“Come on.”

As we entered the mansion, Karen and Karen’s father were the first to greet us at the front door.

The last time Karen and Sakamoto went on a date, it was not the first time they saw each other in disguise with their subordinates in various clothes.

But pretending to know you might make you feel uncomfortable, so I bowed my head as if it was the first meeting.

“My name is Kim Yoo-seong.”

“Yeah, just a very reliable friend.”

“?”

As I lifted my head at the strangely gentle voice, Karen’s father pushed Karen’s back next to him and said,

“You don’t need a girlfriend? My daughter is very homely… Kuhak!”

“What the hell! You idiot!”

Karen, who mercilessly beaten her father’s stomach for making a joke, blushed with excitement.

“Everyone follow me. I have prepared a room in advance.”

“Yeah, yes.”

Saying so, Karen took the lead and started walking, looking at Sasha to see if she had found Boris standing there.

“If you follow your father, this will give you a place to rest.”

Sasha nodded and then translated what Karen had just said to Boris sitting next to her.

After the traffic was cleared up, we started walking down the wooden hallway following Karen’s little back.

***

“Here. The place we will use as a study room today.”

“Wow! Spacious!”

Rika exclaimed in an excited voice.

Certainly, as she said, the tatami room that Karen provided was incredibly spacious.

It feels like a banquet room in a luxury inn.

“This smell! This touch! It’s so good!”

Rika immediately lay down on the floor and rolled around the room, rolling over and over.

In the process, the knee-length skirt rolled up, creating a very dangerous scene, but Sasha suddenly covered her eyes, so she couldn’t see the most important scene.

“Rika! Skirt! Skirt!”

“oh.”

The situation ended when Rika immediately got up after being pointed out by Karen.

We sat huddled together in front of a large desk in the center of the room.

“I was thinking about setting the table and taking out the kotatsu, but I put up with it because I thought I would fall asleep in the middle if it was too comfortable.”

“Ah! Kotatsu! It’s a waste!”

“…Obviously that’s a bit disappointing. It would be perfect if you went inside and forgot the tangerines.”

I couldn’t hide my awkwardness at the sudden start of the three people’s kotatsu talk.

This is because our house has never used kotatsu with an ondol before.

“More than that, Sasha is a foreigner, how do you know Kotatsu?”

At Rika’s sudden question, Sasha laughed and raised her nose.

“I saw it in an anime.”

“Ah~ There are definitely a lot of them. Kotatsu.”

Rika nodded her head as if she understood.

To be honest, it was awkward to see two people who look like foreign beautiful girls having a conversation like this.

It was because Karen, the only ordinary person among the four of us, couldn’t keep up with the conversation.

“Hey, I watched the anime, too! That magical girl in white and black comes out and fights with her bare hands!”

“Ah, you mean P○Cure? To say she likes invitations, Karen has a secretly manic side.”

“It’s amazing. Even at that age, you still like Magical Girl stuff.”

“Huh? I was talking about something I saw as a kid.”

The two suddenly fell into silence.

“Shall we talk about something else?”

“I can’t talk to him because he’s not on the right level.”

“…Huh? What did I say wrong?”

I shook my head, grabbing Karen’s shoulder, who still couldn’t keep up with the conversation by herself.

“Sometimes it’s better not to know.”

Karen, you just stay innocent.

***

There was a brief disturbance due to the otaku talk of Rika and Sasha, which started with kotatsu, but we decided to hold the study group for the original purpose.

There are two days left until the exam.

To be honest, from now on, I have reached a point where it is more efficient to memorize and solve the problem than to understand and solve it.

Before we started studying in earnest, we checked each other’s weaknesses once again.

“For now, Rika.”

“Yep!”

“You’re math, but overall, you’re weak in science and engineering subjects. There are so many kids who have given up on this, so you can get an average score just by memorizing the formulas properly. So, your goal today is to memorize various formulas that fall within the scope of the test.”

With that said, I handed Rika a summary with mathematical and scientific formulas that I had prepared in advance at home in an easy-to-understand way.

