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Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume3.5 Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju ～Preparation Chapter～

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==Idiots, Tests and the Summoned Beasts ～Preparation Chapter～==

'''Please fill in the name of the historical person in the blank below.'''

_________ instituted the Rakuichi Rakuza policy which abolished and prohibited monopolies to stimulate business and economy.

'''Himeji Mizuki's answer:'''

"Oda Nobunaga"

'''Teacher's comment:'''

Correct.

'''Shimada Minami's answer:'''

"That fella with the topknot"

'''Teacher's comment:'''

Have you got yourself familiarized with Japan yet? I'm a little worried when I saw your answer.

'''Yoshii Akihisa's answer:'''

"Nobu"

'''Teacher's comment:'''

You're getting a little too familiar with him.

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Sis seemed worn out after moving here.

Is someone bullying her in school? Or is someone irritating her?

Then again, her classmates sounded really interesting from the stories she told me, and she seemed to like them a lot...

So, what is wearing her out?

Is it because of her studies? She told me she had difficulties catching up.

I hope she can recover soon.

Her birthday's coming... Would she cheer up if I give her a huge doll? She loves stuffed dolls, after all.

Mm... I'll do that! I'll buy a ''really'' big stuffed doll to cheer her up!

I wonder if I have enough pocket money...

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"EVERYONE, FREEZE! PUT YOUR BAGS ON THE TABLE AND OPEN IT!"

No sooner has the homeroom period start than our homeroom teacher, Iron— I mean, Mr. Nishimura, declared this, without any prior warning.

Crap! The stuff I brought today has nothing to do with studies!

An idea popped up in my mind for that moment. ''I'll grab my bag and run as fast as my legs could go!''

"Let me warn you: don't even think of running away."

It'll be one hell of a task to outrun this homeroom teacher. After all, he's sinewy, promptly nicknamed as "Ironman". He'll just utilize those powerful muscles of his, trained from participating in numerous 'Ironman' triathlons, to relentlessly pursue those who dare to run away.

"Good, I'm going round to check. Any items I find unrelated to studies will be confiscated."

Starting from the first row near the corridor, he went round the rows to check the contents of the bags, confiscating trump cards, magazines, and the such.

"Sakamoto, show me the contents of your pocket."

One student has not only his bag, but his pockets as well checked.

"Damn it!"

Sakamoto Yuuji shouted in agony. By the way, he's my best friend, and also my worst friend.

Still, he rummaged through his pocket obediently and pulled out an MP3 player.

"Thought so. I'll be taking this."

Ironman put his MP3 player into his sack of confiscated items. Yuuji, who never expected his pocket to be searched, glared at Ironman defiantly.

''"Quite a disaster for you, eh?"''

I whispered to him.

''"Damn it! He doesn't usually check our pockets, does he?! Why am I the ''only'' one having this special treatment?!)

''"Too bad. Who asked you to be such a badass?"''

''"Damn it!"''

On a closer look, how thorough Ironman checks depends on who the person is. He'll just glance through the bags of good students, but for others, he'll check them thoroughly, including the hidden pockets.

"You're next, Yoshii Akihisa."

"Ah, yes."

Ironman stood in front of me. I'm sure he wouldn't ask me to go through my pockets like Yuuji—

"Take off your uniform and change into your gym clothes."

"Eh?! You're kidding, right?!"

I can't believe how low his trust was in me.

"Besides... You know, it's a little embarrassing to change in front of the girls..."

"That won't do. You might have prohibited goods hidden up your pants, so change your clothes right now."

"What?! Even I wouldn't stoop that low! You should at least trust me—"

As I stepped forward to bring my point across, something dropped out from the leg of my pants with a loud thud.

"Oi, Akihisa, your dropped your DS."

I thanked Yuuji, who kindly picked up my handheld console, and faced the Ironman once again.

"As I was saying, trust me, will ya?"

"Don't bother changing. You can't be trusted even in your gym clothes."

Wha- What the hell? He tightened up his guard instead!

"You actually brought game consoles, manga, light novels, DVDs to school... What on Earth are you treating school as?!"

My precious treasures went into his sack, one by one. Just my luck for him to do a spot check on the day I brought them. The combined value of those items might go up to thousands of yen.

"Is this everything? Let me repeat this again: the school is a place for you to learn. Next time, don't bring anything that is not related to your studies."

Ironman returned to the podium with the sack of confiscated items. Farewell, my precious treasures...

"All right, since the spot check took quite a bit of time, there will be no homeroom session for today. The first lesson will be the Summoning Practicals, so get to the gym as soon as possible."

Marking the end of his class with that, Ironman left the classroom, with everyone's treasures in his sack.

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"Summon!"

With calls of summoning echoing throughout the gym, I turned to Yuuji, who was sitting beside me.

"It's just an hour into school and we're already got hit by a nuke."

"No shit. Man, I can't believe my one-month-old MP3 got confiscated!"

"Whoa, that's quite some fresh meat."

"And it was bloody expensive!"

A vexed look warped the wild features on his face. I understand his feelings ''very'' well.

"Akihisa, your games got done for as well, right? Quite a lot of them, too."

"Mm... The total value could easily hit thirty thousand yen."

A console, games, DVDs and CDs... Looking from the value of the confiscated items, the one with the highest loss would either be me or Muttsulini. How unlucky...

:"Next, Himeji Mizuki, please step forward."

:"Y-Yes."

"Hey, it's Himeji's turn! Muttsulini, aren't you gonna take that rare photo of her in gym clothes?"

"...My camera was confiscated."

"Oh, right... A pity indeed. It's pretty hard to see her in gym clothes when we're in different classes."

"And this is the only Summoning Practicals we'll ever get."

"..."

Depressed, Muttsulini's head sunk even lower. Oh well, can't blame him for that.

With that silky long hair, and that cute, innocent look, coupled with those bouncy chests of hers which seemed to have a mind of its own, it's easy to figure out why any guy would want to take a photo of her. I, for one, would die to take a photo of her at this moment.

:"I-Is this how you do it? Summon!"

She mumbled that out diffidently. A geometrical magic array formed near her feet, and her summoned beast appeared in front of everyone.

"Just like I thought, her summoned beast sure looks pretty strong."

"Totally. Wouldn't have guessed that from its cuteness."

Himeji's summoned beast looked really cute. Since a summoned beast takes the appearance of its caster, there's no need to explain further when the caster's such a babe as well.

Speaking of which, what made her summoned beast so impressive was—

"I'm sure her beast's the only one capable of wielding such a huge sword."

"Yeah, probably only those at her level could pull that off."

Her summoned beast was wielding a Western longsword several times longer than her height effortlessly. Anyone could tell that this summoned beast isn't one to be underestimated.

:Class C, Himeji Mizuki, Combined Subjects 3943 points

:''vs''

:Class C, Furukawa Ayumi, Combined Subjects 1264 points

The points were displayed in front of them. These were probably the results from the previous mid-term exams.

"No wonder it's so strong."

"Gosh, it's almost 4000 points. She sure is smart."

Holed up in a corner, we nod in agreement to each other.

The strength of a summoned beast is directly proportional to the exam results of the student. So basically, in a Summoning Exam, the higher your exam scores are, the stronger your summoned beast will be.

"Oh yeah, Akihisa, don't you know her?"

"Mm. She was my classmate in grade school, but we haven't spoke to each other for years. She'd probably have forgotten about me, I guess."

Since we're in different classes now, I've became distant with her. I'd definitely talk to her if I have the chance, but the probability of that happening is close to nil. It would most likely look like a confession if I were to barge into her class and say to her "I've got something to tell you".

"I supposed... Since the chances of you getting to be in the same class with her next year is close to zero, you'd eventually disappear from her memory."

"Next year? You mean the streaming exams?"

"Duh. You'll definitely won't be in the same class as her."

"That might be true, but..."

Just like any other school in Japan, we were streamed into different classes upon entering the academy. However, it will be different from the next year onwards. We'll be sorted according to our grades. Though Himeji is in Class C, with those grades of hers, she'll definitely be sorted into Class A next year. That's why Yuuji and I will probably be in different classes with her again since we're both straddling about in Class D.

"Will she really forget about me? It feels kinda lonely when I think of that."

"She will, since there's no point remembering a loser like you."

"What did you say?!"

We continued chatting while looking at the practicals of others when a voice called out:

"Next! Yoshii Akihisa and Shimada Minami!"

