At school, Izumi figure is nowhere to be seen, Soseki enter the classroom and the one that greets him is Noe, the class rep

"Morning, Natsume-kun" [Noe]

She greets Soseki with a calm smile, Soseki replies her greeting

"ou, morning, hey, is Kyouka sick?" [Soseki]

"Hm~ already wondering about your girlfriend right~ don't worry~ she's in the infirmary, i see her goes there with her maid, well usually she goes there when we have P.E at the 3rd period, but i wonder why she's going to the infirmary from the 1st period" [Noe]

and Noe continues her word

"so, what about it? any news about the creature?" [Noe]

"hahaha... i think it's fine, you might not gonna believe me, but yesterday..." [Soseki]

Soseki tells all the detail about yesterday incident

"i see... treasure huh, now that i remember it, Hito once told a story that he wants to be treasure hunter or archeologist, that must be related to his dream" [Noe]

Soseki answers her with "Maybe", right after he says this, a familiar scream can be heard

"WHAAAAAAAA!????" [???]

the sound of footsteps can be heard, the door of his classroom opened, and Ogai appear and yells

"EYEPATCH! ya need to see dis!" [Ogai]

Soseki even doesn't have a chance to reply Ogai, and he already pulls Soseki arm and take him to his classroom, every student in Ogai classroom is looking at him, and Ogai continue his word

"IS DAT WHAT YA SEE!??" [Ogai]

he says this while points his finger toward a female student that sleep on her table, Soseki can't believe his eyes, but there's another creature on her head, it is small, with a crescent moon shaped head, it is throwing a golden dust toward her, another student comes in and yells at Ogai

"Ogai! it is rude to point your finger at a person like that! and you're too loud! and don't bother the new student!" [????]

A girl, with black wavy hair that modeled in twin tail, yelled at Ogai

"ah, Sorry, you must be the new student, I'm Akazome Emon, i live in a village next to yours! Nice to meet you!, oh! let's hang out sometimes! i know a cool place to hangout!!" [Emon]

"ooh, nice to meet you, Natsume Soseki" [Soseki]

Emon, a cheerful girl, her body is small, if Soseki needs to compare her to Izumi, she's a lot shorter than her, even her height doesn't reach Soseki chest, but she has loud voice compared to her small figure, while they're greets each other, a bell rings, and Soseki goes back to his class

The third period is here, and Izumi doesn't show her face.... Soseki still wondering about what happened, goes to the infirmary, he opens the door and finds Izumi is reading alone inside the infirmary, Takumi is nowhere to be seen. Soseki starts to greet her

"yo!" [Soseki]

Izumi nods back at him, and starts to read her book again, Soseki looking at the books title, speaks to her

"hey, that's Phantom Thief right?" [Soseki]

Izumi turn her face to Soseki, nods and starts to open her mouth

".....Soseki-kun read this too?" [Izumi]

She says this in a low voice if they are inside classroom, there's no way Soseki can hear her

"yup, i already finish it though, it is a really good book, you know, many believe that the book is inspired from a real story!" [Soseki]

He replies to Izumi word and sit down near her

".......i see" [Izumi]

"Hey, how far have you read that? i rarely find someone to talk about books" [Soseki]

"..i just started, it's right around when the MC met the red panther" [Izumi]

"hee~, okay then, don't wanna spoil it so I'll shut my mouth..." [Soseki]

Soseki sits near her, playing with his phone, while Izumi continues her reading, and she opens her mouth again

".....Soseki-kun you're not going to P.E?" [Izumi]

Izumi asking this question since Soseki already wear his P.E clothes

"hm... don't know, how about you? you don't go?" [Soseki]

"...are you seriously asking me that?" [Izumi]

Soseki nodding at her, he closes his phone and starts to look at Izumi, he smiles and says

"hey, Kyouka, there's another girl that has a creature, this time Ogai can see it" [Soseki]

"is that so? then, let's help her immediately" [Izumi]

When Izumi says this, a little light coming from her eyes and Soseki know what's happening to her

"hey~ you know, last night, Punk doesn't realize that you're walking until i mentioned it to him this morning, you should see his face when i says that" [Soseki]

".....punk is Mori-san right? i see... i guess Mori-san just being himself, not realizing things like that" [Izumi]

Izumi speaks this and forcing to smile in front of Soseki, in which he replies with

"..........Kyouka, is it that good? you know, walking and running like yesterday?" [Soseki]

Hearing his word, Izumi suddenly stop her body for a moment and she nods at him

"what it is that you like from it?" [Soseki]

".................don't know..............wind against my face, maybe" [Izumi]

Izumi goes back to her silent mode, but this time Soseki stop talking and

"w....wha!? Soseki-kun!?" [Izumi]

And by force he grabs Izumi body, doing a princess carry, Soseki starts headed toward the field, the other students that already doing the P.E activity, Including Kyoumi, their Homeroom/P.E teacher stop their running when they see him and Izumi, Today they are doing marathon, the objective is circling the school field five times for the girl, seven times for the boy

Soseki enter the field, carrying Izumi and start to run, following the other Students, Izumi's face is bright red, because of the combination of embarrassment and confusion, her eyes start to make @@ shape, Soseki ignores all of this and continue to run, he runs in a full speed, once he finishes one lap, he starts to chase the other students, that have almost finished their second lap, Soseki starts to slow down and speak

"how's the wind? which is better? this world? or that dream?" [Soseki]

He speaks... while catching his breath, Izumi is very surprised to hear his word, she opens her mouth but a word won't come out, once again Soseki speaks

".....i see, the wind isn't enough huh? alright then, i raise my speed!!" [Soseki]

A fool he is, Soseki starts to run again and increase his speed, Kyoumi yelled at him, but he replies Kyoumi yell with "Sorry teach!! I'll run 12 round today as a punishment!!"

"whattt!?? Natsume-kun!! that's not what i mean! hey, stop! it's dangerous to run like that" [Kyoumi]

After the third lap, Soseki finally catching up with the last student that already run ahead, he's starting to run out of the breath, and his body already covered in sweat, but finally, Izumi in her red face, starts to speak

"........Soseki-kun... you're a cheater....... i like it here, the wind is more real, the sun is hotter, the dust is sticking to my body......." [Izumi]

Out of sudden Izumi starts to cry weakly, she covers her face and burrows her face into Soseki chest

"good! ... you know, i still have 9 more laps to go, so stick with me for a while" [Soseki]

After Soseki says this, both of them hear a sound, a sound of something breaking, it was that at this moment, they know that their bonds have raised up, and they know that whenever they create a persona from Fool Arcana, it will be stronger

Soseki continues to run. at the 5th lap he already in the middle position, on the 7th lap he already in the 4th position, all of the students, including Kyoumi..... not only them even the student in the classroom, that looking out from the windows drop their jaw when Soseki does this, after he finished the 7th lap, he gets a good lecture from Kyoumi,

While Soseki smiling at his teacher and jokingly says "sorry~" for Izumi, this is her first time getting lectured by a teacher, she looks really down and scared, but she got a smile that can't be gone from her face,

After the lecture is over, Soseki changes back into his uniform when he gets back to his class, he meets Izumi at the front door on her wheelchair, nodding and smiling at him,Soseki smiles back and when he opens the door

"YOU'RE THE MAN CITY BOY!!!" [Student A]

"NATSUME! THAT WAS CRAZY! SO THAT'S THE CITY TRICK TO PICK UP A GIRL, ALRIGHT FROM NOW ON I CALL YOU NATSUME-SAMA" [Anzo]

"haah~ i wish someone will carry me like that someday" [Girl Student A]

"he~ i know it that you're dating with her~ Natsume-kun" [Noe]

Izumi..... covering her face with her bag, while Soseki in his heart speaks

(crap.......i overdid it!!!) [Soseki]