Magician of Cote

Vol-1 Ch-8 The Pledge

"Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts."

"The first part is called "The Pledge". The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course... it probably isn't."

                                            - The Prestige
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"Good morning, Yamauchi!"

"Good morning, Ike!"

Arriving to class, Ike wore a broad grin as he called out to Yamauchi. It was rather unusual for them to get here so early. It'd been one week since the entrance ceremony, and Ike and Yamauchi would always make it to class right before the bell rang.

In this one week I had made a lot of progress, I had started interacting with Kushida's group. Surprisingly Kushida was the one who invited me to ask if I knew anything about Horikita. Which surprisingly was the name of my neighbor. It explained a lot about her actions in the club fair but I was still surprised. After letting Kushida down due to my lack of information on Horikita, she still invites me to their hangouts.

I was also frequently interacting with Karuizawa's group. Often eating lunch with them at the cafeteria. Although I ate from my bento, which I prepared with my newly learned cooking skills, all thanks to Chiaki. For all it's worth, she is a patient teacher.

The Boys group was successful, within a week the group's member toll was 11 with the addition of Hirata, Onizuka and Kikuchi. We met early in the morning at 5 am for workout and often hang out at the Game zone at the Keyaki mall.

"Whew, man! I was looking forward to today so much that I barely slept last night!"

"Ah ha ha! This school is just the best! I can't believe that it's almost time for swimming! And when I say swimming, I mean girls. And when I say girls, I mean girls in school swimsuits!"

I forgot this was going on in the background.

"Hey, Ayanokouji!" Yamauchi called my name. When I looked at him , I saw him beaming at me.

"What is it?" I asked trying to hide my annoyance.

As I approached them, I could hear Ike expressing his doubts about including me in the some plan.

"Don't worry, we are not including him in the plan. It is only known to you, me, Professor, Sudo, Hondo and Miyamoto. We will only include him in the bet." he whispered. Before Ike could protest any further he talked to me.

"To tell you the truth, we're taking bets on the girl's chest sizes."

"We've come up with some probabilities." The Professor took out a tablet and opened a spreadsheet. The names of all the girls in our class were displayed. There were numbers listed as well. I honestly had no interest in gambling, but I couldn't let this opportunity go to waste.

"Umm. So, is it okay if I join you?" I asked.

"Yeah! Come on, do it. Do it!" clearly he didn't expect the golden boy of the class to participate in his degeneracy.

As of right now, Hasebe was the likeliest contender for the biggest breasts in the class. The odds sat at one to eight. If I remember correctly she is one of the inactive member of Kushida's group. She rarely comes to karaoke evenings and prefer keeping to herself. Even though we didn't interact much, I still felt disgusted by the action of these debauched individuals.

"This is way more elaborate than I would have thought. Aren't youobserving them a little too closely?"

"Come on. We're men, aren't we? Men have only two things constantly on their minds: tits and ass!"