Karuizawa Kei's POV

After Kiyotaka talked about the matter, Tsukishiro saw them entering here. He signaled to discuss a deal to protect our lives. Indeed, he is having a lot of big changes. If it was Kiyotaka before, I'm sure he wouldn't care about us.

After listening for a while, I proactively came up with an idea.

"Kiyotaka, can you teach me martial arts?" I have no hesitation in speaking my mind. The Karuizawa Kei of the past lived clinging to someone else who died that day on the rooftop. I don't want to be a burden to Kiyotaka. The minimum thing is to know how to protect myself and not distract him.

Everyone in the room turned their eyes towards me. Being stared at like that, I didn't feel shy and confidently looked at Kiyotaka with steadfast, determined eyes.

Kiyotaka returned my gaze. The two of us were so close that we could understand just through our eyes. I opened my mouth to continue:

"With my current strength... let alone helping Kiyotaka, it's even more difficult to not become a burden to him. I am determined to fight with him, so I will absolutely not leave him alone. Kiyotaka is everything to me, he is my family. I want to protect it with my own hands."

Faced with that resolute declaration, Yuki and Shiro could not hide their surprised expressions when looking into my determined eyes. A strong spirit... I don't deny that it is my greatest strength.

Hasebe Haruka' POV

I used to have a very bad impression of Karuizawa Kei. She always shows herself to be a bratty, arrogant and arrogant girl. Through this conversation, I had a completely different view of her. A strong and determined girl, willing to face danger to protect what she cherishes, I couldn't hide my surprise.

I realized that as Kiyopon's close friend, I also had to do something.

"I think the same, Kiyopon. We don't want to be a burden to you. Academically, we think we can keep up. However, when it comes to physical and fighting abilities, I only see Miyacchi as being helpful. We also want to share your burden, but don't want to be protected all the time."

I finished speaking and winked at Miyacchi.

Miyacchi was startled and immediately understood what I meant. He also complied and continued.

"I agree with Haruka. We think we need more practice. Even me, a spoiled former student. I only know how to fight a little, I can't compare to the White Room members. Even I can become a burden to Kiyotaka, Yuki and Shiro, let alone everyone else."

"I think the same as them."

Keisei also noticed and agreed immediately. This is also a good opportunity for him to practice his physical strength.

"I-I also want to be of some help."

Although Airi is timid, she still speaks up and wants to be trained.

Ayanokouji Kiyotaka's POV

I know they are serious about this. But I couldn't hide my surprised expression at this consensus. This makes me feel warm, the first time I feel such comfort and ease.

"Miyake, Keisei will be trained by Shiro. He has the best martial arts in the fourth generation, second only to me. I think he is more gifted as a teacher." I cannot disappoint their spirit of solidarity and desire. This job is reasonably assigned to Shiro, I can't teach as well as him. Above all, I am the leader of the fourth generation, there will be a lot of trouble in the near future.

"As for Kei, Airi, and Haruka, they will be guided by the fourth generation female members. Women's bodies are not the same as men's, I cannot apply my method to you guys. But Yuki and the other female members are more than capable of helping you guys get stronger." I'm sure there aren't many people who can stand my training method. So far only one person has passed, Shiro. On the female members side, there is no one yet.

After hearing my arrangements, Shiro turned his eyes to Miyake and Keisei. He smiled friendly and said:

"Keisei rarely trains physically, so it will be difficult to reach a high level in a short time, but if it's against someone the size of Sudo, it's still possible..."

Hearing Shiro's assessment, Keisei couldn't hide his joy. I can only curse Shiro for being an old fox. He intentionally made it clear that Keisei rarely exercises physically by observing his muscles. He then added about being able to beat Sudo in a short amount of time. That's to distract Keisei, physical enhancement doesn't happen overnight to reach Sudo's level. What Shiro means here is fighting techniques. Shiro intentionally created a distraction like that to force Keisei to realize it himself.

"...As for Miyake, you also have some muscles. According to him, he was once a former student and must have gotten into quite a few fights. I need to observe how you fight to come up with a method that suits you."

Miyake rubbed his chin and nodded in agreement with Shiro. I was not wrong in choosing Shiro. If it were me, I would have forced them to learn all the martial arts like me. My adaptability is superb, so I'm completely fine. But if it were someone else, they would be constrained by inappropriate martial arts positions that exceed their body's ability to perform, which will limit their full potential.

"I'm not as good as Shiro, just look at it and I'll come up with a suitable method for you three. I need time to observe." Yuki

I think I can talk about the foundation of Kei's power. Not only mentally, but it's also in another aspect.

"Kei has very good resistance."

