"WHAT?!"

Chiaki stared at the two boys while Hiyoko stared at her in shock. "Y-You'll really…?!"

"Yeah, I'll do it," Chiaki said rather casually. "I'll do Hiyoko's bet."

"B-But…you can't…!" Hiyoko tried to protest before she quickly shut herself up as she noticed Mahiru was also staring in surprise.

"Chiaki…don't you realize what you're offering to do?" Mahiru said. Teruteru and Kazuichi, meanwhile, looked absolutely ecstatic with this turn of events.

"Deal!" Teruteru said as he grasped Chiaki's hand and vigorously shook it. Before anyone could say anything, he smiled. "Tomorrow after school, alright? If you miss it, we'll hound you about it for the rest of the year."

Chiaki was about to respond when the two boys walked away, and Mahiru and Hiyoko moved in front of Chiaki.

"Chiaki! What are you thinking?!"

"What? It's not a big deal," Chiaki said. She'd overheard that Hiyoko had made a bet with Kazuichi and Teruteru that she'd lost, and was trying to back out of. The boys were being aggressive, and although Chiaki hadn't heard what exactly they'd been hounding her for, only getting the gist that it was something embarrassing, she'd stepped in and said she'd do the bet in place of her.

"N-Not a big deal?!" Mahiru cried. "Do you not realize what you got yourself into?"

"Uh…n-not really," Chiaki admitted sheepishly, and Mahiru groaned as Hiyoko blushed.

"You…they're gonna make you run a lap around the school." Chiaki looked confused before Hiyoko continued far more quietly. "N-Naked…"

Chiaki froze as she stared at the small dancer, who couldn't seem to meet her eyes. Her cheeks flushed as she stammered. "Wh-What?!"

"You shouldn't have taken that bet in the first place!" Mahiru cried at Hiyoko. "You know they never let stuff like that go!"

"I didn't think I'd do that bad on the test, okay?!" Hiyoko cried. "Besides, it doesn't matter, since Chiaki is gonna do it for me. I'm sure those pervs would rather see a busty blonde girl like her than—OW!"

Hiyoko cried out as Mahiru smacked the back of her head. "You know, I was hoping you'd take this as a learning experience, but now Chiaki is doing it in your place, and I doubt they'd let you take it back!"

"I…have to run around…n-naked?" Chiaki repeated.

"I-I would say to just ignore them and not do it but…you know how they are…they'll make you do it one way or another," Mahiru said with a growl, and Chiaki put her hands to her head as the gravity of what she'd agreed to set in just as the bell rang, signaling the end of lunch. Mahiru sighed and gave Chiaki a sad look as everyone went back to their seats for the next class. Chiaki did her best to focus but she couldn't stop thinking about how she'd have to bare her body to all her friends. Would they take pictures? Would they try to…touch her? She was sure if they tried that the other girls would save her, but…

It was on her mind for the rest of the day until the final bell. As soon as everyone was out of the classroom except her and Chisa, she ran up to her teacher. "Miss Yukizome?"

Chisa looked surprised to see Chiaki was still around as she was gathering up papers and folders. "Yes? What is it?"

"I need to…talk to you about something," she said shyly, and Chisa seemed to understand that it was something serious, as she set her stuff down and leaned back against her desk and crossed her arms.

"What is it?"

Chiaki swallowed hard as she had to summon the courage to even speak. Once she finally had, however, she explained the situation to her teacher, watching as her eyes widened with every other word until Chiaki had finished. Once she was done, she glanced sideways at her teacher as Chisa had a hand on her chin. A few awkward moments of silence followed before Chisa finally took a deep breath.

"I think you should just do it."

Chiaki took a moment to process the information before her jaw dropped. "Wh-What?!"

"Look, I know it seems scary-"

"Very!" Chiaki cried.

"-but I think you should do it."

"But why?!" Chisa sighed and took a step to put a hand on her shoulder.

"You need to build confidence, and this is the perfect way to do it," she said.

"I'd rather find some other way to build it!" Chiaki complained, so unused to raising her voice that she wasn't able to actually get it very loud. Chisa shook her head.

"Look, even if I wanted to do something about it, Mahiru was right, they'll keep hounding you about it until you graduate. It's probably better to just bite the bullet and go for it," Chisa explained. "I am your teacher, and that means I need to try and teach you things. Not just normal lessons, but lessons you'll need for life in general, and you, Nanami, need confidence. This seems like the perfect way to build it." Chiaki continued to whine, so Chisa continued. "You are a beautiful girl, soon to be a beautiful woman. There are so many girls who would kill to have your looks, Nanami. And if you've got it, you might as well flaunt it."

"I'm…I'm not…that attractive…" she said quietly, and Chisa laughed.

"Please! Even I can see that you're drop dead gorgeous, and dare I say, sexy, though…don't go around telling people I said that, okay?" she said with a laugh. She grabbed Chiaki's hands and held them tightly. "You are beautiful, and it's okay to show that. Once you do this, and see that everyone agrees…I'm sure that your self-esteem and confidence will shoot through the roof."

