Last summary: Byakuya can't even process how this gothic-lolita girl is so calm (and slightly creepy) yet somehow helps him afterwards. He also can't process on what the odd girl is talking about.

There's also censors =w="

"Oh no...! I'm late I'm late!"

Aoi kept running through the streets, trying to make her way to the bus stop.

"Good morning, Hina!"

"I saw her on my handbook! She's one of the Ultimates! She's so adorable in person!"

"Your swimming race is today! Are you heading to school? Do your best!"

"Haha... thank you all...!" Aoi forces a smile on and keeps running.

Not good... I purposefully took the longest path, but there are still so many people... I'm late today as well...!

"Hina! I have a new type of doughnut on the menu? Want to try it?" a fairly short boy with hair that looks like shrimp yells from afar.

"Ah..." Aoi's mouth starts watering from thinking about it and makes her stop, but quickly wipes the drool from her mouth as she kept running.

"Sorry! Maybe sometime later!" Aoi yells behind her.

Once she reaches the road she sees a bus pass by her on the road. Thinking that she could get to school quicker, she quickly finds a bus stop nearby. Almost there...! Aoi sees light up ahead and runs to it to find that it was one of the many balconies for students to view the islands along with posters of the Ultimates all over certain buildings.

"N-No way...!" Aoi falls down when she sees the bus leaving from the bus stop she intended to head towards. It also seemed like she caught the other students' attention and now they were all looking at her.

"You are late, Asahina Aoi."

Aoi walked into the school and stopped once she heard the teacher's voice.

"I am sorry that you ran so hard to get here, but do you know what this is?" she waves around a piece of paper.

"That's..." Aoi takes a deep breath, "The biology 1 test paper... from last week..."

"Oh, so you do understand. Now then, do you understand the meaning behind the number written next to your name?" she points to the two that was underlined in the top-right corner of the paper.

"Haha... that I don't quite get~..." Aoi nervously laughs but then got whacked on the head with a folder, "OW!?"

"It is good that you do not use your title as a 'swimmer' as an excuse, but how could you only get two points after two whole weeks of supplementary lessons?" Junko sighs as she pushes up her glasses, "Does that not mean you would need 100 weeks of supplementary lessons to get 100%?"

"Sniff... I already... I worked really hard..." Aoi slumped.

"Hah?! This is the result of your hard work?!" Junko yelled with her tongue sticking out, gripping on the paper harder as she was practically stabbing the two now, "No f***ing way! For the question 'List a mammal' you f***ing wrote a s****y 'crab and salmon'! What kind of hard work is that?!"

"Ah, that's because my mom's originally from Hokkaido... No wait! I thought about putting 'deer and bear'..."

"The h***'s wrong with you?! Those are animals with mammary glands so why didn't you f***ing put those down?!" Junko points at Aoi, "Wait, why the h*** did you suddenly bring up your home town?! And why did you list two?!"

"Eh?! Isn't it lonely if you list only one?!"

"Why is your imagination so f***ing weird during a test... and on this question... and wouldn't the d*** deer get eaten by the bear with this arrangement?!"

"Ea... eaten...?!" Aoi shrieks, imagining a cartoon bear slaughtering a cartoon deer.

"Th... that's true..." Aoi sighs, "Anyways..."

"You will have to retake the test next week," Junko pushes up her glasses again, "If I recall correctly, you have a swimming competition today, right?"

"Yes... w-well it's just against the newest students who have the potential to earn the title 'the Ultimate Swimmer', and if I win I keep my title as 'the Ultimate Swimmer', but I can attend 2nd period right now!" Aoi said confidently.

"Hn...? Ah, you did not take a look at the schedule... It's August 14th. Because of the yearly school festival, classes end after 1st period."

"EHH?!" Aoi yelled, but was soon disappointed, "How could that...!"

"You even rushed here to apologize. You got stopped in the streets again, didn't you? I guess it is not so easy being an Ultimate, huh?"

Aoi gasped in realization, "Y... Yes."

If only... students hadn't approached me on the way here...

"Well, you should not force yourself. The next supplementary class will be in three days, make sure you are here on time," Junko turns and walks away.

Aoi bows slightly, then takes a look at her test that Junko left behind for her. She sighs at the underlined two.

Why is it like this... No matter what I do, I always get strange results...

She slumps, and walks to the courtyard, "It's so hot... I should get something to drink..."

When Aoi walks out, she hears a group of girls around her age chatting happily together. She can't help but stare at the group in a yearning way.

The girls notices her and they stare in Aoi's direction. She couldn't help but flinch at their sudden attention on her. The girls then turned back to each other, continuing their happy chat.

Ah... thank goodness. It seems nothing happened, but... there it is again. I easily catch people's "eye".

Aoi buys a protein shake from a vending machine in the courtyard.

For a long time, I've felt people's "eyes" on me. At the time, I got a letter from a man at the beach where I was swimming. The letter was for attending Hope's Peak Academy. When I came home with it, my family encouraged me to attend the academy and I decided to attend.

I don't particularly like swimming competitions, especially when those with the potential to earn my current title gets "punished" if they lose. I'm not even good at doing schoolwork, especially at such a well-renowned academy.

But one time, the audience went wild as soon as I stood on my number stand... Ever since then, there have been an amazing number of phone calls to the academy. It's got nothing to do with how much they like me.

I simply attracted people's "eyes".