Chapter Four: 9
Alexander89
Pet the pretty kitty? Y/N
- Location
- Italy
[X] "Everyone, from saints to sinners, has someone who cry for them when they die."
"Everyone, from saints to sinners, has someone who cry for them when they die."
"Did you say something?" Koga asks while her blurring hands try to take your headbands from different angles.
"Ah, nothing." You push one arm away and bend backward to avoid the other. "Just wondering how melodramatic some people can get." Using the heads of your 'horse' as support you execute a series of kicks before cartwheeling and return to your starting position. "Well, I cannot say I dislike extremes if they're intense."
"Ah ah ah! What does that even mean?" She laughs while shifting her center of gravity and attacking from below. You flow around the blow and retaliate from what, to the untrained, would be an awkward position.
"Excuse me!" The girl from the Chemistry Club screams. "You are paying attention to not hit us, right?! Because what you're doing is seriously scary!"
"Same here!" The girl from the Orchestra Club below Koga screams back.
You and Koga stop at the same moment, hands a few centimeters from each other's headbands, and blink. "Uh. I actually forgot."
"Same here." She replies.
The members of your 'horses' cry in dismay.
"I should be used to this by now, yet my suspension of disbelief keeps getting broken. Student Council President Kurokami Medaka...she's standing on water!!! What the hell!!?"
You risk a brief glance in that direction: somehow Medaka has been knocked off her 'horse', yet instead of sinking she remains above the water's level. The reason for that is because she's standing on a floater. Now, Medaka doesn't have the power to reduce her weight so she should have sunk...the reason she doesn't, which even she may be unaware of, is that Kenna is sending the Ripple through the water and around the floater to push Medaka up.
Not only being able to do that, but to use it on another person...is her natural talent even greater than Joseph Joestar in his primes?
Such concerns are blown away when Medaka tackles Kikaijima off her 'horse' and, before falling into the water, kiss her. "Great, she's doing it again. I hoped she could go a whole year before falling back into bad habits."
"An opening!" Koga shouts in triumph as her hand resumes moving, aware that you can't move out of the way fast enough.
So you delay it by tilting your head back, giving your hand the time to reach Koga's headband and snatch it just as she does with yours.
Double knockdown. As things stand you will accept the result as positive.
The Inter-Club Swim Meet eventually ends with Nekomi and the Judo Team's victory, thanks to them taking a large number of headbands from the other clubs. The Student Council ends up third place, with the Swimming Club immediately behind.
As previously suggested by you the school funds, plus Medaka's bonus, are split between the winners and the other Clubs, thus resolving everyone's money problems. The students go back home satisfied, having enjoyed a fun day playing and now free of the anxiety caused by the lack of funds for their Clubs.
You will let them enjoy that for a few days before giving them reasons to use that money in the best way possible.
Late in the afternoon you return home after saying goodbye to Rica. Unlocking the front door you cross the foyer and climb the staircase to the second floor.
A pair of slender, tanned arms clad in brown gloves hug you from behind, their owner leaning on your back. "Aaah, every time I see you get more and more handsome." Silver hair falls into your field of vision. "It's such a pity I prefer older men, otherwise I would fall head over heels for you."
"Hello Aunt Mariah." You greet her with a casual tone, used to her mannerisms. "Back already from Africa?"
"Nooo, I told you." She pokes your cheek with one finger. "Call me Big Sister."
"For shame woman. You're past your thirties: act appropriately." Another voice replies in a chastising tone. Walking into view is a tanned woman with long, wavy dark brown hair, wearing a blue kaftan and red high heels. She's also wearing a headscarf and a mouth-veil.
Mariah snorts in disdain before leaving you go and stepping back, arms crossed and looking away.
"Hello Aunt Midler." You greet the other woman.
"Hello Zenkichi. To answer your previous question, the job took less time that we thought." She shoots a glare at Mariah. "Despite a certain someone taking every opportunity to flirt with whoever suited her fancies."
"That's rich. This, coming from the one that offered to do a belly dance in broad daylight."
You quietly sneak away while the two women begin exchanging petty insults. Passing in front of the game room you see who's inside and decide that homework can wait. Walking inside you leave your bag on a chair. "Hey Daniel-san. You up for a little match?"
The man with black hair and a trim mustache grins in a knowing way. "Are the two harpies at it already? Can't say I blame you kid: this place is a lot more quiet without them around."
You raise an eyebrow while sitting down in front of him. "Didn't they threaten you with castration the last time you said that?"
"Are they here to hear me? No." He begins to shuffle the cards. "Draw, Stud or Shared Cards?"
"A new, never-opened-before deck please."
"As you wish." He opens a side drawer, revealing five rows of identical decks still inside their plastic wrappings. "Choose whichever you like."
You hum, nodding quietly to yourself while staring at the decks before looking up. "So, is that industrial equipment to make the wrappings and the seals easy to use?"
"GOOD!" He points a finger at you, his grin wide. "My lessons weren't wasted! Half and half from two decks?"
"Let's make one third...no, one fourth from four decks decided randomly." You grin back while looking for other possible cheats and mentally preparing to use your own.
