Operation: [Adjustment]
Outside The Secret Research Facility
Morning
"*Yawn* Hmmm…?" yawned Yu now awake before he felt someone was leaning on his shoulder before turning to see Tomori still sleeping peacefully until he remembered the events yesterday.
The day he finally returned to her side...
Yu seeing her serene and calm state like this couldn't help but smile knowing what happened from their argument last night before poking her cheek with his finger to awake her.
"Nnnn…A…few more…seconds please…" stirred Tomori before subconsciously latching on Yu's shoulder tightly not wanting to wake up.
"Come on Nao wake up" urged Yu wanting to wake up the girl by his side before blushing when he realize that one button on Tomori's shirt was loose allowing him to slightly see his pink bra.
Tomori opened her eyes albeit lazily still lethargic from her slumber but upon seeing Yu's face with a blush before looking where he was staring she gained a mischievous smirk which was too late when Yu notice.
"Oh! Does Yu-kun like what his seeing~" teased Tomori now fully awake before lifting her hand over her shirt before fiddling the other button beneath the loose one making Yu see more of Tomori's bra clearly. While hugging his arm tighter making Yu blush further instantly looking away.
It seems that Tomori had not lost and forgot her new teasing personality; yes he knew this was because of his return and he somehow had still to get used to her unusual behavior. But this was just ridiculous!
"D-do you need to do that?!" Yu shouted out of embarrassment and upon calming he faced her again.
But instead of the smirk or look of smugness he was expecting from Tomori, she was blushing while keeping up the smirk that was supposed to be suggestive.
"H-hey! If you're that embarrass you don't have to do this right?!" Yu shouted out loud.
"Y-yes I do, though I guess that was too much" Tomori said but there was still a blush on her face making Yu sweatdrop.
"Why?"
"Because this is what a girlfriend does to tease her boyfriend right?" Tomori said with a tilt of her head.
"No, no it's not... I think" Yu said with a deadpan.
"And I got the sudden desire to see you get embarrassed by me"
"Of course you did" Yu sighed by his girlfriend's blunt reason. "We should probably go inside" Yu said standing up before facing around towards the secret research facility but Tomori who had fixed her shirt was not done yet.
"But I do have this other desire as well" Tomori said before hugging Yu's back who was caught off guard.
"I'm glad you came back, Yu" Tomori said softly before Yu face her as well while smiling and hugging her also.
"Me too, Nao" Yu said lifting Tomori's chin and kissing her lips that lasted for a few seconds before separating smiling at each other.
"Let's go" Yu said pulling away from the hug and intertwining his hand with her own.
Tomori just nodded with a smile that made Yu return the gesture before both of them made their way towards the Secret Research Facility while holding each other's hands.
Secret Research Facility
[Play: Danran (ANANT-GARDE-EYES/Jun Maeda) Charlotte (O.S.T)]
Yu and Tomori was walking hand in hand amidst the halls of the Secret Research Facility until they stopped seeing a certain blonde head female quickly dashing towards the elevator accompanied by a certain salmon haired girl but stopping when both saw the now reunited couple.
"Good morning to both of you Otosaka-san! Tomori-san!" Nishimori said happily greeting the two unaware that their hands where intertwined.
"Good morning Kurobane-san Medoki-san, what's up so early in the morning?" Tomori questioned the two.
"Oh nothing, just got a call from my manager saying that Yusa should probably attend a meeting of sorts" explained Nishimori.
"I'm just accompanying Yusa-chan here" Medoki said before gaining a mischievous smirk now noticing their hands. "How about you two? I haven't seen both of you in your rooms and you two look a lot closer than last night" Medoki teased getting the oblivious Nishimori to get what's happening.
"You two are just so cute!" squealed Nishimori while clasping both of her hands.
"Not the way you're thinking but yeah" said by Yu.
"You mean we should just forget what happened last night between us?" Tomori said innocently.
"W-w-what l-l-last n-night?!" stuttered Nishimori whilst blushing imagining countless delusions that could happen between her two friends.
"So bold! The two of you~" Medoki teased.
"Now how am I going to clear what happened due to your 'explanation'?" Yu palmed his face while asking Tomori.
"I'm just telling the truth based on what I've seen, heard and…felt" Tomori said while covering her cheeks with her hands with a fake blush.
"F-f-f-felt?!" Nishimori said blushing heavily from the implication.
"Oh my~" Medoki said amused with a hand on her cheek. "Well anyway, we should probably go before Yusa-chan thinks of something more…graphic" Medoki said getting Nishimori to stop her delusions.
"Am not" pouted by Nishimori before facing the two love birds. "Tomori-san Otosaka-san, you mustn't do something so… so p-perverted, you haven't even gotten married yet" lectured by the blonde head.
"What are you talking about Kurobane-san? I'm just talking about him confessing his love to me and just some hugs nothing more" corrected Tomori with a raised eyebrow.
"Eh?" Nishimori blinked.
