Since this summer, I wasted the phrases "Hot as Hell" many times. I wouldn't say that today was hot as hell. But I couldn't find any phrase or sentence that was more accurate to the weather today.

I heard the cicada singing. I found that it made me calmer. At least, someone was happy with this hot day.

If I made an appointment at Keyaki mall, maybe the thing would be easy. But today, Ike treated Yamauchi for consoling him. I didn't want them to know what I was planning.

This place was a little park behind the dormitory. It had a water vending machine, so the students usually used this place for resting. But on this summer day, it was too hot for any activity. Therefore, it was the perfect place for a hidden meeting.

"Sorry for letting you wait. "

After waiting for a while, the one whom I called appeared.

Karuizawa Kei sat down beside me and mumbled. "Hot..."

"Here. " I gave the can of juice to Karuizawa.

"Moe, It's not cold anymore. " Despite complaining, she opened the can and started drinking.

I looked at Karuizawa's clothes. She wore the normal jean and shirt but it looked pretty good.

"Sorry for calling you on a busy day."

"Don't worry. I have nothing to do anyway. " Karuizawa said. "Or I have to say---I have no point to spend anyway."

"You should learn to save your point, Karuizawa. "

"I know I should, but I need to spend it."

She sighed.

"You know? The confident girl is the biggest sister of all, and the confident girl means she should have no fear to buy something although she had no money in her pocket."

I didn't understand their norms at all.

And because of that, I didn't know how I should dispute her.

"But I had made a decision!" Karuizawa said. "From now on, I will save the money! I will convince my friend to do too!"

I nodded. "That's good. The personal points are as important as class points."

Karuizawa shrugged her shoulder.

I recognized something so I asked her; "Say, Karuizawa. About Sakura-San---"

"I had apologized to her. " She answered her suddenly.

"Eh?"

"Why are you that surprised?" Karuizawa raised her eyebrows. "As you said, I don't need to act like a bully to protect myself from bullying."

She looked to the sky.

"Do you know why I was bullied when I was in mid-schooler?"

She asked with no context. I shook my head.

"I don't know either. But I have some clue after looking at Sakura-San. " She answered her own question and said nothing else.

I guessed that Karuizawa's old class was filled with the bully. The real bully, not the paper tiger like Karuizawa acted toward Sakura. That scar was the evidence. Karuizawa or even Shinohara would never slit someone's stomach.

But I didn't know what would happen if they kept acting like this. Maybe they would become the real bully. If you kept painting your body, you would forget your original skin's color.

However. The topic today wasn't about bullying.

"So why do you call me out?" Karuizawa asked me.

"I want you to help something. " I replied. "Do you remember our promise?"

"Oh. I promised that I will do whatever you ask. " Karuizawa nodded.

"Well. The thing is---"

...

Flashback time!

Yesterday. After Yamauchi was rejected by Sakura. My room became the gathering point of the idiot quartet. (Yamauchi created this name. However, no one used this name. The fact was many people didn't use the idiot trio anymore. Since Sudo walked in the Zen path and Ike became a more decent man. Everyone called Yamauchi by the name "The one and the only idiot."

Yamauchi was the one who called us together and forced me to open the door. He came with glasses and a black turtleneck. He said it would make the investor trust him more.

"What investor?"

"The investor for my new project."

He stood on my bed, before us.

"My fellas! Our first high school summer is almost ended! But we haven't enjoyed our teenage life yet! All we got is fighting with other classes in the fucking special exam!"

If this was the last month, Sudo and Ike might yell with fervor.

But---

"Summer is the same with other seasons. A special exam is the same as swimming. Because everything is nothing. " Sudo said.

"Uh. I get a girlfriend. So I think I enjoy my teenage life enough. " Ike said.

"Hey. You already date with Shinohara?" I asked him.

Ike nodded shyly.

"Congratulation. So you are the second one in the class who gets the girlfriend. " I padded his back and wondered if I should date someone.

"In the end, everyone will die and be stray from each other. So enjoy your love when you can. " I guess it was Sudo's way for congratulation

"Hey. Yamauchi. Why do you walk to my kitchen--Why do you pick up my knife?"

"Die! Riajuu!!!!!"

I and Sudo need 5 minutes to stop Yamauchi and convince him to let Ike go. He calmed down finally, but Ike denied to close with him nearer than 5 feet.

"Well. Where was I? Oh yes. Although we have a traitor, most of us haven't enjoyed our teenage life yet! So I have something to spice our Seishun."

"What is it?" I asked.

"I will sneak the girls' naked body!"

I, Ike, and Sudo looked at each other.

"Ike, call the teacher. Sudo, call the police. I will make sure he can't run away."

"Stop!!!" Yamauchi shouted "And you! Put the phone down, Kanji!"

