san deliberately paused for half a beat, perhaps to give him time to think, and then said,

"You often said that you're 'not interested' in me--well, you should be rather interested, right?"

On hearing Kudou-san's question, Muttsurini snorted coldly before saying,

"..What idiotic words are you saying.."

"..What kind of secrets are hidden under the shorts?"

"..Uu (pak pak pak)!"

"..It hurts."

Muttsurini forcefully hits the summoned beast that subconsciously revealed his true thoughts a few times.

Muu, no matter how Muttsurini tries to force it, the fact that he's interested in Kudou-san (or at least what's under her shorts) can be seen clearly from the way he's nosebleeding.

"Ahaha. This little fellow's really frank. How interesting~"

"..Not interesting at all!"

"..I really want to see the shorts."

"..Uu (pak pak pak)!"

"..Stop hitting me."

"Ahahaha!"

Even after knowing Muttsurini's true thoughts, Kudou-san seemed rather happy.

"Seems interesting. Shall I have some fun too~"

""Hm?""

Kudou-san looked away from Muttsurini and turned to Yuuji and me. What does she want to do to us?

"Hey, Yoshii-kun, Sakamoto-kun.."

After calling our names, Kudou-san suddenly reached out to grab her skirt for some reason.

"Maybe I'm not interesting for wearing shorts--"

She deliberately stopped halfway to give us time to talk. Wha, what is she trying to do?

"Do you want..to see what's under my skirt?"

As she said this, Kudou-san even lifted her short skirt under. Do I want to look under her skirt? Haha, really, I thought she would say something else!

"What are you saying, Kudou-san? We're not"Please let me look under your skirt!"perverted people.."

"That's right Kudou. No matter how you try to fool us"Wait Akihisa! Me first!" it's useless.."

"Aki, come over for a while."

"Akihisa-kun, I have something to say to you."

"..Yuuji, come over."

What's going on? Why do I sense impending death?

~Please hold on for a moment~

"Really, it seems that the punishment for the peeping and the confiscated manage haven't made you learn. You'll definitely create a lot of problems with you create those pervy things. Right, Mizuki?"

"Eh? We, well, I guess it couldn't be helped that boys at this age would think of such pervy stuff..bu, but anyway, Akihisa-kun shouldn't look at Aiko-chan that way! If you continue to think those pervy things, I will have to punish you with Minami-chan."

"..Yuuji, I won't allow you to cheat on me."

""We remembered it deep inside our hearts.""

Yuuji and I put our foreheads on the tatami mat and apologized in unison.

Uu..Minami's wrestling techniques and Himeji-san's warning made my body ache all over..

"I'm sorry, Muttsurini-kun, Yoshii-kun and Sakamoto-kun, I just want to tease you."

Kudou-san put her hands together and apologize to us tragic people.

"..I have no interest in Kudou."

"That's right. You're too much, Kudou-san."

"Please show some self respect to yourself, will you?"

"Hm? I shouldn't lie just to tease you. Sorry."

"It's great that you can honestly reflect on things--hm? lie?"

What did she mean by lie?

"That's right. I just lied. Actually, I--"

Lifting her skirt up to a height where something can be vaguely seen underneath, Kudou-san said slowly,

"Actually, I'm..not wearing shorts today."

"..U (Tatata)!"

"..U (Tatata)!"

"..U (Tatata)!"

""WE DON'T MEAN IT LIKE THAT!""

"""No need to explain! Come over!"""

~Please hold on for a moment again~

"Damn it..my consciousness' starting to fade.."

"Not good..my fingers are trembling.."

Yuuji and I collapsed onto the tatami mat lifelessly and muttered. We wanted to get up, but it seems that we need some time before we can recover."

"..Yuuji, I'm not wearing shorts underneath as well."

"Really, Aki, why are you always thinking of those pervy things in you mind?"

"Akihisa-kun, please reflect on your actions this time."

The girls lectured us one by one as we lay on the tatami mats. Muu..even if you say so..

"..(Unable to move at all)."

