Yukinoshita Yukino furrowed her brows, emphasizing.
Although it currently looked normal, the always timid and introverted Hayase Saki, who didn't even dare to speak loudly, proactively bringing someone to the Service Club, she felt something was off.
'Tsukahara Hibiki is the captain of the Girls' Competitive Swimming Club, what kind of matter can need to trouble our Service Club?'
The Service Club now indeed had quite a few members, but most were brought in after completing a request. The Service Club's reputation within Sobu High should still be quite low.
"Of course, my visit this time is just to invite your club president to become the manager of our Girls' Competitive Swimming Club."
"Because of training pressure being too great, several of our seed athletes are in a bit of a slump, so we'd like to invite President Hikigaya to the Girls' Competitive Swimming Club to relieve and ease their stress," Tsukahara Hibiki didn't care at all about what Yukinoshita Yukino said about "teaching people to fish." Her goal was to steal away the Service Club's president. With the Service Club president on her side, her ace team members would obediently return to the Girls' Competitive Swimming Club.
Even the girls currently in the Service Club who had close relationships with the president might join the Girls' Swimming Club along with him.
This is the real "fishing" that lures the fish onto the hook.
"President? Manager? Relieve stress?", Yukinoshita Yukino slowly cast her gaze toward Hachiman, eyes locking tightly onto Hachiman's expression.
'What is this guy up to? First, he became the agent for the mermaid idol, and now he's going to be the manager of the Girls' Competitive Swimming Club. What's next? Is he going to be the disciplinary committee's advisor?'
Although Tsukahara Hibiki hadn't said she had discussed it with Hachiman in advance, since the current requests were basically all related to him, she instinctively suspected Hachiman.
Hayase Saki now had an extremely close relationship with Hachiman. She didn't believe that Hayase Saki bringing the former club president over wasn't coordinated with him.
A Girls' Competitive Swimming Club made up entirely of girls actually wanted to invite a boy to be a stress-relieving club manager. Just how was that supposed to relieve stress?
"Please call me Club President-sama," Hachiman glanced at the suspicious Yukinoshita Yukino and smiled.
So what if she suspected that the request had issues? He was the Service Club's president. The majority of people would side with him. Yukinoshita Yukino wouldn't even know how to discover problems with the requests they accepted.
"I plan to accept Captain Tsukahara's manager request. After all, Saki was once a member of the Girls' Competitive Swimming Club. Helping out now is only right."
"Vice-President Yukinoshita, would you like to come help out with the Girls' Swimming Club with me?"
"Of course, Bocchi-chan and the others will be coming along as well."
"I have to go too?"
Gotou Hitori, who had been shrinking in the corner like a transparent background character, froze, looking at Hachiman in disbelief.
Why did she also have to go to the Girls' Competitive Swimming Club? She had only just made some friends and still didn't dare talk to strangers. How could she help relieve stress for people in the swimming club?
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Gotou Hitori never imagined that she also had to follow them to the Girls' Competitive Swimming Club.
It was one thing for the president to ask Yukinoshita Yukino to go, but why her too?
She even had trouble speaking with strangers. Going there wouldn't help at all.
However, no matter how many inner thoughts Gotou Hitori had, she didn't have the courage to voice a refusal to her good friend Hachiman, and Hachiman wouldn't actively give Gotou Hitori a chance to refuse either.
If it were an ordinary case of introverted social anxiety, he wouldn't care so much. But for Bocchi-chan, who was on the verge of developing a mental illness from her social anxiety, she had to be treated.
It didn't even need any high-end method. Just have Bocchi-chan interact more with strangers. Gradually she would gain confidence and no longer fear unfamiliar people.
It just so happened he could take her along to the Girls' Competitive Swimming Club now to help her get used to it. Everyone there was a girl, and with him watching, he wouldn't need to worry much.
As for Yukinoshita Yukino...
"Why do I have to come too?", At the Girls' Competitive Swimming Club, Yukinoshita Yukino, who had just changed into a swimsuit and walked briskly out of the changing room, looked at Hachiman standing there alone and raised her question.
Although the vote passed to accept the request, and she herself came along, she still didn't really understand why so many of them came.
Clearly, the captain of the Girls' Competitive Swimming Club only asked for Hachiman to come as manager. Yet nearly the entire club's members had come.
