"Mitaka?"
Seeing Asa Mitaka remain motionless as though she had not heard, the English teacher prompted her again.
"Oh, right!"
Only then did Asa Mitaka snap out of it and hurriedly stand up.
As she stood, she also stole a glance toward Asaba Kotone.
Asa Mitaka then began reading the passage aloud.
Listening to Asa Mitaka read English entirely with katakana pronunciations, Asaba Kotone found it a little hard to get used to.
Since he was proficient in all sorts of languages, English was effectively his native language too, so Japanese-accented English naturally sounded unfamiliar to him.
The main reason was that most Japanese people spoke English entirely using katakana pronunciations, which was why their English sounded so Japanese.
"Good, your pronunciation was quite good. Sit down."
The English teacher said this after Asa Mitaka finished reading.
The other students did not really react, since none of them were close to Asa Mitaka, and some did not even know her.
At that moment, Asaba Kotone could sense the class president looking at him.
Her gaze was both surprised and a little displeased.
Clearly, both were because Asaba Kotone had just said Asa Mitaka's name.
The class president was surprised that Asaba Kotone could name Asa Mitaka, and a little displeased that he had helped her out of that awkward situation.
And the strangest thing was, Asaba had only enrolled today, so how did he know Mitaka's name?
She had not seen Asaba interacting with Mitaka, either.
Asa Mitaka had noticed this issue too, of course.
But she was not particularly suspicious. Instead, she thought he was into her.
He had only transferred here this morning, and they had barely spoken, yet he already knew her name. He had clearly looked into her beforehand!
He must be into me, right?
Asaba