"Phew—" With a long exhale came the huge splash of a body plunging into the pool.
"Splash—" Seeing Eijun like that, Kōshū turned around in advance. Sure enough, a massive wave drenched his back.
"Eijun, don't do that!" Haruichi, who had not noticed in time, wiped the water from his face and complained. Then he resentfully addressed the person behind him. "Lang Zhi, don't use me as a shield against splashes!"
"Sorry, I accidentally..." mistook you for my brother.
Lang Zhi had reflexively pulled Haruichi in front of him just now, but Haruichi was not as tall as Kōshū and could not block everything, so he still got soaked.
"Wah!" Like a heroine in a morning drama, Eijun suddenly dove around joyfully in the water. "This feels amazing!"
Starting today, there would be fewer upperclassmen above them, and new first-years would be arriving soon.
"We're finally going to become upperclassmen too." They had finally made it through.
Kōshū silently pulled Furuya, who was hanging onto the edge of the pool, back up. This guy had been put through hell today and had already shut down.
"It's still too early. Before the new students arrive, we have to survive Winter Training first." Lang Zhi habitually picked at Eijun.
But Kōshū answered instead. "Winter Training... Whenever this time comes around, I wish I had a time machine so I could skip the grueling training and get the results directly. Of course, that's impossible."
That surprised Haruichi a little. He rarely heard such dispirited words from Kōshū. "The upperclassmen were just talking about how painful Winter Training is too. Looking at it that way, it really is..."
The hard work was one thing, but the key was that it took up nearly all of Kōshū's winter break. The last time he had enjoyed