Chapter 05 - Capt's on TV

"We barely made it." Yamato said as they finally reached the school while looking at the time on his phone.

Momoyo hummed, "Well, see you guys. Study hard, youngsters."

Eating her lunch early, Momoyo, the only third-year student in their group, goes to the Building A where her class is.

"Speak for yourself!!" Yōta shouted in the background. He's already recovering from Momoyo's beating and wears a spare glasses.

Yōta's endurance is one of the top-class. Even if he's getting beaten by the strongest, it will take no time for him to stands up again.

He also always bring 8 spare glasses with him to school. Because you won't know what would happen to your glasses when you're in the school area full of martial-artist-in-training like this.

The six of them then head to Building B where their class is.

Miyako has fallen silent since they've entered the school premise, she's following Yōta closely.

"But I didn't think that you two had get in the class S though." Takuya started as he looks at Yōta and Miyako.

Yõta groans in response, "Don't mention that. You know how my grandpa's basically forcing me to get in the class S."

"Right, your grandparents are kinda strict after all. Your grandpa in particular." Yamato hummed thoughtfully.

Yamato had meet the old man once, and damn that old man is pretty strict with manner and all. You can say Yōta's grandfather is the type of man who's respected and loved old tradition with passion.

"Yeah, I thought we'll be together this time. After all since we were all in different classes in middle school, well except for Miyako. She's always following Yōta and Yōta's always following Kazuko." Gakuto chimed in from the side while crossing his arms.

"Of course. I will follow Yōta forever." Miyako touches her red rose cheek and smiles shyly.

"It's still lonely though. I wish you were in my class like in middle school." Kazuko pursed her lips as she stares Yōta with sad puppy eyes.

Yōta's eyes softened when he saw her reaction, he instinctively reaching his hand out to the youngest Kawakami's head and pats it gently, "Well, we can still meet up in lunch break, you know. It's not like we're being separated forever."

Kazuko whimpers a bit but still nods her head in the end.

"Okay, we'll go this way." Yamato said while he drags Kazuko by the collar, if he's not doing this, she won't let go Yōta's hand after all.

"Yeah. Let's meet in lunch break later."

"Got it."

With that the group separated from each other, Yōta and Miyako enters the classroom with Miyako grabs the hem of Yōta's uniform from behind.

"Good morning." Yõta greeted all the students in the classroom.

There's a total of sixteen students in the S Class, and most of them turned their heads in Yōta's direction.

"Fuhahaha! You finally came, Yōta!"

"Yahoo~ Yōta, Miyako~" Koyuki waved her hand energetically as she skips her way to Yōta's side.

"You sure take your time, man." Jun commented as he leans his back to the chair.

Yōta smiled wryly in response, "Yeah, I kinda upset Momo-senpai earlier."

Miyako snorts at that, "Upset is a light word, Yōta. You literally pissed her off."

Yõta simply groans when Miyako points that out. Meanwhile Koyuki tilted her head curiously and Jun raised his eyebrows.

"What did he does?" The local lolicon asked.

"He called Momo-senpai 'Titty-monster'." Miyako answered and stared Yōta with half-lidded eyes, still looks unimpressed by that nickname.

The same reaction happened in the class right now, all of the students minus Miyako and Yōta stilled on their places as if they were turned into a stone.

Then they heard a low chuckles coming from a bespectacled handsome man with dark skin and has a brown eyes and brown hair to his neck.

This is Aoi Touma, the smartest kid amongs all the students of the second year.

"Only you, Yōta, who dares to makes a fun of the Goddess of War like that."

"Fuhahaha! As expected from my friend! You're very brave man!"

"Dude. I'm surprised you're not dead yet." Jun looks very amazed at Yōta for what he just did.

If somebody's saying that shit to Kawakami Momoyo, he's 100% sure that person would be buried six feet under by now, no question asked.

"Yeah, yeah, laugh it up, Touma-san." Yōta deadpanned at Touma, who simply chuckles one more time in response.

"Titty-monster?" Koyuki on the other side tilted her head cutely, she is curious why Yōta called Momoyo that.

She playfully taps her lips and swings her head side to side, trying to figure out why.

Is there monster living inside Momo-senpai's breasts? That's scary~.

"It's nothing, Yuki-san. You can just forget about it. It's nothing important anyway." Yōta said as he sighes and fixes his glasses.

Koyuki nods her head understandingly before she pushes Yōta's back to his desk by the window which is near her with Miyako followed them closely.

After briefly talking with others, Yōta grabs his school bag and hangs it on the side of the desk.

Miyako, who's sitting behind him, is already in her reading mode. She's reading Shiba's historical novel.

"Hyohoho. Good morning, Yōta." A refined voice belonged to a cute girl with long black hair that is styled into a twin tails and bun hairstyles and purple eyes greeted him.

