Not long after, the two of them arrived at Honami's house. More precisely, the dormitory.
Because Ryunosuke's pants were soaking wet, Honami felt bad about it, so she brought him to the dormitory to dry his clothes.
In every student dormitory, there was a drum-type automatic washing machine embedded in the wall. Ryunosuke looked around the room. Very simple, almost no excessive items.
The nice clothes that girls usually liked were almost nonexistent here. Everything was very simple clothing, and it seemed to have been worn for years until it looked a bit too small. After all, Honami's physical growth was very rapid; old clothes wouldn't last long for her.
"Ahem!"
Ryunosuke immediately coughed, stopping the wild imagination in his head. Meanwhile, Honami had already washed the clothes and hung them to dry.
How to dry them? By using a hair dryer.
Actually, after going through the wringing process in the washing machine, the clothes were almost dry; all that remained was to remove the remaining moisture. Although using a hair dryer was slow and inefficient, because Ryunosuke had to wear them immediately, there was no other choice.
Currently, he was curled up on Honami's bed, wrapping his body tightly with a blanket. Because there were no other clothes he could wear, he could only do this.
Readers couldn't expect there to be men's clothes in a women's dormitory, right? That was impossible.
Actually, Honami had suggested that Ryunosuke just wear her skirt temporarily. She even swore to the heavens she wouldn't leak it to anyone. But Ryunosuke refused desperately!
Honami could only resign herself and continue drying his clothes. Not long after, the clothes were dry. Honami folded his clothes neatly and placed them at the edge of the bed.
She then hid inside the bathroom, waiting for Ryunosuke to finish changing clothes. After all, men and women were different. Honami still understood those boundaries very well.
Don't underestimate her just because she usually seemed relaxed and a bit naive. In her profile and biodata, it was clearly written that her academic score was A, intelligence level A; only her motor/sports ability was slightly lacking, the rest were excellent.
Otherwise, how could she become the leader of Class B (Initial). That placement was actually a deliberate arrangement by the school to maintain balance. If there weren't one or two people in a class who could become pillars, then equal competition wouldn't be created. Humans usually could only develop through competition.
And that was this school's policy. This was no different from social phenomena in the real world. For example, people couldn't let one automotive company dominate the market alone, or one food delivery service monopolize the market. Because if that happened, not only would superiority not be formed, they would also stand still and become lazy.
Only by letting them compete with each other and have opponents could they move forward. The most important point was to prevent them from oppressing taxpayers, aka ordinary people. Because if a monopoly occurred, prices would be determined unilaterally by them, and people had no choice but to buy. The state wouldn't let that happen.
Ryunosuke sat on the bed, drinking the warm water poured by Honami to warm his body.
Honami was used to living frugally; she almost never bought luxury goods, didn't even have tea leaves. Even so, that didn't hinder her physical growth at all...
Remembering Honami's figure in the rain earlier, Ryunosuke's nose felt a bit warm, as if there was a hot flow that wanted to come out. He immediately looked up to prevent an embarrassing incident.
Honami sat on the only chair in front of Ryunosuke. Both her hands held the glass of warm water, blowing on it gently, then licking it a little with the tip of her tongue.
Still hot!
Honami immediately pulled back her tongue. Clearly she didn't like food or drinks that were too hot. More precisely, she had a "cat tongue" that was sensitive to heat.
Seeing her behavior, Ryunosuke couldn't hold back loud laughter. Honami glared at him with flushed cheeks; she almost threw the glass at him.
Ryunosuke finally stopped laughing, wiped the tears at the corners of his eyes, and asked in a slightly more serious tone.
"What will you do, Ichinose?"
This time he called her by her family name, indicating that this conversation had to be handled seriously. Honami looked confused; she swirled the water in her glass while staring at her own reflection on the water's surface, somewhat daydreaming.
She had already talked with Nagumo. That man's condition was very simple: Honami had to become his girlfriend. She had asked whether Nagumo really liked her? Nagumo's answer was... he only wanted her body, there was no feeling of liking at all.
Honami said to Ryunosuke with a disappointed expression.
"I don't know what to do..."
Ryunosuke made an "OK" hand gesture, indicating he already understood.
"Alright! In that case, I know what to do. Come with me, Ichinose!"
"Eh?" Honami hadn't had time to react when her hand was already grabbed by Ryunosuke and she was dragged away just like that.
Along the way, Honami was very cooperative and didn't resist at all. Currently she was wearing a cream-colored dress. Because her school uniform was soaking wet, she had changed into home clothes.
Her feet were still wearing house slippers because she didn't have time to change, but because the rain had subsided, she didn't need to worry about her slippers getting wet. Currently her hand was still held by Ryunosuke. Honami's cheeks felt a bit hot, but she didn't hate being pulled away like this...
Not long after, they arrived at the Student Council President's office. Honami didn't know what Ryunosuke wanted to do. However, in the next second...
*BANG!*
The Student Council door was kicked wide open. That was Ryunosuke's doing.
Inside the room, there were Horikita Manabu, Tachibana Akane, Nagumo Miyabi, and Katsuragi Kohei who were busy working. All four simultaneously turned toward Ryunosuke Akasaka standing at the door.
Ryunosuke, holding hands with Honami who was wearing home clothes, took large steps toward Nagumo. Faint red-black lightning appeared on his body, bringing the aura of a ruler descending to earth.
Nagumo saw the two of them holding hands; he seemed to think for a moment as if understanding something. He then asked.
"What business do you have looking for me—"
His sentence wasn't finished when Ryunosuke, who had already entered "chuunibyou mode," threw a hard punch at his face until he was sent flying far away.
*CRASH!*
A loud impact sound was heard when Nagumo's body hit the wall, then slowly slid down to the floor.
Ryunosuke seemed unsatisfied. He took off his jacket, told Honami who was already stunned to hold his clothes, then jumped and sat on Nagumo's body.
He clenched his fist the size of a sandbag and pounded Nagumo's face repeatedly. While hitting, he shouted.
"Didn't I tell you from the beginning?!"
"I said don't touch Ichinose, you treated it like wind passing by, huh?!"
"I'll beat you to death!"
Punch after punch was thrown. Several of Nagumo's teeth fell out, and his mouth was full of blood. Before he could make a sound to beg for mercy, Ryunosuke's fist had already silenced him again.
Horikita finally came to his senses. He signaled to Akane to move aside so she wouldn't be affected. Then Horikita ordered Kohei to together forcibly pull Ryunosuke so the fight would stop.
After being pulled away, Ryunosuke—just like Luffy—showed a row of white teeth and said while grinning at Honami.
"Do you feel relieved now?"
Honami's face instantly turned bright red. Her heart was pounding hard, the type of heartbeat that couldn't stop. It seemed she was also starting to fall in love...