Miura Yumiko put on her indoor shoes, looked up at Hachiman beside her who was exchanging a leisurely gaze with her, and glared at him both shyly and angrily.
'So you like bullying that much, huh! Just you wait!'
She would find Nijika and Marin, and then pull in Yuina and the others to give this guy a good lesson.
Let's see if this guy Hikigaya can still be so smug then. See if he ends up clinging to her leg, begging not to be bullied anymore.
Kirisu Mafuyu on the podium saw this scene, her face cold like frost.
She had thought Hachiman had matured, but who knew he stayed in the classroom for class just to flirt with another girl.
Hachiman alone had corrupted the students around him, completely ignoring her warnings.
Kirisu Mafuyu glanced at Hachiman again, deciding not to waste the majority of the class's time correcting him. She would wait until she and Hiratsuka Shizuka did a home visit to make Hachiman properly admit his faults.
"Hachiman is so bad, teasing Yumiko like that...", Gabriel looked at the extremely shy and annoyed expression on Miura Yumiko's face, then looked at Hachiman who admitted to causing trouble but didn't reveal the full truth, feeling secretly helpless.
Miura Yumiko couldn't see through the magic of Iris and the others, being deceived by illusions, but Gabriel saw it all clearly.
She already knew Miura Yumiko was willing to compensate Hachiman three times a week, but playing around like this was really unexpected.
Miura Yumiko originally wanted to protect Hachiman from being bullied, but now that Hachiman provoked her like this, Yumiko might take the initiative to bully Hachiman instead.
Though she also knew that Hachiman's physical fitness was now very strong, so there was no need to worry about being overexerted. What Yumiko saw as bullying that would ruin someone, was just playful fun between Hachiman and Yuina, Minami, and the others.
"Gabriel, do you want to try the feeling of bullying the president?", Seeing Gabriel staring intently, Iris took off the empathy bracelet from Aegis's wrist and handed it to Gabriel again, smiling brightly.
She didn't need to worry about Yumiko, President could handle it himself.
However, with Gabriel, she felt she needed to add some fuel to the fire.
President was too amazing. If everyone knew that President could not only help them but also improve their strength, his popularity would definitely skyrocket, and it wouldn't just be races in need of help fighting over him anymore.
She wanted to make lots of friends, and when all the powerful girls stood on her and President's side, there would be nothing to worry about.
Gabriel, as a mutual good friend of hers and President's, would naturally support her and President more as she got closer to him.
Similarly, as a demon, Vignette was the same. But President and Vignette were only neighbors, not in the same class, so to make more progress, a suitable opportunity was needed.
"I don't want to. If you want that, go find Raphiel from another class. She might like that kind of fun."
Gabriel rolled her eyes at Iris, who was still unwilling to give up dragging her into helping, and ignored the seemingly pure and noble on the outside but secretly lewd elf princess.
Even when Iris took off the empathy bracelets from Lumilia and Aegis, cleaned herself with cleaning magic, and joined them, the voices of the three elf princesses constantly rang beside her, but Gabriel turned a deaf ear.
"What a pity…", Iris looked at Gabriel, who had a visibly flushed face yet still resolutely refused, with some regret.
She thought even Gabriel couldn't resist the President's temptation. But if she couldn't get Gabriel to personally experience it, even the empathy bracelet and sympathy wristband Gabriel refused, then it had to be a slow process.
Now Gabriel and Vignette were basically going to the President's house every day, so there was no need to rush. Just let them gradually get used to President. When the day came that they couldn't resist, they would join without her having to tempt them.
After the assistance was over, Iris led Lumilia and Aegis to give a kiss each to the hard-working Hachiman before standing up to tidy her uniform and leaving the classroom with Gabriel and Hachiman.
Now it was break time, letting the President rest a bit. Next period would be Lala and Ursula's turn.
Although they could've continued, since they hadn't used the empathy bracelets for that final burst of stimulation, and the three took turns resting, they shouldn't be running out of energy so quickly. But they had already played until dawn last night and came again this morning, so they were satisfied.
Now, they should go pass on experience to Sylpha and the others who had arrived at Sobu High, so that they could gain an advantage in future assistance.
"Hikigaya… do you really want me to bully you like Yuina and the others? Don't you regret it!", After class, Miura Yumiko saw Kirisu Mafuyu leave the classroom. She immediately stood up, crossed her arms in front of her chest, placed one foot on Hachiman's chair, glaring at him while speaking in shy anger.
"Whether I'll regret it or not, I don't know. But right now, you probably do," Hachiman looked at the furious Miura Yumiko, smiling as he pointed at her short skirt hem that lifted after she raised her leg onto his chair.
