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Why do you keep calling my name?

Although we all basically called each other by our first names when we were in elementary school, like how I called him "Bai" back then, it was very easy to say. But now that several years have passed and I'm a high school student, calling each other by our first names in such an intimate way would definitely attract attention.

I've already tried to subtly hint to him to tone it down by calling him "Hayakawa-kun," but he just doesn't get it!

Doma looked around nervously, afraid that some of her classmates would notice them or that there was a strange male classmate next to her who kept calling her name.

"Wait a minute, Hayakawa."

Two seconds later, Doma's face was burning hot, and he finally couldn't help but raise his head to interrupt Hayakawa's incessant chatter.

"Uh…"

Hayakawa was taken aback: "What's wrong?"

Doma Umaru looked around warily, then stood on tiptoe and breathed softly, saying, "You... stop calling me 'Umaru, Umaru,' call me something else."

"Ok?"

Hayakawa looked confused: "Then how should I address you?"

"you do this delibrately?"

Doma Umaru looked at Hayakawa with some dissatisfaction and said in a huff, "Can't you just call me by my surname?"

"what are you saying?"

Hayakawa was even more confused: "Isn't your surname Umaru?"

Buried in the soil: "..."

After a brief silence, endless black energy surged out from behind the girl. Her eyes were empty, and her face was full of disbelief. She could not accept what Hayakawa meant by what he said. He had known her for three years of elementary school, yet he did not remember her surname. What was most terrifying was that it seemed that he had not forgotten, but had always remembered it wrong.

"you say…"

Doma Umaru rose slowly behind her like a dark, ghostly mist, making the girl appear like a demon queen. She looked at Hayakawa and asked in a low, almost murmured voice, "What is my surname?"

"Uh…"

Hayakawa looked at Doma Umaru's "ferocious" face in front of him, and a bead of cold sweat appeared on his forehead. After hesitating for a long time, he tentatively asked, "Surname... Xiao?"

"My last name is you [beep]"

Accompanied by a strange sound, a red light flashed in the girl's eyes, and with lightning speed, she plunged one hand into Hayakawa's abdomen, a sinister smile playing on her lips.

You can't remember Doma? Well then, here you go!

"Well…"

Hayakawa's eyes widened from the blow, his body bent over like a shrimp, and his face turned bright red like a boiled crab, his expression twisted in pain.

I want to die...

Hayakawa felt as if she was suffocating. Her body slowly leaned forward, and her head landed in front of Doma Umaru, struggling to support herself. Doma Umaru's expression was cold, and her face was devoid of compassion.

Just as Umaru was about to successfully assassinate the king, a familiar voice suddenly came from the team next door.

"Fumino? Where's Hayakawa-kun? I haven't seen him today."

"I don't know either. I didn't see him when I passed by Class B just now, and he didn't reply to my message."

"I see... I used to always have lunch with Hayakawa, and it feels strange without him this time..."

"This... it's alright, Ri-chan."

It sounded like someone was calling my name, and the voice was so familiar.

"..."

Upon hearing that familiar voice, Hayakawa regained consciousness, which had been fading away, and subconsciously looked up.

"Hayakawa-san must have had something come up,"

Fumino Furuhashi comforted Rizu Ogata, saying, "If he's alright, he definitely won't... huh?"

Her gaze darted away, then met Hayakawa's eyes. She froze on the spot, stunned, because she saw Hayakawa standing in the next line with an extremely beautiful, unfamiliar girl. The two were very close and behaving intimately; the girl even reached out and affectionately stroked Hayakawa's stomach.

Fumino Furuhashi: "..."

Hayakawa: "..."

"Uh-huh?"

Doma Umaru glanced at Hayakawa, then at Furuhashi Fumino who was staring at him, and looked somewhat puzzled.

Who is this person?

Chapter 123 Adding New Pain

Five minutes later, the four of them sat down at a table.

"Let me introduce you,"

Hayakawa pointed at Doma Umaru without expression and said, "Umaru, my elementary school classmate."

"Then this is Fumino Furuhashi, and this is Rizu Ogata,"

Hayakawa pointed to Furuhashi Ogata and the other man in front of him, hesitated for a moment, and said, "You could call them my friends."

Upon hearing this, Fumino Furuhashi glared fiercely at Hayakawa. "Friends are friends, what do you mean by 'considered friends'? Besides, you call people by their first names so intimately, but you use their full names so formally when you talk to me and Ri-chan!"

Fumino Furuhashi pursed her lips slightly, feeling a slight stinging sensation in her nose.

Good, good, Hayakawa, you're amazing! I'll remember this for the rest of my life!

Hayakawa didn't notice the change in Furuhashi Fumino's expression. After introducing the two sides, he silently clutched his still aching abdomen, feeling dejected.

He never expected that Umaru's physical abilities would be so good, and she even seemed to be able to rival him.

This is extremely bad news for Hayakawa. If he can't overpower the current generation in terms of martial prowess, what will he do if a special situation arises and he has to flip the table?

Disasters keep happening one after another. Is the situation starting to slip out of my control again?

Hayakawa sighed inwardly, turning his gaze to the three girls, and couldn't help but frown slightly.

It's a rare situation. There are actually three chess pieces on one table. Even someone as skilled as myself has to be careful and proceed with caution in such a complex game. Otherwise, one wrong move could lead to utter ruin.

