Isekai ni kanaderu densetsu ~toki wo tomeru mono~ Chapter 1 (1/2)

Saotome Sou became high-spec all of sudden. Tests results are always on top, highly athletic and although the person himself wasn’t aware, he is considerably a handsome man. But such person also has a fault. He’s expressionless as a doll.

After a particular event, his world turned up-side down, that very day took all his emotions from his face, a very serious situation. It’s actually interesting that he can’t even laugh, no tears fell down no matter how sad he was, it’s like a curse or something. The problem though isn’t only his expression. His expressionless voice take his weirdness to another level and stand out remarkably.

But, the person himself doesn’t seem to mind it that much…

In Sou’s mind, today is a good day but he’s the only one who thinks like that. In other words, it was quite disappointing.

Sou enters the cla.s.sroom five minutes before homeroom, the boys and girls glanced at him as usual.

In the eyes of the boys, there is envy, jealousy and sometimes fear. Their fear is still understandable. If there is a person who doesn’t change his expression at all, it’s considerably weird. But he can’t understand the envy and jealousy. Sometimes, there’s a guy who would like to say something but couldn’t when meeting his dark eyes.

As for the girls’ eyes…… No, he’s not quite sure either. It’s difficult to express unlike the downright plain eyes of boys.

To begin with, when they see him, everyone would say「Don’t look at me!」. Well, they don’t need to say that however when I don’t say anything they thought I have a communication disability. It’s rather worrying.

When he reconsider it, his mother too is a amazing poker face master. He may have resemble his mother. But being expressionless isn’t hereditary, isn’t it? He haven’t seen his father’s face so he’s not sure. He’s not too interested in that either but……

Once, he thought he saw his mother smiled. It’s the time when she saved money and bought him a present in his first birthday. He won’t probably forget that face in his lifetime. His mother told him one time.

「I’m sorry. I can’t say anything for now. But I’m sure that both you and I can laugh from the bottom of our hearts. In the meantime……」

A week after my mother went missing.

He filed a police report of a missing person, but there was no clue after all. He looked everywhere. Thinking his mother was still alive but……

Alright, back to the story. As to not attract a lot of attention, he thought that he should go to school earlier but for that reason, it became troublesome. Because of that, the morning turned from a merely ordinary to hopeless.

And because of my hateful grandparents cutting short my sleeping time. Please stop rampaging when you drink sake in the middle of the night. I acc.u.mulated stress having to apologize to the neighborhood every time.

I want to praise myself when I considerably done my best for being able to come to school this time. It would be comfortable though if I have more time to rest before coming to school and attracting this much attention.

I’ve become frustrated when I think of my grandparents. Sigh. Let’s not think about those people today.

N~ ……I mean in the first place, it feels strange to have been bathed in weird gazes from all around before the lesson starts. Particularly the boys’. I don’t remember something I did particularly to you guys at all! Because I don’t have the slightest care. Soon, it’ll be half a year since I enrolled in this school. Lonely? I hardly talk to a girl……

But don’t say I’m a loner. It’s sad. And it’s not even reflected on my expression at all! But after all, won’t a conversation with me is just deadly boring? They say “Saotome Sou has an atmosphere that makes him difficult to talk to” but then again I don’t care because it can’t be help anyways. By the way, there is this fellow that’s full of sense of justice tried to talk to me several times but to no avail. Are you letting all your stress off on me?1

Oh, that is the person Sou hates the most, a tall figure ikemen2 with clear features and a brown hair that overflows with sense of justice, that guy always says he hates bullying the weak.  He always stand like the leader of the cla.s.s. Normally our cla.s.smates called him Ren but I heard that he’s called Sawaki-kun specifically by the girls. And his famous too.

Break into pieces!!3

Oops, I mustn’t say that. It seems I become hot headed. I need to calm down.

Phew……

Although Sou himself is considerably popular too but because it’s troublesome, he himself didn’t notice at all. It made a great number of boys envious.

The two people who are always in Sawaki’s sides are Maezono Tetsu and s.h.i.+mada Shunpei. Maezono has a grim appearance which made him look like a delinquent. He seems to be Sawaki’s best friend from primary school. How enviable. A best friend. I wonder if I’ll have someone like that someday. It’s possible. Well, I hope at least.

s.h.i.+mada has a baby-face with a pet.i.te body, he always look at Sawaki with sparkling eye, a complete understanding and respect. For him, every word of Sawaki is absolute. It seems they met when he was being bullied and had been rescued. It already gone beyond respect, perhaps wors.h.i.+p is more fitting.

Although Sawaki is popular, his cronies are all men, there are rumors how Yaoi Fandoms4 enjoys the enticement.

Anyway……

I opened the door of the cla.s.sroom then I noticed that everyone’s eyes are all focused on me so I was swallowed by those whirlpool of thoughts but I should probably arrive at my seat soon.

N? After a few seconds, my eyes intersect with the cla.s.s idol Segawa Chinatsu’s but it was averted by a terrible force. I was shocked just now. But it wasn’t reflected to my expression.

Segawa Chinatsu has an appearance of a Yamato Nades.h.i.+ko.5 A sleek black hair reaching to her waist. Eyes full of curiosity that makes you hold an impression of them seeing through all your thoughts. Several seconds after our eyes intersect, I thought that I heard a shrill voice of a girl, I cast a look at Sawaki who’s nearby. Yup. It was probably an evil spirit.

And now a boy’s. That’s why I examine it carefully. But, I don’t understand its meaning.

The bell rang and after a little while I arrived at my seat and sat down, a teacher entered the cla.s.sroom and the homeroom began as usual.

Now then, let’s do our best today.

–Lunch break–