Chapter 24 Chapter 24 Strange Classmate
When it comes to summer, many people's first reaction is sunshine, beaches and bikinis.
For students, summer is synonymous with the annual July swimming competition. To help students prepare for the competition, Hyotei Academy has recently switched all physical education classes to swimming.
Saionji Tamon sat by the pool in the corner, her feet in the water, enjoying the refreshing summer air. Unlike most of her classmates, she didn't swim in the pool, but occasionally paddled the surface with her hands and feet. Today, she had her hair tied up, a rare occurrence, and had swapped her goggles for swimming glasses. Even so, she still attracted quite a few male glances, as if surprised to learn that the usually unremarkable Saionji was actually quite pretty.
Her gaze fell directly on the surface of the pool not far away. From a perspective invisible to ordinary people, a small figure dressed in light green and as short as a child was playing freely in the swimming pool.
This is the most common aquatic monster in the island country - Kappa.
In order to ensure the safety of teachers and students in the school, Yuyin had previously searched the entire campus carefully, but found nothing except a kappa. This kappa was obviously a later arrival, and probably couldn't move after seeing the water in the swimming pool, so it stayed to play.
However, Yuyin can also understand that since humans developed cities, the habitats of many wild monsters have been continuously invaded and shrunk, not to mention big cities like Tokyo. The symbiosis between monsters and humans is a very common phenomenon.
Yuyin splashed the water and carefully observed the little kappa to make sure it had no evil spirit that could hurt people, then she let it play there.
"Ah, Atobe-sama is so handsome!"
"Yeah, that's right~"
"We are so lucky to be in the same class with Master Atobe."
The girls next to her were not as quiet as Yuyin. They huddled together and laughed, their eyes involuntarily looking in the same direction.
Yuyin knew what the situation was over there without even looking.
The parasols and the tables and chairs with fruit juice drinks on them were all brought in by the servants of the Atobe family before class. Atobe Keigo, wrapped in a bath towel, sat comfortably on the chair, as if this was not the school swimming pool, but a villa owned by the Atobe family.
Considering the proportion of the Atobe family in the Hyotei board of directors, Yuyin felt that this was not wrong.
"Wow~ It's Asami-san~"
"She swims so fast and so gracefully, like a mermaid!"
On the other hand, the boys were discussing the girls in the class. Hyotei did not restrict the style of swimsuits that students wore in swimming classes. Compared with the boys' uniform swimming trunks, the girls' swimsuits could be said to be diverse, youthful and beautiful, each with its own characteristics, which was eye-catching.
Yuyin looked at the swimming pool. The person the boys had just discussed, Asami Saya, swam to the middle of the pool using the butterfly stroke. Just as the boys said, her posture of stretching in the water was graceful and natural, as free as a fish, and her speed was very fast.
"Hey, why doesn't Asami-san join the swimming club? I don't think she's been seen in the club."
The topic of the discussion about Asami Saya nearby turned to another topic.
"Asami is in the photography club... I remember that after she won the first place in the school swimming competition in her first year, the president of the swimming club personally came to her house and asked her to join, but she refused."
"Why? I feel like Asami-san can swim faster than the athletes on TV. If he were to compete in the Olympics, he might win a gold medal!"
"It seems her health doesn't allow it. I was in her class in first grade, and because the swimming club kept coming to her house, it was so annoying that Asami had to produce a certificate from the hospital saying she couldn't swim for long periods of time. You know, swimming in physical education class is only a few minutes, while the swimming club has to train in the water for long periods every day. After learning about this, the swimming club had to regretfully give up."
"What a shame, he's so talented."
Tamane turned her attention back to Asami Saya. Judging from her appearance, she didn't look like she had any health problems, and there was no sign of illness around her. However, there were all kinds of strange diseases in modern society. Tamane didn't suspect that she was deliberately lying to avoid the invitation from the swimming club, because Asami's obviously happy expression in the water could not deceive anyone.
"Come on, Saya! Swim to the finish line in one breath, you're the best!"
"Iori Iori, come on! You can definitely surpass her!"
Well, it wasn't just the boys watching her. Two other groups of girls were cheering her on, arguing over who was faster, Asami Saya or Amamiya Iori. They were both good friends, and when Asami and Amamiya both entered the water, they couldn't help but try to outdo each other.
Tamane knew this Amamiya Iori, a member of the swimming club. She was said to be a great player with national-level swimming skills. Presumably because of this, she was often compared with Asami Saya, who did not join the club. It was natural that her friends would feel unfair about this.
Professionals have always been prohibited from participating in school swimming competitions, that is, members of the swimming club or people who are not in the swimming club but have participated in national-level or above competitions that year are prohibited from participating. Amamiya Iori was in a different class from Asami Saya before, and this seems to be the first time that the two have been in the swimming pool at the same time since they started studying at Hyotei.
Although there was no referee to blow the whistle to start, the two people who entered the water at the same time and began to exert their strength were like a competition without the supervision of a referee. The other students who entered the water also made way for the middle of the pool to give the two of them ample space to compete. Yuyin thought about it and thought that Atobe had been sitting on the sidelines for a long time without entering the water. Maybe he was giving up the competition space.
