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Gym class and recording day

Around the end of April in my secondyear of high school, I faintly remembered that we were playingsoccer, and of course, here we are. After the gym class teacherexplained what we would be doing, all the guys were extremely happy.However, I couldn’t say the same for myself. Though I like watchingthe soccer, I’m really bad at it.

…Not to mention that today isprobably when…

If I remembered correctly, today wasthe day where I would miss the shoot for the ball, and cause everyoneto laugh because of me. That embarrassing event still lingers in theback of my mind. Leaving aside Fujimoto, even the girls from my classtold everyone about it after all. Just by thinking that somethinglike this might happen again, my tension went up ten-fold.

At first, the teacher told us to gointo pairs of two and practice passing.

…I really don’t wanna dothis…maybe I can slack off in the nurse’s office…

And, just when I was about to tell thegym teacher about my [stomach ache], Fujimoto suddenly grabbed thesleeve of my jersey.

“Hey yo, hey yo. Sanada, what’swith that face, yo? You probably don’t have a partner to practicepasses with, right?”

That diss of MC Fujimoto pissed me offa bit.

“Shut it, it’s the same for youtoo, right?”

“Yeah. Just as you say it, aye, butwe are friends. Good connection. We eating together, we playingtogether, you feel me?”

Again, why are you rapping?

To translate it into good English:Please practice passing with me, Sanada-sama.

Having no other choice, I gave in tohis request. After all, I can just keep my distance from the ballduring the game, so that I don’t mess up. Probably.

“Ah, Sensei!” shouted a girl closeto me, as she gleefully looked into a certain direction.

“Good day to you all~ I just had somefree time, so I decided to come check. Hope you all give it yourbest.”

Seeing the identity of that teacher,all the boys were suddenly fired up. Of course, it was Hiiragi-chan.Spotting me, she waved her hand at me.

“You can do it~”

Ugh…

She looks like she’s expecting alot…Even her eyes are sparkling. Now it’s hard to slack offduring the match…But, since she was still so far away, you couldn’ttell who exactly she was waving at, which is why all the other boysgot even more motivated.

“…Just for today, I might get a bitserious…” Fujimoto said with a disgusting face, to which theother boys followed suit.

“Hiiragi-chan looks really cute todayas well.”

“Normally, I would only bring out onethird of my strength…but it should be fine for just today.”

“Well, I don’t like to bring out my100%, but I’ll teach you how strong I can be.”

If I don’t slack off, I’ll end upshowing Hiiragi-chan my bad side. But…she clearly came here towatch me…

“Hiiragi-chansensei is makingpreparations for something…”

All the boys that were in the middle ofpassing practice suddenly stopped their feet and looked ever atHiiragi-chan. Of course, I did the same.

“Uhm…so this is for the powersupply…Ah, here we go~”

For some reason, she had a hand-heldcamera in her hands.

So you didn’t come here just towatch! Are you a mother who came to a sports festival or something…

Pointing the lens towards the ground wewere playing on, she made a cute waving gesture.

“You see, I’ll show this at yourguys’ graduation. It’ll be really nostalgic, don’t you think~?”

Ah, so it’s like one page of angraduation album. So she’s doing that while watching me…But—

Why does it feel like I’m constantlymeeting eyes with the lens?!

“Huh? It’s not recording?Sanada-kun? Are you familiar with cameras?”

Having no other choice, I walked overto that female goddess after being called by her.

“Ehehehe, I came~” She said in aquiet voice that no one else could hear her.

“What are you doing. Preparing evensomething like this.”

“I brought it after hearing whatClass A and B were doing for gym class~”

“And why would you do that…”

“I thought I should film Seiji-kunwhen he’s looking cool.”

“Just so you know, I’m not coolwhen I play soccer. Though I feel bad for betraying your hopes.”

“I’m deciding what makes you cool,okay?”

I didn’t know if she tried to cheerme up, or if she actually thought so. But, I thought that I might aswell try.

Since she had some problems with thehandling of the camera, I explained some things and went back towhere Fujimoto was.

“Sanada. You seem to be pretty closewith Hiiragi-chan.”

Twitch

“After she confiscated your phone,it’s always been like that, right?”

Twitch

“I-Is that so? W-Well, I don’treally get world history, so I sometimes go over to ask her. Maybeit’s because of that?”

“Ahh, I see.”

After a short while, we were separatedin teams. The people in the current soccer club, and people whoformerly played were split up, and the other people were put inrespective teams at random. On a side note, Fujimoto was in theopposing team.

“You look like you’re about to runaway, so it seems like I have to crush you here.”

Not just about. I’m actually on theline here.

“Well, I don’t mind if you crushme, but if you do that, I can only watch the class from here on out.Are you sure you find another partner then?”

“Sorry, I was lying. We’re friends,right,” Fujimoto returned a smile.

And once he had gotten back into hisnormal position, the match started. Just like I had planned, I turnedinto a mob character. But, Hiiragi-chan was constantly pushing me on.

“You can do it, go on~!”

Yeah, she’s totally cheering for me.But, since she didn’t say any names, Fujimoto and the other guysall had a disgusting face, thinking that it was them. Though I alsowanted to look cool in front of her, I really wanted to avoid thatcertain incident.

Since our team was currently on theoffensive, I moved to a place where the chance of getting the ballwas the lowest. In that second, the round object rolled towards myfeet. Of course, ignoring it would look weird.

—No other chance!

And, just when I had made up my mind, Ifelt a deja-vu, and I knew that it would happen again.

…Ah, this is it. It will happen everysecond—

But, that second I heard Hiiragi-chan’senergetic voice.

“Only dribble with your left hand!”

“That’s basketball!” All thepeople present retorted.

Of course, me included. Maybe because Iwas focussing on Hiiragi-chan’s airheaded advice, my leg moved onit’s own. Thanks to that, it hit the ball at full strength and Ihappened to shoot a goal.

“Wahhhh! Amazing! Sanada-kun! It wentin! Goal!” Hiiragi-chan did a small jump into the air. “Youperfectly hit the ring with your shoot!”

“That’s still basketball!”

Not to mention that all the girlsaround us looked at me with eyes of admiration instead of those ofcontempt from last time.

…Well, ahahaha, thank you thank you…

While I was spacing out, Fujimoto hadalready took the ball to his feet. Like a demon on a lust forrevenge, his eyes were bloodshot.

“Sanadaaaaa…I’ll take you to thegrave…And kill myself after…! Drive shoooooooooooooooooot!”

Fujimoto took the shot, and the ballhit me straight on. Before I even realized what just happened, I waslooking up at the sky. And soon after, Sanda’s face appeared.

“We’re done for. Let’s be mobcharacters from now on, okay? Sanada…”

And that was the last memory I had fromthat class. When I woke up, Hiiragi-chan was staring closely at myface.

“Ah, you’re awake.”

“Huh? The nurse’s office?”

I was lying on a bed. And, Hiiragi-chanwas giving me a lap pillow. Apparently, I was taken here aftergetting knocked out by the ball, and class had already ended.

“Seiji-kun, you looked really cool~”

“Well, that was…just my luck.”

“Luck is more than enough, you know?”Stroking my head, she grinned.

Hiiragi-chan looked happy for somereason.

“It’s probably just becauseHiiragi-chan was there.”

“Eh? Me? Because I cheered you on?”

“Maybe.”

Probably because she was watching, Icould overwrite the result from that incident. Before, Hiiragi-chanwasn’t there after all, and we weren’t in a lovers relationshipeither.

“I was also really proud ofSeiji-kun. Told the other girls how cool you looked.”

“You’re over exaggerating, don’tyou think?”

“That’s not true! To me, it lookedlike that, so it’s fine!”

With these words, she put both herhands on my cheeks, making sure that I wouldn’t escape as shebrought her face closer to mine.

“W-Wait a second. Stop! This is thenurse’s—Mmnnn?!”

“Nnnn…~ I closed the curtains soit’s fine. And, nobody is here anyway.”

This time, she didn’t seem likepulling back anytime soon, and gave me a long kiss. But, as I heardthe sound of footsteps from outside the door, I started tappingHiiragi-chan on the shoulders, who was completely losing herself.

“The nurse has come back, I think.”

“Ah, this might be bad.”

Hiiragi-chan hurriedly hid beneath thebed as we tried to escape from this danger.