Vol 8 Chapter 2 (1/2)
The Second Question
Areat tragedies
Himeji Mizuki's answer
“① Ha Lear, ③ Othello, ④ Macbeth”
Teacher's comment
Correct answer Shakespeare had other famous works like 'Romeo and Juliet' and the 'Merchant of Venice', and these 4 are known as the '4 great tragedies' Though Romeo and Juliet was the reat tragedies
Yoshi+ Akihisa's answer
“① Ha Lear, ③ Romeo and Juliet, ④ My dad's married life”
Teacher's comment
How is your dad treated at home anyway!?
Tsuchiya Kouta's answer
“① Losinginto the eyes at the critical moment when a photo's about to be taken, ④ Broken Hard Disk”
Teacher's comment
If ④ really did happen,as well
“Fuuwaawhy is it that I always feel like sleeping whenever it's ”
“You can't do that, Akihisa-kun You have to sleep well at night or else you'll ruin your body”
On Mondayside by side with each other as we just so happened to talk about this
“Even if you say that, that book was really too interesting, so I couldn't help but—fuuwaa~”
“ReallyAkihisa-kun, your necktie's crooked”
“Eh? Really?”
I ht?”
“Ah, now the collar is undonecan you please turn around and face me?”
“Ahh, there's no real need to be concerned about it”
“No If you can't even wear your shi+rt properly, Nishi+ry with you”
After saying that, Himeji-san turned around to face me and reached her hands out to adjust my necktie and shi+rt Uu, uuuwhy do I feel a little shy
“”
“Himeji-san?”
“”
ErmHimeji-san?”
“”
“Himeji-san, do you hear me?”
“Eh? Ah, yes!”
“What's going on? You were stoned over there and blushi+ng”
“It, it's nothing It's justa little weird”
Oh, so I' the necktie looks no different from husband and wife
“Tha, that's right, Akihisa-kun Did you bring your handkerchief?”
To change the ed the topic Let’s see, handkerchief, handkerchief…
“Ah! Now that you said it, I forgot”
I don’t re OR rather, I’ll nor it
“In that case, please use mine”
On hearing that I didn’t bring my handkerchief, Hi and passed it toit to me?
“Ah, no need It’s alright even if I don’t have it Also, Hiht?”
“It’s alright I brought another handkerchief along too”
Himeji-san said that as she took out the other handkerchief from her pocket She’s really well-prepared
“Uu, since Himeji-san says so…”
In that case, I’ll take this handkerchief according to her kind intentions As I thought this, I reached my hand out for the handkerchief in her hand
“Here, guys s, or else you won’t be popular with girls—”
For some reason, Himeji-san went silent She didn’t hand the handkerchief over to htly in her hands
“Himeji-san?”
“…I guess…it’s alright not to have one!”
“?”
After saying that, Himeji-san hurriedly placed the handkerchief back into her pocket
I really don’t understand what shethat I can talk with Himeji-san in such a happy manner, I’m rather happy too
—And up till now, these were all the only happy
“Froation of the heretic Yoshi+ Akihisa”
About 5 minutes after that, I was arrested by the FFF
I was forcefully taken away from the puzzled Himeji-san, and my limbs were all tied up as I was mercilessly pushed onto the hard tatami of class 2-F’s floor
“Yoshi+ Akihisa, do you have any last words?”
“I only met Himeji-san on the way to school! It’s not like I’m completely innocent…but I earnestly request to have my punishment reduced!!”
“…”
After hearing my explanation, the leader of the FFF seemed to ponder for a while Even if the FFF would severely deal with any guy who interacts with girls, if I only met her coincidentally on my way to school, wouldn’t that be too heavy of a punishment? If they’re always jealous about this, it would never end! Don’t tell me that they were blinded by jealously because of such a trivial thing? I think they’ll send 5 ers—
“—Then, 10kicks to Yoshi+ Akihisa”
Seeine!
“Wa, wait! Isn’t this punishment too heavy!? If you want to punishsimilar happens to you?”
