Oh, another Akimoto had taken the course before? It seems like the ‘elites’ of the world were prone to thinking alike then. Interesting bit of information, if nothing else, though Ren had to hide a frown when, once again, the Akimoto family had reached this course before he had. Really, he should stop trying to charter new lands. It was an exercise in futility when some of the Akimoto family were capable of taking, and excelling in, eight different courses per semester. Utterly monstrous, those of the main family.

Taking a glance at a few other faces, some more familiar than others, the raven-haired boy tried to recall their names, but promptly gave up. Must have simply seen their faces around campus. If he had met a character quite as unique as that chuunibyou kid who tunnel-visioned on the skirt steak, there was definitely no way that he’d forget his name. After all, it’d probably come with an equally memorable introduction, filled with darkness and flair. A few cute girls also came over, apparently his classmates for this particular semester. Not bad indeed. Each had their own unique charm; a foreigner with an hourglass figure, a heavily-dressed tomboy that smelled of sweat, and a cold ice queen who looked like she wanted to throttle the teacher.

[b]“Fun stuff,”[/b] he murmured, almost inaudibly, before the exasperated teacher stood up and conducted a man hunt for the remaining students.

To some disappointment, the remaining students weren’t also girls on the threshold of womanhood. Well, he wasn’t that much of a player regardless. Sighing and taking a seat that had popped right out of the ground (rather impractical waste of money and resources, in his opinion), Ren allowed the others to introduce themselves first. The icebreaker touched up on a rather sensitive topic, after all, and it would be good to gauge the ‘atmosphere’ of the room before he took his own turn. The incentive for extra marks was tempting, but it didn’t really matter, in the long run.

The first one was a booty-lover. Ren was more of a cutesy-face guy, but hey, he was open-minded. Scat and fart fetishes were totally within the realm of not fucking psychopathic.

The second was a hot-blooded shounen protagonist wearing the skin of a bombshell blonde that looked like she was better suited to be an NPC in a video game. Love was justice, huh? Sounded like the rallying warcry of all the 2chan white knights.

The third was that chuunibyou. With the surname of Shadow. Man, if he seriously became a PE teacher, in this generation of callous technology, he’d probably be the most annoying person ever. Just as annoying as that musclehead from that shit manga, Naruto.

The fourth surprised him with just how positive she was. He had already marked her down as a tomboy, with her short hair and sweat-stench, but wow. The pure, youthful positivity that radiated from her was simply blinding. He wasn’t even sure whether or not Miyu had been this hyper and happy in the past. What an utterly blinding person.

Standing up after she seated herself, Ren waved a much smaller one than what Kenko did, as he smiled and said, [b]“I’m Akimoto Ren, and it’s nice to see faces that I don’t recognize. I should be turning twenty within the month, but for now, the only parties I can go to legally are the dry ones. Also, I’m in General Arts for the moment, and hopefully I can go into something more stimulating in the future.”[/b]

He dipped his head into a shallow bow. [b]“Let’s get along, shall we?”

“And as for love…well, in my personal opinion…love is not booty, not justice, not connection, not acceptance, not taking, not self-sacrifice, not sex, not bittersweet, not marred with betrayal, not anything but itself. Love is love, and as someone who hasn’t even lived a third of a human lifespan yet, I doubt I can liken love to anything else in an accurate fashion. But hey, I haven’t even maintained any sort of significant relationship yet, so take that with a splash of salt.”[/b]

He tilted his head then, as he sat down, and apologized, [b]“That was three sentences, wasn’t it? Ehehehe…conciseness wasn’t ever my strong point.”[/b]

Not that anything was his strong point.