Watanabe keeps beaming at them and it's making it hard for her to concentrate on her noodles.

Yutaka notices. "Having a good day, Watanabe-senpai?" he asks her at the same time as he telepathies, I suppose that's true. Can he surreptitiously turn his ring into a bracelet or something like that, or is it just definitely necessarily a ring?

He can turn it into a bauble and put it in his pocket!

"Oh yes! I think I did really well on the math test!" she chirps, grinning ear to ear.

Noooo that sounds like a recipe for disaster. He'll just switch it to his right hand and rotate the gem so that it's pointing in rather than out; that way it just looks like a nondescript ring.

"Huh, that's strange," says another member of the club with a lifted eyebrow. "You didn't seem that cheerful earlier before we heard that rumour about Iwasaki and Suwan..."

"- okay fine yes that is also very cheering, is it truuuue?" she coos.

Yutaka grins and leans his head on Haru's shoulder, grabbing a little slice of tuna with his chopsticks. "I dunno, what's true?" he wonders before popping the tuna into his mouth.

"She wants to know if we... also did well on the math test?" proposes Haru innocently.

"Haruuuuu...."

Hee hee hee. "Oh well I certainly didn't, I transferred the day before yesterday so I didn't do it."

"There you go, Anju, Yutaka did not do well on the math test."

"Haru come on."

"What do you want me to do, kiss him right now?"

"Yes."

(Hiraoka rolls her eyes so hard they can hear them creak.)

"Well I'm always down for kissing Haru if he is," Yutaka says, cheerfully. "We might offend some sensibilities but that's a plus in my book."

Haru blushes but pecks Yutaka on the cheek. Watanabe squeals.

Hiraoka gasps. "H-hentai!"

"That seems like a very strong word for this situation."

"What are you going to do next, hold hands? Right in front of my sushi?"

He laughs and turns around to peck Haru on the cheek, too, before straightening up again and getting back to his food. "Don't be mean to Watanabe-senpai," he says, grinning.

They might though. They might hold hands right in front of Hiraoka's sushi.

He wasn't sold at first but this whole Western-style "lunch at a cafeteria" thing's won him over over this past month; this is a lot of fun.

By the way, I forgot to mention but the light measurement thingies I bought arrived yesterday, he says during an afternoon class.

Oh cool, we should try those out before we go hunting and then again after.