The second day at Kunugigaoka Junior High was no different than yesterday with the students still in awe at the Orlas girl's appearance. They huddled around her, questions kept piling up not sparing any seconds to answer them. Fortunately, her ability to sneak away amid the crowd without being noticed was nothing short of incredible.

Despite Asano's offer to escort her, she refused most of the time. It wasn't just Arina's sake he cared about, it was the disorderly conduct that ticked him off frightfully; hence why after her decline, he still kept on walking nearby along his minions to assure the students weren't causing a scene. But when he was absent due to his busy schedule, Arina still managed well and left the rowdy students standing there, puzzled.

A typical day in the life of the prestige Asano often moved so fast as if it was merely a blink of an eye. Studying, tutoring his classmates, taking part in club activities as an aid, and burying himself in the student council's work were extremely time-consuming. Sometimes, he wished there would be more than twenty-four hours in a day, so he wouldn't have to stay up so late at night. However, he didn't consider his duties to be exhausting; instead, he viewed it as something only the chosen ones are capable of and should be proud of.

The most intriguing thing in his life was--unlike Ren, where the guy found pleasure in being with girls--he took pleasure in dominating people. And the most important thing to him now was to finally have his dad kneel at him.

Today was the second day he had classes with the new students. Since he already knew the others' capabilities, he especially paid close attention to the two new ones. Arina Avenira disappointed him in the core subjects with the only exception of social studies; meanwhile, the cliche mad scientist-looking guy, Koyama Natsuhiko, his ability to memorize was ridiculously astonishing. Asano finally found another worthy candidate for his group of minions.

Throughout the recess times, he kept on seeing two of his minions--Seo and Teppei flocking around the Orlas girl. Asano found it unfathomable that while every student in their class hated Seo for his ill-mannered, Arina was fine with being his friend, not to mention she seemed to be very comfortable around him.

"We have P.E today!? Yay!!"

Arina's cheer snapped him out of the perplexing state, he now wondered what made her so excited about P.E, perhaps she was also good in sports? Or it was just a break from the academic-related subjects she was looking forward to?

He will see it by then, he thought so and went to grab lunch with his group of minions automatically reaching to him without any summon being made.

At the cafeteria, Asano observed to see that Koyama Natsuhiko--who was eating lunch alone--was an outcast. He concluded that the guy needed to gain confidence in himself, in short--to be prideful. Asano smirked as he planned the future of his minions' group, he will consider taking Koyama in after reviewing his midterm exam scores.

Arina, on the other hand, surrounded herself with the same group of girls from yesterday, it surprised Asano that Ami was willing to hang out with the girls. They were chatting about something he couldn't hear due to the noisy background, and an unexpected tinge of red hue was flushing on Arina's face, as the girls reacted with odd giggles.

Lunch-time passed, as students were leaving the cafeteria Asano felt someone poking his back. He whirled around and their eyes met.

"Asano-kun, this is a brownie I baked. I hope you would like it!" said Arina generously whilst taking one individually wrapped brownie out from her bag, beckoning him to take it.

Analyzing how Arina was blushing about something earlier, and how she offered him a cookie bar she baked herself out of nowhere--Asano assumed she had developed a crush on him, which was understandable anyway.

However, despite his assurance, it was still too quick to jump to a conclusion. Therefore, putting on a charming smile, he thanked her and took the brownie from her hands.

"You should eat it, Asano-kun, it's so good~!"

Teppei popped out from behind Asano--to his utter shock--while chewing on the same brownie piece Arina just gave to him. Asano swiveled his head to look around; nearly everyone was dying from either the heavenly taste of Arina's baked brownies or having her approach them like that.

"Thank you for the compliment, Teppei! And yes, you should eat it now, so I can know whether you like it or not to give you more!" said Arina in a highly-excited mood, rummaging her bag.

'How does she store all of these?' thought Asano confusingly. There was a mixture of feeling inside him right now; it was a bit disappointing, but also quite relieved that he hadn't done or said anything to her based on his assumption.

"Wow! It tastes amazing!" complimented Ren. "A bite of sweetness and affection, a warm sensation melting from my tongue to my heart~" he flipped his hair as imaginary sparkles spluttered out of it and the girls nearby squealed in admiration.

"A warm sensation! Oh, that sounds very kind of you Sakakibara-kun! But I'm afraid I'm a bit confused, how exactly do you describe it as amazing?" asked Arina excitedly, she was grateful for his kind words but since he was portraying things so abstract, she felt like she needed to know more of his opinion. "Like the description of the flavor and texture!"

