6 Friend, Karuizawa, and Pop quiz.
Unlike his middle school basketball club, the highschool basketball club is very passionate. Training is very intense and strict, making sure that the players improve everyday.
Though he is not giving it his all, even 5% is enough to impress his coach to make him a regular player.
Aomine just finished cleaning up the the covered court with his fellow 1st years and was preparing himself to go home.
Aomine: "Let's see, I guess for now I should wander around maybe."
He looked on his phone displaying his point balance.
[90,069]
Originally he had 85,000 but since he won in the swimming competition yesterday he had additional 5,000 points. That proves his guess that the school really is using points on the student's standing.
After he got changed in his locker room wearing his jersey, he went out.
When he's walking outside, he spotted a familiar student.
Aomine: "Yoh, done from practice Miyake?"
Miyake: "Yeah. The same goes for you too Aomine-kun."
Miyake Akito. A member of the Archery club and was a classmate of his in Class 1-D. He's always quiet and only spoke to people if necessary.
Aomine had pretty much encountered Miyake multiple times after their club practice, which made them getting to know each other.
You could say they were now close as friends as they get home in their dormitories together quite often.
Aomine: "Hey, how about we go to the convenience store? I'm craving for popsicles."
Miyake: "Okay. I also had stuff I want to buy there."
They went to the same convenience Daiki encountered Horikita at the first day of school. After they bought what they need, they're walking on their way to the dormitories.
Aomine: "I bought the twin popsicles. Wanna share?"
He showed the popsicles in his hands together with two sticks below. Eating popsicles alone while you have someone made him uncomfortable.
Miyake: "Alright, thanks Aomine-kun."
Aomine: "Don't mind it man. It is much better to eat it with someone."
They took a bite in their popsicles, crunching sound of the ice grinding on their teeth.
Miyake: "Did you do swimming back in middle school, Aomine? After seeing you swim, a talent scout from the swimming club came looking for you."
Aomine: "Not really. I just get too fired up when Kouenji nearly beat my time. I refused the swimming club's offer though."
Miyake: "Oh really? What a shame."
Aomine: "What about you Miyake. Is Archery really that fun?"
Miyake: "I wouldn't do it if it wasn't fun."
In the other world there is a superhero with a bow and arrow as his weapon. It was basically the equivalent of Hawkeye with 100% hit rate. He was taught by that superhero in the other world so he had knowledge and experience when it comes to it.
His smartphone vibrated disturbing his thoughts. Aomine opened the notification and saw a text message sent to him.
Aomine: "Hm? Karuizawa? What did she want?"
He read the text message he recieved from his smartphone.
Karuizawa: [Hey Aomine-kun☺️☺️☺️ Do you have time today? Can you meet up with me in Pallet? I have something I would like to talk with you about, please?🥺🥺 Just the two of us~💞💞💖💖]
Aomine: 'What's with the emojis?'
Aomine was confused by the strange emojis in the text. It was the first time receiving text messages with a girl, except from his mother.
Miyake: "What's wrong? You're not going in?"
Miyake was inside the elevator of the dormitory waiting for Aomine to get in.
Aomine: "Ah, yeah sorry. Something came up go ahead."
Miyake: "Okay, see you tomorrow."
Aomine: "Yeah. Be careful on your way back."
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Aomine didn't bother going back on his dorm and goes straight to the Cafe Pallet.
Eliminating the sweat and body oder from practice using Internal energy, it made him as fresh coming out of bath.
Aomine: "I really hate crowds."
When he get inside, he frowned looking at the cafe packed with students. Also the girl to boy ratio is big, girls with the majority.
Aomine released a small ripple of internal energy to look for Karuizawa. Each living being had an aura that are distinguishable from person to person, just like a person's appearance.
Half a second later he found her out soon enough.
Aomine: "Hey Karuizawa."
Karuizawa: "Oh you have come Aomine-kun. Do d you just finish club activities?"
Aomine: "Pretty much yeah. Practice is so intense I felt tired."
That was a lie.
Karuizawa: "Sorry for calling you here, I just have something important to ask you. Let's take this outside."
Aomine: "Yeah."
Aomine followed Karuizawa outside where they would be alone without any people.
In front of her is a girl. A cut girl in fact.
Karuizawa Kei. She's the type of girl that would lead the girls in class, and had a high social standing in class.
Aomine wondered what kind of trouble she's gonna give him. Though if there's something he could do, he wouldn't mind helping her as long as its not unreasonable.
