Chapter 79

Kita, holding her chopsticks, felt a slight stirring in her mind. She felt it was time to be honest, so she spoke.

"Ishikawa, I've already broken up with him."

"Hey!"

The other three suddenly screamed.

"What happened?" Xiaoyu asked hurriedly.

Kita somewhat embarrassed by his friends' reactions, Kita glanced at Ishikawa Hayato's empty chair.

She thought grumbling about the guy who was having lunch with Bocchi.

"His personality is just awful. He's never gentle, he doesn't understand girls' feelings, and he's mean to strangers... Honestly, he has so many flaws."

Kita's words sounded increasingly strange to the three of them, especially when he mentioned being fierce towards strangers.

The three looked at each other and immediately understood that Kita was throwing a tantrum.

They meant to comfort her, but instead ended up getting burned and feeling incredibly frustrated.

But Hui couldn't help asking anyway.

"Kita- chan, is that girl who often goes to rehearsals with you guys in the same band as you?"

Kita was startled, realizing that Megumi must have noticed something, and quickly denied it.

"This has nothing to do with Gotou-san."

"I see."

Hui's tone still carried a hint of worry, and she spoke perfunctorily, which made the other two pay more attention to her.

When it was time for the four of them to wash the lunchboxes together.

A classmate, holding a small gift, ran over to Kita with a smile when he saw Kita.

"Kita- chan, thank you so much for helping out at the last basketball game, this is a gift!"

"Thanks!"

Kita accepted it graciously.

But while she was exchanging pleasantries with that classmate...

The two girls, watching the cheerful and sunny Kita, secretly moved closer to Megumi.

Megumi knew exactly what they cared about, and after hesitating, she whispered to Kita, avoiding his presence.

"It seems like Ishikawa has been getting quite close to that Gotou lately. Someone noticed that they seem to go to the corner next to the first-floor storage room during their lunch break."

"Heartbreaker!?"

The two exclaimed in surprise in hushed tones.

Their voices drew Kita's attention back, Kita's expression froze as he watched them huddled together talking.

73. Reversal

"You undercover agents are really interesting; why do you always like to meet on the rooftop?"

Ishikawa Hayato stood beside the protective netting, gripping it tightly, his gaze distant.

It was as if the towering skyscrapers rising in the distance could not obstruct his view.

Behind him, Kita for a moment before walking over and standing beside him.

She sighed.

"Ishikawa-kun, don't you always bring me to the rooftop whenever you talk to someone?"

That's great; even if they don't understand the joke, they'll still try their best to join the conversation.

Ishikawa Hayato lowered his hand and glanced to the side. Kita was standing less than two palms' width away from him, a distance from which he couldn't see her skirt without looking down.

Kita held down her skirt and called out to him with disdain and annoyance.

"Ishikawa-kun!"

Discovering his furtive glances, Ishikawa Hayato obediently turned his head to look into the distance.

"Alright, what brings you here? This is the first time Kita has invited me to the rooftop."

I've told my friends about our breakup.

Kita straight to the point, blinking as she spoke, quickly glancing at Ishikawa Hayato's reaction.

She only saw Ishikawa Hayato pause for a moment before speaking.

"Isn't it good?"

She let out a barely perceptible sigh and gazed at the tall buildings in the distance.

"Ishikawa-kun, it seems that your interactions with Gotou-san have led them to misunderstand."

Kita suddenly realized what he was saying halfway through and quickly waved his hand to explain.

"Ah, I'm not worried about what my friend might do, but if the news gets out, I'm worried that other people might go Gotou-san..."

After she finished speaking, she glanced at Ishikawa Hayato again.

He still seemed to be in a good mood, as if he wasn't worried about Bocchi at all.

"It's alright, I've already made preparations. Besides, this is a school under my jurisdiction, Ishikawa Hayato's."

He looked at Kita and said jokingly.

Hearing Ishikawa Hayato's words, and thinking about all the outrageous things he had done at school, I realized...

Kita felt that her previous worry and nervousness made her seem like an idiot. Instantly, a huge weight on her heart was thrown away and disappeared from sight.

"I understand." She smiled, her voice becoming much lighter.

