Chapter 43

"You can definitely put up a good fight, Senpai!!" (センパイは良い勝負出来ますよ!!) is the forty-third chapter of the Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro manga series.

Summary
As the only active members of the art club, Senpai and the President were both asked to help decorating the panels for the entrance of the Cultural Festival, then walking back together after having finished it, they talked about how their respective submission was coming along and the President said she won't hold back. Then, passing by the corridor they listen some voices of Nagatoro and her friends inside the art room and Senpai remembered what happened a few hours earlier...

After showing his painting of Nagatoro's slice-of-life to Yoshi, Sakura and Gamo-chan, they were all impressed by them and the latter told him is like he looked at her as a lover, embarrassing both Nagatoro and Senpai. Then, Gamo-chan suggested to sneak a peek at the President's work, convincing all the gang to do it except for Senpai; however after seeing it the girls came back shocked and Nagatoro fainted. Thus, Gamo-chan and Sakura planned to be "cunning" as the President and began to make a plan to fight back against her new work and, altough Senpai claimed they didn't needed to do anything weird as it was a problem between Nagatoro and him, the girls thrown him out of the room telling they would do their best to ready her up.

Awakened by his memories from the President, telling him he mustn't eavesdrop on them and that regardless what they were planning the match was between the two of them, despite Senpai believed it doesn't seemed like that anymore.

Right at that moment, a group of girls looked inside the room and sawing Nagatoro and her friends started to mumble about "Nekotoro" and some related straps, puzzling Senpai who, looking at a strap on the President's bag asked her about it prompting the latter to tell him it was very popular in her class in that period, prior to showing him it was actually a caricature of Nagatoro in her cat costume.

Characters

 * Hayase Nagatoro
 * Senpai
 * Gamo-chan
 * Yoshi
 * Sakura
 * President

Trivia

 * This is the eighth instalment of the "Culture Festival Arc" which last until Chapter 46.
 * This chapter, alongside the previous seven and the next three, is the fourth time the story is not self-contained after Chapter 17-18, 22-23 and 24-26.
 * The first panel of the chapter is one of the few occasion in which the President is shown smiling, as well as the first of the whole manga since her introduction.
 * As of this chapter all of Nagatoro's friends could be considered aware of the feelings between her and Senpai, due to their reaction after the latter made up excuses to justify how lover-like her pictures of her seemed.