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◎I've fallen in love with Xiaohui-chan◎

"Students attacking students—this is a scene that even teachers find shocking."

Gojo Satoru chuckled lightly: "If there aren't any kind and responsible teachers who think to care about students on their first mission, will what follows be 18+ content that can't be broadcast?"

He lifted Yuuki Matsuna even higher, bringing her face close, and said, "Yuuki-kun, I told you to watch how Inu-maki uses spells properly, not to watch like this."

He shifted his gaze to Inujuu Thorn, whose face was already flushed, and curled his lips into a smile: "Yuki, Inujuu's face is all red because of you. How are you going to take responsibility for that?"

The two of them then realized what was happening.

Yuuki Matsuna's rationality was fully restored by Gojo Satoru. She glared at him and immediately retorted, "Teacher, what are you saying? I didn't do anything that was rated 18+!"

"Is it because you've been reading too many OO comics that you think that way? Are you already that old?"

She frowned, thought about it seriously for a moment, and then said, "In that case, I'll have to reconsider my decision to have the teacher be my first wife."

Gojo Satoru pinched Yuuki Matsuna's cheeks, deliberately using force, and said with a sneer, "Although your teacher isn't as young as you, he's not at that level yet either, Yuuki. At least you should show your teacher some respect, right?"

Yuki Matsuna wanted to retort again, but Gojo Satoru had already grabbed her by the collar and shoved her into the car.

Dog Curl also snapped out of his daze. He zipped up his collar, buried half his face in his clothes again, lowered his eyes, and got into the car, looking exactly the same as when he came here before.

But his ears were burning.

"How was your first mission?" Gojo Satoru asked the two people in the back seat casually from the passenger seat, half-jokingly adding, "Yuki, you can't tell the teacher that Inu-maki's mouth is pretty."

Yuki Matsuna swallowed back the words she was about to say.

"...I don't feel like I'm really involved?" Through the rearview mirror of the car in front, Yuuki Matsuna cautiously looked at Gojo Satoru. "Hmm...it's all Inu-maki-senpai who's dealing with the cursed spirits. I don't think I've done anything."

Her eyes lit up, and she said excitedly, "But Senior Dog Roll is amazing! It's so cool that he can easily defeat the cursed spirit with just one sentence!"

Dog Curly coughed and buried his head even deeper.

*

"Alright, let me introduce you. This is the super cute and rich young lady—Yuuki."

Gojo Satoru turned around and leaned towards the side where the black-haired man was, saying in a cheerful voice, "And this is your only classmate whom you've never met before—Megumi-chan."

Fushiguro Megumi rubbed her furrowed brows, sighed, and said, "What is Megumi-chan? If you really want to introduce her, then introduce her properly."

He looked up at the blonde girl who had been standing frozen in place since he opened the door and saw him, hesitated for a moment, and tentatively greeted her, "...Hello?"

Yuki Matsuna blinked.

Today is the day she meets the only person she's meeting at the same time, and Yuuki Matsuna is very curious about what kind of person that person will be.

On her way to her first-year class, Yuuki Matsuna thought that if possible, she hoped her deskmate would be a handsome guy, so that maybe she could develop a romance like in "Teasing Master OO".

The idea of ​​a romance between classmates sounds like a classic trope in shoujo manga, which is incredibly heartwarming.

But what if the other person isn't handsome?

This thought made Matsuna Yuuki frown; she had already reached the classroom door.

She decided to put the idea aside for the time being and think about it again when she saw the only person from her generation who looked like her.

She opened the classroom door, and two people, one in black and one in white, looked at her at the same time.

Hmm... the one in white is Ms. Gojo, and the one in black is her male classmate?

She shifted her gaze from Gojo Satoru to the black-haired, blue-eyed boy who exuded a cool and aloof aura.

Fortunately, the appearance of her male classmates did not disappoint Yuuki Matsuna.

She no longer needs to worry about what to do if her male classmates aren't handsome.

What is this, a sense of aloofness?

Yuuki Matsuna swallowed hard. The moment her eyes met the boy's, she suddenly remembered the character Uchiha OO from the shonen anime "OO Ninja" that her mother had shown her when she was a child.

But she remembered this character not because the boy looked like Uchiha OO, but because of the "cool and aloof feeling" they both possessed.

Can people with an aloof and cold demeanor really exist in the real world? Did she accidentally wander into some comic book world, or is the other person actually a character who stepped out of a comic book world?

The sense of alienation as if he is carrying something on his shoulders, and the aloofness that keeps everyone at arm's length and is indifferent to the world—isn't this the essential quality of the second male lead in a shonen manga anime?

