"Well, first, let's just ask this one question..."
Filled with suspicion, Shinji Tokita pulled out a textbook and stared at Yu and Iori. "You guys have read the textbook, right?"
"Of course! (Didn't read a single page)"
"Is that even a question? (Didn't read a single word)"
From head to toe, they were completely naked and seemed incredibly sincere, but in reality, Miyazawa Yu was telling a complete lie with his eyes wide open.
Honestly, he spent all his free time participating in Pab club's team-building activities that he didn't even know when the textbook got into his hands. At most, the cover looked a little familiar.
"...It seems you haven't read it."
"!!! Shinji-senpai, why are you slandering our innocence! That's too much!"
He had planned to cram tonight, but his lie didn't even last a minute.
Seeing his lie exposed, Miyazawa Yu's face flushed.
But to not be seen as a good-for-nothing college student by Nanaka-san, he could only puff out his chest and stick to his story.
Seeing this, Shinji Tokita spread his hands helplessly. "In that case, you guys know the diving hand signals, right?"
"Oh, the gestures used to communicate."
"Exactly! This is one of the most important ways to communicate underwater!"
He pointed at Miyazawa Yu. "Iori, you go first. As long as you can get it mostly right, I'll reluctantly admit that you've read it. How about that?"
"..."
It's just hand signals. How hard can it be?
If I just use my imagination and think about daily life, my accuracy won't be that low!
His expression remained calm on the outside, but inside, his mental abacus was making so much noise it sounded like fireworks. Miyazawa Yu slanted his eyes and looked at Iori for a moment. Both of them had the same look of "it's worth a shot" in their eyes!
"Oh, okay, got it."
"No problem!"
He gave a thumbs-up. One of the great traditions of the Pab club—to never give up until they hit a wall!
"You guys..."
Helplessly stretching his muscles, Shinji Tokita thought for a moment. He first placed his hands in front of his chest and pushed forward, then he pointed at his chest with his right hand, and finally, he ended with a thumbs-down.
The meanings were "stop," "look at me," and "descend." They were all very basic diving hand signals.
"Come on, what do they mean?"
"Hiss..."
Iori Kitahara took a sharp breath, surprised that he was starting with a combo move. He rubbed his forehead and began to imagine himself underwater.
Pushing hands forward should mean stop, as in, that's enough.
Pointing at himself is obviously 'me.' The thumbs-down has a condescending undertone. The last time it was used...
With this thought, a flash of insight crossed his eyes. That's right! It was when Yamamoto and the others wanted to kill me!
So the full sentence should be: That's enough, I'm going to kill you here!
"Alright, Iori, what are you going to do?"
"Hmph! I'll immediately pull out a harpoon gun and kill the other person first!"
"How clever, Iori! You did great!"
"It was nothing! Hahaha—"
Shinji Tokita looked at Yu and Iori, who were now on a video call and praising each other, and lowered his head speechlessly. It seemed he couldn't use hand gestures in front of his underclassmen so easily anymore!
"That's completely wrong! Iori, you're out!"
"Huh! It's wrong?!"
Miyazawa Yu turned to Shinji-senpai at the same time as Iori, his face full of shock. He thought Iori's guess was quite reasonable!
"Wrong! Next, Ryujiro, you go."
Not wanting to argue with these two who had no self-awareness, Shinji Tokita went to the side to rethink his teaching methods.
He felt like he had to apologize to every senior in the diving community for producing students like these!
"So, Yu, watch my movements. Try not to kill your senior, okay!"
"Emmm... I'll try!"
"Don't 'try,' you must not!"
Laughing heartily, Ryūjirō Kotobuki held up his index and middle fingers and pointed them at his eyes.
Then he moved his flattened hand back and forth in front of his mouth. Finally, he joined his index fingers from both hands.
The three gestures meant "watch me," "share oxygen," and "buddy."
"..."
The two fingers pointing to the eye could be interpreted as "What are you looking at?" or "What's the problem?"
But Miyazawa Yu didn't think Kotobuki-senpai would make a provocative gesture right after a joke.
So, eliminating the wrong answer, this gesture must mean "I've been watching you for a long time."
