Vol 1 Chapter 7 (1/2)
With a sigh, I got up from my bed.
“…Was it a dream…?”
I felt like I was back in my own room with an ‘it was all a dream’ sort of conclusion.
Woof!
However, upon looking out the window I saw another dormitory—a refined building—and green scenery that spread out almost like a sports ground before me, so it seemed that this was Seikain Girls’ Academy after all.
“An ‘it was all a dream’-ending illusion… That felt surprisingly good for a moment, huh…”
Woof!
For now, I turned on my cell phone and quite a few messages had piled up in my inbox.
They were from my cla.s.smates, my friends of course, but also some from a few others I barely knew. Well, I can imagine what the contents are.
I had also received a message from my mother, but upon seeing the subject ‘Hot Spring ☆。*°’ I lost all interest in reading it.
There was one from my older sister too. It was along the lines of ‘I envy your celebrity lifestyle’.
My old man’s was the only one that, while short, showed some worry for me; it made me feel somewhat strange.
…W-Wooof—!
In any case, all obstacles appeared to have been moved out of the way, so my transfer into this ojou-sama school was seemingly a done deal.
Now then, what should I——
*STOMP* *STOMP* *STOMP*……*SLAM——!!*
“DID YOU TRICK ME, COMMONER?!”
Aika-san slammed the door open.
With a furious aura about her, she swiftly entered my room.
“I’ve done it 58 times since then, but my wish still hasn’t come true!!”
“What do you mean ‘58 times’?”
She must mean that thing from earlier.
“You should’ve noticed by the third time at the latest.”
“Sh-Shutup! You were the one who said that it works at least half of the time!!”
“If it was me, I wouldn’t have done it even thrice, actually, I wouldn’t have been tricked by such an idiotic thing to begin with!”
“~~~~~~~!!”
She grabbed me by the collar and then raised her hand in preparation to slap me across the face.
“You… Eh? What is this room?”
“You’re a quick one, aren’t you!”
Aika-san took a quick look at the 6-tatami s.p.a.ce.
“…I see, so that’s how it is.”
Seeming to have understood something, she nodded her head with a *yeah, yeah*.
“As punishment for tricking me, you’ve been thrown into a cell, haven’t you?!”
“This isn’t a cell!!”
“Huh, well…… is it h.e.l.l then…?”
“What to do now?! It’s just become incredibly hard to say it’s my room!!”
I groaned.
“…So in other words, this is a ‘commoner’s room’?”
“Well, yeah.”
“……”
Aika-san looked around. Unlike the previous time, she had a very serious expression.
“…It doesn’t look like it, but there’s quite a bit in here, huh.”
Murmuring that, she picked up the portable game system that was under my desk.
While turning the thin piece of hardware upside down, she said,
“…A camera…?”
“It’s a game.”
“Game…?”
With a serious expression like a judge, she quickly observed it from all angles.
“This… How can this be a game piece?”
“You mean like a board game?”
Apparently… she wasn’t even aware of the existence of videogames in and of itself.
Seikain Girls’ Academy was amazing. Truly impressive.
“? Speaking of which…”
“What?”
“The way you talk isn’t very lady-like, how come?”
“Sh-Shutup, you! Got a problem with that?!”
“No, it actually makes it a lot easier to talk to you, it really helps me out.”
The ojou-samas here were so out of this world that I honestly didn’t know how to deal with them.
“…”
Aika-san fell into silence, looking downward.
“What is it?”
“N-Nothing at all! Come on, tell me about this ‘Gaim’ thingy already!!”
For some reason she turned bright red and grumpy.
“…There’s a small switch on the side; try sliding it up.”
“Where?”
“Over there… Look, right here.”
“Don’t just get close to me so casually, commoner!”
“……(#^ω^)”
Aika-san pushed the switch with her fingers in a clearly inexperienced manner.
As she did so, the hardware’s logo appeared with a *boon* sound effect.
Kya?!
Aika-san quivered. She was the spitting image of the reaction of the child in that one video that was posted online where they got scared at their own reflection in the television.
I started to smile unintentionally,
“Surprised?”
“I am!!”
She responded more honestly than I had expected.
“Wait, was I just upright about it?! Showing that to a commoner is just too humiliating!! I wasn’t able to cover up for some reason… Ah, you tricked me into it?! This is too annoyingly stupid, commoner! Go die!!”
She threw a tantrum.
The person in question suddenly quieted down, and glared at me with a bright-red face glaring, getting ready to throw the game system at me—— and then stopped.
She lowered her arm and stared at it.
“………I could use this after all.”
“Eh?”
“Hey!”
She drew close all of a sudden.
“Teach me about commoners!”
“…Huh?”
“Commoners! Um, commoner culture? That kind of thing! Things like this one, you know!”
She held the game system out.
“I don’t think you know this but, in this school, commoners are really popular right now! Before, it was just stuff like, ‘I wonder what they’re like, ufufu,’ but now that it’s for sure that you’ll be coming here, the popularity immediately boomed! It’s caused a huge uproar in the school!!”
I guess that’s what all that stuff earlier must’ve been about.
“That’s why if I can become knowledgeable about that then surely—— yeah, definitely! My wish will come true!”
She balled her hand into a fist.
“I’ll become a popular in cla.s.s!!”
With eyes sparkling, she declared her resolution.
“Eh…”
I looked at her blankly.
“So that’s the ‘wish’ that you’ve been going on about?”
“That’s right!”