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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="93da543b399da9c63a1c74e2936d0648"y/n was not a very violent and angry person, but the silent whispers she heard from the main campus students made her want to shout at them to shut up./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="7e6b972a2b1ca0898b77010d00035d37"em style="box-sizing: border-box;""haha, they'll obviously end up losing!"/em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="47ee398a7e7335cd20f4602e314f6446"em style="box-sizing: border-box;""the e-class scum deserve that anyway."/em/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="f4350444f859ff462c1d13e97248f21f"before y/n could lose her shit and shout at them all, isogai came from nowhere and gripped her shoulder. "i-isogai-san?!"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="8bd4c2f479c2c855c940fa7d3efd8551""y/n, koro-sensei wants to talk to you," he whispered in her ears, which of course, karasuma had heard from beside her, while the confused english teacher (who y/n actually liked) continued reading the baseball rule book./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="9591c07ac97ea619ea2b1aa00e36491a"y/n made her way into the field, earning a few glares from the opposite team, obviously thinking if they were gonna sub-in a girl in place of a boy. the h/c quickly gulped down a lump in her throat, trying her best to ignore the stares from her opponents, isogai shielding her body with his to ease her stress./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="2e7bee073cd886882f4748e8dab0b4e1""it's just a scrape y/n-san. don't worry." the h/c nodded and shifted her attention to the ball, taking it out of her male friend's hands and held it gently in her palms. /p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="0ab0c811ca27a221a74f2ad1f44db8b2""y/n-san, can you play baseball?" y/n nodded, recalling her baseball games with her father when she was young, an activity her father forced her to do to seize the h/c out of her room from her sketchbooks and face reality./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="634f7cc5c4a8986e671df29a4f42af52""the basics only, and i'm really bad at pitching..." the koro-ball turned red with a circle on his face./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="0dbc947746f75437371e11879cb2cf7d""that's fine y/n-san. can i ask you to sub in for nagisa-kun? iv'e already spoke with the principal, and he allowed." a big lump formed in her throat, but she nodded nonetheless, since she for once, wanted to be helpful for her classmates since she was already really bad at assassination./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="459c925c5f946167ad0cc988a882db20"the boys began giving her some encouraging words as she put on her batting gear, not wanting the boys to do it for her. after being fully suited up, nagisa softly ruffled the girl's hair, "be safe out there y/n-san. don't get injured like me!" the h/c nodded and put on her final piece of helmet, sparing a glance at the redhead, who had a worried look on his face./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="d3be1dcd538ed6b65502932c36bb6b3b"y/n quickly shrugged off her thoughts, knowing someone handsome and cute like karma wouldn't ever like someone boring and average like her./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="12888c54bdcfdff4efdbb9d10425913c"y/n clutched her beating heart as the boys let out a scream of victory and began storming out of the field, nagisa being helped by the newly arrived kayano, who supported the blueberry as they walked out. karma was lightly laughing with his hands in his pockets and mitt balancing on his head, the h/c following behind him like a baby duck following its mother./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="0a0965e0a5644126992c3ea0c45de4db"y/n tightly gripped the fence as their abnormal teacher, koro-sensei, instructed the class 3-e boys in a baseball disguise. it would be a lie that she wasn't worried for her friends, especially nagisa, who had gotten an accident on his knee during the game and sat on the benches./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="882d4f0b0563bd2a6e59716bff3f3f20"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"i hope the girls are doing alright./em yes, y/n was never a basketball person, and when she politely declined in playing with the girls, she instead went ahead and watched the match of the boys, one for which their teacher had practiced the hell out of. /p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="93da543b399da9c63a1c74e2936d0648"y/n was not a very violent and angry person, but the silent whispers she heard from the main campus students made her want to shout at them to shut up./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="7e6b972a2b1ca0898b77010d00035d37"em style="box-sizing: border-box;""haha, they'll obviously end up losing!"/em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="47ee398a7e7335cd20f4602e314f6446"em style="box-sizing: border-box;""the e-class scum deserve that anyway."/em/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="f4350444f859ff462c1d13e97248f21f"before y/n could lose her shit and shout at them all, isogai came from nowhere and gripped her shoulder. "i-isogai-san?!"/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="9591c07ac97ea619ea2b1aa00e36491a"y/n made her way into the field, earning a few glares from the opposite team, obviously thinking if they were gonna sub-in a girl in place of a boy. the h/c quickly gulped down a lump in her throat, trying her best to ignore the stares from her opponents, isogai shielding her body with his to ease her stress./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="2e7bee073cd886882f4748e8dab0b4e1""it's just a scrape y/n-san. don't worry." the h/c nodded and shifted her attention to the ball, taking it out of her male friend's hands and held it gently in her palms. /p
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