Hachiman is such a handsome, gentle, and super strong guy that not many girls would dislike him.
But she is not like the lovestruck Haruna Sairenji who gets nervous and restless, afraid of losing and afraid of gaining.
Her mindset is good, and her goal is clear.
From the start she didn't come with the intention of dating, and as a public morals committee member she couldn't hold herself back a little. Mainly she wanted to use this chance to properly and openly release her own stress.
Letting Hachiman guide her once works better than her guiding herself more than ten times.
Now that she has found out how shocking Hachiman's training results are, she wants even more to keep Hachiman here and keep him in the tennis club.
But the girls swim team, relying on having lots of girls and their incredibly alluring swimsuits, has been monopolizing Hachiman the whole time.
Even today when he came to train them, Hachiman probably only came after settling those girls in the swim team first.
Aika and the others don't know how amazing Hachiman is, so they set a one week training period.
Right now even if she adds Haruna Sairenji and Momioka Risa, the tennis club only has three people. There's no way they can win against the girls swim team.
After this week ends, once Aika and the others fully understand how amazing Hachiman is, even the track and field group on the field will come over to snatch him away.
There are plenty of pretty girls in track and field too, and because many of them train in short-distance running, a lot of their butts are especially perky.
"Mm!"
Haruna Sairenji doesn't know that Kitamura Chika is scheming big things for the club, she's just looking at the two people tightly hugging Hachiman, unable to hide the envy in her eyes.
'Risa and Chika-senpai's figures are both so nice.'
"Right, Hikigaya-kun, can you let me take a picture? The four of us take one together."
Seeing her earlier topic get cut off by Haruna Sairenji, and Haruna Sairenji also blushing because of Kitamura Chika's words, Momioka Risa didn't keep asking, and instead turned around with a new idea and grabbed Hachiman excitedly.
"I mean sure, but Risa, what do you want a picture for? It's getting late, shouldn't we start training?", Hachiman found the more eager-than-Haruna Sairenji Risa a little funny.
Clearly Risa is the one with the most distant relationship with him, and at least Haruna Sairenji has received hands-on training from him. But in reality, Risa is the most proactive and lively among the three.
"Hehe! I'm just going to send it to the gyaru group and let those girls have a look. Haruna, come a bit closer, stand in the middle next to Hikigaya-kun... ah, just lean right into his arms!"
Risa snickered, then suddenly pushed the still dazed Haruna Sairenji into Hachiman's arms. While pulling out her phone and turning on the camera in selfie mode, she teased Haruna Sairenji's slow brain.
"Yesterday you and Hikigaya-kun were super close, weren't you? Why are you just standing there stupidly today?"
"T-that was training, how can this be the same!"
Hearing her best friend's false accusation, Haruna Sairenji's face flushed red.
"Anyway, hurry and pose, lean on Hikigaya-kun and hold him, or I'll push your head in and make you kiss Hikigaya-kun."
"Risa! Um! Sorry, Hikigaya-kun!"
Seeing Haruna Sairenji forced by her intimidation to "have no choice" but strike an embarrassing, blushing pose while hugging Hachiman's waist, Risa smiled in satisfaction, then also hugged Hachiman's arm. With her slightly open lips slowly leaning toward his cheek, she pressed the selfie button.
As a member of the gyaru group, she often sees Tachibana Mikari smugly posting affectionate photos, and Takasaka Minami and the others posting fuzzy side-profile pictures.
Before she didn't really get it, but now she understands exactly who they were showing their pictures to.
She'll also post a photo later, of Hachiman training her, Haruna, and Chika, and send it to the other girls in the gyaru group. Let the other gyarus tone it down a bit and stop trying to steal a man from her and Haruna.
As for whether someone might report it to the public morals committee, most of the girls in the gyaru group get along well with Hachiman. If something like reporting really happened, then the girls who didn't post any pictures would become the biggest suspects.
If they don't post photos to prove their innocence, then everyone will ostracize the gyarus who can't clear their name.
"Wait, Chika, you actually kissed him?"
Risa took a few pictures and suddenly noticed something wrong. In the photos, she and Haruna only looked like they were about to kiss, but Kitamura Chika actually kissed Hachiman on the face for real.
"You two not kissing is your business. If I can kiss him, why wouldn't I? If you want to kiss him too, of course you can. Hikigaya-kun didn't refuse."