"As I said, its sweetness is enough to make my heart suffers from diabetes ~"

"What!? It's not that sweet!" retorted Arina, getting upset by his comment, and pouting, "...and how about the texture?"

"Having Ren behaving seriously in front of a girl is like a fantasy," whispered Teppei to Seo, which Arina accidentally overheard with her sharp ears, resulting in more protruded lower lips.

"The texture reminds me of your--"

"Whatever, just take it!" she said and shoved another brownie into his chest. Ren's flirty spirit vanished as she shifted her gaze to Asano.

"Eat it, Asano-kun!" urged Arina impatiently, and Asano swiftly snapped out of his unnecessary thoughts.

"Sure,"

Again, he had that infamous fake smile on as he unwrapped the brownie and bit on it.

"How is it?" asked Arina enthusiastically, Asano could see her puppy eyes glistening from the over-excitement. He somehow found that cute.

"Seems like it falls into the cakey category. Very excellent--it's light, moist, and airy, with a slightly fluffy, cake-like interior. Did you put almond flour in it? because I think I could sense it," he said, smiling as he saw how her glistening eyes got even more lively.

That was exactly what Arina wanted to hear, especially since no one had been considerate enough to point out the almond flavor.

"Oh, Asano-kun! I'm very--very glad that you pointed out the almond flour! Since I've been waiting for someone to notice it...well, you can have all of it!" she beamed and handed him the rest of the brownies.

They had Japanese class shortly after lunch and Arina was trying her best to concentrate on the subject, but the tempting thought of finally participating in P.E greatly failed her to do so. She longed for it so much that now even a second felt like an eternity to her.

Throughout the periods leading to P.E class, her mind was entirely up in the air, imagining herself having fun playing sports with her new classmates. As a result, when it was time for her name to get called out by the teacher, she jumped in alarm and had to ask them what was their questions again.

Of course, that reckless behavior of her was unforgivable according to Asano. Compared to yesterday, her image as a student was demeaned more than ever as Asano secretly rolled his eyes contemptuously and came back to focus on his work.

The bell rang indicating it was time for P.E. While Asano was only about to stand up from his seat, he already saw Arina immediately dash out of class. Running in the hallway, again, was forbidden. As a result, he angrily marched out of class and was frozen by seeing how Arina had vanished only seconds after she headed out, which, drove him even madder.

While wearing stockings with P.E clothes was common among the girls, Arina found pants to be more flexible and comfortable as she chose to wear them instead of shorts and stockings. Her ability to change clothes in the blink of an eye guaranteed her more free time compared to the other students. She swiftly tied her hair into her signature military day low pigtails with no hairbands whatsoever and excitedly waited for the class to start.

Nearly fifteen minutes later all of them were present at the gymnasium and lined up neatly in front of a gangster-looking guy. Even though he wasn't shirtless, they could tell he had a Greek god's body type merely through his silhouette alone.

His tummy held in, his chest puffed out whilst he took a deep breath and shouted, "LISTEN KIDDOS! (their eardrums ruptured from their teacher's over-excitement) MY NAME IS UCHIDA SASUKE! FROM NOW ON, I'M GOING TO BE YOUR NEW P.E TEACHER!! (Arina could see the veins in his neck protruding) SO BUCKLE UP! COZ HERE WE GO FOR A SWEDISH RELAY!!"

"Heeeeh...." nearly all of them said together, disappointed that they had to compete on the very first day of gym class. Arina, however, shouted 'yay!' ecstatically.

"ANY OBJECTIONS YOU LAZY BUMS!?" he spat, saliva spraying everywhere, even onto Arina's face.

Mr. Uchida kind of reminded her of the military officers--bulky and loud, but she was too busy wiping her face off the disgusting saliva (in a panic) to even bother sparing a mind about it.

They got their asses kicked off to the track field by Mr. Uchida, he was acting as though he was constantly on the verge of exploding.

"YOU KNOW WHY I GOT THIS SCAR!?" he barked to a random ill-looking student, a.k.a the person who sat next to Arina in class, inching a big scar on his left eye from the ill guy's terrified face.

"It's--It's because..." his voice was shaken as though he was about to cry.

