5 Swimming.

Kawamoto stands 183 cm tall and weighs 72 kg. He had a muscular build, but he's not too bulky to look like a body builder. It's the type of body that girls would ogle at on how chiseled his muscles were like a piece of artwork of a famous sculptor.

He's currently wearing a swimming trunks as for today's swimming class.

"Man... This kinda sucks."

Kenji sighed silently at the girls and boys alike drawn to himself. Even more so than Hirata who's the Class Idol.

He's not complaining about the girls ogling at him. After all he's also doing the same at the girls wearing revealing swimsuits.

The problem are the boys. He's not comfortable on the guys looking at him so intently, it gives him the creeps.

Well it might just be in his imagination, Kenji thought that way.

In an attempt to distract himself from the onlookers, he thought about what happened during the club fair. Horikita was definitely acting strange that time.

"What's that lamenting look in your face?"

Speak of the devil.

"It's painful to be looked at by people. Maybe this is how animals in the zoo feels?"

"That might be a good idea if they put you there as a new kind of species of apes." Horikita mercilessly compared Kenji to apes.

"No matter how you think about it, don't you think that's too rude of you?" Kenji said not really minding it one bit despite what he said.

"I'm just kidding."

"Wow, I never thought the great Horikita-sama would crack joke. I've raised you into a fine lady."

As soon as Horikita enters the scene, he could feel the stares at him lessen a bit.

Now he hadn't taken a good look at Horikita yet, so take a look at her. Horikita was in a school swimsuit.

She looked good. Her slender figure is attractive along with her beautiful face. Not bad at all. You could say it was great. Especially in her exposed shoulders and legs that excited him down there.

"–!!!"

Fortunately for him he had a way to hide them by placing his thing down there in a right position.

For some reason Horikita was also checking him out all over. Fortunately for Kenji, he was able to deal with his boner.

"Kawamoto-kun, do you exercise regularly?" she asked.

"No. Not to brag, but I was a member of the go home club."

"Well, you say that, but... judging from the development of your forearms and your back muscles, you seem above average. Maybe even that of a trained athlete of a national level."

"I heard my parents are descendants of a samurai clan. So I guess they blessed me with good genes?"

"I don't think that's the only reason."

"Jeez, do you also have a muscle fetish? Too bad for you though, I won't let you feel me up, that would be sexual harassment, you know?"

"...I suppose if you deny it that much, I have to believe you."

"Great."

Horikita appeared to be somewhat dissatisfied. She's really confident on what she sees and her judgement. Though what Kenji said is really the truth. Just that being able to manipulate Mana brings great benefits to one's body, including the person's vitality.

"Are you a good swimmer, Horikita-san?"

Kushida came and interjected them both from their conversation.

Although Horikita gave a slightly puzzled look in response to Kushida's question, she quietly answered.

"I wouldn't say I'm particularly good or bad at it."

"I was really bad at swimming when I was in junior high. But I gave it my all and practiced really hard, and now I think I've gotten better." Kushida said.

"I see."

Horikita gave a disinterested response and backed away slightly, clearly signaling that she didn't want to continue the conversation further.

"What about you Kawamoto-kun? You look athletic so you must be good at it right?"

This time Kushida passed the baton to Kenji.

"If I could say either it's good or bad at it, then I'm at the good side."

For Kenji, he hadn't had much experience in swimming. But he did practiced a lot whenever he went to the beach and got better at it.

When the swimming teacher came, everyone started their warm ups. And then started of their practical demonstration of doing one laps from one end to another.

Kenji made through swimmingly, figuratively and literally.

Next there was a contest for swimming. The teacher told them that the winner from boys and girls category would recieve 5000 points as a reward.

In the end for the boys category, Kouenji claimed the first place at a time of 23.22 seconds, with Kenji taking the second place with a time of 23.23. Just a couple of milliseconds away from winning.

Their competition is so close the students held their breath the entire race happening. Sudou who was so fired up to win lost, and he looked at both of them.

"That was a good competition Kenji-boy. Sadly you're only half a step behind me, but I acknowledge your body's work." Kouenji came and gave his compliments.

"Oh, sure. Thanks I guess." Kenji just nodded his head.

He didn't really want to do anything with a weirdo like Kouenji so he just replied with a few words.

"Amaziiing! That totally surprised me Kawamoto-kun!" Kushida said coming to him.

"Didn't I say I'm good at it?" Kenji asked.

"That might be, but I didn't expect you were THAT good! Why don't you join the swimming club?"

"No way. You should ask Kouenji than me since he won after all."

"Well... He doesn't look the type to join."

"In other words he's just a weird kid, is what you're saying?"

Kushida faked laugh by the bluntness, "Ha ha ha, that's another way to say it. But that's too straightforward, Kawamoto-kun."

As for the girls a swimming team member named Onodera won the first place, while Horikita got the second place.

"Good work. Never thought you'd also get second place. Don't you think we're a match?"

"That might be, I guess." Horikita sat beside him. "Also I can't believe someone who didn't exercise regularly could swim that fast."

"Well I spent my days practicing on swimming whenever I have the opportunity in beaches and swimming pools."

Kenji when he was still a kid wasn't really a good swimmer. He hadn't had a chance to swim in an ocean in his past life so the act of swimming was too foreign to him. It took Kenji a great effort to make himself as good as he is right now.