𝐎𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 | 𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐭𝐚 𝐱 𝐀𝐲𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐤𝐨𝐮𝐣𝐢 | 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞

Chapter 20: First Night and... Bathing!

20:59 Bath

Standing at the entry of the bathing 'hall' or whatever you would call it, I was pretty impressed with how well-maintained this place is.

The air didn't smell like sweat at all, probably well-conditioned or filtered. There were rows of cabinets, where you would be able to change, well privacy wasn't that much of an option, but you had to stick with what was available.

There is also one closed garderobe if you don't want anybody to see your front body. However, I was quite confident, and have grown to be confident in the past few days, weeks, and months.

Maybe it's because I have a great boyfriend, or maybe because I have grown a lot more self-loving I admit, most of it was since Kiyotaka forced me to admire myself a lot more.

I took off my clothes and placed the towel on my upper chest, covering the most private parts, it was a basket, one that had enough space to tidy my clothes and place them in, we also had to place a name tag on top of it.

Of course, we didn't want to accidentally search through someone else's stuff, preventing any sort of complication. I wonder what would happen if that was the case. Would there be some kind of penalty for such a minor accident?

"Oh, you are getting in this early?"

Hasebe-san who was in my group as well paid attention to what I was doing weirdly. Why was she trying to watch me change? If a guy did that, he would've been imprisoned, but if she looks at me like that, it's just admiring or what?

Weird society that we live in. Kiyotaka was right, equality is just a fantasy...

"Well, why wouldn't I? A lot of people already do so, so what would be the--"

"Nono! You know how it works right?"

She said in a very troubled voice, I don't like to get involved in some kind of games with anyone right now, it could reduce the score of our group.

And that is not something that I wanted to do by any means. She is a fun person I've heard, but somehow she gives me the vibes of a loner, very similar to Akito and Kiyotaka-kun. But those two are quite literally the perfect example of a loner.

It's already weird how similar their personalities are, how well they work together, and yet how different they are. Perhaps the right people will eventually find each other.

"...What do you mean by it?"

"Then let me explain! (But we should rather keep our voices down. If they hear we might get in big trouble~)"

I nodded since I had nothing to add to this, but whatever was about to come, I didn't want anybody to know what this would be all about.

"(You see, I was always curious about a thing. Whose body is superior? And I couldn't get anybody more honest than you! Well, Kiyopon would be an option but he is a guy, and I have his counterpart in front of me, so why don't we give it a shot?)"

Please what?

Am I hearing right? Am I seriously considering talking with ANOTHER girl about the bodies of the girls in our year? What kind of friendly fire logic is that?!

And who on earth is Kiyopon? Are there any other students that I should know about?!

"(Uhm wha- You are not seriously trying to pull me into this right? Is this some kind of attempt to set me up as someone hostile toward the other girls, in the hope the class would split up or what?)"

"(What? No! Has Kiyopon dumbed you down? This is a common thing between girls ya know?)"

I assume by the words she was using and the similarity in names, that this was just a regular nickname for people called Kiyotaka.