“Uu…”
The leader went silent again He should be considering the possibility that ‘the sa may happen to them’
“Leader, I don’t think what the accused said is unreasonable”
“We’re not merciless devil For this level of action, I think we can just close an eye and forgive him”
“Maybe one day, this lucky event of getting to walk to school with girls will happen to us too”
“Also, I’ll be punished everyday if I’ someone”
Themay happen to you’ statement had some effect
“In that case, we’ll specially reduce the punishment such that it’ll be a flick on the forehead by the leader”
Just when I heaved a huge sigh of relief because of such a large reduction in punishment—
“Please wait a moment!”
Hied as she rushed into the classroo on? Did Himeji-san run over because she orried about me?
“Akihisa-kun didn’t do anything wrong! I—”
Himeji-san blushed as she desperately tried to explain to everyone
“—I forced him to come to school with me today!”
“20 members shall now carry out German Suplexes”
“““NO OBJECTIONS!!!”””
What’s going on? What Hied my punishment from a flick on the forehead to German Suplexes, and the nue is really hard to react to!
“Hi, Hirateful that you spoke up for me, but what you just said would only create an opposite effect…”
“But, it’s my selfish intention to adjust Akihisa-kun’s collar and let our hands touch each other! This has nothing to do with Akihisa-kun, it’s not Akihisa-kun’s fault at all…”
“FLIP THE TATAMI! SMASH HIS HEAD DIRECTLY ONTO THE FLOOR!”
“YES! THE WORK’S DONE HERE!”
“WE CAN ADD SOME NAILS TO ADD TO THE EFFECT!”
“I GOT SOME IRON STAKES READY!”
da this iht! I just need to ! I just need to explain to the trivial in our everyday lives—
“Everyone, cal me because of this, what about Yuuji? Don’t you often see hi to school with Kirishi+ma-san?”
“In that case, we shall punish Sakamoto Yuuji as well”
Sorry Yuuji, it seemed that my words caused you to be punished too
I was sending ies in my mind to that bad friend of ether At this moment, CRAK, the entrance door to the classroom was slid aside
“Good …”
Ahh, Yuuji, why did you have to turn up just at this moment?
“Hain? It’s been tough on you in the —OI, WHY ARE YOU GUYS SNEAKING BEHIND ME AND TWISTING MY ARMS!!?”
Yuuji, who looked sleepy as he carabbed on the waist fro arms
“Himeji-san, can you please turn over and look at me?”
“Eh? Ah, okay”
I tried to gather Hiaze and concentration onto me
From the corner of the classroom, Yuuji’s body flew in a beautiful arc in mid-air, and at the same time, ‘THOMP’, ‘THOMP’, ‘THOMP’, blunt sounds could be heard That would be three times already…
“Good —WHAT IN THE WORLD? YUUJI’S BLOODIED FACE’S SLAMMED ONTO THE GROUND!!”
17 times already?
“WHAT ARE YOU DOING!? HURRY UP AND GET BACK TO YOUR SEATS!!”
As the heavy sound echoed for the 18th time, Ironman’s arrival finally calerous Once Yuuji’s head takes another 2 hits, the next one would be me…
“da!”
Afterlessons ended, afternoon break finally started Yuuji finally regained consciousness as he sat at the seat right in front of me with his bento there
“Though it is the sa really isn't good for the heart”
The one who said that was the bishoujo girl carrying the bento—Hideyoshi+ as he walked over He had smooth silky hair and wide puppy-like eyes Hideyoshi+ himself was already very cute, but ever since second year started, I started to feel that Hideyoshi+ looked a lot tenderer Is this so-called youth? Does Hideyoshi+ have someone he likes?
“…Other people’s happiness is the taste of poison This is the tradition of the FFF”
After that, the one who approached us silently after buying the rice ball from the convenience store was Tsuchiya Kouta, nicknamed ‘Muttsurini’ He’s a short and sives a silent vibe
“That’s strange? Didn’t you take part in the execution this , Muttsurini?”
“…I went to investigate a few things”
“To think that there are even executioners and accused ast friends Even I feel that this is way too weird…”
“Really? Isn’t there a saying that ‘yesterday’s enemy is today’s friend’?”
“I say…the way you guys switch between enemies and friends is way too intense”
From my personal experience, we’re eneer
“You guys are always repeating the saain”
“I thought that this would be a peaceful class when I came to second year…”
Mina her ponytail about as she walked over, and Himeji-san followed her from behind
After ether, the six of us tucked in our lunches like usual Such a scene is gradually beco more common nowadays
“Eh? Aki, you brought a bento today?”
