Right after being shown her score, without going on the podium, Arina was immediately carried away to the hospital to operate stitches on her head and chin. Her wound on the midriff and left thigh was also put into consideration.

But on the other hand, the prize for Arina's hard work and suffering was way more than what she expected. Teppei uploaded the video he filmed when the incident occurred and the netizens went wild for admiring this young girl. And it was the perfect cherry on top of her history-made movement in figure skating sport.

She was only thirteen, and already jumped a quad -- an element that not many men in the field can do it. And she achieved all of these in just a month! How insane was that?

Her name didn't only reach out to Japan now but to the entire world at this point. You might think Alexei will freak out about this, but no. It was all a part of his evil plan for the future. Arina was so popular for being the first woman to jump a full rotation quad and her incident on ice that she appeared in countless magazines and news.

'The strong girl who despite her poor body condition still aimed for high-valued jumps and succeeded' was Arina's persona now. But the thing was her quad wasn't officially recognized due to her not jumping it in the ISU competition just yet.

Lying in the hospital this time wasn't the same as when she had to in Normady. 'It felt so warmer here' as you could read it from Arina's expression. Here she had frequent visitors and the nurses were so much ever friendlier to her than the nurses in her home country. But there was something Arina didn't feel satisfied with.

"I'm wondering how Kasuga Ken is feeling about me getting hurt. Oh, I'm such an attention seeker, I know, Asano-kun. I'm feeling guilty that I've already imagined him feeling so sorry for me that he was off to go buy flowers and gift them to me but then I refused to receive them because I ought to act like I don't pay a mind to him so he would want me more. You know, when a girl acts like she doesn't care the guys often think they must win them over at all costs. At least that was all from my personal observation. But then, I'm afraid that I don't really love Kasuga at all. Oh, what a monster I had become to turn into my Father. I only think I'm in love with Kasuga Ken because he attracted me in a biological way. See -- I only ever wanted him to worry about and chase after me and that's a very selfish thought I ever had! 'Mind you, Arina! You are such a bad girl,' you can tell me so and I will not shy away from admitting it," mourned Arina apologetically to Asano, who was relieved for her understanding of the term 'love'.

Out of everyone, he was the one to visit her the most. Asano constantly showed up with her favorite food and drinks. Not to mention, flowers, after hearing her ridiculous imagination. There were moments of hesitation about whether he should confront Arina about her identity or not but reckoned he shall leave her to rest and recover from her injury before going into it.

Arina, though, was oblivious to Asano's newest feeling for her. She thought it was natural for him to be so, considering she had always claimed him as a close friend and supposed the same thing for him thinking about her that way.

"My oh my, Asano-kun! Is this for me? Oh, I shall ALWAYS cherish you, dear Asano-kun! What would you want to eat after I've recovered? Steak? Pasta?" asked Arina delightfully after Asano had bought her the newest eyebrow pencil from her favorite brand as a present.

"Whatever you make, I want that," he replied with a slight smirk.

"Bu-bu-but, Asano-kun! Are you sure? The last time I used melted ice cream for your steak sauce you spat it out!" said Arina wide-eyed in stunned bewilderment. "Isn't it a pity that you are no fan of spontaneous? Then one must be asked exactly what they like to eat."

But love was blind and so was Asano's taste sense. Right now he had fallen in love with her to the point that suddenly ice cream sauce on steak didn't sound that disgusting anymore.

Having the almighty school president Asano Gakushuu in love with you, what do you think it will be like? Girls are often drawn to bad boys and even pay no mind to good, high-driven boys who have the brightest future ahead of them. And of course, those high-driven boys wouldn't care less for romantic relationships either, as grades and careers are way too important to them. But what happens after you had made them fall in love with you? Here it went like this:

After he had fallen for her in a romantic sense, Asano wanted to SPOIL that girl. He wanted her to wear the finest dresses, go to the finest restaurants, live the finest life. He wanted to spoil her with everything she wanted and needed. Whether it was material or status and dreams. He would go all out to make her content and satisfy. If Arina wanted to open a freaking company of her own he would say fine and help her with every step to achieve her goal. If she mentioned the places she wished to visit he would note it to himself and surprise her with a trip there. But again, since they weren't dating, it was odd for him to go that far. Nevertheless, Asano had no issue with it because he loved her truthfully. He was someone to do things most earnestly whatever that is. Being with Asano felt like being with a man. He was utterly dutiful and responsible for his age, as well as loving someone he would feel like being the pillar for his girl to rely on. To provide and to protect screamed his character.

