“Ah... Well, I kind of understand”
“Then give it a shot. How about starting with Nijino-san who is so casually sleeping?”
“Yurika, huh? Alright, wait a second”
Kenji pointed to Yurika who was the closest to them. As Koutarou looked at her, he began grading her in his head.
Yurika doesn’t look bad. No, if anything, she'd be cute, I guess? But her personality's a problem, she's lazy and whiny...
From Koutarou's point of view, Yurika's personality detracted a lot from her looks. Because of that, if he were to grade her on just those two parts, she would fall below the friend line.
And then you add or remove based on eventful memories...
With Yurika's looks and personality serving as the basis, it wasn't that hard add or remove points. Koutarou traversed his memories, from everything that had happened since the day he met Yurika to today and added points to those events as he went along.
It was terrible at first... but looking back at it now, I made a lot of misunderstandings too... and lately... there have been a lot of plusses...
Yurika was timid and weak to pressure, so his first impression of her had been very bad. However, as time passed, Yurika matured. Koutarou's misunderstandings were corrected and lately, she was now leaning heavily into the plus side. Yurika rarely showed anything negative as of late. She was still lazy and whiny, but he knew that he could trust her when he had too.
“... Alright”
“What's the score?”
“Wait a minute, I'm totaling it up now”
After finishing grading each event, Koutarou added those points together.
H-Huh...? W-Wait a minute, is this...?
There, Koutarou started getting shaken up.
While she had gotten a big demerit at the start, Yurika's points had increased ever since. By the time they performed their first play, she passed the 50 point friend line. By the second play, she began rapidly scoring more points and easily passed the 75 point line. And she continued scoring even more points after that.
H-Hey, wait... what's up with this...?
Koutarou was astonished as he added the last two points. They were points from when Yurika scored high marks on a test and they had gone out to eat takoyaki together as a reward. However, this score wasn't something that Koutarou could agree on. That's why he redid his calculation over and over again to make sure it wasn't a mistake. But even then, the result stayed the same.
“... To think something like that was...”
“How was it?”
“I-I didn't get the kind of score I was expecting...”
Koutarou tried answering as calmly as he could. But he could feel his emotions rampaging inside of him.
Yurika's final score was 322 points. It came out the same no matter how many times he calculated it.
Indeed, it wasn't the kind of score that Koutarou had expected. He had never imagined that she would get a score that would warrant marrying her three times over. What's more, that score was increasing by every passing day.
“I see. That's too bad”
“Y-Yeah...”
”Then what about the other girls?”
“The others...?”
However, the reality was that Koutarou would get even more shaken up.
There were still eight more girls in room 106 apart from Yurika.
And Koutarou didn't believe that their score would be that much different from Yurika's.