Hikaru was on the verge of losing it. Rather, he already had.

‘That’s not good.’

Alex started unbuttoning his shirt.

He gave it to Asuna to cover herself. His athletic body and sharp muscle curves now made Asuna blush red.

Alex’s muscles had become a lot detailed after the procedure without him exercising.

’Alex wh-what are you doing?

’Here, take my shirt and change it with yours, it might be a little tight, but this is all I got. You can go behind the corner.”

“What will you wear?”

‘Obviously, your shirt, don’t worry, I’ll ask the nurse’s office to see if they got a spare shirt, and you might want to hurry.’

‘Why?’

Alex covered his eyes and pointed towards Asuna’s chest.

‘I can…kind of see your cleavage.’

‘Huh?’

Asuna looked at herself and finally realized what kind of situation she was in. Instantly, she snatched Alex’s shirt and sprinted to the corner.

Meanwhile, Hikaru’s soul was still lost.

Alex will wear a shirt that is soaked in miso soup. In a way, Hikaru won the battle, but it will be Asuna’s shirt, and Asuna will be wearing ALEX’s, and he spilled it on Asuna. In the end, he lost the war in the worst possible way.

Alex and Hikaru were left alone, Alex continued eating his lunch. At that moment, Hikaru burst.

‘I know what you are trying to do.’

‘Enjoying…my lunch?’

‘Let me tell you one thing, you can’t win over Asuna like this.’

Alex stopped eating his lunch.

‘Win over?’

Hikaru smugly said.

‘That’s right, she only likes the smartest people, so you had no chance to begin with because you can’t beat me.’

‘I see, okay.’

Alex started eating his lunch again. Hikaru was left hanging in the expectation of a challenge, seeing no response,

‘Aren’t you going to challenge me?’

Alex turned his head.

‘No’

’CHALLENGE ME!!!’

‘No’

The conversation was like seeing a toddler arguing.

‘Fine, I challenge you then.’

‘I refuse.’

Alex was starting to get annoyed by the toddler.

‘Why?’

‘I don’t want to.’

‘Challenge me, please.’

Hikaru started whining.

‘Let’s have a competition, loser does whatever the winner says.’

‘No’

Alex finished eating his lunch unfulfilled and vexed. He knew he can’t stop Hikaru from bugging him.

He could already see his many future lunches being rudely interrupted by him. Finally, he decided to accept his challenge.

Asuna came back from changing into Alex’s shirt.

‘Asuna, you sure took a while, was my shirt too tight?’

‘Um….no, it’s very comfortable, th-thank you for lending me your shirt. I promise to give it back fully washed.’

Asuna took a good 5 minutes to change into a single shirt. Setting aside the fact that girls always take time to get ready, she couldn’t just tell Alex what she was doing.

When she arrived at the corner, she held Alex’s shirt like it was a gift from the Gods.

--Alex’s shirt!!!.

She held it to her face and took a deep, slow breath. It was a mesmerizing aroma to her. The chemical reaction happening in her cannot be explained.

“Asuna, I’ve decided to give the promotion exam again thanks to Hikaru, he motivated me to do it.’

Alex smiled and looked at Hikaru, who was confused. Asuna was left speechless.

--How long was I gone for?

‘That’s great, Alex. I’m sure you can do it.’

Alex had already asked the principal to be allowed to give the promotion exam again for the next class if he wanted to.

Though he never planned to actually take it, it looks like it came in handy.

After school was over, he went to the principal’s office.

’Alex, how are you? How was your 1st day as a 2nd year?’

‘I want to give to give the promotion exam again.’

‘What?’

‘Let’s have the exam taken next week, I’ll come on Monday to take it, until then, bye.’

‘Wait…’

Alex had already left.

The week flew by, and Alex again passed the exam with perfect scores and became a 3rd year.

He was put in the same class Hikaru was in, and Alex sat right next to him.

‘Now we really can have the competition of who’s the smartest.’

It was the declaration of war.

*In case you degenerates were wondering, the bra’s color was purple.*