Chapter 7 - During Class, A Secret Conversation (1/2)

During Class, A Secret Conversation

It was during one of the world history classes.

While the students were filling out questions for a quiz, Hiiragi-chan walked around the classroom to check up on how the students were doing. Looking at this, she really does seem like a teacher. Well, she is a teacher, though.

Ah, our eyes met. She made an awkward and embarrassed expression.

Sensei.

I think that making such a cute reaction during class is unfair. After calming myself down, Fujimoto, who sat next to me, cut into my vision.

“Sanada. The fifth question, what’s the answer?”

“No idea.”

I had just started working on it and was already stuck. More importantly, don’t ask me. It’s still a quiz after all.

“Sanada-kun, please don’t talk.”

Hiiragi-chan quickly gave me a warning. She had on a stern teacher’s face.

“We are currently teacher and student right now, alright?”

That was what was written on her face. The one was was doing something wrong wasn’t me but Fujimoto. However, since Hiiragi-chan was cute, I kind of want to have her reprimand me again. There wasn’t as much tension as there was with final exams, but everyone in the class was seriously working on their problems.

Slowly and steadily, Hiiragi-chan moved closer and closer to me. I couldn’t concentrate because of the sounds of her footsteps. As she was about to pass by me, she crouched down and picked something up.

“Sanada-kun, your eraser.”

Eraser? I already have one on my desk, so wouldn’t it be Fujimoto’s? As I was trying to say that, Hiiragi-chan set a brand new eraser on my desk. From its casing, a small piece of paper stuck out from it. After pulling it out, I opened up the folded paper and read the words written on it.

[The fifth question, it’s the Hapsburg family ♪.]

The answer was written oonn itttttt!?

The person who wrote this was telling me the answeeeerrrrr!?

What exactly is happening right noowwww!?

Is it because Fujimoto had asked about the fifth question and I said that I didn’t know it…? Secretly, I looked over at Hiiragi-chan, who was also looking at me secretly with an angelic smile. For a person who was just making a face that said, “We’re currently student and teacher right now, alright,” she really shouldn’t be doing something like this.

Moreover, the way she handed it over was sly… Making up a setting where I dropped my eraser, she pretended to pick it up and left me a new eraser with the note in it. Exchanging notes during class is so lax! Is she not even on guard during class!?

What is she thinking?

…

I’ll write a reply.

“Even though you said you didn’t understand it, didn’t you already solve the fifth question?”

Sneaking a peek at my answers, Fujimoto looked at me with eyes that said I betrayed him. Sorry, Fujimoto. More than this trivial amount you just discovered, I have betrayed you even more by getting a girlfriend. While waving away at the loner, I write a reply on the corner of my test.

[Thank you. This test is pretty hard. I’ll do my best.]

Now then. How am I going to give this reply to her?

Currently, Hiiragi-chan was standing in front of the blackboard watching over the whole classroom. Standing up during the test and handing it to her directly would clearly be unnatural. Giving it to someone else and having them give it, is obviously a no go. If that’s the case, she would have to come back here…

When our eyes met, Hiiragi-chan seemed to want to say, “I did something amazing didn’t I?” If I had to say it, then yes, it was good, but… as a teacher, I really have to wonder. Ah, it’s too late now. Seeming like she noticed something, she began to patrol around again, peering at the progress of the students, and headed towards me.

“Sensei. This isn’t mine.”