The Power of the Sharingan! Victory Is Inevitable!

"Yo, what's up? What are you thinking about?"

Naoki Shimizu slapped U Amakusa on the back, then grinned and draped an arm over his shoulders.

Satoshi Satonaka sat on the ground, leaning back on his hands with nothing behind him, wearing a pair of sunglasses to look cool.

Were they a bunch of bad influences? Yes, they were, without a doubt.

U Amakusa covered his face and sighed. They were currently having a sinful class in the white, fluffy... ahem, they were having swimming lessons.

Come to think of it, was this what Class A was like? Most of the students knew how to swim. Only a few didn't, and the teacher was giving them extra training.

Of course, there were exceptions. The white-haired little princess, known as Her Highness, was enjoying a sunbath.

She already had plenty of followers by her side. U Amakusa wasn't surprised; after all, it had been half a month since school started.

Majima hadn't picked any class officers or anything, which was really strange. Someone like a leader would surely emerge to maintain order in the class.

But U Amakusa's attention was focused on...

There hadn't been any beer-stealing incidents in Kamuro's recent activities. Had that part of the story not happened yet?

Should he stop her? What would happen to Sakayanagi without Kamuro to help her?

He seemed to already know the answer. He had to stop her. Kamuro was addicted to stealing, and if she got caught one day, she'd regret it bitterly.

"Satonaka, what should we do? This guy can't even talk. He's shut down, hasn't he?"

Seeing that U Amakusa wasn't responding, Shimizu could only turn to Satoshi Satonaka for advice.

"Hey, leave him alone. He'll be fine in a bit. The guy just got rejected by his goddess, that's all. What's the big deal?"

That was right. U Amakusa had been staring at Kamuro in her swimsuit just now—actually, he'd been staring at her ample chest, which Kamuro had noticed—and she'd promptly rejected him.

She'd yelled, "Pervert!" at him, and everyone in class was already used to the two of them acting like that.

That's our U Amakusa, all right.

Damn it! Why didn't Class A have anyone with a chest that huge? What an unfair distribution! You old hag, Sakayanagi!

The girls, meanwhile, were trying to get Kamuro and U Amakusa together. In their eyes, his looks earned him a ton of points.

What's more... they'd realized Kamuro might be a tsundere in disguise.

Who blushed and looked bashful instead of disgusted when calling someone a pervert?

Wasn't this a case of a perfect match who liked each other?

The girls all started shipping them. Thanks to that, U Amakusa hadn't received a single love letter or had any girl confess her feelings to him so far.

"Is he really that impressive?"

Naoki Shimizu patted U Amakusa on the shoulder. "Don't worry, bro. I'm sure you'll win Kamuro over sooner or later."

"Don't say that. Amakusa actually has a shot, but you? My friend, you're doomed."

"What?! Temee! Satonaka, you bastard! Is that any way to curse your buddy?"

Naoki Shimizu clenched his fist and walked toward Satonaka, apparently not willing to let it go unless Satoshi Satonaka gave him a satisfactory explanation.

"Heh."

Satoshi Satonaka remained unruffled. He merely stretched his neck, then said coolly, "Believe it or not, I can make you beg to call me your daddy in the blink of an eye."

"Huh?! And you think you can do that, you scrawny weakling?!"

"35791," Satoshi Satonaka said, giving him a string of numbers.

Naoki Shimizu's face turned into a black question mark. Had this guy lost his mind? What was he babbling about?

Satoshi Satonaka didn't even look at Naoki Shimizu. He simply blew on the fingernail he'd just polished.

"Nishikawa's LINE. Whether you remember it or not is up to you. I'm not saying it twice."

"Holy crap! Daddy, please accept your son's bow!"

U Amakasa, who was still lost in thought beside them, sighed and covered his ears. So noisy...

Come to think of it, the class had gradually split into the Sakayanagi Faction and the Katsuragi Faction, hadn't it?

It was probably only just beginning, since the first major incident hadn't happened yet and the first month hadn't ended.

By the way, why hadn't anyone tried to recruit me?

Kamuro seemed neutral for now, too. There were plenty of other neutrals. The two factions were probably starting by recruiting the people they considered capable.

Did they think I wasn't capable? Well, I guess that was true.

Thinking back to when he'd eaten spicy snack sticks in class, both factions had probably already crossed U Amakusa off their lists.

"Hey, Satonaka, Shimizu, have you two joined either faction yet?"

"What faction? Pumpkin pie?" Shimizu asked in confusion.

U Amakasa couldn't help rolling his eyes. Was this guy really a Class A student? It looked like Shimizu, like him, hadn't made the recruitment list.

"I haven't joined either side."

As he spoke, Satoshi Satonaka tossed his hair. "A handsome man like me doesn't belong to either faction."

"...That's so like you."

From what Satonaka had said, both factions had tried to recruit him, but he'd turned them both down. He really did have a strong personality.

U Amakusa stretched and loosened up, then glanced at the white-haired little princess, who was still enjoying her sunbath.

"The white-haired little princess is definitely appealing, but I think Katsuragi would make a better leader for Class A..."

Even though Katsuragi wasn't as capable as Sakayanagi, U Amakusa still didn't think Sakayanagi was suited to be a leader.

"What are you mumbling about?" Naoki Shimizu said unhappily as he put U Amakusa in a headlock.

U Amakasa said nothing, only sighing.

"Shimizu..."

"What?"

"Do you really like putting people in headlocks and draping your arm over their shoulders that much?"

Naoki Shimizu answered nonchalantly, "What's wrong with putting my arm around my own son? Huh?"

Temee!

U Amakasa's hands began making a series of mysterious movements as he muttered, "Ushi, U, Saru."

Three movements and three words in all.

"What?! No way!"

The moment Naoki Shimizu saw those movements, he immediately sprang back. But for some reason, he shouted, "Shimata! It's too late! This is all I've got!"

He quickly raised his hands as if holding a spherical object, even though he was holding nothing at all.

At U Amakusa's loud cry of "Chidori!"

Naoki Shimizu followed with "Rasengan!"

But what they'd expected to happen didn't. Naoki Shimizu dodged to the side, avoiding U Amakusa's outstretched hand, then appeared beside him and shouted,

"Flying Raijin!"

"What?!" U Amakasa clearly couldn't pull back the Chidori he'd thrust forward in time. Was it really over?

"Susanoo! Kagutsuchi!"

"What?! No!! Damn it! I actually lost!" Naoki Shimizu cried in disbelief as he stared at his hands after being flung away.

(In reality, he'd only pretended to be flung away.)

U Amakasa stroked his face with one hand, wearing a haughty expression as he savored the fruits of victory.

"With the power of the Sharingan, victory is inevitable!"

Satoshi Satonaka, who'd seen everything, twitched the corners of his mouth uncontrollably. He was embarrassed for the two of them.

"You two idiots..."