Characters: hanayama, retsu, katsumi, Yujiro

@HANAYAMA KAORU

On the afternoon that Saeri and Hanayama broke up (actually they only dated for about five minutes), after lunch, you lay on the desk in the classroom and stared blankly out the window, looking up at the sky, only to see a lead-grey cloud drifting leisurely across the sky. You're still thinking about what happened this morning, Saeri's courtship confession, and Hanayama's astonishing behavior, too much information for you to understand.

"Y/N, excuse me." A voice brought you back to reality from your messy thoughts.

You turned your head and looked up to see that it was Hanayama Kaoru, the protagonist of the confession incident.

After seeing who the visitor was, you straightened your back immediately and changed your prone position. For some reason, Hanayama has this kind of aura that can't be ignored, and people unconsciously respect him.

"Is it about 'that'?" you ask in a deliberately low voice, even though there aren't many people in the classroom.

"...not like that," he said. "I just wanted to ask you how to do the math homework."

Hearing this, you can't help but breathe a sigh of relief, thinking that Hanayama was here to talk to you about that incident.

"Which question do you want to ask? Let me see." Saying that you took Hanayama's math homework and found that it was all blank and didn't write a single word.

"All."

You are taken aback by Hanayama's assertive tone.

"All? There are many questions that the teacher has explained in the class."

Hanayama bowed his head in frustration. "Sorry, I don't understand... The teacher teaches too fast."

Seeing his discouraged look, you couldn't bear it, so you quickly comforted him: "No, it's okay! This is very simple, and I can teach you."

Hanayama looked up suddenly, looking at you with some sort of admiration.

"Then, I'll leave it to you." he said sincerely.

Then you ask Hanayama to bring a chair over and sit next to you because you have a hunch it will take a long time to teach him to understand.

You start with the first question:

(x-1)+2yi=11+xi

"This question is very simple. You see, these two equations are equivalent. That is to say, the left hand side is equal to the right, so the real number on the left is equal to the real number on the right, and the imaginary number on the left is equal to the imaginary number on the right."

Hanayama frowned in confusion, so you grabbed a blank piece of paper and wrote the steps on it.

x-1=11, 2y=x

"So you understand now?" you say. "Now, all you have to do is solve the equations."

Hanayama nodded in understanding, picked up a mechanical pencil, and wrote the rest of the steps on the homework. The final answer was x=12, y=6.

You clapped your hands and encouraged, "That's right! That's amazing! It's simple, right?"

Hanayama seemed to make a realization. "You are right."

Just after he said this, when he was about to do the next question, he was punched again by mathematics.

(7z+8)(12z+6)= 2(11z+3)(12z+6)

"This...this question...how to do it?" Hanayama asked weakly.

"Let's expand and simplify the two brackets on the left hand side first." you say.

Hanayama did what you said, and it went well at first, but when he saw 7z times 6, he stopped writing, turned to look at you, and asked, "7x6 is 48... right?"

"What?"

"According to my memory..."

"No... how could 7x6 be 48?"

"But..."

Hanayama wanted to refute but was stopped by you. "7x5 is 35, so 35+7 won't be 48..."

"But--"

"There is no point in persisting on this question any longer, is there?"

"Don't lie to me."

"I'm not lying to you! Math is math! It doesn't lie to you!"

"I clearly remember that 7x6 is 48."

You're frustrated, "Think! Hanayama. Think! Four 7 is 28, five 7 is 35, and six 7 is what?"

Hanayama became expressionless. He turned his eyes away for a moment, stared at the sky in a trance, then looked at you again. "48, it's 48."

You got infuriated, stood up from your seat, stepped on your own chair, grabbed Hanayama's collar with one hand, and yelled at him, "Don't you fucking underestimate math!! I say 42 is 42! Write the fuck down! You fucking idiot!!"

The focus of the whole class was on you for a moment, and since then, there has been a legend in the street that a female high school student dared to grab the collar of Hanayama Kaoru, who is known as "Japan's strongest fighting expert", and yelled at him. The angry appearance of the girl's high school is like a demon and is called "Demon Face" by the world.

Subsequent:

You know it's rude to shout insults like this, so you immediately let go of Hanayama's collar and apologize. Hanayama didn't get mad and offered to invite you to dinner as a thank-you for your teaching.

The two of you became friends and became closer, and studied together in the cafe on weekends (mostly went to the maid cafe).

After you and Hanayama have become more frequent appointments, for some reason, when you walk down the road, the delinquents and the scary-looking people are respectful to you and even run away from you. As weird as you might think, it doesn't interfere with your daily life, so you quickly put these things behind you.

