Kyoro yawned as the second semester continued to ensue.

He was sitting in his chair with the usual straight faced frown, barely any emotion visible on his lazy mug.

The only thing of note during this semester was Class D's slow and steady improvement as individuals. Even Sudō was more studious after his talk or whatever with Suzune.

Speaking of the Devil...

"Are you by yourself?" She asked, standing beside his desk.

"...yeah." He answered, a bit of sadness in his eyes.

"Your dear friends Sudō-kun, Ike-kun, and Yamauchi-kun haven't been inviting you out much. That right?" She asked.

Silence.

"It's hardly surprising. They used to see you as one of the terrible-student/athletes just like them. After the discovery of your talents, they don't see you as one of them anymore." Suzune deducted.

"It's natural to resent those that excel. I'll be fine." Kyoro replied. Suzune nodded, wishing him the best internally.

She would soon regret that.

She left, her long black lock swaying as she trotted away. Kyoro resisted the temptation to look lower, and placed his head in his hands.

"What am I doing wrong...?" He asked himself, not realizing only three other students were in the class after a few seconds.

Karuizawa's glance was caught with his own, and she quickly darted her eyes elsewhere. Kyoro slowly looked to his right as well, accepting the usual skeptical gaze.

But that wasn't the issue.

Karuizawa quickly stood up, her chair screeching a bit and catching the other three's attention.

With her announcing her departure, she walked all the way from the front of the classroom to the back of the classroom, stealing glances at Kyoro the entire time.

She turned on her heel fluidly, and left out of the back door, no one able to see her flustered face as she parted.

Something else was caught, though.

'...No way.' Kyoro began with his eyes widening. 'She shortened her skirt... she's flirting with me. It was so obvious. Don't tell me she's over Hirata already.' Kyoro thought rubbing his eyes, confusion all over his face.

And it would only grow.

"Hey, Keikēko-kun." One of the last two students called out, walking up to his desk. Kyoro shook his head a bit and looked up, seeing a dark magenta-haired gyaru, dressed similarly to Karuizawa, excluding the skirt-length change.

"Yes?" Kyoro asked politely.

"I, uh... um... need a few things." The girl said pretty timidly, a surprising reaction despite her displayed category of fashion and aesthetic. "Well, it's like this. Can I borrow you for a bit? I'd like to talk." She requested.

"Alright." Kyoro replied, willing to listen.

"Wait. Not here. Can we do this somewhere else?" She asked, and her nervous smile finally reminded Kyoro her name.

Satou Maya. She never interacted with him before, so why now...

"Fine with me." Kyoro said with a shrug. She began to make her leave, and Kyoro followed.

The last student was stunned, but could only let out a gasp. Sakura was nervously staring at the two departing, but was soothed when Kyoro acknowledged her with a wave.

She smiled and shoved her head into her arms, but soon remembered he was taken away by one of the popular girls.

•

"I'm going to ask you something weird..." Satou began, making Kyoro prepare for the worse.

"Are you going out with anyone, Keikēko-kun?" She asked.

"Nope." Kyoro answered, hiding his increased confusion with mastery.

"Hmm... I see. Well, does that mean you're looking for a girlfriend right now?"  She continued. "I am, actually. No luck as of yet." Kyoro answered, his true feelings mixing in with his inability to ask someone out himself.

"If you're okay with starting out as friends... then, how about we exchange phone numbers?" Satou asked, taking out her phone and crossing her arms, her nervousness making her look a bit more attractive in Kyoro's eyes.

"Really? Sure." Kyoro said with a smile.

'IS THAT NOT A CONFESSION?? OH MY GOD!' Kyoro screamed.

"Okay, got it." Satou said, looking a lot more happy now that she succeeded.

"If I may ask, why the sudden interest me?" Kyoro asked curiously, ultimately hopping it was because of the Sports Festival.

"Why? Well, it's just..." She stammered, the anticipation in Kyoro's eyes brimming along with her blush. "The sports festival just made you look so incredibly cool. You raced against the former student council president, battled that Ryūen guy from Class C in the cavalry battle, and well... I kinda saw your body..." Satou said becoming an even bigger nervous wreck.

"I used to think Hirata was the best boy in class, but with him and Karuizawa-san in a relationship, there's nothing I could do about that." Satou said with a sigh, before panicking at her choice of words.

