Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School, student dormitory.
After a day of classes, Amasawa Reigetsu returned to his dorm room. As he showered, he began to sort through the "rules" of the school.
1. Points could buy almost anything.
2. Points were awarded based on class strength.
Based on what he knew, the missing pieces of information were probably:
1. What points could buy and how much they were worth.
2. The significance of what the school was hiding.
3. The significance of the class rankings.
4. How class strength was evaluated.
Thinking it over again, the significance of what the school was hiding probably overlapped with how class strength was evaluated. From that, he could infer that class strength was evaluated through "exams." They were currently taking their first exam, so what was it about?
Amasawa Reigetsu stopped thinking—not because he'd figured it out, but because he'd finished showering.
He stepped out of the bathroom and dried himself off. He couldn't help reflecting on himself.
What exactly had he done all day? Gone on a date with Ayanokoji Kiyoko, had a... duel with Morishita Ran, gone on a date with Sakayanagi Arisu, teased Kushida Kikyo...
"Starting tomorrow, I can't let myself get distracted by pretty girls anymore," Amasawa Reigetsu muttered, then got ready to go to bed—
"But it's not midnight yet."
"That's true, but there's nothing else I can do right now, is there? I go to sleep, wake up, and it's tomorrow."
"Who says there's nothing for you to do? There's something right here, Zero."
Amasawa Reigetsu: ? Was I hallucinating in my own room? Why did I hear Ayanokoji's voice?
A hand reached out from beneath Amasawa Reigetsu's blanket—
"Holy crap, aaaaaah!!!"
There was no refusing her.
The next day, Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School, student dormitory.
Amasawa Reigetsu woke up and washed up. Looking at Ayanokoji Kiyoko, who was still asleep on the bed, he felt a little dazed.
What exactly had happened last night?
Before he'd come back to his room last night, Ayanokoji Kiyoko had already been lying in ambush beneath his blanket... According to her, she'd managed to stay hidden for so long because she'd trained in covert operations under extreme conditions in the White Room. Besides, she'd only been hiding beneath a blanket.
Then, after he'd finished showering, Ayanokoji Kiyoko had pulled him beneath the blanket, nearly having her way with him right then and there. Luckily, Uncle Reigetsu had superpowers and had forcibly stopped the chest monster that had spawned beneath his blanket.
"Why? Why still can't I see through you, Ayanokoji Kiyoko?"
Amasawa Reigetsu looked into Ayanokoji's emotionless eyes. He wasn't exactly a paragon of chastity, but something about this felt strange.
He wondered why Ayanokoji Kiyoko had acted that way in the White Room. He also didn't understand why she had ended up in the same bed as him like this.
As a born esper—the only esper in the world—Amasawa Reigetsu was arrogant. It was the pride of someone who possessed a gift bestowed by heaven.
So he was undeniably cruel. Cruel enough that even with Ayanokoji Kiyoko lying on top of him at that very moment, he coolly called her by her full name.
Ayanokoji was the only person he couldn't use Induction on, so he was curious. Because he was curious, he wanted to know. Because he wanted to know, he asked her now.
Amasawa Reigetsu didn't care about any surprises, so he asked without a care in the world.
White Room, WR-01-room
It was an ordinary late night, no different from any other. The monotonous white walls shut out all sense of time. Back then, Ayanokoji Kiyoko had uncharacteristically sent for Amasawa Reigetsu, asking him to come to her room.
Amasawa Reigetsu pushed the door open and entered. Nothing happened.
Ayanokoji Kiyoko simply sat quietly on the edge of the bed and pointed to the chair across from her. Then she fell silent for a long time. That night, she did nothing and said nothing. She only looked at him—or rather, looked through Zero's body and saw something else.
That suffocating silence lasted a full three hours. Only when the instructor's footsteps drew near on patrol did she finally say, in a flat voice:
"You can go."
Amasawa Reigetsu couldn't understand the intent of the emotionless person in front of him, yet he confidently believed that no one could pose a threat to him.
It was a tug-of-war between blankness and arrogance.
This continued until Amasawa Reigetsu deliberately started an incident and left the White Room.
After that came their reunion at Advanced Nurturing High School. Ayanokoji Kiyoko's words tipped the scales and broke the balance—
"Can you use that on me?"
The colorless girl wanted to find color, so she needed him.
Now, feeling the warm body of the girl on top of him, Amasawa Reigetsu suddenly felt that the scene before him overlapped with that white room from years ago.
"I lost."
Amasawa Reigetsu tightened his core and pushed back, pinning Ayanokoji Kiyoko beneath him instead. His forceful movements drew a muffled moan from her.
"You won from the very beginning, Master♡"
"Good girl."