As I opened my bento on the table, Minami asked me
“It’s rare for Akihisa to bring his own bento”
“Yeah, there were a lot of side dishes left yesterday”
I accidentally cooked too much yesterday Luckily, these were all dishes that can be eaten cold
“Then let’s do ‘that’ again Scissors, paper…”
“““Stone!”””
Muttsurini showed scissors Everyone else showed stone
“…Uu…”
Muttsurini looked at his hand that showed scissors in a remorseful manner It seemed that he was really bothered
“It’s rare to see that we can decide the winner in one go I want Oolong tea”
“I’ll take green tea then”
“I want lemon soda”
“I want milk tea”
“Excuse arless red tea”
Everyone took out a 100 yen coin and handed it to Muttsurini
“…I’ll get the drinks then”
After collecting the money, Muttsurini ran off alone to the teaa lunch break
“Ah~ I’ry”
Yuuji opened the bento he brought, and everyone else opened their bentos on the table It’s a basic rule not to wait for the gofer to co If not, ill feel bothered and end up restraining ourselves
“Akihisa, your bento looks rather good”
“Yours too, Yuuji”
It’s rare that Yuuji and I would each bring our own bentos as we couldn’t help but coood
“Is that tuna…ginger fried tuna? Not bad…”
Yuuji’s voice came froet
“Alright, Akihisa, let’s have an exchange”
“Ok, what do you want, Yuuji?”
“I want that ginger fried tuna of yours You?”
“I want that teriyaki pork of yours”
“Okay, deal’s set”
“Yeah Here’s the ginger fried tuna”
“Oh, your teriyaki pork”
IN Cherry tomato stalk (dipped in teriyaki sauce)
OUT cabbage shreds (Ginger flavored)
“YOU WANT A PIECE OF ME!!!??”
“I’LL RETURN THOSE WORDS RIGHT BACK AT YOU, bastard!”
Both of us grabbed each other on the collar This guy’s really petty! Can’t he just let me win a little bit?
“Are you two kids…”
Seeing Yuuji and I tussle each other as we grabbed each other on the collars, Hideyoshi+ could only sigh in a somewhat reluctant manner
“No, that’s not it, Hideyoshi+ I’!”
“Hideyoshi+, don’t couy’s the only one with the brain of a primary school kid!”
““!”” (Widening our eyes and glaring at each other)
“You two are just like kids in situations like this…really, you guys…”
Hideyoshi+ sighed and then used his chopsticks—
“Well, isn’t this enough?”
““AH!””
Just when Yuuji and I were roaring at each other and holding each other off, Hideyoshi+ had already switched our dishes over
“Of course, I want my share too”
Hideyoshi+ said as he moved his chopsticks and swapped the deep-fried pork chop he brought over too Now everyone’s dishes looked
“Can’t be helped then Since Hideyoshi+ said so, I’ll forgive you for today, damned Yuuji”
“That’s my line!”
My hand released Yuuji’s collar and retracted back Instead of doing such a stupid and , it’s more important to put the food into my stomach
“Really…can’t you two just eat your own bentos quietly?”
“If someone would prepare a bento for me, of course I’ll just eat my own share”
“There’s a lack of surprise when I prepare my own bento It’s kinda lonely”
“Then shouldn’t you guys just exchange your dishes in the first place…”
If Yuuji and I are to bring our own bentos, we’ll norood that we can choose whatever dishes we like, but there will be no sense of expectation e open the bento box, and that’s a little e
On a side note, the option to exchange dishes quietly never existed in the first place Because if that happened, we can’t increase our bento’s share Don’t underestiuy’s stomach!
“Mizuki, what did you bring to exchange with everyone today?”
“Ah In that case, then…let’s exchange a little…”
“Un Then, here”
“Here, please have some”
Seeing our coirls wanted to try it out too Hi dishes as they handed their bento boxes over to each other It’s a lot gentler when girls do the sa, and this is quite a nice scene
“Heh, you have quite the interesting side dish Is this tuna…ginger-fried tuna?”
