What game are we going to play at day with a group of three people?
The answer is!
Dodgeball!
But this is no ordinary dodgeball. This is a dodgeball tournament!
This battle was created by the purpose of strengthening the bonds between students and having fun as the first physical education day at high school. But, for some reason, this battle turned into a conquest of the male students instead. The only group of male students against 29 groups of girls.
All the girls in class 1 agreed to work together to defeat the boys' group.
This started when Gregor began planning something perverted.
"Psst! Psst!"
Gregor poked Vincent's shoulder. They were sitting in a line with Reinhart at the front, Vincent in the middle, and Gregor at the very back facing the center of the field.
This dodgeball game rule is simple, if the ball hits a player's body (except hands), the player is out. A team is considered defeated if all team members out.
There are 30 teams, 5 teams will play simultaneously in the middle of the field in the first round. With each team holding one ball. After the first round, 6 winning teams will emerge. Then in the final, the 6 winning teams from the initial round play simultaneously.
"What?"
Vincent turned around. In the middle of the field, the first battle of the first 5 teams was taking place. Since the students were sitting in rows, it was easy for Ms. Sheila to arrange the team numbers. Team numbers were counted from the far right. Meanwhile, Vincent's team was located on the far left.
"Kya!"
This 5-team dodgeball battle was quite fierce. A soft ball slightly larger than a fist hit the chests of the sweating girls. The first 5 teams to play mostly came from classes A and B. Team number one from class A was led by a dark blue-haired girl tied in a ponytail. With her cold gaze and accurate precision, she easily eliminated the four opposing teams in less than five minutes.
All the girls except team one were utterly defeated. They fell to the ground, breathing heavily, while the three girls from team one weren't sweating at all. Some girls applauded their hard work.
"I have a plan. Do you see the team next to us?" Gregor pointed sideways secretly. Vincent turned his face to the side.
"Yes, what is it?"
"Their leader, that naughty-looking girl from class C sitting next to you, keeps taunting me! She was the first one to give me the nickname 'bear undies' so the girls in our class started taunting me with that nickname today. I have to avenge her!" Gregor whispered with an annoyed face and tone.
The girl Gregor pointed to was a straight brown-haired girl with a cocky style. She wore many colorful accessories in her hair and on her hands. Striking small colorful bracelets. Her skin was not too white, but not brown either. She looked like a girl who often played outdoors.
"What kind of plan are you going to do to her?"
Gregor grinned. "You trip my right leg when we're about to stand in the middle of the field. That way I can taunt her back later."
"That's a bad idea."
"Don't worry, no one will blame you. Please, please."
Vincent was not sure about Gregor's plan but he would do it.
After 25 teams battled and each got a winner. Finally, it was time for Vincent's team to step up and battle on the field.
They waited almost an hour for their turn to play.
As Gregor said, when Ms. Sheila blew her whistle for the last 5 teams to come onto the field, just as they all stood up, Vincent stepped on Gregor's foot who was about to step forward and instead fell sideways while his hands deliberately pulled down the pants of his target girl.
"Eep!"
Gregor's hand successfully pulled down the sports pants of the naughty-looking long brown-haired girl. Revealing her cute underwear. White with pink stripes that were quite wet with sweat. Her face flush in red like beet.
Gregor grinned triumphantly, before the two girl's friend glared angrily at Gregor, who dared to harass her teammate.
"You! The bear undies!"
Then, the two brown-haired girl friends—plus the brown-haired girl who had already pulled her pants back up—stomped on Gregor as if stomping on trash while insulting him with harsh words. Literally.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
"You trash!"
"Agh! I didn't mean to!"
"Liar! Perverted lying man!"
"You shouldn't be in this school!"
"Take that!"
Thud! Thud! Thud!
"Aigh! Ouch! Sorry! I really didn't mean to!"
"We won't forgive you!"
"You shameless bear undies!"
"Stomp him harder!"
Thud! Thud! Thud!
"Augh! Don't stomp on my nuts! ARGH!"
Afterward, Gregor stood in the middle of the field with a bruised face and body.
Some girls laughed at him, while the rest looked at Gregor with unfriendly gazes, both spectators and players. Meanwhile, Ms. Sheila just laughed broadly at Gregor's embarrassing behavior and being tormented by the girls.
"I told you this was a bad idea." Vincent shook his head in disappointment and sighed. Now, the girls looked at Vincent's team with cynical eyes. As if looking at a criminal group, even though this was all Gregor's fault.
"You all! Just you wait! We will be the winners of this dodgeball!" Gregor suddenly shouted, igniting the girls' anger even more to defeat Vincent's team on the field. The four balls were now ready to head towards them whenever the game started.
"Haha, you're making this situation worse, Gregor the bear undies." Reinhart, instead, laughed casually while the girls aimed for their team's defeat. Vincent didn't stop sighing and slapping his forehead for the umpteenth time.