"I'll be careful, but Ishikawa-kun, if you don't protect Gotou-san, I won't forgive you."

"Of course, but speaking of which, more importantly, why did this happen?"

Ishikawa Hayato wasn't fooled. Seeing her much more relaxed expression, he asked, "Didn't you just say that scumbag was a womanizer, flirting with other women, and that I couldn't stand it anymore and broke up with him?"

"That way everyone will think it's my problem, right?"

Kita's expression froze, and his eyes widened slightly.

"Well... well, it's not good to talk badly about others behind their backs."

It was rare for Ishikawa Hayato to see Kita flustered, and he couldn't help but become curious.

"Do you think I care about that? Besides, you've probably already said bad things about me, otherwise what would be the reason for breaking up?"

Kita panicked when he saw Kita's sudden interest.

She lowered her head and looked around for a long time, feeling that it was better to tell him herself than to wait for him to ask someone else.

She muttered to herself.

"He has a bad personality, isn't gentle, doesn't understand girls, and is very fierce."

Ishikawa Hayato was stunned upon hearing this and couldn't help but exclaim.

"You're making things worse, you're more like a womanizer!"

"Ishikawa-kun, you didn't tell me, how am I supposed to know!"

Having been constantly verbally suppressed, Kita couldn't take it anymore and cried out in a spoiled manner.

But only for a moment, her momentum softened again, and she spoke to herself in a voice that no one else could hear.

"Because it's true that he's a womanizer..."

Ishikawa Hayato heard this, but pretended not to know, laughing inwardly while sighing aloud.

"Sigh, now it'll be hard to find a girlfriend."

Kita disdain.

"Isn't having Gotou-san enough?"

"You haven't forgotten the goal I set when school started, Kita you? My goal is a harem! A harem!"

"That's terrible!" Kita exclaimed angrily, then paused and asked, "How many have Ishikawa-kun already found?"

"Currently, the number of people has been broken up with is 0, and even among those who have broken up, only Kita has been broken up with."

"Liar..."

"Real."

"What about Gotou-san?"

"I haven't confessed yet."

"I see..."

Just as Kita was lost in thought, the school's preparatory bell rang.

She instinctively turned to go downstairs, but immediately snapped back to reality and turned back to Ishikawa Hayato.

"Ishikawa-kun, you should go back now."

Meanwhile, Ishikawa Hayato was still standing next to the protective netting, and he gestured for Kita to go first.

"I'll stay here a little longer to enjoy the most beautiful scenery of summer."

Kita's gaze shifted to the other side of the school, and a clear look of disdain appeared on his face.

"There are no girls in the pool right now."

Ishikawa Hayato clenched his fists and shouted defiantly.

"Men can survive on their imagination!"

Kita smiled helplessly and turned around, but at the same time, a gust of wind blew by.

The wind on the rooftop was extremely strong, causing the pleated skirt to billow wildly.

After realizing what was happening, she quickly pressed her skirt together, then froze, and turned around tremblingly.

What she saw was Ishikawa Hayato giving a thumbs-up, his smile shining.

"Couldn't you just pretend you didn't see it!?"

After she finished yelling and stomping her feet, her face flushed, and she bit her lower lip tightly with an expression of embarrassment and annoyance. Ignoring what Ishikawa Hayato said behind her, she rushed downstairs.

Next time, I absolutely must never talk to Ishikawa Hayato on the rooftop again! Absolutely!

Soon, it was time for the afternoon's much-anticipated (boys only) swimming lesson.

The swimming lessons for Class 2 and Class 3 are held together, but boys and girls are separated.

Compared to the girls' somewhat unnatural demeanor as they gathered in front of the locker room, the boys were much more composed.

They swarmed into the locker room.

Compared to the gradually rising chaos in the girls' changing room, with occasional chuckles and chatter, the atmosphere was quite different.

The boys, on the other hand, were extremely decisive and efficient.

It takes 10 seconds to completely undress, 3 seconds to put on the swim trunks, and pull them up.

Thirty seconds after everyone entered the locker room, a unified shout rang out from the men's locker room.

Smack

The sound.

That was the sound of the elastic band of the swim trunks hitting flesh after the hands were removed from the swim trunks.

Everything is ready.

"Let's go!"