Vol 1 Chapter 1 (1/2)
Saving Someone and Escaping Death to Another World
“Ah~~~” Several extraordinary miserable screams are heard at sunset. Several badly bruised high school students fall in front of me, crying constantly.
“If you b.a.s.t.a.r.ds make my vegetables rot, what shall I do?” I rub a beaten bruised face as I scold them.
I just came from the supermarket to buy food and met these a.s.sholes, claiming to be some kind of Satsuki Bodyguards. Telling me to stay far away from Satsuki. How weird.
I pick up my bicycle that fell by the roadside and sat on it’s seat. As I ride home on my bicycle I give them a cuss or two.
My name is Lin Xiang and I am Chinese. I came to j.a.pan when I was only in the sixth grade of elementary school and have always been bullied since then. They hit me, kick me and said that my parents did not like me. I was very sad and hurt but n.o.body helped me. n.o.body pitied me either and I was isolated from my cla.s.smates.
One day when I was being bullied by a group of male cla.s.smates, Takahas.h.i.+ n.o.buhiko could not take it and he bravely stepped forward and told them to stop hitting me. Not only did they not pay any attention to his words, they bullied him too.
Because of that incident, Takahas.h.i.+ and I formed an unbreakable bond. Also because of that I vowed to become strong in order to fight back. I will not bully people but I also do not want to be bullied by others. Later on when they tried to bully me, I fought back and beat them into a complete mess. They were never satisfied so they always come to me asking for a fight. In order to deal with them, I exercise often, so that when they come to get me they will get more than they bargained for.
The news of me being powerful reached their boss’s ear and lately they always come with a bunch of people to fight me. When I first faced that many people, I was at a disadvantage but once I got used to it, I was not afraid anymore. At that time they also began to use weapons like iron bars and wooden sticks.
After I return to my empty home, I cook my meals, eat and wash my dishes. I take a bath afterwards and that is how my life usually goes on.
I use to have parents. They died in a traffic accident and when I was four years old my uncle Lin Hao took me in. He is a man of many talents and he use to be vice president of a famous company. I am very grateful for his support. In the sixth grade of elementary school when I transferred to j.a.pan, he was promoted to the executive manager of that branch. You can tell how deeply the chairman of that company trusted him.
This year he turns thirty seven but he is still not married. I do not understand why a man who is as handsome as he is talented, is not married yet. I know for a fact that many women admire him too.
———————Time：June 4th, Monday. Location: School
“Lin Xiang, what’s wrong with your face? Did you get in a fight again yesterday?” A girl with a well-developed chest said with a blaming tone as I put my bag in my drawer. She put both her hands on top of my desk.
I glanced at Satsuki: “So what if I got in a fight? Mind your own business.”
“You…” Her face flush in anger. She looks pretty cute when she is mad.
This girl’s name is Satsuki Risa. She’s my cla.s.smate and is the cla.s.s president. She was in my cla.s.s ever since the 2nd year of junior high until now, 1st year of high school.
How can this tomboy be called the Madonna by the male population of Northern Sea High School? Satsuki is beautiful with pure white skin and bright charming eyes. Her body is the golden ratio of 1:7 so I suppose she stands out amongst the rest of the girls. She also has good grades so I guess she fully deserves to be the campus Madonna.
Yesterday, those idiotic people who claim to be Satsuki’s bodyguards probably like her. Maybe they tried to “warn me” because I am a delinquent who is also close to her.
Satsuki’s a very annoying girl. She does not meddle in other people’s business but she likes to meddle in mine. I still do not understand how I offended her. Or is this how she repays her savior?
One day in the second grade of middle school, I wasted a lot of time when I was choosing my dinner ingredients so I went into the shortcut alley and saw her surrounded by small fry. They probably wanted to molest her or something.
Since she was one of my cla.s.smates — no, as long as I see anyone being bullied no matter what the reason was, I will bravely step forward. This is probably why I have offended so many people.
I put my groceries and school bag on the ground and ran at them. Two or three people already ran away because they had fought with me before and knew how strong I was. When they saw me, they ran away in with their head down.
“Student Lin Xiang?” Satsuki was crying at that time and I knew that she was really scared. From then on, even when I don’t talk to her she finds me everyday, telling me to seriously study as if she was my mom or something! If I knew that this would happen, I would not have bothered to save her.
