"An amusement park... what a predictable choice."
Standing at the amusement park entrance, Ai Hayasaka couldn't help but complain about Chika Fujiwara's choice.
Although she indeed had no dating experience, saying amusement park when talking about dates really fit the image of Chika Fujiwara only being able to learn romance experience from shoujo manga.
Moreover, this amusement park not only had Ferris wheels and other rides, but also a haunted house. Ai Hayasaka could hear Chika Fujiwara's calculating thoughts from several blocks away.
"Hayasaka is so mean, what's wrong with amusement parks?"
Chika Fujiwara looked at Ai Hayasaka somewhat dissatisfied, then seemed to want to add persuasive power to her choice by pointing at Kaguya Shinomiya.
"Look, isn't Kaguya-san very happy!?"
"Eh!? I... where am I?"
Kaguya Shinomiya hadn't expected the bickering between Ai Hayasaka and Chika Fujiwara to suddenly involve her, immediately becoming somewhat flustered and instinctively stepping back.
Then she bumped right into Shin behind her, leaning her whole body against him, her face turning red again.
The former Kaguya Shinomiya who had never even touched a boy's hand was having increasingly frequent contact with Shin lately, which meant Kaguya Shinomiya's blushing frequency was constantly increasing.
Although she seemed to be opposing Chika Fujiwara's words just now, when Kaguya Shinomiya looked at the amusement park entrance, she had indeed shown a somewhat excited smile.
Ai Hayasaka looked at Kaguya Shinomiya and finally nodded:
"Indeed, Kaguya-sama looks very happy, so I have no objections either."
As a maid who had served her since childhood, how could Ai Hayasaka not see that Kaguya Shinomiya was just being stubborn earlier?
Moreover, with Shin by her side now, let alone an amusement park, even sitting on a park bench chatting would probably leave Kaguya Shinomiya with no complaints.
After all, Kaguya Shinomiya was so excited yesterday she almost couldn't sleep, and that obviously wasn't because she could go to an amusement park tomorrow, but because she could see Shin tomorrow.
For the somewhat love-brained Kaguya Shinomiya, as long as she could see Shin, going anywhere was fine—the amusement park was just icing on the cake, since Kaguya Shinomiya had indeed never been to an amusement park.
As the young lady of the Shinomiya family, the previous Kaguya Shinomiya had always been strictly forbidden from such entertainment activities, as could be seen from her phone not even being a smartphone.
The previous Kaguya Shinomiya had no opinions about this either, maintaining an almost ascetic lifestyle until Shin's appearance finally changed this situation.
Now, as long as it was related to Shin, Kaguya Shinomiya could go anywhere without being stopped by the Shinomiya family—on the contrary, the Shinomiya family would help provide convenience.
For example, the amusement park tickets this time were bought with the Shinomiya family's help, and there were actually quite a few female bodyguards planted in the amusement park to handle any unexpected situations.
In this regard, Ai Hayasaka was also very grateful to Shin—at least he had indeed freed Kaguya Shinomiya from the Shinomiya family's shackles, and even Oko Shinomiya no longer restricted Kaguya Shinomiya's movements.
Just as Shin and the four entered the amusement park, two figures appeared not far behind them, closely following the four ahead.
"Moeha, this behavior still isn't very good..."
One of them, a girl with silver-white long hair, looked at Shin and the others' backs ahead and couldn't help saying to her companion.
"Don't worry, we won't be discovered—or rather, even if we are discovered, it's fine. Shin-nii is very understanding."
The other girl had pink hair similar to Chika Fujiwara's, just styled differently with short twin tails, and a mischievous smile on her face.
She was Chika Fujiwara's younger sister—Fujiwara Moeha, who had secretly followed Chika Fujiwara out this time to observe the progress between Shin and her sister Chika Fujiwara.
Moreover, worried that she might miss something if she followed alone, she specifically dragged her friend Shirogane Kei along.
"Calling him so intimately... you haven't even spoken to that boy named Shin, have you?"
The silver-white long-haired girl—Shirogane Kei, who had been forcibly dragged along by Fujiwara Moeha—couldn't help but sigh helplessly.
From Fujiwara Moeha's mouth, Shirogane Kei had learned the identities of those people—except for Shin, the other three were all from Shuchiin Academy's high school division.
Fujiwara Moeha and Shirogane Kei were students in Shuchiin Academy's middle school division, and because they were classmates, their relationship was quite good.
"After Shin-nii and Chika-nee get married, we'll be family, so calling him intimately is no problem."
Fujiwara Moeha didn't think there was any problem at all. She spoke matter-of-factly, as if Chika Fujiwara being able to win over Shin was already a done deal.
"It's not certain they'll get married... Shin-senpai has so many girls around him, even that high school senior Shinomiya is following along."
Shirogane Kei didn't know where Fujiwara Moeha got such confidence. She looked at Shin's back ahead and the three girls around him, her expression somewhat complex.
"Speaking of which, do all three of those people have that kind of relationship with Shin-senpai?"
"Probably, I heard the Shinomiya family wants to arrange a marriage between Kaguya and Shin."
Fujiwara Moeha thought about what she had heard at the Fujiwara house and replied.
"As for Hayasaka, she's Kaguya's maid, probably like in ancient times when a young lady would bring her maid along when getting married? So Hayasaka will probably also become Shin-nii's person?"
"Don't you want to stop this at all?"
Unlike Fujiwara Moeha, Shirogane Kei's thoughts were still quite pure. Hearing Fujiwara Moeha seem to immediately accept Shin's involvement with multiple girls, she asked somewhat anxiously.
"It's fine, isn't that how rich people are?"
Fujiwara Moeha waved her hand, seeming completely unconcerned about Shin's close relationships with many girls, instead showing a somewhat eager expression.
Hearing Fujiwara Moeha's answer, Shirogane Kei couldn't help but shudder, and her gaze toward Shin's direction became strange:
"Do rich people play so extravagantly..."
Shirogane Kei's family situation wasn't very good. She could enter Shuchiin Academy purely through her decent academic ability.
Although Shuchiin Academy was a well-known aristocratic school, in Japan where the nobility system was nominally abolished, surface-level fairness still had to be maintained.
So Shuchiin Academy would recruit some commoner students through exams or donations—Shirogane Kei entered Shuchiin Academy's middle school division through exams.
She thought of her brother Shirogane Miyuki—Shirogane Miyuki was also in Shuchiin Academy's high school division, but his personality was somewhat self-deprecating.
Due to butterfly effects, Shirogane Miyuki hadn't received encouragement from Kaguya like in the original story, so he never mustered the courage to compete for student council president, and was now still just an ordinary Shuchiin student.
"If only my brother could learn from Shin-senpai's personality."
Shirogane Kei followed Shin and the others while thinking to herself.
She was considering whether to approach Shin to see if she could learn something from him to teach her brother, to make him less self-deprecating.
To be continued…