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For the past few days none have talked to me publicly after Manabe attempted to tease me the day after the pallet fiasco and was then glared at by every person in class and passer-by's in the hallways.

Words such as 'how dare she talk to kiyotaka-sama' were thrown about and Manabe who doesn't care for others opinion retreated and gave me a worried look likely understanding that I didn't really like the situation.

Additionally, Ishizaki and his cronies came up to me to try and initiate a conversation but Ryuen glared at them once they attempted to do so. Seems Ryuen has tamed most of the boys in class already and is likely doing this to better split the class amongst the boys and girls for when may 1st comes around.

From what I can tell I have become a topic of discussion in school but no one has talked to me seeing me as unattainable or scared off by everyone else. They think of me as a perfect being but am I really? I mean all I did was eat food and drink milkshakes and I have become something of a god where the girls adore me, some boys who admire while most of them have turned me into the figurehead of the 'death to ikemen movement.'

Needless to say I moved up to 1st in the ikemen rankings by a landslide and apparently even no.1 in the school rankings ahead of the president and vice-president who were previously battling neck and neck for the spot.

Ryuen has been informing me of his movements within the class leaving only one group of boys left to threaten until the male population succumbs to him through fear he even plans to threaten Kaneda into submission but that wouldn't take long.

We had some PE classes with basic running and strength tests where I would come 1st if it wasn't strength related by a slim margin and 2nd in strength as beating Albert would likely be seen as too much strength for a normal person as Albert is built like tank specifically for strength. Speaking of Albert, Ryuen made him submit not through fear or by beating him but by pure persistence where Albert gave up.

I had also been avoiding where I usually ate lunch for 2 reasons 1 was the fact that I was at all times during school being observed and if I went there it would likely never be the 3 of us ever again and rumours of me having 2 girlfriends might also spread. 2nd is that if I met up with my 'prince' that would likely turn into the talk of the entire school. Well I already was the talk of the school but I don't want me to just be seen as a 'hot guy' I'd need to show some smarts so that the girls will agree to make me their leader and dating someone or the perception of it might ruin it.

Satou had messaged me asking if I would like to play with her (lmao I find the word play hilarious in my country it usually means children hanging out or a sexual connotation such as playing around)

I declined and said that I was bit busy but would like to hang out with her next month which might give off some suspicious vibes if a smart person saw the message but from what I could tell of Sato (which spelling is it Sato or Satou?) she was a positive girl who wasn't afraid to go after what she wanted in this case me despite the fact she would be practically killed for it. But never the less not very intelligent but not dumb either.

"Hello Ishizaki."

"Hello Komiya."

The boys exchanged pleasantries very eagerly arriving in the classroom much earlier than usual.

"I can't believe we get to do swimming classes with the girls!" He nearly shouted which earned a few glares from some of the girls while the rest were day dreaming about something. Oddly enough 90% of the class came 30 minutes before class started when it was usually around 20%.

I haven't done many swimming classes but from what I remember swimming classes were always done with both genders as it would save time.

They continued talking about their perverted fantasies even as Sakagami-sensei arrived until Ryuen simply came up to them tapped them on the shoulder and scarily grinned at them while pushing his fist into his other open palm which made them gulp and shut up.

Most of the girls were thankful for his actions but a few were perplexed those being Manabe, Ibuki, Shiina and Nishino who knew that Ishizaki's group wouldn't be scared of just anyone while the other boy were cursing Ishizaki's group likely for souring Ryuen's previously good mood about swimming classes.

The time came for swimming as the boys went into the change room chatting about ass and boobs as expected of cultured people such as Ishizaki.

The boys quickly changed and openly at that and left to the pool leaving me behind with Kaneda who did the same as me.

I swiftly changed and made my way to the pool and sat in the corner of the pool area waiting for the instructor.

The girls came out and were ogled by most of the boys. However, only 15 of the girls came out in swimsuits the other 5 being Shiina, Manabe, Yabu, Yama(dead)shita and Morofuji so Manabe's group and the bookworm decided to not show off their bodies understandable from them.

The girls were looking disgusted at the boys behaviour but the boys stopped once Ryuen came and dragged them one by one to the seats likely to scold them like a mother or maybe underlings. Ryuen is quite complicated so I am not quite sure which it is.