@RETSU KAIOU & OROCHI KATSUMI

You stay up late reading Case Closed/Great Detective Conan. Although you are not a person who likes to watch detective manga, but the male lead Conan is still likable - although according to your statistics, so far, Conan has fired a total of 90 anesthetic needles, and Richard Moore has been shot the most, he got shoot 58 times, the second place is Serena Sebastian, she got shoot 13 times ※.

(※Note: The source of the data is from 黝黑蝸殼天眼老師, and the statistical data does not include the original content of the theatrical version and animation version)

As a result, you wake up late the following day. Because it's summer vacation, your mother doesn't wake you up in principle, and you don't have to go to Shinshinkai for karate class today, so when she wakes you up with her hands on your shoulders, you feel confused at first.

"It's almost ten." said your mother.

"It's summer vacation!" You sighed, opened your eyes hard, stretched out, and rested in the comfortable coolness of the air-conditioning. "And I stay up all night to read manga."

"You are rereading manga!" she shouted. "If you have the time to read manga, why don't you read the reference book I bought you."

"Mom, you are completely discriminating against the entire ACG community!" You retorted, "Reading manga won't kill my brain cells, but it can increase knowledge beyond textbooks."

"Then tell me what you learned in Case Closed," said the mother dryly.

"Leave the scene immediately when you meet a schoolboy who looks like Conan." you say.

"Forget it, I won't discuss this with you. Do you have any plans for today?"

"No."

"Don't you want to go out for a walk?"

"I know, I know, you just want to drive me away. I am such a sensitive and soft-hearted woman, I can't live well myself, and I can't love others well. Alas, even my own mother hates me."

"I'll give you ten thousand yen to buy something."

"Okay, thank you, mom, for your strong support. I'll go to the bookstore now."

Mother smiled, "Is it cool to go to the bookstore now?"

"I pride myself on not knowing what's cool to do." you reply.

After you eat, take a shower, and change your clothes, you go to the DemonBack Department Store by car. The DemonBack Bookstore is on the fourth floor of the DemonBack Department Store, but you first go to the food court on the second floor to buy a cup of bubble milk tea and then go to the fourth-floor bookstore.

As soon as you arrive at the bookstore, you immediately go to the manga area, and not to see ordinary manga, but BL manga, and it is the super erotic kind of BL manga.

Although you are underage, the clerks here never ask your age or ask to see your ID card. They just give you a scrutiny look, then quickly check out for you, and then put the manga in a paper bag.

By the end, the clerks were so used to you that they didn't even look at you.

On this day, you also came to the bookstore and took a manga called "Painter of The Light". When you were about to go to the cashier to check out, a familiar voice stopped you.

"Y/N!" said the voice.

You can't believe your ears, and you even wonder if you heard it wrong.

(How is that possible? I have already gone to the DemonBack Bookstore, which is far away from my home. How can I still meet acquaintances? What should I do if others find out that I like this kind of thing!)

You, who was named, swallowed and turned your head mechanically. When you saw who was coming, your face turned white instantly.

You have a bolt from the blue right now. "K-Katsumi? And... and Retsu-san?!"

The two walked towards you and stood straight in front of you.

"I didn't expect to meet you here!" Katsumi smiled at you.

"Yes, yes, haha, what a coincidence." Saying that you secretly hide the manga behind you. You're thinking, if Katsumi and Retsu know that you like Hentai BL manga, you'll probably die socially, no, not probably, you will definitely die socially.

"By the way, what books did you buy?" Retsu asked, pointing behind you.

(Retsu, read the room!)

"Could it be Hentai?" Katsumi blinked with interest.

"Only Katsumi you would buy Hentai." you said.

Katsumi raised his hand, flicked your forehead lightly, and said, "I'm your elder, brat."

"It hurts!" You covered your forehead but accidentally dropped the manga in your hand to the ground.

(?!)

Retsu, who was beside Katsumi, bent down and picked up the manga on the ground. "Painter of the light... They are nobles and painters with disparate status, but they are getting closer and closer from the sex time to time...?" Retsu frowned and read the content on the cover.

(I will never go to Shinshinkai again in this life.)

Katsumi took the manga from Retsu's hand and roughly read the contents. After reading it, he calmly closed the book and handed it to your hands.

You turned your head. "...Please don't tell my parents."

"As long as you practice hard, we won't tell your parents." Retsu grabbed your right arm tightly. "You'll work hard, right? Don't miss class too often." He released his hand and patted you on the shoulder.

"I will..." You nodded obediently.

"We know your deepest darkest secret now." A playful grin spreads across Katsumi's face.

"You are so despicable now!" You turned your head again and grumbled at Retsu, "Retsu-san, hurry up and scold Katsumi! He's bullying me!"

Retsu kept pursing his lips and grinning while you and Katsumi spoke ill of each other.

