Swimming Class Begins

Spring had come, all things were stirring back to life, and it was once again the season when animals bred...

Perhaps that sentence perfectly captured the scene before him.

The boys who were usually perfectly normal were all huddled in the water, their eyes darting sideways every now and then.

An Xiao sat by the pool, draped in a black-and-white sun-protective jacket, and said, looking rather helpless, "It's just a swimming lesson. Is all this really necessary...?"

"An Xiao, do you not like swimming?"

An Xiao's vision darkened. Then a fragrant breeze swept over, cutting off the words he hadn't finished.

Big, white, round...

Those three words suddenly popped into An Xiao's mind. He looked up and saw Honami Ichinose gazing at him curiously.

She was bent over, and her chest, already ample, looked even more prominent beneath the pull of gravity and the outline of her swimsuit.

Maybe he could understand why the boys were acting like that...

Hastily reining in his wandering thoughts, An Xiao rubbed his cheeks hard with his palms. After collecting himself, he said, "It's not that I don't like it. I just don't feel like exercising, that's all."

"Is that so? Still, An Xiao, you do look like you could use a little exercise."

As she spoke, Honami Ichinose sat down beside him and lightly poked his arm with a finger.

"But there's something delicate about you, An Xiao."

As if she'd gotten hooked on poking him, Ichinose kept prodding An Xiao's arm.

"That's enough, Ichinose!" An Xiao was at his limit. He shuddered and gritted his teeth.

"Sorry, sorry." Realizing what she'd been doing, Honami Ichinose blushed slightly. She stuck out the tip of her tongue and explained sheepishly, "It's just that your arm feels kind of soft and smooth when I poke it, like jelly, so I couldn't help myself..."

"But still, I never expected us to have swimming class so early. I thought it would be later."

"And with the students from Class D, too."

It was true that, thanks to Advanced Nurturing's lavish spending on facilities, the pool could accommodate so many people at once.

An Xiao and Ichinose were sitting to the side, chatting back and forth, but before long, the other girls in their class pulled Ichinose away to splash around with them.

Just then, a boy and a girl slowly approached from An Xiao's left.

"Hey, Horikita, you're here too." An Xiao greeted her. Seeing someone else beside her, he asked curiously, "And who's this?"

"Someone I just met. More or less a normal person."

"Horikita, we've been classmates for over half a month, at least..."

"Someone I just met."

"Okay."

Though the boy beside Horikita was rebuffed, his expression didn't change in the slightest, as if nothing had happened.

Or rather, he didn't seem to have much of an expression to begin with.

"Is something up? You've been standing over there for quite a while. Why didn't you come over earlier? I could've introduced you to Ichinose."

"No need." Horikita Suzune said only that, then sat down with her knees drawn up and her arms wrapped around them. "Besides, I didn't come over to see you."

Huh?

Seeing An Xiao's confused look, and noticing that Horikita Suzune had no intention of explaining, the boy who had come with her sighed and said, "Well, my name's Kiyotaka Ayanokoji. As for why I came over..."

Before Kiyotaka Ayanokoji could finish, An Xiao had more or less figured it out. After all...

"Ooooh! Boobs! Snow-white boobs!"

"Why don't we bet on which girl has the biggest chest?"

"Oh?! Don't underestimate me! They call me the breast-size appraiser!"

"What about Hasebe?! She's definitely number one!"

Even from a distance, An Xiao could clearly hear the rather explicit comments coming from the boys in Class D.

Seriously, was there no one in their lives they cared about?

"Must be rough for you." An Xiao looked at Horikita Suzune with sympathy. After thinking it over, he took off his sun-protective jacket and held it out to her. "Here... you can borrow this, though I guess you don't really need it."

"...What do you mean?"

Horikita Suzune didn't take the jacket from An Xiao. She gave him a cold look.

"Ahem. You must be Ayanokoji. Nice to meet you." Feeling a little uneasy under Horikita's stare, An Xiao turned to the other boy beside him and changed the subject.

"Yeah."

"Still, I'm kind of jealous. You're in much better shape than I am. Do you work out?" An Xiao's eyes held a hint of envy as he looked at Ayanokoji's clearly defined muscles. Then he patted his own slightly jiggly belly and fell silent.

"No, I don't. And I'm not bragging, but back in middle school I was in the go-home club."

For some reason, An Xiao suddenly thought of Ichinose poking him earlier. Almost without thinking, he reached out and poked Ayanokoji's muscles.

"Um, An Xiao, what are you doing?" Ayanokoji asked.

"Pervert." That was Horikita Suzune.

"Sorry, sorry." An Xiao awkwardly pulled his finger back.

The scene fell silent.

"Hey, you three over there. Just sitting around, are you?"

A burly man who clearly had the air of a PE teacher walked over and stood in front of them.

"Can you all swim? If not, get in the water right now. Since I'm the one teaching you, I'll make sure you can swim before summer break."

At the end, the burly man muttered, "What's with this year's batch, anyway? There are more than twice as many trainees as last year. Whatever."

His eyes swept over the three of them. Then he stepped forward, grabbed An Xiao by the wrist, and started dragging him toward the water.

???????

(Kid, you've got a lot of questions, don't you?)

"Wait, why are you grabbing me, sir? I can swim! And aren't there two other people over there?"

The teacher holding An Xiao's wrist glanced at him, then said, "The boy beside you looks athletic. I'd bet he works out. And I've seen the other girl swim before. She's pretty good, too."

"As for you..." The PE teacher looked at An Xiao's obviously untrained physique, the corner of his mouth curling upward.

"You could use a lot more practice." With that, he tossed An Xiao into the water.

Splash!

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PE teachers... I hope you all get sick!!!!

P.S. Thanks to [Shuke89141892336] for the monthly ticket!

By the way, do you think the author's writing is a little scattered? Should I change it up a bit?