Chapter 1 (1/2)
Chapter 1: Class 2-7
Septe of shi+ra up listless students returning to school after a 3-day break[2]
It is a ti chime is just about another 10 minutes away More than half of the students of class 2-7, of which I a with class
”Buhahahaha! My sides! So, what'd you do then, Kotaro?”
The hter is the big-bodied, round-faced Saitou Masaru, a buddy of mine all the way form middle school
”The hell do you expect? I left it to the other two and went home”
I a the events from yesterday
”You what? Such a waste You got that delicious an event right in front of you, and could'a raised a flag with just a bit more!”[3]
”With Souma-kun and Tendou-kun there, do you seriously expect e? In the first place, there's literally no way I can think about events and shi+t when there's a group of real live punks right in front of me”
I express htly excited friend
”No well, wasn't there just 4 of ‘e with only those nuone with you yesterday”
He really seems to like those da on and on about it for a while now He's in top condition as always
Looking at ed in his delusions arht and build like a sumo-wrestler, in a real brawl-out, he'd ht
The short wooden sword, which he insists is solely for self-defence, hidden away in his backpack h I don't think those special techniques inherited froa he claims to have mastered will be at all useful
”As for et beaten to a pulp And also, those two seems to have smoothly finished the rescue”
I direct my vision towards the teacher's platforathered Their proper appearance and refreshi+ng chatter reseh school dramas
Sou face and char He could easily be dubbed the protagonist, or at least, there was no doubt, he was the central figure of the group
”dairls Looks like you're the hero even on holidays”
”You're overexerting I just happen to pass by, and Ryuichi was there too, so it somehow just happened”
”But Souht?”
”H swordbokutou if it was only that much”
Pointing an ear for a bit, and I hear this kind of dialogue
Souma-kun's ”could've won” has treot a track record of saving girls
By the way, that training sword heone for self-defence, he carries it for the actually legiti he always shoulders along with his schoolbag seems to contain a wooden sword used for p
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ractice swings
It's obvious that having a weapon ala wooden sword is better than being bare handed, but combined with his Nationals level skill, Souma-kun can certainly kick ass To boot, with hi involved in fights, he's got the first hand experience too
”Gununu…W-well, Souuess, a measly 4 delinquents are obviously child's play Even I know I'm not at his level yet”
”Give it up Masaru, you're not even close to rivaling Souma-kun”
To the Masaru, gallantly nodding to hi profound, it's a true friend's job to burst his bubble with a good retort
”Though, I can't say I don't know the feeling”
Going back to eavesdropping onto the Souroup, now a truly envious situation is in the
”I take ain Please try to restrain yourself a little”
”Ahaha, you worry too much Sakura I'm completely fine see?”
The fe with himself, one of the top celebrities of shi+ramine Acade the same Souma surname, but because this Souma Sakura possesses just as much as charm as her brother
Long glossy black hair, co her slender but curvy, sexy body line, and s from the dark-blue pleated skirt
A small head, thin contours, a face as if crafted passionately by the hands of God Especially the big yet sharp eyes are perfect beyond words Those jet-black eyes possess an almost deadly charm
Her superior appearance was not all With a sharp mind, and excellent athletic ability, she truly possessed the best of both worlds A ular at the National level
Leaving aside appearance and ability, her courteous behaviour with colleagues, and respectful manneris morals
She would more appropriately be called the school Idol No man would not desire such an idealised Yairl[4]
However, there existed no frivolous rumours of her since enrolllue
”And there you go again nii-san, you always –”
My eyes now reflected her drawing closer to her brother which would certainly not be an appropriate, far too close, distance of interaction between boys and girls of our age Even I could see the objectionability of their closeness in both the physical and mental sense Personal space, I wonder if that's a thing
”Haa…”
I look away fro other than a lovey-dovey couple, but the conversation nonetheless flows right back into my ears
”– At least think of how I feel constantly having to worry”