Kitamura Chika rolled her eyes at the seemingly proactive yet actually naive Risa and the shy Haruna Sairenji who didn't dare lift her head. She then kissed Hachiman a few more times, smiling sweetly.
Hachiman hasn't stayed in the tennis club long recently. As a public morals committee member, she often can't find the class-skipping Hachiman to discipline him, so a lot of her stress has built up again.
Before she experienced his guidance effect, it was fine. But after experiencing it, she felt like her own attempts at self-guidance were completely meaningless.
If it weren't for Risa and Haruna not being close enough to Hachiman yet, she would have already started releasing her stress and enjoying training.
Clearly the tennis club only has three people who like Hachiman enough to approach him, yet she's the only one who can truly take the initiative.
If it goes on like this, how can the tennis club win against the girls swim team or the track and field club? She needs to give Risa and Haruna some pressure.
"Haruna, go! Kiss him and show Chika-senpai! Let Hikigaya-kun know you're the best!"
Seeing how shameless Kitamura Chika was, kissing Hachiman even though she clearly knows Haruna likes him, and even touching him all over, Risa got angry and pushed Haruna hard into Hachiman's arms.
"R-Risa?"
Haruna Sairenji looked at Hachiman who was inches away. Her face grew hotter and redder, her hands helplessly wrapped around his neck, completely unsure what to do.
She hadn't said anything at all.
Why was Risa deciding things on her own again.
Being surrounded by girls isn't Hachiman's first time. But for Haruna Sairenji, being forced to stick close to Hachiman or hugging him together with her best friend were both once-in-a-lifetime experiences.
Her usual steady, calm personality vanished. Her mind churned with nothing but whether she should listen to Risa and whether she should kiss Hachiman like Kitamura Chika did.
Even though she and Hikigaya-kun are not that close, Hikigaya-kun doesn't seem to reject contact with her.
Not only did he train her hands-on, he was also letting Risa mess around, and didn't stop any of them from hugging him.
She always felt Risa was messy enough, but today she realized Chika-senpai was even more reckless.
"Chika-senpai?"
Haruna Sairenji was about to check Chika's reaction to decide what to do, when she suddenly noticed that Kitamura Chika, who had been hugging Hachiman's arm, squeezed her aside and wrapped herself around him.
This discovery shocked her.
They were on the tennis court right now. Even though everyone was training, the area was open and anyone could clearly see what was happening here at a glance.
Chika-senpai kissing Hikigaya-kun openly like that was way more dangerous than Risa pulling them in for photos.
'If the public morals committee saw... uh, wait, Chika-senpai is the public morals committee.'
Faced with Kitamura Chika "knowing the rules but breaking them anyway", Haruna Sairenji's mind went blank.
"Haruna, hurry up! Why are you still spacing out?"
While Haruna was stunned, Risa lost patience. She pushed Haruna again, trying to wedge her between Chika and Hachiman.
Chika-senpai was stealing her friend's man right in front of her. She would never tolerate that if it were her.
But she also couldn't actually shove Chika aside.
If she did that, Haruna would still be watching. Nothing about Haruna's situation would improve at all.
"N-no, I don't think that's good!"
Facing Risa's urging, Haruna Sairenji could only shake her head blushing, struggling to pull away from Hachiman and Kitamura Chika.
Things like this can't be forced. She already finds it hard to kiss Hikigaya-kun on her own, let alone doing it here in front of so many people.
"Hehe! Actually Haruna, you don't need to worry. Hikigaya-kun can use magic, so other people can't see what we're doing right now."
Kitamura Chika let go of Hachiman and caught her breath. Seeing Risa and Haruna's little quarrel, one pushing and one retreating, she laughed and explained.
She could tell Haruna was the one who truly liked Hachiman. Risa didn't actually like him like that; she only jumped in to help her best friend.
But whether Risa liked Hachiman or not didn't matter. As long as she didn't dislike him, it was fine.
"Magic? Can't see us?"
Risa froze, then turned and looked at Yukinoshita Yukino in the next tennis court. She found that Yukinoshita really couldn't see what they were doing, and even when she glanced this way, her expression didn't change.
She hadn't really thought about being seen. After all, if even Chika-senpai the public morals committee member didn't care about being seen, why should they be scared?
Too bad. She wanted Yukinoshita Yukino to be able to see everything. She thought it would be so thrilling to do this in front of her.