Ike put the phone down as Yamauchi commanded. He might be scared by Yamauchi's knife.

"Do you know how dangerous is this?" I said. "If someone finds out, you will be fired."

"And peaking the girl isn't that easy!" Ike supported me. "The girl's toilet is very secure. I tried to find a small channel to look inside for a month. But there is nothing!"

Hey. So you had tried once before.

"What a naive. This is why they called me Yamagod."

"Who calls you?"

"They. However, I plan everything."

Yamauchi told us his plan.

Normally, the school swimming pool was only for the swimming club. But for this summer, the school allowed the student to use it until the last day of summer vacation.

"What is the first thing flashing in your mind when talking about the public swimming pool?"

"Nothing. " Sudo said.

"The cheap copy of the wonderful nature pool. I never understand why people have to pay for swimming? They can go to the waterfall!" Ike said.

"Germs, contagious, drowning, the wisdom of senpai of the pool."

Yamauchi's disgust could be seen on his face.

"You are lack imagination. " He shook his face slowly. "I talked about a changing room! The place that filled by the naked girl!!"

He showed us the blueprint of the swimming pool. It seemed like the pipe in the boys' and girls' changing rooms was connected. Yamauchi's plan was he would send the remote control car with the camera into this pipe from the boy side and used it to shoot a video in the girl changing room.

"We need to do this in a team. Ayanokouji and Ken will watch out and make sure no one comes close to us. Kanji will use his skill to open an air duct, I will control the car." Yamauchi said. "Imagine. The white pure girl's body is in front of you! Every inch on their skin! In your eyes!!! I called this plan Ocean Idiot. I will be George Clooney. Ken is Brad Pitt. Kanji is that sweaty guy who writes the map on his palm. And Ayanokouji is the brother of the batman---After Bale but before Pattison."

"At least, remember his brother's name."

We looked at each other awkwardly.

"I think---I won't join. " Ike mumbled. "I have a girlfriend. Satsuki will kill me if I do. I don't want to betray her. Do you know? Satsuki kiss her friend for me--"

"Don't you want to know what the girls do in the changing room?" Yamauchi whispered. "We boy does the boss of the gym stuff. What if the girl does the same?"

"I will join your operation! Wait what is the boss of---"

Yamauchi turned to Sudo. "Ken, what about you?"

"Skin, boobs, or face, Everything isn't forever. In the end, it will turn to the rotten meat of the corpse. There is nothing that attracts me."

I padded Sudo's shoulder. He was into Buddism's philosophy very much.

"Do you know? Looking at the stranger's body is no different from watching porn. So I will ask the girl from our class to the swimming pool. This is our target."

"From our class. Don't tell me---"

"Yes. Kushida-chan, Sakura-chan, and---" He glared at Sudo. "Horikita."

"I'm in."

Oi, oi. My comrade! Lord Buddha was disappointed.

...

"What a disgusting man. " Karuizawa commented after hearing it. "So did you stop them?"

"No. Their desire is too powerful. I can fight them. I will go with them anyway."

Karuizawa moved out from me suddenly.

"Ayanokouji---I never---"

"Oi. I don't want to do a pervert thing. I have to stop them so I have to play with them first."

Karuizawa nodded and moved back.

"Why don't you tell the teacher though?"

"And fired them out? I'm not that cruel. So I have a plan. Yamauchi will send the remote control car into the girl's room in the morning and he will get it back when we go back. I will destroy the sim card between this time."

"Oh. Then, you don't have to confront them or tell the school. Smart plan."

"I didn't think it myself though."

I mumbled.

I called Inogashira last night and told her about the situation. She gave me this plan.

Karuizawa started kicking the air.

"But you can't go to the girls' changing room by yourself, right?" She asked.

"You understand the thing quickly."

"Huh. Why don't you ask someone else? Like Horikita-San. You closed to her, didn't you?"

"I asked someone else but she isn't free so..."

"So..I'm the second choice. Are you revenging me?" Karuizawa giggled. She talked about how she called me after Hirata isn't free. "Horikita-San will go to the swimming pool with you. She won't have time to do this mission, right?"

Actually, I didn't have an idea to ask Horikita for help in the first place. If Horikita knew what they did. I was afraid that Shinohara would become the wisdom before she married.

And Chiaki-Oneesan isn't an option too. I didn't want three more babies.

Therefore the one who I asked to help was Inogashira.

But her answer was---

"I don't want to solve the murderer in the swimming pool right now."

She was worried that there would be someone dying if she went to the swimming pool, and she also didn't want to face Kushida right now.

"I wonder..." Karuizawa said. "How could you convince Horikita-San? Kushida-San is trying for months to ask that girl out."

"Well, I have the magic word..."

...

"Horikita?"

"No."

"I didn't say anything."

"But I reject it whatever it is."