“Yo, Xiang, did you make Satsuki angry again?” Takahas.h.i.+ said as he pats me on the shoulder.
I look at Satsuki and see her small mouth pout, as if she is angry. But I am familiar with her so I know she is not really angry.
I rub her on the head and smile: “Oh high and mighty cla.s.s president, this boy here has just hit p.u.b.erty so he is a bit rebellious, please forgive him.”
Satsuki slapped my hand away and said the same words that she always answers with: “You made me angry, I don’t care about you ~~~ also, don’t touch me.”
Well ~~~ although she always tells me to not touch her, her face never showed signs of disgust. So I put my hand on her head and rub it like I would with a little kid: “Don’t be angry okay?”
“I don’t forgive you, I will never forgive you. Hateful Lin Xiang. I really won’t talk to you anymore.” She says as she sits back in her seat and sticks her tongue out cutely.
“So simple.” I laugh, facing Takahas.h.i.+.
“Who’s simple?” asked Takahas.h.i.+.
“Her.” Was it not clear that I was referring to Satsuki? She is just like a little kid.
“……” Takahas.h.i.+ looks at me and shakes his head. With a sigh he said: “Well ~~~ not everyone is perfect, even the most outstanding people have their faults.”
“What?” I always think that Takahas.h.i.+ really likes to say things that other people don’t get.
“Nothing.” Takahas.h.i.+ said as he shakes his head again and returns to his seat. After a while, the school bell rang.
——————— Lunch Break
I put my bento on my desk and Satsuki moves her desk next to mine.
(TL: bento = lunch box)
This Satsuki, she said she won’t talk to me anymore but after cla.s.s isn’t she back to talking to me again? However, she is always like this, so I am used to it.
“Are you going to eat in the cafeteria today?” Takahas.h.i.+ said as he walks by.
He looks at me. Then he looks at Satsuki and smiles: “Oh I do not want to be hated.” Then he walks out of the cla.s.sroom.
“Hey~~~” What’s going on? Who is going to hate him?
In these two months since the beginning of high school, he never eats lunch with me anymore. We have always eaten our bento together with Satsuki since junior high. Is his mother too lazy to make him a bento?
“Waa~~~ deep-fried meat b.a.l.l.s, Lin Xiang, do you like me or something? Recently you always make deep-fried meat b.a.l.l.s.” Satsuki’s eyes s.h.i.+ne as she opens my bento and see my deep-fried meat b.a.l.l.s.
“Like you? Don’t make me laugh, you know that I like deep-fried meatb.a.l.l.s too.”
“Don’t lie, didn’t you give me all of yours last time? If you like me, you can confess and maybe I will accept you.” Satsuki says as she grins happily displaying two small, cute dimples.
If you say that I fell in love with her, that is not possible. The reason why I had been making deep-fried meatb.a.l.l.s for a week is because Satsuki’s favorite grandpa pa.s.sed away last week. I only made them to comfort her.
I pat her on the head: “Thank you very much, dear “Risa-chan”. (only intimate people call each other by their first name and/or “chan” in j.a.pan)
Her face flushed like a ripe apple and she got angry: “Idiot, why are you suddenly being so close? Baka.” She put all the deep-fried meat b.a.l.l.s in her bento and ate in a hurry
“You’re eating too fast, don’t choke.” What did I do to make her mad this time?
“Hmph~~~ I’m eating lunch, ignoring you” She glared at me through the corner of one eye and continue to eat her bento.
I feel that when we got into high school Satsuki changed and became difficult to understand. Is it because we are always together that no boys confess to her anymore?
At that time, Yamada Yukihito knocked against my table. I look him in the eye and he immediately said sorry.
This Yamada Yukihito is a bully and when we became high schoolers he fell in love with Satsuki. He often pesters her. Maybe because he was jealous of our good relations.h.i.+p, on the 3rd day of high school he brought a gang of people to beat me.
That fool. Me against 10 or so people? No problem. He pit 7 useless people that only know how to scare people with wooden sticks to fight against me. Of course I beat them up. After all, I am j.a.pan’s National Youth Champion in boxing and kendo. It is hard to humiliate me.