"How is it? Is it cool?"
The next day, Anshi Zhengzhi presented his new hairstyle to Murae like a treasure early in the morning.
The blond hair was indeed gone; he had dyed it black, but his originally smooth hair was re-styled with gel, forming a pompadour-like shape.
In short, still a delinquent.
Murae looked up from his "History of China" textbook, then smiled gently and praised him:
"Ugly."
"Hey!"
"Like a comedic character."
"How am I not a main character with this look, come on!"
A guy with a bowl cut wanting to be the male lead? Unless you have a stand... or can play basketball. But Anshi Zhengzhi's small arms and legs don't make him look like that kind of tough guy.
"You should go practice for another two and a half years," Hayato said.
Then he looked at the real 'male lead', Matsubara Ayumu.
Matsubara's popularity was neither good nor bad.
He was currently talking to his classmates, discussing newly released games and which class had the prettier girls, among other topics.
He was strikingly ordinary.
If this were a mainstream anime, an ordinary high school student could save the world. But this was an adult film.
Such a male lead seemed utterly weak, easily having his beloved woman taken away if he wasn't careful.
"Matsubara? What's wrong with Matsubara?" Anshi Zhengzhi asked, then his face changed dramatically: "Bro! You're not thinking of abandoning me to live a good life with Matsubara, are you! You traitor—"
"Shut up," Hayato said.
But Anshi Zhengzhi kept talking: "Where did you and Shigen Ryouka go to be lovey-dovey yesterday? What base are you two on now? I'm telling you, women can be conquered just by being big, don't let that little girl Shigen fool you with her proper appearance—"
He was about to spout some outrageous claims, but then he recalled the unpleasant memory from yesterday.
Anshi Zhengzhi quickly shut his mouth and cautiously glanced at Hayato.
Fortunately, Hayato was smiling like a flower...
Just as he was about to breathe a sigh of relief, a heavy punch landed on his lower abdomen.
Anshi Zhengzhi hunched over with a cry of 'Ow!'...
What a cuckold-like statement. Hayato looked at Anshi Zhengzhi indifferently.
Anshi quickly apologized: "Sumimasen, hontoni sumimasen!—Wait, wait, Lin, where are you going? Class is about to start!"
Hayato ignored him and walked out of the classroom alone.
And the moment he stepped out of the classroom door, the bell for class rang.
Tanaka Hatsumi.
Hayato kept this name in mind. He had asked Matsubara and Anshi before, and neither of them knew this person.
But this character was not like Siyuan Liangxiang or Miyajima Sakura.
Before the 'Hypnosis' web exhibition began, he was supposed to be an unknown, very unnoticeable background character. It was precisely because of this that his personality became twisted after he awakened the power of 'Hypnosis'.
Matsubara and Anshi were not the 'school-wide popular' type; they didn't know many people.
So Hayato decided to confirm it himself.
If he remembered correctly, in the doujinshi, Tanaka Hatsumi also called Miyajima Sakura 'senpai'.
He was either a second-year or first-year student.
In any case, he would start by checking the second-year classes.
Hayato was in F Class, so he could at least confirm that Tanaka Hatsumi was not in this class.
Next was A Class...
Baiqiu High School was a high school of a certain size, with a total of eight classes, A through H, in the entire second year.
Checking all of them was not an easy task, and it would be even more troublesome during break time. During break, the number of people was inconsistent, and he would have to ask each one individually, so he simply skipped class and went to see clearly while the students were in class.
Hayato walked cautiously down the corridor.
It would be quite troublesome if he were discovered by other classrooms...
Fortunately, A Class was having a math lesson, and the teacher was shouting 'Let this be X' in a Kansai accent... He didn't notice Hayato peering through the window.
However, some students in the class did notice him, looking at the truant peer with surprise.
But Hayato was thick-skinned and paid no attention to others' gazes.
He just muttered to himself, "Not here..."
Then he left.
"B Class is where Shigen Ryouka is," he murmured to himself, "I can just ask her about this..."
Hayato was about to skip B Class and head straight for C Class when he noticed that B Class was unusually quiet.
There was absolutely no one in the classroom.
It was empty.
"Huh..." Hayato glanced at the 'Timetable' on the blackboard.
It said that this period was 'Physical Education'.
"Seriously, the PE teacher isn't sick..." Hayato complained, then noticed that next to the schedule, there was also something like a 'Weekly Duty Roster'.
He pushed the door open and walked in, checking the names on it.
Siyuan Liangxiang was quite high up.
Looking all the way down, he didn't find the name Tanaka Hatsumi.
It seemed he wasn't here either.
What a shame... If he were here, he would have liked to use the PE class time to lure Mr. Hayashi out to the playground and directly punch him in the face with his right hand to see what the result would be.
The 'Fantasy Killer' ability can erase all non-natural abilities, such as superpowers or magic... 'Hypnosis' is a type of 'mind control', so 'Fantasy Killer' should be effective against him.
Hayato idly walked to the window and looked out at the soccer field.
B Class had quite a lot of PE classes; they had one yesterday...
However, today Siyuan Liangxiang didn't immediately spot Hayato; instead, she was chatting and laughing with a girl next to her.
The girl was also a well-featured young woman with neat, short hair tucked behind her ears. Judging by the bulge of her gym uniform, her figure might have been even more striking than Siyuan Liangxiang's.
The short-haired girl, who had the appearance of an ice beauty, was actually quite talkative. After a few words with Siyuan Liangxiang, the two burst into peals of laughter.
But before they finished laughing, the short-haired girl looked elsewhere.
It turned out that a very muscular man was standing at the entrance of the sports storage room in the distance, waving at the girl.
He seemed to be the PE teacher, asking the girl to help him get something from the storage room.
The girl stopped smiling and waved at Siyuan Liangxiang.
Hayato scratched his head. Strange... Carrying equipment should be a boy's job, so why would that PE teacher ask a girl to do it?
And that girl's appearance looked a bit familiar...
Hayato was still thinking.
The PE teacher at the storage room door shouted impatiently, his voice so loud that even Hayato in the teaching building could hear him clearly.
"Hurry up! Nanao!!"
Nanao!?
Hayato quickly ran to the 'Weekly Duty Roster' and read it carefully again. He had only noticed that the name 'Tanaka Hatsumi' wasn't there, but he had overlooked one of the names...
Nanao Akane.
The female lead in the NTR doujinshi "The Corrupted Baseball Club Manager."
What the heck.
What kind of twisted world is this?!
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