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Ayahama Academy had been lively lately. Very lively...
Because of one hot topic...
Teacher-student romance!
It had to be said that amid the complicated and tedious academic life, this sort of gossip was one of the few entertainments students had at school. Especially when it involved something so sensational, it was even more popular among the students. As a result, the huge disturbance that had occurred in the middle school division that day had now become common knowledge.
At least, that was the case at Ayahama Academy...
Originally, quite a few Ayahama Academy students had not believed this "rumor." After all, gossip came every year, and there was plenty of it, but most of it was merely groundless speculation exaggerated countless times over. And teacher-student romance, honestly, was something the students found rather unlikely...
Take Natsuki as an example. She was twenty-six this year, making her one of the younger teachers at Ayahama Academy, yet even her oldest students were not yet eighteen, leaving an age gap of more than eight years!
Dating a woman eight years older than oneself—setting aside the long-lived Demon Race—were there really examples of that in real life?...
Perhaps there really were some in unknown corners of the world, but there certainly were none widely known. After all, with such a gap, men and women generally could not get along well enough to talk, much less fall in love. Of course, that was not absolute, but it was true in most cases.
And if even the teachers and students in the high school division had such a large age gap, then there was no need to mention the middle school division.
So when they first