"I'm not saying you're worse than Hirata! Actually... your hair... your aloof expression... your sleeping face... and that body—"

She stopped immediately and wiped her mouth before dashing off with a squeal.

"...Holy shit. I did it, uncle. I've done it." Kyoro said falling to his knees and letting out a single tear.

~•~

Kyoro was lying on his bed after having eat another cup of noodles as a late night snack.

"I have something to ask you." Karuizawa said through his phone.

"What's up?" Kyoro asked casually, the two not as distant as they made it seem. "Satou-san confessed her feelings to you, didn't she?" Karuizawa questioned impatiently.

"Why do you know that?!" Kyoro shouted. "She told me, dumbass! In advance even." Karuizawa spat, as if complaining about it.

"Is that why you kept looking at me after class? Weirdo." Kyoro responded with an unamused frown. "You noticed? And don't call me a weirdo." She replied. "It shouldn't matter who confesses to me. Why do you care?" Kyoro asked with comical sass.

"Ugh. Because that's just how girls are." Karuizawa said with a groan. "It's not a competition. Why does that matter...?" Kyoro wondered.

"People will be super turned-off if you suddenly proclaim you're going out with someone. It'll make you look really pathetic." Karuizawa informed, Kyoro out of the loop of teenage relationship regulations. "Anyway, I don't care about that. It's whatever. What I want is your answer," Karuizawa stated making Kyoro cautious.

"She didn't actually confess, I guess. She just said she wanted to start as friends and gave me her number." Kyoro said with boredom.

"I see. So, it was like that." Karuizawa said slowly, each word becoming more and more filled with satisfaction.

"Yeah, yeah, enough about my failed attempts at a relationship. Have any of the Class C girls bothered you as of late?" Kyoro asked.

"No, not at all..." She said softly. "Phew. That's good." Kyoro said with a sigh.

"Enough of that— back to our earlier topic. What do you plan to do about Satou-san?" Karuizawa questioned, Kyoro groaning once more.

"I'm hanging up. See you tomorrow." Kyoro said taking the phone away from his ear.

"Fine, fine. Goodnight." Karuizawa responded.

~•~

Kyoro was sleeping in class as everyone was preparing for the worst for the second semester's midterm results.

He wasn't worried, since he was confident that he had passed, and that's all that matters to him.

However he specifically aimed for a 93 since Suzune pressured him to do his best. However, due to the Sports Festival, he had received a maximum score of 100.

Regardless, another successful round of midterm scores. Everyone had passed, even with the Sports Festival penalties.

Kyoro was nearly woken my Sudō, Yamauchi, and Ike's cheers and cries, since Sudō had done much better than them with the bonus of the Sports Festival performance.

However, to add to Kyoro's popularity spike, many were appalled to see him above Horikita in the score rankings. He was becoming a hot topic among his class.

Kyoro looked up in a daze, seeing everyone chatting around the class as Chabashira-Sensei stood at the front with a more or less content expression, that soon shifted to mischief seeing that he woke up.

Kyoro's daze immediately left seeing that look.

Suzune looked over and saw his hands intertwined on top of his desk with a very grim expression, making her flinch in shock seeing him wide awake and already.

Chabashira-Sensei began to walk around the class, in between desks, analyzing the students as she made her way to an undisclosed location.

She then stopped right beside Ike's desk.

"You managed to pass, Ike, but I want to ask you something. What do you think of this school? I want to hear you honest evaluation," She probed, however her gaze wasn't focused on the questioned.

"Well, I guess... It's a good school," He began in confusion. "If you do well, you can get tons of spending money. The food's tasty, and the rooms are nice and clean, you can by games and stuff— oh! And movies and karaoke too! Plus, the girls are cute." Ike listed all of these in his fingers, and many of his classmates shook their head.

"From a student's perspective, this is quite the paradise. Even as a teacher, I feel that this school is almost excessively lavish. It treats the students here so we'll that it almost defies common sense." Chabashira-Sensei responded.

When she began walking again, she then head over to Kyoro's side of the class room, making him shiver as she sent him a brief glance.

However, she stopped at Hirata, and instead questioned him.

"Do you like this school, Hirata?"

"Yes. I've made lots of friends, and I'm enjoying a fulfilling life." Hirata answered as any Ikeman would...

"Don't you feel anxious, knowing that you could be expelled if you happen to make one mistake?" She continued.

"Whenever I'm nervous, I work harder with everyone else." Hirata replied earnestly.