“I’m going to take the note test in an hour, so don’t be silly and memorize it. After memorizing the basic formula, solve simple example problems one by one.”

“Yep….”

Contrary to the strong response at first, Rika’s voice became noticeably sullen, but I didn’t care and moved on to the next one.

“This time, Karen.”

“yes.”

“Your grades alone are the average overall score. There is nothing you lack, but there are no subjects you are good at. And you are showing a weak side in memorization. So, I would recommend changing the memorization method. There’s something famous, like ‘645’ because I woke up without an accident.”

“Oh, I know that. Are you talking about the reformation of Daika?”

“Make something like goroawase that you can remember in your own way like that. It will be much easier to memorize than before.”

“Okay. I’ll give it a try.”

After clenching my fists and looking at Karen with a burning desire, I finally saw Sasha, the most difficult of the three.

“Yoosung, what should I do?”

“You…”

To be honest, unlike the previous two, Sasha had no other way.

First of all, classical literature itself is made up of ancient languages, so it is a subject that even native Japanese find difficult, not to mention Sasha, a foreigner.

Fortunately, classical literature mainly has a set of works or poems, so it was possible to learn patterns by solving many similar types of problems.

Originally, as a science student, the most difficult thing for me was classical Japanese literature, so I felt a sense of unity with Sasha, who had a hard time with this.

I took out of my bag the 200 prediction questions I had pre-printed on weekdays and showed them to her.

“Anyway, it’s difficult to understand even if I explain it right now, so the only way is to unconditionally solve a lot of classical literature.

“Yeah, I see.”

As soon as the direction of study was decided, we decided to study hard.

***

[1 hour lapse]

Rika’s ass was a bit wobbly, but it seemed to hold up well.

As predicted in advance, after taking the note test, Rika seemed to memorize the formula properly without paying attention, so she started solving the easy problems of the expected problem book one by one.

[2 hours elapsed]

Perhaps it was because of a lack of concentration, or Rika’s speed at solving math problems began to drop sharply.

And perhaps this was also the case with Karen, and unlike before, the number of times she rummaged through history books increased.

[3 hours elapsed]

Perhaps Rika has lost interest in studying now, so she started scribbling on the back of her math notebook.

If you see that his drawing skills are unnecessarily high, he seems to have inherited Kishimoto-sensei’s genes.

In the case of Karen, as she continued to memorize, she fell over on the table with the book on her head, probably because of a mouse in her head.

The most sane thing so far was Sasha, who was sitting next to me and studying classical literature with me.

Unlike the two of them, she was quite good in physical strength, and despite the constant problem solving, she seemed to be still alive.

I took out my smartphone that had been left on vibrate and checked the time.

3:31 p.m.

It would be ok to take a break once in a while at this point.

“Come on, you’ve studied for a long time, so let’s take a break for about an hour.”

As I said that, I woke Karen from sleep and made Rika, who was concentrating on the scribbles, stand up and stretch.

Staying in one position for a long time is not good for your body.

The human body needs to be stretched once in a while because sitting for a long time puts a strain on the back.

Dumpling! Dump!

I looked around the others, listening to the cool bone sound each time I turned my back.

Although I was compelled to follow it because I was in a rush, Rika, who was always energetic, and Karen, who was a body lover, had a very low tension.

It seemed that special measures were necessary.

“Karen, can I use the kitchen?”

“…Huh? It doesn’t matter, why the kitchen all of a sudden?”

“No, everyone seems tired, so I thought I’d make some snacks after a long time.”

When sugar is low, you should eat something sweet.

It’s good to just sit back and relax, but it’s not bad to relieve stress in this way.

“I’m making red bean bingsu, will anyone eat it?”

As I said that, I looked around, and Rika, whose shoulders were shaky, was resurrected at once and raised her hand.

“Me! Me!”

Sasha, who was sitting next to her, tilted her head and asked.

“It’s red bean shaved ice, it’s the first time I’ve heard of it.”

Clearly, there was no way that the princess from the winter country had ever eaten red bean shaved ice.

I said confidently to such Sasha.

“Once you try it, you’ll know.”

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