On a side note, Muttsurini couldn't move at all as he lost too much blood due to noseblood. Because of that, he was able to avoid the anger bombardment of the girls. On a certain sense, we're really envious of him.

"Aki, you idiot! Pervert!"

Minami's summoned beast even climbed onto my back and jumped on me. But because of her Ancient Literature scores, the summoned beast wouldn't hurt me no matter how they try. If it's just that, there's no need to be scared even if I made her angry..

Just when my body regained its senses, Kudou-san again ran to us.

"Also, listen, you three. I overslept this morning, so I didn't have time to wear my bra."

""Please spare us "What did you say happened to your bra!?" the agony already!!""

AHHH!! Even though we know that we can't be taken by Kudou-san, we'll still show our honest reactions subconsciously!

Just when we were getting scared of the sudden storm of rage, Kirishima-san came over to Yuuji. This guy will have to take the third punishment today..and I don't think even he will take that, right? Goodbye Yuuji, we'll meet up in the other world.

"..Yuuji."

"No, that's not it, Shouko! This is a normal reaction a guy can't control..!"

Yuuji continued to flail his arms as he tried to defend himself weakly. However, Kirishima-san continued to remain silent and walked closer to Yuuji,

"..Eh."

"Hm? WHOA!"

She suddenly reached out and put Yuuji's head into her chest. What? That bastard!!! I'm so envious of him!!

"..Are you happy?"

"Wha, what are you saying! How can I be so happy about such a "YAHHOOOO"TTHHHHIIIIIIINNNNNNGGGGG!!!"

Yuuji used all his strength to try and cover the true thoughts his summoned beast said.

On hearing Yuuji's true thoughts, Kirishima-san smiled and held Yuuji's head in even tightly.

"..Then let's hug longer."

"What are you saying, "WOOOOOOOAAAAAAHHHH!!!" LET GO OF MEEEEEE!!!!"

Yuuji tried his best to struggle and get away from Kirishima-san's clutch.

Really, that guy's really not honest. He should just express how happy he is in this situation.

"You're so lucky, Yuuji! I'm jealous! I'm jealous!!"

See, why is my summoned beast so honest?

"Akihisa-kun, you shouldn't look at Shouko-chan that way."

"Aki, you haven't reflected on yourself enough?"

I'm really too honest here.

☆

"I'm happy that Akihisa-kun's interested in the opposite gender, but you can't look at Shouko-chan and Aiko-chan like that. Akira-san will be angry. Even if she isn't, haven't you created a lot of problems recently because of pervy stuff?"

"Yes..I'm really sorry.."

I kneeled down and listened to Himeji-san lecture me. Minami, who was sitting beside Himeji-san, wanted to tell me off too, but on hearing her summoned beast comment about Yuuji's situation "Will my small breasts make others happy", she immediately ran out. However, I guess the reason Yuuji (summoned beast) was that happy was that, more than the size of the breasts, the bigger reason was that Kirishima-san was the one who hugged him.

"Speaking of which, if you're really interested, you should calm down and find a steady partner. Everything has an order."

Himeji-san put her hands on her waist and warned me. Himeji-san may be angry, but her angry side had an undescribable charm. It really looks cute to me.

"..Akihisa-kun, are you listening to me?"

"Ye, yes, I was listening to you!"

Wah, that was bad. Looks like I have to listen to her properly. Himeji-san's angry now. If I let her know that she's cute when she's angry,

"Angry Himeji-san's really cute, and there doesn't seem to be any terrifying punishment on the body."

"NNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

"A, Akihisa-kun?"

I said that it'll be bad if she finds out, yet I said it out! This idiot summoned beast! It's rare that she didn't beat me up today; what will happen if she changes her mind!?

".."

I timidly looked for Himeji-san's response.

Himeji-san's still angry, but she couldn't hide her happy expression. As a girl, of course she would be happy about being called cute, but she must be feeling complicated about being called cute when she's angry. Anyway, it's best if she doesn't change her mind and punish me..

"(Ahem) Akihisa-kun, an, anyway.."

"Ye, yes, Himeji-san?"

"Are you going to punish me now?"

