"Here we go!" Ike screamed and threw the ball over the net.

"Beware! Mako-chan!"

Amikura jumped and hit the ball back to us. Sudo who standing in the backline ran to the front of the net like he was flying, bouncing the ball back. Ryuji and Cho tried to stop the ball but they couldn't. The ball impacted the sand's floor.

"You are very good! Sudo-Kun!" Kushida said with a smile.

"Not bad. " Horikita said. Sudo bowed for her.

"Good Job! We will get the free drink!" Ike yelled.

We were in the middle of a volleyball game between class B and class D. When we reached the pool, we met Ryuji, Cho, and their classmate named Beppu by chance. So we decided to play volleyball and the loser would treat the drink to another party.

Sakura wasn't good at sport so she watched from the sideline.

"Ok. Come on!" Ike clapped his hand. "Hm? Haruki? Stand up! Why do you keep squatting?"

"Wait a minute. It starts to calm. "

Haruki, somehow, seemed to can't stand up.

"Damn! They're so bounced. " He mumbled. I was pretty sure that he wasn't talking about the ball. I looked around and saw the girls in the swimsuit.

"Ok. It's our turn to serve. " Honami said while grabbing the ball.

But Chihiro walked closer to her.

"Ichinose-chan. May I serve the ball, please?" She asked.

Hinami was surprised but she nodded and gave her friend the ball.

"Ok. This girl's so small. We can win her. " Yamauchi grinned.

Chihiro breathed in and bend her knee.

Didn't she just look at me?

"Yargh!!!!"

Chihiro shouted and jumped. Before hitting the ball over the net. It flew in my direction. Sudo tried to stop it, but the ball was faster than this athletic man.

I jumped out of the direction before it reached me only a second.

The ball bounced out of the field, leaving the hole on the floor.

Everyone opened their mouth wide. Even Sudo lost the color out of his face.

"Who is she?" Yamauchi said tremblingly.

"My worst nightmare. " I mumbled while holding the ball. It was still hot.

...

Chihiro served many balls after that. I saw Ryuji trying to convince her to stop serving. But Chihiro glanced at him and Ryuji didn't say anything after that.

This little psychopath shiptrash completely became the murderer. She aimed at me all the time. Sudo tried many times, but even his 100% power couldn't stop Chihiro.

However, I could survive all time. Bad for Yamauchi, the ball that I could dodge flew to him instead. His face was filled with the wound.

Well. Because Chihiro fouled many times. Class B was fined. So we won the bait.

"Wow! This is a very funny game. " Ichinose said awkwardly. "Once more."

"No!" Yamauchi screamed.

Horikita glanced at Chihiro with curiosity.

"I should learn from her. " She whispered to me.

"Learn what?"

"How to kill you. Only this match. She almost kill you more times than I had tried."

Despite saying like that. Horikita showed worry on her face. "If she keeps trying, you will lose someday. Ayanokouji-Kun."

I understood. I didn't know when my luck would be outed. Chiaki-Neesan wasn't here. She had to look after Koenji. So I had no one protecting me.

" Let's go swimming. " Chihiro said while smiling. "Ayanokouji-Kun. I can't swim. Can you teach me?"

I flinched. Normally, I was confident in my swimming ability. But I was sure that Chihiro would push my head into the water until I couldn't breathe, then pretended it was an accident.

Ike seemed to know her purpose. So he walked closely.

"Don't worry. Chihiro-chan. I'm a master of swimming. I will teach you until you grow your gill!"

"No, thank you. I think Ayanokouji-Kun will teach me better. I heard he broke the world's record, didn't he?"

Shit. That coincidence hurt me!

Not giving me any chance, Chihiro grabbed my hand and dragged me to the pool.

I looked to my friend for help. But---

"I will tell your family what happened to you. " Horikita said.

"Goodbye. Ayanokouji-Kun. It's great to befriend you. " Kushida said, I could see her happiness.

"Death is nothing. Ayanokouji. " Sudo bowed.

"You will live forever in my novel. " Ike said.

"Finally. Die! Ayanokouji!" At least, Yamauchi was honest.

Huh! You wicked! I wouldn't befriend you anymore. I had my true friend. Friendship is magic! Right, Honami?

"Like I always say. You are the best boyfriend I have ever had. " Honami.

"You are the best boyfriend that I never have. " Ryuji.