”Yeah my bad, I'll take better care from next time”
And on this side, Masaru's usual foul expression see, auditory display of jealousy in full view
Nope, He's hopeless Falling for that Souma Sakura is simply bad math To ame, I have no words
For Masaru, it was love at first sight from the day of enrollh at this development For the people in the same predicament as hi after her, caused the phenoreat influx of membershi+p into the Archery club this year and last, hih at him, this Saito Masaru
Well, he's just a ghost h
Just quitting would be si happened perhaps demonstrates the complexity of the human heart
While thinking these philosophical and useless things, I follow Masaru's line of sight to find the appearance of the little sister, Sakura, looking doith a flushed face while having her brother caress her head and saying ”Sorry, my bad”
Nah, I should just tell hiive up
While the handsome brother-sister couple are off in their own cherry-colored world, I get myself ready to dish out a harsh reality
The woerous She would certainly drive to madness, many hordes of men I don't care what the fellows of the Souret saving this friend ofto the Dark Side
”Ah!! Sakura-chan no fair, Yuu-kun, pat my head too –”
And there appears the ternary force, barging right into the middle of the isolated world of brother and sister
A sht, and ould be seen as nothing but a rade schooler if you're not careful, girl raised a high pitched voice and forcibly tackled into Souma Yuuto
Well, though I expected some violent intervention as this point in time, even I can't help up cast a cold look at the scene before me
”Eh, well I guess I'll have to, for you Reina”
”Ehehe – do it s'more,”
”Nii-san, please don't spoil her so much”
Coirl as enjoying a helping of Sou was Reina Adelhide Ayase, the 2nd childhood friend
She's uessed from the surname, she's an inheritor of western blood, and, dissiives off yet a different kind of beauty rese a French doll
Her hair, a natural blonde hue fashi+oned into twintails, and her eyes the color of a beautiful clear sky, certainly not to be mistaken for color contacts
”kuWAanger – Souma you're so dead, I wanna stroke Reina-tan too –”
”Masaru, just give up”
This guy even has a thing for lolis So you don't care as long as they're hot huh
But still, I can't call Masaru a pervert for being fond of Reina A Ayase Same as before, this is because irl's charm
Certainly, seeing this kind of energetic yet naïve character, I, who am not a lolicon, too can understand that the protective instincts of a irl
Though I say that, I' for Masaru even a bit At the very least, I want him to show soo for
And leaving asidein jealousy, there is Souma Yuuto who has Sakura and Reina, a flower in both ar sister and the spoiled childhood friend putting hiain But reality is that he's super close to two first rate hotties, and is even surrounded by kind friends he can rely on, having just a swell time Is that really the correct way to spend youth?
I have not fallen for Sou Souma Yuuto's, this kind of lifestyle makes me feel an absolute inferiority even if I don't want to
No let's stop, it's a stupid way to think He's him, and I'm me
He's but a special exception Because I see this rosy life in front of et just how much of an exception he is Grade school, and middle school never had an existence to cause this kind of overwhel inferiority
I have a friend in class too And we too spend everyday having fun with stupid conversations I also enjoy writingtothat my own school life is less inferiority complex quickly disappears
I do think I want to get along better with girls, but thinking of how that's a problem faced by the mass majority of japanese male students makes it much less painful
”M any moment now”
Casually looking at the wall clock in the classroom, the needle is only a minute away from the first chime
The hos, so as I stand up to return to my own seat, it happens The classroo in
”Do – n't pull so hard, Ryoko! C'ht?”
”Shut up, Ryuichi, just get to your seat”
With such an exchange, our class 2-7 class rep Kisaragi Ryoko, grabbing Tendou Ryuichi by the hand, bursts in and crosses the front of the classrooth hair in a flutter
Kisaragi-san, a tall and slender, with cool eyes in depthless spectacles, a sharp-looking beauty, standing beside the large and handsome Tendou-kun, doesn't look out of place at all No, it can be said that she's the only one who has a rightful place beside him
”Sup Ryuichi, got caught by the rep again?”