"Oh my~ did you thought we did THAT? I didn't know you had a unique imagination Kurobane-san" teased Tomori.
"W-w-what?! You tricked me! Waaaah!" cried out Nishimori in embarrassment before sprinting at full speed that could've made Yu's {Fast Movement} ability's own speed look like a joke.
'Sometimes the human body can do many unbelievable things depending on the situation' thought Yu theorized to explain the sudden burst of speed and was amazed at how fast Nishimorisprinted.
"I should go and probably catch up with Yusa-chan, congratulations to you two" Medoki gave a farewell before running forward trying to catch up with the embarrassed blonde head.
"Did you really have to tease her?" Yu turned to Tomori.
"It was amusing to see her face like that, don't you?" Tomori said grinning.
"Maybe so… let's go and have breakfast" agreed Yu smiling before continuing his way hand in hand with Tomori.
Yu and Tomori finally reached the dining hall. Upon entering they saw Shunsuke talking with Maedomari and Ayumi while Shinchino and Takajo was discussing something... fanboyish. Until Shunsuke noticed them…
"Good morning you two, why don't you eat your breakfast with us?" Shunsuke said while the two just nodded before both sat on two empty seats and began eating.
"Where have you been Yu-niichan, Tomori-neechan? Ayu didn't see both of you in your rooms when Ayu decided to wake you two up" asked Ayumi curiously taking a seat near Tomori.
'Here we go again' thought Yu helplessly knowing what would happen next, Tomori's smirk only added to his suspicion.
"So where were the both of you?" Ayumi asked.
"We slept outside" Tomori said with a proud tone that made Yu confused.
"You mean camping!" Ayumi excitedly asked.
"Yep like that but with more action!" Tomori's proud tone made Yu more confused.
"More action?" Ayumi mumbled. "You mean you played outside before going to sleep!" Ayumi guessed.
"Yes we played with each other!" Tomori continued making Yu lose his confusion.
"What game?!
"Where he suddenly forced me!" Now Yu was realizing it
"He forced what?!"
"Where he suddenly forced his way on-" Tomori was cut off because Yu pinched her nose.
Yu who had been listening to their discussion finally realized what Tomori was implying and could only pinch his girlfriend's nose to stop her mouth from shouting more misunderstandings.
He had been in a lot of dark moments while he was on his mission and always remembered that he was still human that has the capability to express emotions, for example on his journey around the world he was obligated to help all the people that he can while he hides his name, so that his own morals would not wane.
But in that time even though he always received thanks from those people, but he felt that it was only empty words because they know he had powers so that they can use him to survive or get over their problems, which he in turn he also used them as an anchor to keep himself sane and that those thanks were taken by him as his sign of an opportunity to reassure him that he was still human capable of emotions rather than words of gratitude.
They thanked him as a person that has abilities rather than him being Yu Otosaka, though not everyone was that way, only few were really sincere with their thanks which he was grateful for albeit he remained unsatisfied.
But now seeing his family, friends and loved ones receiving him warmly with words of reassurance, gratefulness and encouragement despite the consequences that may approach, the unsatisfied feeling inside him was simply filled.
And they may say he had done enough but he always would reach out a hand to them not of obligation but of the goodness of his heart. He would use this sickness that he possesses to protect them with his life. And the first thing he would do was...
... to stop Tomori from corrupting his cute and oh so innocent Ayumi-chan!
"Hey! What are you doing?!" Tomori shouted trying to get Yu's hands off her nose.
"Those things that you said can be misunderstood" Yu deadpanned.
"But that happened!" whined Tomori.
"Technically yes, but It did not happen that specific way!" retorted Yu who now had tickmarks on his head.
"Let go!" Tomori said before raising her hand towards Yu's face.
"Not until you sto- *OW!* Nao! What the- *OW!*" Yu shouted in pain his cheek getting pinched said girl.
It ended up with Tomori pinching Yu's cheek while her nose was getting squeezed by Yu's fingers while both of their unoccupied hands were trying to pry each other off. The others could only look amused seeing the couple release their hold with each other to argue more.
"Siscon!"
"I just love my sister! Glutton!"
"I just like eating a lot!"
""That's like the same thing!"" Yu and Tomori were now butting heads whilst gritting their teeth trying to dominate the other with insults, but temporarily stopped when a certain male with blond head interrupted them with a flat tone... key word: temporarily.
"No wonder they end up together, they're basically simi- *Gah!*" Shinchino was cut-off when a book out of nowhere suddenly hit the center of his forehead sending him on the floor.
""Turn-off!"" they shouted at the same time.
Medoki who had just arrived reached her seat, she could only see Shinchino's unconscious form sprawled out on the floor with a book on the side of his head while Yu and Tomori were still arguing while Shunsuke and Maedomari was watching with amused faces while Ayumi was... being Ayumi.
"What happened?" Medoki asked no one in particular, it was Takajo who answered.
