Chapter 3: Haruki Yamauchi's Confidence / Homeroom Teacher

While they were talking, an ordinary-looking but confident boy approached them flamboyantly and directly interrupted the conversation.

"Kushida-san, Kushida-san! If you want to exercise, you can come to me too. My name is Haruki Yamauchi. I have played table tennis in the National Championships. I was the ace pitcher in the baseball club. I am recovering now, but please seek me for advice."

He appeared acquainted with her as if having listened to the conversation between the two earlier.

And while speaking, he fiddled with his hair, which seemed to make him out to be someone handsome.

Looking expectantly at Kushida Kikyo, he wanted to reach out his hand, hoping Kushida Kikyo would hold his hand too.

"Oh~~~ Yamauchi-san is so amazing."

Hearing someone approaching them to talk, Kushida Kikyo clapped her hands and turned around joyfully.

Before turning around, she squinted at Ying Ye Zhenshi, but Ying Ye Zhenshi's facial expression didn't change at all, despite Kikyo Kushida looking at Haruki Yamauchi earnestly.

But she did not shake his hand.

"I am just an average level- just a little better than someone playing for fun, Hahahaha.."

Haruki Yamauchi may not have expected his introduction to be so well received.

Under the admiration of Kushida Kikyo, he continued to utter words while carried away.

After saying this, it was obvious that the atmosphere in the class had changed.

Some people who were still talking between themselves turned their heads to look at the front of the class where Yamauchi was because what he had said was not said quietly at all.

It seemed that something interesting was about to take place.

Even the two people in the last row near the window who hadn't paid attention to this part of the class looked over.

While what he said may have sounded normal, and there may have been nothing wrong with saying it, but after Ying Ye Zhenshi had said the words he did earlier, this was obviously a stirring of the situation.

'Is this a provocation?'

"Ah? It's really too much to say such a thing. Yamauchi-san, are you targeting Ying Ye-san?"

Kushida Kikyo was surprised.

Shrinking her body, she frowned and appeared weak in the midst of their confrontation.

Her eyes were constantly swaying between the two of them.

"I'm just telling the truth."

Haruki Yamauchi insisted on his statement and doubled down on his stance with the attention of the students around him.

He also took a look at Ying Ye Zhenshi.

The sat student looked soft and tender, with his black hair reaching his ears, looking well-behaved, quite handsome and exuding the image of a good student, was about 1.75 meters, and appeared to be without a scary height and muscular definition.

Haruki Yamauchi felt that he had the upper hand in this fight for dominance.

The boy had a cliché good boy look, and it didn't look like he would mess around at all.

And the truth appeared to be the same as he thought.

Ying Ye Zhenshi was 'frightened' and dared not say a word.

He didn't even dare to look back at him.

"Look, Ying Ye has no objections. I was just telling the truth, he really only plays for fun. If Kushida-san is really interested in practising sports, you have to come and find me."

Haruki Yamauchi said proudly.

In fact, he didn't understand anything about table tennis and baseball, but this didn't prevent him from learning if need be.

At that time, it would be easy to deceive a little angel who knew nothing about the sport.

Then, he would casually become her boyfriend from that.

"Hey~~ Is that so? Ying Ye-san, is that true?"

Kushida Kikyo lengthened her surprised sound as though confused and looked at Ying Ye Zhenshi.

"That's right. It's just as Yamashita-san said, I'm just a rookie. So Oda-san and Yamashita-san should have fun practising together."

Ying Ye Zhenshi didn't care about the provocation, nor did he care about the tender little hand leaving his own, and spoke slowly.

But the two sentences he said offended the two people.

"Hey, I made it very clear just now. My name is Haruki Yamauchi! Do you have bad hearing?"

Haruki Yamauchi spoke first and appeared unfriendly, as though trying to suppress Ying Ye Zhenshi.

This made Ying Ye Zhenshi very happy.

He couldn't wait for the rattled kid to touch him.

His eyes displayed anticipation.

Haruki Yamauchi felt a strange feeling.

"And what about me? Didn't you say you remembered? My name is Kushida Kikyo."

The same was true of Kushida Kikyo next to him, and she added her piece.

She had some doubts in her heart.

'Does this Ying Ye Zhenshi like boys?'

All this while he had seemed indifferent to her presence, but all of a sudden he changed after a man came.

She actually felt that his eyes had gained a little excited edge.

It was like he was looking at some sort of beauty…

And not like he was angry about being bullied?

"Okay, Yamauchi-san, Kushida-san. I will remember for next time."

Unaware that he had become someone who liked boys in the eyes of others, Ying Ye Zhenshi looked at the two of them with sincerity in his eyes, making both of them wonder if Ying Ye Zhenshi was just fooling them.

"It's okay if you can't remember. I think you are not only bad at exercise, but your brain is probably not much better. Continuing to chat with you will probably make me stupider. Then let's arrange something soon. We have to make time to play together, Kushida Kikyo- san."

First, he mocked Ying Ye Zhenshi and then looked at Kushida Kikyo as if he was no longer interested in the boy.

This time he had referred to Kushida Kikyo by her full name.

Haruki Yamauchi was already thinking about the time when he could say her first name directly.

He even thought of the name of their first child in his fantasies.

When it came time to get married, he would need to invite the idiot Ying Ye Zhenshi.

After all, being handsome was useless, as even if girls approached your front door, these days, you would still have to use your brains to pick up girls.

Haruki Yamauchi thought very intelligently.

This was the supposed difference between the two.

"Okay."

Kushida Kikyo smiled.

This stimulated Haruki Yamauchi even more.

Haruki Yamauchi still wanted to continue to ask for her contact information, so that it would be convenient to chat with her later.

But at that moment, a person walked in from outside the room, and at the same time, the bell rang, announcing the start of school.

From first impressions, she seemed to be a very rigid and disciplined teacher.

Her age fell in the delicate limbo of being older than the students but no more in age than thirty years old.

Her long hair was tied into a ponytail at the back of her head.

"It seems that all the students are here, so the class will now start, and everyone should return to your seats. My name is Sae Chabashira, and I'm the homeroom teacher of your class- class D. I'm usually in charge of teaching Japanese history."

Wearing a black suit with her hair tied into a long ponytail, she had people swooning over her looks.

Her facial expression was cold and expressionless, and her sacrosanct attitude gave everyone the feeling that she was a qualified teacher.

When she was talking, she looked down on the class sharply, which gave the students a special kind of pressure, which could be regarded as some sort of teachers' sense of oppression.

Under the oppression of Sae Chabashira, the students quickly returned to their seats, and even Yamauchi-san, who wanted to learn of Kushida Kikyo's contact information, meekly returned to his seat.

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