My new Neighbor's an Idol!?

There are Many Ways to Scale a Fish

They were indeed going to learn about how to scale and gut a fish. Ishi wasn't sure why something like that was being taught at an aquarium. This seemed more of an activity at a butcher than here.

"Let's get into partners now." The instructor told them. Ishi closed his eyes and took one massively deep breath. Of course they had to do things into pairs, that could only mean one thing.

"Can I be partners with you, Hattori?"

"No, I'd like to be your partner." She had only been here barely a week. If this continued on, he was going to lose his mind.

"You guys really need to get a hobby." He was frustrated with his classmates, and it was showing. "We can't just keep asking her every time, and I doubt I can keep coming up with ways to settle this."

"Then how do you figure we solve this?" One of them asked. Ishi sighed, everything he ever said went in one ear, then out the other. Well, they should try and solve this issue. Otherwise they'd be wasting unnecessary time bickering instead of learning.

"...Person who catches this fish wins." Without any warning, he threw up the fish at his station, a Sardinops. The animal wasn't large, it wasn't even fully grown. So it looked to be a decent challenge.

Apparently a lot harder than it looked as he saw the slimy creature flying up into the air from slipping out of so many hands. Hopefully they weren't going to eat this thing, or else he'd really regret his decision.

"Um, is that allowed?" Youna asked him while they were watching this sight. She was concerned about getting in trouble with the instructor, who didn't seem to care about this debacle.

"I guess it is." Ishi noted the lack of a reaction from the man. It was probably because he was too entertained by it to care. While chatting, he didn't care to pay attention to what was going on in front of him. The boy probably should've since the small fish ended up flying right into his face.

The slimy creature slowly slid down his face and into his hands. It was disgusting, and he had his eyes closed to prevent any gunk from getting in there. Which is why he didn't see the reaction of his fellow classmates upon seeing him catching the animal.

He did hear it though, as the collective sighs of disappointment filled the room. For he was the winner of the game he made up, and wanted no part of.

"That's not fair, you already-"

"I don't care." He cut off any complaints. "We're not doing that again." In defiance to everyone, he placed his fish down hard enough to make a point, but soft enough so that he could actually use it. The students got the message and went to their spots with heads hung down. Sometimes, he got really tired of these people.

Now it was time to honor the agreement, which he really didn't want to do either. Personally, the boy wanted to do it with his best friend because that kid wanted to do all this. So he could most likely just sit back and not have to try so hard. Now he actually had to pay attention to what the instructor was telling them to do. While having to work with the girl he despised, the boy realized something.

She was really good at this.

"You've done this before?" He asked her while it was her turn to scale the fish. The bits of it were falling off like butter. She made it look easy.

"I had to learn it for an event once." She said. Out-of-context, that sounded crazy. It was for a TV segment to promote herself to people. Her and some other idols had to do what was known as a 'mukbang' for entertainment. Which for someone like Ishi, who was not in the know, was basically an eating thing.