Chapter 62: Ch 61 – 24 May, Meeting Sakura Hibiki

It was Thursday evening, and Kouta, just like yesterday, spent his lunch break with Takao, and he got some good rest while spending time with her. After that, Kouta went to GCC to give Inada his illustrations for future games before meeting with Eriri and Utaha in the audiovisual room. 

Eriri told him that she felt her relationship with Utaha was much better. And when Kouta saw Eriri and Utaha's relationship half an hour ago, and yesterday too. He trusted what Eriri said, even though they didn’t look so close. But, at least, they didn’t bicker with each other like in the anime. They talked about our project properly. 

Well, for now, Kouta left Eriri with Utaha as he left the school. It had been a long time, he showed up at the Glory Boxing Gym. The last time he went there was maybe a day before the midterm exam. 

"Excuse me…" Kouta entered the gym, and all eyes fell upon him before they went back to their own activities.

"Oh… Kouta-kun. You’re here." Said a woman with long brown hair and brown eyes while waving her hand that was still holding a bamboo sword. "Hm… Hey!! You aren’t here to slack-off you dick-cheeses!!" She screamed at the member while slamming the bamboo sword on the floor. 

""Okay, Nee-san!!!"" The member responded to her spartan training. 

"Yeah, Coach Uehara. Last week I had an exam after all, and I don’t think my uncle would be happy if he knew I came to this place when the exam was around. He could be mad." Kouta said. 

"Ahahaha, that’s true. Even though you said something like, you don’t need to cram study into one day to get a good grade." Nana replied to Kouta's remark with a laugh. 

"Well, but that’s true… Hm… I don’t see Ayaka-senpai around here?" Kouta asked after he looked around and didn’t see the familiar figure. 

"Ah~~ I think she wants some rest after the exam, but it may be a good time for her to start helping at the gym again. Ah… You can change your clothes while I call her." Nana responded to Kouta's question with a smile, put a bamboo sword down, and left the gym without hearing what Kouta said to her. "Eh… you don’t have too…" 

But Nana looked like she didn’t hear what Kouta said and still left the gym anyway. 

So Kouta changed his clothing to the usual sports attire, and when he came back Nana was already back, followed by Ayaka.

"Geez, even though I'm still having friends visit," Ayaka protested. 

"I did say you could bring her along to watch, and I’ll give you an extra allowance. Also he is here, you know…" Nana said while pointing at Kouta, who looked at them. 

"Hm… Oh, Kouta, you’re here. It feels like it has been a long time since we met." Ayaka said while coming closer to him.

Kouta noticed a lovely tanned girl wearing black shorts and a fitted white tank top with her blue sports bra peeking out.

"Of course, the last time I was here, you were studying for an exam. Ayaka-senpai." Kouta replied, and he saw someone behind Ayaka. Someone he was familiar with, because of his memories. 

It was a tan-skinned girl of average height with long blonde hair who used two high ponytails with shoulder-length hair. She wore the same uniform of Toyogasaki HighSchool with a different uniform from what Kouta saw in her anime. 

"Un… Ayaka, who is this boy?" The girl asked Ayaka, while staring at Kouta from top to bottom. "I don’t know why, but he looks very similar." She continued while still staring at him very hard. 

"Ah…" Ayaka clasped her hands as she understood with a smile on her face. "Well, of course. You may have seen him already. He is our junior, Suzuki Kouta." Ayaka introduced Kouta to the girl, and Kouta bowed at her when Ayaka did that. 

"Nice to meet you, Senpai." Kouta said. 

"Oh… I’m Sakura Hibiki. Nice to meet you." Hibiki introduced herself, but she still stared at him so hard. "I wonder… I feel like seeing him somewhere? That beautiful pinkish hair and cute face… Ah… Ayaka, he… could it be…!?" Hibiki realized something really horrifying in her mind when she remembered Ayaka saying he was their junior. 

"Yes, Hibiki… He was that girl from the GCC video. The famous one, our school is talking about." Ayaka replied to Hibiki. 

"But… how so… Look how pale skin he is… and cute face he is… Beautiful pinkish hair and pinkish eyes. There is no way, she is he?" Hibiki responded while pointing at Kouta as her finger was trembling with emotion. 

"I know how you feel too…" Ayaka patted Hibiki's shoulder with such sympathetic expression and voice. 

"Ugh… How can it be… Isn’t he much cuter than us!?" Hibiki said to Ayaka.

"No… No… No… Ayaka-senpai and Sakura-senpai are cute girls too." Kouta responded to Hibiki's remark. 

"I don’t think I’m happy to hear that from you." Hibiki replied to Kouta with a bitter voice. 