"This is a group club activity. How could we exclude you? That would be bullying you," Hachiman turned to look at Yukinoshita Yukino, his gaze lingering on the competitive swimsuit that didn't quite fit her, and he subtly shook his head.
Today Yukinoshita Yukino didn't have swimming class and didn't bring a swimsuit, so she was currently wearing a spare competitive swimsuit from the Girls' Competitive Swimming Club.
And professional racing swimsuits are made specifically for competitions. Smaller and tighter than regular swimsuits. Competitive swimsuits focus on fit, compression, structure, and sensitivity during races.
Hmm… simply put, there's less fabric, made of special material, aiming to reduce water resistance as much as possible to enhance swimming speed in competition.
Normally, such suits showcase a woman's graceful figure. But on Yukinoshita Yukino, it instead appeared delicate and cute.
"Your gaze is extremely rude," Yukinoshita Yukino noticed Hachiman's gaze and her face turned frosty.
"Small is also cute. Ahem, I wasn't looking at you, I was looking at Iris and the others," Hearing Yukinoshita Yukino's embarrassed and angry voice, Hachiman calmly shook his head, his eyes passing over her to look at Iris, Gabriel, Aegis, Sakurase Shino, Gotou Hitori, and the others who walked out behind her.
Yukinoshita's appearance was indeed pretty, but he saw it all the time, nothing to get excited about. Instead, it was better to appreciate Bocchi-chan, Aegis, Sakurase Shino, Hayase Saki, the true figure representatives of the Service Club.
Just watching them walk over, he could already feel the weight beneath their swimsuits.
Normally, they wouldn't wear swimsuits casually, and he wouldn't bring them to public places. But the Girls' Competitive Swimming Club was a decent private space.
He could even discuss with Tsukahara Hibiki later whether the girls from the Service Club could come here often to play.
Hmm... Since he, the president, was already here, it was totally normal for the Service Club to carry out activities in the Girls' Swimming Club, right?
"President, we've changed into our swimsuits. Do you like our swimsuits~"
Iris led Elliot and Aegis to stand in front of Hachiman, spinning once gracefully and smiling sweetly at him.
Unlike the unprepared Yukinoshita Yukino, most of them were wearing their own swimsuits.
Iris wore a pure white halter-neck frilly swim dress, Gabriel a similar teal swim dress, the petite Elliot wore a school swimsuit, and Aegis, who had the best figure among the demi-humans in the Service Club, was selected by Iris to wear a competitive swimsuit.
Elusi and Ayla, the two mermaids, also had great figures and were likewise wearing tightly-stretched competitive swimsuits.
"Of course I like it. Whatever you wear, I like. But why isn't Bocchi-chan wearing a competitive swimsuit?", Hachiman smiled as he nodded at their figure-revealing swimsuits, then suddenly looked at Gotou Hitori with some surprise at the white bikini she wore.
Even though they weren't here for training, Aegis and the other girls with good figures had all worn competitive swimsuits. Why was Gotou Hitori the exception?
Of course, that bikini definitely wasn't something Bocchi-chan chose herself. With her level of social anxiety, how could she possibly have the courage to wear a bikini?
"I think Bocchi-chan has a nice figure, very suitable for pretty swimsuits. Doesn't the president think so too?", Iris smiled sweetly and pulled Gotou Hitori forward, wanting her to show off her graceful figure to Hachiman.
But the moment she let go, Gotou Hitori panicked and dashed behind Hachiman, only peeking out a little to look at Iris.
"Uhh... Bocchi-chan and the president really are close, huh," Seeing this, Iris gave a helpless smile.
She didn't get jealous because in her eyes, Bocchi-chan was even less threatening than Elliot, not only an ordinary human but also frail, unlike them who could last a long time.
She had proactively helped Bocchi-chan to improve her relationship with the president. The president had taken the initiative to find Bocchi-chan before, and now he brought her into the Service Club. He probably liked Bocchi-chan a lot.
"Uu...", However, in Gotou Hitori's view, the smile on Iris's face was the devil's smile. At the sight of it, she trembled behind Hachiman.
At first, she thought the elf princess was a good person. Now she didn't think so. The elf princess was so bad, she and Aegis had actually forced her into wearing such a revealing swimsuit.