Sobu High had strict dress code enforcement. Even Kotegawa Yui would measure skirt lengths with a ruler. While they weren't indecently short, a short skirt was still a short skirt. Stepping on a chair like Yumiko did was definitely not okay.
"...", Seeing Hachiman's gaze seemingly piercing her soul, Miura Yumiko's face turned even redder. She immediately lowered her leg and held down her skirt.
"What's wrong, Yumiko?"
"Fighting again?"
Kitagawa Marin sitting in front of Miura Yumiko, and Ijichi Nijika beside her, were both attracted by Yumiko's commotion, looking at the worrisome pair of Hachiman and Miura Yumiko with confusion.
"It's nothing, I just think Yumiko with her pink girly heart is quite cute," Hachiman waved at Marin and Nijika, smiling as he explained while watching Yumiko's changing expression.
If Yumiko's face had been red with anger earlier, now it was pink with shyness.
"Hikigaya, you're dead! Nijika, Marin, come out with me. I have something to tell you!"
Hearing Hachiman not intimidated by her at all, and even making such insinuating remarks, Miura Yumiko felt her chest nearly explode with anger. But seeing Nijika and Marin both looking at her with concern, she didn't lose her temper and bully Hachiman on the spot.
She decided to endure for now, talk it over with Nijika and Marin, then go to Hikigaya's house together and properly teach him a lesson.
'So you like being bullied, huh? Then I'll bully hard!'
'Let's see how far this guy really wants to be bullied!'
"Huh? Yumiko is that angry?", Kitagawa Marin and Ijichi Nijika looked at each other as Miura Yumiko stormed out. They had just started the class, how did it come to this?
Before leaving the classroom with Yumiko, the two of them comforted Hachiman.
"Though we don't know the details, Hachiman, don't worry. As long as you haven't done anything fundamentally wrong, we'll still help you."
"Yeah! Hikigaya-kun, wait for our good news!"
There weren't many boys who could endure Yumiko's temper, and even fewer whom Yumiko liked.
As Yumiko's good friends, they would definitely do their best to help her find happiness.
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Sobu High had a lot of abandoned classrooms, but those were in the club activity building. There weren't many vacant classrooms in the teaching building, so if you wanted to find a place where no one would disturb you to talk, you had to go a bit farther.
The rooftop door was generally locked, so you couldn't go up there. The lower-level stairway where spare desks were stored, on the other hand, wasn't frequented by people.
However, when Miura Yumiko brought Ijichi Nijika and Kitagawa Marin to the usually empty stairway corner, they found a girl with blue hair covering her eyes and wearing black tights leaning against the railing, looking up at the snow-white wall.
"Nijika? Why are you here?"
Noticing the sound of footsteps, the blue-hair-covering-eyes girl turned her head, saw Miura Yumiko and Ijichi Nijika behind her, and raised her hand expressionlessly to say hello.
"It's Ryou. Yumiko has something to talk to us about. Didn't expect to find you here too," Seeing the blue-haired beauty posing in this place like some weirdo, Ijichi Nijika smiled and explained.
Yamada Ryou was someone she could say was her childhood friend, but they weren't in the same class after entering Sobu High. Plus, Yamada Ryou liked being alone, so she didn't often seek her out.
Recently, the band she formed included this childhood friend too, but unfortunately, even if you added in the guitarist and vocalist who never showed up to practice, their band only had three members at best.
She had just been thinking of asking about that music department girl Hachiman mentioned, trying to get a sense of the situation, but ended up being pulled out right after class by Yumiko to talk about something.
"Then let's go find another place."
Seeing that the corner she thought was empty actually had someone, Miura Yumiko greeted her and was about to go look for a new spot.
Nijika and Marin could be called her good friends, but Nijika's good friend wasn't necessarily her good friend.
Being bullied by Hachiman, f*rced into it, was an embarrassing thing she didn't want to leak out. It was only because she got along so well with Nijika and Marin, and they could always help each other out when something came up, that she was even willing to consider telling them. Otherwise, even if they were friends, she wouldn't say anything.
"Nijika, lend me 100 yen to buy a drink," Seeing that Miura Yumiko looked like she was about to leave, Yamada Ryou directly walked up to Ijichi Nijika and stretched out her fair little hand.
"Even 100 yen you have to borrow? Did you waste money on instruments again?", Seeing her good friend shamelessly stretch out her hand without the slightest embarrassment, Ijichi Nijika looked completely helpless.
"No problem, I'll get my new allowance in two days," Yamada Ryou shook her head. You could live several days just drinking water, let alone when she wasn't only drinking water.
"...", Ijichi Nijika silently rolled her eyes.