"Chihiro promised that it's not hurt. Trust her, Kiyotaka. " Cho.

"I don't know him. But are you sure that you will let Chihiro be with him?" Amikura. What a kind girl.

Someone help me! Oh. Sakura! Sakura wouldn't betray me---

At the sideline. Sakura was pretending to sleep.

How could I forget? This girl did the same thing when Horikita tried to torture me.

Ah. Is this the end? It's okay. Kaxxxa, I'm going to meet you!!

"My, my. That's Ichinose-chan, isn't it?"

"Oh, Nagumo-Senpai!"

A handsome man with blonde hair walked to our group. Chihiro stopped walking to look at him. I used this opportunity to run away from her. I hid behind Sudo's back.

"Who is this handsome bastard?" Yamauchi gritted his teeth and looked at the man who talked with Honami friendly.

"He looks like someone who will NTR your girlfriend. " Ike whispered.

"But he isn't the big fat old man!" Yamauchi said.

"Nah, he is another kind."

Honami turned to us and introduced that man. "This is Nagumo Miyabi-Senpai! He is the student council vice-president. He is a very talented man. "

Nagumo laughed. "Don't praise me that much, Ichinose-San. I can't compare to Horikita-Senpai."

Horikita grabbed her hand tighter.

"Miyabi!" A girl who seemed to be Nagumo's friend called him.

"Oh, I have to go play with my friend. See ya!" Nagumo said to Ichinose and ran to his group of friends.

"Do you know him, Kushida?" I asked Kushida who is always considered as the database.

"Um. I talk with him a few times. Maybe Ichinose-San is closer to him. I heard he is very popular."

Tch. Yamauchi clicked his tongue. "This kind of person that I hate most. The loser who popular just because he is handsome. These people don't even know how to swim---"

"Help! My friend is drowning!" Someone called for help from the other side of the pool.

We turned in that direction and saw a girl drowning in the middle of the pool. It was 50 meters from us. I ran to her immediately, I didn't know if I could help her though

Suddenly, I see something pass my body. Nagumo Miyabi reached that girl in the pool in one jump.

Ike's jaws opened.

"K--Ken. What is the jumping world record?"

"8.19"

Nagumo jumped 50 meters---

"Haha. " Yamauchi laughed awkwardly. "He has the muscle for sure. But if the food feed their muscle too much, it won't go to the brain---"

"Help! My friend is falling!" Someone called for help from the other side of the pool.

We turned in that direction and saw a girl crying and looking at her notebook.

"If I can't solve this quantum physics problem, I will fall!" She cried out.

Nagumo jumped to her and grabbed her notebook. The vice president looked at the book only a second and could solve it. "2!"

I didn't know which I should be surprised about first.

Yamauchi couldn't say anything else.

At that moment, my phone rang.

It was Karuizawa.

I answered. "Hi."

"Ayanokouji! I have a problem!"

"Hm? Where are you now?"

"In front of the changing room. I'm going to go inside the room--"

"I will go right there. " I said and ran to the building. It was the best chance for getting out of Chihiro.

...

When I reached the building, Karuizawa grabbed my hand and dragged me to hide behind the wall.

"What's going on?" I asked.

"Look."

She pointed to the front of the changing room. There were two groups of people confronting.

"I think I shouldn't interrupt them now. " Karuizawa mumbled.

I agreed with her. Karuizawa could read the atmosphere. Walking to that area was nothing different from walking throw two lions.

I remembered the leader of those two groups.

Ryuen Kakeru was with Ibuki, Ishixaki, and the African-American boy that I didn't know the name.

Another party's leader was the girl that Horikita attacked. Machida's friend named Hashimoto was beside her.

"Kuku. I don't expect to meet you here. " Ryuen laughed.

"Fufu. Me too. We meet again. " The little girl said.

"Kuku."

"Fufu."

"Kuku."

"Fufu."

"Kuku."

"Fufu."

"Stop laughing. I want to go to the fucking pool now. " Ibuki said angrily.

"Kuku. Don't hurry. Ibuki. The pool won't run away from you. "

The little girl grinned. "I never know the idiot like the pool that much. Fufu."

Instead of being angry. Ryuen laughed.

"Well. Someone likes you won't understand how wonderful is. I wonder if you can stand in the kid pool. Oops, I forget. You can't even stand on the land, Kuku."

