When he returned home, Rito noticed that the note he had written hadn't been touched.
Picking it up, he burned it between his fingers and let the ashes fly out the window with the wind.
A pretty dumb thought, he knows, but he ended up imagining a hot woman asking if he had a light, and him making fire appear from his index finger to help her light her cigarette while she looked at him in shock.
Shaking his head, pretending he never thought of such a thing, he grabbed a fresh set of clothes from the wardrobe and headed to the bathroom.
...
Later that same day, at breakfast time.
"Rito!" Lala saw him and jumped in his direction, hugging him and pressing her pink lips against his cheek. With the sound of a kiss, she pulled her lips away from his cheek and started rubbing her cheek against his while standing on her tiptoes: "Good morning~!"
'This isn't the first kiss she's given me?' He thought, a bit surprised: 'Even if it's just on the cheek?'
"Early in the morning, and you two are already glued together," Mikan said. "Wishing you both happiness."
"Hehe~ Thanks, Mikan!" Lala chirped cheerfully.
Mikan looked at her, speechless.
With a stoic expression, she shot a glance at Rito: "And you, Rito. I see you've changed a bit again and... gotten a little taller?"
"Really?" He feigned ignorance.
"Yeah, keep pretending you don't know." She rolled her eyes at him.
"Hahaha." He just let out a chuckle.
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[Class 2-B]
"Before we start the lesson, we have a new student transferring to our class." The teacher no longer knew how to react to this.
Her voice was somewhat tired: "You may come in."
"Again?"
"Isn't this the third one already?"
"Will there be a fourth, maybe even a fifth before this month is over?"
Amid the whispers of many, the sliding door opened.
A beautiful girl entered the classroom, and the boys' shouts were even louder than the girls' from yesterday.
"A beautiful girl with long light-green hair!"
"Wohhhhh! Bust 83, waist 55, hips 83!" A boy adjusting his glasses exclaimed loudly.
"Hey, she's my sister, watch how you talk about her!" Ren spoke up.
"Ren's sister?"
"No wonder she's gorgeous!"
"Brother-in-law, let's go grab some food later, yeah?"
"Who's your brother-in-law?!"
"Hey, who touched my butt just now?!"
"Brother-in-law, chill, I'll buy you a coffee!"
"Get off me!"
*Bang!*
"Hey, idiots!" The teacher looked like a demon when she smiled with her eyes closed after slamming a book on the desk: "Stop fooling around and don't embarrass me more than this, got it?"
*Gulp~!*
"""We're sorry!"""
"That's better." She smiled and turned to Run: "You can introduce yourself."
Run flinched a little under her gaze but quickly recovered.
Smiling beautifully, she said: "Hello, my name is Run Elsie Jewelria, I hope we can be friends!"
Run has bright pink eyes and long light-green hair with two prominent points on top. Her slender and curvy figure couldn't be hidden by the standard Kuoh Academy uniform.
"Run!" Lala recognized her, unlike Ren. She waved at her enthusiastically.
"Lala." She waved back with a smile.
This fact left Ren with a defeated expression in his seat.
"Hey, stay with us!" Ren's desk mate shook his shoulder, but he showed no signs of life.
"Teacher, Ren fainted!" He shouted.
"My God, what did I do to deserve this?" The teacher put her hand to her forehead and sighed.
...
Rito, seeing Ren and Run as separate individuals, imagined that Ren had managed to become a Devil.
'Sona, I'm counting on you. Tame this idiot well and don't let him keep bothering Lala and me.' He made a small prayer to a Devil.
As soon as the class started, he used a lower purple sphere, making his brain work better while his mental power grew a little too.
Now, he could afford to use a purple sphere to study.
==
During the lunch break.
Ren approached him: "Hey, Rito. Let's talk."
Looking at him, Rito felt tired.
'What does this idiot want this time?' He thought.
"Lala, I'll see what this idiot wants and be right back," Rito said.
"Sure!" Lala agreed, taking Run's hand, she went over to Haruna and the others.
"Idiot… You're the idiot…" Ren muttered as he walked off.
Outside the classroom, in the hallway, Ren went to the glass window and leaned his back against the wall, looking at Rito with a cocky attitude.
"I'm only going to say this once, so listen well." Taking a deep breath, he bowed his head and shouted: "Thank you!"
"…"
Rito had to admit that this caught him by surprise.
After a few seconds of silence, he opened his mouth: "I see it worked out. I accept your thanks. If that's all, I'm going…"
"Wait!" Ren raised his head: "President Sona wants to talk to you. She asked me to tell you it's better not to leave school and to go to her in the Student Council room when classes are over. That's all."
With his hands in his pockets, he walked past Rito.
Rito's mouth twitched: 'The idiot must have told her everything.'
It wasn't like he hadn't considered this possibility.
Anyway, that was the least of his problems.
Since he spilled the beans, he'd try to make the most of it.
He returned to the classroom, and Lala waved at him: "Rito, over here!"
With her were five other girls who had pushed their desks together. Among them was Run, whom Rito hadn't yet spoken to.
He walked up to them and stopped in front of Run: "I haven't introduced myself yet, right? Nice to meet you, I'm Rito Yuki."
"Run." She nodded politely: "The pleasure is mine."
Rito sat next to Lala.
"Hey, Yuki," Sawada Mio asked: "What do you eat to change so much every day? I asked Lala, but all she says is that you train and eat well."
"She's not wrong," he replied. "I think I've said this before, I'm training under the guidance of Lala's bodyguard and eating well. By the way, my little sister is a great cook. You should come visit Lala and get a chance to try it."
"We can tell, just look at your bento and Lala's. It's made by your little sister, right?" Risa asked rhetorically.
"Yeah," he nodded.
"Changing the subject…" Run asked suddenly: "What did my idiot brother want?"
"Just to thank me," he replied without explaining.
But Run seemed to understand.
"I see," she smiled slightly. "He can be annoying, even an idiot, but he's my brother. I hope you can put up with him a bit."
"… I'll try," Rito didn't promise.
"Rito, I finally remembered!" Lala clapped her hands with a snap: "Ren is the crybaby Ren. The one I told you about before."
"I figured," he smiled at her.
"Hehe, I just couldn't remember him in boys' clothes. He looked so cute dressed as a girl, why did he stop?" She looked at Run.
"About that…"
"Ara? Tell us more, tell us more."
The girls' interest was piqued.
It was apparently a hot topic for them to see a good-looking guy like Ren dressed as a girl.
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