In the end, you still bought the "Painter of The Light" smoothly, and it was a lot of fun to watch it that night.

@HANMA YUJIRO

(Umekawa: Yujiro is Tsundere, no doubt about it.)

One sunny afternoon, you and Sasaki agreed to play in the park, but since you arrived early, you first went to the small garden at the back of the park and quietly observed the big orange cat living there.

"Y/N, what are you doing here?"

A certain voice sounded behind you. You turned your head, and what caught your eye was Yujiro's face.

You look up at him. "Ah, it's you, Yujiro."

"What are you doing?"

"I'm looking at this fat cat. Don't you even know what a cat is?"

"Don't take me for a fool!" Yujiro frowned.

"I didn't take you for a fool!"

"I'm not the kind of vulgar boy who will be regarded as an idiot by you who likes such a corny creature." Yujiro finished without gasping for breath.

"Don't think of me as an idiot!" You exploded.

"What? It's rare for you to talk back."

"You have to interrupt every time I want to play with Sasaki. Why are you always being so mean to me?"

"Because you're too cheesy."

"No, no," said the two voices in unison.

You and Yujiro turn their heads and see two boys who look exactly the same but in different clothes standing next to you. These two are twin brothers Misawa, your classmates.

Yujiro looked at the twins in dissatisfaction and said in a sour tone: "What are you two doing?"

"What's your name?" the twin older brother Misawa Yuu asked.

"Do you have a name?" younger brother Misawa Shingo asked again.

"Of course, my name is Yujiro." Yujiro hummed.

"You are wrong, Yujiro." Yuu said.

"It's you who is at fault, Yujiro."

"What did I do wrong?! Can you two stop keep saying the same thing over and over again!"

"You like Y/N, right?" the twins whispered in Yujiro's ear.

Yujiro blushed. "Liar! How is it possible!!"

"Please don't call us liars." said the twins.

"What the hell is going on with you two?" Yujiro said, "This is the first time you've met me. How dare you to talk like this to me?"

"Even when I first met you, I knew who you were just by looking at your face." Yuu said.

"How do you know who he is?" 'Shingo snapped back.

"It doesn't matter who he is!"

"Don't treat people like idiots!"

"This Yujiro must be an idiot!"

Hearing the quarrel between the twins, the big orange cat had run away long ago. Your smile instantly evaporated, and you yelled at the two of them: "You two, don't go too far, Yujiro is my cousin! And the cats are scared away by you two!"

Yujiro stared at you intently and whispered, "Y/N..."

"Y/N scolded me. I'm going back." Yuu and Shingo said in unison, "Goodbye."

After saying that, the two brothers left.

"What are these two doing here..." you muttered.

"Y/N!" Sasaki's voice came.

"Sasaki!" Your face suddenly burst into a smile, and your voice became much sweeter.

"Shall we go for a swing?" Sasaki suggested.

You nod your head. "Sure♡!"

"Ah," Sasaki looked at Yujiro, who was speechless, "Yujiro, you're here too. Do you want to play together?"

Yujiro scoffed. "I don't want to play such a corny game. Goodbye."

Having said that, Yujiro left with a lonely pace.

"What's wrong with Yujiro? He seems sad." Sasaki asked, a little worried.

You wave your hand and say, "Don't worry. He isn't that fragile."

"You better go look after him. He doesn't look very well."

Under Sasaki's push, you go to Yujiro eventually.

You found him by the river bank when you were standing not far behind him and heard him say to himself, "I like Y/N? what a joke! I'm Hanma Yujiro. How can I possibly like her?"

"Oi, Yujiro." You finally said.

Yujiro turned his head suddenly and looked at you in panic, "Y/N?! You, did you hear it?"

"What are you doing here? Do you think you are a tragic heroine in a girl's manga? It's disgusting."

"I... aren't you playing with Sasaki?"

"Because you suddenly said you were going back."

"I'm going home tomorrow."

You are kind of happy. "Huh? Are you serious? Why? Goodbye then."

"You're so cold. You really hate me, don't you?" Yujiro looked at you resentfully.

"I didn't."

"Liar, you obviously hate me!"

"I just say I don't hate you."

"You obviously hate me!"

"Yeah, I hate you."

Yujiro chuckled to himself, "Really? Sure enough, I seem to really like you."

"Eh?"

"But you don't have to worry about it. It's just that a man from out of town was dumped by a woman he shouldn't love... There was once such a man, and all of this is just like this." Yujiro whispered.

You are relieved that you have no clue what is going on now, "What, it's just like this!"

"Y/N, you idiot! Farewell!" Yujiro turned around.

"Yujiro, take care!" You shouted towards Yujiro's lonely back.

While it may seem like it has absolutely nothing to do with "How did you become close," this actually plays a significant role in your future with Yujiro.