'Okay, we get it. you're perfect...' Kyoro thought with a small glare.

With that, Chabashira-Sensei returned to her podium, and Suzune watched Kyoro deflate in his seat, making her hold her forehead in annoyance.

"Next week, in preparation for the second semester's final exam, there will be a short test with problems from eight subjects. I'm sure that some of you have already started studying, but I just wanted to remind you." She began, no longer looking as devious as before.

Kyoro placed his head in his palm at the reminder, since a test, after a test, before another test, was just unnecessarily tasking.

It wasn't anything he was concerned with, but of course diligence was due.

"There will be one hundred questions on the test, making for a total of one hundred possible points. However, the questions will be on a third-year junior high school level. This test is meant to confirm that you remember your fundamentals.

Furthermore, much like the mock test you took in the first semester, it won't affect your grades." Chabashira announced, but had more to say, "However, this test's results will have an enormous impact on your next final exam. The school has decided that this next quiz's results will determine which students to partner in class."

"...Partner?" Kyoro finally spoke up, wary of the term.

"That's right. Pairs decided based on this test will go on to take the final exam together. There will be eight subjects on that exam, each worth a total of one hundred points. Four hundred test questions, fifty for each subject. There are also two possible ways for you to fail that exam. If your pair scores under sixty in even one subject, then the school will expel both students. The sixty-point total, by the way, refers to the partners' combined score. For example, let's say Ike and Hirata were partners. Even if Ike scored zero points, they'd both be safe as long as Hirata scored sixty points."

Everyone gasped. With an excellent partner, this would be an easy test.
However, this still left the second method of failing.

"There's one additional hurdle to overcome. The school has decided
that you must secure a certain overall score to avoid failing. Even if you get
sixty points or more in each of the eight individual subjects, failing to meet
this overall score requirement will mean expulsion."

"So, the overall requirement represents both partners' combined score?" Kyoro asked again, making her smirk.

"Yes, exactly. The school hasn't yet determined the exact score required, but in years past, it's been around seven hundred points," Chabashira-Sensei replied.

'That means you team needs an average of 43.75 in each subject to achieve that requirement,' Kyoro did the math quickly, just to figure out just what he should aim for across the subjects in case he got someone capable.

"Don't be too hasty, though. I'll explain the overall requirements in more detail later. The final exam will be held over two days, with four subjects per day, and I'll let you know the subjects' order. In the event that someone is absent due to poor health, the school will investigate the absence's legitimacy.

If it's confirmed to be unavoidable, the student will receive points based on a rough estimate of what they would've earned given past tests. However, should we find that an absent student didn't have sufficient reason to miss class— they will receive zero points for all tests missed." She explained.

Kyoro hummed, knowing that he could definitely convince them that he couldn't attend, but he didn't know which tests they'd base the previous assumed scores off of, so he wouldn't try it.

"The school will expel any failed partners without exception. Don't take this as a threat, but a warning. You all have come rather far, so don't drop dead now." She smiled to the class, making all of them unnerved.

"Ah, but lastly," She turned to the door, not facing the class to give her final remark.

"The school will ask you to create your own questions to appear on the final exam. They'll use the questions you come up with for one of the other three classes. That means classes will be able to attack one another, so to speak.

The school will compare your class' overall score for the class that received your questions. The class that scores higher will take points from the losing class. Fifty class points specifically." Chabashira-Sensei continued.

Kyoro zoned out after this. He got the gist of things and decided that was all he need to devise a good enough preparation stage for the next obstacle.

'With eight subjects having fifty questions, we need to create 400 questions. With there being 30 students in the class, that means each student hast to make two to three questions. However we don't have that kind of time, so we'd need to flush out ten to fifteen almost every day.'

Kyoro analyzed the information once more, spotting Hirata with a flustered look at how he'd get the best results with Class D-fect.

With little interest, Kyoro heard from Chabashira-Sensei a bit lesser intel. If they didn't create enough questions in time, easier pre-formed questions would fill the void.

"Each class will choose another class to compete against, and I will report that to my superiors. If another class makes the same choice, representatives draw lots. However, if there are no duplicate nominations, your choice of class will be honored. I'll be accepting your nominations the day before the short test.

That's all for the preliminary explanation. The rest is up to you." She finished.

•

Kyoro sat at his desk in silence as Hirata, Sudō, and Karuizawa stood around he and Suzune.

