In the Ordinary Streets of Tokyo, I Awakened as a Player

Chapter 318: Biting

Chapter 318: Biting

"Don’t misunderstand, Utsunomiya-san."

Kaguya Shinomiya tucked her long black hair behind her ear, her tone calm and flat.

"The ’belief’ I spoke of was merely a rational judgment based on my understanding of the person known as Utsunomiya Asagiri."

"Oh? Is that so?"

Asagiri smiled noncommittally, then suddenly asked,

"Does that mean this ’belief’ of yours has nothing to do with your personal feelings for me?"

"Of course it has nothing to do with my..."

Kaguya Shinomiya subconsciously stopped halfway through her sentence. She glanced at Asagiri beside her and calmly said,

"A linguistic trap? You still have the mood to tease me at a time like this, which means you aren’t nervous. It seems you’re confident of victory."

Asagiri did not reply. He only extended his right hand and waved it in front of Kaguya Shinomiya, who looked puzzled.

"What do you mean?"

"It only takes one hand."

"You’re really taking this too far..."

Kaguya Shinomiya shook her head with a trace of helplessness, then reminded him,

"Still, be cautious. I’ve investigated Kasumigaoka Utaha. She has maintained the top rank in her grade ever since enrolling at Toyosaki, and her lead is truly unmatched. Even if she were at Shuchiin Academy, she would still be an excellent student capable of ranking among the top twenty in every exam. I know you usually seem carefree, but you must have prepared seriously in advance. Still..."

"Prepared in advance? Shinomiya, I think you’ve misunderstood something."

Asagiri waved his hand, smiling as he interrupted Kaguya Shinomiya.

"Let me guess. You think I didn’t already master the knowledge for the second year of high school, and that I temporarily studied it just for this joint exam, right? Then you’re wrong. Back in elementary school, I had already mastered all the exam knowledge required up to high school graduation. By ’mastered,’ I mean to the level where I could obtain scholarships with excellent grades and enter the University of Tokyo directly."

"Huh?"

Even though Kaguya Shinomiya already knew Asagiri was a genius, when she heard him say that he had mastered the exam knowledge for high school graduation back in elementary school, and to the point of being able to earn scholarships and enter the University of Tokyo, she could not help but look incredulous.

"Um... why would you do something like that?"

"Because only when I don’t need to worry about my academic performance at all can I properly enjoy my youthful school days."

A thoughtful look appeared in Kaguya Shinomiya’s eyes as she walked side by side with Asagiri toward the teaching building. She asked softly,

"Although I feel like I’ll regret asking this, I still have to ask. What do you mean by ’youthful school days’?"

Asagiri said righteously,

"Sports club competitions, making eroge, fighting delinquents outside of school. Though I call it fighting, most of the time it was just me crushing them one-sidedly. A strong person must thoroughly humiliate the weak."

"Humiliate the weak, huh..."

Hearing Asagiri’s words, Kaguya Shinomiya seemed to recall some painful memories from the beginning of the semester, memories she had no desire to revisit. She sighed softly.

"So, you’re going to thoroughly humiliate Kasumigaoka this time too?"

"There’s no need for that."

Asagiri shook his head. Looking at Kaguya Shinomiya beside him, he chuckled lightly.

"This time, I’m humiliating Toyosaki Private Academy, not Kasumigaoka Utaha herself. I only humiliate those I deem worthy of being my opponent. Not every rotten fish and shrimp is qualified to be humiliated by me."

Kaguya Shinomiya was startled at first. Then a faint blush appeared on her face, and a trace of shyness and uncertainty flickered in her eyes.

Did Asagiri’s words mean...

That she was special to him, which was why he had humiliated her?

...

Half an hour later, inside a classroom in Private Shuchiin Academy’s teaching building.

"Phew..."

Kasumigaoka Utaha carefully examined the test paper that had been handed out. A thoughtful look appeared in her dark red eyes as she quickly made her assessment.

Compared to Toyosaki Private Academy’s usual tests, the difficulty of this paper was significantly higher. From her rough estimate, it was at least thirty percent harder than Toyosaki’s ordinary exam papers. Most outrageous of all, it was a comprehensive test that combined all liberal arts subjects into a single paper.

The exam lasted three hours, from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM.

Rather than an exam, it felt more like an endurance marathon designed to torture the mind.

However...

Kasumigaoka Utaha, like the other students in the classroom, could not help but glance toward Asagiri, who was sitting in the corner by the window, while they waited for the exam to officially begin.

He looked somewhat bored. One arm rested against the windowsill, and he was not carefully checking the test paper like the other examinees. Instead, he stared out the window, seemingly lost in thought, as if he did not take this exam seriously at all.

Watching Asagiri’s face illuminated by the sunlight, Kasumigaoka Utaha had to admit something, even though she did not have a good impression of him after he had specifically requested her participation in the exam and caused her so much trouble.

