happened, but I just went to deliver water."

While saying this, Itsuki remembered what happened that afternoon.

"Is it true? Then why did you hold Kamikawa-san's hand and take him away?" Ichika doesn't believe her explanation, but tells her another fact.

"I don't hold hands, I hold sleeves."

Itsuki emphasized that holding hands and holding clothes have different meanings.

After saying that, she suddenly realized something, her eyes swept over them one by one, and asked in confusion: "Why do you know this matter so clearly? You didn't take physical education class with us."

"Because we are quintuplets," Ichika sighed helplessly, "After you finished physical education class, many people thought I brought you water, then they came up to me and asked me. Those people didn't even think I was in class at that time, how could I go to deliver water?"

When Ichika finished speaking, Nino, Miku, and Yotsuba nodded in sympathy.

"Sorry," Itsuki apologized to them awkwardly.

Misunderstandings like this have happened before. It looks exactly the same. It's natural for those who are not familiar to admit their mistakes. It's also natural for them to impersonate them.

"You don't need to apologize, you just need to tell us if you like Kamikawa-san."

Ichika's already quiet voice became even quieter.

"I don't like him." Itsuki denied without hesitation, "Also, you guys have been talking for so long just to ask me such a question. Really boring."

Because she had already been asked this question, she answered very fluently this time.

"Don't you like him at all?"

"I don't like him at all!" Itsuki's attitude was very firm.

"Have you never been interested in him? Never thought about falling in love with him?" Ichika narrowed her eyes and said word by word.

"Eh?"

Facing this question, Itsuki fell silent, not knowing how to answer.

How to say it, she really likes Ren.

After all, Ren was very handsome and often tutored her in lessons. Even though she is very stupid, he doesn't show impatience and will explain everything she doesn't understand to her, and no matter how much she asks him, Ren won't refuse anything and he is very kind to her.

How could Itsuki's heart not be moved?