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 Ayanokouji 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 who's time she was wasting. Somehow, she managed to ask him about Hirata, on whom she had a crush. Ayanokouji said that he and Hirata weren't notably close.

Mii-chan refuted saying Hirata always said that Ayanokouji was a reliable one and most level-headed in our class. For her, Hirata, who always kept an eye on his classmates more than anyone else, energetically praising Ayanokouji was surprising. She felt he was an existence like air whose thoughts were hard to tell and felt somewhat scary differently than Sudou. She, then, asked if there was someone Hirata was interested in, now that He and Kei had broken up.

She felt that she wouldn't be able to take any actions to do a confession to Hirata, knowing that she might get rejected. Thus, Mii-chan decided to take advice from Ayanokouji, who Hirata referred reliable to overcome her fear and be able to confess to Hirata. She felt her face turning read thinking of her confession to Hirata.