[X] End of Chapter Four
"Everyone, from saints to sinners, has someone who cry for them when they die."
"Did you say something?" Koga asks while her blurring hands try to take your headbands from different angles.
"Ah, nothing." You push one arm away and bend backward to avoid the other. "Just wondering how melodramatic some people can get." Using the heads of your 'horse' as support you execute a series of kicks before cartwheeling and return to your starting position. "Well, I cannot say I dislike extremes if they're intense."
"Ah ah ah! What does that even mean?" She laughs while shifting her center of gravity and attacking from below. You flow around the blow and retaliate from what, to the untrained, would be an awkward position.
"Excuse me!" The girl from the Chemistry Club screams. "You are paying attention to not hit us, right?! Because what you're doing is seriously scary!"
"Same here!" The girl from the Orchestra Club below Koga screams back.
You and Koga stop at the same moment, hands a few centimeters from each other's headbands, and blink. "Uh. I actually forgot."
"Same here." She replies.
The members of your 'horses' cry in dismay.
"I should be used to this by now, yet my suspension of disbelief keeps getting broken. Student Council President Kurokami Medaka...she's standing on water!!! What the hell!!?"
You risk a brief glance in that direction: somehow Medaka has been knocked off her 'horse', yet instead of sinking she remains above the water's level. The reason for that is because she's standing on a floater. Now, Medaka doesn't have the power to reduce her weight so she should have sunk...the reason she doesn't, which even she may be unaware of, is that Kenna is sending the Ripple through the water and around the floater to push Medaka up.
Not only being able to do that, but to use it on another person...is her natural talent even greater than Joseph Joestar in his primes?
Such concerns are blown away when Medaka tackles Kikaijima off her 'horse' and, before falling into the water, kiss her. "Great, she's doing it again. I hoped she could go a whole year before falling back into bad habits."
"An opening!" Koga shouts in triumph as her hand resumes moving, aware that you can't move out of the way fast enough.
So you delay it by tilting your head back, giving your hand the time to reach Koga's headband and snatch it just as she does with yours.
Double knockdown. As things stand you will accept the result as positive.
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The Inter-Club Swim Meet eventually ends with Nekomi and the Judo Team's victory, thanks to them taking a large number of headbands from the other clubs. The Student Council ends up third place, with the Swimming Club immediately behind.
As previously suggested by you the school funds, plus Medaka's bonus, are split between the winners and the other Clubs, thus resolving everyone's money problems. The students go back home satisfied, having enjoyed a fun day playing and now free of the anxiety caused by the lack of funds for their Clubs.
You will let them enjoy that for a few days before giving them reasons to use that money in the best way possible.
Late in the afternoon you return home after saying goodbye to Rica. Unlocking the front door you cross the foyer and climb the staircase to the second floor.
A pair of slender, tanned arms clad in brown gloves hug you from behind, their owner leaning on your back. "Aaah, every time I see you get more and more handsome." Silver hair falls into your field of vision. "It's such a pity I prefer older men, otherwise I would fall head over heels for you."
"Hello Aunt Mariah." You greet her with a casual tone, used to her mannerisms. "Back already from Africa?"
"Nooo, I told you." She pokes your cheek with one finger. "Call me Big Sister."
"For shame woman. You're past your thirties: act appropriately." Another voice replies in a chastising tone. Walking into view is a tanned woman with long, wavy dark brown hair, wearing a blue kaftan and red high heels. She's also wearing a headscarf and a mouth-veil.
Mariah snorts in disdain before leaving you go and stepping back, arms crossed and looking away.
"Hello Aunt Midler." You greet the other woman.
"Hello Zenkichi. To answer your previous question, the job took less time that we thought." She shoots a glare at Mariah. "Despite a certain someone taking every opportunity to flirt with whoever suited her fancies."
"That's rich. This, coming from the one that offered to do a belly dance in broad daylight."
You quietly sneak away while the two women begin exchanging petty insults. Passing in front of the game room you see who's inside and decide that homework can wait. Walking inside you leave your bag on a chair. "Hey Daniel-san. You up for a little match?"
The man with black hair and a trim mustache grins in a knowing way. "Are the two harpies at it already? Can't say I blame you kid: this place is a lot more quiet without them around."
You raise an eyebrow while sitting down in front of him. "Didn't they threaten you with castration the last time you said that?"
"Are they here to hear me? No." He begins to shuffle the cards. "Draw, Stud or Shared Cards?"
"A new, never-opened-before deck please."
"As you wish." He opens a side drawer, revealing five rows of identical decks still inside their plastic wrappings. "Choose whichever you like."
You hum, nodding quietly to yourself while staring at the decks before looking up. "So, is that industrial equipment to make the wrappings and the seals easy to use?"
"GOOD!" He points a finger at you, his grin wide. "My lessons weren't wasted! Half and half from two decks?"
"Let's make one third...no, one fourth from four decks decided randomly." You grin back while looking for other possible cheats and mentally preparing to use your own.
[X] End of Chapter Four
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