Akira and Yutaka exchange a look for half a second before Akira looks at Adonis again and says, "Nnnope, wrong twin for that, if you want help with homework you want Toshiki."

"I will keep that in mind, thank you!"

"Anyway, let me introduce you to everyone. Everyone, this is Adonis. Adonis, this is everyone, but I don't know their names so they'll need to tell you."

"Bullshit, Iwasaki, there's not a person in this school you don't know the name of."

He giggles. "These are Nakano Aiko, Matsuda Tōta, Fukumoto Megumi, Eto Hitoshi, Takeshita Kōji..." He introduces each of the about fifteen kids around by name, and they wave or bow or greet Adonis as he does.

"It is lovely to meet you all," he says. "I will do my best to remember your names."

(A tiny sporfle from the back of the crowd, where Megumi had to lean around a taller classmate to wave when her name was called.)

"Should we wear nametags?" asks Aiko dryly. (She was of the "wave" persuasion.)

"Not everyone can have such an easy and memorable name like mine."

"I would not ask you to go to the trouble of wearing nametags! I will learn." Actually he does kind of want to see everyone's spellings but he can only think of ways to ask for this that range from weird to very weird, so he will refrain.

The one Yutaka called Eto Hitoshi pushes his glasses up the bridge of his nose and says, "I've got a list of all students in our year by major personality and other remarkable characteristics if you'd like."

"That would be very kind of you to share!"

"Why do we let this nerd hang out with us?"

"Each and every human being carries within them an irreplaceable spark of the divine."

"Why do we let this nerd hang out with us?" he asks, hiking a thumb in Yutaka's direction.

"Don't know about you but I think he's hot."

"Can we not."

There is such a Situation going on with those three, but, more importantly, Eto Hitoshi may be about to become Adonis's new best friend. "Perhaps we could meet after school sometime this week?" he suggests. "I cannot meet today; I must try out for the swim team."

"Sure, good whenever."

"Swim team, huh?"

"I like to swim." To Eto-san, "Tomorrow?"

He grabs his phone. "Sure, gimme your number."

He recites it, with the same oddly crisp enunciation he has been displaying this whole time.

"So," wonders a girl Yutaka introduced as Nagao Kimiko, "why'd you transfer in the middle of the year?"

"My family's hospitality business is doing very well here," he explains. "My parents had planned to move at the end of the school year, but they wanted to be here to oversee things personally since business was so much better than expected."