However, things always have their pros and cons. One must be mentally stable enough to endure Asano's massive controlling behavior and the talent to make one feel powerless and insecure. His girl ought to be obedient and listen to him all the time or she will get into fights with him and eventually be left with shame and humiliation for losing to his intellectual and mental game, which, was something Arina often made a mistake of. Nonetheless, as long as she was that idealistic girl who cooks, cleans, nurturing, yet ambitious, and has a high position in society, Asano overlooked it and pretty much found her rebelliousness amusing.

During the time she lay in the hospital bed, Arina was visited by a whole bunch of people, one of them was Seo's new girlfriend -- Tsuchiya Kaho.

"We just started dating a week ago," bragged Seo in pride, wrapping his arm around Kaho.

"What a shame that you're still single. Loser," Kaho stuck her tongue out mocking Arina. Although that girl sighed dreamily and, dragging her eyes from the new couple, gazed out to the autumn world, the beckoning day of breeze and orange. There Arina had a revelation that her soul was too old for her peers. Most people nowadays date each other just to fulfill their own emotional needs. Meaningless. Why was true love so rare and precious?

"Haven't you never noticed something, Tsuchiya-san? Those who needn't be shamed make up their minds that it is. And those who are desperately in need are firm about setting it aside. Oh, how chaotic this lovely world could be."

After her discharge, Arina was still her usual self -- bright and full of energy for every new day. However, there were moments of reflection that brought her to open another perspective to life. Suddenly all that high-end fashion, beauty products, food, and soirees didn't excite her that much anymore.

Due to his busy schedule, Asano didn't even have time to say hello to Arina as he postponed the confrontation for later. And during that period, Arina was no longer her old version -- the version that just set foot in a new land and craved exploration. She had surpassed that state in life. And now she supposed that living like this wasn't feeling meaningful anymore.

When Asano's minions invited her to another social event or to hang out somewhere, she just had to decline.

"What a bunch of kids who know nothing but the ineffective education system, partying, entertaining themselves, and relationships!" mourned Arina in hopelessness, as if she wasn't a kid herself, and came sauntering down the town.

It was then that she delivered her gaze around her surrounding, couldn't help but let out a bright smile of delight. The first phase of the Stone Age lasted up to ninety percent of the entire mankind's history. Just how insane was that whenever Arina was recalled by it, laying her eyes on the technology and buildings. It was insane how fast we had progressed. And it made her heart ache whenever she thought about people nowadays who didn't seem to be aware of it at all. They just took things in and supposed it is a natural thing.

"How miraculous is everything? And how sad is it to overlook miracles," whispered Arina to herself daily.

When we progress too fast, it will be a threat to this planet. Even though Arina disliked snow in the beginning, she came to cherish it after realizing the snow grew thinner each year...global warming, just like our technology...progressed rapidly.

But how to hit the brake if there was no brake to hit? Ignorance -- that's it, was how you define the majority of today's folks -- no brakes. Arina, though, was gleaming in hope of making the brake herself. But how should she do it? Arina wasn't capable of executing her thoughts and ideas into plans.

"I will leave it for later then!" Arina told herself. First, she will begin with the trivial things and build them up from there.

The young girl knew quite well that donating money wasn't enough, as her vision was immensely wide. She reckoned that to be able to create a brake, she must be more than an individual. She will need to influence the entire world, even the governments. But again, how should she do it?

And that confusion settled her with doing the trivial things first. At least now that her life wasn't at all meaningless like it used to be, she was happy about it.

"Here you go, sir! You must eat while it's still warm," she giggled merrily, handing a bowl of soup to a homeless man in the street. In Arina's eyes, there was no such joy as seeing justice being made.

"Oh, these poor souls," the sensitive girl often shed tears out of empathy. "Eat up, alright? May you receive all the love from this world."

She packed a cooker, pot, and food on her back and wandered around the city to cook food for homeless people. Many people criticized her for doing so because according to them, the homeless people were at fault. Despite so, Arina still followed her heart and do whatever she wanted.

There were days when she would set foot at the orphanage and volunteer there. Arina loved looking at and holding little kids. They were innocent and were not yet affected by grown-ups' thinking, and Arina loved them 'till death.

