As I walked away from that chaotic cultural festival committee room, those harsh words echoed in my ears. I decide to take a stroll outside, hoping to clear my head. I still couldn't believe it. Me, Minami Sagami, reduced to silence by that blunt and tactless Hikigaya. The shock of his outspoken attitude left me dumbfounded, unable to form a coherent response.

"How could he be so, so brutally cold to me?" I let out a weak sob, still recovering from it all.