“Yes”
“Un? Ginger-fried tuna?”
“ACK!”
I choked hard on my food
DA, DAAAAAAMMMMNNNN IT! Speaking of which, I prepared Himeji-san’s bento too, so the dishes inside are coh somehow!
“Tha, that’s quite a coincidence, Hiram yesterday?”
The next second, I blurted out the excuse of watching the sa hat I said and end this topic right now!
“Eh? Akihisa-kun, have you forgotten? Today’s bento was prepared by yo—UU!”
“Hio somewhere else to talk first!”
She’s way too naïve!
I frantically covered Himeji-san’s uely realized it a while back, but Himeji-san’s really sloitted!
(You can’t tell them, Himeji-san! If you tell theether?)
(Eh? We can’t tell everyone else that we’re living together?)
(No way! Absolutely not! We mustn’t let other people know about this!)
Whether it’s about Himeji-san’s reputation or my own life
(Ah…that’s right It’s really not good if the school knows that we’re living together)
(That’s right, that’s right It’s great that you can understand)
(I got it Then, this will be our little secret)
Himeji-san clenched her small fist in front of her chest
Now that I re the fact that we’re living together a secret Even so…but she never really thought about it It seems that Himeji-san’s really a little weird She said that she’s like herso naïve that she‘s an air head
(Akihisa-kun, let’s work hard to hide this secret!)
(Un, let’s do our best)
After achieving co with Himeji-san, we returned back to our seats From now on, we have to protect this secret with a bronze wall like stance!
“What the heck, Akihisa, did you prepare the bento for Himeji?”
But the first attack rattled me
“Ahh, no That’s…eh…”
It’s h lies Also, he had Hideyoshi+ beside hi trouble at this moment!
Just when I was thinking about this—
“What are you worried about? She’s just helping you finish off the seafood deluxe set you drew the last tiht?”
“That was really a lot”
It seemed that Yuuji and Hideyoshi+ didn’t really worry about it That’s strange? Was I able to sneak through like this?
(Youlike ‘since there are leftovers, I’ll just prepare so for you as thanks’ and prepared the food for her before sending her off, right? Your mind’s rather quick at times, Akihisa)
(I really have to look at you in a different light)
They deliberately whispered to reat that they would think this way about that
“That’s right It’s like we didn’t use up much food after we had the hotpot party”
“It can’t be helped though A lot of things happened back then”
“The hotpot then became a black hotpot that didn’t really have any relation with the seafood The only one who really used the seafood was the cold dish shi+ht?”
“Yeah, that was really good”
I remembered the appetizer Minami, Kirishi+ma-san and Kudou-san made for us that day There was a seafood cold dish, steaood
“That’s right Minami, the sauce for that seafood cold dish—”
I wanted to turn around and ask Minami how she prepared that sauce But…
“Humph!”
I found that Mina me an unhappy look
“What’s wrong, Minami?”
“…Nothing, nothing at all”
Though she said that, it’s obvious that she was unhappy about so Uu, does Mina the last time, but there wasn’t any response, and I only made a bento for Himeji-san, so it’s kinda unfair to Minami I see If that’s how it is…
“If you don’t mind, Minami, I’ll make a bento for you next time”
“Eh? Will you?”
“Un, it doesn’t really matter whether it’s a 3 persons share or 4 persons share”
It didn’t really matter whether I cooked a person’s share ora bento, it’s not some difficult problem
“I see I’ll tell you the recipe for that cold dish~ for the sauce, do not add too ar, and also—”
Minami shook aside the unhappiness that shrouded her and happily told me the way to make the cold dish sauce
“Balsaar? Must I add distilled pesticide to acetic acid?”
Besidereally scary If she says that she wants to make a seafood cold dish, I have to be careful the next tier hidden within Himeji-san
Anyway, let’s tuck in first This is the first tier-fried tuna, and unexpectedly, it tastes good even after being cold Maybe it’s really suited to be added to a bento
“…I’m back”
Just when everyone was talking and eating, Muttsurini carried a large number of dishes with both hands as he finally came back
“Oh, you took quite some time today Were there a lot of people inside the teamwork club?”
