Chapter 169: She Had Chosen Him!
Looking at Yuto after he ended the call, Kei blinked her lively eyes and quietly asked, "Yuto, Ichinose Honami from Class B has a really good figure, right?"
"Huh?" Yuto looked at her in complete confusion.
Then his gaze shifted to the soft breasts pressed against his arm.
Yuto, whose emotional intelligence was by no means low, instantly understood that Kei was envying other girls' figures again.
Sometimes Yuto noticed that when Kei looked at Kikyo's incredibly full breasts, a hint of longing and yearning would show in her eyes.
Kei didn't seem very satisfied with her own modest figure that could be grasped with one hand. She would sometimes let her imagination run wild, thinking that being bigger would be better.
Because being bigger would be better able to attract Yuto's gaze!
Yuto laughed helplessly, squeezed Kei's soft and boneless hand, then tickled her palm, and said with a perfectly straight face, "I have no idea whether Ichinose Honami has a good figure, because she isn't my girlfriend."
"And Kei, I especially love the feeling of being able to hold yours with one hand!"
"You're so annoying..."
Kei's cheeks turned a beautiful shade of red from his teasing, and the two of them as a couple began playfully messing around, laughing and joking, sweet and happy until the afternoon warning bell rang.
The next two classes passed under excellent discipline. Once school ended, Yuto said goodbye to a reluctant Kei and headed toward the student council building.
Kei watched his tall, straight figure disappear with the aggrieved expression of a neglected wife. Now that her boyfriend had become the vice president of the student council, Yuto could no longer go shopping and on dates with her after school.
This was difficult for someone whose entire heart seemed to revolve around him.
Even so, Kei wasn't unreasonable. She understood that she couldn't interfere with his student council work.
Matsushita Chiaki glanced at Kei, who was still staring after Yuto, and with a teasing expression on her pretty face, she said, "Kei, stop looking at Shimizu already. If you stare any harder, your eyes are going to fall out."
"What are you talking about, Chiaki?" Kei finally withdrew her gaze and shot her a look.
Ever since Yuto asked Kei to remind Chiaki to stop hiding her abilities, the two girls had become much closer. Within Kei's group of female friends, Chiaki had effectively become her closest friend, and the two already called each other by their given names.
Kei parted her glossy, lip-gloss-coated lips and asked, "Where is everyone planning to go?"
Since Yuto wasn't available to accompany her, Kei had to go shopping with her group of female friends instead.
"Keyaki Mall," Chiaki replied. "Shinohara said there's a fortune-teller there who's supposed to be really accurate. We thought we'd go take a look."
"Fortune-telling?"
Kei blinked, and a hint of interest appeared on her face. As a youthful and pretty girl, she naturally had some interest in that kind of thing.
Kei especially wanted to have her romantic compatibility with Yuto read!
"Then let's all go."
"Mm~"
The group, led by Kei, left the classroom while excitedly discussing fortune-telling.
Chiaki wasn't particularly interested in idle chatter, so she stayed mostly quiet and didn't join the conversation.
Noticing this, Kei moved closer and affectionately wrapped her arms around Chiaki's slender arm.
With the distance between them suddenly reduced, Chiaki caught the fragrance coming from Kei.
There were two distinct scents.
One was sweet, almost like honey.
The other was a fresh, pleasant vanilla fragrance.
Chiaki knew the first was Kei's own scent.
The second belonged to her boyfriend, Shimizu Yuto.
As for how Chiaki knew that vanilla fragrance came from Yuto...
She had smelled it from him before whenever he happened to pass close by.
The moment she recognized that boy's scent, Chiaki stiffened slightly and a faint blush spread across her fair cheeks. She hurriedly said to Kei, who had grabbed her arm, "Kei, why did you suddenly grab my arm?"
"Do you hate it?" Kei asked, tilting her head.
"N-No, I don't hate it. It's just... how do I put it..." Chiaki's eyes flickered awkwardly.
'Because you smell like your boyfriend, being held this close makes it feel like I'm being held by him!'
How was she supposed to say something like that out loud?!
Kei didn't pay much attention to her stammering and smiled sweetly. "Chiaki, don't stay quiet. Mori Nene was just talking about what kind of boys she likes. What about you? What type do you like?"
"Yeah, yeah!" Nene and the others immediately joined in.
Yuto's image flashed through Chiaki's mind. She glanced at Kei's bright, lively eyes, then answered awkwardly, "Probably someone tall and heavily built, with long hair."
"No way. Chiaki, you like guys like Koenji Rokusuke?" Kei sounded genuinely surprised. "I thought you'd prefer someone slimmer, with a neat hairstyle."
Chiaki pressed her lips together.
Shinohara Satsuki laughed. "Kei, are you talking about Shimizu?"
"Yep~"
Kei admitted it openly with a sweet smile, showing no embarrassment at all.
Ever since the confession on the rooftop, Kei had chosen Yuto. That night in the dormitory room, Kei had given her innocence, body and soul, completely to Yuto. That was why she could confidently and proudly tell everyone without hesitation or embarrassment that she liked him and had chosen him!
Chiaki looked at Kei's dazzlingly happy smile and forcefully suppressed the faint thoughts that Yuto's familiar scent had stirred inside her.
Stop thinking about it.
The boy who fits your tastes already has someone.
The group continued chatting and laughing as they headed toward the fortune-telling area at Keyaki Mall.
...
