The girl responded to Aki's question with a puzzled
"yes I'm perfectly fine, why do you ask?".
"Nothing. I just wanted to make sure you weren't too shook up by the encounter or using your quirk", Aki explained. Yet, such a response was quickly drowned out by the rest of the classroom's giggling and laughter. The boy really didn't get what everyone was laughing about, the girl was just asking a favor, and it seemed like she was requesting that Su-Mi take care of her when she sleeps or, more likely, faints. Was spontaneous sleeping part of her quirk? If so, these were legitimate questions to ask. Aki didn't see any of her statements as sexual innuendos, not even remotely.
The girl, now blushing and hiding her face, was comforted by Hiro and Su-Mi. The later of the two retorted Aki's honest question with a jarring,
"she's not brain damaged". Aki was sort of shocked by the sudden misunderstanding, quickly saying,
"No, no. That's not what I was trying to convey at all. I just wanted to know if she was ok or not. That's all". The class continued their poor-humored laughing as Hiro and Su-Mi huddled around the previously fiery girl, giving her advice and offering to take her to the nurse after class. Aki, turning around his chair, addressed the loud laughing of the classmates behind him. He was starting to get fed-up with the volume of the classroom, much like what had happened at Komei Academy's gates.
"Oi, you understand that she may have been trying to say that she could faint at any moment, right? And she wanted Su-Mi take make sure she was ok." This line seemed to shut most of the really loud kids up. With almost all of the gigglers now looking down shamefully in unison, Aki couldn't help but chuckle and pull out
Faust from his desk.
"It's fine, I didn't know that was the situation at first, either", Aki informed as he started reading his novel. Soon, the 14-year-old's face reappeared, and he was terribly engrossed in his literature once again.
