14 - Kaede and Shuichi - Quiz Bimbofication (by MidbossMan)

Ever since entering the same homeroom class at Hope's Peak Academy together, Kaede Akamatsu, the Ultimate Pianist, and Shuichi Saihara, the Ultimate Detective, had been unlikely friends. She was a sunshiney blond who always stood up straight, had a big smile on her face, and had a body that was an envy of all the other girls in class. He was a short, pale, skinny sort, often deep in thought or worse, assumed to be gloomy. It was possibly a combination of his withdrawn personality and her easy-to-get-along-with, nurturing nature that made the two of them a good fit for each other's company. While Shuichi found others around the academy were bombastic, difficult to understand, or even abrasive, Kaede was a friendly and pleasant person he could enjoy hanging out with.

Furthermore, she was a fantastic pianist. The two of them could spend any amount of time together in her personal piano room, with her playing and him listening. She was always dragging him other places too: trendy cafes, movie theaters, all sorts of nice hang out spots. Sometimes it made him feel like he was her pet, but most of the time, he recognized her good intentions and had a lot of fun. There were certainly guys in the class who thought it was weird for a guy and a girl to spend that much time together without dating, but it didn't bother him too much.

What did bother him was the one-sided nature of their relationship. It seemed like Kaede was always treating him to things without him giving anything in return. That was what he told himself was the problem, anyway, but it was something a little more selfish: she was showing off her talents all the time. It was easy for the Ultimate Pianist to show off how good she was at playing the piano... not so much for the Ultimate Detective to show off how good he was at playing detective. There weren't exactly a wealth of crimes to investigate around the academy.

The quiz show could be a rare chance for him to show off. He didn't feel that good at trivia... but a detective ought to be, right? Trivia knowledge ought to be the kind of thing that comes naturally to a detective, like intuition. At least, he certainly hoped it would come naturally.

Kaede was surprised when he finally made his move. "You're asking me to... go to a quiz show with you?"

"Yeah! I know it's sudden, but it's something I've been wanting to do."

"But why? Is there a really good prize to win or something like that?" Kaede asked, tilting her head curiously as she packed up her books into her bright, pink backpack.

Shuichi tilted his cap down over his eyes as though protecting his expression from being analyzed too deeply. "Whatever it is, it's a mystery prize. I mostly just wanted to invite you somewhere fun for a change, since you're always taking the initiative," he admitted.

That answer seemed to please her; she jumped up to her feet and threw her backpack on over her shoulders with a cheery smile. "Of course! Today, right? I'm free this afternoon!"

"Phew. Good... I already booked our spot so if you didn't agree, I'd have to find someone else."

That seemed to please her less. She pouted a bit and crossed her arms under the swell of her chest, which was accented nicely by her snug pink sweater-vest. "Are you saying you think you can do this all on your own without my help? You'll win no matter who comes with you?" she interrogated him, leaning forward a bit and causing him to shrink back.

"N-No! That's why I'm inviting you, of course! I need your help! I'm not doing this just to show off or something like that!"

Kaede beamed, then kicked off the desk, walking slightly past him and watching over her shoulder. "Of course you wouldn't, ha ha. I'm no slouch when it comes to detective and trivia stuff either! You can rely on me, too!"

---

Shuichi and Kaede stood standing, a little closer shoulder-to-shoulder than Shuichi had anticipated... it was a little thrilling. The young man hadn't thought to look up the specifics of the quiz show, but it now seemed they were against two other teams.

Team #2 was composed of two girls, one tall and athletic with lengthy black pigtails and one shorter one with red hair, dressed like a witch. Shuichi recognized them as Tenko and Himiko respectively from his homeroom. He didn't think he had too much to worry about from either of them... the former was more into athletics than academics and the latter honestly seemed pretty lazy. They looked pretty chipper, despite their low odds of winning.

He chastised himself for being so uncharitable towards the two of them. They were just here to have a good time, just like he was. Or then again, they might be the type to buy in to a "mystery prize."

Team #3 was a weird one. Those two were from a different homeroom altogether. On the right was a lanky, pink-haired guy in a yellow jumpsuit with sharp fangs. His nameplate read "Kazuichi." On the left, a tall, blond girl, not so different looking from Kaede, if a bit stiffer in posture, was introduced as Sonia. She looked similarly pleasant to Kaede, but where Kaede and Shuichi were pretty good friends, the princess-like girl on team #3 seemed either cold or completely ignorant of the other guy's presence. He was just the opposite, fawning over her every move, even though his effusive praise was completely ineffective.

