Later, as Mana slipped her platform boots back on, Kaito stopped her at the elevator.
“I did it,” he whispered.
She began to sketch not numbers, but a story. A curve that danced. A variable that “felt lonely” and needed a substitution to keep it company. She gave the integral a personality—a nervous wreck that needed to be soothed by a trigonometric identity. Mana Izumi Gal Tutor
Mana didn’t flinch. She’d heard worse. Instead, she slowly pulled a folded paper from her bag—her own university entrance exam results. She placed it on the marble table. Perfect score. Mathematics. Top 0.1% in the nation.
Mana, sitting cross-legged on his white leather couch with her platform boots kicked off, snorted. “You’re thinking like a robot, prez. Math isn’t about rules. It’s about vibes .” Later, as Mana slipped her platform boots back
But the real trouble started a week later. Kaito’s father, a stern parliament member, walked in early from a business trip. He found his pristine son on the floor, surrounded by pink sticky notes, laughing—actually laughing —as Mana taught him calculus using the rhythm of a J-pop song.
Kaito’s father looked at the paper, then at his son—who, for the first time in years, was not cowering. A curve that danced
When he wrote the final answer, his father said nothing. He simply walked to his study and closed the door.
“And you’re about to pass your exam,” she shot back, flashing a peace sign. “Now solve for x like you’re asking it on a date. Be smooth.”