"How was the little girl from yesterday?"
On the way to school, Rui asked Ryuji.
"Her parents have been found." Ryuji said casually.
"That's good." Rui didn't ask much, but thought that the little girl was very cute, and wanted to see her again in the future.
His school days were the same, and the guy named Sakuta was as annoying as ever.
"How about we have lunch together today? I will take you to a good place."
These words easily make people think wrongly, Ryuji looked disgusted.
"Don't be too obvious, my friendship soul is crying."
"There are no shows during the day, I want to keep Rui company." Ryuji said.
He and Sakuta were barely friends, and Sakuta also knew something about Ryuji.
"You are together every day, are you guys really brothers?" Sakuta asked.
"Substitute as fake."
Sakuta shrugged, "Anyway, that's your business, but Sakurajima Senpai might be jealous."
"That joke isn't funny at all."
Mai's problem still bothers him, because Ryuji is too close to Rui, something is wrong with her.
But in the final analysis, he doesn't have a direct relationship with Mai, even if he is a little closer to other girls, it's okay.
"It always feels like asshole."
"...It's your illusion."
...
In the afternoon, Sakuta took Ryuji to the science lab.
In the laboratory, there is a bespectacled girl in a white coat fiddling with the device, small stature but big chest!
"This is my friend, Futaba Rio. As you can see, she is a genius girl in science and engineering," Sakuta introduced.
"Who's this..."
Sakuta was about to introduce Ryuji to Futaba when he was interrupted by the girl.
"I know, Hyakki Ryuji, a celebrity at school now, a two-legged bastard." The girl named Futaba said flatly.
"Also, Azusagawa, could you stop adding annoying nicknames when introducing people, getting involved with you is probably the worst decision of my life."
Sakuta was used to this venomous tongue, and added to Ryuji, "This venomous tongue is as you can see."
Futaba has beautiful long gray hair and intelligent eyes.
"Hello, I'm Hyakki Ryuji." Ryuji greeted him, not paying attention to Futaba's assessment of him.
Futaba looked at Ryuji and nodded.
She looked at Sakuta and asked, "So why did you bring him here? Is it related to the puberty syndrome you are obsessed with?"
Puberty Syndrome?
Ryuji's eyes flashed, as if he heard an unfamiliar word.
"Not this time." Sakuta shook his head.
"I just wanted to introduce you to each other. See, isn't there a saying that a friend of a friend is a friend? That's how you and Kunimi met back then."
Kunimi Yūma was one of Sakuta's few friends, and after being introduced to Futaba, the three of them became friends.
"Just do boring things." Futaba sighed, defeated by Sakuta's persistence.
Although she doesn't have many friends, Futaba doesn't lack the existence of being called friends, because there's no need for that.
After studying science for a long time, her thinking became rational.
But she didn't refuse, she accepted Sakuta's 'kindness'.
"Let me make coffee, what do you want to drink, even though there is only regular instant coffee here." Futaba took out a reagent bottle labeled H2O2.
Ryuji was frightened when he saw it, he must have taken it wrong, what if the bottle is not washed clean!
An alcohol lamp is used to heat the water, and the brewed coffee is served in a beaker.
It turns out that it can still be used like this!
While drinking the coffee that Futaba made, Ryuji asked: "I'm a little curious, what puberty syndrome did you just mention?"
Futaba and Sakuta looked at each other.
It's not a secret at all, it's been circulating as an urban legend.
"Puberty syndrome, something like a super power, the reason is unknown, it only happens between teenagers and girls." Sakuta said.
"But there is no scientific basis for it. It's probably just a rumor from people who have good things. "Futaba has no interest in things like superpowers.
Sakuta is helpless, he himself is a victim of puberty syndrome, and he is not believed when he appears in front of Futaba.
"Hyakki, do you believe in puberty syndrome?"
Even though he asked, Sakuta didn't expect anything.
Maybe more likely to be considered a chuunibyou.
"Believe." Ryuji said lightly.
Aren't there a lot of unnatural things going on around him? This world is not normal.
Supernatural events that occur between teenage boys and girls, maybe Sakurajima Mai's situation is related to this puberty syndrome!