Shuichi hoped he and Kaede didn't come off that way towards other people...

Kaede leaned over and whispered to him: "Hey, do you think all the teams here are couples?"

The young man's cap nearly popped off of his head as he stumbled backward. "B-But... We-"

"Oh, now that I think about it, are Tenko and Himiko a couple, or are they just good friends? Sorry, it's probably rude of me to speculate, ha ha ha..."

Shuichi gulped, tugging at the collar of his jacket. That was the part she was worried about? She didn't seem to realize how her words were affecting him. Sometimes, as good as her grades were and as sensible as she was, she could come off as a real-

"BIMBO"

He practically jumped. That wasn't what he was thinking! No way!

"OR BRANIAC! Welcome to the traveling quiz show, Bimbo or Braniac!" the host announced, approaching his podium and raising both hands. The guy was dressed garishly in a purple suit, a big, powder blue bowtie, over-sized sunglasses, and a tall top hat. "I'll be your quizmaster today!"

Shuichi frowned, realizing that the man hadn't given his name. Something felt off. Not to mention the name of the show... he couldn't help giving a sidelong glance at Kaede to see if she looked offended, like she was being called the bimbo of their pair. Thankfully, she seemed like she was interpreting it more as a generic statement on all players than assigning each in the pair a title.

"The game is simple and speedy! You'll be asked a series of questions. Every team has their chance to give an answer! Most points at the end is the winner of our fabulous mystery prize! Pretty simple, right? So simple a bimbo could do it! There's just one catch... we do have a little 'handicap' that we insist on imposing, just to keep things fair. But we can get to that later. For now, let's begin!"

As the lights flashed all around the stage and garish music played, Shuichi was feeling confident. As it turned out, he had every right to. The first three questions came and went. Shuichi and Kaede seemed to have a huge advantage right out the gate, while the other teams struggled. Tenko and Sonia both kept insisting they knew the answer, only to get it wrong in front of their date. By comparison, Shuichi felt like he and Kaede were a well-oiled machine.

The date was going just how he hoped it would!

"Would you guys knock it off already? This seriously ain't fair!" Kazuichi groaned, looking like he wanted to throttle Team #1 for ruining his chance to impress his date. "You're lucky there hasn't been a single question about anything mechanical yet!"

"There hasn't been a question about magic yet either, nyeh..." Himiko pouted, puffing up her cheeks with an irritated scowl.

The quizmaster clapped his gloved hands together in applause. "Would you look at that? Already we're at 5-0-0 in favor of team #1! You remember I mentioned that handicap at the outset of the game, right? Since the front-runners have such a strong lead, we're going to apply that handicap to its fullest configuration upon both contestants, because you two are soooo smart! You're a couple of braniacs! Or would it have been smarter to throw a couple of rounds? But I digress! Please, each player direct your attention to the small monitor on your podium."

Confused, the participants followed the instruction, even after a spiral pattern started swirling on the screen. After all, what could be the harm of watching some pre-recorded footage like that, right?

Shuichi quickly felt some survival instinct kick in, telling him to stop watching it under the penalty of something terrible happening. Just as he opened his mouth to raise an objection, he heard a metallic creaking from overhead. Before he could move out of the way, a bucket that had been hidden there upended, splashing down a tidal wave of pink goop over both contestants. He closed his mouth to stop the stuff from getting inside, but the rest of him was completely drenched with the sticky substance, covering him and Kaede both from head-to-toe.

"Uh oh! Looks like we got a couple of bimbos! Wop wop!" the quizmaster guffawed, slapping his knee with amusement.

"That's our handicap? Some nasty pink goo? This is, like, grody to the max!" Kaede complained, waving her hands and getting drops of pink goo everywhere. "Although, I guess pink is my color!"

"Not mine!" Shuichi complained, joining her in trying to wag his limbs and use his hands to slide the rest of the muck off of him. At least Kaede sounded like she was still in pretty high spirits. Actually, he didn't feel terrible either, despite the host's attempts to **** the two of them, for whatever reason. As Kaede finished shaking free the slime, Shuichi realized she was still looking pretty good after all.

