Reliable Classmates?

"Reliable Classmates?" (頼れるクラスメイト?) is a short story from Gamers' store privilege for volume 9 of You-Zitsu light novel series, together with other four short stories.

Summary
Mei-Yu Wang called Kiyotaka Ayanokōji to meet with her as she wanted his advice on a specific matter but unable to take the initiative to talk, she felt sorry for him whose time she was wasting. Somehow, she managed to ask him about Yōsuke Hirata, on whom she had a crush. Kiyotaka said that he and Yōsuke weren't particularly close.

Mei refuted saying Yōsuke always said that Kiyotaka was a reliable one and most level-headed in our class. Yōsuke, the one who cared for his classmates more than anyone else, enthusiastically praising Kiyotaka was surprising to her. She felt he was an existence like air whose thoughts were hard to tell and felt that Kiyotaka was somewhat scary albeit differently than Ken Sudō. She later asked Kiyotaka if there was someone Yōsuke was interested in, now that he had broken up with Kei Karuizawa.

Mei felt that she wouldn't be able to take any actions to do a confession to Yōsuke, knowing that she might get rejected. Thus, she decided to take advice from Kiyotaka, whom Yōsuke referred reliable to overcome her fear and be able to confess her feelings. She felt her face turning red reflecting about her confession to Yōsuke.