Upon hearing this, Tsuna turned back to look at the girl. He was also quite curious about this question.
He quickly recalled in his mind, and it can be said that he had no impression of this girl.
"I don't know you." The girl slowly shook her head and then changed the subject, saying softly, "But it doesn't prevent us from knowing each other now."
"My name is Takagi Sana, what's yours?"
"Huh?" Shouko was a little confused by her sudden change of heart and thought that her hearing aid was malfunctioning.
"Oh, oh..." A gentle poke on the arm from Tsuna brought Shouko back to her senses, and she hurriedly introduced herself, "My name is Nishimiya Shouko!"
Takagi slowly shifted her gaze to Tsuna, but before she could begin introducing herself, a jealous jerk spoke up:
"His name is Miyamura Tsunayoshi. We're childhood sweethearts. We've known each other since we were one year old!"
"Nishimiya-san, you misunderstood. I was looking around, not asking his name."
Seeing her anxious and slightly jealous look, Takagi's lips curled up unnaturally, but she quickly suppressed them.
"Huh?"
Shouko was confused for the second time that day. Normally, the process should have been like this: Tsuna's turn would come after she introduced herself.
And wasn't she afraid of offending people and being disliked by saying this?
"But it doesn't stop us from getting to know each other. Hello, Miyamura-san."
Takagi calmly observed Tsuna's expression, which remained unchanged. There was a hint of surprise, but not much.
"Hello," Tsuna gave her a very curt nod.
He suddenly regretted bringing Shouko to sit there. He wondered if her meeting with Takagi-san would be a blessing or a curse.
From then on, until the bell rang, neither Tsuna nor Takagi-san spoke to each other. It was Shouko who chatted with her.
The topics were mostly about where the other girl went to elementary school, how her grades were, where she'd been traveling this summer, and so on...
"Knock... knock... knock...!"
Uninterested in the girls' conversation, Tsuna stared at the classroom door boredly. As the bell rang,
He noticed a woman in a suit, silver-rimmed glasses, and a long, black hairstyle approaching the podium.
She gave the impression of a serious teacher.
Tsuna hurriedly reminded her, "Shouko, the teacher's here. Let's talk after class."
"Oh, Takagi-san, let's talk after class." Shouko turned back and observed her homeroom teacher.
She found that she and Takagi-san were quite compatible and had a lot in common, though she was the one doing most of the talking.
"Pah!" The woman at the podium, seeing no one had noticed her entering the classroom, raised her hand and patted the blackboard behind her.
She waited until all eyes were on her before speaking slowly, "Everyone, be quiet." Glancing at her watch, she continued,
"It's exactly 8:30 now. We have to go to the gymnasium for the principal's speech around 10:30, so the rest of the time is for us to introduce ourselves and assign classes—"
Before the woman could finish her words, a voice from the classroom door interrupted her:
"Um…"
"I'm so sorry! I'm late!"
Everyone in the room looked inward, and Tsuna was the first to notice the boy with short, shaggy black hair, a white shirt, and black trousers at the door.
From his vantage point, he had long seen him hiding against the wall by the door, hesitant and afraid to speak to the teacher.
"Come in," the woman at the podium glanced at the boy, who bowed slightly, but, considering it was a first-time offender, she said nothing.
Upon hearing this, the boy stood up straight and glanced at the empty seats in the classroom, and found that there was only one seat left...
Without much hesitation, he hurried to the seat behind Tsuna and sat down. He couldn't stand the eyes of everyone in the class being focused on him.
As they passed by Tsuna, they nodded in greeting, and Tsuna nodded politely back.
"Dong! dong!"
"Alright, everyone, be quiet. I'll go then."
The woman waited for their attention to return to her, coughed lightly, and said seriously, "Just a heads up: Don't interrupt me when I'm talking from now on. Got it?"
"Got it..."
The woman, pleased with their response, nodded and pulled a stick of white chalk from the chalk box on the podium. She snapped it in half, then turned and wrote her name on the blackboard.
"My last name is Nokitsu. From now on, you can call me Nokitsu-sensei. If nothing unexpected happens, we'll be together for three years."
After they nodded in response again, Nokitsu-sensei casually tossed the chalk onto the table and pointed to the first student on her right.
"Alright, start with the first student on the left and introduce yourself."
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"Tsuna, it's your turn, it's your turn." As Shouko watched the student above bow and walk down, she nervously nudged Tsuna, who looked nonchalant.
"Calm down, I know what I'm doing," he soothed, then stood up and walked up.
Before he could even reach the podium, some of the girls below, who had briefly met during their morning chat, began to whisper:
"Look, this is the boy I noticed early this morning. What do you think? Is he good enough for me?"
...
The girls nearby, who had overheard the conversation, glanced at the boy's face, then at the girl's round face, speechless for a moment.
"He's quite handsome, and his skin is quite fair, but I don't know what his personality is like." Since they had just met and didn't want the conversation to stall, one of the girls quickly spoke up.
"I saw him walk into the classroom with a girl this morning. Do you think it's his girlfriend?"
"No way, absolutely not," the girl who spoke first quickly shook her head in denial.
Tsuna, who had stepped onto the podium, ignored the chatter and announced loudly:
"Hello everyone, my name is Miyamura Tsunayoshi, and I hope to spend the next three years with you all happily."
He then walked off the podium, not even mentioning his interests, hobbies, or personality.
"Such a cool feeling..."
"Tsk, pretending."
"He doesn't think he's handsome like this, does he?"
"To be honest, he is handsome..."
"Shut up, no one will think you're dumb if you don't speak."
"Oh... but that's an undeniable fact."
"You-"
"I'll shut up..."
"Pa pa!" Teacher Nokitsu on the podium saw that the noise had started again below, and quickly clapped her hands: "Okay, everyone, be quiet, next one."
"Come on, Shouko, there's nothing to be nervous about." As Tsuna came down, he began to encourage the nervous Shouko.
Before Shouko could say anything, she heard Teacher Nokitsu's urging, nodded to Tsuna, took a deep breath, stood up, and walked up.
"Yeah! I'm going up."
(End of this chapter)
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