"At least, my brain can work in both land and sea. But it seemed like your brain can do nothing in the sea, didn't it? Maybe it doesn't work wherever. Fufu."

"Kuku."

"Fufu."

"Kuku."

"Fufu."

"Kuku."

"Fufu."

"That's it. I will go home. " Ibuki turned back but Ishizaki hold her hand.

"Don't leave me alone with these beasts. " He whispered.

Ryuen and The little girl looked at each other. I could feel the vengeance from their eyes. They could fight each other now if they preferred to.

"This is the place for rest. Not for a fight. "

We looked to the second floor. Horikita Manabu stood at the balcony, looking at Ryuen and the girl like the king looked at his population.

"Fufu. I don't know you come to the pool too. President. " The little girl said.

"I will go wherever my sister goes--I mean it's a president's work after all. "

The president jumped out of the balcony.

"Wattttttt" Karuizawa opened her eyes wide. The balcony was at least 5 meters high. But the president landed on the floor beautifully. Did they choose the student council from their paranormal ability? I started to think again before calling Auntie Secretary. Maybe she could shoot the laser from her eyes.

(Spoiler: She could.)

"Hm? Is your mouth your only weapon? Why don't say anything when I come to meet you?" Horikita Manabu said. Because that little girl didn't talk anything when he jumped into the first floor.

But nobody looked at him. They looked at his feet.

Finally, he realized.

He was landed on that girl's body.

"Waugh!!" He jumped out of her body.

"Sakayanagi!!!" Her followers screamed. Oh, her name was Sakayanagi.

"Let's take her to the hospital."

"Aya--Kiyo---" Sakayanagi mumbled while her followers carried her and ran away.

Ryuen and his fellow looked following them and walked into the changing room without saying anything.

The president looked around. When he saw no one, he ran to the CCTV and destroyed it.

Then, he ran away.

"What---" Karuizawa scratched her head. "Do you know them?"

"I hope I don't."

Wow. Our president was the Siscon superhero who hurt people and tried to hide his guilt.

I felt you, American-Jin.

...

"Finally. " Karuizawa breathed out tiredly.

"Now, your doubt is cleared. Sorry for dragging you into this. " I told her.

Karuizawa turned her face away from me. "Well. Fine! It's a little bit funny though..."

I looked following her sight. It was 5 p.m. The pool was almost closed. Ike and others went to the changing room. There was no one left in the pool.

The water surface reflected the light of the day, turning orange.

"Say Karuizawa. What are you wearing? " I asked her.

She wore a hoodie to cover her swimsuit.

"Are you a pervert?" Karuizawa raised her eyebrows.

"Yes. I'm a pervert. Now tell me. What kind of your swimsuit?" I didn't care if she took my word seriously.

Karuizawa pursed her lips and lowered her head. "Competitive Swimwear. So lame!"

Her face turned red, she walked to the pool and kicked the water.

"Do you want to swim?" I asked her.

"I don't know. I haven't swum for a long time. " Karuizawa said. "When I'm in the mid-school. My scar is worse than this. Although I tried to cover with the swimsuit. They will try to cut my suit and show the scar."

She closed her eyes. Her face looked like she was going into the deep past. However, it wasn't a nostalgic past at all.

"The boys will show a disgusted face. The girls will laugh at me. And the teacher just pretend to see nothing---My school is a big name in my district. It shouldn't have any bullying---The first day in this school's swimming class, the day that you broke the world record. I vomit before the class started. I think I had changed myself. I think I'm apathetic to those bullying. But deep down. I'm afraid. I'm afraid my scar."

She smiled as flouting herself.

"Machida-Kun isn't the first boy whom I seduced for protecting me. There was a boy in my class. He is kind and friendly. He is like Yousuke-Kun. It was grade 9. I decided to seduce him, touch his skin, praise him. It worked for a while. He protected me from the girl who bullied me. Unfortunately, that girl's boyfriend is something-Kun's friend. Let's say he is something-Kun's boss. One day, something-Kun stopped protecting me. He called me a slut parasite. Since then, no boy see as a girl. They considered me as the trash. No cute, no beautiful---"

Karuizawa glanced at me. "Hm. It's weird."

"How weird?"

"Why do I tell all of this to you?"

"I don't know. I just stand here and you start telling me. "

"Maybe..." Karuizawa shrugged her shoulder. "Forget it. It's just a fairytale."

