With some sort of “normalcy” returning to his life, which for Yuuji simply meant that no missions came to the group chat or various problems happening in his friends’ worlds, Yuuji enjoyed his time with his family and friends, and also enjoyed his high school life.

  Spending his time in school with his friends was a nice ge of pace after living a double life as a terrorist in Lelouch’s world. And after school, he’d either tutor the quintuplet or participate in the Basketball Club’s activities.

  Though… After just one club session, it was already clear to everyohat there wasn’t a need for him to gh their training or any of their drills.

  With Yuuji’s physical prowess, he wasn't eveing when the rest of the club members were ying down on the ground in their own pool of sweat.

  And with his learning speed, he had already far surpassed the skill of the captain and ace of the basketball club.

  Even when going against a whole team in a match meant to try and measure how absurd he truly was, the result shocked even onlookers frozen…

  No one was able to stop him from sg. And… no one was able to scainst him.

  And from then on, Yuuji was tasked to help the others improve and practice teamwork instead.

  Days passed by in a breeze, and the st day of school was finally about to end.

  The school bell rang, and Shuu immediately turo Yuuji the moment the teacher exited the room.

  “Yuuji! It’s time for your match, right?”

  “Hm? Ah, yes it is.”

  “Alright~! Then what are we waiting for~?”

  “...You’re ing?”

  “Of course I am!!! Raku, Ai, you’re ing tht?”

  Shuu turowards the tere busy ing up their desks and putting their books and stationeries into their bags.

  “Yes, I’d like to watch.”

  “Me too. Will that be okay, Yuuji?”

  Yuuji nodded with a smile.

  “Of course. Let’s go together.”

  As they were about to exit the css, Viktoriya, Chitoge, and Yotsuba quickly came up to join them.

  Then, Yuna and Nina also came from their css, and the group made their way to the gym where the friendly basketball match between their highschool and Kaijo would be held.

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  Upon arriving at their destination, the Kaijo Basketball club members alighted from their bus.

  One of the first people to alight was a rotund, middle-aged man with roughly shaved beard akeuchi Genta that is their coach, and a young, young man with short, spiky hair and a pair of sharp stern eyes named Kasamatsu Yukio that is their captain, made their way to the gym building of Bonyari High School.

  And following them, a group of tall highschool boys, dressed in track jackets and pants with their school color, blue and white, alighted from the bus and followed after the two.

  With their coach, a total of 10 people were present, with 5 being the core and starting members of their team, and the other four being substitutes.

  All ten seemed retively calm as they made their way rexedly to the building.

  The Bonyari High School basketball team was… never oo be in the news within the high school basketball world in Japan, to put it lightly. They had ood out amongst the high school basketball teams; simply average.

  Oher hand, Kaijo’s basketball team was a retively famous powerhouse, especially with one of the extremely famous geion of miracles joining their team at the start of this school year.

  sidering the disparity between their respective strengths, there shouldn’t have been a spar betweewo high schools.

  inally, Coach Takeuchi wae a spar with one of the more established high school basketball teams within the provio measure the skill level of the new first-year students in their ranks. However, most were unavaible, leading him to one of the st options, which was Bonyari High School.

  He didn’t expect much, and had already pnned on simply moving the date to a month ter. After all, he doubted Bonyari high school’s basketball team would accept an invitation to a spa where they would, most likely, be decimated.

  But to his surprise… they accepted. Which led to this situation.

  He turned his head slightly and g his students. They all seemed rexed and… bored. Perhaps aside from the captain, the hot-blooded Mitsuhiro, or the quiet Kobori who were the most serious members of the team, they were all quite id back.

  The first year students seemed slightly nervous, but he could see that they seemed to be more nervous about making sure they would perform their best rather than their oppos.

  And the most rexed of them all… was the golden-haired geion of miracle members, Kise Ryota, who ying with his phone and yawning from time to time.

  At first, Kise was quite excited to py in a game against another school so soon after entering high school. But after hearing about the oppo, he defted quite quickly. In fact, he wao skip this sparring matd go have a modeling shoot or something instead. But, he was forced to join by his coad had no choice but to go.