Ironman- I mean, Mr. Nishimura's voice rang loudly through the gym. Looking around, I realized that the others had finished their practicals.

"I'll be right back."

"Sure. You're a candidate for the "Punishment Inspector" anyway, so use the chance to learn how to control your summoned beast."

"Hey! I'm not a badass like you, Yuuji!"

I rolled my eyes back at Yuuji. Really, me as candidate for ''the'' Punishment Inspector? How rude. Having that title is the same as being labeled as the most problematic student in school. How could I possibly be a candidate when no one in the history of the academy had that title before?

"Hurry up, Yoshii!!"

"Coming!"

Hearing Ironman's roar at me, I hastily increased my pace. My training partner had already finished the summoning process.

"..."

My training partner was staring blankly at the summoned beast in front of her. This energetic girl, with a ponytail and a pair of sexy, slim legs, is my classmate, Shimada. However, a worried expression was registered on her face now. What's wrong? Was she disappointed by how weak her summoned beast looked?

"What's wrong, Shimada? Were you shocked by your unexpectedly weak summoned beast?"

I attempted to console her with my kind words. For a moment, the grey clouds over her head seemed to have disappeared, and she beamed a smile at me.

"Ah, so you're my opponent. I'm so happy!"

She blushed slightly. Seeing her blushing made me happy as well. Geez, I didn't think she'd do that in front of everyone... I don't know how to handle her.

"It feels good to be able to beat you up!"

...Seriously, someone teach me how to handle this crazy girl.

"Shimada, our beasts are going to do the battling, not us."

I'm a little worried, so I confirmed the rules with her again. This summoning practical was meant for the summoning battles next year, so it should be a battle between summoned beasts. At least, that's what I thought.

"You're right. It ain't gonna be a fight between us."

She nodded her head in agreement. Great, seems like she got my point.

"Since I'll be the only one dishing out the beating anyway."

THAT'S NOT THE POINT!

"Did you hear that, sir? She's threatening me! If you have the time to check our belongings, shouldn't you do something about this explicit display of violence in school?!"

"Shimada, violence is bad, even if it's Yoshii we're talking here."

"But, sir..."

"No buts. A no is a no, you understand?"

"...Fine."

"I'm glad you understood. So-"

A wide smile appeared on Ironman's face,

"—I'll make this an exception."

"Wait... That's weird..."

Am I thinking too much? That conversation sounded as if a teacher had just allowed a case of violence in school.

"I'll do my best!"

"Good luck!"

"Ahaha, both of you are really dumb. Do you think I'll go down that easily and forgive you guys? I'll have you satisfy my demands before I-I'M SORRY! IT'S MY FAULT, PLEASE SPARE ME!!"

They didn't spare me, even after my numerous begging.

Was it something I said that lead to this disaster...?

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"Man... Ever since the morning inspection, it's been one disaster after another today..."

School finally ended. I was bitching about the day with the guys I usually hang out with.

"That's because you brought so many unnecessary things to school."
[[User:HonouRyuu|HonouRyuu]] 11:12, 15 June 2011 (UCT)

Sitting beside me and showing me a smile is Kinoshita Hideyoshi, who's in the same class as me, Yuuji and Muttsulini. It's already weird to hear him speak like an old man, and he has a beauty's face on him. He really likes to make comments. Even so, I do feel that he's the most normal person after me, since the other two are so abnormal that words can't describe them.

"Speaking of which, Hideyoshi didn't get anything confiscated, right?

"Of course I did, I got some costumes and props confiscated from me. Even though I told sensei that it's for the drama club, they still got confiscated either way."

The school has already provided some props and costumes for Hideyoshi, so Hideyoshi himself doesn't need to bring them. If so, these are unnecessary things. However—

"There's no need to confiscate them all anyway, he could have given us some leeway. Who expected Ironman's brain to be so hard."

"...(Nods head forcefully)."

"His brain's definitely filled with lead."

Muttsulini and Yuuji seem to agree with me. This can't be helped, since they got quite a few things confiscated as well.

And I actually thought that 'we're just having summoning practical today, so there're no lessons; should be rather relaxing today."

It was supposed to be relaxing, but I guess it's better to have lessons without the search.

"Summoning practical..."

Hearing my little grumbling, Yuuji muttered to himself.

"Eh? What's wrong, Yuuji?"

"Nothing. It's just that I remembered that we have to take part in summoning war next year."

For some reason, he sure seemed happy when he said this.

Speaking of summoning war, well, it's about having a summoning battle between classes with the class facilities on the line. If we can move onto second year without any mishaps, we'll have this summoning war system on us.

"But why must we have this summoning war system? If we want to differentiate the scores clearly, can't we just stick grades onto everyone?"

"Well, most likely, they prefer a summoning war to tests since it can motivate students, right? As a class, the students will work hard to not drag their classmates down."

"I see. So they intend to make us work together and improve our grades without breaking us, right?"

"Yeah, this allows the school to do what they want the most, and that's 'to groom students who can showcase their real potential in society'."

"Oh~ Is that so?"

Just as the four of them were chatting away.

"Ah...really, that Yoshii actually left the cleaning work to me. Where did he go off to?"

A certain student can be heard shouting on the corridor. Is that Shimada-san?

"What the heck, Akihisa. You're in charge of cleaning today?"

"Mm, but I left the cleaning work to Shimada-san and ran off first."

"Hmm, according to how I see it, you two have quite the relationship."

"...(Nods head forcefully)."

"Ah haha, it's not what you think it is."

"Really. Once I catch him, I'll tie his limbs up and throw him down the 3rd level!"

That's a highly difficult stunt even a stuntman will be afraid of.

"Sorry, I don't think I can protect my own life any longer. I'll be leaving now!"

Without saying anything else, I grabbed my bag and dashed out of the corridor. I love my life.

"Ah, Yoshii! So you're hiding here! Hold it right there!"

"I'm not going to wait! You're going to kill me, right?"

"I'm not angry at all. Just hold on, will you!?"

That's definitely a lie.

"These two really have rather good feelings."

"...(Nods head forcefully)."

She said that she's not angry, but she's holding onto a rope for some reason.

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"Hoo...that was scary~"

It's been past 30 minutes since I came running out of school, and before I knew it, I'm on a shopping street.

"Well. I don't intend to buy anything, so I guess I'll go back home—hm?"

Just as I intended to head home, I saw a familiar figure walk into a shop. Isn't that Himeji-san?

"I guess it's somewhat of a fate for us to meet here. Should I be courageous and call her..."

Though we did study in the same class during elementary school, we were separated into different classes during middle school. Before I knew it, Himeji-san seemed so distant from me. To see her in front of me after so many years, I really want to talk to her—the reason why I feel this way is most likely because of Yuuji's words 'She'll erase you from her memory anyway'.

In order to turn my thoughts into action, I follow Himeji-san closely as I walked into the shop...only to find that there're so many dolls here, it's unbelievable. Seems like this is a doll shop that a girl will love the most—what the heck, this shop's basically a doll shop!

"Well, let's go back. This shop really doesn't suit me."

I immediately hasten my pace and walk towards the exit. Anyway, the most important thing right now is to leave this place.

"This is Hazuki's only request of this lifetime. Please, uncle!"

"Even if you say that, I have to do business, you know..."

The moment I reached the exit, I suddenly heard this conversation. It seemed like a girl's standing at the counter and telling the cashier something. She seems rather insistent on this. What's going on?

I felt a bit mindful, so I turn my head to where the voice came from. As I expected, it's a cashier uncle and a girl who looks like she's in elementary school.

"I want to get that big Noi doll no matter what. Please, I beg you!"

"Even if you ask me like this...we're doing business. Wouldn't it be unfair to the other customers if I give you a little discount? We shopkeepers do have to treat all customers equally."

"Even so, please!"

"Uuu...really can't handle you..."

The cashier uncle looked rather troubled as he said this and scratches his face. The girl however continued to beg earnestly. Seeing such a small girl beg like this, I'll be seen as really cruel if I'm to walk away like this...

"Hey, little girl, why do you want this doll?"

I know that I'm too nosey, but I still ended up getting involved.

Now that a 3rd party has suddenly appeared, the little girl and the uncle revealed a surprised look on their faces.

"Be, because onee-chan didn't look too good recently. I wanted to buy the doll that she always wanted to hopefully motivate her..."

"Not looking good?"

"Most likely, because she just came back from Germany and couldn't understand Japanese well!