Seeing Himeji-san peek forward for some reason, I subconsciously took a step back.

"No, I don't have any intention of punishing you..I, I know that this is sudden--A, Akihisa-kun..do you have anyone you like?"

"Eh? Why are you asking that out of a sudden?"

I couldn't catch up to the sudden change in topic. What is Himeji-san saying out of a sudden?

"..Even though I knew it, but Akihisa-kun really doesn't understand others when this is involved.."

"Why is she asking me whether I have someone I like at this moment? Is this like those movies when someone will pass my words to the person I like so that I can rest in peace? Speaking of which, I believe this sort of scene happened in the movie I watched last week. Holding tightly onto the hand of the dying comrade, letting him say his last words and lit a cigarette for him to smoke in his mouth. That person was then called back to be with the Lord. Then..will Himeji-san make me smoke later? But I'm underaged. Can this really do..?"

"Erm, Himeji-san, I'm still underaged here.."

"And also, that's thinking in a completely wrong direction.."

How troublesome. I'll definitely be expelled if I smoke in school.

"Does Aki have feelings for me? I really want to know!"

"Damn it! Just be quiet!"

"NOOO~!!!"

"Don't say no!"

Slightly far off, Minami was fighting with her summoned beast. She also has it hard today.

"You're mistaken, Akihisa-kun. I just want to know if Akihisa-kun has someone he likes."

Himeji-san asked again. Ah, so that's not a declaration of death--someone I like? Un, but that's something I can't just say in front of others..

"Well, I like--"

"FLY AWAY! LIKE A BALL!!!"

"KKYYYYAAAAHHHH!!!"

"Ahh! chibi Akihisa-kun!"

I kicked the summoned beast into the dustbin as precaution before it spoke. Though the feedback will hurt my body all over, I managed to prevent my secrets from being revealed. That was really close.

"How could you do that, Akihisa-kun? Even if the one being kicked is you, that's.."

"It hurts."

"Okay, okay, pain pain go away, go far far away~"

Himeji-san saved my summoned beast from the dustbin and stroked the summoned beast's head softly. Damn it! My summoned beast, stop fooling around over there!

"..Yuuji, how about you? Do you like me?"

"Humph, how stupid. I don't have a duty to answer that."

"Me? Of course I--"

"CRY OUT AND WATCH MY ROUNDHOUSE KICK!!!"

"MUKYYYAAAA!!!"

"..Yuuji's too much."

Seems like Yuuji's having it tough over there too.

"Well, Akihisa-kun.."

Just when I was focusing on Yuuji's situation, Himeji-san carried my summoned beast and walked over.

"..(stare)."

"Akihisa-kun, what's wrong?"

"No, nothing, nothing at all!"

I frantically waved my hands and tried to look around.

Himeji-san walked over. That's not the problem--the problem is that she's holding my summoned beast in those soft breasts of hers! I've been feeling a certain hot and squishy feeling. Don't tell me..

"No, that's not it! I was just scolded about thinking about pervy stuff, so how can I think about such impure stuff out of a sudden? I'm not some perverted person--"

"The soft breasts feel so nice!"

"LET'S GO! THE NEXT STOP'S THE INCINERATOR!"

"Ah, Akihisa-kun! It's too much to kick your summoned beast outside no matter what!"

Himeji-san hugged onto my summoned beast tightly as if she wanted to protect it. DAMNED BASTARD! STOP GLEEING AWAY OVER THERE, MY IDIOTIC SUMMONED BEAST!

"Speaking of which, Akihisa-kun, as for the question just now."

"--The question just now?"

"Yes. It's the person..Akihisa-kun likes."

Ku..! Is she intending to ask the same question as just now? I really don't want to do this..! But since she insists on it, I have no other choice. Let's make Himeji-san try the pain of being questioned. We're all good friends, so we have to go through thick and thin!

Before my summoned beast could speak, I hurriedly spoke up to answer her question.

"Well, I like,"

"Ye, yes. Who does Akihisa-kun likes?"

Zuzu, in contrast to Himeji-san who couldn't help but bend forward--

"--G Class' Samon-san."