"They were arguing about being simi-*Gah!*" Takajo was cut-off when a book out of nowhere suddenly hit the center of his forehead sending him on the floor beside Shinchino.
""Shut up!"" the couple shouted at the same time again.
"They are strangely in sync when it comes to things like this" Medoki said watching the two argue.
It was only truly stopped when Shunsuke spoke.
"Okay, okay that's enough Yu, Nao-chan" Shunsuke stated making them stop. "Ayumi is just only getting more confused here" he added with a smile which was returned by a nod.
"So what did Yu-niichan forced Tomori-neechan into?" Ayumi asked innocently which made Yu sweat while Tomori snickered.
"Um... I'll tell you when you're older Ayumi" excused Yu which made Ayumi puffed her cheeks out but nonetheless accepted before continuing to eat.
"Oh right" Shunsuke said getting everyone's attention even the two turn-offs (Takajo and Shinchino flinched) who was now seating in their seats. "Yu" he called.
"Yes nii-san?" Yu asked.
"Do you want to go to school normally or I'll hire you a tutor to continue your studies?" Shunsuke asked.
"I would like to go to school nii-san" Yu asked glancing at Tomori and Takajo who nodded and smiled while Shunsuke was thinking.
"Though I don't actually like it... okay then, I'll arrange your papers as a second year in Nao-chan's and Takajo-san's class" Shunsuke agreed giving a nod towards Tomori and Takajo which they returned. "Just be careful okay? I'll do the best to watch over all of you" he added with a determined voice.
Since Yu returned from his mission and hearing his explanations, Shunsuke knew that it isn't completely safe for him even though almost all crime syndicates and scientists in the world were destroyed by him. There could always be new organizations or the remaining ones to capture him and it was dangerous knowing that Yu's abilities were now permanent even though he knew Yu had done the mission under a anonymous disguise. But nonetheless as his brother that had only spent about less than a month with his remaining family since he finally revealed himself to them, can't help but feel worried.
But as a Yu teenager, he still needed proper education like the rest and it will also help Yu's mental health which in turn would help him get over his experiences during the dark times where he was on his mission. That is why he agreed to Yu's choice albeit reluctantly knowing that he has good friends that would stay by his side in the most difficult of times. It may take a while but that is an opportunity that he will take to help Yu adjust in society as well.
"Yu-niichan?! You're returning to school again!" Ayumi beside Yu said in an enthusiastic tone.
"Yes Ayumi-chan, you're brother is returning" Shunsuke said with a smile before turning to Yu. "But you need to catch up to some of your studies alright?" he added which made Yu nod. "I'll leave that to you Nao-chan!" he said to Tomori with thumbs up who nodded.
"Don't worry Shunsuke-san! I'll whip him to learn if I have to" Tomori said with a smirk while Yu was just giving a wry smile from hearing her statement, but after this he would regret not understanding her words earlier.
"Good luck with your "lecture" Yu, you're going to need it" Shunsuke teased.
"Ah love~" Medoki sang.
"Yu-niisan is going to get whipped!" Ayumi cried out.
"I give you my condolences" Takajo with a mock salute said while Maedomari just chuckled.
"I think I'll be alright... it's my violent girl after all" Yu said with a grin.
"And you're my stupid idiot" Tomori returned the grin.
"Okay love birds, restrain your lovey-dovey moments outside the breakfast table please" Shinchino said rather flatly before a book out of nowhere smacked his forehead…again.
And with that they continued to eat their breakfast while chatting animatedly with each other... except for Shinchino who was currently unconscious.
Hoshinoumi Academy (Baseball Field)
[Play: Ihyou (ANANT-GARDE-EYES/Jun Maeda) Charlotte (O.S.T)]
An Hour Later
The wide baseball field that was behind Hoshinoumi Academy was the next location where the three of the four student council members was spending their time. Each of them were wearing their own respective tracksuits.
The noise of shouts and whiplashes was heard in the area by students in the building but once they see what it was, they could only sympathize for the unfortunate boy from such treatment. It was because that a young man was running while dodging the attacks that were sent by the girl with a whip on her hand.
"What the hell is this Tomori?!" Yu shouted while dodging the end of the whip that came from his side barely missing him by a few centimeters.
"Didn't I tell you!? I'm going whip you to learn!" Tomori said continuing her attack while Yu dodged barely.
"That was literal!" Yu shouted jumping to dodge the attack from below. "I thought it was going to be a study session or something!"
"Yes but if you want a healthy body you gotta exercise as well! Oh, and this is studying!"
"How?!"
"I mean you have a book in your hands right?" Tomori asked while Yu suddenly looked towards his hands to see that there was a book.
"Where did this book com-, wait... why would you give me a book about food!" Yu shouted seeing the content of the book was about... food.
"Oops! Wrong book... Takajo!" Tomori realized before calling out Takajo.
A figure out of nowhere suddenly appeared just behind the running couple.
