Chapter 63: Not enough Speed (1/2)
Chapter 62: Surprise! Chapter 64: The Third Bride/Refuge
After darkness descended Oriyakata High School. (TL: his school was previously called Orikan, but I think I got it wrong, and it should be Oriyakata, here is the Kanji for anyone interested 織館学園)
Even all the baseball club members that stayed at school to practice until sunset had already went home, and school grounds was currently very quiet.
Inside such a school, Taiyou remained in the classroom he usually went to. The light in the room wasn’t even on, and all he was doing was lowering his chair and raising his chair on to the desk.
He took the seat at the very back which looked really cheap, and he turned the seat upside down, placed it on top of the table and then he carried the desk to the side of the wall.
After lowering the desk to the side of the wall, he would carry it back to its former place and then lower the chair.
Placing the chair on top; carrying the desk.
returning the desk; putting the chair down.
He was continuing to perform these actions.
Inside of this dark room, there was two figures staring at him. Kazane was seated a little bit away from where he was, and Hera was sitting on top of Kazane’s shoulder like a small figurine.
The two girls were watching Taiyou.
「Is there….A meaning to doing this?」
Kazane was asking Hera.
「No, there isn’t desuyo~ Taiyou-chan’s experience points won’t increase unless he does pointless things like this desuyo~. But, it seems like Taiyou-chan may have been born in the wrong time period~」
「What do you mean?」
「Just a little while ago, this kind of thing was quite popular because in the past it did have meaning」
「Ah, I feel like I’m watching some kind of historical drama. In the past, everyone would carry the desk together and then clean up the room, is that right?」
「Yes~! Kazane-chan, have you ever needed to clean the school grounds?」
「Nope」
Kazane immediately replies. Ever since she was born, all the schools she attended never had a cleaning policy and she never had to clean the school grounds.
「That’s why. Along with the changes in the times, a lot of things change as well desuyo~」
「Is that how it is?」
Kazane nodded her head in understanding.
She was resting her chin by placing both of her hands on top of the desk and using it as a brace while intently watching Taiyou.
She was watching Taiyou with an entranced gaze, almost as if she was watching her idol figure or something.
It was slightly different to the look one would give to the person they loved.
On this day, Taiyou told her that he would be staying behind with Hera in order to increase his level, and she readily volunteered to stay behind together. Although he did tell her that “it wasn’t anything interesting to watch”, she still insisted on coming, and since it wasn’t really troubling if she watched him, along with the fact that he didn’t mind her company, he allowed her to stay behind with him.
「Taiyou-chan, has become really cool hasn’t he~?」
「Yes, he is very cool……Ever since yesterday」
「Yes desu~. In the past he was really mute whenever he went out to level up, but now I can sense that he is so full of energy desu. his face from the side looks really determined and it looks like his sweat is shining」
「Hera-chan, do you like Taiyou-san?」
「Of course desuyo?」
Hera answered in a way as if stating “why would you ask such a thing?”
「I belong only to Taiyou-chan nanodesu」
「I suppose that’s true…..But, I wonder how Taiyou feels about you?」
「I also wonder ~」
The two girls were curiously watching Taiyou, but he was too immersed in his levelling up process and was working very hard.
「Phew, that was hard work」
Taiyou let down his chair and let out a breath, Kazane ran up towards him with the towel she prepared beforehand.
Taiyou took the towel and used it to wipe the sweat off his forehead.
「Taiyou-san, is it about time we return home? It seems like Kotone and Suzune are a little worried about us」
Kazane suggested the both of them return while looking at him with upturned eyes.
She was able to feel what the other two sisters were feeling with the telepathic connection their shared, and she told their feelings directly to Taiyou.
Taioyu thinks for a little while and asks Hera a question.
「Hera, my level has not increased yet?」
「It’s just a little bit more desu~」
「I’m sorry, I think it will take a little longer, so I plan on going a little bit more until I level up」
「I understand. it seems that you are really motivated today aren’t you?」
「Yeah, there’s a little something with my status」
Taiyou answers quite ambiguously. Kazane looked like she didn’t really understand what he just said, so he tried to explain it in a little more detail.
「The first time I felt how amazing levelling up can be to the human body is when…..My strength reached a value of 30. My level going up and my strength reaching 30…. When I went up to the rooftop and turned the doorknob, the knob was completely broken off」
「Oh yeah, now that you mention it, it was replaced with a new one. Is that what happened? So Taiyou-san was the one who broke it…」
Kazane nods having remembered the new knob.
The three girls went up to the rooftop during lunch break so she indeed saw it.
「By the way, the time that I helped you girls for the first time, I was already able to break and split a concrete wall in half. Therefore, I think of 30 strength as a sort of border that I crossed」
「Yes…..」
Kazane’s cheeks turned vermilion and her eyes were filled with rapt attention. It seems that she was remembering the time Taiyou saved her and got a little emotional.
「Basing it on the number 30 as a borderline, can you please confirm my speed value?」