In fact, in his opinion, she was looking better than she had before she got slimed! The pink goop rolling off revealed her tight, hot-pink miniskirt, along with the matching high-heeled boots that accompanied it. The cut of the skirt was nearly high enough to show off her panties, but at least enough to show the bottoms of the cheeks. Up top, her sizable breasts were packed snugly into a lighter sleeveless sweater, the kind with a deep enough cut for the arms that you'd be able to see the sides of her breasts if she raised her arms. It didn't look like there were any bra straps either. The sweater was just a bit higher than her belly, showing off the slutty, leopard-print straps of whatever she wore under the skirt. Her pink backpack had been swapped out for a long-strapped handbag.

At first, something about the image seemed a little off to Shuichi, but how could it be wrong when it looked so right? He found himself getting a little stiff just looking at his date partner... She'd really dressed up for him!

On another note, getting stiff felt a bit different than usual too, though he couldn't place why. To those paying attention, it'd be clear that he'd entered in his usual outfit and was now dressed in a purple visored cap instead of his usual, along with a bright, lavender purple jersey, long down just past his hips. This hid from sight the extremely short black booty-shorts he was wearing underneath. His socks were tall and striped an alternating black-and-white pattern, with purple, pumped-up sneakers on each foot. As he turned to chat with Kaede, Himiko and Tenko caught the print on the back of the jersey: "BOYTOY 01."

It wasn't just that, either. It looked like Shuichi was wearing eye-liner and Kaede was wearing, well, even more makeup.

"W-W-What's happening?" Tenko asked, hugging Himiko for support.

"I don't know! It's... magic, I think!" Himiko answered, shaking her head rapidly.

"What are you two upset about? It's the handicap the guy talked about! They're uh... bimbos now or something. Let's not look a gift horse in the mouth!" Kazuichi encouraged them, sticking his tongue out in an excited way that might make it easy to misinterpret the reason he was excited about the appearance changes. "Besides, Shuichi looks more like a girl this way. Shouldn't you like him more like that, Tenko?"

"Do not presume to tell me what I should or should not like, degenerate male!"

The other contestants still seemed to be their usual selves, while Kaede and Shuichi had become new people entirely. "It sounds to me like they're just jealous! We're smart and looking fine," Kaede chuckled, throwing one arm around Shuichi's waist and pulling him close in an overly familiar gesture. He jumped a bit as he felt her brazenly placing one hand right onto his skinny buttocks. "You and me have totally got this!"

"Y-Yeah," Shuichi agreed, still unable to shake the feeling that something was off as he returned the gesture, encircling her waist with one arm and grabbing her hip. His fingers rested across the stringy strap of the leopard-print thong. "Ha ha, worrying over nothing, I feel like a real-"

"Bimbooooooooo!' the quizmaster shouted, getting everyone's attention once again. "Or Braniac! Ha ha HA! We have plenty more game left to get through, so let's keep going! Will our front-runners stay in front? Let's find out! On to the next question!" He cleared his throat, then read off his card. "Give me the name of a creature that may wake you up in the morning when it gives its signature call-"

"Cock!" Kaede announced loudly, raising one hand with a tremendous heave of her breasts, jostling them around so the side of one boob escaped its sweater encasement a bit further.

"Correct! However, you didn't give the other contestants a chance to answer. Remember, we need written answers from all three teams, no hand-raising."

"Bummer," Kaede sighed, then gave Shuichi another little squeeze. "I'll remember it next time!"

"Next question: what is another name for the profession of 'private investigators,' detectives who-"

"Dick!" Kaede shouted, bouncing up and down on her toes rapidly. Her tits shook in time with each movement, nearly slapping Shuichi in the face from his place next to her.

"Ooo, sorry, the correct answer was 'gum-shoe!' Also, you did not use your buzzer!" the man responded with a big, less-than-apologetic grin. "One more foul and you will incur a penalty: a further handicap! We wouldn't want that, now would we?"

"Nuh uh! Please, please, I'll do anything to avoid another handicap," Kaede begged, clasping her hands under her breasts and pushing them up as she leaned across the podium. She pressed her upper arms around her boobs to squish them together even more, then fluttered her long eyelashes for extra effect. "My boyfriend really wants to win this one and I hate to disappoint him..."

