Chapter 211: Swapping Positions (1/2)

Chapter 210: Restoration of Youth Chapter 212: There is Always Someone Higher Up

Translator: Reflet

Kohaku in the school uniform entered the classroom with leisurely steps.

Although she was wearing the exact same design as the girls’ school uniform, her composed mannerism gave her a unique appearance.

At the very least, it was enough to to overwhelm the boys and girls in that room, forcing them to watch her as they held their breath.

Said girl halted beside the podium, turning toward the students.

Eye met with eye, which became the trigger. The whole classroom became noisy.

She was a young girl of a height of 130 centimeters that didn’t look any older than an elementary schooler. Said girl was wearing the same uniform as everyone else, and was standing next to the podium, emitting an air of importance.

It was such an unbalanced, irregular sight.

This was normally something impossible to see, so it was reasonable that a commotion would occur in the classroom.

And the ones most shocked by it were none other than Taiyou and the three sisters.

To add further, the three sisters seemed to be even more bewildered than Taiyou.

Kohaku, who had brought astonishment into the room amongst everyone, took the chalk from beside the blackboard, writing her name “Azumaya Kohaku” in skillful penmanship on the blackboard.

It seemed unfitting from merely looking at her appearance, but if one were to consider what she was actually like, this was handwriting that fit her to a T more than anything else. Rather than writing it in chalk on a blackboard, it was the kind of typeface that was more fitting of a calligraphy pen writing on stationary.

That further amplified the perplexment of 1-A.

On the opposite end of all that perplexment and turmoil, Kohaku opened her mouth in a composed manner.

「I be everyone’s fellow classmate from today on, Azumaya Kohaku. So I be looking forward to working alongside ye all」

「”I be”？」

Someone’s voice clearly rang out, and then the tumult abruptly stopped.

She had the appearance of an elementary schooler, but the manner of speaking of an old person.

The people in the classroom seemed to have caught onto that.

「Might I ask a question？」

Breaking through the silence, the most sociable one, Katsuki, decided to ask her for everyone’s sake.

It was very much surreal to see him raising his hand to the young-looking girl as if asking a teacher a question.

「Very well」

Kohaku’s magnanimous nod as well as the fact that no one thought it to seem unnatural spurred on the oddity of this situation.

「Azumaya……san」

「It be fine to call me Kohaku-tan」

（Oi oi）

Taiyou unconsciously furrowed his brow at this nostalgic answer.

「Okay, then Kohaku-tan」

（And you’re too quick to adjust to that！）

「How old are you, Kohaku-tan？」

Katsuki spoke like how one would to a lost little girl when asking where her parents where.

「How much do I be looking to ye？」

「About 10 years old？」

「Unfortunately, that be off」

「Then how about seven hundred years old？」

「Close！」

「That’s not close at all！」

Taiyou stood up without thinking and retorted.

「But it be quite close to my true nature, be it not, Husband?」

「Well yeah, but…」

She was after all Loli Baba. He understood that in the sense that her age was nothing like her appearance, that guess may have been close, but Taiyou still couldn’t quite accept that.

Kohaku then turned back to Katsuki, the interpellator, dexteriously moving up the corner of her mouth as she answered.

「As of this year, I be not quite 87 years old」

Loli Baba looked like an elementary schooler at first glance but was actually 87 years old. The class of course would be filled with astonishment at that revelation……or so Taiyou thought, but even when Kohaku conveyed that, the explosive surprise that he had anticipated didn’t occur.

Instead, everyone moved their gazes to Taiyou with bewildered expressions.

He unconsciously recoiled.

「Wh-What is it？」

「Hey, Natsuno」

「What is it?」

「What…were you just called by Kohaku-tan just now?」

「What was I……Oh」

Repeating it, Taiyou finally came to the realization.

He had become so accustomed to it as of late…Kohaku’s name for him.

――Husband

Even amongst her fellow “brides”, she would be the only one to call him by a special title. It was a much more natural way to refer to him than the three sisters’ “Taiyou-san” or Aoba’s “Natsuno-kun”, befitting of the typical bride.