No wonder Chika-senpai was so bold, completely ignoring everyone's eyes and doing one improper thing after another with Hachiman.
"T-then, Chika-senpai, what about today's training?"
Seeing Kitamura Chika still holding Hachiman without stopping at all, Haruna Sairenji couldn't help asking.
Kissing once or twice should be enough. Judging from Chika-senpai's attitude, she looked like she wanted to do even more inappropriate things.
"Training? This is the best training. Haruna, you and Risa just don't get it. Hikigaya-kun is very sought-after, and many clubs want to monopolize him."
Seeing that neither Haruna nor Risa realized they were blessed with an incredibly important opportunity, Kitamura Chika thought for a moment and pointed it out.
"Earlier I told Risa that the girls swim team and the track and field club were fighting over Hikigaya-kun. Actually, I even said too little. Any sports club wants Hikigaya-kun's help. It's only that some clubs don't know how amazing he is, so they haven't come to fight for him."
Skill improvement can be taught by words and demonstrated hands-on.
But for physical fitness to improve, you have to do extremely intense, high-level training for real.
Both his skill training and physical training are amazing, but without a doubt, tennis skills only apply to tennis. Physical fitness can be used anytime.
They finally have some time to get close to Hachiman. Of course she needs to train intensely and release the stress that has piled up in her body.
And... also improve physical fitness.
"I know Hikigaya-kun is a temporary manager for the girls swim team. The track star Shino Shizuka is also very passionate about him, and I heard the volleyball club's Narahashi Miki has improved dramatically recently. But Chika-senpai, you're exaggerating too much about the training effect. Are they really all trained by Hikigaya-kun."
Risa listened to Chika's explanation with doubt in her eyes. It was already unbelievable enough that Haruna's tennis skills skyrocketed after hands-on guidance from him, but at least that could barely be explained.
Haruna had always worked hard. Once Hikigaya-kun guided her, it wasn't impossible for her skills to improve quickly.
But physical conditioning improving drastically in one or two days through high-intensity training and then raising athletic results across the board?
That was really hard to believe.
Because if that were true, doesn't that mean Haruna's competition is every pretty girl in every sports club?
If it was just about money, students still in school probably wouldn't care too much, unless someone desperately needed money.
But if it involves reputation, the temptation of placing high in national competitions... how many people could resist that?
And Hachiman isn't ugly. He's actually very handsome. Isn't that like dating a handsome guy while boosting career and love life at the same time?
The only downside is that this boyfriend wouldn't belong to her alone, but based on what Chika-senpai hinted about the public morals committee and other clubs, no one would dare demand Hachiman treat only one person well.
"You can just try and see. Why would I lie to you?"
Seeing that Risa half believed and half doubted, Kitamura Chika grinned and urged her.
"Anyway Haruna likes Hikigaya-kun. Even if I lied, you wouldn't be losing anything, right?"
"That's true, Haruna really can try."
Risa nodded approvingly. She never managed to force out of Haruna exactly when she started liking Hachiman, but she definitely liked him.
If Hachiman's training was really that effective, then Haruna would get both love and success.
If the training wasn't that strong and Chika-senpai was just exaggerating, then Haruna wouldn't lose anything.
"H-how did this become 'trying it'!"
Seeing her best friend Risa gradually persuaded by Chika-senpai and ready to sell her off, Haruna Sairenji was about to break down.
How can this be something you just casually try?
She already struggled to even kiss him, let alone anything more.
"Alright, since Haruna doesn't want to, let's switch to someone else. You'll understand once you see the result."
Seeing Haruna truly shy and innocent, Kitamura Chika didn't keep pushing. She hugged Hachiman's arm and turned toward the other tennis court, where Saeki Ai and Sugiyama Mio were being coached by Yukinoshita Yukino.
Saeki Ai, with her pure face, black tied-up hair, and long ponytail falling down her back, had a personality similar to Haruna's.
But she was even more natural and simple, honest and straightforward, if a bit unstable.
Sugiyama Mio, with her twin-tails and bossy attitude, was a little troublemaker like Risa, but even more brash.
As for figures, Saeki Ai and Sugiyama Mio's slender and delicate builds couldn't compare to Haruna or Risa. But the two of them cared a lot more about tennis results.
If Hachiman went to teach Saeki Ai and Sugiyama Mio, he might win them over immediately. Then the tennis club wouldn't have only her worrying that he would get taken away by other clubs.
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