Devil's Luck

Chapter 17: Judo Club 2

"I never thought I'd see you here," Medaka was surprised. "Wait, are you here for me?" she asked, her heart racing with anticipation.

Wait, why was her heart racing?! She shook her head and released Akune's hair, she didn't know why but ever since Zenkichi rejected her offer to become a member of the student council and avoided her for a while now that she started to...miss him. To have him by her side, like always.

Now that she saw him here, like it was some kind of sign, she just couldn't help but ask him that.

Zenkichi raised an eyebrow. "What? No! Medaka, I'm here because of her." he said, pointing towards a surprised girl; with light green hair and purple eyes, a fox-like face, and wearing a judogi with the Hakoniwa Academy's symbol on her left arm and a red shirt under it.

"Me?" Zenkichi nodded. "You're Nabeshima Nekomi, the Queen of Foul, right?" she nodded back with a tilt of her head, observing him with a gaze of intrigue and her lips rose up into a cheeky smile.

Medaka froze as she watched their interaction.

Nabeshima giggled and answered, "Yup, the one and only royalty in the Judo Club! You're Hitoyoshi Zenkichi right? The Dragon Warrior." she asked, clearly confused why she was being seeked out by him.

Since for the last few weeks he's been cleaning up some "trash" in school, Zenkichi's name and nickname has been well spread around the ears of all the students. Making him well known to the point that even some of the students of Class 13 knows about him.

Zenkichi's eye twitched at his stupid moniker Shiranui spread around and just went to the point, "Yeah, I'm Zenkichi Hitoyoshi. First year freshman, class 1. Listen, I have a request to make."

"Oho~ I think I might know why you're here now." Nabeshima's eyes turned half-lidded and her lips spread up into a grin.

"You do?" He replied, not surprised.

"Yeah," she simply said as she walked up in front of him, still grinning. "cause you're not being subtle about it after all. See, every other club in school that you haven't gone to yet has been waiting for you, especially the captain's or presidents of said clubs, to the point that some had already prepared for your own uniform and equipment to use."

Zenkichi raised an eyebrow. "Huh. Well I appreciate the hospitality but, why? If they know why I'm going around clubs then they should know I'm not going to officially join any one of them. Even yours."

"Hm. Well, I expected that but for the record, I don't intend to recruit you." she spreads her arms. "Well, that's just my opinion anyway, I don't know about the others."

"...I'm guessing that you're stepping down from your position as the captain of the Judo Club." Zenkichi concluded.

Nabeshima nodded. "Correct~ You hit the mark perfectly. Unfortunately however, you do not win a prize."

"Huh." Zenkichi said, looking around the entire dojo hall with observant gaze, thinking to himself for a brief moment, before turning back to address Nabeshima with a smirk. "But I don't intend to join the Judo Club."

"Alright, but even though I'm stepping down as the captain, seeing as there's no replacement for me yet, I'll need us both to write some paperwork for you–"

"That won't be necessary, because I'm also not planning on a trial session with the club." Zenkichi cut her off as he got close to her and looked straight at her eyes.

"Nabeshima-senpai, I'm not starting a fight here or anything. I just want to ask you a couple of questions."

Nabeshima stared back at him and closed her eyes, the air around immediately turned cold and serious.