"Mm~ you smell so good~" Arina buried her face into a baby and began to sniffle whilst giggling wholeheartedly. The more she felt like drowning in the depth of despair for these babies not being able to be embraced in the arms of their parents, the more her unconscious tears spilled forth and the more kisses the babies and little kids received from her, which, in total, an average kid would get twenty kisses from the big sis Arina in a day, and...candies.

"Didn't I tell you to not give the children these many sweets!?" yelled the people who worked in the orphanage frequently at the devoted foreign girl, as she faltered.

"Bu-bu-but they love it," cried Arina. "And-and I didn't use any processed sugar to make those I swear!"

And there were days when she would go around to pick up trashes in the city. All Arina did was for free. 'But there wouldn't be any joy and satisfaction if it wasn't for free' was what Arina said.

In such a modern society, it was hard to live a meaningful life, in particular, to follow your passion. The price Arina had to pay in order to pursue her values was to perform terribly in class.

The Big Five noticed this and scolded her, especially Asano (despite her being the daughter of a dictator). He intended to give her extreme tutor hours later and expected her to whine about it like usual. Surprisingly, as opposed to his expectation, she etched it into her heart and thanked him ceaselessly.

"You know, Asano-kun, you all are too dear to me now to let things slip away. I'd be in the depth of despair if I ever will, therefore I SHALL work hard to stay with the people I love most wholeheartedly. Oh, and, don't you see it, Asano-kun? You're one of them. I love you even more than I love myself," confessed Arina most earnestly, intertwining her hands together.

What a fine sentence it was, as it led Asano to feel a jolt in his heart. Oh, how could she say such things...

It wasn't until Mr. Uchida's P.E. period the next day that he decided to confront Arina about her real identity. They had badminton for the period and the boys and girls were playing separately with their bulky teacher yelling in the background like usual. (A/n: haizz here we go again in this episode with this crazy character)

"YOU CALL THAT SERVING A SHUTTLECOCK!!? YOU USELESS PIECE OF SHIT!! WATCH AND LEARN!!"

Fujii Hiroyuki lost to his tears as they disobeyed him and burst out from his eyes. He couldn't even serve a shuttlecock, and now he was watching Uchida Sasuke serve the shuttle too hard to the point it launched with the speed of a rocket across the entire gymnasium, and accidentally (or not?) slid through Fujji's current opponent -- Torii Hidetoshi's face, cutting his cheek as it bled.

It was at that moment that Torii realized he should have worn a full-face helmet for this period.

The shuttlecock that Mr. Uchida served eventually ended up on the other side of the gymnasium and damaged the wall it hit. You could even see the smoke coming out of it. Luckily it didn't hit a net or similar things, or this entire place would have burned down.

Fujii trembled in fear. How was he supposed to watch and learn from this monster? And indeed he was right. The next time he held a racket in his hand he still failed to serve a shuttlecock, not to mention to able to hit it if played properly.

Akeboshi was vomiting like crazy when Teppei unintentionally hit the shuttlecock to his belly. Teppei, of course, being a nice guy as he was, asked him if he needed to retreat from the match to rest, but by then Mr. Uchida had appeared on time to punish his least favorite student.

"THIS HAS BEEN THE NTH TIME THIS WEEK!! WOULD YOU LIKE TO VOMIT YOUR WAY TO HELL HUH!!?? BEFORE THAT IF THERE'S A ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE THEN I'M GONNA TIE YOU INTO A MACHINE GUN AND USE YOUR BARF TO WIPE THE ZOMBIES OUT!! WHY!!? BECAUSE IT F*CKING STINKS!! SNIFFING IT IN COULD KILL THE LIVES OUT OF F*CKING EVERYONE AND ZOMBIES AREN'T EXCEPTIONS!! AND WHEN YOU HAVE VOMITED YOUR SOUL OUT I WILL THROW YOUR BODY TO THE DOGS!! YA LIKE THAT HUH!?!?!"

The janitor man was summoned like a savior but when he rushed to the scene his jaw fell from witnessing the abusive teacher making his student lick his barf on the ground and swallowed it back in.

'What a blessing,' thought the janitor.

For the next few minutes, Mr. Uchida continued to abuse the kids. But they were too used to it any way that it was supposed to be natural.