"...Hello?" The boy called "Megumi-chan" took the initiative to greet Yuuki Matsuna. He frowned, as if he was annoyed by Gojo Satoru's words, or as if he was puzzled by Yuuki Matsuna's lack of response.

Yuki Matsuna took a deep breath.

She pressed her hand against her pounding heart on her left chest and said to the little deer inside, "Stop pounding! If you keep pounding, I'm going to die!" The little deer nodded as if it understood.

She had just begun to feel at ease when the fawn suddenly crashed into the wall formed by her heart, causing her heart to beat even faster.

Without a doubt, Yuuki Matsuna has fallen in love.

Realizing this, Yuuki Matsuna walked straight towards Fushiguro Megumi. She stood in front of the boy, who didn't understand what was going on. When she walked up to him, he seemed to want to say something, but she directly grabbed his hands.

She raised her eyes, her gaze filled with love as she looked at Fushiguro Megumi. She had entered a space called "love," with only Fushiguro Megumi in her eyes, oblivious to her own world with him.

"Megumi-chan." She called out the name that Gojo Satoru had just mentioned, saying, "Your name is really special, just like you. This is the first time I've ever heard a name like this."

What?

Before Fushiguro Megumi could react, she heard the girl speak again.

"This is so incredibly charming, Megumi-chan is so unique." The girl looked at him with eyes full of love, as if he were her whole world, which made Fushiguro Megumi pause in surprise.

The girl added, "I've completely fallen for Megumi-chan. It's love at first sight, so romantic! It's like something out of a shoujo manga."

The girl's words struck Fushiguro Megumi's heart like a heavy blow. She paused for a moment, then spoke sincerely as if she had made up her mind.

"Excuse me, would you like to be one of my boyfriends, Huihui-chan?"

…?

"Boyfriend...one of them?" Fushiguro Megumi hesitated for two seconds before repeating the girl's last words.

He looked up, his eyes conveying his confusion as he gazed at Gojo Satoru, who was standing on the podium watching the spectacle with obvious enjoyment.

*

stare--

I stare—

Yuki Matsuna stared intently at the person in front of her, as if trying to etch the other person into her mind.

On the podium, the assistant supervisor in charge of the lecture opened his mouth upon seeing this scene, but then swallowed back what he wanted to say.

Although the Spellcasting Academy does not emphasize academic subjects, it still teaches knowledge that is useful for college entrance exams, just like regular high schools.

Yuki Matsuna already knew all this knowledge by heart.

During her junior high school years, the tutor hired by the Yuki family had already imparted this knowledge to her. With Yuki Matsuna's current knowledge base, she could even replace this assistant supervisor and stand on the podium to teach Fushiguro Megumi.

She stared directly at Fushiguro Megumi, who was staring at the blackboard without moving, only turning her profile towards her. Fushiguro Megumi's profile was also extremely perfect, and Yuuki Matsuna could never get tired of looking at her.

Fushiguro Megumi was at his wit's end. Looking at the assistant supervisor on the podium, whose face was already red from holding her breath but who was still insisting on teaching, he turned his head and asked Yuuki Matsuna in a low voice, "...What are you doing? Why are you staring at me?"

"Because I want to remember Fushiguro-kun's appearance!" Yuuki Matsuna answered without hesitation.

She blinked as if she had no idea what the word "shame" meant, and said, "Fushiguro is so cool, I can't take my eyes off him at all."

Fukuro-kun… Fukuro-kun fell silent.

"...Do you usually talk like this?" Fushiguro Megumi rubbed his hair, and Yuuki Matsuna noticed that his earlobes had turned red, for some unknown reason.

“No, that’s not true.” Yuuki Matsuna shook her head and said seriously, “I only talk like that when I see someone I like.”

"Fukuguro is the person I like." She confessed again.

Have girls become this direct these days?

Fushiguro Megumi fell into a brief moment of thought. After a few seconds, he blushed and said, "Even... even so, you can't keep staring at me like that."

"Why?" Yuuki Matsuna didn't understand. She moved closer to Fushiguro Megumi and asked, "I like Fushiguro-kun and want to keep looking at him. Isn't that a perfectly normal thing?"

"This...this is a class!" Fushiguro Megumi stammered. "Even though sorcerers don't pay much attention to academic subjects, they still have to listen to some of them, right?"

“But I know all of these.” Yuki Matsuna completely misunderstood Fushiguro Megumi’s meaning. She asked again, “Fushiguro-kun, you don’t know them? In that case, I’ll teach you.”

The discussion on auxiliary supervision couldn't continue.

He coughed twice and patted the lectern to get the attention of the two people below.

Seeing the two people below looking at him, he clicked his tongue and said irritably, "Even if academic subjects aren't that important, you should at least respect your teachers, you two wretched brats!"