(Heartfelt thanks to Youcai Luobo, Wushuang Yuxue, and Sui Feng Qi Wu for their donations!)
Ayahama Academy, High School Division, First Year Class B...
"Yawn..." Sitting at his desk, Kojo let out a listless yawn, adding considerable exhaustion to his already weary expression and making him look surprisingly weak.
There was no helping it. Even as a vampire with the exaggerated title of "the strongest in the world," vampires were still nocturnal creatures. Kojo had never been good at dealing with the daytime, and now even more so. That was why he so often wore that tired expression.
And lately, because his younger sister Nagisa had been acting and behaving strangely, worried Kojo had not gotten a good night's sleep at all. Even though he had entrusted the matter to Kotori and Yukina, he still could not fully put his mind at ease. He was utterly exhausted, yawning all day to vent the irritation and fatigue in his heart...
"I wonder how things are going with Itsuka and the others. Have they sorted out Nagisa...?" Drooping his eyelids, Kojo slammed his head onto the desk and lay there as though dead.
"Forget it. Worrying here won't do any good. I'll leave it all to Itsuka and the others..." Smacking his somewhat dry lips, Kojo pulled up the hood of his jacket and covered his forehead.
"I should catch some sleep before class starts. Otherwise, if I doze off during class, Natsuki definitely won't let me off..."
Just like that, Kojo forcibly suppressed the restless irritation constantly surging in his heart, calming it down as he closed his eyes and began to sleep.
But because of that, Kojo's hearing opened up completely. The conversations of his classmates around him entered his ears, annoying him endlessly. Just as he was about to