Lunch break time.
After the teacher left the classroom, the atmosphere became very lively.
Akira tidied up the books on the table, and asked:
"To the cafeteria together, Bocchi?"
"I want to." Hitori answered without hesitation.
Seeing Kise chatting with the boys in class, Akira didn't invite him.
Akira, and Hitori walked out of the classroom.
Walking down the hall, Hitori pulled the hem of Akira's clothes.
"Wanna go to the bathroom first?" Akira guessed.
"Un." Hitori nodded slowly.
"Then let's go."
The two of them went to the bathroom, and since the women's restroom was closer, Akira went there.
Arriving in front of the girls' restroom, Akira said to Hitori who followed without speaking.
"There, come on in."
"Akira is waiting for me."
Hitori walked into the bathroom to answer nature's call.
Not wanting to be seen as a pervert, Akira stepped away from the toilet entrance. He had some experience waiting for women on the toilet, so he knew women spent more time on the toilet than men.
While Akira intended to play his cell phone while waiting for Hitori, from behind, he heard a girl calling him.
"Akira, why are you standing in front of the girls' restroom?"
Looking back, Akira saw that the girl who spoke was one of his many childhood friends, Kirishima Shouko.
"Yo, Shouko, want to go to the toilet?" Akira casually said.
"Un."
Shouko nodded, and approached Akira, her footsteps stopped when the two were very close.
"You are too close, others will misunderstand." Akira took a few steps back away from Shouko.
Unwilling to give up, Shouko walked forward, and said:
"That's even better, I want everyone to know our relationship."
"Childhood friend?"
Akira could no longer back down, behind him was a wall, and he couldn't back down even if he wanted to.
*BAM*
Not satisfied with that answer, Shouko slapped the wall beside Akira, and pulled out a stun gun out of nowhere.
(Isn't this the legendary Kabedon? I hope to do this one day, unexpectedly, and I'm the one who's the victim…. This is so embarrassing.) Akira groaned in his mind.
[Author's note: Kabedon means cornering your partner until they are leaning against a wall and then placing their hands on the wall so that their partner cannot escape.]
"Where do you keep that stun gun?" Akira couldn't help but ask curiously.
"That's not important, is it for Akira, I'm just a childhood friend?"
Shouko looked like she was asking, but the stun gun in her hand lit up the electricity.
"I'm amazed you can bring a stun gun to school." Akira said helplessly.
At the school gate this morning, members of the Disciplinary Committee held a surprise inspection. As a result, many second year students were caught carrying objects that were prohibited from being brought to school, such as video game consoles, manga, etc.
"Don't change the subject." Shouko said flatly.
"Put the stun gun away, okay? We get people's attention." Akira tried to persuade.
Now that it's school break time, most students go to the restroom first before having lunch in the cafeteria.
The scene of Shouko doing Kabedon to Akira is watched by female students who want to go to the toilet.
How not to attract the attention of the audience? By and large, Kabedon is performed by men on women, and now it's reversed. The female students who were about to enter the toilet discouraged her, and watched from a distance.
"I don't care." Shouko said it indifferently.
"But I care." Akira said helplessly, he knew this situation would not end until he gave Shouko an answer.
There's only one thing Akira can do right now, and that's... postpone an answer!
"Shouko, let's talk about this after school?" Akira put on a serious expression.
Seeing the seriousness on Akira's face, which was rarely seen. Shouko nodded in agreement, and took the stun gun away from Akira.
"Okay, I'll wait after school."
After saying that, she turned around, and walked towards the restroom.
"Why is Shouko acting aggressively today, this isn't like her usual self." Akira was confused at Shouko's attitude.
What Akira doesn't know, the reason Shouko did all this, was because she felt a crisis.
She feels a sense of crisis after seeing Akira interact with various beautiful girls at school. Shouko is confident with the looks she has, and her chest isn't as flat as a washboard.
However, Shouko saw the interaction between Akira, and Shinju this morning. A sense of crisis rose in his heart, especially after seeing Shinju's blushing face while chatting with Akira. His intuition told her something had happened to the two of them.
Moreover, Shinju is one of the Big Three (Yanagi, Shinju, and Eru) that is famous among new students.
"Oi, Bocchi, how long are you going to stand there?"
Tapping his shoulder, Akira looked at the crowd of women watching.
"Ah, I'm sorry..."
Hitori walked out of the crowd nervously. Not daring to meet Akira's eyes, and she said :
"I feel like the situation isn't right just now, I was just going to interrupt the conversation, so..."
"So you hid." Akira interrupted Hitori's words.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
Hitori lowered his head in front of Akira.
"Ha Ha Ha…. I was just kidding, no need to apologize." Akira chuckled.
"Let's go to the cafeteria."
"Un."
The two headed to the canteen, but before leaving, Akira stopped at the men's restroom first, and answered nature's call.
...
School cafeteria.
At one of the dining tables.
Akira, and Hitori sat across from each other.
"Ittadakimasu."
The two put their palms together, and said goodbye as a sign of respect for the meal.
"Is there something you want to say, Bocchi?"
Inserting a spoon into his mouth, Akira noticed Hitori looking nervous.
"Ah, it's nothing." Hitori shook his head, and put the tonkatsu in his mouth.
"Bocchi, do you know, when a girl says it's nothing, it means there's a problem." Akira said with a smile.
Akira very well knows how pedantic a creature named woman can be.
In his previous life, Akira was in a relationship with a girl, and he was very depressed at that time. Moreover, according to him, most of the Gen Z generation women are really annoying and troublesome.
Once, Akira asked what happened, because his girlfriend looked sullen, and his girlfriend said it was nothing with an annoyed expression.
Then Akira thought his girlfriend was fine, but then his girlfriend ended their love relationship, saying he was insensitive.
Akira is depressed for a month, after answering why his girlfriend left him, it turns out that when his girlfriend says 'It's nothing', that is the code she gave, which means something is up.
Seeing Hitori still hesitant to speak, Akira said softly:
"Men don't have telepathy, and not everyone can understand women. Therefore, communication is very important in human interaction so that humans can understand each other. If Bocchi doesn't say it, I don't know what you're trying to say."
Hitori was inspired to hear that, and she dared to voice her doubts.
"Kirishima-san just now... Why did Kirishima-san want to electrocute Akira with a stun gun?"
Sipping a canned drink, placing it on the table, Akira casually said:
"Oh, so that's what's bothering you, it's just a normal thing between us. Let's just say Shouko is a half-Yandere woman."
"Y-Yandere?"
Hitori's face was gloomy after hearing that, and she was worried that she would be electrocuted by Shouko one day because she was too close to Akira.