"Hm?"
"Why aren't you saying anything?"
Chiba Yeyou drew his head back from Mayumi Saegusa, looking a little puzzled.
Mayumi Saegusa's face was so red that she looked ready to steam. She had no idea what to say and had fallen into some unknown state. Chiba Yeyou couldn't help finding the sight amusing.
So cute. I wanna fuck her!
Pah!
I mean, give her a head pat!
"How are you so cute?"
"My dear president!"
Chiba Yeyou acted on the thought, reaching out to stroke Mayumi Saegusa's head gently and ruffle her hair.
That sent Mayumi Saegusa's temperature soaring. Like a cooked lobster, she stared blankly at the petal emblem on Chiba Yeyou's chest.
The others beside them were stunned too.
"Now that's a pretty boy's technique, isn't it?"
"Tatsuya Shiba really pales in comparison to him!"
Mari Watanabe murmured in a daze too.
None of the people in the room had ever seen anyone dare to give Mayumi Saegusa a head pat!
And she had never seen how cute Mayumi Saegusa looked like this!
"Ah!"
"Junior!"
Snapped out of her daze by Mari Watanabe's voice, Mayumi Saegusa realized at once that her junior had turned the teasing back on her again. She stamped her little foot angrily, lightly thumped Chiba Yeyou a few times, then shot him an annoyed look.
"All right, let's focus on work."
He admitted that her acting like a girlfriend being coy, topped off with that lovely eye roll, had given him a bit of a jolt. He could only hurry to change the subject.
"Heehee!"
"Do your best!"
"Ju! Nior!"
Mayumi Saegusa encouraged him with a playful giggle.
Before long, only the rustle of turning pages and the scratching of pen tips against paper traveled through the quiet Student Council room.
"What's wrong?"
Mayumi Saegusa saw Chiba Yeyou suddenly pick up a student's file and pause for a long while without doing anything else, leaving her a little puzzled.
"My dear president, you really do pay a lot of attention to me!"
Rather than answer Mayumi Saegusa's question, Chiba Yeyou winked at her.
"Indeed. On average, she checks on our junior Chiba Yeyou after every document she finishes."
Suzune Ichihara spoke calmly from beside them.
"Something's going on here!"
"Hehehe~"
Mari Watanabe and Azusa Nakajo snickered on the sidelines too.
"Mari!"
Mayumi Saegusa couldn't help complaining to her friend beside her.
"Is there something wrong with this person?"
Mari Watanabe rose from her seat and walked over to Chiba Yeyou. Looking at the photograph in the file, she asked with some curiosity.
The others came over as well, curious about just who the person in the file was to have caught Chiba Yeyou's attention.
"A friend of yours?"
Mayumi Saegusa asked as she looked at the file.
"No, I don't know him, though I do know a little about him. He's certainly rather interesting."
Chiba Yeyou spoke calmly as he looked at the girls gathered around him.
"Rather interesting?"
Repeating Chiba Yeyou's words, Mayumi Saegusa looked thoughtful.
Mari Watanabe looked somewhat interested too. Still, all of them felt that anyone who caught Chiba Yeyou's attention was probably no ordinary person. After all, not one of the people around Chiba Yeyou was simple, even the Course 2 Students.
"What's special about him?"
Suzune Ichihara had always been very inquisitive, so she asked outright without giving it much thought.
"You'll find out soon."
Chiba Yeyou smiled mysteriously.
"Oh, come on!"
"Why be so mysterious?"
Mayumi Saegusa rolled her eyes in annoyance.
"Let's get back to work!"
Chiba Yeyou didn't mind.
Another bout of rustling followed, and quiet returned to the Student Council room.
"Hm?"
Chiba Yeyou reached for the next document out of habit, only to grasp empty air. Looking up, he realized there were no more documents to process.
"Wow! Finally finished!"
Just then, Mayumi Saegusa finished the documents she was working on too. Seeing that little mountain disappear completely, she stood up excitedly and spoke happily, as though a weight had been lifted from her shoulders.
"Chiba Yeyou, this was all thanks to you. Thank you!"
Mayumi Saegusa immediately remembered who had helped and turned to thank Chiba Yeyou.
"Well, if there's nothing else, I'll be going."
Chiba Yeyou checked the time. School was almost over, so he said little else and prepared to leave, intending to go back and continue working on the system he hadn't finished building.
"Yes, thanks for all your hard work!"
Mayumi Saegusa smiled.
"Goodbye!"
After they exchanged farewells, Chiba Yeyou left the Student Council room.
A wooded area on campus lay along Chiba Yeyou's route. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that anyone leaving the Student Council for another area had to pass through it, and Chiba Yeyou was walking along that path.
In a shadowy spot among the trees, a figure silently watched Chiba Yeyou in the distance.
On a campus dominated by white-and-green uniforms, clothes of other kinds were rarely seen except on teachers, and this person was clearly one of the exceptions.
A hood concealed his face, his sharp gaze fixed on Chiba Yeyou as he drew closer and closer.
Watching Chiba Yeyou gradually approach the trap he had laid, the man couldn't help smiling smugly. At the same time, he slowly raised his right arm, revealing a red, white, and blue bracelet-shaped CAD on his wrist!
Just as the man was about to activate his magic, Chiba Yeyou suddenly looked in his direction and gave him a meaningful smile.
Oh no!
The man immediately realized he had been discovered!
No!
He's been toying with me!
He spotted me long ago!
At that thought, the man abandoned any notion of testing him with an attack. He turned to flee, his CAD flashing blue as he cast the Self-Acceleration Spell on himself, making his escape even faster.
"Heh!"
"Still trying to run?"
Chiba Yeyou smiled mockingly.
Indeed, he had spotted this guy long ago. With his strength, getting ambushed by a scrub like this would have required him to be forcibly dumbed down.
The only reason he hadn't exposed him outright was that he wanted to see when the fellow would realize he had already been discovered. Treating it like a game was the only reason he hadn't dragged the guy out and slapped him dead.
"I'll give you a 499-meter head start!"
Chiba Yeyou was in no hurry. Leaning against a tree, he watched the figure sprint into the distance with interest, his leisurely voice carrying far away and into the man's ears.
The man's body tensed, and then, after another flash of blue light, he sped up even more.
"A top-tier magician from the military actually got ambushed by someone like this. I really don't understand!"
"Are soldiers all this unobservant?"
"Is it a Japanese specialty?"
"Or did spending some time at school make him less vigilant?"
Chiba Yeyou murmured.
"That's 499 meters!"