  So… he could only hope the match would end faster so he could just go home a for the weekend.

  They sloroached the gym building, and as they got near it, they could hear sounds and voices ing from within it.

  It… sounded like people. But not just a few… many. It was strange.

  They soon arrived at the gym building, and the moment they opehe door, all of them wideheir eyes in shock.

  “What the…”

  The gym building they thought would be empty of people aside from Bonyari High School’s basketball team… was instead packed.

  The outer sides of the basketball court. The stands on the sed floor of the building. They were all filled with students.

  They did not expect this small sparring match, which they believed they could easily, to have so many people watg… Was Bonyari High School’s basketball team that popur?

  Moriyama Yoshitaka, one of the third year students currently still ieam and a shooting guard, couldn’t help but look at the crowd in shock, just like the rest of his team.

  But sooiced something that made his eyes lit up ahusiasm returned.

  “Ooohh! Oi, Kise! Look at that! There’s so maiful girls! Ooooh, there are alsies too! I didn’t know there’s this maies in Bonyari! If I knew, I would’ve asked for a spar match here long ago!!!”

  He slung his arm around the blonde-haired former member of the Geion of Miracles and forced him to look at the dire he poi.

  And Kise’s eyes widened in shock as well.

  “… I didn’t expect it either…”

  As a ph sodel, Kise had met and worked with plenty of beautiful female models in his career.

  But… he could truthfully say, most of them wouldn’t even hold a dle to the beauties he saw gathered oands above.

  The mature, sisterly beauty with bck hair and bck headband would’ve been enough to put him in awe… But now, there were alsies, twiies, and even five beautiful girls who looked simir to each other, all gathered in one pce.

  How could he never have heard of such beautiful girls…?

  Kise looked around… and although there weren’t more beauties on their level, he could still find a few beauties that would be extremely popur in their school.

  The rest of the first year students, who heard Moriyama and began looking around, also became even more enthusiastic to show off their skills. Now, they didn’t want to only impress their coach, but also the beauties. Perhaps if they’re lucky, they could get one of them to be their girlfriends!

  “O-Oi, I-I didn’t expect I’ll be pying in front of girls that beautiful!”

  “Alright! I’ll do my best for this!!!”

  “Hey hey, do you think I get one of them as my girl?”

  “I call dibs on that sexy senpai!”

  “I’ll go for the twins!!!”

  “Hehe, then I’ll take that blonde girl with a bombshell of a body!”

  Being so near, although they were “whispering” to each other, Kise could still hear them clearly, and he couldn’t help sched his face at their words…

  ‘Seriously… this is why you guys are still siop being disgusting…’

  He shook his head. But then, his body jolted from a sudden shock to the stomabsp;

  “Gufuu!”

  “Oi, Kise…”

  He held his stomach where his captain had elbowed him, which although didn’t hurt, still shocked him quite a bit.

  “W-What is it…?”

  “There… Do you see him? Have you ever seen that handsome kid there?”

  “Huh…?”

  Kise turowards where the dire his captain ointing at.

  His finger poi a certain figure in the midst of a group of people in skyblue and white colored basketball uniform, which he assumed to be Bonyari High school’s basketball team, and saer handsome man with an otherworldly radiance around him.

  Kise had seey of handsome men before. Models, artists, singers… Many had beautiful appearances, but few had charisma that attracted people, which ultimately separates the average, and the successful models and artists.

  But that guy… He had both an unmatched appearand charisma…

  Even when he was in the midst of a crowd, all his attention simply went to him as if there were no one else there with him. His presence overshadowed the rest, just like the sun.

  “N-No… I’ve never seen him…”

  With his face alone, he could easily bee a top model all major panies, not only fashion, would fight tooth and nail for. Sparing none of their budget to hire him as their model and ambassador. And his clearly muscur physique and tall stature could also easily make him the poster child to any sport-reted brand in the world.

  Adding to it his charisma… How could such a person not be known to the world?

  ‘What a waste of a face…!’

  If he bees a model, he could instantly make it big!!!