”Yea, justjoint was ruined all thanks to that”
To Sou, Tendou-kun returns a truly dissatisfied reply
”Joint? What, you have cigarettes on you? Take them out now, Ryuichi”
”H-hey wait, the price got higher just the other day, so don't take the one I haven't even open –”
”Yup, no more of that”
The hundred yen yet unopened box of cigarettes were niakuran by Kisaragi-san
Having his relief goods seized without i-san's stoic face and cold eyes pay no consideration to his desperate claims
fuck, nottiives hi smile,
”Not like you want to, but good job keeping this up every , you too class rep”
He said in a soree with
Barely ing in our greatest delinquent to class is a daily scene for the class of 2-7 Kisaragi-san soo ditching class, and forcefullyrole call
She herself insists it's her job as class rep to do this, but no matter how you look at it, this is clearly outside her job description As a result, the fact that she's doing this because she ‘wants to' is only unknown to herself, and has been made an undeniable truth in the class of 2-7
That aside, with thein the blonde haired delinquent with her before the first chiathered in the classroom
I look at the clock a 2nd time and, the minute hand is just about to make its tiny mechanical sound and denote the instant of when the chime would sound Holidays aside, it is a sound I hear everyday, the ding-dong-dang-dong melody that any student would be very familiar with but–
GI, GIGIGI, GI – IIIIIII!!
That unpleasant hout the classroom
”Ua!!?”
Plugging the ears is so not only me, but everyone in the classroom did almost reflexively There's also the cute ‘Kya – 's coirls scattered about
There's the usual ting sound of the of the intercoroan, I got a bad feeling…
This shrill noise echoing in frorees around this classroo In my brief 17 years of life, I've never experienced such a terrible sto sound
Well, with not yet getting sick enough to actually throw up, the sound stopped
What in the world was that sound, these kinds of s from practically everyone's mouths filled the classroom
At that tiain – suddenly, as if a candle being blown out, all light from the classroom disappeared
”Eh, blackout!?”
The situation worsens, as we lost all sources of light, enough to sube my chubby friend in front of me into complete darkness
Though it was Iat the current situation, that theory is instantly denied
For right now, it isfroh the eren't open like in the suht splash into the big classrooo
Wait, hy is it dark even outside?
The inside of the classrooirls but some boys' ones were ry voices were
I'd said nothing nised the bizarreness of the situation as well, and had broken out in a cold sweat
”O-oi Kotaro, what's up with this, why's'it gone dark all a sudden? This some kinda prank show?”
Masaru's voice had a clearly anxious tremble, but I wasn't in a state to make fun of him for that I'm shaken up just as well
”D-donno man… but it doesn't seem like one at least?”
A blackout isHowever, I can't really i all the s and blanketing the whole classrooeness I can't even hypothesize about
Of course, uncertain about what this abnor the cause or the resolution for it And from the uproar all around, I don't think anyone in class has any idea either
As the class was falling deeper into panic, this tihts turned back on
The fluorescent lights on the ceiling lit up, filling the place with their artificial white light, like it was a matter of course
”Ah, its back”
I ended up speaking out
Well, that was probably the general feeling of everyone here, and for now, the brighter classroom dispelled the fear of darkness, and ameliorated the situation
But, it was not like everything went back to normal
”Oi, look out the !”
I don't knoho said this, but even without the alert, the abnormality was easy to discover
”It's pitch black”
Yeah, Masaru replies Just like everyone else, the two of us sitting on the hallway side of the room stared dumbfounded at the other side of theshrouded in absolute darkness
”The hell, I can't see shi+t”
”Should I open it?”
”Stop dumbass, that's just screams bad idea”
A group of guys on theside of the roo the as probably the consensus a the whole class
As if painted with a coat of black, the s reflected nothing at all
Though it was difficult to understand, the class that began to recognize this obvious bizarreness, once again plunged into a state of anxiety filled s
As the roo up with miscellaneous voices – within all the bustle, what's this sound… This is, frooes off, comes a sound like that of a sandstorm!
Once I noticed it, I could clearly hear this grizzly sound No, it was definitely getting louder
”Guys, quiet down a bit So from the intercom”
The one who silenced the class with that one statement was not me, but Souma Yuuto He seems to have heard the noise form the speaker same as me
Well, unlike me with my chubster friend here, he's in the blessed position of having beautiful sister snuggled to his right shoulder, and a cute childhood friend nestled on his left arm
Anyith his help,for soan to listen attentively at the speaker