“Are you Tachibana from Class 2? I am Ena Ayami, top student of Class 1. A moment ago, the people in my class spoke rudely and I sincerely apologize for that. Allow me to apologize on their behalf.”

Ena Ayami bowed properly at the waist and lowered her head to apologize for their discourtesy.

Seeing that, both Class 1 and Class 2, who had been arguing until just now, fell silent.

“It really doesn’t matter. More importantly, bring Haruto out.”

“…No. If your anger has not subsided, then I do not mind if you hit me as much as you like.”

No, that escalated way too fast!

Sure, in a world where the gender ratio is so warped, there really are guys who think being treated specially is normal and act tyrannically toward girls.

But do I really look like the type who goes around hitting girls?

That hurts a little…

Actually, now that I look closely, Ena is trembling in fear.

For a girl to stand in front of a boy who is taller and bigger than her must take a huge amount of courage.

Stepping forward at times like this is exactly what makes her a true class representative.

As expected of a heroine who’s among the most popular in the game.

“W-why are you smiling?”

Ena looked up at me anxiously.

Oops, I must have grinned because I was happy to meet Ena in full heroine mode.

“Ah, my bad, my bad.”

Saying that, I reached my hand toward Ena’s head.

She must have thought I was going to hit her.

Ena stiffened her whole body and squeezed her eyes tightly shut.

“You were protecting Haruto, huh. Good job.”

I patted her head pon pon and praised her.

“…fwa!?”

Thinking she was about to get hit, Ena instead found her head enclosed in a boy’s hand and let out a startled squeak as she froze perfectly straight on the spot.

‘Back in my original world, head-pats like this would be a disaster unless you were a handsome guy.’

But in this world, the girls are starved for this kind of physical affection from men so it’s not a problem.

With the head-pat, I successfully neutralized Ena the guard and stepped in front of my target.

“Yo, Haruto.”

“Tomoki-kun…”

From behind the wall of protective girls, Haruto peeked out.

“You’re really loved, huh Haruto.”

“Don’t tease me Tomoki-kun.”

Haruto gave a wry smile as he stepped out from the ring of girls trying to stop him.

Well, girls are especially overprotective toward small, petite boys like Haruto.

Even behind me, the kids from Class 2 were tense and ready to intervene with force the moment something happened.

“Yesterday we were in a hurry, so we didn’t exchange contact info, right? Stuff will probably keep happening, so let’s exchange now Haruto.”

“Y-yeah. Let’s do it.”

Ignoring the explosive tension around us, I casually pressed my phone to Haruto’s and exchanged contacts.

“Did the hired car show up properly after that?”

“Y-yeah, it was fine.”

“Oh, is the address in your contacts your home address, Haruto? That’s near my house. Hanging out at each other’s place after school sounds fun.”

“T-that sounds great! Let’s definitely do that.”

I intentionally continued the peaceful conversation to show everyone around us that we get along as boys.

Thanks to that, the severe atmosphere around us began to relax.

That was exactly my goal.

“So, since it’s a good opportunity, how about Classes 1 and 2 do a joint tour of the school while we discuss things. Right, Ecchan-sensei?”

“Eh, um, I…”

Ecchan-sensei, who had suddenly been addressed, became flustered.

“Interaction between male students is important.”

“Takeyama-sensei, I also ask this of you.”

Saying that, Haruto bowed his head to his homeroom teacher.

Male students have the highest priority in this academy.

Even teachers cannot flatly reject a request from a male student.

“What should we do, Oogusu-senpai?”

“Don’t act like my junior only when it’s convenient! But… it’s not an unreasonable request…”

The two teachers whispered together, but they reached a conclusion quickly.

“Alright. If it’s just two classes, then it’s fine, so Classes 1 and 2 will do a joint school tour.”

““Thank you very much.””

As expected, the two teachers accepted our request.

In war, how it ends is the most important thing.

Once a fight begins, you can’t simply lower the raised fist without making a point.

Which is exactly why you need a justifiable reason.

Here, both sides are able to save face and resolve things peacefully because the exceptional upper-rank beings, Haruto and I, made the request.

Gotta make use of the special treatment when I have it.

Still, it’s not ideal that the homeroom teachers don’t get along.

If Classes 1 and 2 clash again, there will basically be no one to stop them.

Which is why I need to plant a warning.

“Ecchan-sensei.”

“Ah, Tachibana. Earlier I honestly… thank—”

While she was giving instructions for the classes to line up again, I approached Ecchan-sensei and she awkwardly tried to thank me.

“Ecchan-sensei, you’re cute you know. If you keep fighting, I’ll get sad.”

“Eh!?”

I whispered that into her ear, then returned to Tatara-hama and the others.

In the end, during the joint school tour, all explanations were handled by Class 1’s homeroom teacher, Takeyama-sensei.

Takeyama-sensei threw passive-aggressive comments at Ecchan-sensei the whole time for it, but Ecchan-sensei seemed completely spaced out, like her mind was elsewhere.

…Maybe I overdid it?