34 Start of the Tournamen (1/2)

After a not-so-great first meeting, Axel offered to buy lunch for Mishima as an apology.

Even though Mishima was a little awkward in the beginning, once Axel managed to break his outer shell, he became a chatter box.

It was like he exploded with rumors and gossip. He talked about all kinds of things that were happening, not just about in school but outside as well. However, no matter how Axel tried, Mishima just wouldn't talk about anything relating to Kamoshida.

A couple minutes before the bell, Mishima turned so Axel couldn't see his face and said, ”Axel, I don't know what your trying to do, digging up info on Kamoshida but it won't end well. The school doesn't care what he does so be careful or he might…”

Without finishing, Mishima quickly left. Axel gave an appreciative smile to the wounded youth before falling into thought.

'Kamoshida's influence is stronger than I thought so I'll have to be careful. However, that doesn't mean I have to leave him alone.'

A small amount of laughter escaped Axel's mouth as a mischievous smile plastered itself on his face.

The sound of the bell quickly brought Axel out of his thoughts. With a smile, Axel walked to his class.

A couple minutes later, Axel entered the classroom only to be glare at by Kawakami as she lazily said, ”Your late… again.”

With a wry smile, Axel sheepishly muttered, ”I was at the other side of the school when the ball rang so…”

Kawakami rolled her eyes at Axel before allowing him in. Once everyone was sitting and waiting, Kawakami stood up from her chair wearing the biggest smile anyone's ever seen and said, ”Okay class, from now until the end of school you'll all be participating in a volleyball tournament.”

Before she could continue, Axel stuck his hand up. Kawakami gave Axel a glance before allowing him to speak.

”Sensei, will we be competing against other schools?”

Students around class began whispering to one another about potentially having to compete against another school. However, Kawakami quickly dashed those rumors as she said, ”No. It will only be a friendly competition between other classes in the school. Also, their will also be 'teachers vs students' match' later on but if you want to play you need to sign up.”

Speaking up to here, Kawakami grabbed a paper from her desk. She looked over it for a second before handing to the closest student and saying, ”For those who wish to participate in the 'teachers vs students' matches, please sign up on the paper that will be passed around.”

Once the paper made it around to Axel, he noticed almost no one signed up. However, the names that were on the paper intrigued him.

With a small smile, Axel thought, 'Mishima and Ann, huh.' Before quickly writing his name and passing the paper on.

After a couple minutes, the paper circulated around the whole class and ended up back in Kawakami's hands. Looking at the three names in the paper caused Kawakami's face to twitch but she quickly covered it up with a nod.

Suddenly, the door opened, revealing someone very familiar to Axel.

'Makoto!?!'

Yes, the new person that appeared happened to be Makoto. She had an especially happy smile on her face as she directly stared at Axel, causing him to shrink into his seat from the stares of his classmates and the death glare he could feel from Ann.