This childhood friend of hers was great in many ways, but her personality was a bit quirky, and she wasn't good at managing money. Despite coming from a well-off family, she always made herself end up with no money to eat.
She seriously suspected this good friend might one day starve to death on the streets.
"Thanks. I'll pay you back when I get my allowance."
Seeing Ijichi Nijika's speechless face as she silently pulled out her wallet and handed her 500 yen, Yamada Ryou stuffed the money into her skirt pocket, waved to everyone, and turned to leave.
"Alright, Ryou's left. We don't need to keep looking for a quiet place."
Ijichi Nijika watched Yamada Ryou's departing back and sighed helplessly, then turned to look at Miura Yumiko and Kitagawa Marin beside her.
It wasn't the first time Ryou had no money, it was practically normal. Now, they should focus on Yumiko's love life.
Although Sobu High didn't allow impure relationships between boys and girls, breaking the school rules to support a friend was kind of exciting and rock 'n' roll too.
She'd ask Yumiko and Hachiman about their feelings later. If it was okay, she'd even tell Ryou about it. Maybe Ryou could get some inspiration to compose a new song.
"Mm, there's no one here now. Yumiko, you should tell us what's going on, right? What secret do you and Hikigaya-kun have that can't be talked about?", Kitagawa Marin also looked at Miura Yumiko, full of curiosity.
Her thoughts were the same as Nijika's, they didn't think Yumiko disliked Hachiman.
If she really disliked Hachiman, she wouldn't have bothered with him anymore. Let alone go to his house, or drag him into the bathroom.
Later, when they rode the train home, she even saw with her own eyes Yumiko chatting with Hachiman and blushing. Clearly, she liked him.
Now, Yumiko looked extremely angry, but Marin felt it was likely just a little argument between her and Hachiman. Most likely out of jealousy.
After all, when they went to eat at Hachiman's house that day, Gabriel, who also sat next to him, had a very close relationship with him.
They could stand by Yumiko and support her, but Gabriel also had the support of Yuina and the others. In fact, their numbers even outnumbered Yumiko's side by one.
If Yumiko kept being tsundere and throwing a tantrum, they really wouldn't know what to do. After all, Gabriel's looks weren't worse than Yumiko's. In fact, she was more understanding. Even though her figure wasn't great and she was small, there were plenty of boys who liked the pe*ite, cute, and protective type.
"...", Seeing her two friends deeply misunderstanding, still thinking she was jealous over that guy Hachiman, Miura Yumiko got even more frustrated. Did they think her taste was that bad? How could she possibly like that p*rvert?
However, now was the time to explain her relationship with Hachiman clearly, get them to join her in bullying Hachiman properly, and make him realize how terrible his preferences were. If he repented, maybe she could barely forgive him.
Miura Yumiko imagined the scene of Hachiman hugging her thigh and begging for mercy, and couldn't help feeling a bit better. She took a deep breath, motioned for Ijichi Nijika and Kitagawa Marin to move closer, and whispered, "There's really nothing special between me and that guy. I don't like him either. The only reason I've been embarrassed to explain the truth is because I once got hot-headed and bullied that guy with Yuina and the others."
To prevent Marin and Nijika from continuing to misunderstand, she decided to explain everything about her and Hachiman from the beginning.
"Huh? Bullying? And with Yuina and the others?"
"Yumiko, did I hear that right?"
Hearing Miura Yumiko's words, Ijichi Nijika and Kitagawa Marin exchanged glances, their eyes full of shock.
Yumiko might have a bit of a temper, but she was just cold on the outside and warm on the inside, tsundere and proud, she had nothing to do with bullying. Otherwise, they wouldn't be friends with her.
Among the three gyaru girls, Yuina was quite gentle and considerate, but Minami often acted without thinking, and Rin, who had a temper like Yumiko's, frequently swore.
But they just liked the gyaru style and attitude. Having some small flaws was normal. Their main violation of the school rules was liking nail art and altering their uniforms. Even after being caught and corrected by Kotegawa Yui, they secretly did it again, totally incorrigible.
They weren't the same kind of gyaru as the ones in other classes who actually bullied people. Now Yumiko was saying that even Yuina and the others bullied people? And they bullied Hachiman?
Even though it was good friend Yumiko saying it herself, they still wondered if she was mistaken and had misunderstood Yuina.
"Although the situation isn't that simple, I'm not lying to you. Just listen to me explain slowly," Hearing their doubts, Miura Yumiko wasn't in a hurry, and continued to explain in a low voice.
"Before, you were both busy with band and cosplay stuff, right? I was invited by Yuina and the others to go eat desserts, and later they took me to Hikigaya's house."
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