After finishing his shower and heading out of Orion Academy to drink his coffee,
Rohan was met with a gaze that had stuck to him like glue since earlier.

There was no hostility, only a gaze full of affection.
The owners of the gaze were obvious to anyone who looked.
It was Shion and Clara, who had left the mansion with expensive observation equipment they had recently purchased.

Though they had been by Rohan's side for months, the two girls had not made much progress, staying busy with subtle advances.
Still, they hadn't spent the time of their one-sided crush idly.
The two girls had sharpened their instincts as women quite sharply.

From the moment Rohan had introduced the fine restaurant, Anshimjeong, and mentioned he was going to have dinner with friends,
When they realized that it was the place Noah Frozenheart and Ichinose Yui had once visited together,
And the moment Rohan told them he was having dinner with friends today,
The girls' instincts had sensed something, and they had begun to follow Rohan, armed with their equipment.

And then,
The moment Rohan got out of the taxi and met Ichinose Yui,
Shion and Clara saw Ichinose Yui’s expression as she was talking to him.

It was like looking in a mirror.
The same expression that they both had when they were with Rohan.
Shion looked at Clara, and Clara looked at Shion, both realizing it at the same time.

"...?"
On the rooftop, Clara, taking her eyes off the telescope, looked at Shion standing next to her.
Judging by the serious expression, Shion must have felt the same realization.