I pretended to tell her.

"..Eh? Sa, Samon-san? Who's that? I've never heard of that name before, and does our school have a G class - AH!"

DON<--Himeji-san's summoned beast appeared.

"Okay, now everyone's assembled! Himeji-san, let's talk about who we like!"

"Tha, that's too sneaky, Akihisa-kun! Using the name of the person you like to fool me is against the rules!"

Now I won't be the one being questioned all the time, and I can get everyone else involved in this as well.

"Fufu, welcome here, Mizuki. Let's all talk about our true thoughts happily."

Minami walked over unknowingly as she put her hand on Himeji-san's shoulder and smiled. That's right, having an extra chat partner is something worth being happy about.

"No, no problems, I don't have anything to hide in the first place,"

"Just now, when Akihisa-kun was thinking about pervy things, I didn't punish him because I have some things I couldn't say."

"NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

Himeji-san frantically covered the mouth of her overly honest summoned beast. Welcome to our world.

"You're too naive, Mizuki. It's because you've been thinking about trying to hide things that the summoned beasts would end up saying them out."

"My doll and table have photos of that guy, and also.."

Minami and Himeji-san leaped towards their summoned beasts. How stupid..It's because they're thinking about hiding things that this,

"Something I want to hide? Speaking of which, I want to hide the fact that my A-books were under the laundry basket.."

"UWAAAAHHHH!!"

"MUKKKYYYAAAAHHHH!!!"

I dumped my summoned beast into the dustbin. Who'll even care about feedback now?

☆

~At a same time, in a different place~

"We, well, Kubo-kun."

"Un? Erm, you're.."

"I'm the class representative of E class. My name's Nakabayashi."

"Really? Hello, Nakabayashi-san, do you need something?"

"Erm, how should I put it..actually, I, I wanted to say a few words with Kubo-kun. My heart's all fuzzy recently because of this..no, not fuzzy, or rather, sorrow? Sadness? Or worrying endlessly? Anyway, I don't know how to express this clearly, but no matter what, I have to tell you, all my troubles up till now..well, Kubo-kun, are you busy now?"

"Not really. I have time to listen to your troubles. No problems."

DON<--Kubo and Nakabayashi's summoned beasts appeared.

"Actually, I've always liked Kubo-kun from A class..maybe it's because I've been exercising all day that I really like those knowledgeable eyes of him--I really hope to go out with him!"

"Why must Yoshii-kun be so defenseless? He's really cute! Those clumsy actions, clumsy words, every clumsy action makes me fall in love with him."

""..""

"..Nakabayashi-san.."

"..Yes.."

"..I'm sorry."

"WHY MUST I BE REJECTED IN SUCH A HUMILIATING MANNER!? NOOOOOOO~!!!"

☆

""TAAKE THIS!!!""

""KYAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!""

Yuuji and I seemed to act in unison as we kicked our summoned beasts into the dustbin. I have no idea how many times I repeated this action today..

"Haa, haa, haa..why did I end up being so tired today.."

"Yeah..I didn't expect a self-aware summoned beast, to be this troublesome.."

"Yuuji, you have it light..unlike me..I still have to take, the feedback of my, summoned beast.."

It's tiring having our summoned beasts as our opponents, and this time, no matter how we attacked, the summoned beasts' points wouldn't drop at all..damn it, is this a trap that old granny set up!?

"..Yuuji, you should give up and tell me your honest thoughts."

"I want to dig up more secrets about Yoshii-kun~. This is for some people, right?"

""WHO'LL LET YOU KNOW!!""

Kirishima-san and Kudou-san haven't summoned their summoned beasts, and looked completely uninterested. No, even if those two people summoned their summoned beasts, I think we can expect them to feel at ease.

"Kudou-san! Shouldn't you be asking your worst nemesis Muttsurini instead of me?"

"Mn, I wanted to do that too, but Muttsurini-kun became like that--"

"..I have no interest in Ero-stuff."

"..I'm very interested in them."

"..It doesn't matter what skirt it is."

"..How can it not matter? That's really important!"