Yuuji asked as he received the Oolong tea Muttsurini handed over It really took quite some time today, and for the quick and nimble Muttsurini, it’s really rare
“…So with me when I went to buy drinks”
“Discussed so with you—”
Who is it? Just as I was about to ask, a certain person happened to appear right before our eyes
“It doesn’t matter, Tsuchiya-kun I’ll talk to them directly”
She had nice short shoulder-length hair and a cold expression Her arht in front of her as she looked down at us while ere tucking in as we sat on the tatami mat This person in front of us was—
“hello, everyone in class F”
“Huest”
The one who came over was the class rep of C class, Koyauest
“In that case, the one ent to discuss things with Muttsurini was—”
“That’s right, it was me But, instead of a discussion, I’ll say that we just so happened to meet each other in front of the teamwork club, so I asked him a few questions”
“…It seemed that she wanted to know about F class’ plans for the su battle”
“Our class’ plans?”
“It seems that the system maintenance was done, and we should be able to carry out our su I want to ask what F class will be doing”
The su war that was supposed to be allowed once the second tere of equiph was that they wanted to change the su war that was delayed for quite a while will finally be restarted two days later Our F class’ ai in the first semester
Even so, it was unexpected that she would actually come over to check on us, the worst class
“You’re really cautious”
Yuuji said in a hts as Yuuji
“Really? You F class created lots of chaos in the first se the second years, and it wasn’t any different from the eye of a tornado It’s obvious that I would be ht?”
Koya words as she calmly smiled back
“That’s quite an appraisal for us…but can that really do? Once second terinal facilities, but to think that you would consider about the su battles…”
Yuuji said to Koya manner
One of the rules of the su as that ‘the facilities that were swapped because of a loss in the su ill be reset once the new tere when the upper-ranked class lost to a lower-ranked class and caused a change in facilities, but if the lower-ranked class lost and had to degrade their facilities, it’ll be reset in the new semester
“Speaking of which, C class lost to A class before and had their equipht?”
“Then C class should be able to get back C class’ equipht?”
To emphasize on this rule The main ai battle enthusiastically In that case, once a suins at the end of the see the upper-ranked class without much risk
Even if anted to carry out a su battle after ere streareat, and noro for battle The school hoped that students would study hard while regretting this and check their progress at the end of the school se of school ter system and all sorts of events, the end of the school semester was rather quiet
“What do youbattle? I never talked about taking the initiative to fight I just want to know the action of F class, which was the central cause of everything the last time”
“That’s really an indirect way of saying it In other words, if we don’t provide inforht?”
“You can interpret it like that too”
Koyaave a proud smirk as she said that
Is she asking for an alliance? I guess not She’s just going to make a deal with us She will talk about C class’ movements, and also, we have to talk about F class’ et into each other’s way If not, we can think of a counter each other if we knoill happen
“In that case, why didn’t you just ask Yuuji straight away?”
Why did you ask Muttsurini?
“Well, if I ask Sakamoto-kun, I won’t have to make such a deal It’ll be best if I don’t have to automatically provide information”
Facing my doubt, Koyama-san didn’t flinch as she honestly answered That’s just like her
“Uu…Yuuji, what do you intend to do?”
“That’s good I accept this deal”
“Really? That’s really a great help”
Koyaht fro and said thanks indirectly
“I just need to tell you the class we intend to go against, right?”
“That’s not enough You need to say the time you intend to attack If we know the class you intend to target, I wouldn’t have to come over and ask you”
Koyaht Our F class’ ultimate aim was to beat A class, and everyone knew about this It’s not much of a deal if she knoe want to attack
Yuuji showed a so of the attack Don’t tell me that he hasn't decided on those details yet? It’s not like Yuuji to say triu of a plan
“As for A class, about a week after the su battles are allowed—latest 2 weeks, and we’ll attack That’s my plan”
“Un…I see…”
That’s strange? Do we have to wait that long…I thought that with Yuuji’s personality, we’ll be attacking i battles are allowed
I wanted to ask the question, but Yuuji gave me a sharp stare that said ‘don’t talk too un silently even when the battles hadn’t started In that case, I’ll let Yuuji handle this
“And what about your class? If you’re ai for A class, we’re enemies”
“We’re not so ambitious We just want to attack B class It’s about the sauys,battles are allowed”
“…”