Yōta raised his head and he can see Fushikawa Kokoro stared at him from the front seat, she smiles gracefully like usual.

"Ah, Kokoro-san. Good morning to you as well." He greeted her back while bowing his head slightly and smiles gently at her.

Kokoro smiles getting bigger and heat starts to creeping on her pale cheeks in response, so she tries to cover her mouth with the sleeve of her beautiful kimono to hide it.

She loves a man with good manner like Yōta.

Just like Hideo, Kokoro is also one of the friend Yōta made through the big party since their family are part of the noble families in Japan.

The first time they met, she's pretty much annoying to deal with because of her arrogance and likes to antagonize people around her by flaunting her status.

Since she comes from the big noble family, she likes to brag about her noble lineage to everyone.

It takes time for Yōta to be able to break that way of thinking of hers. In their free time, he would always bring Kokoro out of her house to visit all kind of 'peasant' place would go to and have fun.

It's to make her understand and appreciates the way of normal people live while enjoying their time together.

Ever since, she stopped her arrogance way of thinking and didn't antagonize someone in purpose anymore.

In his time together with the girl. Yōta noticed how fragile she is as a person. Kokoro is pretty much a sensitive and lonely girl who wants friend more than anything.

But because of her stand as the noble lineage, it hards for her to make friends since she would always act before she could think.

And it makes the kid to avoid her like a plague.

Kokoro is genuinely kind and cute girl when you successfully break her out of her noble shell and earned her trust.

Since then, this cute little creature is make an appearance in front of Yōta.

"Oh, good morning to you as well, Miyako." Kokoro added as she noticed Miyako.

"Good morning." Miyako nods her head quietly.

Both also already acquainted with each other since the first place he makes Kokoro visited with him is the Kazama Family's hideout.

All of the family members decided to help him on dragging Kokoro out of her hard shell when Yõta asked for their help.

So, Kokoro is like the guest of the family just like Koyuki.

As they were talking with each other, the bell rings and it makes everyone to stop talking.

A light and lazy footsteps can be heard from the hallway. Everybody sits up straight at the class representative's signal.

The classroom slides open and reveal a figure of tan-skinned man with gray hair, blue eyes and a well-kept beard, looking at the class with his half-drooped eyes.

"Okay, you glorious children. It's the time for the morning homeroom." Their homeroom teacher, Usami Kyojin, finally makes his appearance.

"Stand up! Bow!"

Everyone greets him energetically.

"That's the spirit." Kyojin said before he smacks his attendance book onto the desk, "Listen up, kids! When you head out into the real world and become ADULT, don't you dare let anyone lead you around by the nose."

"I lack common sense..."

"Excuse me!? Why do you think you can lecture me about 'common sense' when our very goddamn DEFINITIONS of 'common sense' differ!"

"Learn to behave yourself...?"

"Excuse me!? You complain about kids these days being spineless pansies, but people 'behaving' is EXACTLY what led to that! Or am I wrong? So, what the hell do you want me to do now, you contracditory piece of SHIT!"

"Here we go again..." Miyako mutters under her breath. Since last year, she's already getting used to this man suddenly spouting some nonsense from his mouth.

"I guess he's got refused by Umeko-sensei again..." Yōta commented with a shrug.

"This man is sure shameless." Kokoro chimed in while covering her mouth with her iron fan.

"He's funny." Of course Koyuki would say that. To her, everyone who likes doing silly thing is a funny person.

Kyojin has a crush on Kojima Umeko, the homeroom teacher of 2-F. Even though he is older than her, he thinks both of them will make a great couple, but Umeko doesn't share his way of thinking, and almost all of his attempts to make her fall in love with him ends in a complete failure.

And when that happens, he will starts doing this kind of things, saying everything in his mind, complains about everything he can just to calm his nerves down.

"With that said, I'll take the attendance. Reply right away after you hear your name."

He then takes the roll quickly, and in the middle of him calling Miyako's name, the sound of a whip echoing through the hallway.

It makes Kyojin stop for a second before he continues taking the roll.

After he's done with taking the rolls, he quietly sighes as he massages the bridge of his nose, "Remember kids. Love makes person strong."

"True..."

"Of course."

"It's a wonderful power."

Touma, Miyako, and Azumi, the three love idiots, couldn't stopped themselves to nod their heads at that wise words Kyojin spouted.

"Whether your first love succeeds or shatters, you'll always be left with the experiences you gathered."

The students instinctively let out an 'oooh' and 'aaah' at that. They legitimately impressed by his words right now.

"Listen up, kids. Love is the one thing you can't get cocky with! Even storming the Ministry of Education's headquarters won't give you more education!"

"To begin with, boys grow into men from getting rejected time after time."

