I'm Just A Chuunibyou: Why Are Maidens Falling For Me? [Volume 1]

CHAPTER 46: He's going down

Soba Hito and his group challenge me to a game of basketball. However, I did not know the slightest bit on how to play the sport, which they forgot to take on account.

"What should we do now? Should we still continue with the plan?"

"But if we do proceed we'll look really uncool for beating a guy who doesn't even know how to play"

"We've come too far to back down now"

"We haven't even started though"

"How about we teach him the rules until he gets the hang of it. Then crush him completely"

"I see. So what we're going with is to be like the unbeatable sensei figure so one way or another, we'll still look cool in a different way"

"Sensei figure? Ah, sure. Lets go with that"

"Wait, you weren't thinking of continuing just because you want to crush him, do you?..."

"O, of course not! What do you take me for.... Okay, just a little"

"Whatever, let's just go with that"

While Soba and the others are discussing how they will execute their plan, Mocha-san felt assured that at least people invited me and not being neglected.

Hmm... I guess I could leave him for now... He'll be fine if he's with them... Right?

Mocha-san felt conflicted wether or not if she could really leave me in Soba Hito's group's hands. She was thinking if I could handle such personalities.

Hitomi-san then called for her.

"Mocha lets go"

"Ah- Y, yes! C, Coming..."

Mocha went to the other girls who were in the volleyball court already while Soba Hito and his friends tried teaching me how to play basketball.

A/N: Soba Hito's friend group personality is the back bencher boys. Troublesome but not problematic.

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On the volleyball court.

"Mocha-san. After this match it will be our turn to use the court"

"O, okay..."

Hitomi and Mocha are now on the volleyball court. They were waiting for their turn to use the court but then, Mocha-san remembered something important.

I was so caught up in the moment of being invited by a friend that I forgot...

What she recalled was something really important.

I don't know how to play volleyball!

Mocha-san, in her mind now in a state of panic and was sweating bullets out of nervousness.

Her heart rate kept on rising as their time to enter the court comes nearer and nearer every point in the game passes.

I need to calm down... I wonder how Mr. Delinquent prince is doing? Is he holding out with those guys?

To calm herself down, she directed her thoughts to something else and looked for someone hoping they were in the same boat as hers. And by someone, it meant me.

She tried to see if I was nervous as well when interacting with others.
[Was under the impression they are both bad at communicating.]

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Just after Hitomi and Mocha-san left, I was left with Soba Hito's group. They explained the rules and how to play the sport called basketball.

They taught me the basics like dribbling, how to shoot, pass, rebound and defend.

They also told me how the scoring system works. But in this game, we will be playing only one point for basket.

"So, did you catch all that?"

"Yeah... I think I should be able to manage"

Hmm... So this is the type of sport a normal student usually play.

This could be useful in the future if I got bored blending in the background standing on a corner somewhere.

[Thinking of different ways on how to blend in the crowd without looking suspicious]

The goal of blending in with the crowds is to not look suspicious, so playing inside the court could work as well. I could act like I'm part of the background as an irrelevant extra inside the court.

The rules are pretty simple to follow. I should be able to at least perform decently after learning how the mechanics of the game works.

If I want to blend in as a normal student, I should at the very least try blending in inside the court every once in a while.

"So we're all good? Now lets begin"

"Are we playing one vs ones?"

"No. We'll play in 5v5s"

This is all according to plan. We already discussed that if we were to be playing, it would be against the five of us.

If it was a one on one we will look bad if we demolish only a single person. But if we crush him head on with a team, it wouldn't look like as terrible as it seems.

It would just look like we got an overwhelming victory because of our team coordination. Ha... Ha... Hahahah.

"But, I don't have any team mates?"

"You can pick anyone. Oh, except for people who belongs in sports clubs. It wouldn't bw fair to get the competitive ones involve"

"Makes sense. I guess"

Also according to plan. If we tried to fight anyone in the sports club, we might get a harder time dominating.

So by leaving out the athletes, he could only choose amongst our unathletic classmates.

With this our victory is ensured. You might call this dirty but I call this a strategy.

"Okay then. Now, who should I pick. Hmm..."

I looked around for people that looked like they have nothing better to do.

"You guys want to join my team?"

And the people I asked are some girls who were lazing around on the stage. They were looking at me as if admiring me at a distance. But I thought was normal since I was used to it.

"Can we? We're not really that good at basketball"

"It's a boy's game after all"

They denied at first because they were not confident enough about their skill.

"Sure, I'm not really good at it either" [Doesn't even know how to play so technically not a lie]

I said with a smile.

"T-Then Yes"

They replied and agreed to join with a little blush on their face from the smile I gave just now.

I didn't really think much of who to pick so I selected randomly. It wasn't even our classmate but instead the second year girls who's also having their PE at this hour. It just so happened that they're the closest at the time.

"He even picked the upper classman girls to join his team. That's it. He's going down"

Staring behind my back is a rage of flames emitting from Soba Hito's group.