"..It doesn't matter anyway!"

"..No, I love them all!"

"--He's not much different from usual anyway."

"U..that's too sneaky.."

Kudou-san's right. Right now, Muttsurini's nosebleeding like mad and practically letting his summoned beast say his true thoughts, and he doesn't look much different from usual. It's really not interesting to tease Muttsurini in this state.

"In, in that case, I'll--"

To get her away from me, I looked around to check everyone's situation. How's everyone's situation now--

"A, Akihisa-kun! You can't come over to us!"

"And you can't eavesdrop! Look around to the other side!"

"But I'm troubled that he's looking at other girls like that! Even though I didn't punish him, I did lecture him badly!"

"Ah, I'm the same here! I won't allow that to happen!"

Not far away, Himeji-san and Minami were frantically trying to get in front of their summoned beasts to prevent their summoned beasts' words from being heard. Though they tried their best, I could hear the summoned beasts' voices--but I would eavesdrop on some weird terms like 'punishment', 'H-stuff' and 'pillow'. That really increased my curiosity.

"That's too bad. I knew all about Mizuki-chan and Minami-chan's secrets the last time we stayed overnight at prez's house."

Kudou-san clicked her tongue and reached her thumb out, shaking it at me. Damn it! Couldn't she just look for Himeji-san and the rest..

"How about Yuuji?"

"STOP KIDDING AROUND! SHOUKO ALONE'S A HUGE HEADACHE TO ME!"

"Mn~..Sakamoto-kun's under the control of the prez. There's no need for me."

Yuuji won't do? Then, Hideyoshi's left.

"That's strange? Speaking of which, I didn't seem to hear Hideyoshi's summoned beast talking."

"Mn? That's right? Isn't that too unfair?"

Thinking about it carefully, we didn't hear Hideyoshi or his summoned beast at all. What's going on?

"Arre? What's with you two? Did you call my name?"

Once I called Hideyoshi's name, Hideyoshi, who was sitting silently at a corner of the classroom widened his eyes. So he's been in the classroom all this time, but why is he so quiet?

"Kinosheeta-kun, were you sleeping?"

"No, in this situation, even I can't sleep, Kudou."

It's true that anyone who can sleep in this situation is a big idiot who's a lost cause.

"It'll be troubling if my summoned beast continues to say stuff on its own. So I imagined myself to be like an abbot on a pilgrimage, and curb my emotions using Zen."

".."

Hideyoshi's summoned beast was sitting down beside him with his legs folded, closing his eyes like Hideyoshi just now.

"Heh~so this can let our emotions settle~"

"I see. We just need to empty our consciousness."

"Um, seems that way."

The summoned beast with a calm and still expression straightened its back, and looked just like a kid. How cute.

Just when I was thinking about this--

"..I brought Yuuji and Yoshii's summoned beasts over."

""EH!?""

"It hurts."

"She did some overboard things to us."

Kirishima-san carried our summoned beasts over with one hand on one. Damn it! When did she!?

"SH, SHOUKO! HAND THAT THING OVER TO ME!"

"PLEASE, KIRISHIMA-SAN! HAND ME MY SUMMONED BEAST OVER!"

"..No. If I return it to you, you two are going to jump over and disturb me."

Kirishima-san's dead set on not returning our summoned beasts as she carried both summoned beasts and hid behind Kudou-san. This is really bad!

"Now I can ask their true thoughts. Yoshii-kun, do you have anyone you like~?"

"..Yuuji, what are your true thoughts?"

Having finally gotten this opportunity, Kudou-san and Kirishima-san raised the doubts from their hearts. Even if we try to shut our mouths tight, that--

"Someone I like? That's--"

Our summoned beasts were ready to speak up obediently without caring about our intent. Damn it! If that's the case, we can only try Hideyoshi's method.

Yuuji and I hurriedly folded our legs and sat down on the tatami mat. Zen, Zen..

Soon after, our summoned beasts did shut up and sat on the tatami mat silently as they entered a Zen phase. Ohh, that's really effective!

"That's strange? Yoshii-kun?"