"Sorry to have kept you waiting. You wanted to discuss plans, right?" Hirata asked. Kyoro ignored as Karuizawa sat down on his desk, so he leaned back in his seat and crossed his arms.

"Apologies. I thought that we should talk things over right away. I'd like to start right away." Suzune began, but Karuizawa butt in.

"Hey, can we at least go to Pallet? This isn't a very comfortable place." She asked.

"I don't see why not." Suzune shrugged, simply wanting to get to business, and not oppose such a simple request.

"Excuse me, but would it be alright if I joined you, too?" Kikyō walked over with a nervous smile. Kyoro didn't even bother sending a glance her way, not unnoticed.

"Of course, Kushida-san. I planned on inviting you, anyway. You three can head on over if you'd like. I have a few things to take care of." Suzune replied.

And so, Hirata, Karuizawa, and Kikyō left for Pallet, a popular cafe for the female body of students.

"You mind if peek in on my club? The upperclassmen asked for me. Should take twenty to thirty minutes." Sudō asked.

"I don't mind. Just come join us as soon as you finish." Suzune replied with small sigh.

Sudō flashed a smile, grabbed his bag, and rushed off to make good time for the meet up. Suzune packed her things, and glanced over at Kyoro.

"You are coming, too, right? You don't seem to enthralled to be included." Suzune asked. Kyoro gave her shrug and rolled his neck in annoyance.

"I'm not fond of Kikyō. However, I see why you accepted to include her." Kyoro began. "I don't have any solid deductions or ideas, so bare with me for a bit longer to come up with something..." Kyoro rubbed his forehead as he stood up.

"I understand. I've been rather hard on you lately, so take your time." Suzune gave a appreciative nod.

Suzune left first, leaving Kyoro to stand at his desk with a frown.

He was still agitated Kikyō's hate for Suzune could stem so far as to sabotage their entire class... twice. He couldn't allow that another time. She's unstable and unpredictable.

'Should I...' Kyoro left the classroom with a glare. '...get her expelled?'

•

Kyoro sat across from Kikyō, Hirata and Karuizawa, Suzune and Sudō seated at his sides.

Surprisingly to the three, he was the last of them to arrive, so it was relatively obvious he had done something in between dismissal and arriving.

"Let's get down to business. Hirata and Sudō only have about twenty minutes before they need to head to their club." Kyoro began, holding a cup of coffee lazily below his lips.

"If it's about the short test, is it really that important if it doesn't affect our grades?" Karuizawa asked.

"Significantly. It sets a standard, gives us practice, and sets us with a more desirable partner for the finals. If we can even out the level of intellect between each pair, we can secure good averages across the board and overcome the required score." Suzune explained.

"You two always think ahead..." Karuizawa said with a sassy yet impressed sigh.

"You two believe there's heavier significance to the short test? Like there's something they want to measure from us?" Hirata asked.

"Per usual." Kyoro shrugged, "If we want to succeed, we need to figure out the process for obtaining partners, and work towards that with the short test."

"Maybe they'll pair you with someone who got a similar score?" Karuizawa wondered. "Or maybe, if you got a question right, they'll pair you with someone who got that question wrong." Hirata added.

"Either is possible." Suzune wagged her head at the standstill.

"I'm a little skeptical about this." Hirata sighed with a frown.

"About what?" Suzune asked, curious.

"If there is some kind of partner selection method, I think we should confirm it with upperclassmen." Hirata had a rather good grasp on what to do. "If it's the same from previous years, then the rules probably haven't changed. Maybe the teachers would have deliberately try to hide that?"

"I was a little curious, too. I think an upperclassman I'm close with might be willing to tell me." Kikyō had finally spoken up.

"Wow, just as expected, Yosuke-kun!" Karuizawa gave praise with a smile.

"The school hasn't tried stopping us from finding out what the rules are. I surmise that it may even be a prerequisite to the test." Suzune believed.

"So, the test begins when we find out the rules? That means not learning could be disastrous." Hirata responded.

"Which is why we need to get this down as soon as possible. It's said that Class D has only lost one or two pairs in the past few years. Based off that, we can assume that the pairs are normally balanced." Kyoro continued.

"The pairs could be made up of high-scorers and low-scorers. The highest risk we face is the more... average students." Suzune sent Kyoro a look, making him glance back.

"Quit it, we get I'm a fraud." Kyoro nudged her with his elbow and a smirk. Sudō and Hirata were confused, but everyone else already had an understanding of his capabilities— or more specifically his potential.

