Lunch time!

Katsuya seems briefly disappointed by Hanami not letting her join, which quickly vanishes. At her remarks about her eye, she simply nods, her hands clasped to her skirt.

As Hanami finishes complaining about her name, a group of students approach them, clearly seniors. "Oy, Katsuya, we gonna bother you some more before classes start, come." Said their leader, who talked in a harshly tone, was tall and had a dark complexion, with black hair. The two guys behind him were snarking with their shadowy faces.

Katsuya's eyes widen for an instant, and, after giving Hanami and Sumeryu a grateful look, she raises to her feet. "O-ok... Byebye guys! See you later!"

As Hanami grabs Katsuya's hand, she quickly raises her eyes onto hers, down to the joined hands and back again, giving her a cute cute, if maybe awkward look.

After that instant of strangeness, she turns back at the seniors, and at the girls interposing them. "I-it's okay guys... I'll reach up with you latter... I promise, ok." She says with her head lowered. "He, that's right! You heard the girl!" The leader of them says rudely.

Ibuki couldn't peer at their true intentions, but their dark complexion and ominous aura are quite clear to her, they're up to no good.

Katsuya tugs gently at her hand, not enough to break Hanami's grasp, but suggesting she wants it freed.

Before Hanami throws her spell, one of the two guys behind the leader, so far hidden under his shadow, comes forth: he's a skinny and feeble looking guy, with a light brown bowl-cut and large round glasses that hide his eyes, quite similar to Kanako's.

Speaking about Kanako, this guy turns to stare at her, with curiosity, the at the book she's reading, then she gasps with a pleasant surprise. Saying in a high pitched and airy tone: "Woa!! You're reading Magical girls in Perilous naughty adventures (or whatever name you want =P)!!! Gah!! I'm a huge fan too!!" He says, coming closer.

At the girls bafflement, he quickly says, without a sign of having thought out the consequences of revealing that to a bunch of girls: "Oh, you may be wondering how I saw it through the protective cover... He chuckles while adjusting his glasses, looking serious and mysterious, "You see, I can see through opaque surfaces... In other words for the normies, I have X-ray vision!!"

As that sips in, and he feels murderous eyes on him, he quickly rectify it: "B-but don't worry!! I can only see through a single layer of objects!" He sighs in relief, now that it was acceptable, he thought. "That's still horrible, you dumbass!!" Said Aika, raising her fist... After a while, she relaxes, "Haha!! What you guys thought of my Banami impression? What? Ha- Hanami?!! No way!!"

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But, as Hanami casts her devastating honesty spell, the leader starts talking, still rudely: "We were just gonna take Katsuya for a while and ask her to st-" He clasps his mouth with both his hands, realizing the nature of the spell. He then pulls the X-ray guy back at his side "Oy, Rikishi!! You're the smart guy, y-you should be the one doing the talking!" He says, as he violently pulls the boy close to him, giving him a menacing look as he whispers on his ear.

After a moment, the boy, Rikishi, steps forward to talk, looking uncomfortable, "W-what he tried to say was that she's a, uh... An acquaintance of him... And that he would ask her to do some stuff for him, as she commonly do for quite some time already..." He pauses, swearing nervously, "N-now, this stuff is o-of very private and embarrassing matter... For both parties, a-and Katsuya would hate for it to be revealed... D-do you guys really want to continue your inquiry?"

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With her observation, Lìn Jìng couldn't bring anything on them, not without having the full names of them.

Líng Jìng, peering from the distance, with a wave of her arm, snatches the glasses away from Rikishi, and drop then just in front of Kanako, inside the book she was reading, "Gah! My glasses!" He protests, trying to catching them, and failing to do so. "I-I can't see without them!! Heh... I'm really helpless, right?" He starts giggling, and a trick of blood slips from his nose, "B-besides... I can see through two layers without them... gulp."

But his speech is cut short by Hanami's accusation, he gazing directly at her: "Wa?!! Punch her?! Are you crazy?!! H- he would never!!" He looks back at the big guy, "W-wait... Yasuo, you punched her?! You really did?!! What the heck?!" He backs off from the two guys.

"Y-yeah, I did!" Rikishi screams out, unable to keep the truth. "Why?!! Katsuya never hurt a fly!! Why would you do that?!" With that, the Yasuo guy advanced menacingly towards him and the rest of the group, uttering: "I demanded something from her! Something I ordered her to steal! Damn, I can't remember what it was!!" He seemed really confused, how could he forgot something that he just saw? "Whatever, she refused and... and I got mad!! Now, cut the crap, you rat!! Siding with these losers? I'll give you a nice beating too!" He says, snapping his fingers.

Then he turns his eyes to Sumeryu, and hesitates for a moment.

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While at that confusion, Ibuki and Katsuya talk, her talk mellowing the fox girl out: "S-sorry... But I can't, I can't put you guys in trouble! You're all being so nice to me..." She lowers her visage, "I never had anyone offer me help before... heh, this is so embarrassing..."

Raising her gaze and looking at the interactions between Hanami and Sumeryu with the seniors, she sighs, with a glimpse of relief, "Seems like they're already at it..."