Though competitive swimsuits weren't much better, they couldn't hide body curves and drew lots of stares. Bikinis had even less fabric. She'd rather be like Aegis and Hayase Saki and wear competitive suits. At least that wouldn't make her look so out of place.
"They're all girls, not like they're going to eat you. Relax, they're all good people," Hachiman could immediately tell Gotou Hitori wasn't comfortable with Iris's personality. He chuckled and patted Gotou Hitori's head, gently comforting her.
Actually, the one she should be scared of was him. He was the one who was really going to eat her.
"R-Really?", Gotou Hitori swallowed nervously and cautiously peeked out at Iris's sweet smiling face.
She couldn't quite believe it. But those were her good friend Hachiman's words.
"Really. If she bullies you, just tell me. I'll punish her thoroughly all night," Hachiman stroked Gotou Hitori's pink long hair while making his promise.
"I... I wouldn't bully you... I can't handle the president's punishment for a whole night...", Iris blushed slightly and nodded softly.
".....", Gabriel silently turned her head after watching Hachiman and the blushing Iris.
At first, she didn't understand this stuff. But after spending a few days with Hachiman and Iris, she knew plenty about what went on between them.
'Punish all night... ptui ptui ptui...'
'Clearly, it is Iris herself who wnats Hachiman's "assistance," yet now she calls the reward a punishment!'
'So depraved! She's reversed reward and punishment!'
"Captain Tsukahara, with so many of us here at the Girls' Competitive Swimming Club, won't it disturb your training?", Yukinoshita Yukino, lacking "tonnage," didn't get involved in Gotou Hitori's affairs and instead looked at Tsukahara Hibiki, who stood by silently smiling, and asked in a low voice.
"Don't worry, the indoor pool is quite large. We've sectioned off an area for girls who aren't training to swim and play," Tsukahara Hibiki withdrew her gaze from Hachiman's swim trunks and beamed at Yukinoshita Yukino as she introduced the Girls' Competitive Swimming Club's indoor pool setup.
Though they trained daily to win in competitions, even doing morning practice and going to class afterward, since Sobu High only had a Boys' Swimming Club and the Girls' Competitive Swimming Club, girls who wanted to swim could only join the latter.
So they reserved part of the pool for casual members to play around.
Even tired main members could go there to relax and play a bit.
They didn't demand much from casual members. Like Iris and the others, they could bring their own swimsuits. No need to wear specially made competitive ones.
Though competitive swimsuits emphasized body shape, they had fewer styles than those sold on the market. Most girls preferred their own.
"...", Following Tsukahara Hibiki's explanation, Yukinoshita Yukino scanned the large pool. Looking at the girls training, playing, or warming up on the poolside, none seemed thinner than her.
She took a deep breath.
Only after a while did her slightly rising chest calm.
Maybe it was because all the main members of the Girls' Competitive Swimming Club had amazing bodies, girls with poor figures probably felt too embarrassed to join the club to swim and play.
Otherwise, how could every girl in Sobu High have such good figures?
After comforting Bocchi-chan, Hachiman didn't play in the pool with Iris and the others. He told Iris to take care of Bocchi-chan and followed Tsukahara Hibiki to the poolside training area.
Let Iris teach Bocchi-chan some things first. He'd reap the results later.
Beep—
"Gather up!", Tsukahara Hibiki blew a whistle, calling the members over to announce that Hachiman would serve as manager and assist Kaede Saki with her duties.
Hachiman stood to the side silently, watching the beautiful girls in the pool, without speaking.
Though Tsukahara Hibiki wanted him to help relieve the pressure of the members' training, it wasn't like every girl needed counseling.
Most members had no chance of competing and no real pressure. Just a bit of envy or jealousy of the stronger regulars.
The real pressure was on those strong enough to enter competitions and win, but still likely to fail with one misstep.
The kind of "you must not fail" pressure. Now that was anxiety-inducing. No wonder Tsukahara Hibiki wanted him in the club as manager to relieve their stress.
"...Haruwaka, Oaki, Fuyushiro, Samachi, Nanase, and Hayase. You all should train hard these days. Try to improve your results. If you have any issues, you can ask Manager Hikigaya for help. Kaede will handle the other members for now."
"Continue training now. If anything comes up, ask me or Manager Hikigaya."
After listing a few names that Hachiman needed to focus on, Tsukahara Hibiki let the others return to training, then turned to Hachiman beside her and whispered with a smile:
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