Chapter 2.4 (1/2)
Chapter 2.4
2.4 School Meals and Sora
Sora follows s.h.i.+loh and his cla.s.smates to the school cafeteria. The cafeteria itself is divided into three floors. According to Asia, “The first floor is for 1st years, the second floor is for 2nd years, and the third floor is for 3rd years.”
Sora trembles, waku waku, with excitement at seeing students gathered around the somewhat large, round tables. My school didn’t have school meals.
The moment s.h.i.+loh and Sora’s cla.s.smates enter the cafeteria, every student inside stands up and stares at them.
“?” What a reaction… “Hey, did I do something—”
s.h.i.+loh and the others ignore the stares and head for an empty table. Sora can only guess about the situation of his cla.s.smates as he exchanges glances with Yami.
A menu is on the table. It lists various types of food like, rabbit soup, fernen, and goblin skewers.
Sora gets lost from all the options. He says, “Any recommendations?”
Ray trembles, piku piku, as he musters his courage to say, “Eh, etto, the rabbit soup…”
Rabbit soup… the rabbit should be a low leveled monster which has its meat boiled in a stew.
Sora says, “Great, I’ll have a rabbit soup.”
Yami says, “Me too.”
Asia then calls over a nearby French maid. Sora looks at the cute girl and, Uwahh, a maid-san…
The maid says, “May I take your order?”
Sora says, “We’d like five bowls of rabbit soup.”
“Certainly, I’ll be a few minutes.”
“Then, we’ll wait.” Once the maid returns, Sora asks for an extra bowl.
The maid says, “Of course,” and returns to the kitchen.
Asia then asks a strange question. “Why did you ask for another dish, desu no?”
“Did you forget about Sura?”
““Eeh!?””
Sora is then told that pets have their own exclusive feed. That does make sense. Dogs get stuff like dog food… but what would a slime get?
He says, “Really? Well, that’s way too troublesome to bother over. Sura can have the same thing as me.”
The maid soon returns with the extra bowl.
Sora gets ready to eat. The bowl’s contents is a consommé filled with rabbit meat.
Ray says, “So tasty…”
s.h.i.+loh says, “Delicious.”
Asia says, “Desu no!”
Two men with wolf ears, beastmen (beast), approach them while baring their fangs.
Uwah, they looks like trouble… I shouldn’t get involved with them.
One of the two grins as he says, “Ah? What are you “drop outs” doing eating here?” He then looks around and adds, “I’m pretty sure you “drop outs” don’t belong here. What do all of you think?!”
““Yeah! That’s right!””
s.h.i.+loh and the others bite their lips with frustration as everyone says, ““Get out!””
Ah—h, so it’s like that. How annoying… Well, it’s not like they’re attacking me.
The wolfman turns to Sora and says, “So who are you? A transfer student?”
Sora ignores him and continues eating. “….Mogu mogu.” He then begins drinking his soup.
An anger mark appears on the wolfman’s face just like in a manga. He says, “b.a.s.t.a.r.d! Don’t ignore me!” He slams the table.
—Don
Since Sura is the only one still eating, her bowl is the only one that spills rabbit soup over the table as it flips through the air. Unable to do anything, she can only stare at her spilled soup.
Sura doesn’t have a face, but Sora knows she’s sad. How could I not? She’s always with me.
The wolfmen laugh at the scene. “Ha, ha, how wasteful! It completely spilled all over the table!”
“Say, what’s a small fry slime even doing this far north!?”
Sora rises saying, “Shut up.” He won’t stay quiet if his important companion (Sura) gets bullied. “You called them “drop outs” just now, right?”
“Yeah, what about it?”
“You say “drop outs,” but isn’t this school a gathering of drop outs?”
The wolfman flush with anger and strikes Sora. “You b.a.s.t.a.r.d! What was that?”
Sora looks around and see that the surrounding students are also drawing closer. I honestly didn’t think they’d get that riled up.
He says, “Prostrate yourself before me, “drop out.” Gravity Manipulation [Gravity Control].”
Sora increases gravity on the first floor. He only spares Yami, Sura, his cla.s.smates, and the maids.
—Don
While most students drop to the ground, some continue to eat their meals unhindered. He didn’t make the gravity too strong, those with some power would be able to resist it.
Sora says, “So this is all you can take, how disappointing… Hoo, you can still glare at me?”
“Agh agh…”
Sora increases the pull of gravity. Moans, not shrieks, overflow from the cafeteria. While some students pa.s.s out, others wet themselves.
…This should be enough? I want to keep punis.h.i.+ng them, but anymore and they might die.
Sora releases Gravity Manipulation [Gravity Control] while saying, “Next time you bother my companions, I won’t hold back.”
His cla.s.smates look at him with refreshed expressions as he sits back down. s.h.i.+loh’s eyes s.h.i.+ne as she says, “That was amazing!”
“You think so?”
“Yeah, it was great—” The wolfman attacks and she says, “Look out!”
Sora stands and reaches out with his left hand. It’s with his artificial hand created by Vera, but he can somewhat tell that he’s grabbing the wolfman’s face. The wolfman releases filthy screams, “Agh, agh, agh, agh!” as he’s lifted off the ground.
Now what do I do? While wondering that, the board chairman [Lydia] enters the cafeteria.
Ah! She must have heard the noise. That works.
The board chairman [Lydia] says, “Uwahh! What happened!” Sora throws the wolfman at her. She catches him with one hand while saying, “Sora-kun!!! I’m the board chairman!?”