School days were short.
Rito was able to concentrate on studying, and his academic skills increased again.
Although this time, Rito has a lot of things within his mind. In the end, he discovers another benefit or primary consequence of possessing those skills that he was unaware of before.
Example.
Rito possesses many skills. But this morning, when Rito was talking with Sairenji, he started to pay attention to his skill and subconsciously activated that skill to trigger a lot of information flooding in within his mind.
Yes! In that, the key point was to trigger that skill itself by concentrating on it and activating it.
But before this, Rito never tried to activate it like that, and he thought that whenever he needed the knowledge skill, it would activate itself. Which seemed to be so-called passive activation of that skill.
Active State + Passive State.
With these two states.
Rito suspected that he might need to use all of the skills later at home to broaden his own knowledge base.
He could also try approaching the skills from a different perspective to see if there were additional aspects to them.
As always!
Having lunch.
Rito finished all of his class for today, and after this, it was PE, but since the PE teacher was absent, it was set to be free watching a match between their school badminton club and another club that has been to national.
So, Rito had not much intention of watching it together with others and decided to stay back at class to study. With Hina sensei being the assigned teacher for self-study.
'Hmm! There are no other settings. All though, it might be a little different from the previous one. I think I need to rely on luck again to find it.' Rito looked quite serious while looking at the book.
At which Hina sensei smiled, thinking how it might be the first time that she was watching this serious side of Rito.
'Not having much to do is also a little tardy.' Rito thought.
As he happened to look up, finding Hina sensei looking at him with a serious look, making Rito sweat, wondering if he was found daydreaming by Hina sensei.
So, taking a deep breath, he again started to pay attention to the book and forgot about things that had been bothering him for all this while.
Class ended.
Rito pulled his bag.
And thinking how he is getting off quite early.
He decided to go and visit Mikan school up, seeing if he could surprise her by getting picked up like that.
'That girl. Did she really make some friends?' Rito muttered while walking, as if trying to justify his own action through such convenient excuse under his belt.
While his original intention is to check out how Mikan would react to his visit.
After all, he had a feeling that Mikan is really well behaved and wanted a reason to tease her at home.
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'Hmm! It seemed she was not off.' Rito muttered, sitting off on the bench from the park.
It was a nice position to see every student walking off from the school gate.
'Hmm. There she is.' Rito finally found the familiar figure of Mikan within the crowd.
And looking at the girl walking alongside two more figures, Rito smiled a bit, eased up, and thought how it was a relief that Mikan was able to find some friends from the school.
Though looking from the side.
He could tell Mikan was more like a spiritual pillar within that group, given how mature Mikan acts normally, and seemingly it helped her attract some friends.
"Wow! As expected of classmate killer." Sachie. An energetic type of girl exclaimed with a grin on her face as she teased Mikan for something. "But he was a nice catch, Mikan." Nogiwa Mami agreed with her friends words and exclaimed in a light tone.
"Hmm! It is not that; I find him or others lacking. But at this stage, I am truly not interested in other boys at all." Mikan did not look bothered by their question. As she recalls the boy named Kanimoto from before and thinks about it, she truly did not undermine their value or anything.
But for some reason, her mind was totally occupied with Rito recently, and even before that, Mikan truly did not have that kind of feeling to date someone.
Including the fact that their idea of being in a relationship only looked quite fragile and something they came up with in the heat of a moment.
So, for Mikan with a mature state of mind, he only felt reluctance to be in a relationship with them. And that is why she had a feeling that her thoughts are starting to be corrupted by that idiotic brother of her, who only thinks stupid things within his mind.
'Stupid Rito. Dumb Rito, with sis-con fetish.' Although, at the moment, Mikan was cursing her brother. But from the outside, Mami and Sachie saw a sweet smile that danced on Mikan's lips.
'Is this really it.' With that thought, Sachie looked at her friend. And looking at the Mikan's expression, Mami also felt the heat rising on her face as she also looked at Sachie's side.
'That's right? Mikan is in love.'
'Hmph! I will deal with him at home for sure.' Mikan was thinking. But at that moment, she saw a familiar figure standing at the roadside, waiting for him with a small grin on his face, which was formed when he saw her gaze landing on him.
"What? Eh! Rito..." Mikan's mind turned puff. As if it had stopped working, as her body walked toward the Rito figure, who was waiting for their group, with a small smile on his face.
"Mikan-chan." X 2
Sachie and Mami noticed Mikan's expression, and looking straight at the boy, who was smiling at their friends, they had a certain inspiration. 'Ohh...' With another check at Mikan's expression. They both knew that they had found the right target.
At the moment.
After all, their best friend expression at the moment was expressing everything at the moment.
"Rito! What are you doing here? I mean, your school." Mikan totally forgot about her friends at the moment.
As she looked at Rito with a weird expression, thinking how this was another one of Rito's surprising changes, given previous Rito would have never cared to pick her up like this.
"Hello! My name is Yuki Rito. Mikan's older brother." Rito did not forget to greet Mami and Sachie as he looked at the stunned Mikan expression and felt that it was worth waiting for her.
"Ahh! Big brother of Mikan." Sachie exclaimed out loud.
And with that, Sachie and Mami experienced a thrilling sensation throughout their bodies, and a fresh wave of excitement for her friend swept over their minds as well.
"It's forbidden kind." They both exclaimed with their minds and with a hint of admiration within their minds. They both looked at Mikan with more reverence, thinking Mikan is a truly mature and daring type among all of the friends they had made.
'They definitely had it wrong.' Mikan thought. When she saw her friends expression.