"..Yuuji? Your answer?"

".."

Our summoned beasts continue to remain silent. Very good, this is really effective!

"Look at that, Minami-chan! It seems that we'll be alright once we enter a Zen phase."

"Really? Let us try it!"

We can't understand the situation the rest are going through once we close our eyes, but I can feel Himeji-san and Minami walking over to me with their summoned beasts and entered a Zen phase. I see. These two are sitting down cross-legged in a Zen phase. I see, I see..eh? Cross-legged? If, if that's the case..

"Sitting cross-legged with skirts on? I wanna see, I wanna see!"

"DAMN IT!!!! MY EVIL THOUGHTS!!!"

My summoned beast immediately regained its enthusiasm and jumped up. Damn it! You're too honest!

"What! sitting down cross-legged with skirts on?"

"..I wanna look too.."

""DAMN IT!!!! MY EVIL THOUGHTS!!!""

Ah, looks like I'm not the only one who thought that way.

"A, Akihisa-kun.."

"Aki..why are you thinking of those obscene things again?"

"I, I'm not! You're mistaken! It wasn't like that! Actually, I "Cheh, they're sitting in a seiza position instead of a cross-legged position" I'm really sorry! I was thinking of such impure and obscene stuff!"

Damn it! They knew all of my dirty thoughts!

"..Yuuji, I won't forgive you for cheating on me."

"THAT, THAT'S NOT HOW IT IS, SHOUKO! I WASN'T--"It's a guy's instincts to react to girls when they're sitting down crossed-legged!" KUUAAAAHHH!!! AAAKKKKIIIIHHHHIIIISSSSSAAAAA!!! EVEN I STARTED TO THINK ABOUT THIS BECAUSE YOU SAID THOSE NONSENSSSSEEEE!!!"

That's really a dangerous situation. An evil thought that comes out for a moment will involve life and death. Zen, zen..

"That's right, I should have worn pink underwear today, right?"

"I'm wearing aquablue~"

""NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"

Zen Zen Zen Zen Zen Zen Zen Zen Zen Zen Zen Zen Zen Zen Zen Zen Zen Zen..!! Evil thoughts begone! Troubles begone! Hurry up and think of that damned old granny's naked body..!

"Uggeeeehhh..I don't feel so good now.."

I ended up disgusting myself, but at least I managed to clear my mind of evil thoughts. Very good, very good, let's just continue to keep this Zen phase.

""".."""

After a while, all of us clear our minds, and silence occupied this classroom again. That's really great.

"Oi oi, Yoshii-kun."

".."

I continued to close my eyes. Though Kudou-san called me a few times, it's not enough to get me out of my Zen phase. I continued to close my eyes and sit cross-legged, cutting off all information from the outside world.

"Mn~ really, it became so quiet all of a sudden."

"..How bothersome. I want to know Yuuji's true thoughts."

The two girls who were in a safe zone muttered to themselves. I'm really sorry, but there won't be any more interesting things from now on. We just have to wait until the time ends.

"Ah, that's right. I met the principal before I came into the classroom."

"..Un."

"The principal handed me some stuff, and told me that if everyone's not moving, I should use these."

"..The principal handed you something?"

"That's right. The principal handed me some boxes, and told me to take out the paper slips from the boxes one by one and read it out to everyone."

I opened my eyes slightly, and saw Kudou-san open four small boxes. What are those..no no, let's forget about that. I should now focus on Zen. Calm down, calm down..

"..Three cards..word association game?"

"I don't really understand, but that's likely the feeling. Anyway, let's try it first. Let me see. Take the first piece out. Hear, prez, read it."

"..'Striped'."

"Here's the second one."

"..'Pink'."

"Here's the third one."

"..'Aquablue'."

"Think of something from these three things. What will that be?"

"..That's really hard."

"""PANTIES!!!"""

Not good! I got to calm down, and fast! This is a trap set by the enemy. I have to keep calm and clear no matter what, no desire for anything now..

"Now for the next round. Here's the first card."

"..'Yukata'."

"Here's the second one."

".."Nurse uniform'."

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