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This isn't the longest it's taken Rika to make progress on an assignment, nor has it been the most difficult, nor has her charge been the most insufferable. But damn has it been the most boring.
Two and a half weeks have passed since Rika was assigned to one Tachibana Ichika, and it's been the most repetitive two weeks of Rika's second life. 7am, wake up. 9am, school. 4pm, study. 9pm, sleep. Rinse and repeat. Bi-weekly student council meetings have been the only deviation from this routine, and helpful as those meetings were, they were also incredibly uninteresting.
Does this girl do anything besides study? Rika's not too hopeful.
She learns through their nightly rendezvous that Yua is having a similar problem with her charge, which has Rika laughing- of course the two workaholics belong together.
Problem is, it's not exactly easy to get them together when they're both too busy studying.
One night, after Ichika has finally gone to sleep, Rika sets aside the book she snatched from the school library and leaves to meet with Yua. She finds her easily enough- Yua is the only customer in the cafe, and in her face Rika sees the same frustration she's been feeling since they began.
Rika feels a little bad for Yua. After all, this is her first assignment as a cupid. It seems a shame that her first job has her stuck with a fake prince, day in and day out.
"I have a feeling we may need to choose another approach," she says, a tired smile playing on her lips. "It seems these two aren't going to be doing us any favors by making it easy."