"Yes?" Takajo said calmly while running to catch up.
"Where was the book that I asked you to bring? That was the wrong one"
"It's back in the library wh-*Gah!*" Takajo was cut off when he was kicked by Tomori in the abdomen sending him on the ground face first while his rear was in the air.
"You're useless Takajo! But anyway let's exercise first!" Tomori stated before continuing on her whipping while Yu dodged the assault.
"Would you stop that?!"
"This is fun!"
"What?!"
Some Time Later
A few minutes later the three were sitting on the bench resting from the running they performed.
"Well... that was a waste of time" Yu stated flatly with a towel over his head.
"We did some exercise right?" Tomori said gulping some water from her water bottle. "A good jog can make your heart run"
"More like running for your life" Yu said in a deadpan facing her. "How did you even get permission on using this whole place?" he asked while looking around.
"Actually..." Takajo interrupted. "...she being the Student Council President has some privileges that allow her to easily use facilities in the school" he answered while Tomori just nodded.
"So power-abuse huh?" Yu questioned seeing Tomori with a proud smile on her face changed to a pout.
"How rude! I was just using my authority as President!" Tomori said offended by his assumption.
"Sounds like the same thing" Yu muttered. "Well anyway I think class is about to start so let's get going" Yu stood up but Tomori immediately held his hand.
"No can do" Tomori said shaking her head. "Shunsuke-san said that you should rest for some time while he assigned the three of us to take care of the lessons that you missed" she stated.
"Then what are we doing out here?!" Yu retorted.
"Well because Takajo forgot the lesson material, I was forced to compromise" Tomori said while giving Takajo a glare.
"Y-you said a book about anything!" Takajo defended. "So I brought a book about food seeing that you-" he was cut-off when Tomori's glare intensified indicating him to dare to continue. "N-nothing"
"Oh and it's alright if we don't go to school today, we are excused for two weeks" Tomori informed.
While Shunsuke allowed Yu to continue going to school, he requested Tomori and Takajo with extension Nishimori to help him in his studies, which they gladly complied to. Seeing that he had just returned from his mission, he gave him time to rest and a chance to catch up with the others in terms of studies.
But in truth, it was done by him for the primary reason that he wanted Yu to catch up on his friends that he had not seen for about a year and wanted for him to connect to them because of the long absence because of his mission, seeing that it would also help him regarding his health.
"But I'm alright" excused Yu. "I really don't need some rest-, what?" he added but seeing their looks he got confused.
"Says the one who had just travelled the whole world and just got back yesterday" Tomori said with a blank stare.
"Bu-" Yu tried to protest.
"I highly recommend you follow their advice Otosaka-san" Takajo said. "You need some well-deserved rest" he added.
Yu seeing their faces just sighed and eventually agreed.
"*Sigh* Fine then I'll rest if that's what you all want" sighed Yu with a nod but couldn't help but feel that the two was planning something.
""Yes! Two weeks with no classes!"" Tomori and Takajo shouted while fists in the air making Yu's assumption correct.
"I knew it!" Yu retorted.
After Yu had left for his mission, Tomori, Takajo and Nishimori had been told that their special mission in the Student Council, regarding about the monitoring of {Ability Wielders}, is now unneeded. It means that they are now free from the task and allowed to continue normal day to day activities as everyday students, which they agreed to.
It also means that the free absences they are provided with as they search for {Ability Wielders} are removed also. Simply put... their chance for free time has disappeared as well.
"Well besides that... you get to hang out with your girlfriend" Tomori said with a smile making Yu blush.
"Using that card huh?" Yu said facing away from Tomori who just smirked.
"And I get to hang out with Yusa-san!" Takajo said with a nod.
""Shut up Turn-off"" Yu and Tomori said in a monotone at the same time making Takajo flinched.
"Y-you two are so mean!" Takajo whined.
""But it's the truth right?"" they said again.
"Don't talk at the same time! It just gets worse!" Takajo complained making the two laugh.
Sounds of quick footsteps were heard in their left which means that the person was running towards them, it made them glance wanting to see who it was.
"Guys!"
Nishimori in a tracksuit was running towards them while waving her hand until she stopped reaching her destination in front of them.
"Yusa-san good morning!" Takajo greeted with a wave on his hand.
"Morning" Yu greeted as well.
"Good Morning... you're late Kurobane-san" Tomori said making the blonde show a sheepish smile.
"Sorry sorry, Yusa had to do some business" Nishimori said before taking a seat beside Takajo in the bench.
"Well can't argue with that, we are going to start running again after five minutes" Tomori stated while preparing the whip lashing it several times on the ground.
"U-um, Tomori- san why are you holding a whip" asked Nishimori stuttering seeing the object while Tomori turned to her.
"It's actually for Yu here, to prevent him from slacking off" Tomori said.
"Do you have to bring that? I can guarantee you that I won't slack off" Yu promised truthfully while pointing at the whip she held while Tomori sighed.
