Haibara's Teenage New Game+ Volume 4

The first time I saw him during our school’s entrance ceremony, I thought he looked cool. He was tall and slender—the Ryomei uniform fit him well. He had a handsome face, and his styled hair gave a pleasant impression. Above all, I was drawn to his strikingly calm demeanor.

It turned out we were in the same class, and somehow we ended up in the same friend group as well. Honestly... He turned out to be different than I’d expected. There was a jarring difference between the times when he was calm and when he was being shifty, and his poser act was kind of irritating. I also didn’t like how he kept approaching me, and only me, aggressively.

He probably has a crush on me, I thought at some point, but I didn’t mind, so I treated him like