"Don't worry," Shuichi reassured her. "Just let me answer the next one, okay? I think there's something wrong with the um... questions... that's making it hard for you to get the right answer." Something told him it wasn't really the questions' fault, but that seemed like the most polite way to say it.

"Okie dokie. Go get 'em, stud-muffin!" Kaede gave in easily, then went to examining her long, hot-pink nails.

The Ultimate Detective readied himself at his podium, squaring his legs in his long stockings and lifting his visor up out of his eyes to look directly at the quizmaster. He was ready to give the right answer. It wasn't just about impressing Kaede, although it was largely that. He also suddenly felt as if he needed to prove to himself he was still capable of using his mental faculties. It felt like ever since that goop hit him, he was somehow drifting into a foggier state of mind...

"This next one is the lightning round! I'll ask five questions in rapid succession and contestants will be in charge of answering them all to the best of their ability. The team with the most correct answers wins!" the announcer continued, then took a deep breath. "For five points, answer as many of these questions as you can! First: another name for a pirate's treasure! Second: the back end of a rifle, located at the furthest distance from its muzzle? Third: a type of vehicle suited for carrying and unloading large quantities of debris. Fourth: the back-most car on a typical connected train engine is called what? Fifth and finally: another name for a mule, now treated as derogatory!

"Booty! Butt! Dumptruck! Caboose! Ass!"

"Every word, correct! This would make you a braniac-"

"Yes!"

"-Iiiiif it weren't for the fact that you stated them all without going through the proper written procedure, giving the other contestants a chance to place their own answers. So sorry! I believe it's time for that penalty!"

Shuichi clenched his teeth, preparing to get out of the way of the bucket, only for Kaede to grab him into a tight hug, pressing his face directly into her bosom. "Eeek! Not another punishment!" she squealed, sounding as though she was acting-- poorly. Unable to escape her grasp, Shuichi was slapped by another deluge of pink slime, along with Kaede, so that they formed a single combined shape when the goop finished splattering over them.

Without releasing Shuichi, Kaede made the first move. "Gosh, sorry, Shuichi! That was so ditzy of me. Lemme rub you off," Kaede cooed, beginning to let her hands travel all over his body, working from his back down to his butt-cheeks. "I mean, rub you down!"

The outfit he'd had on earlier had been immodest, but now, it was downright not-fit-for-TV, consisting of incredibly low-riding, black, elastic material shorts that barely tucked away what needed to be tucked, allowing a bulge to show where he was still semi-hard from Kaede's touch. Hardness aside, if he'd been in his right state of mind, he'd notice it was bigger than usual for sure. His butt crack was largely revealed on the back and all he had on besides was a mesh bodysuit, black choker, and black, heart-shaped pasties over each nipple. Thick eyeliner and black lipstick completed the stripper look.

Kaede hadn't gotten anything more family friendly. Hers was a leopard-print, V-shaped slingshot bikini, running from her groin up over her shoulders, held taut over her breasts and threatening to spill the contents with each small movement. Like Shuichi, her body was otherwise covered with a choker and mesh bodysuit, clinging tightly into the meaty fabric of her boobs, butt, and thighs. Those were meatier even than usual, with all of her curves ballooned out to a degree that it was no longer possible to speculate "they'd always been that big under the sweater." Her eyelids were a glossy purple and her lipstick was hot pink, pretty heavily overdone compared to her usual.

The girl's fingers played underneath the mesh of Shuichi's suit as she wiped him down, tugging at the fabric with light plucks. "Mmm... I'm playing detective now! And detective to detective, what I wanna know is if that's a gun in your pocket, or are you just that happy we're still in the lead?" Kaede questioned, letting the underside of her palm rub shamelessly up and down against the shape of his bulge. "Or maybe... this was never about winning the game? If you just wanted to impress me, there were other ways to do it~"

Shuichi, for his part, pressed his hands back onto the podium and let her do as she liked.

"Hey, is it really okay for them to act that way on the show?!" Kazuichi questioned, sounding like he was more jealous than worried for the show's age rating.

"I think love like that is so bold! So inspiring!" Sonia cheered them on, clutching her fists at her chest.

"R-R-Really? Then should we try it too?!"

"... Why would we try it?"

"I don't think it's love in the first place. That pink stuff is a magic potion, nyeh," Himiko explained, putting on a serious face. She looked surprised when the others nodded, seeming like they actually agreed with her. That was pretty rare. "So are you all thinking what I'm thinking?"

