The next day.
Having returned to campus life, Tsushima Kagami was currently sitting in a corner of the school grounds, eating his bento.
After struggling to swallow the last piece of cloyingly sweet Atsuyaki Tamago that Yukinoshita Shizuku had prepared early that morning along with white rice, he hurriedly picked up his water bottle, filled with miso soup he didn't actually like, and downed it in one gulp.
Although Tsushima Kagami knew how to cook, he was simply too lazy. Unwilling to eat leftovers and unable to wake up early enough to prepare a bento, he could only gratefully finish every last bite of the meal Yukinoshita Shizuku had prepared.
Just as Tsushima Kagami picked up his lunch box and prepared to leave, he saw a girl squatting in a nearby corner. She held a cigarette in one hand, playing with a lighter in the other, puffing out clouds of smoke.
Sensing that someone seemed to be watching her, the girl's eyes met Tsushima Kagami's.
Tsushima Kagami immediately averted his gaze and prepared to leave directly.
"Hey! You over there!"
Tsushima Kagami looked at the girl again, then pointed at himself.
The girl nodded repeatedly, then beckoned with her hand. "Yes, you. Come here!"
Tsushima Kagami walked straightforwardly in the girl's direction, but stopped when he was not far from her, frowning and refusing to go any closer.
"Is something the matter?"
The girl was stunned seeing Tsushima Kagami suddenly stop and maintain a specific distance from her.
"Are you looking down on me?"
"No, I'm not."
"Then why are you standing so far away when I asked you to come over?"
"Because it stinks."
After speaking, Tsushima Kagami even pinched his nose.
The girl was stunned again, then sniffed herself with a puzzled expression.
"I don't smell. I wake up early every day to shower and change clothes."
"You smoking stinks."
After saying this, Tsushima Kagami made a disgusted face and fanned the air in front of his nose.
The girl stood there, dumbfounded. The cigarette clamped in her fingers dropped to the ground.
How could he be like this?
To openly tell a girl 'you stink' in such a grandiose manner.
How impolite, how damaging to one's self-esteem.
Even as a delinquent, I have never maliciously hurt anyone like this.
And no one has ever said this to me before.
Leaving aside that my reputation among girls isn't actually bad, I know for a fact that I'm actually quite popular among the boys.
But him... why him? How could he be like this!
Tsushima Kagami watched as the girl's face in the distance seemed to turn from red to white, then to green, and finally to a flushed red again.
"How can you talk nonsense like that!"
"The smell of smoke and a stench are different!"
"Couldn't you just say you're not used to the smell of smoke? Besides, this is a ladies' cigarette; it's clearly mint scented!"
The girl's voice seemed to carry a few tremors.
"Smoking also causes yellow teeth and bad breath."
Tsushima Kagami delivered another heavy blow.
"You, you, you, you, you! Do you know who I am?"
Tsushima Kagami regretfully circled his finger against his own forehead again. "Sorry, just got to Little Japan, fresh amnesia, going dark."
Damn it, this kid is definitely messing with me.
"Koraaaaaaaa! You brat, get over here! Watch me sort you out!"
The girl pointed at Tsushima Kagami while rolling her tongue frantically.
"You come here~"
Tsushima Kagami mimicked the girl's manner, reaching out to point at her and curling his finger.
"You come here!"
"If you've got the guts, you come here. See if I don't beat you up!"
"If you've got the guts, you come over. Do you not have legs?"
The two felt that whoever walked over first would lose the battle of wills, so they remained in a stalemate.
"Found you! Hiratsuka, you stole my cigarettes from my office drawer again while Sensei went to the cafeteria!"
When Hiratsuka Shizuka saw Tsukuyomi Komoe appear, she clicked her tongue, then hurriedly walked to Tsushima Kagami's side and shoved something into his hand.
"You brat, help me settle this, and we'll pretend you offending me just now never happened!"
Hiratsuka Shizuka whispered into Tsushima Kagami's ear while watching the furiously approaching Tsukuyomi Komoe.
Tsushima Kagami looked at his hand; what had been stuffed into it turned out to be a half-smoked pack of cigarettes and a lighter.
It was only when Tsukuyomi Komoe finally arrived beside the two that she noticed Tsushima Kagami was there as well.
"Eh? Yukinoshita is here too?"
"Never mind, this has nothing to do with you."
After saying that, she looked at Hiratsuka Shizuka, who was standing aside whistling nonchalantly.
"Where are the cigarettes?"
Tsukuyomi Komoe stretched out her hand and looked up at Hiratsuka Shizuka.
"Oh my, I told you I didn't take your cigarettes."
Hiratsuka Shizuka said this while turning out her pockets.
"You smell like smoke all over, yet you say you didn't? You can't fool Sensei!"
"Oh my, maybe it's the smell left on me when Komoe-sensei smokes herself."
After saying this, Hiratsuka Shizuka put both hands behind her head, striking a Nobita pose.
"Sensei wouldn't smoke during work hours!"
"Is that so? I saw Komoe-sensei smoking while chatting with other teachers in the office this morning."
"Cough, cough..."
Tsukuyomi Komoe looked at Tsushima Kagami somewhat awkwardly.
"Did Yukinoshita-student see Hiratsuka-student smoking here just now?"
"Probably, possibly, maybe not. However, I picked this up from the ground."
As he spoke, Tsushima Kagami handed over the cigarettes and lighter.
"Yukinoshita-student, lying isn't what good children do."
"I never lie to the cute Komoe-sensei."
Steam instantly erupted from Tsukuyomi Komoe's head with a poof.
"You, you, you... how can you say such things to a teacher!"
"It won't be allowed next time, okay~"
After speaking, Tsukuyomi Komoe snatched the cigarettes and lighter Tsushima Kagami handed over and ran off until she disappeared without a trace.
"Sorry, Komoe-sensei. I merely committed the mistake that all harem protagonists commit. Please forgive me."
Watching the fleeing Tsukuyomi Komoe, Tsushima Kagami couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
"Eh, I didn't expect you to be quite good at handling that pipsqueak teacher~"
"Someone like me just can't handle her."
After Tsukuyomi Komoe left, Hiratsuka Shizuka leaned in and nudged Tsushima Kagami with her elbow.
"Not really. Actually, I feel quite guilty about it inside."
"Thanks for earlier. Otherwise, I would have been lectured by Komoe-sensei for a long time again."
"By the way, I'm Hiratsuka Shizuka. And you?"
"Yukinoshita Kagami."
"Then from now on, I'll call you Kagami, and you just call me by my name."
"I guess we can consider this 'no discord, no concord,' ahahahaha!"
Hiratsuka Shizuka laughed loudly while slapping Tsushima Kagami's back.
"Cough, cough, cough. Stop slapping, Hiratsuka-student."
"I told you to just call me by my name."
"Speaking of which, you're really frail. You grew so tall for nothing."
"If anyone bullies you at school, just declare my name, Hiratsuka Shizuka!"
"I'll cover you from now on. I guarantee you'll graduate safe and sound. Wahahahaha~"
After saying this, Hiratsuka Shizuka placed her arm around Tsushima Kagami's shoulder, then forcefully pulled him into her chest, which was beginning to show some scale.
"Th-this isn't very good, is it?"
Tsushima Kagami felt the soft sensation. Being new here, and with his moral bottom line not yet degraded enough to accept this, Tsushima Kagami tried to break free from Hiratsuka Shizuka's embrace.
As a result, Hiratsuka Shizuka squeezed even tighter.
"What's not good about it?"
"We're all f*cking bros!"
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