Chapter 1: Rock hard(1)
"Okay, boys, it's time!"
A kid shouted, thrusting his hand toward the sky like a leader rallying his troops.
The afternoon breeze was cool, but to the group of boys huddled around him, the weather was irrelevant.
Their faces were flushed, their eyes gleaming, and some were even on the verge of drooling. Today had been Sports Day. And Sports Day, well...
It wasn't like any other day.
It was a day were all students in Metropolitan high school were tasked in completion of various sporting activities of their choosing.
Actually—Sports Day was already over...and that was the exciting part.
And what followed Sports Day? The glorious peeping hours.
Simply put, it was the time when the girls—sweaty, flushed, and glowing from the competition—would be in the dressing rooms, changing.
For the boys gathered here, this was the true highlight of the day. There was no need to explain it. It was the one moment where they could transcend their mundane lives as losers in a high school. Where they could indulge in a tradition they had upheld year after year.
At the far end of the group, however, sat Mikey, his back against the bench, completely absorbed in his phone screen. His fingers scrolled through the latest Chapter of his favorite web novel, Demon King Ascension.