Are You… Anderson? – Part 03

The gym was covered wall to wall with mats.

Today’s P.E. was supposed to be judo for the boys.

Normally, girls took class with girls and boys with boys, but right now that gender line didn’t exist.

So we ended up doing judo together, which meant the entire floor was padded with mats, just like during Setsubun.

No one wanted to do judo with Orito around, but the girls’ scheduled class for today was a marathon. Everyone hated running, while judo meant only one person really suffered.

When we weighed the options, we decided judo was the lesser evil.

And that was how all of us former boys got our first chance to do judo with the girls.

“All right, Aikawa! I’m gonna tear you apart and throw you!”

My partner was the airhead Tomonori.

“Tearing is against the rules.”

“Then what if I call it tear-and-throw?”

“Giving it