"This is going to be bad."
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"Ahhh!"
"Take that!"
"Ha!"
"Hiyaa! Attack them! Don't show mercy!"
The naughty brown-haired girl became the leader of the 4 teams on the field, throwing at Gregor first as the primary target. Vincent and Reinhart could still dodge, but Gregor? He was attacked from four directions and out of the field in an instant after Ms. Sheila's whistle shrieked.
"Hahahaha! Hahahaha! The bear undies are out!"
"He's weak! So pathetic!"
Gregor left the field with a scowling face like an grumpy old man who lost a gamble and was stripped naked.
"Just you wait! I'll get you back in the next round!"
"Heh, too bad there's no next round!"
The brown-haired girl grinned. She, with her four teammates beside her and five balls in their hands, cornered Vincent and Reinhart who ran to the side of the field. Behind them was only school building wall.
The people behind the building's windows were curious about what the 1st graders were doing. It was the 3rd-grade building, Valian, one of them sitting near the window, could clearly see Vincent's back walking backward towards her.
"What is that idiot doing? Is he cornered?" Valian smirked, seeing Vincent in trouble. Instead of listening to her math teacher's explanation in front, Valian focused more on the view outside the window.
"I heard that bear undies whisper something to you. You're his friend, attack him first, girls."
Vincent became the girls' main target, he immediately put both hands in front of his chest to cover. But it will be futile. The ball could touch his head or legs.
Five dodgeballs were thrown quickly towards Vincent.
"Vincent!"
Thud!
Reinhart pulled Vincent's body to fall to the side so that the five dodgeballs only bounced off the wall behind Vincent. While dropping Vincent to the side, Reinhart managed to get one ball in his hand, then they both quickly stood up again.
Vincent immediately ran to pick up one ball that was still rolling on the ground, blocked by two girls from opposite directions.
"Haaa!"
"Hyaaa!"
Both girls jumped with Vincent who jumped to get the ball first. But failed. Vincent was the first to grab the ball.
Vincent and the two girls immediately stood up. Before Vincent could get into a good throwing stance, just as the two girls in front of him panicked at the sight of the ball about to fly, Vincent threw the ball hard and luckily it bounced side, hitting one of the girls and then bouncing to the girl beside her. Directly on the body!
Two girls were immediately eliminated.
On the other side, Reinhart also managed to survive and eliminate three girls.
Now Vincent and Reinhart's opponents were seven left, including the naughty-looking brown-haired girl.
"Ugh! They managed to get our ball! Don't let them attack! Let's attack first!"
She yelled at another girl holding the ball to attack immediately.
Vincent and Reinhart glanced quickly, then they both pressed their backs together and threw the ball, hitting one girl each and catching the incoming balls.
Two girls were eliminated from the field, leaving five more.
Seeing Vincent and Reinhart working together, the girls panicked because their balls were still rolling on the ground and their cooperation fell apart.
Before another girl could pick up the rolling ball, a ball slid and hit her butt.
"Kya!"
Just as another girl tried to throw at Vincent, Vincent threw first, hitting her chest.
"Eep!"
Vincent and Reinhart then running from two directions, while the remaining girls were trapped in the middle, terrified.
They couldn't avoid the fast attacks from Vincent and Reinhart coming from two directions.
"Ah!
"No!"
"Only one girl left."
Reinhart and Vincent stood side by side with balls in hand. In front of them, the naughty-looking brown-haired girl stood as the only one left. She held the ball with trembling hands.
As soon as Reinhart and Vincent walked closer to her, she fell, her butt landing on the ground.
"Hya! I-I lost! I-I give up!"
The girl seemed terrified of Reinhart and Vincent, who played like devils (in her eyes). Reinhart and Vincent then high-fived briefly to celebrate their victory after being cornered.
"Oh yeah! Take that! Pink-white striped panties girl!" Gregor shouted from the side of the field. Making the girl immediately glare at him with a murderous look.
The naughty-looking brown-haired girl immediately got up and ran after Gregor like a raging bull.
"You bear undies! You're dead!" In her hand, she carried a ball to literally kill Gregor.
Prit! Prit!
"Hahaha! The winner is team number 30!"
Ms. Sheila laughed while applauding Vincent and Reinhart in the middle of the field. Some girls also clapped for them, like Aria and Vittoria, or even Valian, who was in her class.
"Good job, idiot."
"What are you doing, Valian Fortis?"
Valian's math teacher, an old man, asked right next to Valian's ear. Making her whole body trembling in surprise. She slowly turned her face to her teacher, who was smiling angrily.
"Especially for you, because you weren't paying attention in my class, you will do problems number 30 to 35 on the whiteboard. Come on, go front immediately."
"Alright.."
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