Shifted houses...even if it's within Japanese land, anyone will feel lonely when the friends and environment changes, let alone coming back to Japan.

"Even then, onee-chan took over mommy and daddy and did all the housework like sweeping and washing clothes nicely, and often play together with Hazuki..."

Seemed like it hit her sore spot as Hazuki-chan's wide eyes start to tear up.

"Waa! Don, don't cry! Nii-san will help you out here!"

"...Really?"

"Mm, really."

"...Thank you, onii-chan!"

Wiping away the tears, Hazuki-chan reveals a delightful smile.

"Speaking of which, how much does this doll cost?"

The doll in Hazuki-chan's arms is about 1m tall. If I make a rough estimate, I don't think 5,000 yen's going to be enough.

"Including tax, it'll be a total of 24,800 yen."

"Sorry, nii-san already tried, but he can't do it."

"Onii-chan?"

Hazuki-chan looks rather sad.

Argh! Didn't expect one to be that expensive. Under these conditions, the declaration of surrender came out of my mouth without thinking through.

"Then how much does Hazuki-chan has?"

"I only have 10,000yen..."

So we're missing 15,000. Including my entire fortune, there's only 11,699 yen. We can't even hitting the price of 24,800 yen! The most we can pay is half.

"Excuse me, can you sell this doll to us at 11,699 yen?"

"Eh, I just said before that that we're doing a business here..."

The reply's still the same.

"Onii-chan, this isn't any different from before."

Hazuki-chan whispered to my ear.

She's right. Up till now, I've been doing the same thing as what Hazuki-chan's been doing. However, things will be different from now on. I'm not an elementary school student; let's show her how an adult (high school student) does things!

"We have only 11,699 yen in total, that's about half the price of the doll, right?"

"Ya. That's still not quite enough."

"Hazuki-chan wants this doll, and uncle wants to sell this to her, but you're unwilling to sell it to her at half price. If so, I have a great idea!"

"Hm? What is it?"

"We can rip the doll in half and sell the right side to—eh? What? Why are you two seeing me as an idiot?"

"...Are you really a high school student?"

"...Onii-chan's an idiot!"

I, I actually got called stupid by an elementary school kid!

"I can't give you a discount, but I can guarantee that I won't sell this doll away for the time being. You can go back to discuss with your parents first."

Making this conclusion, the uncle ended the conversation just like this.

"Can't you ask your parents to buy it for you, Hazuki-chan?"

Having walked out of the shop, we came to the park to discuss our plans.

"Mommy and daddy aren't normally at home...so they would leave the money to one-chan. If I want to buy something, onee-chan will definitely ask for a reason..."

"I see, uu~"

Wanting to do something for her beloved older sister—Hazuki-chan's heart's ever so glamorous, it's way different from my family who sent me to Fumitzuki Gakuen on the excuse of 'not wanting to waste school fees'. I must help Hazuki-chan in order to prevent her from losing this intimacy with her family.

But speaking of which, what should I do? It'll be good if I have some more money, but my money's about to be used it...

"Oh ya! Hazuki can get money if she sells her manga to a second-hand shop, right?"

Hazuki-chan thought of this brilliant plan as her eyes sparkle. It's true that we can get money just like this, but I think that she can't get so much anyway. Of course, it's a different case altogether if I have those handheld games that were confiscated this morning—

"Hm? Oh ya, there's this plan after all!"

"...Onii-chan, have you thought of something?"

"I can't possibly get it back it my hands anyway. If I'm successful, we may be able to get enough money to buy the doll..."

Though I don't think it can work...mm! It's still worth a try though.

"Okay! Hazuki-chan, can you come back to the park tomorrow?"

"Y, yes. I can come over..."

"Then we'll meet here tomorrow. It's getting dark now, let's go home."

I waved my hands and said goodbye to Hazuki-chan. Anyway, I got to discuss it with Yuuji and the rest tomorrow.

"Ah, mm, bye bye..."

Speaking of which, did Himeji-san really enter that shop?

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"So you want to take back those confiscated items?"

The next morning, in the same classroom, I talked to the trio as per usual.

"I do feel that it's a pity to leave those things that got confiscated yesterday, but..."

"Uu~mm...ya, but the opponent's that Ironman. We may be designated as 'Punishment Inspectors' if we're not careful..."

Yuuji and Hideyoshi lower their chin and ponder. Seems like they don't intend to help me. This is bad, looks like I have to deal with this on my own.

"...I approve of Akihisa's proposal."

"Eh? Muttsulini? You're willing to help me?"

"...(Nods head forcefully)."

Great! Now at least I have someone who specializes in stealth helping me out.

"...Never mind, let's give it a go."

"Ah? So Yuuji's okay with it?"

"Yeah. I just bought that MP3 recently, and I accumulated quite a debt to Ironman, so let's settle this once and for all."

Yuuji smirked. What an enthusiastic bad guy's face.

"If so, I'll help out as well. If I can get back those things, I don't want to give up as well."

In the end, even Hideyoshi nodded his head, and everyone decided to take part in this. As expected of the group problematic first-years.

"Right now, the most important thing is to investigate where our targets are."

"That's right. If we don't even know where Ironman hid those confiscated items, we can't possibly get them back even if we want to."

The confiscated items may have ended up being abandoned, but they were just confiscated yesterday, so Ironman should still have them with him.

"That's the case. Akihisa, remove the silence function of the phone."

"Eh? Why?"

"Don't ask too much, just do it. You want those confiscated items back, right?"

"...I'm not really sure what's going on, but I just need to remove the silence function, right?"

"That's right."

The phone can't possibly ring during lesson time, there shouldn't be any problems, right? Let's just follow what Yuuji told me to do.

I pull my handphone out from my pocket and took it out of silent mode.

"Oi, you people better hurry up and sit down. I'm going to start taking attendance."

Seeing our homeroom teacher Ironman walk into the classroom, I immediately slip the handphone back into my pocket.

"Alright, let's begin."

Thus, our battle for the confiscated items officially begins now.

"Shimada."

"Here."

"Shimizu."

"Here."

At the usual time of taking attendance, Ironman's coarse voice echoes clearly throughout the classroom.

"Yamaguchi."

"Here."

"Watanabe."

"Here."

—Beep beep beep.

Suddenly, a beep interrupted the class while attendance is taken. Whose phone is it? Really, do think that we have such a stupid person in class. The phone will definitely get confiscated when it rings in class.

"...Yoshii, hand over your phone."

"...Yes."

The problem is, this stupid person was me.

Damn it! Why must it ring at this moment!? Who called me!?

<<Missed call: Sakamoto Yuuji>>

"Yu, Yuuji, you betrayed me!"

"I'll consficate the handphone then."

"Ahh! Handphone! MY HANDPHONE!"

My handphone got taken away by Ironman mercilessly.

"Very good. Nobody's came late nor skipped classes. I hope that all students will continue to keep this up."

After taking the attendance, Ironman moves his heavy feet out of the classroom—together with my handphone.

"Very good. Part 1 of the plan is complete."

"Yuuji! What sort of grudge do you have against me! Now my handphone got confiscated by Ironman all because of you!"

"This is a bait meant to fish out where our targets are. We just need to take them back."

"Eh? Bait?"

"That's right. I deliberately allowed Ironman to confiscate your handphone in order to find out where Ironman hid those items."

"Why didn't you tell me in the first place..."

And if possible, I hope that you can use your handphone as bait.

"...I'm back."

"WAHH!"

Suddenly talking right behind me. You scared me~

"Oh, Muttsulini came back already. How was it?"

"...Those confiscated items are placed in the staff storage cupboard."

"As expected of Muttsulini, erasing your own presence to tail people, that truly is your specialty. I'm impressed."

Seems like Muttsulini went to tail Ironman and investigate where my handphone was hidden. If it's tailing others without attracting attention, Yuuji can't do it, and Hideyoshi doesn't have the skills.

"...But the cupboard's locked."

"Okay. So where's the key?"

"...In the rear left pocket of Ironman's pants."

"I see. If so, we have to snatch the key from him."

"Ya, but how are we going to do that?"

"No problems. I got a good idea. We'll take action during cleaning time."

Anyway, let's attend lessons and wait for school dismissal.

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It's finally dismissal time.

"So, what plan do you have?"

As I tried to sneak out yesterday, I was punished to sweep the entire corridor alone. Thus, I'm discussing the plan with Yuuji and the rest while twisting the mop around. These damned guys don't have any intentions of helping out in the first place.

"We'll be using that."

