CLASSROOM OF THE ELITE: What is love?

Chapter 1.3

Two days have passed since my last encounter with Nanase and Himuro. School life had progressed quite slowly since the announcement of the special exam, finding partners was in everyone's to do list. Which, I didn't have to be worried about. Horikita readily accepted Nanase proposal when I mentioned it to her.

Yet, we haven't had the chance to discuss in more depth about the details concerning our partnership.

"What's on your mind?" My seatmate Matsushita Chiaki asked me in a low tone, it was nearly the end of school and the class felt like a drag.

"Nothing." I replied, as I glanced at her.

"You seem to be very productive lately, especially with those two Kouhais." She said, grinning as if she found something incriminating.

"She really is a stalker huh, I don't have eyes on the back of my head but she seriously needs to stop doing that. It's annoying..." I thought as I turned to face her fully.

"What is it with you and your tendency's?" I questioned her, she merely looked back at me with that same grin. "What I do has nothing to do with you." I continued.

"But I am interested..." She cooed. "Do you have a partner Ayanokouji kun?" She randomly asked.

"Now do I tell her that I already have a partner? But she must have gathered form my classmates when Nanase came into our class two days ago." I pondered in my head.

"I do." I answered, which caught her off guard; but she returned to her usual expression.

"Was it one of the kouhais?" She asked. I nodded at her, she smiled before speaking up again. "Which one? Was it Nanase san or Himuro san?" She questioned me again.

"She must have gotten their names from the OAA app." I thought as I rested my chin on my hand.

"It was Nanase, she does have a pretty good score in her academic ability." I answered Matsushita, she acknowledged my words and didn't speak anymore.

"Glad that's out of the way..." I went back to jotting down notes in my book.

After what had been a long twenty minutes, class ended. I was preparing to pack up my stuff until I heard one of my classmates shout.

"Hey! Hey! Aren't those some first years coming our way?" My classmate known as Miyamoto shouted out.

Everyone who was still inside the classroom looked outside, two first year students. A boy and a girl approached us. The girl I recognised immediately, the boy I had to remember and that was when it dawned on me that he was Hosen Kazuomi.

"He's quite tall for a first year, with a very large build. Someone like him If he was targeting me could be a problem." I thought as I analysed the first year known as Hosen.

"Oi! Where in the hell is this Horikita paisen?" He basically demanded, his gruff tone shaking those who were in his vicinity.

Horikita who had been inside the classroom stepped out into the corridor with Sudo in tow as the rest of the class watched.

I was with the Ayanokouji group and each one had a complicated expression, but none were as expressive as Akito who had his fists clenched.

"That's a surprise, normally the first years wouldn't dare come to us. They must be brave or naive." Kesiei gave a comment about the sudden arrival of the first years. "Kiyotaka, is that first year over there not your partner?" He asked as he pointed at Nanase.

"She is, she's Hosen classmate." I confirmed, before I continued. "The one who is with her, his name is Hosen Kazuomi." Keisei nodded whilst Haruka and Airi watched the scenes outside with a worried expresssion.