Sejiro and Iori were forced to join the running laps with the K-squad members for being distracted during the matches. They were apparently peeking at Nagasawa Juria on the girls' side and got their punishment, which was FIVE-HUNDRED laps, as well as the K-squad members for doing the same thing with Asano Gakushuu.

Koyama got his racket snapped to half by Mr. Uchida for staying still the whole time in a double match, doing nothing but giggling 'nishishishi' and letting his teammate -- the mentally deranged Seo -- play against Asano and Ren.

Juria with Sae got into a team against the bitches Morikawa and Tanaka, which resulted in bloodshed in merely a sports match.

"GO DIE YOU B*TCH!!" screeched Morikawa whilst delivering a strong hit to aim at Juria's eyeballs.

"MORE LIKE YOU ARE!!" Juria was luckily able to return the shuttle with the same tendency as those two evil girls.

It should be said that Shirayuki Sae -- a total outsider -- was the only one to have her blood shed for winding up to these girls' business, taking in all their rages. Nevertheless, after being knocked out and falling to the ground, she still proceeded to plan for her world domination for years later, inside her head.

Minami Mei -- who hated sport 'till death -- faked having her period and ran to the bathroom to video call with her boyfriend (again).

Meanwhile, the two sports prodigies -- Arina and the tomboy girl Ami was having a match against each other.

But here was the thing, ever since Arina trained with team Petrosyan to jump quads, she had regained muscles like the old days and strengthened her stamina. Therefore, she was able to win the match 24-22 with minimum effort. Prodigy was fitter to call Arina than it was to Ami since she was skilled with everything required for physical needs.

And what a surprise that Asano asked Mr. Uchida for permission and approached Arina to challenge her to a match with him.

"Here's the condition. If I win, then you will have to answer whatever I question you, but if I lose and you win, then it's the other way around. Deal?"

"Sure! I'd love to," replied Arina confidently. "But oh, Asano-kun, don't you think the term is rather boring? We have this tradition in my hometown that every time a person loses in a game they will have to lick-- I mean, sniff the winner's armpits. How exciting! You wanna try it?"

"What ridiculous tradition is this!?" exclaimed Asano in utmost disgust and disapproval.

Alas! Poor Asano...the nearby students including Mr. Uchida overheard their conversation and went up to Asano, encouraging him to accept Arina's condition.

"Don't tell me you are afraid, Asano-kun!!" nudged Torii.

"Heeh, if you are seriously afraid of Arina's challenge for you then I suppose your weakness had been exposed then!"

"Come on, our leader!!"

Asano felt overwhelmed and nearly fainted from the pressure. But then he professionally regained his composure and declared:

"Formality. Had that word flown out of your dictionaries? What childish behavior to support such an improper act!? And I dare say that it will be my loss to give in and perform it. Keep all your heads up and live your lives with dignity!!"

The crowd sighed and so was Arina. In the end, she had to accept Asano's boring terms as she had no questions for him whatsoever. It was so unexciting, but at least the part of battling against Asano had covered it up. (A/n: OMG I was planning for Arina to really sniff his sweaty armpit but then his character suddenly fired up and took charge of the story and not letting me do it TT Damn Asano you lead me on my own game)

The thought of the so-called sports prodigy Arina playing against the oh-so-perfect Asano was simply beyond everyone's imagination. They all tore away from what they were doing to huddle up as a crowd, watching Arina and Asano get on set.

"ALRIGHT KIDDOS!! KILL EACH OTHER AND I MEAN IT!!" roared Mr. Uchida.

The match started with a torrent of cheers bursting forth from the observers. They each bet on whoever will win this match and the result summed up was around fifty-fifty for both of them.

Asano wasn't that surprised to see how high Arina could jump to return the shuttle, considering she mastered figure skating sport. Although he certainly did not expect her arm strength to be that strong. And her agility...was insane.

That was from his point of view. On Arina's side, the thrill went up to her throat as she had to extract the maximum amount of her power to play against Asano. Why the heck was he so good!?

The whistle blew along with an announcement:

"ONE POINT TO YOU, ASANO-KUN! AND YOU F*CKING LOSER BLONDE KID!! WHY DID YOU TOUCH THE NET!!??"

"It wasn't on purpose!!" cried Arina mournfully.

But the next time she managed to surprise everybody by gaining a point from her smash, during which Asano had failed to return it.

"Phew! and I thought I'd have to give up fifty-thousand yen," Ami nervously wiped her sweat, wishing all the best that Asano would lose.

