After breaking up, my ex asked me to win her back-Chapter 224 - 223: Double Dealing Makes the News

The day after the cultural festival, the news that Ayakoji Chiyoko was playing both sides broke.

The school was split into two factions, endlessly debating.

One faction believed that Ayakoji Chiyoko forcefully kissing Kiryu Hina on stage was definitely an attempt to start a lesbian relationship, celebrating the victory of the yuri faction.

The other faction believed that Chiyoko spent almost an hour dancing with Kagura Hikaru at the post-festival celebrations, with rumors they were getting affectionate in secret at school, suggesting they might already be dating.

Overall, more people supported the first viewpoint.

That was because the photo of Chiyoko kissing Hina had spread more widely than the ambiguous rumors about her and Kagura Hikaru.

Both factions held firm to their views, and in the end, they compromised with each other, creating a new faction.

The Ayakoji Chiyoko playing both sides faction.

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"As long as you open up a harem, there’s no problem at all, everyone can be happy!" they began to promote their strange slogan.

After school in the Student Council office.

"Really, always with these useless antics," Chiyoko complained bitterly as she tossed the Society Discussion Meeting’s daily publication onto the desk, "As expected, this school gives too little homework, creating so many idle people."

She had heard that a rumor about her and Kagura Hikaru was published, and meant to read it for leisure after the cleanup work of the cultural festival, but ended up getting completely infuriated after reading it.

Why did they have to pair her up with Kiryu Hina? Did the two of them look like they had any good relationship at all?!

And that ’playing both sides harem faction’ was even more eyesore-inducing.

Who would step onto such a weird ship!

"Isn’t the Society Discussion Meeting under your jurisdiction? How come even you are criticizing it," Kagura Hikaru asked with a strange look after picking up the daily publication Chiyoko had discarded.

Chiyoko reluctantly clicked her tongue and explained, "When the Society Discussion Meeting was initially set up to counter the News Department, I told them not to tie it too closely to me, advocating that presenting views from an objective standpoint would gain more trust from the students."

"Does this count as shooting yourself in the foot now?"

"... I’ll talk to them about it later."

From Chiyoko’s expression, it seemed it was going to be more than just a talk.

Kagura Hikaru had no intention of standing up for the estranged Society Discussion Meeting. Casually, he put the daily publication down and said, "It’s about time, we should head out."

"Yeah, you’re right, the others should be waiting at the school gate now."

Chiyoko checked her phone, then stood up, gave some instructions to the other Student Council members, grabbed her handbag, and left with Kagura Hikaru.

Today there was a cultural exchange meeting with Tsukinomori Girls’ Academy.

The main participants were representatives of various arts departments and the Student Council, who were going over there to discuss cooperation between the clubs of the two schools, to promote communication and mutual learning.

Essentially, it was just an event similar to a social gathering, only scaled up to involve two schools.

Whether there was really any improvement in skills was debatable and not important; the only thing the Student Council cared about was strengthening the connections between Uka and Tsukinomori schools.

In other words, this was a diplomatic mission.

When Chiyoko and Kagura Hikaru walked out of the school together, the head of the Cultural Committee and several student representatives of the arts clubs were already waiting there, coming up to greet them.

But Chiyoko’s attitude was somewhat perfunctory, her attention entirely on another person.

That was Kohinata Motoyo, temporarily replacing the Takeuchi Momo Department Head, who was also going with them to visit Tsukinomori Girls’ Academy today.

Hey, haven’t seen you in a day.

Kohinata Motoyo waved with a smile, and though she didn’t speak, it seemed like she was saying that to Kagura Hikaru and the others.

Though for Kagura Hikaru, not seeing each other for a day or two was nothing new—they almost saw each other every day, from morning till night.

After all, they were neighbors.

Moreover, Motoyo’s room was ’just so happens’ to be right across from Kagura Hikaru’s room. She never drew her curtains, so one could clearly see everything through the window.

By the way, it’s worth mentioning that, for some reason, she always did everything in front of her window—reading, doing homework, using her phone, changing clothes— it was like a whole new kind of exhibitionism.

Thanks to her, Kagura Hikaru had to keep his curtains tightly drawn every day to maintain his sanity, making his entire room dim with no sunlight.

"Is everyone here?" Ayakoji Chiyoko checked off the names. All the representatives had arrived, so she called everyone to set off.

The large group of them headed straight for the train station.

Taking a taxi was out of the question; taxis in the Island Nation were as expensive as if they ran on golden wheels. Besides, Tsukinomori wasn’t far from Uka. Taking the train was just perfect.

About half an hour later, the group finally arrived at the gates of Tsukinomori Girls’ Academy.

Looking at the grand gates and the European-style academic building constructed from red bricks in the distance, the representatives from Uka High School couldn’t help but let out soft exclamations of awe.

"It’s no wonder it’s the rumored aristocratic girls’ school; the grandeur is unmatched."

"I wish our school were like this too."

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"You must be joking. It’s not even close."

"..."

The group chattered on and on.

A moment later, having been notified by Ayakoji Chiyoko, the members of the Moon Forest Student Council arrived and opened the school gates to let the students from Uka in.

Among them was Sakata Asahi, who knew Ayakoji Chiyoko well. She greeted them with a smile.

"Welcome to Tsukinomori. Everyone, I am Sakata Asahi, the president of Tsukinomori Girls’ Academy. You can call me....."

Before she could finish her opening remarks, she caught sight of Kohinata Suse standing with Kagura Hikaru among the crowd. She froze, her eyes widening in disbelief, "Su, Suse? What are you doing here?!"

"Asahi, long time no see. So you’re a student at Tsukinomori," Kohinata Suse responded joyfully.

"Long time no see! Since you went abroad to study, it must have been over a year since we last met. Why didn’t you come to see me when you returned to Tokyo?"

Sakata Asahi handed off the welcoming duties to other members of the Student Council and joyfully moved closer.

Kohinata Suse said, "Sorry, I’ve been busy with a lot of things lately; I haven’t even had time to get in touch with many old friends."

"No worries at all, I don’t mind. By the way, you transferred to Ugao High?"

"Yes."

"Eh... why didn’t you come to Tsukinomori? It’s so nice here."

Sakata Asahi said this with a smile, but her tone carried a deeper meaning,

It was as if she was saying that Kohinata Suse, by going to Uka High School, definitely wouldn’t be as happy as she would have been at Tsukinomori.

After all, both Kiryu Hina and Kagura Hikaru were there.

Being at the same school with them would surely lead to plenty of awkwardness,

Especially with that obnoxious guy.

Kohinata Suse was standing right next to Kagura Hikaru, so naturally, Sakata Asahi had to approach them to talk.

However, she didn’t even give Kagura Hikaru a glance, obviously ignoring him, which was starkly different from her warm interaction with Kohinata Suse.

The two of them were also middle school classmates who had played together in the past, yet now their relationship had become like this.

The bizarre atmosphere between the two was keenly sensed by Kohinata Suse.

She looked inquiringly at Kagura Hikaru, but he had already followed Ayakoji Chiyoko to meet with the members of the Moon Forest Student Council.

"Suse, you haven’t been in contact with that person, have you?" suddenly asked Sakata Asahi.

"Eh?"

"I mean Kagura Hikaru. He’s now helping Chiyoko out, right? He hasn’t approached you, has he?"

"That... hasn’t happened..."

On the contrary, she was the one continually reaching out.

In front of her long-lost friend, Kohinata Suse at least didn’t let anything slip.