Yuuji lifts his chin and points.

"A pail? What are we going to do with that?"

"We're going to use that to splash water on Ironman and make him take off his clothes."

I see. If so, we can then take his clothes away and take the key to the cupboard,

"Mm hm~ this method is simple and easy to succeed."

Hideyoshi's right. We can't possibly fail. Basically, there's only the last problem to this plan, and that is—whoever going to splash the water on Ironman will get pursued by him to the ends of the Earth.

"There's only one problem in this plan, and that's the one who's going to splash the water, 'Akihisa' will get pursued by him to the ends of the Earth."

Hold on! Is it decided that I'll be the one in charge of doing this?

"However, that's not really a huge problem."

THAT'S A HUGE PROBLEM TO ME!

"Oi, isn't that too strange? Let's settle this with rock paper scissors!"

"Ooh, look! Me and our target's already here."

"Very good. You got to do your best, Akihisa!"

"...Do your best."

"Eh? Hold on!"

The trio already wordlessly retreated back in the shortest time possible.

Ironman has already climbed up the stairs. If so, I can only do this!

My eyes have already captured the target, and the relative speed was estimated. The prepared weapon's in my hand, everything's okay—time to attack!

"WAAHH! I SLIPPED!"

Dragging the mop, I deliberately fell forward by letting my feet stagger and aim the pail at Ironman, who's on the stairs. GET WET!

"GUAH!"

How, how is it possible! As expected of Ironman! To be able to suddenly react in the blink of an eye and dodge the splash thanks to his superhuman senses! However—

"WHERE ARE YOU ESCAPING TO!?"

I drag the mop in my hand to where Ironman dodged to. I won't admit defeat so easily!

Phoosh, Clak cak cak.

The water from the pail drenched Ironman, and the pail rolls asie. Mission accomplished.

I pick up the pail and mop that I threw out as I remain mindful not to step on the puddle of water, saying to a stunned Ironman "Sorry, I slipped—AHH, sensei! An encyclopaedia isn't to be used as a weapon!"

"I thought I just heard you say 'Where are you escaping to', didn't I?"

"That's just a hallucination."

"Stop trying to lie to me with such a serious look on your face. Get ready to die!"

"Sen, sensei, please don't use the edge of the encyclopaedia!"

Where are you guys now! Come save me! I'll definitely be beaten down by Ironman into a panda if this keeps up!

"Ahh, Akihisa, you really ended up doing it."

Yuuji and the rest appeared out of nowhere. Anyway, I'm saved~

"I told you so many times 'not to splash water onto sensei'..."

"Ow, OWW! SENSEI! I SAID THAT I DIDN'T DO IT ON PURPOSE ALREADY!"

They, they didn't help out at all! These damned guys! Are they intending to sit around and watch?

"Sensei, punish Akihisa later. I guess you better change your clothes. If you don't mind, I'll lend my P.E. attire to you."

"That's right. Sorry, then lend me that. Yoshii, stay behind and scrub the floor clean!"

Leaving these words behind, Ironman, who was drenched by me, head off to the classroom with Yuuji and the rest to change clothes.

"...So unfortunate."

Anyway, I remained behind to clean the floor up. Besides, I have the cleaning tools in my hand.

Just as I'm working hard to wipe the water off the floor, Hideyoshi walks out of the classroom and moves towards me.

"I got the key, Akihisa."

"Really? Then we just need to enter the staffroom and get back the confiscated items."

"Umm, let's hurry up before Ironman realizes it."

"Got it!"

After letting the mop lean against the wall, Hideyoshi and I quickly head towards the staffroom.

"I'm going in then."

I took the cupboard key from Hideyoshi's hands and reach my hand out for the door.

"There's no problem, right?"

"No need to worry. I'll try my best to walk into the staffroom without raising too much attention and get those things back."

I should be just an ordinary student to every teacher, except for Ironman. I should be more suited for this role as compared to Hideyoshi, who has the look of a beauty.

"Really? Then I'll just wait here for your good news."

"Mm, I'm going in then~ 'cuse me~"

I open the staffroom door slightly. No problem, I'm not some irritating guy.

"Yoshii? Hurry up and get over here!"

"Why!? Why am I noticed so soon after entering the room!?"

I got caught by the Ancient Literature teacher immediately after entering the room. Why?

"I want to hear what excuse you have regarding the essay 'translate the Tsurezuregusa[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume3.5_Translation_Notes_and_References#] into Modern Language'!"

"Ah, I did hand in my homework properly."

"I'm asking why did you turn the Tsurezuregusa into a rap!?"

"Eh? But sensei wanted it to be translated into the modern language, and speaking of modern Japanese, isn't it—"

"Ah, Yoshii-kun, remember to come over here after you're done there."

"Yoshii, that Chemistry report you handed in was too ridiculous! Come over and explain it to me later."

Unknowingly, I got surrounded by several teachers. Well, if this is the case, forget about completing the plan, I'll be hounded by these teachers till night! Got to find a way to get away from them!

"Excuse me..."

Just as I'm pondering on what to do, someone else entered the staffroom. Hm? Isn't that Hideyoshi?

"Ooh, isn't that Kinoshita? What's wrong?"

"I, I suddenly...don't feel too good...but the health teacher isn't...in..."

Hideyoshi cupped his mouth. He really doesn't look too good. Is he sick?

"Hideyoshi, are you—"

I frantically rushed towards him. At this moment, he suddenly blinked at me. I see, so he's acting! As expected of someone from the drama club, I nearly got fooled.

"Sorry, but can I rest here—"

Before finishing, Hideyoshi collapsed onto the floor.

"Ki, Kinoshita! Are you alright?"

"Anyway, let's take him to the sickbay!"

"You, you're right! Sensei, please carry his legs!"

A few teachers start to create quite the ruckus. After that, everyone in the staffroom left to accompany Hideyoshi to the sick bay. Brilliantly done, Hideyoshi!

"Let's use this opportunity to get back those confiscated items. Let me see, Ironman...no wait, it's Nishimura. Nishimura's..."

I checked the nametag on the cupboards which are according to order. Oh, found it. It's this one.

"...Speaking of which, I somehow imagined that bugs will crawl out of Ironman's cupboard."

Though I'm a bit fearful, I have no time to hesitate. I pull out the key Hideyoshi handed to me and pull the door handle down, opening the metal cupboard effortlessly.

"Oh, it's unexpectedly clean..."

The cupboard's arranged rather neatly, and the bag of confiscated goods are placed in an obvious place.

"Let's get out of here before someone notices—hm?"

Just as I was about to lock the cupboard up and run away, I noticed a pile of old books tied up in raffia strings. Should be meant for throwing away.

"Uu~hm...since he's going to throw it, I might as well take it. Maybe I can get some money as well."

After grabbing the books with both hands, I immediately dashed out of the staffroom.

"Okay! At least we achieved our goal!"

After what happened just now, I brought the spoils—the bag of confiscated items back to Yuuji, only taking away my own stuff and the pile of old books. I then took them over to a second-hand shop to exchange these spoils for cash.

My handheld games and gaming software garnered a price lower than what I expected, while that pile of books got quite the price; what a nice mistake in estimation. I really got to thank Ironman for this.

"Let me see, is that girl here~"

"Ah! Onii-chan! You're here!"

Hazuki-chan immediately came running over to me the moment I approached the park. She really looked like a cute puppy, and that even warms my heart. Maybe it's because I'm often surrounded by idiots, Ironman and a violent girl...

"Mm, because we arranged to meet each other. Oh yeah, where did you get that doll from?"

Looking closely, Hazuki-chan's hugging something similar to the Noi doll that she wanted to buy (is that what it's called?). It looks as if it was sewn by hand.

"There was a pretty onee-chan who came over and said to me 'If that onii-chan couldn't succeed, then give this to your sister!' and handed it over to me!"

"?"

"And she also said 'If that onii-chan managed to buy the doll, i'll give this doll to you.'."

The kid's lack of order in her speech confused me.

Erm, let me straighten Hazuki-chan's words out—

—A pretty onee-chan came to Hazuki-chan today.

—And then, she handed this handmade doll over to Hazuki-chan

—This pretty onee-chan even said that if I couldn't do it, she'll give this doll to Hazuki-chan's sister as a gift.

—But if I succeeded, this doll will go to Hazuki-chan.

—So that's how it is.

"Mmm, is that so? Then this doll will go to Hazuki-chan."

"Eh? Really?"