"Huh. Come on. Help me once."

"No is no."

"Alright. But please answer me. Do you know what Bo'ohw'o'wo'er means?"

"What is it?"

"Bottle of water in the British accent."

"..."

"..."

"Where will we meet?"

...

"However. Can you help me?" I asked Karuizawa.

She became silent and touched her belly softly. At that moment, she turned into someone that I never knew.

Then, I realized something.

"You don't have to do this. I will find the way..."

"Thank you to avoid talking about my scar. But both of us know what the thing really is."

Karuizawa said.

Yes. I knew that she didn't want to go to the swimming pool because of her scar.

"I can wear the one-piece swimsuit and I will hide this. But it gonna be so lame."

"I said you don't have to go."

"I said you can ask me to do whatever you want."

Karuizawa shrugged her shoulder. Did she want to pay my debt that much?

I looked at her face and decided to use a less depressing topic.

"Um. What about the mixer?"

"Disaster. " She answered immediately. "You know Satou-San was like...Nah, can you swim as fast as Ayanokouji-Kun? If you don't, don't talk to me. And for god sake! That nerd from class D always talks about how genius he is! And you know what? I find that Machida-Kun again! He tricked his girlfriend to go back first and tried flirting with Matsushita-San---They found him collapsed in the toilet, injured in the head. Oh! And---"

Karuizawa kept talking for thirty minutes. I just listened to her. At the end of the day, I heard 138 names that I didn't hear before. It was more than the number of our year!

The girl promised that she would pretend to go to the swimming pool with her friend. If it was possible, she would ask Shinohara too. Maybe Ike would stop his dirty thinking when he saw his girlfriend.

"Karuizawa. " I called her before she walked away.

"What?"

"Thanks again."

Karuizawa nodded and smiled a little bit. "If someone finds out my scar, it's your fault. Ok?"

...

The next day came. I couldn't deny that I was excited.

No. Not because of operation Ocean Idiot. But because this was the first time I went to the swimming pool for entertainment.

I woke up at 05.00 a.m. then I went to Yamauchi's room. It was lucky that he didn't lock the room.

I stood beside his bed and pulled his shirt.

"Yamauchi. Let go to the swimming pool."

Yamauchi opened his eyes slowly and glanced at me. "It's 5 a.m. We make an appointment at 9, remember?"

"Wake up. " I pulled his shirt harder. "I want to go to the swimming pool."

"I want to sleep."

"I want to go to the swimming pool right now. Yamauchi, I want to go. I want to go."

"You little shit!"

Finally, Yamauchi gave up. We did the same with Ike and Sudo.

Well, we tried to do the same with Horikita. But when Yamauchi opened her doors. The compasses were shot from the canon in front of her rooms. It stabbed Sudo, Ike, and Yamauchi. It didn't hit me at all. So we decided to wait for her.

We were all together at 8. Kushida and Sakura came together.

Damn! I almost forgot how Kushida looked like. I couldn't remember which was the last chapter she appeared in.

"Good morning! Horikita-San. Ayanokouji-Kun. Sudo-Kun. Ike-Kun. Yamauchi-Kun!" She said cheerfully as always.

H--Hi. Everyone. And how Sakura could stutter in the notebook was still the mystery.

"Ok. If everyone is ready. Let's go!" Yamauchi announced happily and walked leading everyone.

"I feel something wrong about them. " Horikita mumbled.

"You think too much. They just want to hang out with you. " I whispered before stepping away from Horikita when I felt the vengeance eyes from Sudo.

"It's perfect, right?" Yamauchi whispered to me. "3 girls, 3 boys. I get Kushida-chan, Sudo get Horikita-chan. And you get Sakura. Forget Ike."

He seemed to move on from his heartbreak.

Suddenly, Yamauchi stopped walking and looked to the front door.

"Woh! Today, we are lucky. 2 girls per boy, man."

Ichinose Honami was standing with her friend. Judging from her wearing, they might go to the swimming pool too.

"Kiyotaka-Kun! Yaho!" Ichinose waved her hand when she saw me. "Oh! Big group. Where are you going to go?"

Yamauchi answered instead. "We are going to the swimming pool. What about you?"

"Oh! What a coincidence! Us too! What about we go together?"

"More girl? It'll be great!" Ike said excitedly.

At first, I was happy that there would be more people. But then, I realized something.

I turned my glance to Honami's friend. Looked one by one and hoped that she wouldn't be there.

There were two girls with Honami.

One was the cute girl who looked like Karuizawa with black hair. Honami told me that her name was Mako Amikura.

And another one.

Author's note: Sorry for the late and not well chapter. I'm writing the plot for my dark-fantasy novel about beautiful girls using magic to blow each other's heads. So I can think of any joke for this chapter. I promised I will make it better next time.