The bell rang, signaling the end of the class – and school for the day. Surprisingly, I had Jitsui in every class of mine until the afternoon. In each class, after the first one, he would sit beside me and flash me one of his innocent smiles and always says, 'Oh, you're in this class too, Sakuma-san? What a coincidence…Must be fate?', and then with a chuckle.

Well, I don't know if it's coincidence or fate… But, Jitsui is different in class, he's polite to all our professors and really nice. I mean, he was nice when I first met him in the dorm. Back in the meeting, he was the first to greet me politely, or at least nodded to me in acknowledgement. Now that we're accustomed to each other, he probably shows that side of his.

'Well, as long as you're not being hostile with him, you're most likely safe.' Odagiri once told me when I asked about the other dormers.

Taking my things, I stood up and walked towards the exit.

"Sakuma-san!"

I looked back to see whoever had called me, and saw that it was Jitsui, "Morishima, what's wrong?"

"Oh, I was just wondering if you had a club or something."

I shook my head, "No, I don't why?"

"I want to check on this club, care to join me?" he asked

Thinking that I won't lose anything with joining him, I nodded, "Sure… But why are you interested? We're both second years, so why join now?"

Jitsui shrugged, "Actually, I already have a club. But, we're not having an active meeting today so Shimano-kun asked me to check out his club."

"Shimano?"

"Shimano Ryousuke. Hatano."

"Ah, Hatano… Eh? Why?"

"He wanted to show-off… That's how he is." He said with a sigh, "He's in the martial arts club, and ever since I was roommates with him last year, he wouldn't shut up about it. Right now, the club is showing off some tricks to freshmen for them to join. He was asked to be one of the people to show-off."

I sheepishly chuckled, "You don't sound pleased with it."

"Because I don't see the point of watching him goof off. I mean, I know what he's capable of with martial arts – but, I don't see the point of me having to watch it. Being forced to watch his every tournament video in the room is enough as it is." He said exasperatedly.

He soon started talking about our past classes and professors as we continued walking towards the gym, there we saw numerous freshmen watching the martial arts displays.

"Oh, you two are here huh?" I looked to where the voice was and saw Miyoshi, walking up to us.

"He invited you too?" Jitsui asked him

Miyoshi sighed, "Apparently. Well, one of my classmates are there as well – So I thought I'd come and watch."

Jitsui merely sighed, "Oh well… Maybe I could see him mess up and I could laugh at it till the end of the school year." He said.

"Blackmailing is probable for that. So that he would shut up in the room from time to time." Miyoshi said. It seems that they had a silent agreement to use what ever they could against Hatano.

"Oh right… You three are roommates." I said.

"Yeah… Oh, there's Hatano." Miyoshi said, pointing at the brown haired boy in the right. His opponent seems to be really taller than him – almost as tall as Fukumoto or Amari.

"Will he be okay?" I asked.

"It's Hatano. He'll be okay. That is, if it is true that he's a master of martial arts." Jitsui said.

"You guys seem confident in him." Both Jitsui and Miyoshi looked back at me before chuckling, "Not really."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, we've only seen videos of him fight – so you know, the possibility that we haven't watched all of his matches and only showed to us his best ones." Miyoshi said.

"But if he wins this, we won't hear the end of it tonight…" Jitsui said

"That's true…"

The referee soon signaled them, calling me attention, and the match begun. Hatano was clearly small in structure, but it's not like it's a basketball or volleyball match where height matters.

Hatano's opponent had grabbed Hatano's collar, and it was probably a throw – where he would throw Hatano to the ground. But Hatano quickly placed his hands on his opponents wrist before turning back, using his whole body to carry the weight of his opponent to throw him off.

"Well that ended quickly." I commented as the referee ended the match with Hatano's win.

"Okay, so he's not all talk…" Jitsui joked as Hatano saw us and came towards us, "So, did you see me? I'm awesome right?"

I nodded, "You ended it pretty quickly." I said, earning a prideful grin from him as he puffed out his chest with pride.

"Yeah, you did well for someone your height." Jitsui said, hovering his hand just above Hatano's head. To which Hatano quickly retorted, "But we're almost at the same height!"

"But I'm taller than you." Jitsui replied back with a bigger smirk.

I was about to calm them down when Miyoshi placed his hand on my shoulder to stop me, "Let them be. They're always like this."

"You sure about that?"

"They're just playfully arguing." Miyoshi shrugged, "It's not a big deal."

"Shimano!" someone called Hatano out, and Hatano went back to where his other clubmates where and lined up, facing us – the audience.

"Thank you very much for watching!" The president of the club, most likely, shouted and bowed, before the other members did the same. We applauded them before the three of us walked out of the gym. "They're pretty good."

"Yeah, I heard that their president is a military science student." Miyoshi said.

I hummed in response, "By the way, what's Hatano's taking?"

"European studies." Jitsui said, "He's annoyingly good at memorizing things. Sometimes to the point where even when he's unconscious, he still remembers them. One time, I was up late with a report in class, Miyoshi and Hatano were already asleep but Hatano was sleep talking."

"What was he saying?"

"He was reciting some French poem…"

"Oh, there was also this one time when I was up late too, Jitsui was out in the dorm's library and Hatano had fallen asleep in his table. He was talking about something… Then Kaminaga came in to borrow something from me and noticed Hatano's sleep talking and decided to play around a bit." Miyoshi said, "I think Kaminaga had asked Hatano to recite the school's mission-vision, to which Hatano perfectly recited it in his sleep."

"What… Well, isn't it that you get a lot of your memories resurfacing when you're unconscious?" I asked

"That's true. But he's really good at memorization. He's memorized most of their literature pieces in his class in a week… Well, Amari's good at memorizing as well." Jitsui noted.

"Well, I'm surprised that Hatano's taking up European studies."

"He just wants to go abroad. He met this French guy from his high school – an exchange student, and they made some kind of promise to meet up again." Jitsui said with a sigh.

"Oh, I remember that. Something about Hatano being the one visiting next time."

"Yeah."

"I see…" I merely said as we all headed back to the dorm. Well, I learned something new about Hatano today… He's a bit childish – from what I could tell. I chuckled at the thought, earning a two questioning looks from Miyoshi and Jitsui.

"What? Thinking of something, Sakuma-san?" Jitsui asked.

"Or someone?" Miyoshi said with a smirk.

I shook my head and sighed, "No."

Miyoshi merely looked at me, clearly not believing me, "Alright. If you say so." He said with a shrug, but still wearing that grin of his. Looking at Jitsui, despite the nice smile he's giving me, I could tell he's thinking similarly as Miyoshi

I sighed, I really can't get the hang of their personality.