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As I was talking with Shuu, a single member of the judo club came to us.

“Club Head!”
“Oh, that’s our vanguard, Hoshino.”
“Really?”

He was the only first-year in Shuu’s team. But even though he was younger than me, he looked incredibly burly.

“L-Little Ali¹! I-It’s such an honor to speak with you!”
“No need to be so formal. I’m not anyone special.”
“N-No, you the star of our school!”

True enough, people tended to treat me like a princess or idol. Though hearing them talk like that still felt awkward.

“In any case, do your best during the team competition! I’ll be rooting for you!”

Using the skills I cultivated in Anazumu to captivate those who’d already been infatuated with me, I lightly took his hand with both of mine and gave him a smile. It was all to cheer him on.

“I-I-I-I’ll give it my all!” he proclaimed with a bright red face.

I hope they take the championship.

“Oy… don’t go seducing my junior, you hear?” Shuu, who’d seen the whole scene, rebuked me.

I tapped my own head lightly before sticking out my tongue.

“Tee-hee.”
“…”

Shuu shot me a downright frigid look.
I see, I might’ve overdone it a little…

“He does know that I’m male, doesn’t he?”
“Who knows. Apparently, half of the first years think you’re a girl.”
“Why would they when I’m wearing a boy’s uniform?”
“It’s probably your face.”

During our back and forth, two other burly boys closed in on Shuu.

“Ah, Hino, I’m sure you won’t get a turn today either.”
“Same for the vice club head.”

Indeed, those were the remaining two members of the team. The second and the middle.

“They’re reliable, aren’t they?” I asked Shuu.
“They sure are!” he confirmed.

“Oh, Little Ali!”
“Wow…”

While they were from another class and I wasn’t acquainted with them, they obviously knew me. There apparently wasn’t anyone in our school’s middle and high schools and the university who didn’t know about Mika, Shuu, and Me… and Rir too, at this point. Kanata and Sakura, who’d been on TV went without saying. Everyone knew them, except those who were completely oblivious like Gorilla Sensei. It had already reached an insane scale.

“What are your names?”
“They are called Futayama and Nakagawa. They have no resistance to women at all, so they’ll crumble if you do anything.”
“Huh.”

That was good to know. In that case, I had to make sure they’d do their best.

“Uhm, Futayama and Nakagawa?”
“Wh-Wh-What is it, Little Ali.”
“We might not always have the time to cheer our childhood friend on, so please make sure to root for him, too!”

Heh-heh, maybe that works with those two.

I squeezed myself between the two of them and quickly put my arms around their shoulders. Then I whispered with an intentionally alluring voice in each one’s ears.

“Futayama, Nakagawa, you can lead Shuu… no, everyone to victory. I know you can do it.”

I winked at them, took a step back and patted their backs. With that, I was done.

“I’ll… do my best.”
“Hino, is this how it feels when a god plays a trick on you?”
“But he’s a boy. And he’s even taller than you, Futayama.”
“I don’t want to hear that from you.”

Later, I learned that Futayama was 165 cm tall, which meant that I was taller with my 170. Men often said that the woman being taller gave them a strange feeling, but it wasn’t that unusual for girls to be over 175 cm.

“It’s about time for the participants to go on stage,” Gorilla Sensei announced. “I don’t mind you gushing over Joujou, but don’t overdo it.”
“”””Yessir!””””

The moment they heard that, they immediately turned serious. It was pretty cool and gave me a better understanding about how girls who liked to watch sports felt.

On another note, it looked like the others had been talking to Gorilla Sensei. Well, if Mika were to speak to the club members, they’d end up completely drained like wrung-out rags. In my case, the people who knew that I was male were able to somewhat keep their composure, but they were putty in her hands.

More importantly, the participants had started going on stage while I wasn’t looking. All the fierce combatants who made it past the regional tournament were now gathered in the center. Wow… some of them seemed to be close to two meters tall. How was that even possible? In any case, Shuu looked so dashing, he stood out quite a bit. It was a bit awkward to call my childhood friend handsome, but it was the truth.

Shortly later, the opening ceremony ended and those who didn’t participate in the first match returned to their seats.

“Alright… next will be the first fight…!”
“…Uhm, I was thinking of going solo for the first match, if possible.”
“…Can you do it? This is the prefectural tournament.”

It was Hoshino who had made that crazy request. He nodded firmly at the question, seemingly having made up his mind.

“Somehow, I feel like I’ll be able to do it today.”
“…Alright. Do your best.”
“Yes!”

Whoever could’ve predicted this outcome? No one imagined that Hoshino would go through with his declaration.

1. In the original he calls him “Ayu-chan-san” and I don’t even know where I’d begin to try to localize that, so I went with his known nickname “(little) Ali” instead.

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