Ibuki noticed me in the corner and approached me.

"You are quite muscular in the forearms and back areas do you know martial arts?" Ibuki asked without her usual scowl which was quite beautiful if she acted like this normally even with her tomboyish figure.

"perhaps" I calmly stated.

She nodded seeming to understand I didn't intend to talk much about as she sat next to me earning a few glares from the girls and some cheering from the guys for some reason.

"So why are all the boys obeying Ryuen so easily most of them wouldn't even listen to the teachers yet they do everything Ryuen says without second thought?" Seems like Ibuki has uncovered Ryuens movement in subjugating the class.

It wouldn't hurt to tell some truth to it as she would likely be a good choice for helping me lead the girls of the class as she is likely a martial artist herself.

"From what I know he has been beating them up when they don't listen to his instructions like his speech about classroom behaviour."

Ibuki nodded.

"So did he beat Manabe and her followers then because in the classroom they haven't been glaring at me anymore but outside they intensify it."

"She saw a bit of a beating along with me and Ryuen threatened her but I convinced him that she would listen in class from now on."

"So he is going to beat the whole class into submission then?" She stated.

"I can't predict everything he will do it's not like I am close to him." A partial lie doesn't hurt in this scenario. When may 1st comes I will need Ibuki to support me against Ryuen at least in the figthing aspect when the confrontation goes down.

"Fair enough do you think if the boys raced you would come 1st." She stated with a bit of interest evident in her speech.

"Who knows?"

As I stated that the instructor finally arrived and asked if we could all swim to which everyone said yes.

"Warm up then we will hold a competition boys and girls will be seperate and in groups of 5 and 1st place of each group competes in their genders final group winner gets 10,000 points. You have 5 minutes so warm up or whatever."

Most of the boys looked at me with determination in their eyes at the word competition they also looked at Albert without the determination likely due to the fact he is just built different.

We all warmed up well except for me as I just relaxed in the pool and did some splashing as I have never had the opportunity to play in a pool before luckily only the 5 who sat out saw my actions and I heard Manabe giggling and the others shocked at her reaction.

"All right here are the groupings:

Men

Group 1: Ryuen, Komiya, Tokitou, randoms

Group 2: Albert, kondo, Suzuki randoms

Group 3 : Ayanokouji, Kaneda, Oda, Sonoda, random

Group 4: Ishizaki, Nomuro, Yoshimoto, randoms.

(lmao these are all the names I could find)

Women

Group 1: Kinoshita, Nishino, randoms

Group 2: Ibuki, randoms

Group 3: Yajima (I think she the other athlete in vol 5 lol), randoms"

"Alright group 1 line up."

Ryuen was in the 1st lane with Komiya and Tokitou in the next lanes.

The whistle blew and Ryuen was going at an above average pace but not what one would call fast pace. It seemed the others were slowing down for Ryuen to have an easy victory and conserve energy. Well it didn't matter for the others as there pace wouldn't be able to match mine or Alberts.

Ryeun came 1st at a time of 31.78 seconds and the rest around 35 seconds.

The 2nd group went up and Albert was stoic as usual with the others looking like they had already given in to defeat

"IF I SEE ANYONE GOING SLOW YOU WILL HAVE SUPPLEMENTARY LESSONS!" The instructor yelled out despite being close enough for us to hear him clearly without his yelling. A few people held their heads in pain.

The other boys psyched themselves up to compete as it was forced and Kondo playfully punched Alberts arm to show competitive spirit but then held his hand in pain likely from hitting such strong solid muscle mass.

The whistle blew and Albert was not as adept at swimming as I would of have thought with Kondo and Albert being relatively equal in terms of pace. Albert slowed down immensely halfway through raising his head more than he did before to breathe allowing Kondo to take 1st place and Albert 2nd. (I am not racist and if you get the joke good for you)

Kondo had a time of 29.32 seconds and Albert had 32.47 seconds.

My group lined up and I was in the 3rd lane with Oda and Sonoda on my sides.

I noticed a few of the girls looking at me expectantly for the race and some observing my abdominal area with a tint of red on their faces.

The whistle blew and I dove into the water aiming for a time of 28 seconds as it would be fast enough to claim 1st and if required I could speed up a bit in the finals. A few seconds I noticed that Oda was aggressively swimming in such a manner that it would tire him out in a few seconds if he continued.