"Kushida-san, would you please talk to some upperclassmen?" Suzune requested.

"Of course." She nodded.

"I'll speak to some of my club's upperclassmen as well." Hirata added.

"Now that we're pass that, I want no questions as to why we will nominate Class C to attack." Kyoro said with a glare. "Even if we lose the lottery and attack A, it's best we face the odds and attack our true target."

"No objections here." Hirata grinned with determination. "I'm all for kicking Class C down a peg." Sudō smirked.

"Wait, wouldn't we ensure Class C loses points if we let Class A attack them?" Karuizawa asked.

"Yeah. But that's a bitch move letting them do the dirty work for us. Doesn't feel as good." Kyoro replied, making Karuizawa remember his tactics at protecting her.

"Put it like this..." Kyoro stood up, ready to go. "Class C stands not a singular spec of a chance regardless."

He left with a straight face, and the ominous and menacing words left very disturbed expression on everyone else's face.

'I want nothing more than to weed out the root of the problem and burn it. His time will come soon.' Kyoro thought as he retreated to his dorm.

~•~

Kyoro was zoned out as Hirata and Suzune began the discussion with the rest of the class the next day.

Suzune had started with an apology for her performance in the Sports Festival, but no one held any hard feelings, so things cleared up quickly.

They were carried by Kyoro and Sudō after all...

Kyoro slowly looked down at the mechanical pencil in his hand. He flipped around once. Twice. Paused, before staring at the lead.

He was doing his best to distract himself as the two went over what they had discovered for the partner selection of the finals.

The summary was simple: High-scorers are paired with low-scorers, from highest to be with lowest, and then second-highest to get with second-lowest, so on and so forth.

The only issue they faced was that over fifty percent of the class averaged 60s across the board, so it'd be relatively difficult to pair everyone with a high scorer.

To somewhat combat this, they'd force the top ten lowest, to pair with the top ten highest.

The lowest scorers were labeled on the blackboard by Hirata. He explained that these ten, were allowed to score zero on the upcoming short test.

In contrast, the highest scorers, had to have at the very least an eighty-five.

The remaining students would then be cut into two sections, where one side would need to score at most eighty, and the other side, only one point; to separate them from those allowed to score zero.

With very vague, reluctant acceptance from Kōenji, it seemed that the plan was in motion.

Kyoro had successfully drowned out the entire thing, since he was the one to conceptualize the plan...

And with that—

~•~

—the days had come and gone.

Everyone was ready for the short test with the formed strategy in mind.

Kyoro was designated a high scorer since his grades had been on the incline, slowly but surely he averaged an eighty.

This meant he'd need to score at least an eighty-five, which he was more than capable of.

Chabashira-Sensei looked at the confident and determined expression on her students, and held very great intrigue for their approach of this test.

Her gaze, per usual, fell to her favorite student Kyoro, and she was surprised to see he looked rather upset.

If was a look of annoyance and regret.

She smirked internally.

•

The plan went without a hitch.

- Suzune was paired with Sudō.

- Hirata was paired with Yamauchi.

- Kikyō was paired with Ike.

And similarly down the line.

Kyoro saw who he was paired with, and welcomed the surprise. It was Satou Maya, a new challenger it seemed.

She sent him an enthusiastic wave, and he gave brisk nod in response, flashing a small smile to not appear as annoyed as he felt of other events.

Suzune noticed is very blatant switch in mood after she turned away, and wondered just what angered him so. It wasn't often he blatantly expressed his disdain.

"It's very obvious that some among you understood the purpose of this short test. As you all had prepped for, it was chosen with the highest and lowest scores in mind." Chabashira-Sensei admit, making many smile and cheer.

Chabashira-Sensei left after revealing the pairs and the comment, leading Suzune and Hirata to approach the podium.

"I'll hold study groups until the final exam to raise our class average scores," Suzune began. "If Hirata-kun and Kushida-San agree, I'd like to hold two study sessions per day.

There will be a two hour study session from 4 p.m., after class ends, to 6 p.m. The other two hours will be from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. We'll each lead a session in turn. I'll be counting on you, Hirata-kun." Suzune disclosed.

"Because of my club, I'll take the second, later study group. Let's all work together and do our best." Hirata agreed.

This didn't matter to Kyoro, but to fit in, he'd have to go to one. If it was up to him, which he hoped it was, he'd prefer the later session.