"It's for your own good" stated Tomori while Yu raised his eyebrow. "I don't want you to end up like Takajo who is easily tired out by simple work" she added.
"If you're talking about student council work, you sometimes dump it on me!" complained Takajo.
As the student council members they are assigned to read, evaluate, check and sign various documents and papers about school activities and other student council stuff. Tomori was a hard worker and even responsible in doing student council works from what the others have seen but sometimes she gets bored on doing those tasks and she usually dump it on Takajo, much to the latter's dismay.
"I shouldn't?" Tomori tilted her head confused.
"Of course you shouldn't!" Takajo retorted while Yu and Nishimori sweatdrop.
"Then this exercise will quickly solve that problem then" Tomori said with a smile on her face making the other members sweat. "Looks like 5 minutes are up" she said looking at her timer before standing. "Let's continue!" she stated before lashing her whip at Takajo's feet which the classmate (victim) suddenly jump out of reflex narrowly dodging the attack.
"Hey that was too close you know!" Takajo retorted while two blurs passed by him making his attention turn towards them to only see Yu and Nishimori running away.
"If I were you Takajo, you better start running!" Yu shouted across his shoulders.
"Yusa agrees as well!" Nishimori shouted back.
Takajo could only gape seeing the two running ahead leaving him wit-
"Sorry to interrupt you're internal monologue Takajo" he heard a voice behind him making him remember the reaso- "Start running!" Tomori interrupted his internal monologue again running towards his direction with the whip in hand.
"Wait for me you guys!" Takajo shouted starting to run while dodging the whiplashes that were gaining on him.
The area was filled with shouts and whiplashes th-
"This is no time for narrations!" Tomori shouted unknowingly breaking the fourth wall while the others could only listen in confusion while attempting to narrowly dodge the attacks that came from said girl.
As they ran for their lives they ultimately decided in their minds to prevent Tomori from touching a whip ever again.
Student Council Room
[Play: Break Time (ANANT-GARDE-EYES/Jun Maeda) Charlotte (O.S.T)]
The members of the Student Council decided to hang out in the clubroom after their workout in the baseball field earlier. They wore their own uniforms because it was a requirement of the school even though they were free from classes as said by Shunsuke. They were just lounging around the room doing their own thing. And decided to do their original given task, namely helping Yu on his studies, for later until they rested up.
Takajo was watching a music video about the new cover of How-Low-Hello in front of the TV, while Nishimori was just watching as well interested to see what kind of reaction will come from a person as a fan (turn-off) for her music. Tomori was sitting on her usual desk listening to her new MP3 player while Yu was sitting on the couch that was beside the map table that he was observing, his gaze was seeing numerous red and orange dots, few of them were moving while a lot of them were staying in their place.
The red dots represented the {Ability Wielders} who had their own unique special powers that were flawed in some ways but nonetheless accessible for them to use, while the orange dots represented the {Carriers} who had undeveloped or abilities that were not yet mature and their special abilities that will appear in time or through Yu's {Disease Manipulation} if he decided to.
Yu who was silently watching the dots was slightly surprised upon a realization that them being {Ability Wielders} have not yet made a ruckus or any type of problem while they were in the campus and have not yet seen or records of any overuse or unnecessary use of their own powers.
Sure he had heard that there were few fights were they accidentally use their abilities, but that was merely accidental or not of their own will. He has yet to hear news of students that uses their abilities to flaunt, show-off, or simply use their powers for harm.
He could guess that there were three reasons as to why is there so...
First, they are informed of what would happen when they are seen using their powers in public and tried to avoid complications for their own good...
Second, the school must have laid rules of preventing the use of powers by students in school lest the punishments will be faced which is more likely or...
Third, probably it was because of Tomori or the way she acts as the student council president and the students were most likely scared of her wrath.
"You're thinking of something rude aren't you?" Tomori who had her earphones removed asked as if reading Yu's mind.
"N-no of course not" Yu denied while vehemently shook his head. Tomori just narrowed her eyes towards him for several seconds before returning the earphones in place while Yu just sighed in relief.
Getting back on topic... either ways Yu was glad to know that the student in Hoshinoumi Academy were well-behave in terms of using their powers, and tried to go to school as normal students instead of {Ability Wielders}.
That must be the reason why they behave like so, already knowing that this sickness would be gone upon passing adolescent. They themselves know that they can't have a normal high school like other teenagers because of their powers, in fear that they may be captured by those scientists and be used in experimentations if they are seen using powers. So they try to immerse themselves as ordinary students where people like them are gathered, to interact like normal people with someone who can understand the burden of having special abilities.
Fortunately for them they have Hoshinoumi Academy, a school or you could say their last resort as protection from harm. But despite the safe environment Yu knew some of them can't help but feel fear or afraid knowing that this place can be infiltrated or be found by those illegal organizations. However seeing that this unique institution stood strong, it definitely was an ideal place for {Ability Wielders} to stay in.
