The Ferocious Rabbit Devours Flesh ~Survival of the Fittest at a School in a Chastity-Reversed World~ - 35

Chapter 35: The S-Class First-Year Student

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Classes ended, and once it became after school, I ran along the track in the schoolyard as usual. Come July, there would be a tournament, so it was a period where I had to start raising my motivation little by little.

Until last year, I used to enter swimming competitions and individual ball games in addition to track and field events as long as the schedules didn’t overlap, but this year Senpai would be entering the swimming competitions and a portion of the individual ball games, so the events I could participate this year were fewer than last year.

(Well, I am supposed to enter the doubles instead to make up for that, though.)

The reason I avoided the events Senpai would enter was because I knew I wouldn’t be able to win. Until I enrolled in this high school, I never felt like I would lose to anyone when it came to sports. Since my childhood, I kept winning in individual competitions across all kinds of sports. Whenever I entered a tournament, I kept taking first place, and although there were times when I lost in team events, I was always selected as the most valuable player.

I was lionized as a child prodigy. The reason such a version of myself enrolled in this high school was because I could have sexual intercourse with young men, in other words, male students. It wasn’t that I wanted children. It was simply because I was interested in the pleasure of sexual intercourse.

In this school, you could get points if you achieve excellent results in competitions. Compared to midterms, final exams, sports festivals, and cultural festivals, the points were few, but even so, you could earn a considerable amount if you built up the numbers, and I also calculated that I would be able to earn points at the sports festival. Because holding concurrent club memberships was permitted, I joined all kinds of club activities, but the seniors in the clubs were no match for me.

It was at a time like that when I heard stories about a single female student who kept winning every single contest. Mirei Mikado, a second-year student one grade above me. I immediately went to challenge her to a match. When I asked about the contents of the match, I was told that anything was fine. She was probably letting it go to her head because she was undefeated.

I challenged her to a match in tennis, which I had confidence in even among the sports I had done until then. The result was that I lost helplessly. When the match ended, I couldn’t fully register my first defeat. Toward me as I stood frozen, she wore a composed expression and…

“It was a good match.”

Leaving behind those words, she departed. The contents of the match were not a good match, but a one-sided slaughter. I felt extremely frustrated by those words.

After that, I challenged her to a match numerous times. Since I lost in tennis, next was soft tennis. Next was badminton and table tennis. I challenged her in various other ball games as well and suffered total defeat.

This time, I challenged her to a match in track and field. The bare skin visible in her gym clothes looked like she clearly possessed less muscle mass than I did. Despite that, even when I challenged her to a match in the short-distance sprint, I suffered defeat, and the long-distance run yielded a similar result.

Other track and field events were no good, and swimming competitions were no good either. I couldn’t win a single thing in sports, which I was supposed to be good at. At first, I was supposed to be frustrated by the losses, but every time I challenged her to a match, I gradually became curious about Senpai.

What kind of life did she normally lead to turn out as this kind of person? Before I realized it, I had started following behind Senpai as she walked.

A year passed while I kept chasing after Senpai. Senpai became a third-year, and I became a second-year. Lately, Senpai came to frequently show a face that was different from usual. It was probably because of the male student who enrolled this year. I had become interested in Yuuto Usami, who made the flawless Mirei Mikado show various expressions.

While I was running inside the track, a rare visitor arrived. Because she was a person who had no business coming to a place like this, everyone in the track and field club was also surprised. Since she kept looking right at me, she probably had business with me. Thinking it couldn’t be helped, I approached her.

“Hello, Yaku-san. It’s rare for you to come to a place like this.”

“It’s been a while, Shiranui-chan. I thought for sure that you would have moved up to the S-class, though.”

Lilith Yaku, a second-year S-class student. In terms of grades, she was second in the school year, and she was a female student who owned one male student.

“Nah, I don’t have that many points. This school is stingy with points even if you win at a national tournament, you see.”

“Even if you say they’re stingy, I thought you would have accumulated a decent amount since you take first place in all kinds of tournaments, though. Saeki-chan was rejoicing that it was a good thing you didn’t buy him.”

“That’s good to hear. But right now, I’m not really in the mood to buy a male student or anything like that.”

In fact, if I had intended to buy one at the time when the protection period for the new male students ended, I could have bought one. If anything, there were probably male students I could buy right now if I intended to. However, just as I said, I didn’t really intend to buy one, and if I had to say, I only had a slight interest in Yuuto Usami, whom Senpai harbored an interest in.

“You are devoted to Mikado-senpai, after all. By the way, did you see this?”

Saying that, she showed me her smartphone screen. A single message had arrived on the smartphone. Written there was…

『 A male student who became an S-class student: Yuuto Usami 1-S』

It was written as such.

“Honestly, I was aiming for him a little bit too, but I was beaten to the punch, and by a first-year at that. Hey, Shiranui-chan, have you heard anything about this matter? From Mikado-senpai or someone.”

At this moment, I had ceased to care about Lilith Yaku’s question. What kind of expression was Senpai wearing right now upon learning this? I should definitely be able to see a new expression that I had never seen before. Thinking that, I immediately dashed out.

“Yaku-san, I’m a bit busy, so see you later!”

“Eh? Wait a moment!”

Mikado-senpai had said she would practice swimming today. In other words, she would be at the indoor swimming pool.

When I ran at a speed that wouldn’t leave me out of breath, I arrived at the destination in no time. I looked thoroughly inside the pool, but I couldn’t find her. When I tried asking a female student who was resting by the pool, she said Senpai had headed to the locker room as if she had finished swimming, so I headed to the swimming club’s locker room.

When I opened the door, Mikado-Senpai was there. While still wearing her competitive swimsuit, she had her mouth open while looking at her smartphone, wearing a surprised expression.

“U-Um, Senpai?”

I approached and tried waving my hand as if to block the gap between the smartphone and her face, but there was no reaction. It was my first time seeing such a surprised face on her face. 

(As expected, when Yuuto Usami is involved, I can see a new face of Senpai.)

I did think that, but what was Senpai going to do next?

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