At that same time, Yuto had already reached the student council building.
"Achoo!"
He rubbed his nose after sneezing and muttered, "Who's thinking about me...?"
He sent Airi a quick message through Line—[I'm at the student council. We'll talk tonight.]—then entered the building.
The moment Yuto stepped into the student council office, he immediately noticed several gazes turning toward him.
Nagumo's follower Mizowaki, Secretary Kiriyama Ikuto, Secretary Tachibana Akane, and two general affairs staff members were all watching him.
Mizowaki and the two general affairs members looked openly unfriendly, while Kiriyama's expression darkened the moment he saw Yuto.
From Kiriyama's perspective, once Nagumo had been removed, the vacant vice president position should naturally have gone to him as a secretary.
Instead, a first-year who had only just joined the student council had immediately taken the position.
Naturally, Kiriyama resented Yuto for it.
Tachibana's gaze, on the other hand, was much friendlier. Yuto had acted decisively and removed Nagumo, who had become a source of trouble for the student council.
And besides, Yuto was handsome enough that simply looking at him put most girls in a better mood.
Ignoring the hostile stares, Yuto smiled at Tachibana. "Good afternoon, Tachibana-senpai."
"Mm, Shimizu, you're here. I prepared some materials for you. Read through them first." Tachibana pointed toward a small stack of papers sitting on the vice president's desk with a faint smile.
"Got it. Where's the president?"
"He got held up by something and hasn't arrived yet."
"I see."
The office soon became quiet, interrupted only by the rustling of paper and the faint sound of pens moving across documents. Mizowaki and the others were all working while occasionally glancing at Yuto.
Because Yuto had forced Nagumo to spend six hundred thousand points on a Wagyu set meal the previous night and openly announced that he intended to move against them, they kept watching him, hoping to figure out how he planned to target Nagumo.
Yet Yuto behaved completely normally and did nothing suspicious enough for them to notice.
About ten minutes later, after finishing the documents, Yuto looked toward Tachibana. "Senpai, I've read everything. Could you show me the areas the vice president is responsible for now?"
"Sure."
Tachibana nodded and led him out of the office.
The moment they left, one of the general affairs members leaned toward Mizowaki and whispered, "Should we follow them and keep watch?"
"Of course," Mizowaki answered immediately.
Kiriyama watched Mizowaki and the others follow Yuto and Tachibana out, then expressionlessly continued handling his own work.
Because he had grown dissatisfied with both Yuto and Manabu, Kiriyama had no intention of reporting their departure to either Manabu or Tachibana.
"Fight all you want," Kiriyama murmured. "Mizowaki, you people had better find a way to drag Shimizu Yuto down..."
Only if Yuto lost the vice presidency would Kiriyama have any real chance of taking that position for himself.
...
Under Tachibana's guidance, Yuto began learning the areas that fell under the vice president's authority, and the two headed toward the club building.
One of the vice president's responsibilities involved overseeing student clubs.
"Shimizu, you probably know the club members better than I do," Tachibana said with a smile.
The rumor that Yuto was an undefeated demon had originally spread through the clubs themselves, so she naturally assumed he knew those students extremely well.
"Maybe, but I think you probably know them better, Senpai," Yuto replied modestly.
The two chatted casually as they approached the club building.
Several students sitting on nearby benches immediately changed expression the moment they saw Yuto.
Yuto only ever came to the club building to challenge people, so whenever club members saw him appear there, they instinctively felt as though some notorious troublemaker had just shown up at their door.
Yuto enthusiastically waved toward one of the students on a bench. "Hey, isn't that Kagoen-senpai? You—"
"I don't have any points! And I don't want to bet with you! Shimizu Yuto, don't come near me!"
Kagoen Kuroki shot to his feet and fled in panic, with his friend quickly running after him.
Yuto helplessly watched the two disappear.
Tachibana looked mildly surprised. "Wasn't that Kagoen Kuroki?"
"Yeah. You know him?"
"Mm. He's a third-year Class B student. He's extremely good at sports and wrestling. Our third-year Class A even lost to him during the sports festival once. Why does he look so terrified of you?"
"I don't think he's afraid of me," Yuto replied with a completely serious expression. "He probably just remembered something urgent and had to leave quickly."
It was utter nonsense.
Because of his physique and strength, Kagoen had always been extremely confident—almost arrogant—when it came to physical events.
That confidence had been completely shattered by a certain first-year named Shimizu Yuto, who defeated him and won every last point on his student ID.
Kagoen had been forced to survive on the bland vegetable set meal for nearly a month afterward.
So whenever he saw Yuto now, he couldn't help remembering both that humiliating defeat and the miserable taste of those vegetables.
The small incident didn't slow Yuto and Tachibana down. They entered the club building together, and as they passed a window, Yuto casually glanced outside.
His sharp eyes immediately spotted Mizowaki hiding nearby.
'Why is that guy here? Hmm... Did what I said last night scare Nagumo enough that he sent his lackeys to follow me?'
Yuto quickly stopped thinking about it.
It didn't matter whether Nagumo's people followed him.
The plan he intended to use against them was an open, straightforward move rather than a hidden conspiracy.
Even if Mizowaki realized that Yuto planned to use the clubs against them, there would be nothing they could do to stop it.
Yuto and Tachibana's inspection of the student clubs proceeded extremely smoothly.
After all, every club member knew the newly appointed vice president was that infamous demon.
Who would dare give him a bad attitude?
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