Regardless, despite the very good turnabout of partners, it was inevitable that there would be a few pairs to come a bit too close in academic ability.

A good example was Miyake and Hasebe, who had correctly played their part in the short test, but had only a two point difference on their midterm scores, sixty-five and sixty three respectively.

It didn't take long for these two, as unfortunately as that may be, as well as unintentional, they became a hinderance.

Hasabe declined a study session with Ichihashi and her friends, claiming they didn't get along well. In sequence with her walking out because of this, Miyake claimed he wasn't comfortable studying with a group of entirely girls, and decided to handle studying himself.

Kyoro was irritated by their selfishness this far into the semester, and sighed softly to himself.

However, this was swiftly on a path to recovery when Yukimura offered to help them study instead of Kikyō's group, but he'd need a mediator to get them convinced on doing so.

Kyoro could easily feel Hirata, Kikyō, Suzune, and Yukimura's gaze.

He turned away in annoyance, and heard three pairs of footsteps.

"Please, Keikēko-kun." Yukimura pleaded, Kyoro looking forward to Suzune and Hirata at his sides.

"Why exactly am I the social butterfly you're looking for?" Kyoro asked, relatively confused as to why he was first pick.

"Loners' should stick out for other loners." Suzune shrugged smugly.

"Then you'd be perfect, wouldn't you?" Kyoro countered, making her quickly glare ball her fist.

"Listen here— I've been doing my damndest to get allies like you've told me. Can't you bare to alleviate this stress for me?" Suzune complained with glare.

Kyoro placed his head in his palm and stared at Suzune.

Squinting his eyes, he gave in. He never actually intended to decline, but he was in a rather bad mood.

"Of course. I'll get it done." Kyoro nodded, shrugging his own shoulders and setting his arms down on his desk. As he rest his head down, Suzune sighed in relief, hoping that whatever bothered him wouldn't get in the way of their plans.

Though, she knew him well enough to know it was just sass.

Yukimura thanked Kyoro, leaving with a grateful Hirata. Suzune turned to go back to prepping the study session, but Kyoro spoke up.

"I want compensation." Kyoro suddenly brought up.

"Compensation? This is a first." Suzune realized. "What ever would you ask of me for such simple task?" She asked with a very blatant air of smugness.

"I wanna take you out on a date, Suzune." Kyoro said lowly, making sure only she heard.

Suzune's eyes widened in shock, making her quickly turn away from him in disbelief. She jerked her head back to see that he was staring intently at her reaction— making her realize that she had heard correctly.

"Y... You..." Suzune stammered on her words. She wasn't expecting his approach to be straightforward. "Are you messing with me? Are you genuine?" She asked, rushing to grab his shoulders with a glare.

"Absolutely. Been wanting to for awhile but... you know. It's been back to back with these exams, and the sports festival was a beating on both of us." Kyoro admit, letting out a yawn.

Suzune held her breath as she let go and turned away from once again.

'How... how do I respond to this?! I... did he figure I had been worrying about him?' Suzune calmed herself down with a deep breath, and turned back to him. 'I didn't think he'd ask. I thought I'd be the one to suddenly spark up the courage.'

"I'd hardly call that compensation. However, should you pick a time and place... I'd make the time to accompany you." Suzune said rather calmly.

"Great. I'll be sure to text you the details, and we can pick a date together. Don't wanna get in the way of the study sessions." Kyoro said with a nod, smiling softly.

Suzune stared at his face for several seconds, then nearly a minute, making Kyoro tilt his head. He chuckled, snapping her out of her trance.

"What's so funny?" She asked quickly.

"I think you should get back to discussing the study sessions..." Kyoro smirked.

Everyone present wasn't necessarily waiting on her, and had decided chat while they had spoke, so she was relieved to see the spotlight wasn't on her.

Suzune composed herself once more, and went back to the others, leaving Kyoro to rest his head down again.

'Holy shit that was embarrassing.' Kyoro thought, hiding his blush in his arms.

_____________________________

Well, it's back!

Wanted to get a good starter chapter in, and end it with a surprise.

That's right— these two are finally gonna go on a damn date. Slowly falling for each other was getting to Kyoro, and he's taking the next step!

With the study sessions the two have to run, and unwilling classmates, will the two make the time?

You'll fine out soon enough!

...

maybe.

Still gotta update Pseudo Messiah, ya know.

See you next time!

Ciao!