"I will never tell this fairytale to my child before bed at all. And I don't think it can be called fairytale..."

"I'm as pretty as a fairy. And this is my tale so--it's a fairytale."

I shook my head. "What kind of that coincidence?"

"Let's go. The pool was almost closed."

Karuizawa walked to the gate. But I stopped her.

"Karuizawa. Let's swim."

"What?"

"There is only the staff here. They are cleaning the pool. No one will see us. And if you worry about your suit. No one will see your lame swimsuit but me."

"It's not a problem..."

Her eyes escaped mine.

"Why do I have to show you my swimsuit?"

"I just recognized. You haven't paid anything to me for keeping your secret. "

Karuizawa looked at me angrily. "So you help me because you want something?"

"There are a few of people who helped people without wanting anything back. Unfortunately, I'm not them."

"You are the worst. " Karuizawa mumbled.

"You know who else is the worst? My father. Hurry up."

Karuizawa took off her shirt. Before she could resist. I grabbed her hand and threw her into the pool.

The girl raised from the pool's surface and seemed to want to kill me so bad.

"Are you idiot!?"

"Oh. GAL of the pool. What is your wisdom?" I teased her.

"My wisdom is---pulling me out of this lame pool now!" She cried out and raised her hand to me.

I grabbed her hand but instantly, Karuizawa pulled me into the pool with her. She laughed while pushing me down to the water. At first, II still resisted. But when I saw her smile---

Huh, being silly was not a big deal.

The pool guard didn't see us by chance. So we continue playing for 30 minutes.

...

"Why were you so slow, Ayanokouji?" Yamauchi asked me.

I shrugged my shoulder without saying anything and continued changing my cloth.

Beside me, Ike was removing the grille from the pipe and took the remote control car out of the pipe.

"Haha. Our precious treasure. " Yamauchi rubbed his hand. "Hurry up. When we came back to the dorm, we will see this precious video."

I laughed in my mind. These men wouldn't know that I just saved them from being fired. I found that I was a bit satisfied when imagining their face.

"Oh. Haruki. Tonight, I'm busy. Can you do it instead?" Ike asked Yamauchi.

"Yes, of course."

I bogged down and turned back to them. "Do what?"

Yamauchi hit his head. "Oh. I forgot to tell you. I decided that the camera from the remote control car isn't enough. So I came to the pool in the morning and set the camera in the logger of the girl changing room. When you woke me up, I had just come back from my work. We will come to take it this night---Where are you going?"

"Toilet. " I answered while running out of the room and headed to the girl's changing room.

This was bad. I didn't know that they had another camera. Karuizawa went back to her dorm so I couldn't ask her. I needed to do it myself.

When I came into the changing room. No one was there. I opened a logger randomly and found the camera immediately. Ok. I had to destroy the sim card.

"Huh. Finally, we can change our cloth. The toilet's line is so long---" The familiar voice was wailing.

Because of excitement, I jumped into the logger and closed the door.

I looked through the channel on the logger room's door and saw Honami, Chihiro, Mako, Horikita, Sakura, and Horikita walking into the room. They were still wearing the swimsuit.

What? They didn't change the cloth yet!?

"Today is very fun. I hope I can hang out with everyone again. " Honami said while opening her logger.

"Sorry. I don't think I will go out and do something like this again. " Horikita said coldly.

"Wow. I think I need to buy a new swimsuit. This one is really tight. " Amikura mumbled while reached her hand to her back.

"Don't lie to yourself. Mako-chan. I see no different!"

"Moe! Honami-chan! Don't tease me!"

Honami laughed while taking off her bikini.

Same as other girls.

...

"Kiyotaka-Kun. Your nose is bleeding!" Honami said worryingly.

"Don't worry. It's because of the hot weather. " I said and tried not to look at her. The sight of those mountains flashed in my mind, causing more blood.

"Let's eat some ice cream! It can help you!" Amikura suggested. What a kind girl. Her body was good too.

We went to the ice cream shop. Honami sent me the strawberry ice cream. I said thank you and ate it.

Wow! It was very good! Very fucking good! This was the revolution! The sacred food!

I ordered five more cones.

Everyone walked back to the dorm, chit-chatting with each other. Even Horikita was talking with Ryuji.

The last day of summer vacation was almost ended.

And this day, it filled with the happy memory.

Going to the swimming pool, playing with Karuizawa, my first holy ice cream, and of course----