They found a bench to sit down on. They sat on it maintaining a certain distance.
Karuizawa: "Aomine-kun do you have a girlfriend?"
She asked her face curiously looking at him.
Aomine: "That came out of left field, why do you ask?"
Karuizawa: "Well I'm just curious. You seem pretty close with Horikita-san after all. Is she your girlfriend?"
Aomine: "No were not. Why do you think that way?"
Though Aomine could understand why she asked that question, he still asked her.
Karuizawa: "You were having fun in the pool yesterday and looked close. Rumors are spreading around."
Aomine: "Hah, you call that having fun? She just pinched me out of nowhere, I'm not a masochist."
Karuizawa: "I see, then that means you still don't have a girlfriend right? Right?!"
Aomine: "Yeah I don't have one yet... Are you making fun of me?"
He sound a little angry, her words kind off filled with sarcasm.
Karuizawa: "What? No, I just wanted to know.. You could be popular in class you know? The girls in class are talking how cool you were yesterday in swimming classes."
Aomine: "Ah. I see. I don't really want to be popular though. It's a pain in the ass."
Aomine grumbled what popularity got his downsides. He treasured his personal time, and he intended to make friends only on moderation.
It impressed him that someone like Kushida would want to befriend everyone, he could never do that. His friendship doesn't come cheap, and he learned that the hard way in middle school.
Karuizawa: "Umm... Aomine-kun, honestly I have something to tell you."
Aomine: "What is it?"
Karuizawa looked serious and asked him. Aomine looked dazed above the clouds thinking about something faraway.
Karuizawa: "Please.... with me."
Her words mumbled of making it difficult to hear.
Aomine: "Ah, sorry. What were you saying?"
Like every dense protagonists would say, he uttered the most devastating line in anime history.
Karuizawa: "Go out with me, Aomine-kun."
Karuizawa looked into his eyes. They made eye contact with each other. Karuizawa's eyes wanted to convey a message behind those eyes.
Aomine: "Eh why? No way, it's a pain in the ass."
Aomine rejected her without a second thought. One time he go out with a cute girl in class, and it didn't end well for both of them. It ended up in an argument. That was also the time the previous Aomine wasn't into 3D girls anymore.
Karuizawa: "Please, even if its fake..."
Aomine noticed that her eyes are moist. Deep in those eyes were the darkness and suffering she had from her past.
Leaving her like this, it will leave a bitter taste on his mouth.
Aomine: "Tsk, I just can't do that just because you told me that you know?"
She looked sad and disappointed that it turned out to be a failure.
Aomine: "But I can hear you out, and maybe I will consider it."
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And then Karuizawa told her reason. About why she wanted to use him to raise her social status to protect herself.
Although she didn't get into details about her past, Karuizawa did say that she was bullied in middle school.
Aomine: "Isn't Hirata more suitable than a loner like me?"
Karuizawa: "That was the plan. But yesterday you looked so cool and everyone started looking up to you. Didn't you know? In the group chat made of girls, you got even more popular than Hirata since yesterday."
Aomine: "Eeehh... I don't really have the spare time and energy to do that."
Aomine grumbled that getting popular really is a pain in the ass. Look at what happened today, instead of watching his anime in the dorm he had to deal with something like this.
Aomine: "I'm sorry Karuizawa-san. But if you need help about something, then I'll try. I think you could go to Hirata than me."
Karuizawa: "I know, then I'm out of here..."
Karuizawa left without even saying some words of goodbye. Looking at her back as he went to the distance, he could tell she's sad and disappointed.
Aomine: "Yare-yare daze..."
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Three weeks passed since the entrance ceremony.
Aomine's popularity in the class did increase. Even though he hasn't been hanging out with them trying to invite him, it didn't made his popularity go down. You could say that they respected him than anything. There isn't a single person in class who talked behind his back.
Even though the boys like Ike and Yamauchi envied him, they didn't openly hate him like they did with Hirata. But since he wasn't hanging out with them, Hirata and Kushida were more popular than him. Despite that, Aomine doesn't really seem to care about it.
As for the Class D as a whole, it turned to be a classroom full of bad students. They talked around without care, use cellphones, and some even sleep in the middle of the class
Aomine is among who sleeps, old habits die hard. But he miraculously attend each classes without absences and tardiness. Unlike his attendance record in middle school.
