"My fragment and the one my father gave Uncle Sousuke are… the same?"

Even after experiencing body-swapping and encounters with gods, Rinji still found this answer absurd.

Could such a thing even happen?

The meteorite fell only two and a half years ago. Did his father somehow take his fragment and hand it to Uncle Sagara twenty years in the past?

"Forget it, no point overthinking."

His priority was resolving the bizarre incident of swapping consciousness with Kaguya. The mystery of his father's meteorite fragment wasn't that important right now.

He'd ask when there was a chance.

Rinji checked his map again. Yomiyama was marked as a faraway town from Tokyo.

"I'll just go check it out."

Anyway, taking the Shinkansen was fast. Japan was small, even remote areas didn't take too long to reach.

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"You guys… calm down and listen to me…"

Ishigami: "Yeah."

Rinji: "…"

"I got dumped."

Ishigami Yuu: "I think I can understand that pain."

"After being dumped, it's so sad, the tears flow like diarrhea."

Ishigami: "I get it."

Rinji: "…So you called us out just to vent?"

Rinji had originally planned to use his free time to head for Yomiyama, but just as he stepped outside to grab a taxi, he got a LINE message from Ishigami saying there was something to talk about, asking him to meet at a café in Minato.

He wasn't sure what happened, but since Ishigami was someone who seemed to suffer heartbreak every few days, going along to keep him company wasn't a big deal.

When he arrived, he found another person with Ishigami.

Kazeno, the cheer squad leader during the sports festival—and the one responsible for making Rinji cross-dress to lead the dance.

They sat down to chat, and Kazeno immediately announced that he had been dumped.

"You, Captain Kazeno, actually got dumped?" Rinji asked in surprise.

"Oh? You think I'm the type no woman would abandon?"

"No, I just thought you weren't the type to have a girlfriend."

"…Eh."

Ishigami said, "Kazeno's actually pretty popular with girls. Honestly, I didn't expect him to get dumped."

"I see… so who was your girlfriend?" Rinji asked.

"Osaragi-san."

"…Huh?"

"Rinji, you didn't know?" Ishigami looked at him. "Osaragi-san and Kazeno started dating during the Hoshin Festival."

"Oh…"

"But Captain Kazeno, I didn't think you'd be into Osaragi-san. I always thought you two were just messing around."

"I never date just for fun. And this is Osaragi we're talking about—how could I take it lightly?"

"Eh? Osaragi is really that special?"

In Ishigami's eyes, Osaragi Kobachi was just the plain disciplinary committee girl who always followed around Iino, wearing thick glasses.

Honestly, he didn't think she had any traits that attracted men. Hard to imagine why Kazeno was so obsessed.

At this point Rinji added, "If we're just talking looks, Osaragi is actually quite good-looking. By normal standards, she's definitely a beauty."

"Huh?"

"The way you say it is weird, like you don't count yourself as part of 'normal people,'" Kazeno laughed. "But you're right. Osaragi is one of Shuchiin's so-called 'impossible girls.'"

"This is the first time I've heard that term," Rinji said.

"I've never heard it either," Ishigami added.

"It means beauties who rival the student council girls. Beautiful girls exist outside the student council too," Kazeno explained.

"Bullshit, there are no beauties in the student council. Only a cop, a flat-chested idiot, and a fat hag with a black ribbon."

"…As expected, Rinji, you're not normal."

"Rinji, you're one of them yourself," Ishigami said.

"Ishigami, one more word and I'll beat you."

The conversation opened up, and Kazeno continued, "First-years Shiranui Koromo and Osaragi Kobachi, second-year Ryuju Momo, third-year Koyasu Tsubame. These four are called the impossible girls."

"I didn't know they had that nickname," Rinji said.

"I think it's unfair that Rinji isn't counted among them," Ishigami added.

Rinji: "Ishigami, do you really like dancing in the minefield that much?"

Kazeno: "Speaking of Rinji... I actually did plan to include him before, after all his charm is pretty much recognized throughout Shuchiin."

"You two getting together today, are you doing this just to piss me off?"

"You didn't know? Well, true..." Kazeno nodded. "You and Ishigami are both the type of guys who don't usually care about school gossip, so of course you wouldn't know this stuff."

"Enough, I only came because Ishigami asked me to, so what about you, Captain Kazeno, why are you here?"

"I came because..."

"I was the one who invited Captain Kazeno," Ishigami raised his hand.

"Hm?"

"Rinji, you told me before, right? The best way to pursue a girl isn't confessing, but finding a way to make her like you." Ishigami said shyly. "So... I thought maybe Captain Kazeno could give me some good advice."

Rinji: "And then the guy shows up saying he just got dumped, looks like we won't get good advice."

Kazeno: "Hey hey, that hurts, even if I got dumped the general theory isn't wrong, you first need to understand what kind of guys girls like."

"And what kind of guys is that exactly?"

"Well first of all not a simp, and also not those shut-in boys who live in their own world and don't talk to anyone."

As Kazeno spoke, he glanced at Rinji.

"And of course not the type who's always doing confusing things."

Rinji: "Why are you looking at me? I have a girlfriend."

Ishigami: "Actually two."

Kazeno: "...That makes it impossible for me to continue what I was saying."

"Say it anyway, Rinji can't be judged by common sense," Ishigami said.

"Fine, setting aside values after school when entering society, in school life the things that attract girls are basically these three: looks, grades, and talents... thinking about it like that, Rinji being popular is only natural."