"Is that so… I’m sorry." Kouta said with a sad tone, as if he was deeply saddened to hear that from Hibiki, even though he was trying to elicit sympathy from Hibiki or Ayaka. 

"Ah… Ugh… Sorry. No."  Hibiki felt bad seeing how sad Kouta's expression was and his voice tone too. At the same time, she felt a tingle in her heart, because of how cute Kouta was and it touched her motherly feeling. 

"What are you doing, Hibiki… don’t be cruel to him." Ayaka, her face blushed red very quickly.

‘Ayaka, how can there be such a cute guy like this…’ ‘I know, right… I can believe it too.’

Ayaka and Hibiki murmured to each other as they had their own conversation in front of Kouta. 

"What are you doing, Ayaka? How about you teach Kouta with focus mitts?" Nana, who had already taken her bamboo sword, came at them and scolded Ayaka.

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"Ah… yes? But it’s is fine? Not too fast from him?"

"Hm… It may be, but you know. He is such a fast learner. He had gone through bag drills, speed drills, footwork drills, and other exercises."

"Okay, then. It’s your call, Aneki. I take my punch mitt." 

"Ah… Sakura-san, how about you see it from here?"  Nana told Hibiki to sit down near her. 

Not long after, Ayaka came with her mutt in her hand. 

"We started Kouta-kun… follow my instructions, okay!" Ayaka ordered Kouta, who had been already and put his glove in his hand. 

After that, Ayaka gave him instructions. Kouta followed her by hitting the mitts, as the sound of gloves hitting could be heard in his ear. Kouta followed the mitts worn by Ayaka and punched it as had been taught in this gym. 

Kouta didn’t know if his punch was good enough, but he followed Ayaka’s instructions. When she told him to punch with his left or right.

It was different from hitting a sandbag or speed bag, as Kouta needed to follow Ayaka’s mitts. Each of his punches felt quite good enough.  

"Hey… Kouta-kun, try faster…" Ayaka told him to try punching faster. Kouta followed her order by moving faster. Until then, she told him to stop and take a break. Before, she helped another member.

Kouta sat near Hibiki, trying his best to control his breath while his sweat kept on gushing out. Even after a month of training, his stamina is still not as good as Ayaka's. He could see she still looked fresh and was helping another member.

"Haa…" Kouta sighed deeply and drank some sports drinks. 

"Good job, Suzuki-san." Hibiki gave him a slap on his shoulder, praising him. "I never thought someone with your face had a good move." 

"I don’t know if those words are praising or jabbing my heart." Kouta replied with a dry laugh. 

"Well… Uunn… I didn't expect Ayaka to have this kind of business…" Hibiki said.

"Hm…Sakura-san, I take it. You didn’t know about our family business." Nana answered as she stood near Hibiki. 

"Oh yeah…" 

"Our dad’s a former pro-boxer, so he decided to open a gym after he retired. He really pushed us into boxing too, so when our dad isn't here. It’s our job to train these guys." Nana explained to Hibiki, who answered, "I, I see." 

Kouta heard their conversation, which was the same as his memories could remember. It was the same as the scene from the anime. They were talking about having some world champions train here. 

Not long after that, Ayaka arrived, complaining about how tired she was... At that time, Hibiki saw how incredible Ayaka’s abs were. 

Kouta also saw her abs and agreed that they were amazing... It has more muscle than him. 

Ayaka told Hibiki to train abs with her training core as ‘Dragon Flags’ and ‘Planks’ which can be found in the anime episode 2 and manga chapter 5. 

"Ah, I got it! Why don’t you take this chance to hit that sandbag over there? You can burn some fat, too. I’ll teach you, so give it a shot." Nana told Hibiki while she pointed to a sandbag nearby and she helped Hibiki put on her gloves. 

"Well, Okay then… Just a bit…" Hibiki put a stance told by Nana and punched the sandbad. 

And with that Kouta and all of the members of the boxing gym saw a miracle as the Hibiki punch hit so hard that the sandbag not only moved a bit, but broke the chain and her punch made the sandbag fly so far…. 

It was a magnificent punch that came from a girl and an amateur too. Something that Kouta couldn’t even do at this point in his life. 

This slender or slightly chubby girl could do it with ease. Even Nana and Ayaka couldn’t help but widen their eyes and keep their mouths open.

"Sakura-san… in the meantime, let’s grab the world title!" Nana said as she found out a rough diamond of Hibiki’s talent. 

Kouta himself once again realized how absurd the tropes in this anime world are. Since in this world, even a lean body could have such absurd power. 

"I wonder when I can do something like that…" Kouta spoke with a defeated tone. 

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