Chapter 42

"You're underestimating this match aren't you, Senpai?" (センパイは勝負を甘く見てますね?) is the forty-second chapter of the Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro manga series.

Summary
Senpai started doing some sketches of Nagatoro, causing her to mock him for how fishy it looked; then she asked him if it isn't better to do something more daring even going as far as joking about fighting lewd with lewd and thus taking her clothes off, right before saying goodbye and going home.

The following day, while eating with the rest of the group at the cafeteria, Senpai continued his sketch and Gamo-chan asked him why he was doing it there, prompting him to answer he wanted to try creating a slice-of-life on Nagatoro. Then Nagatoro remembered to eat something rather to concentrating only on drawing and stole a dish from him.

Later, in the prep room, while modeling for him, Nagatoro asked Senpai what would he do if he lose the match and thus the art club; after the boy admitted he doesn't know and told her to put that thought aside, Nagatoro said she would have felt sorry for him and might have helped him joining the swimming club with her, making him slightly blush despite declaring he wouldn't have done it as he had no skills nor interest in said sport.

Walking home that afternoon, Nagatoro admitted she didn't understand the sense of his slice-of-life work, to which Senpai answered it's show "how cute she was". Realizing what he had said, the boy blushed as vividly as Nagatoro then, to make the tension disappear, she started to tease him over the term he used.

Characters

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

Trivia

 * This is the seventh instalment of the "Culture Festival Arc" which last until Chapter 46.
 * This chapter, alongside the previous six and the following four, is the fourth time the story is not self-contained after Chapter 17-18, 22-23 and 24-26.
 * It is also the third time Senpai and Nagatoro use their "putting that aside" joke and gesture, after Chapter 3 and Side Story 1.