Even so he can't help but worry seeing how many {Ability Wielders} and {Carriers} there are in this school, already knowing that anything unexpected could happen. Should he loot their abilities? Or just let time pass until they the abilities disappear?
"...usa..."
Sure the first one is the most convenient choice knowing that the problem would be gone if he simply loot their ability relieving them of future troubles. But seeing Tomori and the other's reaction that day he returned, he knows he will have a hard time convincing them with the plan he had in mind.
"...Yu...ri..."
And he knew that his brother Shunsuke said that he will be the one in charge in managing the {Ability Wielders} here in Japan, which makes the situation more complicated. So ultimately he decided to discuss this topic another time with them if an opportunity presented itself.
"Yusarin!"
He was brought out of his muse when a loud noise was heard from our resident fanboy.
"This is so awesome!" Takajo yelled excitedly bringing his arms up after the music video ended.
Nishimori just smiled while clapping her hands liking the response from Takajo while Yu turned to them with a sigh before looking at his girlfriend across the table, and froze when he saw the expression on her face.
Tomori was smiling whilst she had her eyes closed, but Yu knows that she was anything but pleased from getting interrupted from her own music...
"Yusa is glad that a fan likes it!" Nishimori said with an enthusiastic voice before she noticed something until she glanced at Tomori and she froze as well but Takajo was still unaware of the danger.
"There's no way anyone would dislike this masterpiece!" Takajo proclaimed passionately.
Tomori's left eyebrow twitched.
"This is the epitome of what is called as media!" he added with vigor.
Tomori's smile on her face turned into a thin line.
'Nice meeting you Takajo' Yu said mentally awaiting Takajo's fate.
If there was something Yu learned today about Tomori, it was you should NEVER disrupt or in any way interrupt her while she's listening to her favorite band lest you suffer the consequences and is now going to show what happens... to the poor ranting turn-off of course.
She will probably give you a chance to quiet down if you sense the mood but if you were like Takajo...
"And an art that is-" he was cut off when he felt a blow on his head that sent him on the floor face first.
... then that happens.
Tomori landed on her feet perfectly after performing an axe kick above Takajo's head before going in front of her desk.
"Now that the turn-off is quiet" Tomori said before facing them. "We still have some student council work to be done even if we are free for a few days so let's do it" she urged before bringing out the papers placing it on the map table.
Yu looked at the stack of paper in the table with an eyebrow raised. He remembered during his stay in the student council before his mission, they indeed do some normal work despite their former special mission of observing {Ability Wielders}. But he did not remember that it was this many work compare to what they did in the past. Tomori saw his confusion and decided to explain.
"A few months passed after you left, the work increased because the school decided to add some new implementations" explained Tomori while Yu just listened.
The truth was the work of the student council of this school was normally not that busy or had many work to be done because the teachers took over some tasks for them. Thus they were only left with the task of acknowledging some requests or spreading announcements. But it was changed when the school implemented some activities.
Some school activities such as festivals, gatherings, additional clubs and other similar things were never implemented yet by the institution because it was fairly new and the school was solely focused on the safety of {Ability Wielders} from the start, so it was only limited to a few clubs, certain meetings and the graduation.
It lead to some students expressing their displeasure of the situation and voiced out their opinions regarding the matter. So the owners like Shunsuke decided to implement those kinds of activities on the institute to allow students to experience a normal education instead of a school categorized as a place where they can only hide in.
It took some time to be implemented but it did get completed in the end, now all the similar schools in Japan had it as well. But after the completion, it did increase the workload of managing those new additions. Since the teachers already got their hands full, it was passed on the student council as the one who will handle some of those activities.
And normally those works were few and only needed moderate attention but there were some occasions where the work will pile up, like what happened now.
"I thought Takajo managed to do all those work yesterday?" Yu asked confused. Yesterday in his return he did notice that Takajo had done almost all the work by himself albeit with the use of fanboy power... whatever that meant.
"There were some students who wanted to established new clubs and some clubs that started recently was having trouble managing their own work" Tomori explained. "And because there were rooms under maintenance it was hard to do so" she added. "And don't get me started on the other things we have to do" Tomori finished her explanation displeasure clear in her voice.
And that was why the student council was unusually busy these days. And the fact that this will continue the following years, they needed to get used to it soon if they want some work to be done.
Yu was listening to Tomori's explanation before suddenly wondering something that they didn't do from the start to lessen the work.
"If there was more work to do, didn't all of you try looking for more members?" Yu wondered.
The others went silent from Yu's words while Takajo who has now recovered had his mouth agape in disbelief. Yu was surprised from their reaction before turning into a dumbfounded look.
"D-don't tell me..." Yu said with a sweatdrop looking at Tomori who turned her head whistling confirming Yu's suspicion. "You didn't even consider it!" Yu retorted.
"W-we got Takajo here so there's no problem right?" excused Tomori with a blank face but Yu could see she was sweating as well.