"Yeah. And this doll will go to Hazuki-chan's sister."

I hand over the large doll in my hand over to Hazuki-chan. It should be tough for her petite body to carry such a large doll, but she still received it delightedly.

"This is great! Thank you, onii-chan!"

"No problems. It'll be great if your sister can cheer up."

I patted her head. Hazuki-chan seems to enjoy it as she slowly closes her eyes.

"Uu~ Ah, that's right! Onii-chan, can you lend me your ear?"

"Eh? What is it? Are you going to say a secret to me or something?"

"Don't ask, just lend me your ear."

Is she about to thank me? I'm really touched. One can't become a proper adult if the person can't even say 'thank you' or 'sorry'.

"Okay, what is it?"

I bent over to match her height, but unexpectedly—

"Thank you, onii-chan♪"

Whoosh! A cute sensation passes my face. Eh? This...don't tell me this is...

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"Wha, wha, wha..."

"Onii-chan may be an idiot, but he's so gentle! Hazuki-chan loves you! When I grow up, I'll let you become my husband!"

Without waiting for me to reply, Hazuki-chan skips out of the park.

Re, recently, these elementary school students are...

I touched my face with my hand, seemingly wanting to wipe away the soft sensation that's left on the face. Even without looking at the mirror, I know my face is red. How, how embarrassing...she's just an elementary school kid...

"Hoo...time for me to go back as well..."

After lifting my bag up and slinging it over my back, I head off towards the exit of the park. While exiting, I see a familiar figure yesterday. That person is—

"Excuse me...are you Himeji-san?"

"Ah, yes, what is it—YO, YOSHII-KUN!"

So it's Himeji-san. It sure is hard to find another girl as pretty. I can't possibly be mistaken.

"Sorry, I seemed to have scared you."

"No, no worries. I was just dazed..."

Our conversation got interrupted just like that. This, this is really awkward...what should I say to a friend who I haven't met for a long time?

"Erm, that...it's really a coincidence that we met here. Did you just finish class? But you look rather tired here, are you?"

"Yes,because I stayed up all night..."

"Hei~so Himeji-san would also stay up."

The impression she gives is that she lives her life normally, but it's unexpected that she would stay up.

"That's not it, I just stayed up last night, because I have something I need to do no matter what..."

She inadvertently yawned as she continued to talk. Himeji-san sure is cute when she lets out some tears due to sleepiness.

"Then, I'll be going off in this direction, goodbye."

"Ah, mm, byebye."

I waved my hand to Himeji-san, who bowed to me courteously.

While walking home, I just realized—oh ya, why did Himeji-san appear in such a place?

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"...There was a case of theft in the staffroom room."

The next morning, during self-study period, Ironman suddenly mentioned this. He's definitely referring to the bag of confiscated items that we got yesterday.

"Such a tragedy worth being angry over, don't you think so, Yoshii?"

He actually threw this question at me. As expected of Ironman, he must have realized that I was the perpetrator, but who will follow you obediently?

"Yeah, sure is worth sighing over."

I naturally replied with these few words. No problems, I got everything under control.

"Really? Speaking of which, that culprit even took sensei's books."

Hm? Books? Is he referring to that bundle of books? Wasn't he going to throw them away?

"And that culprit actually had the guts to use his own identity to sell my books to a second-hand shop."

"Is that so, he sure has guts."

"Yeah, hahahaha!"

"Ahhahaha..."

Ironman and I started laughing with all enthusiasm. Really, we're laughing with all sorts of happiness—at least it looked that way if not for those eyes.

"YOSHII! GET READY TO DIE!!!"

"So, sorry! Who knew that it was sensei's collection, I didn't—"

"Are you saying that you didn't even think of it?"

"No, I did think about it, but then I thought 'since its Ironman's, it doesn't matter~'! OW! OUCH! SENSEI! MY SKULLCAP GOT SMASHED IN BY YOU!"

"So you idiot has the highest suspicion. Looks like I have to be even more careful and watch you."

"Sensei! I'm feeling that I've been watched by you all this time, there's no way for you to watch me further!"

"No, there still is, right? I got a really precious title of honor that's suitable for you—"

"Eh, this is..."

"Everyone at the staff meeting this morning have all agreed, so accept this. This is a present that sensei's handing you."

From who knows when, Ironman suddenly has a piece of paper in his hand. This plain white paper has only a single line on it.

—Yoshii Akihisa.

The above mentioned has been designated as the 'Punishment Inspector' of Fumitzuki Gakuen.

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"Onee-chan!"

Hm? Hazuki, what's up?"

"Well, this is for onee-chan!"

"Eh? Isn't this the Noi doll that I always wanted? How did you..."

"Because onee-chan looked so lethargic. Hazuki prepared it for onee-chan to cheer onee-chan up!"

"Hazuki...really, you...thank you, onee-chan's really happy!"

"Schoolwork may be tough, but you must work hard, Minami nee-chan!"

"Hm, I'll do my best! I'll feel like I lost if I continue to mess around like this. And also..."

"And also what?"

"I'm mindful of someone in school."

"Eh? Onee-chan's mindful of someone? Who is it? How is that person like?"

"Well~as repayment of the Noi doll, I'll only say this to Hazuki. That person is in the same class as me, and he's one huge idiot~"

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Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume3 The Second Question

2011-03-07T00:57:43Z

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===The Second Question===

'''Please write the diary entry for the first day of the training course.'''

'''Himeji Mizuki's Diary:'''

After getting off at the tram stop, I was overwhelmed by a sudden dizziness. The smell of the trees and the change of scenery, the difference in air quality compared to the streets of the city, seemed to prophesize that something good would happen.

'''Teacher's advice:'''

It seems the change of environment is a great stimulus. I wish Himeji to have a great time and create some memories that belong only to the second year of your high schooling.

'''Tsuchiya Kouta's Diary:'''

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After getting off at the tram stop, I felt overwhelmed by dizziness. I wonder what caused it?

'''Teacher's advice:'''

It's carsickness.

'''Yoshii Akihisa's Diary:'''

At the tram stop, I took in a whiff of the air, it seemed a little sweet, yet sour. A very mysterious smell, and my deep thoughts echoed whether or not it was the speciality of this town.

'''Teacher's advice:'''

I am definitely sure if Tsuchiya besides you was not vomiting, you would have a different impression of the air quality of this town.

Noticing the greenery pass the bus window, I finally left the city that I’m so used to staying in, and is heading towards the highlands that give off such a realistic feeling.

“Seems like we’re going to be on this tram for another 2 hours.”

Himeji-san is sitting opposite me as she slips her handphone back into her pocket. She should be checking out the bus directory.

“There’s two hours left, but I don’t want to sleep. What should I do~”

As the space in the bus is small, there’re only so many things we can do. Our handheld games were confiscated, so we couldn’t bring them. There’s unexpectedly so few things that we can do.

I turn around and look at Yuuji, who’s looking outside. also looking rather bored, he yawned.

“Yuuji, got something interesting?”

“Isn’t there a mirror in the toilet? You can look into it until it breaks.”

“Eh, you’re saying that my face looks interesting?”

“Nope, you’re mistaken. I’m saying that your face—really can’t make anyone laugh.”

“What do you mean by you can’t laugh at it!? Is my face so bad that no one can laugh at it!?”

“I’m saying what’s interesting in your guardian spirit.”

“A guardian spirit? You can see those kinds of things, Yuuji?”

“Mm, I can see it. Dyed in blood, messed-up long black hair, that’s a rare guardian spirit you have there.”

“No matter what, anyone who looks like that wouldn’t be protecting me, right?”

That should be well-known as a ghost from behind, right?

“Relax, I’m just half-joking.”

“Ah, what the hell, you scared me.”

“Actually, the hair is coffee in colour.”

“Forget about the colour, that’s not the important thing!”

Though I feel that Yuuji should be joking right from the start, I still find it a bit horrifying. If I’m to listen to him even more, it’ll become a monster talk. But then again, my luck recently has been really bad, maybe it’s some impure thing coming over to haunt me…never mind, let’s just prepare some salt to chase them away.

“Oh, Minami, what are you reading?”

Opposite Yuuji, diagonally in front of me, Minami is reading a book that’s about as large as a notepad. It’s really rare for Minami to read this when she’s not really good in Kanji. Is it something that introduces red rubies?

“Hm? You’re talking about this? It’s a book of psychological tests. I bought it since it costs 100 yen, but I didn’t expect it to be so interesting.”