They lavishly spend their 100,000 points, but there were also students who were careful. They became aware after Aomine asked the question at the first day of school.
It was the third period of the day and it was History lessons with their homeroom teacher.
Chiyabashira: "Quiet down a little, please. Today's lesson will be a bit serious."
???: "What do you mean, Sae-chan-sensei?"
The class already have given her a pet name.
Chiyabashira: "It's the end of the month, so we're going to have a short test. Please pass these to the back."
She handed out the papers to the students in the front row. Eventually, the single-sheet test reached his desk. It contained questions in the five main subjects. With only a few questions per subject, it really was short.
???: "Huh? I wasn't listening, though. This is so unfair!"
Chiyabashira: "Don't say that. This test is just for future reference. It won't be reflected in your report cards. There is no risk involved, so don't worry. Of course, cheating is prohibited."
As soon as the pop quiz began, Aomine scanned the questions. There were four questions per subject, for a total of twenty. Each question was worth five points, for a total of one hundred points. Most of the questions were extraordinarily easy, to the point where it was almost a letdown.
In fact, the questions seemed to be about two levels less difficult than the ones on the entrance examination. It appeared far too easy.
However, the final three questions were an order of magnitude higher in terms of difficulty.
Aomine: 'Oh man... Let's just get this over with.'
Bored from classes, he decided to answer the very easy questions. But he didn't bother answering the final three questions. As long as he passed, that was fine. Besides it wouldn't reflect in their report cards anyway.
Still Aomine knows it might reflect on some kind of way. He just made sure his answers in the easy questions are just what he remembered.
Using Internal Energy to use Though Acceleration, his brain worked 10 times faster than before. While also using Memory Search, he answered his questions efficiently like he's using Google to search answers in his memories.
It didn't even take 5 minutes before he already answered all the questions.
Aomine: 'What should I do...'
Since he was bored, he just decided to review his answers over and over until the bell rang.
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One day after the club activities, Aomine and Miyake once again met.
After greeting each other, they walked together as always.
Miyake: "Have you heard about the rumors?"
Aomine: "Rumors about what?"
Miyake: "Hirata-san is dating Karuizawa-san. One of our classmates seen them holding hands with each other."
Aomine: "They're really enjoying their youths."
Aomine remember how Karuizawa asked him to go in a fake relationship together three weeks ago.
He wondered if he really accepted, would something change? Will he experience his youth to the fullest? Will he finally experience highschool romance? Even if its fake, if feelings develop later on then wouldn't it be fine?
Those kinds of things entered his mind. Even as a superhero, due to their line of work he couldn't have himself to be in a romantic relationships. The risk of his identity leaking and time management is going to wear him off. He only experienced romance once in his Japanese self during middle school.
Mentally he was over 1,000 years old with both memories of two people combined. He wondered if this is the trope of a shota-jiji, the male equivalent to loli-baba. Is he going to be arrested?
(shota-jiji: Physically looks like a little boy, but mental age is older.
loli-baba: Physically looks like a little girl, but mental age is older.)
Aomine: "How about you Miyake, do you have a girlfriend?"
Miyake: "If only I had one. How about you, you're pretty close with Horikita-san."
Aomine: "Oh come on, this again? We're not like that. We just happen to seat next to each other, so from time to time we talked."
Aomine sighed heavily.
Aomine: "And besides she's talking to Ayanokouji more than I have."
Miyake: "Ayanokouji... The one sitting on the other side. Ike and Yamauchi hangs out with him too."
Ayanokouji just doesn't stand out too much and lacked presence.
Looking for a topic of conversation, he remembered that there was a pop up quiz earlier.
Aomine: "By the way Miyake, since midterms are approaching fast do you have plans on studying?"
Miyake: "Midterms? We still have over a month right?"
Aomine: "I know. Its just I was planning on visiting the library sometime."
Miyake: "I haven't made plans yet. The club will take a break from before midterms, so how about it?"
Aomine: "Really? Your club is so lenient. We don't have any breaks you know, studying after practice is a little..."
Miyake: "What, so you won't study?"
Aomine: "Nah I will. I'm just sad I have much less time watching anime."
Miyake looked surprised.
Miyake: "What a weird reason."
(Making plans for their Class Points is so fucking tiring. I had to calculate it repeatedly and get mistakes time and time again. If finally understand why COE fanfics are dropped. Just planning how to create the story while minding the Class points is so discouraging... The Author of the Light Novel should be a fucking genius)