Chiaki considered her teacher's words, even if the thought of running around in front of her friends nude still made her cheeks red hot. "You…really think so?"

"I do," she said. "You'll knock 'em dead for sure, I know it." Chiaki looked down at her feet as she shuffled on them, unsure what to do. On the one hand, she felt a lot better after hearing Chisa encourage her, but on the other, she wasn't sure it was enough to make her okay with running around school naked.

"There's really nothing you can do?" Chiaki finally asked.

"Short of expelling them, which I can't really do, no," she said. "You can do this. I can come if that would make you feel better, make sure everyone stays respectful."

"I…y-yes please," Chiaki said, knowing it would be more embarrassing with Chisa there, but also thankful for the support. She sighed. "I guess…I'll have to prepare myself, huh?"

At least Hajime won't be there…hopefully.

Chisa nodded as Chiaki walked out, letting out a sigh of her own as she tried to think of ways to covertly punish the boys for Chiaki's sake.


They had decided the run would start at the entrance, and that Chiaki would have to run a loop around every floor, moving up the stairs until she got to the top floor, then back around and out the front, do a lap around the entire school, and then finally end at the entrance.

It honestly sounded exhausted, but she was encouraged to take breaks if needed (she guess so they could ogle her more).

She was getting ready when she saw someone else coming up and joining awkwardly into the crowd. Someone that made her stomach fall into her feet.

Why was Hajime here?!

He gave her a shy wave as she stared back at him in horror. Why was he here?! Had someone invited him? Who? Had he shown up because he wanted to see her naked?

If he was here…that would only make things even harder. She could already feel herself blushing as she considered trying to ask if she could chicken out. Yet as she glanced at both the two boys and at Chisa, she knew that wasn't going to be an option. She tried to take a deep breath as she raised two shaky hands to her collar. Instantly, she felt the air still as everyone seemed to realize it was finally starting. She decided to close her eyes to keep herself from seeing their reactions—mostly Hajime's, which was going to make this all ten times harder.

Still, she knew she didn't really have a choice so…as embarrassing as it was, the faster she got it over with, the faster it would be done.

Chiaki undid the ribbon on her uniform and set it down on the stone path, before then unbuttoning the vest and slipping it off. She could already feel people's stares on her even though she wasn't showing anything yet. She had to take another breath before she could finally unbutton her shirt and slip it off as well. Her face burned as she heard whispers from the crowd. The matching pair of underwear she'd chosen that day was white with strawberries etched onto them. She would've gone with something a little less cute but it had slipped her mind while getting dressed that morning.

She could feel so many pairs of eyes on her chest as she tried to tell herself it was like wearing a swimsuit. It didn't help all that much considering she'd never actually worn a swimsuit in front of her friends before, but still.

She dropped the skirt and just like that, she was down to her shoes and underwear. Kazuichi had clarified that she had to be completely naked, so she set on removing her socks and shoes as well, having to kneel to take off the large socks, before she straightened. She could feel her body shaking as she glanced up at Hajime. His face was just as red as hers, though he didn't seem to be making much of an effort to look away. When she felt herself freezing on the spot, cheering from some of the guys, as well as Ibuki and Akane, stunned her back into what she was doing. She took a deep breath as she reached behind her back. Her hands shook so badly she almost couldn't undo her bra, but after a few moments, she managed to get it, and slipped the garment quickly off her body while keeping an arm over her chest, trying to obscure it for as long as possible. Her eyes flicked back to Hajime, who seemed to be trembling as well, though she didn't know why.

She turned her back to the students, getting some disappointed groans as she hooked her thumbs into the waistband of her panties. She knew this was finally it. Not only would she be naked after this, but they'd finally get to see something. She had to take several deep breaths and try very hard not to think about the fact Hajime was watching before she could pull it down, hearing cheers and catcalls that were quickly silenced as she dropped the panties to her ankles, trying to bend over as little as possible. She kicked the panties off, and before anyone could get a good look at her, she started running.

Gasps and shouts were let out as she soon heard her classmates follow her. Chiaki had one hand tucked over her chest and one between her legs as she ran, not moving at full speed so she could conserve some strength. She burst through the front doors, startling some students who were still at the school and not in their dorms. Each one let out a gasp as they saw Chiaki, and although she tried to turn her face away and keep running, she wasn't fast enough to escape some students from taking pictures of her since some already had their phones out. She only hoped she managed to hide her face enough.

She ran down the hallways as some of the other students, alongside her classmates, started to follow her to snap even more pictures of her. She whined as she pressed her arms even more tightly to her body to make sure everything was covered. Sadly, her butt would be on full display, given she was running away from people, but there wasn't much she could do about it.

It was especially embarrassing when she looked over her shoulder to see Hajime was very close and staring very intently at her ass. It was enough that she instinctively covered up her butt with her hands, leaving her front now completely exposed as she let out a loud whine.

At the same moment, she was reaching the end of the hall, and someone came around the corner as she was still looking back at Hajime.