"We have to save Kaede from Shuichi!" Tenko suggested, adopting a fighting stance.

"We have no right to interfere with lovers!" Sonia decreed, thrusting one palm outward in the strange gesture that was her foreign custom.

"We have to stop Shuichi from scoring before I do!" Kazuichi shouted, looking like the thought was making him terrified.

Himiko shook her head. "We have to... flee, nyeh! There's a bucket over each of us too!" she suggested. "I think Shuichi and Kaede are pretty happy like this, b-but I don't wanna do it myself!"

That seemed to convince Sonia to flee along with her. After that, Tenko and Kazuichi had **** but to retreat, each following after their respective teammates.

If the quizmaster was upset, he didn't show it. Instead, he kept on trucking with the quiz game as though nothing had changed, despite only two remaining contestants. "That's all okay! Because here on Bimbo or Braniac, the one thing we care about is our big winners! And big winners need big, big handicaps!"

"Shuichi's always got a cap," Kaede tittered, then stuck her tongue out one side past her lip and grabbed the shape of his dick more directly as it poked against his shorts. "But I can give him the handy~"

"Well said! So why don't we move on to the very final question of all! All you have to do is get this one right and you can move on! For this next one, I'm going to give each of you one try to guess what's the mystery prize I've got hidden beneath the cloth. If you get it right, you get the mystery prize! If you get it wrong, then I've still got a parting gift for you, not to worry! Everyone ready!?"

Kaede and Shuichi looked at each other, shared a couple of dopey giggles, then nodded like a pair of bobbleheads.

"Fantastic! I'm going to need you to put on these blindfolds and get on your knees... Very good!" Once each was properly attired with a blindfold (colored to match what could generously be called their clothing), he stepped around from behind the podium. Now with his lower body exposed, it became apparent he was wearing nothing on his muscular lower body except for a powder-blue cloth draped over his very erect penis, doing very little to hide its size or shape and embroidered with a pink question mark. "Now, you can do whatever you want with what's under the cloth to try to guess what it is, with two exceptions: no peeking, and no using your hands! Shuichi, you'll go first. It's right in front of your face!"

The man left the covered, highly mysterious object in front of Shuichi's face, waving it slightly from left to right as though to egg him on. The context alone by this point ought to have been enough for him to guess, but it was like his brain was permanently running on 1% processing power. "Hm... It smells... sort of musky. Like sweat," Shuichi commented, sniffing the air. When he couldn't get the answer, he leaned his face forward, connecting first his nose, then his cheek with the object. He rubbed his cheek back and forth along its length. "Is it some kind of... no, wait. I'm not ready to answer yet!"

"Right? You need more clues! Might I suggest trying your sense of taste?"

"Yeah! I was between either banana or sausage. I'll figure it out that way," Shuichi agreed, sticking out his tongue to begin licking at the cloth. When that didn't help him much, he tried to lift it up a bit with his teeth, then when he'd gotten it high enough, he thrust his nose and lips underneath. When it still wasn't clear what he was feeling, he began to explore it with his tongue. "The taste is... more like sausage," he mused, then switched to using his lips, slurping noisily.

"Keep on going like that and you'll figure out exactly what it is!"

Shuichi narrowed his eyes, his mascara running slightly with sweat as he slurped harder on the unknown object. Two hands grabbed atop his head, guiding him back and forth along the length of the strange, possibly-sausage mystery item. Like this, he actually wasn't able to answer even if he figured it out, but the host continued using him that way, thrusting into his mouth and throat like an onahole. Drool began to drip down from beneath the cloth, splattering onto the floor.

"Have you figured it out?" Kaede asked, giving him a nudge with his shoulder, as though she'd somehow missed the sloppy blowjob noises coming from a few feet away.

Shuichi pulled himself back a bit gasping for air. "I've got it! This is a-"

Before he could finish, the quizmaster roughly thrust his dick forward and brought Shuichi's head in towards it, burying his cock in deep and releasing down Shuichi's throat. With his mouth and throat full of cum, so much he was nearly gagging, Shuichi collapsed forward, holding his hands beneath his dripping chin. He collected the strings in his hands, as though they'd give him some clue to finish putting it together, but when he opened his mouth to guess it, he just coughed instead.

"It's a what? Oh!"