"IT'S BECAUSE I ONCE LOOKED LIKE YOU!! A WEAK, ILL-LOOKING PUSSY!! UNTIL THE DAY I TOUGHEN MYSELF UP AGAINST THE BULLIES AND SHOWED THEM WHO'S THE REAL BOSS!! AND THIS SCAR RIGHT HERE," he pointed at it, "IS A TROPHY OF BEATING THE CRAP OUT OF TWENTY BULLIES! (at this point, the classmates noticed that his face had turned to a heavier shade of green as they were afraid of...) THIS SCAR IS SPECIFICALLY CARVED BY THEIR LEADER'S BONE!!" ('stop that!' one thought)"

Blechhhhhhhhhh!"

The 2-A students froze in place watching Okamoto Akeboshi--the poor ill-looking guy--whose face got greener than ever before and vomited on Mr. Uchida.

"I knew this would happen..." a student said in an undertone.

"What should we do, Asano-kun...?" asked Ren in a petrified state, waiting for his friend's advice.

Asano didn't even have time to respond when Mr. Uchida as if he was a shaken soda bottle when uncapped, exploded his temper up to the air. The veins on his forehead and neck were pretty much visible for any students to see from that distance, red and purple were fuming on his villain-like face, and red veins were swallowing his bulging, glowering eyes.

If it weren't for the prohibition of violence in school, he'd have grabbed Akeboshi by his neck and choked him to death. Fortunately for the poor Akeboshi, Mr. Uchida took a deep breath in and washed his anger away. He violently took off his track jacket that was stained by vomit and tossed it with no mercy straight into Akeboshi's face.

"WASH ITTTT!!!!!" he roared, rain of saliva spilled everywhere, the ground was even able to absorb its droplets, there was a hint of sore throat by the end of his scream. Sniffing and tasting his own vomit while the jacket slowly slipped down from his face, Akeboshi went green again, that was when Arina came into the view.

"Here you go, vomit in here," said Arina swiftly, placing a bucket she ran to fetch elsewhere in front of him.

Without thinking, Akeboshi briskly seized the bucket and vomited in it with Arina gently rubbing his back to calm him down.

Their classmates had nothing to say as Asano was slowly adjusting to the scene by how fast and random things happened, "Okamoto-kun if you're not feeling well, you may feel the need to not participate in this period," suggested Asano to him with his arms folded.

Arina had that worried look on as she turned to check Akeboshi's expression. All he cared about now was Mr. Uchida's reaction, which was shown clearly on his anxious face, he carefully peeked at the P.E teacher while wiping his mouth.

"No, no! Stop that! Let me," said Arina, pulling out a handkerchief from her pants' pocket and wiping his vomit-covered face.

Mr. Uchida's temper seemed to worsen judged by the jerking veins on his neck. Asano noticed it and approached him.

They had small talk and as if there was magic involved, Mr. Uchida now showed no sign of anger as he flashed a friendly smile to the students, who were weirded out by the sudden change in his behavior.

Arina took the vomit-stained jacket ('how could she do that?' whispered Juria to Morikawa) along with the bucket and asked Mr. Uchida for permission to leave and come back later. Normally, he'd have made the guilty one--Okamoto Akeboshi--the one to do it, but for some odd reason, he nodded in agreement to Arina's appreciation and Akeboshi's relief.

Asano then came to ask Akeboshi again if he could join the class for the relay. To his surprise, he said he could, and when Arina came back, their teacher blew the whistle to grab their attention and finally divided them into teams.

The first team comprised Sakakibara Ren being the first leg, Kihira Kimi as the second leg, Nagasawa Juria as the third leg (she squealed upon being sorted in the same team with Asano), and Asano Gakushuu as the fourth and final leg.

"We'd lose for sure!" the other teams whined seeing Asano as the last runner for team one, which added more to Arina's excitement for their competition against each other.

Now for the last team, with Koyama Natsuhiko as the first leg, Ami Mizuno Peterson and Okamoto Akeboshi as the second and third legs, and Arina Avenira being the last to finish the relay.

"Are you sure about being the fourth leg?" asked Ami as Arina chuckled and replied to her with a 'no problem, leave it to me!'.

Ami's face suddenly went dark, "What if Akeboshi trips and vomits into you?"

"Ooooh! I surely do admire your brilliant imagination!" replied Arina bubbly.

After a warm-up, Mr. Uchida blew his whistle as the first students to run got into their position. Mr. Uchida then inhaled, preparing to scream at the top of his lungs.

"READY!? GET SET" -- He dropped his voice suddenly as the first runners began to build up more anxiety -- "GOOOO!!!!!"

They immediately got up from their position and sprinted at full speed. Asano smirked, as long as he was there, his team will never lose, or so he thought.