Chapter 194 – Low Level Rebel / Push-out Throw-down (2/2)

These were a bunch of sociable girls, and the popular Katsuki spent some time answering questions for them.

「What? What happened Katsu-kun?」

「What got stopped?」

「Hey…」

(I guess that story about the bloomers was all exaggeration.)

Katsuki mixed in a huge amount of exaggerations and embellishments with his excited story about Taiyou stopping the car. Taiyou not only tried to stop him, but attempted to clear up some of the things Katsuki said.

However, stopping an onrushing car on the street was in itself something else, so Taiyou wasn’t able to stop their admiration.

The girls, upon hearing this, looked up at Taiyou with glittering, worshipful eyes.

「Really?!」

「Isn’t that something?!」

「Natsuno-kun’s not only fast, but strong too!!」

All the girls seemed to be saying at once.

He was lost at why they had said he was fast at first, but then he remembered the incident of him running in a dead heat against Kazama from the track club.

Where was he, anyway? As he looked around, Kazama had just arrived and was now approaching after hearing all the commotion.

He stood before Taiyou, and looked at him with challenging eyes.

「Natsuno?」

「What?」

「Let’s race again when the new semester starts. I won’t lose this time.」

「Yeah, sure.」

After being challenged, Taiyou responded with an ambiguous nod.

Kazama simply walked away after the challenge was given.

「Hey, Natsuno-kun!」

Until just now….and even now one girl from the excited bunch spoke to him.

「What is it?」

「You’re just so strong, Natsuno-kun…」

「Well, it’s only power.」

「Wow! Hey, show us something.」

「Even if you ask me…」

He said, but as he stroked his chin, he thought about it.

「Nakajima, would you?」

「Huh? What?」

He stood and walked over to Nakajima. 「Hey what are you doing!?」his face said as Taiyou reached out to Katsuki’s belt, and picked him up with his pinky finger.

With a pinky alone, he picked up the somewhat muscular youth.

「Whoa…wow!」

「Awesome!」

「With a pinky? No way!」

Just then, a loud cheer erupted in the classroom. What Taiyou did was suddenly the focus of the whole class.

Not only their sight, but physically the curious students began to surround him.

「Hey, something else? Can you do something else?」

「Ah…oh yeah.」

Suddenly the focus of all the attention, the supremely popular Taiyou.

Even though Taiyou didn’t feel bad at being fawned over, since he had never been surrounded with this much adulation, he was a bit lost.

This continued until the all-school meeting time at the open of school.

After the announcement to meet was said over the speakers, Taiyou and all of his classmates made their way out of the classroom.

As he left the room, he saw Hera out of the corner of his vision.

Because most people couldn’t see her, it seemed she was flying back against the rush of all the students.

He stopped and watched the still-broken wings of her back flutter away from him.

「Taiyou-san?」

The three sisters that had left the room with him were now looking at Taiyou with confused faces.

「Sorry, go on without me.」

「What?」

The three seemed lost as he left them to follow Hera.

(I haven’t seen her since the morning, so what is she doing here?)

He was a bit worried. It was fine that she was here, she just didn’t have anything to do with the school.

He was a bit worried why she was here, as he followed her.

Since she was flying against the students into the farther part of the school, he noticed less and less students were going by as they made their way to assembly.

Finally, Hera turned to go down a hall of classrooms.

Taiyou chased after her, and turned the corner.

Thwomp!

He could hear the impact echo inside his body, as he had bumped into something strongly.

It felt soft organic.

(Promise – Boy meets girl?)

He suddenly joked to himself.

「Oedy skit.」

The twintailed girl before him, who had come as promised was standing there, the first time he had seen her in a school uniform.