12 This world isn’t one that only cares about appearances! (2/2)

And Store Manager Rika Amami was actually related to the creator of that anime; the creator had even found part of the inspiration for that anime from Rika Amami!

So that was why he was confident that he could obtain the copyright permission from the creator through the store manager. However, since this was only a temporary confectionery shop for the school festival, going through all the formalities probably wouldn’t be necessary.

In the end, when the class went through with the voting, the cosplay confectionery store overwhelmingly won against all the other options, and thus, Year 1 Class 5’s school festival topic was decided upon.

”Now that the discussion is over, we’ll decide on the specific tasks for everyone tomorrow. Everyone can go to their club activities now,” the class representative ended the discussion.

The students all got up and left slowly in pairs or small groups, while Mika and Chiaki approached Seiji.

”Seiji, are you going to work?”

”Nah. I want to get to know the clubs at school,” Seiji smiled, ”could I request the two of you to be my tour guides once more?”

Naturally, the answer he received was ”of course.”

Seiji also wanted to grab Kazufuru to go along with them, but that guy had used the student council as an excuse to leave again.

Well, there were plenty of chances to train him in the future... no wait, maybe he should say improve Kazufuru’s impression of Seiji instead.

With Mika and Chiaki leading the way, the three of them went to the tennis club first, as this also happened to be the club Mika was a member of.

”Our school’s tennis club is a bit weak—we don’t have the skill to compete nationally... Usually, we just relax and have fun.” Mika awkwardly told Seiji about her club, ”I just play for fun myself.”

”She says she’s only a casual player, but she’s actually the second best player in the club. She’s actually quite competitive, you know?” Chiaki spilled Mika’s secrets again.

”Not... not at all, I... I just play at my own pace!” Mika’s face flushed slightly red.

”The second strongest… that’s great. Then who’s the best? The tennis club captain?” Seiji said.

Mika nodded.

”The captain is by far the strongest—he almost made it to nationals this year.”

The tennis club captain’s name was Hideya Aizawa.

He was an above-average good-looking guy with light green hair. In reality, though, his greatest goal wasn’t getting into nationals, but he instead focused his attention on the most beautiful freshman girl in the tennis club, Mika Uehara.

Earlier, when he had heard rumors that the school bully had his eye on Mika, he became quite unhappy, but that was all. Ultimately, he lacked the courage to confront the school bully.

But for some reason unknown to him, the school bully received a stern lecture from the student council president, and then he mysteriously dropped out of school.

Aizawa felt like he still had a chance!

Having caught the attention of the school bully, his underclassman was surely frightened by the experience. If he took good care of her during this time, and then picked a good time to confess to her, he should be able to make her his girlfriend.

But the situation was different from what he had expected. Mika didn’t seem like she was feeling depressed at all during club activities, and she treated him more distantly than before, making him feel like all his previous efforts had gone to waste.

Why was that?

Today, when he saw Mika Uehara leading a boy who was so handsome that it hurt to look at him to school, he understood.

Seigo Harano, the transfer student in Year 1 Class 5, was already acquainted with Mika Uehara before transferring here.

Every girl in the tennis club had sparkles in their eyes after seeing this handsome boy!

And all the boys, including Aizawa, felt an incredible sense of pressure.

For the first time, all the tennis club boys felt like they had a common enemy, and when Mika Uehara borrowed a tennis racket and loaned it to that guy in order to have a practice match with him, their enmity reached a peak!

Why was there a scene from an idol TV drama here at their club!?

Just about all the female members were using their cell phones to film this scene, and all of them were blushing fiercely. Those girls usually liked to act untouchable, but now they were all agog over this one boy—what was up with this!?

Especially Mika Uehara, who was having a practice match with him—that look in her eyes, her body language, and her expression all seemed so flirtatious. Even an idiot could tell that she had feelings for the new student!

This beautiful underclassman of his had never acted like this in tennis club before, but now it was like she was giving herself away for free, trying her utmost to catch that guy’s attention…

What a bitch!

Aizawa’s mind was filled with anger; it was as if he had seen the world for what it truly was and witnessed the cruelty of fate.

No!

He refused to accept, or even admit it.

Who cared if that guy was a supermodel-level handsome guy!?

He was going to use his ability that was almost enough to reach the nationals to let that guy know this world wasn’t only about physical appearances!

”Harano-san, you probably won’t be able to go all out when playing with a girl.” Aizawa had a smile on his face as he approached them, ”Your footwork is pretty good; I think you could be rather talented—how about practicing a little with me?”