The two of them should have swum one round trip according to the most common race length. Now it was Saya Asami who touched the wall first and turned around to swim back.
And Amamiya Iori is worthy of being the captain of the swimming club. Although she is slightly behind, she has no intention of giving up. She is very close to Asami. As long as Asami relaxes, she will immediately overtake him.
If nothing unexpected happens, Asami will probably win?
Yuyin looked at it and made a nonchalant judgment.
However, the accident came so unexpectedly.
When Asami was about to reach the finish line, her body suddenly stopped and stagnated for a second or two, as if she was avoiding something. And in these one or two seconds, Amemiya took the opportunity to overtake her in one go and swam to the finish line first.
Yuyin blinked and looked at the kappa that had just crossed Asami's track, as if she understood something.
"Yeah! Iori Iori, I knew you were the best!"
Amemiya's friends cheered, made faces at Asami's friends, and mocked them for bragging if they didn't have the power. What's the point of getting first place in the school competition? Their Iori is a national-level player. The atmosphere was so tense that it seemed as if the two sides were about to fight in the next second.
At this time, Atobe Keigo put down his finished juice and stood up. He threw the towel into the air and snapped his fingers: "Immerse yourself in my magnificent swimming skills~"
"Ah——!" "Atobe-sama!"
Suddenly, screams rang out one after another on the field.
As soon as Atobe made a move, not only the girls who had been watching him on the sidelines, but even the two groups of girls who were full of hostility immediately put aside their grudges, looked towards Atobe, and shouted excitedly.
Yuyin had only one thought at this moment: Well, sometimes male beauty has the charm to bring peace to the world instantly.
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Yuyin came out of the shower and stood in front of the mirror in the dressing room to blow dry her hair. She had only been in the water for a short while, but her hair was still wet, so she just took a shower.
"Saya, are you okay?"
Just when she thought her hair was almost dry, Yuyin heard someone shouting outside the shower room, "It's okay to lose to that Amamiya. She practices so long every day, and she still has the nerve to compete with you, who doesn't often go in the water, for these honors."
Yuyin immediately recognized that this was Juri Onoue, the loudest voice in support of Saya Asami among the group of people who had just argued.
She couldn't help but think, it's a good thing that most of the class members have left, especially Amamiya Iori and her friends are not here, otherwise wouldn't there be another quarrel?
"Um, Juri, I'm fine," Asami's voice came from the shower cubicle, a little muffled. "You should go first. Didn't you say you were going to grab that limited-edition dessert today?"
"Okay then, I'll go grab the cake first. You think about it carefully and don't take it too seriously." Onoue Juri thought his friend wanted to be alone, so he gave him a few worried instructions before reluctantly leaving.
After a while, Yuyin was tidying up things. The whole cloakroom was quiet when she heard the sound of a door opening with a click.
Asami Saya stuck her head out, looked left and right, and made sure that no one was there before pushing open the door and walking out.
She had already changed into her full school uniform, wearing a long-sleeved jacket on her upper body, and an extra dry bath towel wrapped around her lower body outside of her short skirt, covering most of her legs.
"When will it recover? It was obvious that nothing would happen if I swam for such a short time before..." She couldn't help but sigh.
However, because her vision was blocked, she did not see that there was someone on the other side of the wall.
So when Yuyin came out with a bag of clothes, Asami Saya took a step back in fear: "Who?!"
She squinted her eyes and looked at him for a few times, and finally recognized that it was her classmate Saionji Tamon.
"What...it's Saionji-san." Asami Saya patted her chest and breathed a sigh of relief.
Seeing the other person's eyes fall on her... lower body, Asami Saya took a step back and said embarrassedly: "Ha, ha, how embarrassing, I just finished taking a shower and found that I had my period. My school skirt accidentally got dirty, so I had to cover it like this..."
This kind of words are more than enough to fool ordinary students.
The problem is that Yuyin had been in the cubicle just now. If Asami was using a bath towel to cover her period, she could have asked her friend Onoue Juri to help bring clean clothes and sanitary napkins.
The second is——
Yuyin's gaze fell on the part of Asami Saya that was not completely blocked. Several colorful scales sparkled under the light. Her eyes moved upwards and she saw a gem hanging around Asami Saya's neck. If she remembered correctly, she had also worn this when she was swimming just now.
So that's how it is, he is the descendant of a monster... The bloodline has been passed down for at least two generations, the monster aura is very faint, and he wears a gem that can cover up the monster aura. No wonder she didn't notice it before.
But he was still too careless. The hybrid son of a monster and a human had abnormalities on his body that could be seen by others.
"Asami-san," Yuyin couldn't bear to let her go out in this state, so she pointed at the scales on her thighs and reminded her, "Your scales are showing."
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The author has something to say: When I wrote this sentence, it suddenly occurred to me that this is like saying to a vixen, "You haven't hidden your tail well" =V=
Dingdang~ You can guess which of the four studios Asami will go to.
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