"Kagihara? What are you thinking about?"
Ichinose Honami's voice brought him back from his thoughts. She stretched out her hand and waved it in front of his eyes.
"Nothing."
Kazehara Tetsu came back to his senses and looked at the energetic girl in front of him.
"I was just thinking, now that Ichinose has joined Student Council, should I change my tune in the future?"
"If this is the case, if I, an idle person with no job, commit a crime in the future, can I still use the back door?"
"It's disgusting!"
Ichinose Honami glared at him angrily, his cheeks slightly red, "I'm just an ordinary member now! I don't have any power at all!"
"And if Kagihara really committed something..."
Her eyes suddenly became cunning, like Little Fox, "As a friend, I will catch you personally and 'educate' you!"
"That's really scary."
"Okay, if you keep standing on the shore chatting, wouldn't this swimsuit be worn in vain?"
Ichinose Honami looked down at his carefully selected swimsuit.
Kazehara Tetsu's eyes followed her movements and stayed for a moment on her stretched waist and plumpness.
"Indeed."
He nodded, "Now that we're here, it would be a pity not to get into the water."
The two of them walked near the starting platform of the standard Swimming Pool.
Ichinose Honami first sat by the pool and stretched out his toes to test it out.
"Hmm... it's very cool!"
She turned around and smiled at Kazehara Tetsu, "Kagihara, do you want to compare?"
"Compared to what?"
"That..."
She pointed to the other end of Swimming Pool, "Fifty meters, let's see who reaches the other side first."
Kazehara Tetsu raised his eyebrows, this was a bit unexpected.
"Are you sure?"
"Although I am not particularly confident in my swimming skills, the basic gap in physical fitness between men and women exists objectively. Ichinose, are you planning to make me bear the reputation of 'bullying girls'?"
"Haha, Kagihara looks down on people."
Ichinose Honami was not dissuaded by these words, but seemed to be inspired to fight.
She held onto the escalator by the pool and slid into the water.
"Even though I don't look very strong, I usually exercise well."
"Since you said so..."
Kazehara Tetsu No more shirk.
He also jumped into the water.
"Then let me play with you. But I have agreed in advance that there will be no consolation prize for the loser."
"Then it depends on whether Kagihara can beat me."
The two came to the starting line of the swimming lane.
"Prepare..."
Ichinose Honami took a deep breath and his expression instantly became serious.
"Start!"
Following her command, two water splashes exploded at the same time.
Ichinose Honami uses a standard freestyle style.
Her movements are extremely smooth.
As she said, she's not slow.
Kazehara Tetsu swam in the lane next to her.
He didn't burst out at full strength from the beginning.
With the top-notch Physical Fitness, even if you are just a little serious, it is not difficult to get rid of Ichinose in this short distance of fifty meters.
But he didn't do that.
He adjusted his rhythm in the water and always maintained half a body length ahead of Ichinose Honami.
It didn't make her feel a desperate gap, but it always gave her the illusion that "if she just works harder, she can catch up."
He looked underwater at the figure paddling hard in the lane next to him.
The lines of shoulders and back that tighten with movement, the back that rises and falls with breathing, and the white thighs that look particularly dazzling in the water...
This is much more interesting than simple racing.
The last five meters.
Ichinose Honami obviously started to sprint, her frequency increased and the water splashed higher.
Kazehara Tetsu also "speeds up" the frequency a little bit at the right time.
"Wow!"
Both hands touched the pool wall almost at the same time.
"Huh... huh..."
Ichinose Honami suddenly emerged from the water, panting heavily, his face covered with water drops, and a few strands of wet hair stuck to his cheeks.
She didn't bother with the water on her face for the first time, but turned to look at Kazehara Tetsu next to her.
"Ha... ha... how about it?"
"Almost... at the same time?"
"It looks like it's really a draw."
He glanced at the position where the two hit the wall and said with a smile, "Ichinose is really not exaggerating. This speed... is definitely the best among girls."
"... Liar."
Ichinose Honami was not happy because of this compliment. Instead, he puffed up his cheeks slightly and stared at him with some dissatisfaction.
"Kagihara... You definitely let it go just now, right?"
"How come."
Kazehara Tetsu looked serious, "I tried my best to swim."
"Stop coming!"
Ichinose Honami reached out and patted the water, causing a few drops of water to fall on Kazehara Tetsu's face.
"I can feel it... there were several times in the middle when you could obviously speed up to get rid of me, but you deliberately slowed down... which kept my appetite going."
"Is this what Kagihara calls 'Gentleman's Demeanor'? Or... do you think it's too easy to win against a girl?"
"Has it been seen through?"
Kazehara Tetsu no longer pretends to be stupid. Now that he has been discovered, let's put it another way.
"But to say it's the so-called Gentleman's Demeanor, it's not entirely true."
He pushed back his wet hair, exposing his face.
"The main reason is that Ichinose is swimming too fast."
"If I don't control it a little, it's not to let you, but to... not miss the scenery next to me."
"Landscape?"
Ichinose Honami was stunned for a moment and looked around subconsciously, "Besides the tiles and water, there is no scenery here..."
Halfway through her words, she suddenly came to her senses.
In this empty swimming lane, apart from water, there was only her swimming.
The so-called "landscape" doesn't mean...
"You..."
Ichinose Honami's cheeks were instantly stained with a blush that was even more obvious than after the exercise just now.
"Kagihara... It's really..."
She was a little embarrassed and wanted to say something to refute, or scold him for such "frivolous" words.
But looking at Kazehara Tetsu's smiling eyes, she found that she didn't feel much disgust in her heart, but instead felt a... subtle joy after being praised.
"Really..."
In the end, she could only murmur in a low voice and looked away from him.
However, her body quietly sank into the water, exposing only the parts above her shoulders, trying to hide her shyness at the moment.
Kazehara Tetsu looked at the red tips of her ears and her evasive eyes.
"Sorry, the joke went too far."
As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly leaned forward slightly and got closer.
The distance between the two was extremely close, so close that you could clearly smell the faint fragrance of Body Wash in her hair.
"However, what I just said is the truth."
Ichinose Honami's body froze instantly, and even his breathing relaxed subconsciously.