Moving his hand back and forth in front of his mouth was undoubtedly a flying kiss. The last gesture of the two index fingers joining together looked like two people lying down together to sleep.
In conclusion, Ryūjirō Kotobuki's full message should be, "I like you! I've been watching you for a long time, so be with me!"
"..."
Miyazawa Yu's face instantly became ugly. He desperately shook his head, holding back the urge to vomit. "No way! If it was Nanaka-san, it would be fine, but absolutely not Kotobuki-senpai!"
"Are you that stingy? You'd only share with Nanaka..."
He was completely left to die! Ryūjirō Kotobuki was shocked at how disloyal Yu was when it came to girls!
"I can't help it. Senpai, you should go to Iori for this!"
"Don't push your senior onto me, you bastard!"
Iori Kitahara slammed his hands on the table. He had completely shared the image of sleeping with his senior in Miyazawa Yu's mind and was utterly disgusted.
If it weren't for the fact that Yu wasn't wearing clothes today and he couldn't win in a fight, he would have put him in a rear-naked choke to let him know the consequences of sending those inappropriate pictures!
"So you two really haven't learned anything!"
"Sorry..."
"Forget it, I guessed as much. Just learn a little, okay?"
"Yes! Um, should we wake Kohei up?"
He obediently took the textbook. As Miyazawa Yu walked toward the dining table, he was tripped by the petrified Kohei.
Thinking that he shouldn't be the only one to suffer, he leaned down and snapped his fingers twice next to the guy, trying to wake up his soul, which might or might not have crossed the bridge yet.
"Hmm? Kohei is already dead, isn't he? You can bring him back?"
Iori Kitahara leaned forward with interest. He had never seen anyone stay petrified for so long. He casually picked up two beer bottles from the table and stacked them on Kohei's head.
"Sort of. It's not that hard, actually... Kohei, I can arrange another mixer for you~"
"Really!"
He instantly went from grayscale to color. No one saw how Kohei Imamura changed his posture, but he was now kneeling completely naked on the ground.
"Thank you, Lord Yu. I'm willing to give my chastity in return!"
"Waaah~ I don't need that. But we'll have to wait until Kaya has time, and you don't want your idol to be targeted by perverts like Yamamoto, right?"
Miyazawa Yu caught the flying beer bottles and stepped back in disgust.
Given the fanaticism Kohei was showing, he was actually hesitant to invite Kaya Mizuki out again.
He felt that if he got her Line ID or something, Kohei would probably annoy her to death!
"That's a good point..."
Completely unaware that he was the most suspicious pervert, Kohei Imamura nodded in agreement, believing that he had to protect Lady Kaya Mizuki!
"Alright! Let's hurry up and memorize this stuff. We have to prepare for the diving license exam."
"Huh? Diving!!!"
"Even though your reaction is very normal, don't overact. I already did that expression~"
He leaned back in his chair lazily. With the sound of his seniors drinking in the background, Miyazawa Yu suddenly felt that getting a license wasn't such a bad thing.
At the very least, he could skip the drinking parties openly. That one benefit was a luxury that no one in the Pab club could get!
However, before he could be happy about this easy life for long, the scent of Nanaka Kotegawa suddenly reached his nose.
"Yu, are you looking at diving hand signals?"
"Yeah, since it's an exam, I have to be serious..."
Mid-sentence, Miyazawa Yu suddenly felt a soft, heavy sensation on his shoulder.
Combined with Nanaka-san's close face, he didn't even have to guess what that soft thing squeezing against him was!
What should I do? Should I warn her? No, no, no! I should just enjoy it secretly!
That's right, by focusing all my attention on my back, Nanaka-san's general outline is now clear, isn't it!
"Hey, Yu~ We agreed to keep it a secret, so you're on my side, right?"
"Of course, Nanaka-san. Why do you ask?"
His entire body went limp. Miyazawa Yu felt like his soul was sinking into this gentle embrace, but Nanaka Kotegawa's next sentence sent him plummeting.
"But I heard that Iori is dating Chisa. Why didn't you tell me about this?"
"W-w-w-w-w-waaaaaaaah!"