  Kise couldn’t help but ch his fist in frustration and disappoi as he tio stare and gre at the stupidly handsome guy.

  And then to his shock, he actually turowards him a his gaze.

  He tilted his head fusedly, befiving a nod in a greeting.

  Kise panicked and flustered for a moment. And before he could nod ba greeting, a tall, rge-built, muscur man in the sky blue and white basketball uniform approached them.

  “Ah, good afternoon! You must be Coach Takeuchi. It is a pleasure to meet you. I am the captain of Bonyari’s High School Basketball team, Yanagi Kenjiro.”

  Coach Takeuodded with a small smile, which was already sidered courteous for a man of few expressions such as himself, and took the rge, young man’s hand in a handshake.

  “A pleasure. Thank you for the wele. Though, I seem to not see Coach Haguchi…”

  “Unfortunately, Coach Haguchi had fallen ill retly and couldn’t make it for this match. He had left this matter to me. I hope you won’t mind.”

  “I uand. I hope he recovers quickly.”

  Coach Takeuchi simply nodded his head uandingly.

  “Thank you. Please, e this way. We’ve prepared a locker room for you to use.”

  “Thank you.”

  Yanagi led the members of Kaijo’s basketball team to the locker room to get ge. And as they followed after him, Kise still had his eyes locked oupidly handsome dude until he could no longer see him.

  They all got ged, and Yanagi was once agaio lead them back to their benbsp;

  “Well then, I suppose we start the match after a brief warm up?”

  Yanagi asked Coach Takeuchi.

  “Sure.”

  “Very well. Then, we shall begi 20 minutes. Please feel free to use your side of the court to warm up.”

  “Thank you.”

  Yanagi bowed courteously to Takeuchi before leaving them to their own devices, and as he did, Takeuchi turowards his team.

  “Alright. You guys go ahead and warm up. And remember, although this is a sparring match, I’ll be watg and all of you closely. Don’t be distracted.”

  Takeuchi emphasized his words with a gre, and especially emphasized his st three words and directed his gaze towards the first years, who he clearly heard wao use this ce to pick up girls.

  And his gre was tremendously effective, as the first years all tensed up and stood stiff like a rod.

  ““Y-Yes!!!””

  “Good… And one more thing.”

  Takeuchi shifted his gaze towards Kasamatsu, the third-year team captain of the team.

  “Kasamatsu… Be careful of that guy. Keep a close eye on him.”

  “That guy…?”

  “The stupidly handsome one.”

  “Oh…”

  They all turo look at the only guy who would be appropriate for that term. After all, if he wasn’t the handsome ohen no one is.

  “Is he a prodigy we’ve never heard of?”

  “...No. I know nothing about him as well. I’ve never heard of Bonyari having a pyer like him. But… My gut feeling tells me to be careful of him.”

  “...I uand. We’ll keep a close eye on him.”

  Takeuodded and crossed his arms.

  “Good. Now go and warm up.”

  Kasamatsu, Kise, and the others all began to stretd head to their half of the court to begin doing yup and shooting drills.

  And as they did, they soon heard the cheering and shrieking of girls from all around them, and looked to the other side of the field.

  There… as if they were looking at a promotional video of a high school drama show revolving around basketball, they saw the handsome guy their coach told them to be careful of, shooting a basketball with perfe in mid-air.

  The ball traveled through the air in a beautiful arc as time seemed to slow down, and when it reached the ring, it hit nothing but .

  It was… mesmerizing to watbsp;

  His form… was the ideal form they would imagine in their heads when shooting. It was the form they’re trying to replicate in real life.

  And the moment it went into the ring, they were violently snapped out of their daze from the deafening cheers and shrieks of female students in the crowd.

  “...Hey, Yukio. Did you see that…?”

  Koji slowly walked up to his close friend and captain, and asked. Their eyes still not leaving the figure that made that mesmerizing shot.

  “Yeah… I did…”

  “... I have never seen someone shoot so perfectly. He’s eveer than that shooting guard from the Geion of Miracles”

  Kasamatsu ched his hands into fists a out a deep sigh.

  “... Guess the coach’s guts were right. We o keep a close eye on him.”

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