Recap:
A very beautiful student has just entered Yutaka Mikoto's class in Fujimori High School. He is called Mirai Forthwood, a quarter of English and the rest is Japanese. He had stunned the whole class with his profound beauty. Yutaka Mikoto was very happy.
It was recess time, Yutaka Mikoto went and greeted his new fellow classmate, Mirai Forthwood.
"Konnichiwa(good afternoon/hello), Forthwood-san," greeted Yutaka Mikoto with a devilish yet princess-ish grin on his face.
"Konnichiwa(good afternoon/hello), Yutaka-san," replied Mirai in a soft voice.
He looks and sounds so delicate, just like a real princess, thought Mikoto.
He was really bewildered that such a male would really exist. That is, even though he would not like to admit it, excluding him and the rest of the princesses of Fujimori High School.
"Would you like to have recess together, Forthwood-san?" asked Mikoto.
"That would be very nice of you, Yutaka-san," replied Mirai.
"No problem, let's go, shall we?"
They were walking down the corridor to the cafeteria as Mikoto introduces Mirai the locations of the classes, libraries, the nurse's office and henceforth.
"So where are you from Forthwood-san? You do not look like you have lived in Japan," asked Mikoto.
"I just moved to Japan a few months ago. I lived in London with my family and had to move here because of some financial dispute," Mirai replied straightforwardly with a little hint of British accent.
"Oh, so ka... (I see…)"
"Hai(yes)"
...
*awkward silence*
"So Forthw-"
"MIKOTO-O!" Kouno Tooru and Yuujirou Shihoudani lunges themselves onto Mikoto like they were airport luggages.
"WHAT ARE YOU GUYS*ugh*DOING?" cried a flattened Mikoto.
"We're just trying to give you a friendly greeting," replied Yuujirou.
"HOW IS THIS FRIENDLY?!" Mikoto opposed.
Then, Tooru notices Mirai. He asked, "Eh? Who is sh- I mean, who is he? A new student?" He had forgotten that his school was an all-boys school for a short moment.
"Ah yes…He is my new classmate, he just transferred to school today," Mikoto paused and then continued, "His name is Mirai Forthwood. He's from London. Forthwood-san, these are my friends, Kouno Tooru and Shihoudani Yuujirou," clearly emphasizing on the 'friends' word of his sentence. They are his friends but in his current situation, he was being doubtful.
"Nice to meet you, Yutaka-san's friends," greeted Mirai.
"Nice to meet you too," Both Tooru and Yuujirou replied. Then, both of them looked at each other, grinning from ear to ear, as if they knew what the other was thinking, and they were.
Yuujirou cupped his hand onto Tooru's ear and whispered, "He's SO going to be a princess, Arisada-kaichou is going to-"
The loud speakers in the corridor suddenly went: *ding-dong-ding*
"The princesses and the newly exchanged student, Mirai Forthwood-san, please come to the student council room IMMEDIATELY. Thank you."
*ding-dong-ding*
"Ah, he found out," said Tooru, unfazed by the recent announcement made.
"No surprise there," Yuujirou agreed.
"Wait, why am I called to the student council office? Did I do something wrong," the calm-looking Mirai Forthwood showed a hint of puzzledness on his face.
"No it's nothing big, really, you'll understand when you get there," Mikoto explained. He started feeling sorry for him.
Then the whole explaining process then once happened to the previous princesses began, from the how-only-the-first-years-are-the-only-ones-that-can-handle-this job to the various benefits obtained from this princess job. Arisada Shuya, the student council president, also introduced himself and the rest of the members of the student council and so on.
The 'meeting' lasted for an hour.
The four of them left the room looking exhausted, but Mirai was especially feeling down.
At the school courtyard.
All of them were walking solemnly while Mirai still had his had dropped down, his side fringe slightly covering his forehead and eyes.
Yuujirou sighed heavily and said, "This must have been hard on you Forthwood-san, well, we all have been in your shoes so we understand your feelings."
"It will only last a year Forthwood-san, plus, think of all the benefits that you will receive," Tooru added.
"What?! You can't cheer him up with that kind of reasoning! Look how down he's feeling right now," Mikoto argued and pointed towards Mirai's direction. Both Tooru and Yuujirou gazed towards Mirai with a hint of pity. He wrapped his right arm around Mirai's shoulder and said, "Those two will never truly understand how you feel right now, both of them never had any man pride in them in the first place," Mikoto paused as the other two looked at him with annoyance and continued, "I'm the only one that understands you, don't worry." Mirai did not respond.
"Mikoto, you-"
"MINNA(EVERYONE)!" someone shouted behind them.
All of them except Mirai turned their heads to find Sakamoto Akira, the class president of Tooru's class and also a very popular student here in Fujimori High School, running up to them.
"Oh, it's Akira, what's up?" asked Yuujirou.
"No, it's nothing, it's just that I heard a new pri-," Akira stopped midway in his sentence when he saw Mirai.
"It's that the new…"
"Yes, he is," all of them said together.
Then they all huddled up with Akira and whispered:
"He's very pretty"
"He is, isn't he"
"What's his name?"
"Mirai Forthwood"
"From the looks of it, it looks like he has received the princess talk already, didn't he"
"Yeah, he did"
"Has he said anything about it yet?"
"No, he hasn't said a word till now…"
All of them slowly looked at Mirai, sighing here and there, feeling sad for him when all of a sudden, tears began falling and accompanied by his shy laughter.
"Forthwood-san! What's wrong?" Tooru asked.
"Arisada better be responsible for this," Yuujirou calmly said.
"Look what you guys have done to him!" Mikoto exclaimed.
"Ahhh Forthwood-san, it's a-alright, "Akira stuttered.
Everyone was shocked at how the once composed Mirai is now laughing uncontrollably. Mirai then lift up his head to wipe away his tears but was still laughing.
"Hahaha…today's events, is quite interesting," he said, then added cheerfully "I don't mind being a princess, it sounds fun."
"I'll do it!" He smiled gleefully towards them as he said that.
The others just stared at him in bewilderment.
"HAAAAAH?!" they shouted together as crows flocked away from the trees.
To be continued in chapter 3
