Anime Crossover: The people the Saniwa knows are all over Japan

Ryota Kise, male, Gemini, a middle school student who works part-time as a print model, is one of the key players in the Teiko Middle School basketball team. He is extremely popular with girls because of his handsome appearance and also gets along very well with boys. He is a super hottie.

However, he has a hidden hobby—

I like cute things.

In fact, it can be accurate down to a single person.

His deskmate was Mononobe Asuka.

Junior high school student, deskmate, unrequited love – these words together evoke a typical junior high school romance story.

When they first became deskmates, Kise thought the same thing.

He could even invite her to watch his basketball game, and perhaps she would be attracted to him, her usually calm and even black cat eyes would sparkle when she saw him.

However, it turns out that Kise was overthinking things.

Even though they were deskmates, they barely saw each other more than twice!

Is it really possible for someone to take leave every few days without getting scolded by the teacher? Is it really possible for someone to take a month of sick leave?!

Kise, the delusional chuunibyou Ryota, was crying in his bed.

So much so that on an ordinary day, after an ordinary morning training session, Kise, who was in an ordinary state, was startled by the black and white dumplings in his seat.

Feiniao, who had just woken up, lay lazily on the desk. When she saw someone coming next to her, she slightly lifted her eyelids to take a look.

It was her classmate with the striking blond hair.

"Good morning, Kise-kun is still shining brightly today." Asuka yawned slightly, tears welling up in her eyes, and greeted him weakly.

"Could you walk around to your seat from the other side? I'm a little tired."

Asuka-chan looks so cute when she's sleepy!

However, Asuka-chan didn't seem to realize that she was sitting in someone else's seat.

But it's understandable, since she only came to school for two days.

But she actually remembered her deskmate!

Touched, his deskmate Kise ran from the other side to the seat next to him, carefully took his backpack off the hook, and began to tidy it up.

Onlookers: "..." Kise-kun, don't you mind having your seat taken? You weren't acting like this last time your seat was taken!

Kise blushed: But she called me Kise-kun and said I was sparkling!

"Monobe-san, what brings you to school today?"

Kise didn't want to miss this rare opportunity to talk, so he was trying his best to make conversation.

"It's a long story..."

Actually, it doesn't take long to explain.

However, it was the mischievous childhood friend of Nana who reminded the swords of the citadel. The tsukumogami, who lacked modern common sense, finally realized that it was absolutely unacceptable for an ordinary middle school student to have not gone to school for so long.

Asuka cried and fussed (fake crying, real fuss) in the morning, saying she didn't want to go to school. Although the main controller, Hasebe, had already switched sides the moment he saw the master shed tears, saying it was okay even if she didn't go to school, the gentle but strict madam, Shokudaikiri, still insisted on personally taking the child to school.

Kise nodded, seemingly understanding.

Even though the doting father had agreed to let his daughter skip school, the mother absolutely refused to allow such overindulgence to happen.

I completely understand!

Kise: "Why don't you want to go to school, Asuka-san?"

Asuka: Because when you were in school, you were still crawling around somewhere.

"...Going to school feels so boring." This is one of the reasons.

The academically challenged Kise nodded in agreement, then, remembering that he wanted to persuade the other person to come to school every day, he immediately shook his head and said, "Actually, the school's clubs are quite interesting. Mononobe-san can check out the popular clubs on campus." For example, the basketball club.

School clubs? Actually, she's quite good at archery, after all, she used to be a proper shrine maiden~

No, no, she's currently a middle school student working part-time as an Onmyoji (a type of Japanese sorcerer). When she's busy, she has to run around every Monday, so where would she find the time to participate in club activities every day? (Natori: She's clearly a middle school student working part-time as an Onmyoji!)

"Actually, going home is pretty good too~ Sometimes I get really busy and can't go to club activities every day." Besides, it seems like Kise-kun has to do early morning training. Getting up early for school is already her limit; any earlier and it'll kill her!

“Emmmm…” Kise racked his brains, his gaze unconsciously shifting to Asuka’s face.

Her black hair contrasted sharply with her flawless, porcelain-white skin, and her long, curled eyelashes were slightly flushed, perhaps because she had just woken up.

Mononobe-san is so cute, like a carefully treasured doll in a shop window.

Kise, who was infatuated with a girl, suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

"Monobe-san, would you like to try being a print model? I'm not busy usually, so I can take jobs whenever I want, or I can just laze around if I don't want to."

"Huh?" It doesn't have anything to do with school, but it sounds pretty interesting. But, "What's a print model?"

"It's basically about wearing clothes provided by the merchant, having a photographer take pictures, and then sending the pictures to the merchant," Kise explained. "Although Mononobe-san isn't very tall, some clothing doesn't actually require tall models."

Asuka: "..." Although I am indeed not very tall, it still hurts to be told that.

"I need a model like Mononobe-san for the clothes I'm shooting this weekend. I can recommend someone!"

Kise, mimicking Asuka, leaned over the table, facing her, and softly asked, "Monobe-san, do you want to give it a try?"

"Give it a try...?" Asuka replied somewhat uncertainly, "But if we don't need more people, I won't try."

The ancestor of the Mononobe family once said: Life is short, so be brave enough to try new things.

Asuka said: If there's a chance, I'll try; if not, I'll just lie down.

"That's great!" The moment he received the reply, Kise's face lit up with a bright smile.

Ugh, my eyes are going blind.

The bird that happened to be looking over immediately covered its eyes.

"Why is Mononobe-san covering his eyes?" Kise asked, puzzled.

The seemingly immature girl muttered, "The brilliance of 'normies' is blinding to the eyes of otaku."

"Eh?"

"I mean, Kise-kun is just too dazzling."

Kise was happy to be praised by the person he liked again.

"Monobe-san, are you going to watch my basketball game this weekend?" Kise stammered, his face flushed. As if afraid of being misunderstood, he added, "After the game, we can go to the filming location together."

"Okay."

She's going to see if everyone who plays basketball is as tall as Ryota Kise!

The day's lessons ended with birds paddling in the water.

Today it was Asuka Kise's turn to be on duty, and Asuka-sama, who had always been a pampered young lady at home, got to experience sweeping the floor.

When it was all over, the clouds had blocked out the sun, and a damp, humid atmosphere filled the air.

"This is terrible, the weather forecast didn't say it would rain today," Kise complained in frustration.

"Kise-kun didn't bring an umbrella?" Asuka asked, puzzled.

"Yes, I hope the rain stopped by the time the club activity ended."

"Here, take my umbrella." Asuka took out a neatly folded pink floral umbrella from her bag and handed it to Kise, who was moved to tears.

In shoujo manga, borrowing an umbrella is practically the same as exchanging tokens of love!

Although Kise really wanted to take the umbrella, he was still worried that Asuka might get wet in the rain.

"Is it alright if Mononobe-san doesn't have an umbrella?"

"My home is very close, just a few steps away." I can just go into any alley and directly locate my way back to the citadel (w).

When I get home, I'll tell Shokudaikiri about it. He'll definitely be moved by my actions of being friendly and helpful to my classmate, and then he'll agree to let me stay home from school tomorrow!

See you tomorrow, Kise-kun.

See you tomorrow, Mononobe-san~

Kise watched the girl leave with reluctance, and began to worry that she might ask for another month of sick leave the next day.