He then leaned closer to my lane and 'accidentally grabbed my leg to which I just casually shook it off with pure kicking speed so his hand slipped off. I continued and got to the end first and got out of the pool.

I heard the sound of cameras clicking from the girls phones and continued and sat down on the bench. I got a time of 28.43 seonds while the closest Sonoda had 32.32 seconds

The 4th group went and Ishizaki was the only one who could be considered to have higher level physical ability and easily won with a time of 31.16.

The girls went to give the boys finalist a break and the 1st group went up with Kinoshita being the clear winner but most of the boys eyes weren't on her toned body but rather Nishino's. She had no distinguishing features in the chest or gluteus maximus but had a cute face with indigo hair which was considered leagues above most of the other girls in class.

Nishino put her hair in a normal ponytail and I heard most of the boys saying some perverted stuff about how she was going to go down on them or something like that.

Nishino noticed this and glared at them and they didn't seem to mind and thought it was cute.

(Perverts from Class D still far worse lmao)

The whistle blew and as expected Kinoshita came 1st with a time of 33.21 seconds Nishino in 2nd with 37.21.

The 2nd group went and Ibuki was already considered the winner by everyone even the instructor. They swam and Ibuki got 33.05 seconds and smirked at Kinoshita who laughed it off saying 'typical tsundere.'

The 3rd group went and Yajima won by a landslide with a time of 34.73 seconds but one could tell she wasn't really trying. It wasn't that the class had students with weak physical abilities but there were some with beyond average abilities making our class a class good at PE.

The boys finalists went up with Ryuen in lane 1 Kondo lane 2, Me in lane 3 and Ishizaki in lane 4.

"Prepare to lose ikemen." ishizaki stated who I had learnt recently affiliated with the 'death to ikemen' movement around campus.

"kukuku." Ryuen simply kuku'd and the instructor signalled that we would start soon so we all went serious.

The whistle blew and we dove in. Ryuen took an early lead to which I quickly catched up and maintained a 2 metre lead on for the rest of the race.

Ishizaki by the power of hating ikemen was gaining on us and got within 1 metre of Ryuens position with Kondo about 3 metres behind Ishizaki.

This continued until the last 5 metres where Ryuen put in a last ditch effort to get 1st where I slightly sped up to win.

I got out of the pool and Ryuen did at the same time. "Well done playboy but I'll win next time." Ryuen stated likely trying to show signs of an impending battle between us.

The instructor announced our times as:

Me 26.54 seconds

Ryuen 27.03 seconds

Ishizaki 27.34 seconds

Kodno 28.43 seconds

I got my 10,000 points and then sat to watch the girls final.

I was relatively interested in who would be the winner from the girls side as I imagiend it to be a close battle.

The 3 lined up with Kinoshita lane 1, Ibuki lane 2 and Yajima lane 3.

The whistle blew and the 3 were neck and neck with cheers going towards Kinoshita and Yajima as most people weren't very fond of Ibuki but interacted with her as a classmate without any close friends.

The 3 continued on in hot pursuit of one another with it being anyones game. There was only 5 metres remaining and the 3 were still even and it continued until they reached the end of the pool.

Times:

Kinoshita 31.83

Yakima 31.97

Ibuki 32.07

Upon exiting the water Ibuki had an even scarier scowl on her face than normal and was glaring at the 2 who placed above her who simply laughed it off as usual.

A week went by since swimming classes and the girls have continued their observations of me with Ibuki sometimes coming to discuss Ryuens tyranny over the boys in class but other than that no one really talked to me.

"Class we will be having a surprise test today don't worry this exam won't go towards your report card but cheating is punishable with expulsion."

If it was just a normal test without it counting the punishment of expulsion shouldn't be on the line.

I received the exam and saw that most questions were very easy except the last 3 questions. I saw a few of the others answering the questions easily such as Kaneda and shiina the 'smart ones' of the class so if I wish to deviate myself as a smarter individual I'll have to answer all of these questions correctly and later hope for harder exams where I can get ahead of the rest.

So l'll have to get 100 as lower than that would mean I'd be below them.

A/N I wrote this chapter at different times in the day so if the vibe changed you know why anyways please give me tips and stuff if no tips then like the thing so I know it's good lol