Psychological tests? Seems like we have something to kill the time off.

“Ohh~ seems interesting. Why don’t you give me a question, Minami?”

“Mm, alright.”

After saying this, Minami flips through a few pages.

“Then let’s start. ‘Please choose someone from the opposite gender that fits the following colours’.”

So, a colour impression? I suppose this is to choose who I find suits the colour the most, right?

“’① Green ② Orange. ③ Blue’

Please say the names of the persons who you find are suitable for the above colours.”

Ooo~ Green, orange and blue, huh?

“Erm—Minami, why are you staring at me so intently? At least let me answer the question first.”

“I, I’m not! Stop yapping and start answering!”

“Hm~…if that’s the case, then ‘Green=>Minami, Orange=>Hideyoshi and Blue=>Himeji-san’, or something like that.”

PLACK—Minami lets out a terrifying sound between her fingers.

“Mi, Minami-san…why must you rip the book right through in half?”

“AND YOU DARE ASK WHY!?”

“Eh?”

“WHY IS MY COLOUR GREEN AND MIZUKI’S BLUE? CARE TO EXPLAIN?”

Wa! Though I don’t know what’s going on, she’s really infuriated! For her to get so angry from just a psychological test, do I have something against tests?

“Eve, even if you ask me why, I…”

Because you’re wearing grassy-green underwear—she’ll throw me out of the bus window if I say this, right?

“I won’t get angry, so just say it.”

“Because your underwear’s grassy-green underwear.”

“SAKAMOTO, OPEN THE WINDOW!”

“YOU’RE THINKING OF THROWING ME OUT RIGHT!? YOU’RE THINKING OF THROWING ME OUT OF THE WINDOW RIGHT!!?”

“Shimada, you can’t just throw trash out of the window.”

“Thanks for stopping Minami, Yuuji, but you just treated me like trash without thinking, right?”

“Doesn’t matter anyway, since you’re not trash, but a scumbag.”

“What now~ I haven’t been treated like this so cruelly in a long time.”

“You should put a scumbag into a waste carriage.”

“And even Yuuji’s treating me like one…”

Why must I be always treated like this!?

Just as I grit my teeth to endure this agony of humanity, Yuuji easily snatches that booklet of psychology (or rather, it was one anyway) from Minami’s hands.

“AH! What are you doing!?”

“Let me see! Green represents ‘friend’, orange represents ‘source of motivation, and blue represents—ohh. I see.”

Yuuji glances at Minami and me a few times before giving a sly look. I’ll go mad everytime he gives such a look.

“Sa, Sakamoto! Return that to me!”

“Sorry sorry. It looked interesting, so I really felt like borrowing it to take a look.”

Minami puffs her cheeks in anger as Yuuji doesn’t look sincere at all when he apologized.

“Speaking of which, does Yuuji want to participate?”

“You’re right. Shimada, can I join in too?”

“Alright alright…but, but I have to make this clear, there wasn’t any significance in that question just now!”

“Okay okay, I got it.”

What was written on that book?

“Can I join in too?”

At this moment, Hideyoshi moves over. He’s sitting together with Muttsulini behind us, seems like he’s bored as well.

“I’m okay with it.”

Minami looks a bit unhappy, seems like she’s a bit jealous of Hideyoshi.

“Well, thanks. Ah, Akihisa, regarding the answer just now…”

“What answer?”

“The question just now was ‘Please choose someone from the opposite gender that fits the following colour’, right? Who did you choose for orange?”

“You, Hideyoshi.”

“…I’m happy to hear that when you mentioned this, but I do feel really troubled by this…”

Hideyoshi lowered his head as he muttered this. What’s going on?

“Speaking of which, is Muttsulini not participating?”

“Looks like he’s asleep. I heard that he did quite a lot of investigations.”

I poke my head out past the back of the chair, Muttsulini is definitely sleeping.

“I guess it’s better not to bother him.”

“You’re right.”

Seeing him sleep like this, it’ll be pitiful if he’s to be called up suddenly.

“Erm, excuse me. Can I join in as well?”

Sitting opposite us, Himeji-san shyly raises her hand.

“Then let’s have everyone play.

I answered for Minami while she still looked unhappy. Besides, she won’t mind Himeji-san joining in as well.

“Oh yeah, Minami, about that ‘opposite gender person that represents blue’, what’s the answer?”

“…I won’t say it, even till I die.”

“How, how did it become like this…”

Himeji-san’s wide eyes look a bit teary. It’s because of those teary eyes that I immediately thought of her the moment I heard blue.

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“Ah…never mind, on to the next question.”

Minami sighs and again flips through the torn psychology test booklet. To be able to rip a booklet right down the middle, how strong is Minami anyway?

“’From the numbers ‘1’ to ‘10’, please choose the first two numbers that you thought of.’”

“I’m 5 and 6”

Yuuji said.

“Well, I’m 2 and 7.”

Hideyoshi replied.

“I’m 1 and 4.”

I gave my answer as well.

“Then I’m 3 and 9.”

Himeji-san finally has an answer.

After hearing our comments, Minami slowly flips through a page off the booklet in her hands.

“Let me see. ‘The first number the person thinks of represents how others view the person’. If so—”

“A snarky, cool guy.”-- Yuuji.

“A calm and sensible person.”-- Hideyoshi.

“Go to hell.”-- Me.

“Caring and cautious”-- Himeji-san.

Minami said out the results of this.

“Oh, I see.”

“To be called sensible, I’m rather happy.”

“Erm~ why am I the only getting scolded?”

“So I’m gentle and cautious, huh~”

We all said out our thoughts.

“Next, ‘the second number represents the real personality hidden within you’. So, let me see—”

Similar to what she did just now, Minami pointed at everyone.

“A just and gentle person.”-- Yuuji.

“A very attractive person.”-- Hideyoshi.

“Go and die painfully.”-- Me.

“A strong-willed person.”-- Himeji-san.

She again gives us the answer.

“Hideyoshi is really attractive.”

“Himeji is a strong-willed girl, huh?”

“Erm~ Why am I being the only one scolded even more?”

“Sakamoto-kun really gives a feeling that he’s gentle.”

Our conversation starts to revolve around the psychology test, and everyone continued to have fun.

After that, Minami started to play a few of these psychology test with us.

After a while,

“…(Pats pats).”

“Ah, morning, Muttsulini.”

“You’re awake.”

“…Woke up because I’m hungry.”

“Oh? It’s that time already?”

I pull out the handphone to confirm the time, and the time shown on the screen right now is 1:15pm. Normally, this would be past lunchtime already.

“Perfect timing. Why don’t we have our lunch now?”

“You’re right. We won’t be able to finish dinner if we had lunch too late.”

Food is a really important source of nutrition. I won’t deliberately give any excuse that I ate already this time; that would truly be a waste.

“Ah, it’s time for lunch, right? If so—”

At this moment, Himeji-san reaches her hand into a bag beside her, searching for something, and I have a bad feeling about this.

“Actually, I made quite a lot of bentos, so it possible…”

The prediction became through! Himeji-san takes out a large bento box!

I’m really grateful for her kind intention, but unfortunately, the food that she makes aren’t just a masterpiece of creativity, it’s a strong poison that can threaten anyone’s life.

“Sorry Himeji, but I did bring my own bento.”

“Sorry, I brought mine as well.”

“…Same here.”

Yuuji, Hideyoshi and Muttsulini all pull out their lunches to prove it, seems like they were completely prepared.

“This is how it is, so Akihisa, please accompany Himeji as you eat your lunch.”

Yuuji reveals an expression of glee over my misfortune. They must have thought that since I’m in poverty, I won’t be able to prepare my own bento.

Hoho, you’re too naïve if you thought that.

“I’m sorry. Actually, I prepared my own bread.”

“Oh my! My hand slipped! (smacks me)”

“…my foot slipped. (steps on it)”

“AHHH! MY BREAD! MY BREAD!”

After Yuuji caused me to drop my bread onto the floor, Muttsulini followed up by stepping on it a few times.

Damn it! Your combination is too perfect! How am I supposed to react?

Even so, I’m not so weak so as to give up even after my bread got stepped on a few times.

“Hahaha, you guys aren’t careful at all. Really, why don’t you treasure food more—”

“—You’re right. Why shouldn’t we treasure food? I'll finish up this squished bread, so Akihisa, just eat Himeji’s bento.”

““……(staring at each other)””

“Ah sorry Yuuji. My hand slipped so—”

“I’ll grab you to prevent your hand from slipping.”