The quizmaster, catching a second wind, pulled Kaede's haunches up to begin rubbing his now bared cock between the huge globes of her ass-cheeks, pushing into them with his hands. "I'm sorry, my dear, but he's been disqualified by time-out! Now it's your turn! I'll help you analyze it from a different angle, since the frontal approach didn't work. Can you guess the mystery item? Give it a good feel!" He dragged himself back and forth, catching more mesh than fabric, since there wasn't much to catch.

"Hmmm... I don't think I should guess too quickly. With Shuichi out, I'm our last chance! I don't want to disappoint him."

"Exactly! So really use the time and fully analyze it."

"Like this?" Kaede asked, biting her lip and beginning to twerk her bottom up and down, creating an audible "thwack" noise every time her meaty buttocks hit against his groin area. "Hm, I can feel it a little better like this. I think it's twitching and getting bigger, too!"

"That's right! The more you massage it like that with your fat ass, the bigger it's going to get! Does that give you any hints?"

"Hmmm... An innocent girl like me can't figure it out from just that~" she giggled, shaking her butt back and forth and jostling his manhood from side to side.

"How about if we use the underside? Does it help you make any guesses, feeling it that way?" he questioned, adjusting his dick so it was rubbing between her thighs, underneath and against her pussy, gliding dangerously close.

She could feel it was slick and moist with precum. She squeezed it between her thighs, as if trying to discern anything new. "Hm. I think there's still too much interference!"

"Agreed. Let me give you another free hint!" he suggested, grabbing hold of the v-shaped sling bikini and tearing its back so that it fell apart into one big string. With that done, he rubbed himself directly against her pussy, separated only by the mesh cage there. He thrust himself harder, allowing his stomach to smack against her heavy buttocks each time and sending ripples through the soft surface, while his penis teased her from slit to belly. "Have you- nff- figured it out- unf- now?"

"Not yet! If only I could feel it with even more of me!" she moaned. "If only I could completely surround it!"

"Well... to that... I say..." he responded, then groaned as he released his jizz all over her belly and the underside of her breasts in another powerful series of spurts. "To that I say, we're out of time! So sorry! You've been wonderful contestants!"

"Aw... no way," Kaede muttered in a pleading voice, sounding dejected.

"Fret not! For I have your parting gifts!" the quizmaster laughed, then stepped back behind his podium. "You may each remove your blindfolds!"

Kaede did so, standing up next to Shuichi as she did. Her ruined outfit dangled off of her, covering nothing, with the addition of an unidentifiable liquid running all over her belly and inner thighs. For his part, he swallowed noisily, getting rid of the remaining evidence of the mysterious object before either of them could examine it further.

"Behold! You're going to love this consolation prize!"

---

Sometimes, when you're having a lot of fun, you lose track of time. That's how Shuichi and Kaede felt, heading back to their dorms, now redressed in their classic outfits with nothing to tell of their misadventures besides some stains on Kaede's clothes and some ruffling of Shuichi's hair. The make-up and everything else had vanished.

"That was a lot of fun, wasn't it? I had a blast! You really did earn your name as Ultimate Detective!" Kaede complimented her friend. "I can't remember the exact score, but we definitely beat the other teams."

"It's too bad we didn't get the mystery prize, but it was still a lot of fun. You were a big help, too." He pushed his cap down sheepishly to hide his blushing face. "I feel like I saw a new side of you."

"He he. There's more to me than just my piano skills! I'm a multifaceted individual," she responded with a wink, holding her hands behind her waist as she walked in front of him. "We make a good team."

"Y-Yeah... Plus, we did get something for all our trouble."

"Oh? I missed that! Did they give us a consolation prize?"

Shuichi reached into the lining of his cap and pulled out two blue tickets with big, pink question marks on them. "That manager was a little eccentric, but he was actually pretty generous with his prizes. He gave us two backstage tickets to the ongoing tour of the quiz show! His exact words were: 'I'd be thrilled to see you again at each of my upcoming shows. Having you there will really bring a smile to my face before the show starts.'" The young man scratched his cheek awkwardly, curling one finger. "Ha ha... I guess he really took a shine to us."

"And who knows? Maybe we'll get another chance at the mystery prize!" Kaede cheered, pulling Shuichi close to her shoulder with a beaming smile.

Shuichi knew he'd made a good decision. Maybe he really was a braniac after all?