Chapter 80 - Volume 5 (1/2)

Volume 5, Chapter 9: I became an Elementary Schooler, Part 3

I have only a few friends, but I’m alright.

In my class, I have Prince-kun, Kako and Kouki-kun, so I don’t feel particularly alienated. For my lunch breaks, I’ve been taking walks with Prince-kun in the schoolyard for the sake of his diet and my physical fitness.

Well, I didn’t really want to move, but because Prince-kun didn’t want me to remain still, he took my hand and pulled me along forcibly.

……There’ve been strange rumors because of that, but I can’t stop them at this late hour.

I’m being instructed by Onzada-kun on a regular basis, but I still can’t understand ‘ki’.

As per usual, after stripping and withering 3 more trees in the schoolyard with my [Power] I’ve been restraining myself.

I might be in a different grade from Onzada-kun, but he might be the friend I’m the most relaxed with at the moment. This person, regardless of whether he’s genuinely good-natured or just pretending, is easy to speak to.

Of course, I tried to convince him properly about that brazier.

“When you train in the mountains, do you always catch rabbits?”

“Although it’s hygienic because it’s an expensive school, but you have to be careful because it’s not meant for food use, you know?”

As the daughter of a food processing company, I can’t let something like that slide.

Well, erm…… were there other reasons?

“Then, that girl stopped it with just a kick. And so…… you know…… you, you look weak, so I’ll protect you.”

“ehh…… uh, thanks?”

It seems that our friendship has grown thanks to this exchange of blows by the river……?

Carrying on like that, it turned to autumn, and I turned seven years old.

This year, another wonderful ‘present’ came from Ouji-kun. What a cute Texel lamb this year.

[Baa]

And then, nobody saw the lamb ever again. It’s a light mystery.

Incidentally, although it doesn’t matter, it seems that the meat of the Texel lamb is the finest and has little fat, so it’s great for diets.

Ouji-kun has become much thinner, but he’s still a little chubby compared to other children. Even then, when he gets called [Prince] by Kouki-kun, it gives me less mental damage.

Today, Ouji-kun and Kouki-kun were playing something like soccer in the school yard.

Kako was heroically holding onto a sports towel nearby, but I’m the kind that gets dizzy if I stay too long under the sun, so I went into the shade.

“Hey, you there, come over for a moment.”

“……?”

The wall that surrounded the academy is about 4 meters tall, and is electrified at the top. Still, it’s not entirely fully enclosed, and the design was such that every few meters, there would be a small portrait-sized latticed window.

When I looked through the nearby window, there was a pretty girl the same age as I was clinging onto the lattice.

“Hey~, you~, come over here for a bit.”

“…………”

Who is this girl……? She’s cute but her tongue’s sharp. Her face was that of an ordinary Japanese person, but the color of her hair was weak and her eyes were brownish.

“……You, what’s your school? You’re not from Takamine, are you?”

“I don’t care about that, I’m the [Heroine] of this world!”

My question was answered while she puffed up her chest with pride, even while clinging to the lattice.

“Heroine……?”

“Well, I don’t expect a mob character like you to understand, but everything that I do takes precedence. Such a thing is good. Hey, would you happen to know Kuon Kouki? He’s supposed to be in this school.”

“Kouki-kun?”

A friend of Kouki-kun’s? No, no, I can’t imagine him that way…… he’s a pleasant person and a friend. But I casually turned my eyes towards Kouki-kun, and she seemed to have found Kouki-kun after that.

“Aahh! It’s really Kuon Kouki-kun! He’s really as cool as I imagined. But he’s still young. I’ll, be collecting still images”

“……ehh”

Oh crap, it’s a stalker? And what on earth…… I heard something strange about that pronunciation of that long “kuon”.

“Who…… are you?”

“What, begone! I am Sakurazaki Matsuri. The suburban genki-girl.”

With a pose that seemed as if she expected a *sparkle* was about to happen, Matsuri closed one eye and stuck out her tongue. ……Uwahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

“Anyway, who’s that near Kouki-kun? Might it be Handsome-kun?”

“……*twitch*”

“After all it’s so, but why is he so thin? Although he’s still fat, but has the event already started……? No, he might still get fat again……”

Matsuri began to grumble something or another.

But how rude those words were…… Prince-kun has also lost his habit of snacking, so I don’t think he’ll become fat.

After that, Matsuri named several people, but I either didn’t know them or their names were subtly different, so I couldn’t answer. I have no intention of speaking out about others’ personal information.

And I nodded gently at her tales while I quietly pushed the button on the wall.

“Wait, you can’t be of use. Well, you’ve been useful thus far, so if I enter Takamine, I’ll take you into my group.”

“……I’ll consider it.”