Ch. 64.1 - The First Clash Between Nogami and Shihou Pt1
Smack.
After returning from the student cafeteria with Ren and the others, they gathered around the window-side seat of Haruto, discussing where to go for the upcoming Golden Week in May. Meanwhile, Harutaki reached into his JanSport backpack, pulled out a folded sheet of loose-leaf paper, and slapped it down on the desk of the neighboring classmate, Tazaki, who was in the middle of playing a mobile game.
“Eh!?”
Tazaki, who never expected anyone to approach a bottom-tier background character like him, jumped so hard he nearly dropped his phone, actually, scratch that, he did drop it face-down on the desk.
Which, in hindsight, wasn’t such a bad thing.
At least no one saw the half-naked anime girl on his screen.
“H-Harutaki… what’s this about…?”
“Why don’t you take a look yourself?”
Seeing how Tazaki shrank back like a scolded child, Harutaki could only smile wryly.
After yesterday morning’s all-school assembly, it seemed the majority of students had come to associate him, Hoshikawa Harutaki, with Nogami Izumi. Some were convinced they were dating, or at the very least, exes with lingering feelings. Others believed he’d become her newest subordinate. As a result, the school’s anonymous forum split into two factions:
[The Twilight Fenrir of the Queen!]
[The Third Treasure of the Demon King!]
He had to hand it to Nichiya High’s students, their sense of naming was certainly… literary.
The former camp claimed that he and Nogami, a scumbag and a wicked woman, had formed a destructive alliance that would plunge the entire school into a Ragnarok-like chaos.
The latter, meanwhile, referenced a famous anecdote about Oda Nobunaga, the “Demon King of the Sixth Heaven,” and his page, Mori Ranmaru.
Nobunaga had once boasted that he possessed three treasures: