<h4>Chapter 458: Short Story 1 : Ai Morishita’s SS - On the Cold Bench</h4>


    TODAY, I WAS waiting at a certain location to meet Ayanokōji Kiyotaka.


    It was a bench that you''d always pass by on your way back from school to the Keyaki Mall.


    I sat alone and quietly spent my time here, not doing anything in particr.


    Then, I suddenly felt that I didn''t like my current body position anymore.


    "Mm... I can''t rest well."


    Even if I rested my back on the chair, or stretched my back muscles, it did me no good.


    What should I do to be released from this difort?


    After going through trial and error, my problems were eventually resolved by lying face-down on the bench.


    "This isfortable..."


    It was particrly good that the cold wooden nk hit my cheek.


    All that I needed to do now was to sit and wait for his arrival.


    Ah, but since I''m not sitting... is it okay to ''sleep and wait'' instead?


    ...Oh never mind.


    Anyway, I spent my time in this rxing position.


    "Is she dead?"


    Finally hearing his voice, I felt at ease.


    If I had to wait any longer, I might''ve frozen to death.


    I was almost starting to doze off and was about to be lulled into sleep.


    "No, she''s not."


    "That''s correct. I''m not dead."


    I responded to Karuizawa Kei''s urate answer.


    "What are you doing in such a ce?"


    "Are you curious?"


    "It would be a lie if I said I wasn''t interested but―"


    "Then, I''ll exin. I was, believe it or not, waiting for you, Ayanokōji Kiyotaka."


    If you looked at the circumstances that had urred so far, you could understand that he wasn''t a normal student.


    That was why I wanted to observe him more closely and learn more about him.


    I wanted to confirm it again and again with my own eyes.


    It was always better to have morepanions with whom you could share information, treating facts as facts.


    For ss A to continue to remain as ss A.