"Hey! I can't do all those work!" snapped by Takajo.
"You can't?" Tomori tilted her head confused.
"Of course I can't!" came Takajo's retort while Yu and Nishimori sweatdrop.
"Well anyway... looking for more members is hard anyway" Tomori said.
"Why Tomori-san? We could just ask anyone who wants to join right?" wondered Nishimori.
"That is the problem Kurobane-san" Yu chose to answer her question. "Almost everyone prefers their own interests align with the kind of club they want to join" he added but the idol stayed confused making him sigh. "Think about it, why anyone would choose to do the boring stuff like paperwork if they have the chance to just do what they want like their hobbies and games" Yu explained while Nishimori who finally understood nodded.
"So what do we do? Except for dumping it on me!" Takajo said noticing Tomori who was just about to open her mouth.
"We can probably manage" Yu said before Takajo gave him a betrayed look.
"Otosaka-san!"
"No, I mean I'll just use my abilities" Yu suggested making everyone look at him strangely as if he had grown two heads. "Remember, I looted about tens of thousands of abilities, there are some abilities that I can use to reduce the work somehow" he further explained seeing their confused expressions.
Their puzzled expressions lasted for a while making Yu dumbfounded. Didn't they remember that he has many abilities and he can potentially do everything he wants?
Their current expressions turned into one of realization.
"I forgot about that"
"Same here"
"Oh yeah..."
Came their responses making Yu sweatdrop.
Apparently with everything else going on, they dismissed the idea that they have a very over-powered teen in front of them that can potentially conquer the world and it's only a day since he returned.
"So what do you guys think?" Yu said waiting for their answer while the three just looked at each other before nodding.
"No" Tomori refuted making Yu confused.
Didn't they want to make the job easier? But Yu upon hearing what the reason was quickly understood to why Tomori and the others didn't even hesitate on their decision.
"It's best if we don't rely on your abilities or make you use them for this kind of work..." Tomori said. "...we can just look for members along the way or be used to it, either way works" she added.
"Yes Otosaka-san! It's just normal work!" Nishimori said with a smile.
"Even though I'm complaining, what she said is true after all" Takajo agreed.
Hearing their answers Yu just nodded in understanding.
Apart from the institution being used for protection, the school was supposed to be a place that allows {Ability Wielders} to experience a normal life. The place where they should expect not to be alienated by their peers because of their abilities. The school that encourages these {Ability Wielders} to believe that they are ordinary people and be seen as normal people, even if they have supernatural abilities.
And using abilities as a way to reduce their work may be a practical idea, but it was not recommended for students to follow, because it destroys the said purpose of the school and it may turn the students to be over reliant in using their abilities even though their abilities are temporary which leads to more problems.
Yu may have suggested using his abilities to efficiently do the task as a Student Council Member, but Tomori was right. They should never be always reliant in his abilities to do the work for them, even if Yu said that his abilities were going to be permanent.
Tomori as president, a friend and of course her lover wanted to let him and her fellow members experience a normal school life, void of supernatural forces interrupting them and relying in his special abilities, it may hinder their own capability to do simple work or making them lazy to bother doing so.
Of course Nishimori and Takajo knew this even if the latter was complaining; they knew that Tomori was really trying her best in making sure that their experience in the student council is normal compare to what they had been doing in the past. They wanted to follow her decision not just because it was needed but knowing that it was the best way to go.
"Now that that's done... let's us go and buy lunch!" Tomori said with an excited tone.
"It is lunch time... let's go then" Yu said looking at his wrist watch.
"Yusa is hungry as well!" proclaimed Nishimori.
"Beef tongue curry, don't fail me now!" Takajo said before dashing towards the door with Nishimori in tow.
Now it was just Tomori and Yu who were left inside the clubroom and was about to go outside as well when Yu asked something.
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"You could have hired additional members for the student council right?" Yu asked making Tomori faced him. "And don't tell me you didn't even consider it, I can see Takajo and Nishimori doing so but your too observant to not notice the situation" Yu added.
Tomori looked at him for a few seconds before sighing making her way towards him.
"You're right, I did think of something like that" Tomori admitted.
"Then why?" Yu asked.
"Isn't it obvious? A part of it was because of me" Tomori answered making Yu confused while she sighed again. "Didn't you notice my reputation in this school?" Tomori bluntly said making Yu widen his eyes.
Of course Yu knows, Tomori was often isolated by her peers and was almost every time ignored by the same classmates. At first he concluded that she was somewhat reclusive in nature but that was not indeed the case.
"During those missions we did, and even a long time ago when you weren't a part of it yet, I was known to have invisibility that only works on one person remember" she said while the male listened. "And you do know how I sometimes deal with some {Ability Wielders} right?" she said making Yu reluctantly nod. When she beats up people sometimes whilst using her ability, on a spectator's view it is only seen as a normal fight between two people, and she also sometimes threatens them which likely spreads to the school via the {Ability Wielder} she threatened.
