"Wow! The sea here is so beautiful—I really want to go see it!"
"Miyako Island... I've never been there either."
"It does look nice. But it's in Okinawa, right?"
Chisa, Aina, and Shiro were looking at a magazine featuring the beautiful scenery of Miyako Island, their faces filled with longing.
Aina especially—ever since she experienced diving for the first time, her passion had been completely ignited.
The three of them were flipping through the magazine, searching for the best diving spots.
As for Iori and Kohei, ever since they arrived this morning, they'd been hunched over in a corner with their phones, clearly up to something.
"Oh! Are you guys researching diving?"
"Looks like you really enjoyed your first dive, huh?"
Two upperclassmen walked in and smiled warmly at the scene before them. It seemed their way of introducing newcomers to diving had been a success.
"Yeah, senpai! I want to get my license as soon as possible so I can go diving more often!"
Aina replied enthusiastically, completely captivated by the stunning underwater scenery she saw during her first dive.
And besides… wasn't this exactly the kind of college life she had dreamed of?
That statement left Chisa momentarily stunned. She hadn't expected the most enthusiastic member of the diving club to be a newbie!
"Well, speaking of which…"
"HAHAHAHAHA! Kamishiro, this is you, isn't it?!"
"You've hit number one on the forum! That's so lame!"
Before Shiro could even get a word out, Iori and Kohei zipped over to him, holding up their phones.
Judging by the smug, gloating looks on their faces, Shiro knew immediately—whatever it was, it couldn't be good.
Sure enough, the post title read…
"Freshman Shiro Kamishiro is a Scumbag!"
The post detailed how Shiro was flirting with multiple upperclassman girls at once. On top of that, it accused him of bullying Kudou, the president of the tennis club, and even included a photo of him entering a love hotel!
With all these juicy keywords, the thread exploded, shooting straight to the number one spot on the forum!
The comment section was a chaotic mix of guys gleefully mocking him and girls expressing disbelief.
"Oho? Someone's true nature has been revealed, huh? Looks like you're going to be the campus pariah now~"
"Being blasted on the forum like that… how embarrassing, Kamishiro~"
"..."
Looking at the two with their gloating giant expressions, Shiro didn't even know how to respond.
These two had monopolized the top forum spot for so long, how could they say this with a straight face?!
Could they seriously not see it? The second-place post was about them!
"…Can you two seriously not see what's in second place?"
"Hah? What second place? Kamishiro, stop trying to change the subject!"
"Yeah! Don't think you can weasel your way out of this!"
The two had entered a state of selective blindness—they were only capable of seeing Shiro's post at #1!
Hearing the commotion, Azusa and the others came over and took one look at the photo of Shiro entering the love hotel…
"Eh? For real. Wait, when did you go there, Shiro? And by yourself?"
Azusa asked in confusion. Even if it wasn't at night, who goes alone to a place like that?
Shiro twitched at the sight of the photo. That was from this morning.
He passed by the place on his way here and, out of curiosity, went in to ask about getting an annual membership.
He never expected someone from school to snap a photo of it…
Sigh… Talk about rotten luck. Not only did that shady manager accuse him of being a perv and refuse him service, but now this?
Looking through the post again, Shiro was struck by how well-organized and detailed it was—but seriously, were these college kids just not aggressive enough?
Compared to his high school days, this was nothing!
"Who would've thought… Kamishiro finally getting his comeuppance!"
Iori was ecstatic. Rarely did he get a chance to see Shiro take a hit.
"Yeah yeah, but wait… Kitahara, why is the account you're using named Yamamoto?"
Shiro squinted at the username—Yamamoto's selfie as the profile pic.
No matter how much of a perv Kitahara might be, even he wouldn't use Yamamoto's face as his profile pic… right?
{{(°△°; "}}!
Iori snatched the phone back, his face pale. He hadn't even noticed. Damn that Yamamoto!
"…Don't tell me both your accounts are gone? (??ω??)"
Shiro looked at them mockingly. The moment he saw the account, he'd figured it out. Just a few days ago, he saw Iori and Kouhei's accounts going wild in the comments under their own leaked nudes—filthy language and all.
Even he was appalled.
He was just wondering why they'd been so quiet lately. Turns out they'd been banned by the moderators.
The two of them were seething. Of all people, they really didn't want Shiro to find out!
"That's not the point! The point is you got posted on the forum! No more flirting with girls now—and just wait till the seniors catch wind of this, you're dead meat!"
Images of their own cafeteria ambushes came to mind. Shiro was definitely going to be buried behind the school if he didn't cough something up.
"(???) Oh? Is that all?"
"..." ×2
The moment they saw Shiro calm, almost zen-like expression, their smug grins froze.
"You're not scared?"
"Scared? Why would I be scared? This is nothing compared to high school. Back then, I topped the 'Most Wanted Dead by Male Students' list. And yeah, I got exposed for juggling multiple girls too."
"But whatever. If anything, I should thank them—if I wasn't exposed, my schedule would've been completely overbooked~"
Shiro finished with that smug, punchable face of his.
Iori and Kouhei's faces darkened. That was it—they couldn't take it anymore. They lunged at him.
"What kind of high school life did you even live?!"
"Just a normal one!"
"You scumbag! What kind of 'normal' high school has an assassination list?! Who the hell racks up over 100 conquests in high school?!"
"My school was full of delinquents too, okay? And my idol is Johnny-sensei!"
"Don't you dare drag your degenerate role model into this!"
＼(`Δ')／×3
The two upperclassmen watched the three of them brawling from a distance, smiling warmly. This was great, Kohei was finally fully engaged.
…
After their scuffle, the three were dumped onto a sofa by the upperclassmen.
"Well, we know you guys are close, but maybe tone it down a bit. Next time, let's just drink."
Kotobuki sighed as he looked at the three swollen-faced morons. At first, PaB didn't allow fighting. But once they realized this was just the trio's unique bonding method, they let it slide.
"Who's close with these two idiots?!" ×3
The upperclassmen stared at each other with dot-eyes. Clearly, these boys were just too shy to express their love openly.
"Anyway, let's get to the real reason we're here. Did you bring what I asked?"
Tokita changed the subject. They were gathered here today for a proper club activity!
"Of course!"
"Brought my casual gear, just like you said!"
"So what's today's activity?"
The three showed off their casual outfits. Aside from Kohei's idol costume, Iori and Shiro were in normal athletic wear—they were genuinely looking forward to today's club activity.
And most importantly, they already knew it wasn't a drinking party!
If the diving club's activity wasn't drinking, then there could only be one thing left!
"We're entering a doubles tennis tournament!" ×2
The two seniors whipped out tennis rackets, beaming with excitement.
"Hold up a second!!" ×3
Why is the diving club's activity a doubles tennis match?!
…