She collided directly into them as they both tumbled to the floor, getting more gasps and words asking if Chiaki was okay as she was left stunned by the fall. She heard a muffled voice crying out from under her, and when she looked down, her face went beet red as she found that her chest was pressed directly against someone's face, and even worse…her nipple was in his mouth.

He let out a noise, and his tongue accidentally flicked against her nub. She let out a loud moan as her entire body trembled. Her face burned hot as she struggled to push herself off, now recognizing the boy as Makoto, a kid from the class under her. Her nipple popped out of his mouth as she got up, and heard a snap from behind her. She looked over her shoulder to see Kazuichi was taking a close-up picture of her briefly exposed pussy and ass, a combo that left her somehow even more embarrassed than before.

Then she felt something else. Something hard formed underneath her, and she once again looked down. Makoto was staring slack-jawed at Chiaki's chest as she realized she was positioned to where their groins were touching. That meant what she was feeling was-

She shrieked and leapt up and finally continued running, leaving Makoto to cover up his groin as he sat up, shaking like a leaf from several different emotions at once. The crowd rushed past him, with Chisa stopping to help him up, briefly glancing down at his hand covering his crotch with a nervous laugh before resuming her own run.

Chiaki wasn't even bothering to cover up now, her mind too focused on what just happened as she ran past more students. She bolted up the stairs, not realizing what the view from down below would look like as she gave it to several students looking up. She simply kept running, her chest bouncing wildly up and down.

She skirted around the corner so fast that she once again ran into someone, though this time, she caught herself to keep from both falling over and knocking whoever she ran into over as well. In doing so, however, she grabbed them and pulled them to her chest, suffocating what looked to be a young girl in her breasts.

She recognized it as Chihiro, once again from the class below, and her eyes widened as she realized what was happening. She thrust out her hands to push Chiaki away, but they slipped along her soft skin and accidentally cupped the bottom of her breasts. Chiaki felt another tremor run down her spine as she swore she felt something leak from between her legs.

She heard the footsteps coming so she gently pushed Chihiro away before continuing the run. Chihiro leaned against the wall and slid down the floor, looking at 'her' hands as they shook.

Chiaki continued to run through the school, eventually covering up again before deciding that it ultimately didn't matter and actually felt like it was preventing her from running faster, so she brought them down as she ran, blushing as she felt her chest bouncing.

She made it to the locked doors of the roof before turning and running back down the hall. Her classmates emerged just as she did so, and as she ran past them, Teruteru reached out and smacked her ass, nearly making her stumble as she heard Chisa shout at the boy. She simply kept running, her cheek stinging as she went back down a different flight of stairs. She took them all the way to the bottom and finally back out the front doors. The few stragglers left at Hope's Peak stumbled back either at seeing her for the first time or once again, some reacting faster than others to snap pictures. She turned and started running around the school as the crowd following her continued to grow larger and larger, all of them whistling and taking pictures of her exposed ass.

She did the full lap, her legs burning and her chest heaving from the exhaustion of pushing her body so far as she finally made it back to her clothes and collapsed on the ground. The crowd reached her as she draped her clothes over her nude body, hugging them closely to her chest. The crowd circled in, hands outstretched, growing closer and closer. Students she didn't know were trying to grab her, and one managed to place their hand on her chest before a sudden shrill whistle rang out and stopped everyone in their tracks. They all turned to see Chisa coming out of the crowd, batting back the hands of those who'd tried to touch her.

"Go! Now! She's done the deed, now leave, or I'll get you all expelled!" The threat was a lie but effective enough with Chisa's reputation and booming voice that everyone scattered after getting a few more pictures. The only people that stayed behind were Hajime, Mahiru, Hiyoko, Teruteru, and Kazuichi. The boys were smacked and dragged away by the two girls, who also threw a look towards Hajime. He stuck around as Chisa blocked him from Chiaki's view while she got to putting on her bra. Before she got it on, though, he spoke, clearing his throat.

"That was…really brave," he said nervously. "I…heard why you did it and that's…that's super cool…" He smiled, and Chiaki stared at him, her hands dropping at she felt surprised. Chisa shifted a bit to look at him, and his face suddenly went red as his eyes widened. It took Chiaki a moment to realize she'd left her chest exposed, and she shrieked as she covered it up and he turned away from her, covering his eyes. "S-Sorry! I'll just…just go…!" he cried as he ran off, finally leaving the two girls alone.

Chiaki sighed as she slipped her clothes back on as fast as she could while Chisa watched out for any peekers. Once she was clothed, Chisa clapped her on the shoulder.

"Don't ever do something like that again, okay?" she said, and Chiaki looked down, only for Chisa to pat her head. "But…good job going through with it, even if it sucked. I'm proud of you for what you did for Hiyoko."

Chiaki looked up at her, remembering that if she hadn't done this, Hiyoko would've had to. The thought made Chiaki upset, and she saw Chisa nod before she too finally left, and Chiaki was alone a short time later. She sat down on the grass and looked up at the sky as her hair blew around her face.

She resolved in that moment to pay more attention before saying whatever was on her mind.

And to never make a bet with Kazuichi and Teruteru.