Chapter 242

'''PSIpot The Difference! The Perfect Beautiful Girl's Ordeal''' is the 242nd chapter of The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. (Saiki Kusuo no Psi-nan) manga series published on the 8th of May 2017.

Characters

 * Saiki Kusuo
 * Teruhashi Kokomi

Abilities Used

 * Telepathy

Short Summary
Kokomi tries to be the perfect girl to everyone, to the point it is unhealthy. She faints but is caught by Kusuo who has been watching her the whole time.

Long Summary
It is 7:45, several people are doing their regular morning routines. Most of them look forward to seeing Kokomi, on her way to school, walking by them. They gladly see her and exclaim offu to her.

At school many guys tell her good morning and she greets them in return too. Kusuo, at his seat, hears all of this and sighs at how it gets noisy when she arrives. A guy greets Kokomi and she asks him if he got a haircut. The guy offus and is surprised since his friends have not noticed yet. She tells him it looks great, he cries and decides to not change his hairstyle again. Everyone talks about what occurred, believing she has a great memory and they are jealous of that guy. Kusuo states that she is impressive but not due to her memory.

Kokomi goes to the girl’s bathroom and goes into a stall. Kusuo continues what he was saying; what is most impressive is the effort she does. Kokomi gets a journal out of her bag, looks through it to find a page and exclaims the guy’s full name. She explains that she knows his hairstyle but did not remember that guy’s name. She is relieved since as the perfect pretty girl, she believes she should remember each and everyone of her classmates’ names. Kusuo explains that Kokomi has memorized the names of all students in the school. Kokomi unknowingly interrupts by thinking about how happy that guy was, Kusuo ending up saying she is also pretty happy about it too. He goes on to say that Kokomi is loved by everyone and yet she puts in more effort so she is loved even more. With a smile he says she is basically invincible. Kokomi exits the bathroom stall, thinking she has been there for too long. Out the window she overhears some guys talk about what happened earlier and she is initially pleased. One asked if he gets a haircut will she give him attention and she changes her reaction immediately.

The next day many guys say good morning to Kokomi and have a different hairstyle. She smiles and greets them. She then acts surprised, asking if everyone has gotten a haircut. They are all surprised and ask her how she knew. She explains how she sees all of them every day so how can she not know, they believe her. In a corner, Kusuo smiles and is relieved. He explains that last night Kokomi did a study session yesterday, memorizing everyone’s hairstyle. He is surprised she remembered and that too many people cut their hair. Kokomi asks many if they got a haircut until she reached one guy, who has not gotten a haircut. She panics and tells him that if he changed shampoo since it smells different. The guy is surprised and believes he did, surprising everyone. Kokomi is relieved that she guessed correctly. This event however brought rumors of people starting to think that she knows everything.

Another morning, more students want and expect her to notice even more things than before. She is tired but she willingly continues. While she greets everyone, Kusuo is behind a door and believes she should just say she does not know something of an individual so all of this would be over. She greets a guy and believes he changed fabric softener, which she ends up being correct. Kusuo is surprised but explains that her intuition is pretty good that it is close to telepathy. She continues to greet others and guesses correctly on what has changed with them. Kokomi smiles, explains she has not slept in days to know everything about everyone. Her vision gets blurry, she can not tell who is who and she tries to snap out of it.

Kusuo starts to walk towards her. Kokomi realizes she is not feeling well and tries to get to the bathroom. She ends up lightheaded and faints in the middle of the crowd. Kusuo makes it in time, grabbing her before she ends up falling into the ground and thinks she tries too hard. Everyone yells for Kokomi and Kusuo to get off of her. He looks at them coldly, saying that no one noticed how she was feeling tired and only cared about what she noticed of them. Carrying her princess style, he walks away from them and takes her to the nurse. Everyone wonders what is up with him.

At the nurse’s office, Kokomi finally wakes up with several individuals around her. She yells out a name and everyone is relieved that she is okay. She is embarrassed realizing she fainted in front of them and asks them if they took her to the office. One of them says no, Kusuo carried her the whole way, and the others agreed. They explain that Kusuo came out of nowhere and caught her as if he knew she was going to faint. She is touched and surprised that he would do such a thing. They then tell her that Kusuo left her in the office and went back to the classroom without staying with her. She decided to immediately get up and leave. They ask her where she is going and she tells them that she wants to go thank him. They tell her she should rest and one of them asks her about the conversation they were having beforehand. She tells him she forgot about it and runs out to look for Kusuo. She finds him and yells out for him. Kusuo stops walking and turns his head towards her direction a bit nervously.