Pull was surprised to hear me say that. To answer their surprise, I will reveal Kei's past. But first, I think I'll ask her permission.

"Can you talk about "it"?" I looked at Kei and opened my mouth to ask.

Kei understood what I meant, she nodded without hesitation.

I started talking about Kei's past. A dark past of severe and extreme bullying at an unimaginable level. After hearing the story, Ayanokouji and others were speechless. As for Shiro and Yuki, they gritted their teeth in frustration.

"However, current Kei can take advantage of that dark past foundation to develop. After enduring years of bullying and violence, without even her realizing it, her body had acquired incredible resilience. What's more unbelievable is that the ability to endure lies in a high school girl. I found that out when Ryuen tortured Kei. Even when subjected to bone-chilling cold and tormenting mental and physical pain, Kei was still able to stand up to fight back against Ryuen as soon as he saw him about to attack me. According to my personal assessment, I think Kei can rank with us in terms of fighting. As for academics, you can improve later. It's a lot of trouble to come up with plans and stuff!"

I didn't exaggerate Kei too much. Now she's probably even more superior than when she was on the rooftop. Because she has overcome that dark past, there is now nothing that causes mental pain to her, I firmly believe with such a solid foundation.

Karuizawa Kei...

She has enough potential to reach the fighting level of White Room demons.

Ah...actually, there is still someone who possesses the same potential as Kei, and that is Ryuen Kakeru. No kidding. Ryuen and I are the same type of people, but we still have many small differences.

If Ryuen reaches his full potential, I think I'll have a hard time fighting him again.

But I think I shouldn't talk about this right now.

At least for now.

"So Kei's foundation is already that solid?!" Yuki was also surprised after hearing my comments.

Kei scratched her head embarrassedly, she was quite confused because she didn't expect that being bullied in the past would become the foundation to help her become stronger.

"So it seems that Kei is far ahead of me and Airi, right? Then we have to try to catch up. Right, Airi?" Haruka is also not the competitive type. I know she said that to motivate Airi and herself.

"U-Um!" Airi nodded.

Compete with each other to become stronger?

Sounds really childish!

But it's not bad.

Oh crap, I feel like my lips are curling up again.

Cup!

"Tehee~~ I got it." Kei quickly pulled out his phone and took a picture of me smiling again.

"Send me and Keipon." Haruka continued to nickname the new person. She looked at Yuki and Shiro:

"Yukki and Shicchi."

"Huh!!?" Kei, Yuki and Shiro were confused when they were nicknamed like that.

"Don't resist Haruka. Once she makes a nickname, no one can stop her." I admit that I am also helpless to accept the nickname Kiyopon, although it sounds quite strange, but after hearing it often, it becomes familiar. If one day, Haruto calls me Kiyotaka instead of Kiyopon like usual, then the end of the world will probably have come.

I wish everything could stay this peaceful...

The next morning, the classroom door opened wide and everyone looked in shock. Even Suzune, the class's ice lady, her eyes widened in surprise. Yousuke smiled happily. It seemed that Sato's eyes were a bit uncomfortable and surprised.

I was holding Kei's hand as I walked into the classroom. Both of our bags were held by me because I wanted to.

I led Kei to her seat and placed her bag on the table so gently that there was no noise.

"After school, let's go to the restaurant to eat something. I already made a reservation for the two of us." I gently told her.

"Yes. You're in great shape now." Kei chuckled and said to me.

My face became increasingly soft as I watched her smile. How could I stand it like that? So cute! Kei is a gift that God has given me.

I returned to my seat. Right after placing their butts on the chair, Sudo and Ike immediately rushed towards me.

"Hey, hey Ayanokouji! What does that mean?!" sudo

"Could it be that you betrayed your brothers?!" Ike

Don't really understand.

"I don't quite understand." I replied with my usual expressionless face. It's not because I don't consider them friends. Actually, Sudo is considered a friend, but not close enough. As for Ike, he was just a classmate, nothing more, nothing less.

"Ayanokouji-kun...you and...Karuizawa-san.." Horikita stuttered continuously because it was too hard to believe this. Well, it's a bit unbelievable for a gloomy guy like me to date that energetic girl.

"You want to ask about my girlfriend,
Horikita?" Horikita is still considered a friend and neighbor in class. When it gets to a certain point, I will think about telling her my story. Anyway, her potential is huge. Not in terms of fighting, but in other aspects.

After hearing this statement, the whole class, except for those who already knew, seemed to freeze. After a while, they all shouted at the same time:

"WHAT?!!!!l"

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I will buff Kei, Ryuen, Suzune, Ichinose, Hirata, Albert, Housen, Nanase a lot. Because they are all potential characters