““……(glaring at each other)””

“Then Akihisa-kun, if you don’t mind—”

Himeji-san shyly brings the bento in front of me. I’m really~really happy, but after seeing the contents of the bento, I can’t even bring myself to start tucking in.

“Ah~ Well, this…”

“Aki, do you want to eat my bento as well?”

Just as I was ready to use my specialty ‘stomachache attack’, Minami unexpectedly gave me an escape route. This is truly a once in a million chance!

“Thanks Minami for sharing! How about everyone open up their bentos? Then we can all share!”

I see Yuuji shoot me a ‘what kind of bastardly idea is this?’ blaming look. Really, this made me feel so good about it.

“Well, well Muttsulini and I will go back to our seats and eat.”

“…(Nods head vigourously).”

Oh, so Hideyoshi and Muttsulini are both intending to escape, huh? Nevermind, my target has only been Sakamoto Yuuji right from the start!

“I don’t need it, besides, I have Akihisa’s bread in my hand.”

Though Yuuji’s face is looking as gentle as ever, his gaze is ever serious.

“Don’t say this, Yuuji…”

“I see, so you want to eat my bento as well! Go ahead, take as much as you want!”

“GUUH!!”

My mouth got stuffed with a lot of things. Yuuji seemed to have stuff my mouth with sandwiches to prevent me from saying anything. Can I even say anything anymore?

I frantically chew on the food to swallow it. Humph! This American-style sandwich is too delicious! Roasted chicken with some special marinade on it.

“(swallows)—that was good!”

A layer of butter was applied on the surface of the toast to prevent moisture, only the leaves of the lettuce was used, the lettuce was used to wrap the tomatoes and chicken to prevent the moisture from oozing out, and there’s a layer of wasabi sauce and mayonnaise on the chicken as well…

“Oi Yuuji, did you make this yourself?”

“…Can’t I?”

How should I say it? The sandwich he made was surprisingly good, really shocked me. This guy really isn’t some amateur at this, he always has his way of doing things.

“Then have some of mine.”

This time, Minami places her bento in front of me. Ooohh, hers is traditional. Deep-fried meat balls, siewmais and asparagus rolls are all lined up nicely in the bento box. She still gave me these even though she was in a bad mood during the psychology test games, really, Minami is gentle! I have to see her from a different viewpoint.

“Then if you don’t mind me.”

Now, what shall I eat? I’m getting puzzled since I haven’t eaten a proper meal for a long time. Oh~ well, then I’ll take the siewmai! Though it’s rude, I still used my hand to pick one up and pop it into my mouth.

“Aki, that, well…I’m trying to summon my courage to say this! Actually, I intended to let you eat that siewmai—”

“Hm? What? (chewing)”

“—because between the 2 siewmais , one of them has wasabi in it.”

“ARE YOU STUPID!?”

SPICY!! I’M GOING TO DIE OF SPICINESS!! MY TONGUE HAS GONE NUMB!!

“Akihisa, you might be lucky in a certain sense.”

Yuuji patted his hand on my shoulder just as I’m going about looking for water.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN I’M LUCKY…ah yes! Since my taste buds are all damaged, maybe I might be able to take Himeji-san’s toxic food! If so, I got to remain in this invincible mode and—

“I’m taking your bento, Himeji-san!”

“Ah, yes. Please have more of it.”

“I’m tucking in—”

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Waking up, I find myself in an unknown room.

“Ah, Akihisa, you’re awake? Good…seems like the electric shock was effective!”

Yuuji raises what looks like an electric iron in his hand, revealing an expression that looks like he can finally heave a sigh of relief.

—ARE YOU JOKING? WAS I REALLY IN TREADDING BETWEEN THE LINE OF LIFE AND DEATH?

“Speaking of which, is this where our camp is?”

“Ah, yes. Our school is rich, that’s for sure. I heard that this hotel was bought by Fumitzuki Gakuen to be used as the dormitory for our training course.”

This place was modified to be the dormitory for our training course? In other words, we can summon summoned beasts here, right?

—This is Fumitzuki Gakuen alright. However, since they’re willing to splash the cash whenever they want to, I hope that the school will help provide free lunches.

“Oh, Akihisa! You alright!? What a relief…when I heard you start to regret about everything you did in your past life, I thought you were gone…”

Hideyoshi, who came into the room, placed his hand on his chest.

Good thing I survived.

“Thanks for worrying about me. Is Hideyoshi staying here as well?”

“Yes, and with Muttsulini, the four of us will be staying here.”

Seems like this place is large enough to allow 8 people to sleep here, but maybe it was because of the class sorting that the four of us can stay in such a large room…did they decide to put us problematic students here together?

At this moment, I noticed that the last person who’s supposed to stay with us in this room isn’t here.

“Where did Muttsulini go? Did he go out to peek?”

“I don’t think it’s nice to say that about your friend…”

Kachang. “…I’m back.” Speak of the devil, Muttsulini’s back.

“Oh, you’re back, Muttsulini.”

“…It’s great that you’re okay, Akihisa.”

“Ah, so you were worried about me? Sorry about that.”

“…Thanks to that, the information I worked hard to find won’t go to waste.”

“Information? You’re talking about what Akihisa and I asked you to check? You’re really fast!”

Yuuji had quite the reaction the moment he heard the word ‘information’. Ah, we asked him to search out the culprit who took a photo of me (wearing an embarrassing maid costume) and recorded Yuuji’s voice (his marriage declaration).

“…I got trail of the tools that the culprit used.”

“Ohh, as expected of Muttsulini.”

“…From the culprit’s modus operandi, I can assume that it’s the same person involved in both cases.”

“I see. But not many people would do this thing. Since you feel this way, I suppose that’s right.”

Even so, doesn’t this mean that we have two of this kind of people (the culprit and Muttsulini) in our year? That’s really strange.

“So, who’s the culprit?”

“…(Shakes head)”

After being questioned, Muttsulini shakes his head with an apologetic look.

“Ah, so you don’t know who the culprit is?”

“…Sorry.”

“Why are you saying sorry to us? You’re willing to help us, and we’re grateful for that.”

That’s right. I asked him yesterday, so how can we expect him to find the culprit today? Things aren’t that simple.

“…I only know that ‘the culprit’s a girl, and her butt got burned a bit’.”

“What are you investigating anyway?”

Wouldn’t people normally check the name of the person, how the person looks or something? Who would know whether there’s a burn burn on the butt!? I really want to know how that guy investigated this.

“…I set up a network over the entire school.”

At the same time he said this, Muttsulini pulled out a small machine. What’s this thing?

“…A mini-recorder. I bugged the entire school with a lot of these.”

Beep--<welcome.>

After the button was pressed, a loud mix of voices echoes throughout the room.

“The voice quality’s rather bad.”

“Can’t be helped. Since we’re searching through the entire school, it’s hard to maintain the sound quality and accuracy.”

Though we can barely hear that it’s a girl, we can’t tell who it is.”

<I’ll like to request for another Yuuji’s wedding declaration…”

After that, it’s another girl’s voice. Like the previous one, we can’t really tell who it is just from the sound, but this unique way of talking, and the content, anyone can just use their kneecap to guess who this is.

“IT’S, IT’S SHOUKO!! THAT GIRL, SHE HAS ALREADY STARTED?”

“She’s really anxious about this.”

Exactly what does Kirishima-san like about this guy anyway?

<Thanks for patroning. Since it’s the second time, I’ll sell it to you at a cheaper price.”

<…The price doesn’t matter, just hurry up and give it to me.>

<As expected of a rich ojou-sama, straight to the point. How about tomorrow—I wanted to say this, but training course starts tomorrow, so I’ll only hand it to you next Monday.>

<…I got it. I will endure.>

“Hoo, that was too dangerous…good thing the training course saved my life…”

“So it got delayed till next Monday.”

Even so, we can’t work on the weekends, so actually, we have only 4 days left.

“…And the other conversation includes the culprit’s identity.”

Muttsulini operates the machine again.

<Still a scary photograph. Wouldn’t you get punished really badly if people are to find out that you’ve been secretly taking these photographs?>

<Well, actually, I got caught by my own mother before.>

<Then, were you okay?>

<She burned me on the backside. Really, how prehistoric was this kind of punishment already?>

What followed was some really boring business talk.

“…That’s all we know of for now.”

“I see, so that’s the reason why you said that the culprit has a burn on the butt.”

