Chapter 117: Two Classes Crowding the Hideyoshi Restroom? An Eye-Opening Experience?
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The "Hideyoshi Restroom" on campus remained one of the school's greatest unsolved mysteries. This burning curiosity lent wings to the feet of Seito and Hidenori.
In a flash, they reached the back door of Class D and marched inside. Locking onto their target, the two of them stepped up and hoisted Hideyoshi Kinoshita into the air, one on each side.
"What are you doing?! Release this old man at once!" Hideyoshi cried out in alarm.
This sudden commotion drew the attention of the entire class. Seeing Seito and Hidenori practically kidnapping Hideyoshi, everyone looked utterly baffled. After all, Hideyoshi was a model student; there was no reason for them to pick on him.
"Seito-kun, where are you taking him?" Risa Shiramine asked, voicing the question on everyone's mind.
"I'm curious about what the inside of a Hideyoshi Restroom actually looks like,"
Seito answered bluntly. "So, I'm bringing Hideyoshi along to help scout the way."
The class froze. What does the inside of a Hideyoshi Restroom look like?
It wasn't just Seito; every other student was suddenly struck by the same intense curiosity. What secrets lay behind that door?
"I'm coming too!" Risa scrambled to follow.
"Me too!"
"Count me in!"
"What's actually in there? I've lived my whole life without knowing!"
One by one, the students stood up and joined the procession.
High School Class 1-E.
Seeing the massive crowd emerging from the room next door, Iori Kitahara blinked in surprise. "Where are you guys going?" he asked Seito.
"To see the inside of a Hideyoshi Restroom."
"The Hideyoshi Restroom?" The moment the words were uttered, Iori's curiosity was ignited like a wildfire. He whirled around and bellowed into his own classroom: "Seito is going to tour the Hideyoshi Restroom! Anyone want in?"
The entire class stood up as one.
"Finally! The pilgrimage to the Hideyoshi Restroom!"
"I heard those restrooms are specially designed for beautiful girls."
"I heard they're for beautiful boys!"
"Hehe, boys are fine too~"
"???"
With strange comments echoing through the group, Class E merged with the crowd. Two whole classes marched toward the restrooms. Such a massive spectacle naturally drew the eyes of bypassers, who watched in wonder as the group halted before the "Hideyoshi" door.
Setting Hideyoshi down, Seito said, "Hideyoshi, go in first and see if anyone's inside."
Hideyoshi felt deeply insulted. He was a man's man! Why on earth would he enter such a specific facility? "I told you, I am a man!"
"But your name is 'Hideyoshi'."
"..."
That... is logically sound. I have no rebuttal... Hideyoshi froze, unable to find a single counter-argument in that moment. After all, his gender was literally "Hideyoshi" according to school records. Taking a deep breath, he stepped inside.
The crowd waited in hushed anticipation. A minute later, Hideyoshi walked out with a deadpan expression. "No one's in there. But are you all really coming in?"
"Don't talk nonsense!" Iori Kitahara couldn't take it. "My gender might not be 'Hideyoshi', but it's just a bathroom! What's there to be afraid of?"
"Exactly!" Hidenori chimed in from the side.
"He'd walk into the girls' room without even blinking!"
"That's right!" Iori agreed instinctively. Then he froze. The girls' room? Wait, this bastard is framing me! Without a word, Iori lunged at Hidenori.
"Men, get him!" At Iori's command, the guys of Class E swarmed in. In an instant, Hidenori was on the floor being bombarded by a flurry of kicks.
Seeing such a brain-dead scene, Seito felt slightly out of place, so he simply turned and walked into the Hideyoshi Restroom.
One minute later...
Seito emerged, looking down in deep thought.
"Well? Isn't it just normal?" Hideyoshi asked with his typical "dead fish eyes."
Seito shot him a bizarre look. "Normal? It was... truly eye-opening."
Hearing this, Iori stopped kicking Hidenori and looked up. "Eye-opening?" Without hesitation, he marched inside.
A minute later, Iori emerged, lost in the exact same state of deep contemplation. He and Seito locked eyes, both nodding slowly.
"Truly... my eyes have been opened."
"Right? I never imagined a Hideyoshi Restroom would be so... unique."
The surrounding crowd: "..."
JUST TELL US WHAT HAPPENED!!
The students of both classes were suffering. They hated "cliffhangers" more than anything. Seito noticed the glares and looked around at his classmates.
"You want to know what's in there?" The students nodded vigorously. "Then you'll have to go see for yourselves~" Seito shrugged.
The crowd: "..."
The sheer level of "trolling" coming from him almost caused them internal injuries.
Refusing to be left in the dark, they rushed in one by one to observe the Hideyoshi Restroom. Two minutes later, the hallway was filled with students standing in pensive poses. No one spoke; they just stood there, heads down, contemplating the reality they had just witnessed.
The scene was profoundly eerie, leaving passing students completely baffled.
"Is it really that strange? I thought it was perfectly normal," Hideyoshi muttered, feeling a bit left out of the collective epiphany.
"Umm... I didn't feel anything special either," Saika Totsuka added softly from beside Hideyoshi. He didn't feel anything because, well, he was also a "Hideyoshi."
Seito shook his head to clear the thoughts. If he couldn't wrap his brain around it, there was no point dwelling on it. Turning to Amou kirukiru, he asked, "Amou, do you want to go find Kanade?"
"Sure," she nodded. It beat standing around here, and she felt like chatting with her friend.
"Little Sun-Moon~" Seito called out.
The kitten, which had been in Yukino's arms, immediately leaped back onto his shoulder. With that, he and Amou left the stunned crowd behind and headed toward Class A.
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