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"Orange juice," Chitoge answered Yuuki's question unconsciously. 

Clang! Clang!

Yuuki took a can of orange juice and gave it to Chitoge. "Here you go." He entered his money again and bought other drinks for Utaha, Eriri, and Yukana. 

"Why do you buy that much?" Chitoge asked. 

"It's for Utaha, Eriri, and Yukana," Yuuki answered. 

Chitoge raised her eyebrow when she heard an unfamiliar name. "Eriri? Is she your new girlfriend?" She thought about that possibility and she didn't feel that it was wrong to make such a conclusion since Yuuki had a lot of girlfriends. 'Why not me?' She thought inwardly at this moment. 

"No, she isn't." Yuuki shook his head and said, "She is Utaha's enemy and best friend."

"Enemy and best friend?" Chitoge only heard about such a thing for the first time.

"Well, their relationship is a bit complicated." Yuuki was too lazy to explain the relationship between Utaha and Eriri since it would take a very long time to explain. "What about you? Shouldn't you prepare for the drama?" 

"I'm just a helper and I don't play a role," Chitoge said. She was quite self-deprecating at that moment. Even though she was the one who had said that she didn't want to play a role, she also wanted to play something in the drama. 

"But it doesn't mean that you should go around since there are a lot of things that you can do to help everyone at this moment," Yuuki said. 

Each of the positions in the drama's play was very important, even though some of them might seem insignificant, but the drama wouldn't be able to be done without them. 

"Well, I can see that you're quite troubled about something, what's wrong?" Yuuki asked. He thought that kind of thing wasn't that important compared to the expression that Chitoge had shown him. If he didn't see her then it might not be a trouble, but he had seen her and he would try to solve the knot within her heart. 

Chitoge was quite down when she heard him since she knew that it was wrong to underestimate each position in the drama. However, she felt quite warm when she heard him worry about her. She wanted to ask him directly how he felt about her, but she knew that it was impossible for her to do it. She was too shy about it and she was afraid their relationship might turn strange later on. 

However, she knew that their relationship might turn strange when Raku had confessed his love to Onodera, and she wasn't sure what to do after that. She suddenly felt that everything had become complicated and couldn't help but scratch her head. "Ugh... I'm very confused!" It was her first time to feel this kind of feeling and she didn't expect that it would be very hard to utter her real feeling since she needed to think about a lot of things such as a fake relationship, family, and war. She was only a high school girl, but she didn't know why such a complicated thing had happened to her. 

Suddenly she felt that her head was being caressed by someone. She was surprised and looked up seeing him caressing her gently. 

"I'm not sure what is troubling you, and I'm not sure what makes you hesitant to talk about your trouble to me, Tsugumi, or anyone else, but what I'm about talking to you is that you don't need to think too much about a lot of things. For now, you should follow your feelings or you might regret your decision today," Yuuki said. He had always been following his instinct and had gotten a lot of girls at the same time. He felt that it was good and he didn't regret having such a way of life. 

"Don't think too much and just follow your feelings...." Chitoge murmured and looked at him. "Is that alright?" 

"Why do you think that it isn't alright?" Yuuki asked. 

"I mean, if I follow my feelings then I might cause a lot of trouble to my surroundings." Chitoge looked down and said, "I - I'm just afraid and I'm not sure what to do." 

"Chitoge..." Yuuki called her name as gentle as possible. 

Chitoge looked up and could see his gentle expression. 

"Why do you think that I'm here? It's because I want to help you. If you make trouble that you can solve then you can come to me. I'll do whatever I can to solve that trouble for you," Yuuki said.

"Really?" Chitoge asked. 

"Really." Yuuki nodded. 

Chitoge smiled and understood why this guy had a lot of girlfriends. Her heart was very sweet at this moment and felt very happy to talk to him at this moment. "Why can you say such a thing every time?" 

"Such a thing?" Yuuki asked. 

"I mean the thing that can make the girl's heart flutter," Chitoge asked. 

"So your heart is fluttering right now?" Yuuki asked with a teasing smile. 

Chitoge blushed at this moment. 

"I'm just following my heart. I saw your tired expression and couldn't help but feel worried about you. So if possible, I want to see this smile of yours since it is thousands of times more beautiful than ever," Yuuki said and couldn't help but flirt with her. 

"I - I'll go back first!" Chitoge ran away from Yuuki with a blushing face. She couldn't stay here or else she might say what she felt toward him. However, one thing for sure that she had confirmed how she felt about him and she didn't want to regret anything. 

"......" 

Yuuki looked at Chitoge's back and thought that the girl was very cute. He shook his head and brought the drinks back to Utaha, Eriri, and Yukana since they had been waiting for him.