Hello,

Doma Umaru introduced herself: "My name is Doma Umaru. I transferred here a while ago. Nice to meet you."

Oh? So her surname is Tsuchima.

Hayakawa finally learned Umaru's surname, but when he heard the name "Doma," it was as if an electric current flashed through his mind, and he seemed to realize something very important, but he couldn't remember it no matter what.

"Ah, hello there, Doma-kun."

Fumino Furuhashi forced a smile as she greeted them. She was always kind and friendly to others, but the thought of Doma Umaru and Hayakawa standing together earlier made it impossible for her to maintain her smile.

And judging from what she and Hayakawa were saying, they've known each other since elementary school, and Hayakawa called her by her name so affectionately, isn't that...

Childhood sweethearts.

The four words kept replaying in Furuhashi Fumino's mind like a slideshow, and the smile on her face became even more unnatural.

However, compared to renting a room, Furuhashi was still better off, though her smile was rather forced. Ogata Riju, who was next to her, hadn't smiled since she saw Hayakawa, and her expression hadn't changed at all. Now she was silently staring at Doma Umaru, her eyes containing a strange cold light.

"..."

Doma Umaru felt extremely uncomfortable and couldn't help but look at Hayakawa next to him, hoping that he would say something to ease the atmosphere.

Hayakawa noticed Umaru's gaze, and although puzzled, he still stood up with a smile and said, "Everyone... eat and drink well."

After saying that, he sat down calmly.

Doma Umaru silently covered his face. You've made the atmosphere even more awkward!

A hush fell over the table. Just as Umaru Doma was about to leave, unable to bear the atmosphere any longer, Fumino Furuhashi softened. She couldn't bear to make things difficult for the cute girl, so she said softly, "Our food should be ready by now. You must be hungry. Let's eat quickly."

After saying that, she took Ogata Riju to the food stand, and Umaru quickly followed Hayakawa to another food stand.

"Hey, Hayakawa, what's your relationship with those two girls?"

As Doma walked, he couldn't help but ask, "The way they're looking at me is so strange."

"what?"

Hayakawa, who was at the back of the group, turned around in confusion when she heard this: "They were looking at you?"

Umaru was so angry she couldn't speak. She almost blurted out, "Are you blind?" The two people were practically staring right at her. But Umaru finally managed to control her anger and said, "Can't you be a little more aware of the atmosphere? It was so awkward just now."

"I think the atmosphere is great."

Hayakawa was taken aback, scratched his head, and asked in confusion.

Doma Umaru: "..."

Meanwhile, Furuhashi and Ogata from the next group also joined the group. Furuhashi Fumino glanced at Hayakawa and Doma Umaru, who were talking in the next group, and a gloomy look flashed in her eyes before she silently looked away after a long while.

Childhood sweethearts...

……

After they got their food back, the atmosphere among the group improved a bit, since eating together can definitely bring people closer.

Hayakawa usually eats and studies at the same time, while Furuhashi and Ogata interrogate... no, they have a friendly exchange with Doma Umaru.

"I see,"

After listening to Doma Umaru's explanation, Furuhashi Fumino suddenly realized, "Doma-kun transferred here because he wanted a better learning environment."

"Yes."

Doma Umaru took a bite of noodles, but in his heart he was thinking that it didn't really matter whether the learning environment was good or not, but it absolutely couldn't be as terrible as his previous high school, where he couldn't even attend classes.

"Then you're really lucky,"

Ogata Rizu suddenly spoke up, her small stature and sharp tone saying, "If you had come a year later, you would have been in trouble."

"Ok?"

Doma was stunned and asked, "What do you mean?"

"Ah, Riko, you mean 'military training,' right?"

Fumino Furuhashi suddenly realized, "That's true. It seems that Doma-kun really escaped a disaster."

"Hey! What is military training?"

Hearing this, Hayakawa, who was standing nearby, immediately became agitated and couldn't help but ask.

"Hayakawa-kun, don't you know? The principal has proposed a new activity, saying it's modeled after foreign high schools, to provide a week-long military training program for all first-year university students."

Fumino Furuhashi explained, "The principal said that this can help cultivate class cohesion and willpower among the new students, and it might be implemented next year."

"How could this happen?"

Hayakawa felt a sharp pain in his heart, ten or even a hundred times more painful than the punch Doma had thrown to his abdomen.

His pain wasn't from the so-called military training, but from the fact that he knew absolutely nothing about it.

He didn't know about the off-campus internship that Natsukawa Masaki had mentioned before; he also didn't know about the new freshman military training that had appeared...

Why? This school is clearly my territory, yet I know less about the major events that happen there than about the few pieces I hold in my hand…

Could it be... that this is information that only the top two students are given to them by the school?

As Hayakawa thought of this, he felt a wave of dizziness. A heart-wrenching pain gradually surged from his heart into his entire body, causing him to reach out and clutch his chest tightly, his expression contorted.

Pain... I forgot about it in the middle, and that became me.

.........

Chapter 124 We Won

Hayakawa was in pain, while Furuhashi continued chatting with Umaru about military training.

Is it a legitimate one?

Doma Umaru thought for a moment and said vaguely, "The unified kind."