The male students in the room nod their heads in agreement.

"Somehow, it's strangely convincing hearing that from an adult..." Jun said as he looks quite conflicted for some reason.

"Same goes for gals. After falling for jerks over and over again, that's how they gradually grow into fine women."

The female students narrowed their eyes at this statement.

"I'm all for becoming a fine woman, but I certainly don't wanna go falling for jerks over and over." Kokoro commented while fanning her face.

The girls also voiced their agreements on her statement.

It's quite unusual to have a teacher lecture this much about love. Last year, Kyojin also gave counseling to a guy who got rejected by a girl, even taking him out to eat.

Maybe it's because he always got rejected by Umeko that he's literally can relate with the student more spiritually.

Despite how he appears sometimes, his students know that when it comes down to it, he's someone they can count on.

"Well, what I want try to say is, I really want you kids to experience a teenage life you can look back on without any regrets." He continued while looking at the watch on his wrist. "By the way, there will be a morning assembly on Wednesday, and a human powers measurement on Thursday. That's all for this week's announcement."

With that, Kyojin lazily drags his feet and leaves the classroom with his back slouched down.

After that, homeroom ended without really anything happening.

Yōta engages a conversation with Kokoro, Koyuki, and Miyako for a while.

Kawakami Academy is a private school. It's Kawakami City's exemplary school.

The school rules are lax to value individuality, and there are unique events and classes. It's pretty good academically, and there are a lot of students.

There are no midterms, so the finals are crucial. The students get Saturdays and Sundays off, and they're allowed to have part-time jobs.

And as a feature of this school, there's the 'duel' system, but we'll talk about this later.

-Scene Change-

It's lunchtime.

"UWOOO!! START DASH!!!" Gakuto shouted out loud as he forces his way through the crowd.

"Hey, Gakuto!! Don't jump the gun!!" Fukumoto Ikurou, a short man who resembles a monkey with a brown eyes and brown hair shouted from Gakuto's behind as he chased after the musclehead.

The people who eat cafetaria food run to the battlefield in hurry, while the ones eating in classroom take it easy and move their desks together or heading to some quiet place like rooftop or something.

"Yo. I just passed a gorilla now."

"And his follower, a small monkey."

Yōta and Miyako entered the 2-F classroom so casually as he waves his hand towards Yamato and the others.

Other students from 2-F looks toward them and greet them as they already getting used of these two coming to their class to have lunch together with the Kazama Family.

"Yo." Yamato raised his hand back to Yōta. "Are you going to eat here today too?"

"Yup." The swordsman replied as he pops the 'p', "Yuki-san is going to the cafetaria with Touma-san and Jun-san. And didn't I say today I'll eat lunch together with you all?"

Kazuko smiles happily as she sways side-to-side to show how happy she is right now, "Yes. You promised to see me in lunch break~"

"Yeah, and I'm always true to my word." He smiled at the youngest Kawakami as she drags him to her desk, "By the way, what do you have there, Yamato-san?"

"A bread that Kuma-chan buy me in the morning." Yamato replied as he shows the cream bread in his hands.

"Damn, that's look delicious."

"I love how Bakery Rucsty's bread, it's cripsy like a pie." Kumagai Mitsuru, a man with big figure like a bear and has short black hair and slit-eyed chimed in from their behind while munching some bread. "There aren't any additives, and the bakery-made custard in the cream bread is superb."

"Kuma-chan! You better bring me to that place later!" Yōta reaches his hands out to Kumagai's plump stomach and starts kneading them playfully.

There's something addicting about kneading and playing with the stomach of chubby person like Kumagai.

"Wow. I don't think I've heard about that bakery around here." Kazuko commented as she brings an empty chairs to her desk for Yōta and Miyako to sits.

"Of course, I'll happy to bring you to my favorite bakery shop, Yōta." Kumagai nods his head while simply ignoring Yōta for playing with his stomach, "It's in the Miyamae district. I went there first thing in the morning."

After their school's top gourmet comments on the bread, he happily goes back to his seat to eat his big lunch as well. There's literally a bunch of breads, snacks, and fast-foods scattering on his desk.

"He goes to that far just to buy some bread, as expected from a top gourmet." Miyako mutters under her breath as she takes the seat Kazuko prepared after she thanks the youngest Kawakami.

"When it comes to food. You can't really stop Kuma-chan." Takuya chimed in from his seat while nibbling the onigiri in his hand.

"I'll eat my lunch too~" Kazuko sang as she opens the lunch box, her lunch is consisted of super healthy food.

"Red lunch." Miyako's lunch on the other side was covered in too much spice that it hards to identify what is what.

"Damn, your lunch always look so delicious, Yōta." Yamato hummed when he saw what inside the box of Yōta's lunch. It's so tidy up and filled with colorful food such as grated radish omellete, broccoli, fried shrimp and many more.

The smell is also appetizing.

"Well it's simply a leftover from last night though, since I don't have time to make a new one this morning."

Everyone starts enjoying their lunches while chatting happily with their friends.

["There's pollen in the large area of the Kanto region..."] In this school, they're allowed to watch the news on TV during lunch.

"I wish there'd be some interesting news." Kazuko said as she drinks her second serving of milk.

["And the next news item."]

["A man who did not pay his bill at a restaurant in the Fukuya district, Saitama prefecture was caught by a male student who happened to be there."]

The Kazama family who heard that starts to pay heed to the news since all of them minus Kazuko have a hunch who that male student is.

There's only one person who's likely always getting dragged into outrageous scenario as this.

["According to the investigation, the man has committed similar offences nearby. The man was also wearing stolen goods, so the police are investigating for further crimes."]

"They said a male student apprehended the guy. Is he handsome?" Ogasawara Chika, a healthy pale-skinned girl with yellow eyes and light brownish yellow hair down to her shoulders, commented from her desk as she puts her chin on her palm, grinning at her friends.

"That takes courage. It's amazing." Amakasu Mayo, a pale skin short girl with pink eyes and pink hair tied into pigtails, said, ignoring Chika's question.

["The male student who apprehended the criminal is Kazama Shõichi-san from Kawakami City, Kanagawa prefecture. He says that he went after the guy out of anger because the man ordered from the limited menu before him..."]

"Buh!!!" Kazuko coughed in shock as she hears the name and the image of Shōichi is popping out on the TV.

"Skill: Moonwalk." Miyako gracefully dodges the milk Kazuko spurts out.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I spurted it out."

Miyako casually waves Kazuko's apology off, "There wasn't much damage. More importantly..."

"Hey! Was that Kazama-kun on TV!?" Chika pointed a finger at the TV in shock as well.

"...It has to be him." Takuya mutters under his breath.

""Called it."" Yamato and Yōta said at the same time. The moment the reporter mentioned 'male student', their leader's figure suddenly popped out in their heads.

"He upgraded from the newspaper to TV now." Miyako said as she carefully wipes her mouth, "But I'm sure this will be in the newspaper too."

"Wow, that's amazing! As expected from Kazama-kun!"

"He helped arrest the criminal! He's the pride of our class!" Mayo cheered as she claps her little hand in joy.

The class, mostly girls, quickly gets rowdy.

"So what? Why do they need to make it such a big deal? It's actually quite embarrassing." Oogushi Suguru, a very skinny build man with pale skin, has black eyes and long black hair that reaches his shoulder that he ties into low-ponytail, grumbled under his breath.

A lot of the guys look unhappy for obvious reason.

"Well, he's always standing out." Kumagai said as he munches on Umaibõ.

"Don't mind the girls, Oogushi-san." Yōta said as he's trying to calm the man down, "By the way, have you play the newest Tokimeki Memorial?"

Suguru smirks in response and fixes his glasses with his thumb and middle fingers, making the light gleamed on his glasses, "Hell yeah, I did. I've already conquered Hoshikawa, Rizumi, and Satsuki, I'm on my way to conquer Tsugumi right now. I'll finish her route today."

"Damn. I'm still on Rizumi-chan's route." Yõta smacks his knee in frustration, "I've been busy nowadays, so I can't really play that much! But still Rizumi-chan's voice is so cute~ Can't really get enough of it~ Hanazawa-san is really a good VA! The number one!"

"Yeah, have to agree with you there, man." Suguru grinned, "Hanazawa is really a good VA. But I'm more into Kugimiya though. What about you, Moro?"

Moro hummed as he taps his chin thoughtfully, "I think I like Ayane more."

"Ah, she's good too."

As the Otakus' talking about their favorite voice actors very animately in the background, the other group is talking about Shōichi.

"Man, I'm worried for some reason." Yamato said as he looks at the TV.

"Seeing that he didn't call us, he doesn't seem to be aware of what he just did." Miyako closed the empty box and wrapped it tightly with wrap cloth, she also did it to Yōta's as he's already finished his lunch.

"I just hope he's not causing too much trouble for the cops."

Kazuko hummed, "I wonder if he's demanding free food in return."

"That's more in your line of thinking." Yamato replied as he throws flat stare at the girl.

"What!?" Kazuko huffed while placing her hands on her hips, "Do you want to fight!?"

"Just wipe up the milk." Yamato said cooly.

"Capt's not answering at all..." Takuya narrowed his eyes at the phone in his hand, he's trying to reach for Shōichi, but the man don't answer his phone call at all.

Yamato sighed in response, "I'm sure he'll come back eventually..."

Their leader, Kazama Shōichi, also called Capt, is too free a man.