And because of that she was not entirely hated but she wasn't quite like either.
Simply put, because of the use of her former ability and how she mostly deals with {Ability Wielders} by outright threatening or beating them up because they were overusing their powers. People who see her act like that in public will naturally stay away from her. Also adding the fact how gossips tend to spread quickly only adds to the problem, it was like partial information where people would likely assume something so far from the truth.
"So even if they did want to genuinely join the Student Council, do they want to stick to a fierce and violent president like myself because of those rumors that they heard?" Tomori questioned.
It was possibly another reason why the student council was few in numbers. Even though Yusa Nishimori was a part of the student council which adds a reason to why a lot of people would want to join the organization. They know that Tomori was a part of it as well; she was recognized as a blunt and cold person in the eyes of other students based from gossips. They didn't want such a person to order them even if the popular idol was present in the club.
Who would want to work with a person that they assumed was cruel in nature and possibly made them work to exhaustion, while only getting a glance on our popular idol?
Yu was silent unable to make a response while Tomori who was in front of him just silently turned towards the door not wanting to discuss the topic any longer.
As she was making her way and was about to reach the door she felt two hands wrapped her lower body from behind. She did not turn around already knowing who the person is and took this chance to feel the warmth from the embrace.
To someone like Yu who had spent enough time understanding Tomori and to why she acts the way she did, he knew she had trouble trusting other people because of the certain experience she faced. That was why she wanted to be isolated because the few people she knows, the lesser people she had to deal with.
And as to why she ends up using what you call unreasonable ways during those missions, was because of since she was a young girl after that incident no one was on her side and she had to do what she had to do to face hardships whilst protecting her remaining family left.
Her mother had bought her off to those scientists and his brother that had become a dead husk of his former self and not even recognize her as his little sister. In those hard times that she faced all by herself she learned to be brave and allowed herself to become a bit violent in dealing with problems.
Of course she knows the limits of using force and she tends to use as less violence if given the chance, she did remember to act rationally and logically from time to time but it was in her nature. The way she lived during those moments only added as to why her personality changed as well.
Children who lacks parental support and abandoned fall into two categories; one is they become weak-willed individuals that just let time passes until death takes their life relieving them of their depression. They are more likely to be reserved and feeble in adjusting in the society which was a bad thing, seeing that the reality of this world is much harsher and crueler. And they need to adapt to any situation in order to survive.
Another category is the ones who try to fight against the odds no matter how disadvantageous it is for them. They are the ones who become strong-willed characters that quickly become independent in order to survive while hiding their depression with a firm mask. And those were the types to do almost anything by taking any opportunities no matter how blunt and straightforward it is depending on the situation.
But they always developed a seemingly same mindset and it may differ according to them but they are still similar in many ways.
They become more sensitive and careful.
They are wary of others afraid that they may suffer worst than being abandoned. They do not trust anybody immediately and always take their time knowing what the intentions of the other person is. They become more sensitive when something really affects them, though the strong willed ones usually hide it but they are sensitive nonetheless.
Tomori falls into the second category; with the feeling of abandonment in her mind, she developed the mindset of doing some unreasonable things to certain situations because she had grown to do so.
She would prefer to be more isolated than draw attention and would favor having few friends that would consider you a friend than more people always bugging you. And also she who had grown in that kind of environment would more likely cherish people that had proven his/her idea of making friends with her.
But...
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When Tomori turned around to face him, she saw Yu with eyes full of love, concern and adoration knowing that she was truly a respectable girl that have dealt her own problems on her own power despite the unfair odds.
...meeting Shunsuke, the student council members and especially her lover Yu. She allowed herself to trust in others again, remembering that she had people that can be relied on. A specific crude example is that she would always dump those tasks towards Takajo.
She had been mostly alone when she was assigned to be the student council president at first. But upon meeting Takajo who had endured her attitude and never got tired in accompanying her, she knows that he could be relied on and a good friend to have despite the protests he usually gives, though it was usually their own banter at work.
Nonetheless even if there were few people who knew her on a deep enough level, she was still thankful for having people like that in her life. It made her feel wanted unlike where the times she was alone.
"Let's go then" Yu said while intertwining his hands with hers.
Tomori nodded with a smile and the two of them made their way outside the door before Tomori stopped in her steps making Yu confused.
"Nao, what's wron-" Yu was cut off when he felt something warm on his lips and seeing Tomori's face close to her, he now knew why.
The kiss lasted for a few seconds until they separated while Yu was blushing from the unexpected show of affections.
"Wha-" Yu managed to say but Tomori just giggled and made her way towards the exit.
Even though Yu believes he was somewhat comfortable in exchanging intimate moments like this with Tomori, he was still inexperience and it was his first in this kind of relationship, similar to her though she was more calm and in control than he was.
He who had fought against the world was still embarrassed by the show of affections of one girl that started the whole resolve in fighting against the world in the first place.