Arina and Asano showed no signs of losing to one another and it was as if Mr. Uchida's words had come to truth for them. Both of them unleashed all of their power as though it was a battle of dead or alive.

But the thrill wasn't as near comparable to when they had reached 20-20 for their points. It was then that the students had to hold their breath to see if they will come home today with either a full or empty wallet.

If you are led by two points, then you lose. And it created a stressed psychology in both Asano and Arina.

It was the first time in a while that Asano had felt this much thrill in a sports match. And wasn't it wonderful that it all came from his crush?

"ILLEGAL TWICE IN SUCCESSION FROM ASANO-KUN!! ONE POINT TO DA BLONDE KID!!" announced Mr. Uchida.

The points by now were 27 for Asano and 28 for Arina. If they continued to not win by two and keep going until the score is 29-all, then the first player to score 30 points wins!

As though they got possessed by Songoku, those two transformed themselves into Super Saiyan on the brink of death to the closure of this match. Not only they were tensed, but the students who bet their money on either of them were all too.

"It is hard to guess who would win this match," admitted Seo, who had learned his lesson and was not willing to bet on anything anymore. "But if two players are equally good, then luck is a big factor though."

And guess who seized that luck? Yes, it was Asano Gakushuu because he was too perfect to not be lucky. Despite all the efforts that elongated the time, Arina accidentally stepped outside of the area of play to return the shuttle, and voila! Asano gained a point from that and now he had reached 30 points, as the victory had belonged to him.

"NOOOOOOO!!!" screamed Ami, along with ten more students including Torii and Yano. They kneeled down and punched the ground, crying in bitterness and mourning farewell to their wallets.

Both Asano and Arina were drenched in their sweat and had a hard time catching their breath from all the thrills they just experienced earlier. Asano's supporters immediately surrounded him and showered him with words of compliments. Arina, on the other hand, was feeling so guilty for losing the match. Nevertheless, she laughed in joy at all the thrills Asano gave her.

"YOU LOSER BLONDE KID!!!" Arina jolted when Mr. Uchida appeared behind her out of a sudden. "A HUNDRED LAPS FOR BEING A SH*TTY LOSER! HAVE YOU GOT NO SHAME!?! GO!!!!"

At the end of the day, as Asano had waited so long for this moment, finally met up with Arina after school in a deserted place on the campus and began with his questions.

"Why did you come to Japan? Who are you?" he asked straightforwardly, expecting her to stick to the promise earlier and be honest this time.

However, Arina disappointed him greatly by continuing to lie.

"Do. Not. Lie. To. Me," he emphasized, as Arina shot her eyes opened wide when she sensed the assurance in his tone.

"But I-I-I was HONEST, Asano-kun!"

"No, I know you aren't," he said, and then, proceeded to show her the photos of her personal files in his phone. There Arina froze in place, though inside she was screaming and urging her body to flee away from having to see him. It was like her world had collapsed the moment she realized that somebody had discovered her secret.

If her father and the government ever find out she had slipped her identity away, then it will be a major problem...

Arina struggled to stand straight and eventually dropped to her knees and began sniffing, tugging on Asano's trousers.

"A-a-a-a-sano-kun, PLEASE for the entire galaxy's sake keep it a secret! NOW YOU KNOW, oh, now you know...Oh, how am I supposed to carry on living my life finding out you already saw how ugly and tomboyish I look back then? There were moments when I look back at that profile picture and mourned to myself that I should've shifted that strand of hair on the left a little bit away from my forehead. I guess I will just have to bare with the fact that it already happened and that awkward memory was captured on camera and forever remained a piece of my unerasable information files. BUT ASANO-KUN! The glow-up I have now is all natural and you ought to believe it! and well, you can see how holy a single makeup product namely eyebrow pencil can enhance such one's look! If you want to try it I can give it to you, Asano-kun. There will be no need for you to ask for it. And actually I-I-I have— split-split— what do they call it in Japanese? But after you hear it out you will know that person on the files wasn't meee! OH perhaps we SHOULD come to somewhere to ease my mind down so I can explain everything!" mourned Arina dramatically, to the point you could hear the slight hoarseness from her mournful voice.

"Very well then," smirked Asano. "Although in exchange for keeping your secret, you will have to do me a favor. I will take you over to my house this evening."