Utsunomiya Asagiri was indeed very handsome.

Especially when he was silent.

Since one’s attention was no longer drawn away by his words, his handsome appearance became even more striking.

Of course, Kasumigaoka Utaha’s focus was not on that. Nor was she the sort of lovesick girl who would be mesmerized by a handsome boy.

The real question was, why had Utsunomiya-san come to this examination room?

As a Shuchiin student taking the exam on his own school’s home ground, even though his test paper was different from those of the first years on both sides, he could have requested to take the exam in his own classroom. He could even have asked Shuchiin Academy to prepare a separate classroom for him as an examination room.

Either request would have been reasonable.

However, Asagiri did neither.

Instead, he chose the most difficult path.

He chose to take the exam in the same classroom as Kasumigaoka Utaha and her classmates, his opponents in this joint examination, despite not being familiar with them.

This had already gone beyond fairness and impartiality. It was almost as if he had deliberately placed himself at a disadvantage.

"What an arrogant guy..."

Kasumigaoka Utaha had originally thought Asagiri might use his home ground advantage to pull some tricks. For example, since he knew she was a liberal arts student, he could have added high difficulty science questions to the test paper.

But now, it seemed she had judged a gentleman with her own narrow mind.

"But it’s also very interesting."

Kasumigaoka Utaha showed a playful smile and murmured in a voice so soft it was almost inaudible.

"Well then... let’s decide the winner."

...

That afternoon, inside the teachers’ office at Private Shuchiin Academy.

"The winner has been decided."

The teacher leading Toyosaki Private Academy looked at the two test papers on the desk, then raised his head to look at Kasumigaoka Utaha. He offered her a somewhat forced smile of comfort.

"Kasumigaoka, don’t worry about it. After all, your opponent was Utsunomiya Asagiri. There’s nothing shameful about losing to him..."

"Is that so... I lost."

A complex look appeared in Kasumigaoka Utaha’s dark red eyes. She interrupted the teacher’s attempt at comfort and simply extended her hand.

"Teacher, may I see his test paper?"

"Of course."

Kasumigaoka Utaha took the test paper handed to her by the teacher. After carefully examining it for a while, she finally sighed softly.

"Mm. I really did lose."

Kasumigaoka Utaha was a very proud person, but that did not mean she would stubbornly refuse to admit reality over something like this. On the contrary, doing so would only make her feel more embarrassed.

For Utsunomiya Asagiri, a first year student, to achieve results comparable to hers in this exam would already have counted as his victory.

Moreover, it was obvious to anyone that Asagiri’s answers were better than hers.

Especially in writing, the field Kasumigaoka Utaha considered her strongest and believed she would never lose in, there was a visible gap between them.

"Hmph. How embarrassing."

Hearing the mocking voice behind her, Kasumigaoka Utaha turned around.

Looking at the beautiful girl with porcelain white skin, delicate features, and golden twin tails, who was leaning against the office doorway, Kasumigaoka’s lips curved into a smile. Yet there was not the slightest amusement in her eyes.

"The moment you catch a scent, you rush over to bite me? That really does suit your personality, Golden Retriever Chihuahua."

The blonde girl quickly stepped forward. She tilted her face up slightly to look at Kasumigaoka Utaha, who was a head taller than her, and bared her cute fangs as she snapped,

"Calling people by their proper names is basic courtesy, isn’t it?"

"Oh? So you’re human?"

Kasumigaoka Utaha covered her lips and chuckled. Looking down at the blonde twin tailed girl, she spoke in a tone clearly laced with mocking amusement.

"By the way, how did you get in? Shuchiin Academy should have regulations prohibiting chihuahuas that bite people at random from entering, right?"

"You, you..."

Seeing Kasumigaoka Utaha and Sawamura Spencer Eriri, the two most famous beauties of Toyosaki, at daggers drawn and seemingly about to fight, the teacher smiled awkwardly and tried to mediate.

But before he could speak, a voice filled with anticipation came from the office doorway.

"Fight, fight."

Kasumigaoka Utaha and Eriri both turned toward the office door.

At some point, Asagiri had appeared there. He had even brought over a chair from somewhere and was sitting down with a can of iced Coca-Cola in his hand, urging them on with pure expectation written all over his face.

"Hurry, hurry. I love watching women fight. Pull her hair. Pinch her face."

"You..."

Seeing Asagiri looking as if he had come purely to enjoy the show, Eriri immediately put on an annoyed expression. Just as she was about to step forward and launch a verbal attack, Kasumigaoka Utaha stopped her.

"Oh? Oh my~"

At that moment, the pink haired symbol of evil appeared behind Asagiri.

Fujiwara Chika activated the skill [Evil Peek], locked her gaze directly on Eriri, who was standing there, and said with a surprised expression,

"Isn’t this Eriri? So you study at Toyosaki. It’s been such a long time~"

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