When trying to persuade

"Let me tell you, Raphi has a very strange personality. If she says something you don't understand in the future, just assume she was joking."

While holding her fist, Gabriel reminded Ren who was beside her.

"Okay."

Gabriel added: "Of course, you can also write down the weird things she said like you did today, then tell me, and I'll tell you what she meant."

In fact, what she wanted to say at first was to tell Ren to ignore Raphiel, but when she thought of Raphiel's unpredictable character, she had to abandon that plan.

Who knows if Raphiel will do something strange because of this?

She didn't dare to bet on this kind of thing.

"I see."

"Um."

Seeing Ren being so cooperative, Gabriel was still very happy, then she remembered something: "By the way, I heard you say, wouldn't you be happy if I became your girlfriend?"

"Yes." Ren didn't deny it, because that was how he felt.

Pretending not to care, Gabriel deliberately complained: "Even though this isn't the first time I've heard similar words, do I always feel a little uncomfortable every time I hear it."

"Why do you feel uncomfortable?" Ren asked in confusion, "Are you sick?"

"Of course I'm not sick. My body is not that fragile."

Gabriel denied his suspicions of illness and continued, "I find your logic a bit strange."

She basically didn't take what Ren said before to heart, thinking it wasn't a big deal at all, but after being slightly frightened by Raphiel, she started to get a little worried.

For her future considerations, she would correct Ren's strange logic when necessary.

"Why is this strange?"

Ren believes that his logic has always been very normal, logically it should not be called strange.

"Let me ask you first, do you think girlfriends and best friends have the best relationship with you?" Gabriel decided to convince him little by little.

After hesitating for a moment, Ren answered: "Good friend."

"Why do you think so?"

Hearing his unexpected answer, Gabriel started to feel a little confused.

No matter how she thought about it, a girlfriend should be closer than a good friend.

"Because I don't have a girlfriend," Ren answered honestly.

"…"

Gabriel suddenly felt that Ren's logic was no longer strange, because his logic couldn't be said to be strange.

"Then let's take a premise. Let's say you have a girlfriend, and I'm still your best friend. Who do you think will have a better relationship with you, me, or your girlfriend?"

This time Gabriel added a premise to this question, but when she said this premise, she always felt a little strange.

"You," Ren answered without hesitation.

"Eh?"

Gabriel was stunned.

What's with this sudden feeling?

After calming down her somewhat subtle mood, Gabriel asked with some embarrassment: "Do you mean that even if you have a girlfriend in the future, your relationship with me will still be the best?"

"You can say that."

"Truly..."

After receiving this confirmation, Gabriel's mood suddenly improved, although her fist still hurt.

"Then wouldn't your girlfriend be jealous?" Gabriel suddenly thought of something and asked again.

"You don't need to answer this question. Just treat it as if I haven't asked."

Seeing that Ren was about to answer, Gabriel suddenly thought of something and immediately took back the question she had just asked.

What does it mean if a girlfriend is jealous?

Why did she naturally rule herself out as a girlfriend?

It seemed like she was really influenced by Raphiel.

After silently reminding herself in her mind, Gabriel blamed Raphiel for this.

"Forget it, if you think about it carefully, your logic is actually quite normal, so there shouldn't be any problems."

Finding that she couldn't seem to convince Ren's strange logic, Gabriel had no choice but to give up. Moreover, Ren admitted that he had the best relationship with her, which made her feel that she didn't need to be so anxious.

After all, apart from her, who would want an ordinary-looking Ren who wears glasses and has strange logic?

"Um."

After hearing Gabriel say that his logic was normal, Ren felt that he was not far from being like an ordinary person.

······

Monday morning.

"The holidays went by so fast."

Walking slowly towards school, Gabriel said very casually.

"Yeah, I really didn't expect to meet Gabriel so soon," Raphiel's voice suddenly sounded from the side.

"Hey, when did you come here? Why don't you make any sound?"

Hearing the sound, Gabriel immediately turned her head and looked in the direction where the sound came.

"Also, why are you next to Kamikawa?" Looking at Raphiel standing next to Ren, she felt very unhappy.

"Of course because I feel comfortable standing like this," Raphiel said matter-of-factly, "And I came here early in the morning, but you didn't notice."

After staring at her for a long time, Gabriel said dissatisfiedly: "You did this on purpose, right?"

"How could it be? I think this is very interesting." Raphiel covered her mouth with her hand to hide her smile, "Being able to see Gabriel like this so early in the morning, I immediately felt my mood today getting better."

"Kamikawa, the two of us changed places."

After saying this, Gabriel pulled Ren aside, and then took a middle position between Ren and Raphiel.

"Are you jealous?"

Raphiel leaned into Gabriel's ear and asked softly.

"I don't." Gabriel denied, "I think it would be dangerous for you to stay with Kamikawa."

"Then you are still jealous?" The smile on Raphiel's face grew brighter, "Besides, you told me on the phone yesterday that you like him, so you don't need to hide it in front of me anymore."

"What did I say yesterday? I forget."

In this case, Gabriel chose to play dumb.