“From how the conversation went just now, it seems like the culprit’s a girl.”

“The other person seems a bit pretentious, but it seems like she’s a girl as well.”

We were worried about the sound quality, that it may be so bad that we wouldn’t be able hear the conversation clearly, but since it’s girls talk, if they aren’t girls, it’s Hideyoshi’s doing.

“This is really a beneficial piece of information to us, but a burn on the butt…even if we’re to flip a girl’s skirt, we might not be able to find out who the culprit is. Ah~hum…”

“We can’t even capture a burn mark even if we’re to use an infrared camera…”

Beside me, Yuuji gives a serious look that shows that he’s thinking of a way to peek at a girl’s butt.

“So what were you guys talking about since a while back?”

Seeing us serious with that thinking look, Hideyoshi tilted his head slightly as he said this. That’s right, we haven’t told Hideyoshi what’s going on.

“Hideyoshi, actually—(omitting the rest out).”

I gave him a brief explanation of what happened to us. If we explain it clearly, Hideyoshi should be willing to help us out.

“I see. But if the burned part’s on the bu…”

Hideyoshi gives us a cute look as he thinks of a way to help us.

“Ah, but it’ll be bathing time soon. Can’t we just get Hideyoshi to check who has the burn mark on her butt?”

“Akihisa, why do you want me to enter the girls bathing area?”

Oh my, my proposal’s too great! There should be no problems now.

“Not possible, Akihisa.”

However, Yuuji dampened my enthusiasm. Is there something on the training course itinerary?

“Why not?”

“Well, that’s to be expected, since I’m a guy.”

“Just read the 3rd page of the itinerary booklet.”

I obediently follow Yuuji’s instructions and read the 3rd page. Looking at it—

~Dormitory bathing locations and timeslots~

Boys classes A, B, C –20:00~21:00 Large bathroom (Male)

Boys classes D, E, F –21:00~22:00 Large bathroom (Male)

Girls classes A, B, C –20:00~21:00 Large bathroom (Female)

Girls classes D, E, F –21:00~22:00 Large bathroom (Female)

Class F’s Kinoshita Hideyoshi –20:00~21:00 Personal Bathroom (4)

“Damn it! Now we can’t get Hideyoshi to help us out now.”

“Seems that way.”

“Why am I the only one with a personal bathroom?”

And I thought that this was a perfect plan. What a pity!

Just as the four of us were muttering and thinking of a plan.

—DABOOM!!

“EVERYONE PUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK AND GET DOWN!!!”

Our room door was busted open, and several girls came running in.

“Wha, what’s going on?”

“Get over here, Kinoshita! You three over there, don’t think of putting up any resistance!”

Standing in the frontmost position, Minami immediately darted to the window to prevent us from escaping. Nice, as expected of Minami!

“Why did you guys run to the window so suddenly?”

This isn’t the problem now, right?

“Now I want to know why in the world did you girls come rushing into our room?”

After closing the window, Yuuji questioned the entire group of girls. Muttsulini and I also put down our extremely heavy bags and turn around to face them.

“And you dare to act like you’re innocent. We already knew that you guys are the culprits!”

Showing a high and mighty attitude as she walks past Minami is class C’s representative, Koyama-san. All the girls behind her fold their arms, looking like they agree as they nod their heads.

“Culprits? What are you talking about?”

“This.”

Koyama-san tosses something in front of us. What’s that?

“…CCD camera and a mini-microphone.”

Having absolute knowledge regarding these kinds of things, Muttsulini answered.

Oh, I see. So this was installed inside the girl’s changing room—

“Eh? Isn’t that peeping? Who would do such a thing?”

“Stop playing dumb! Who would do this sort of things besides you guys?”

Hearing this, Hideyoshi steps in and confronts Koyama-san.

“It’s not like that. We didn’t do such a thing! This dastardly thing of peeping—”

In order to prove our innocence, Hideyoshi got so anxious that his voice got hoarse naturally without anyone noticing. I should respond to that trust.

“That’s right, we didn’t do such a thing!”

“…(Nods head violently).”

While Hideyoshi refuted this, Muttsulini and I moved forward, only to be glared at by Koyama-san.

“So what’s with this dastardly way of peeping?”

“…I…really can’t deny it…”

“WHAT? IS THE TRUST BETWEEN US ONLY TO THIS EXTENT!?”

To think that Hideyoshi thinks that Muttsulini and I are of an equal level? I’m going to cry…

“I really didn’t think that Yoshii-kun, you guys…will actually go to this extent…”

Among the crowd of extremely murderous girls, Himeji-san said this with an incredulous voice of disbelief. Hearing her say this, it’s like we betrayed her trust, it really hurts and aches. BUT I DON’T REMEMBER DOING SUCH A THING!! 

“Aki…I trusted you, why must you do such a despicable thing…?”

“Minami, if you really believed me, you wouldn’t be preparing those interrogation tools, right?”

On a side note, I don’t sense any trust from her at all.

“Himeji-san, you’re mistaken! We’re really…!”

“I’m angry! You actually went to peep on us while our stomachs were all full with dinner—my waist isn’t normally that big, it’s a lot skinnier!”

So that’s your reason for being angry?

“My, my bust isn’t as big as usual, you know!?”

“That’s a lie.”

“EVERYONE, GIVE HIM A GOOD LESSON!!”

“I’m, I’m sorry!! I accidentally said my true thoughts out loud!”

The girls quickly surround us, forcing Muttsulini and me to kneel down with stone blocks on us. Not good! The only person we can ask for help right now is—

“HELP, YUUJI!! HURRY UP AND SAVE US!!”

“…I won’t forgive you for being fickle-minded in love.”

“Hang on, Shouko! Calm down for a while GYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!”

“Before you admit your deeds, we’ll love you to our hearts’ contents!”

Now Minami has finally revealed her sadistic personality. We’ll die if we don’t improve her mood! I don’t like to lie, but we got to praise her a bit.

“Well, I have been looking at Minami’s huge breasts you know GYYYYAAAHHH!!”

“Now for the first block.”

I definitely praised her! She still dropped such a heavy object on my knees even after I did my best to praise her!!

“Yoshii-kun, so you’ve seen Minami-chan’s breasts…?”

“Ah ha ha ha. Nar nar. Gentle Himeji-san won’t want to drop something heavy on me right AHHOOOOWWWW!!”

“You should answer the question properly, you know?’

Nowadays, I feel that there’s something more to Himeji-san’s smile than a smile.

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Seems like I got too close to death a lot more times than usual today.

After 30 minutes of interrogation, we were released due to insufficient evidence.

“This is just added punishment…speaking of which, why am I the only one treated as a victim?”

“Yeah, that’ll cause a misunderstanding.”

“…There wasn’t any visible evidence left behind in the first place.”

Muttsulini, your words may end up bringing us back into the torturous Hell!

Oh yeah, Yuuji should be alright, right? Why hasn’t he made a single sound yet?

“Yuuji, you alright? Why haven’t you said anything yet?”

As I asked, Yuuji suddenly stood up as if he made some huge decision.

“…Isn’t this perfect?”

The deep, angry voice bellows throughout the room.

“Eh? What’s with you, Yuuji?”

“Since they won’t be convinced even with all these, why don’t we grant them their wish?”

His eyes are blazing with determination as if they’re on fire.

“Are you really thinking…”

“Yes, that’s exactly what I’m thinking. Since they have decided that we were peeping on them, WHY DON’T WE JUST PEEP ON THEM BRAZENLY!!”

“Yuuji, if you really want to see Kirishima-san’s naked body so much, why don’t you just ask her?”

And we’re already thinking about peeping on them while they’re on their guard. There has to be a limit to stupidity.

“Wha, are you stupid? I’m not interested in Shouko’s naked body!”

Man up and tell the truth, Yuuji, I’m really interested.

“Uh huh, are you thinking of searching for the culprit with the burn mark on the butt?”

“That’s right. I already felt that it was too despicable, but since they accused us without any proof, there’s no need to consider this too much. WE’RE GOING TO PEEP ON THEM AND CATCH THE CULPRIT WHILE WE’RE AT IT!!”

Yuuji’s right. Since we’re treated like peeping toms, we should have the right to do this. Besides, if I don’t do this, those embarrassing photos of me will be scattered all over the world!

“…The camera and microphone just now were of the same model as the ones the culprit threatened you two with.”

“What? Is that true, Muttsulini?”

“…Undoubtably.”

“Really? Now that’s a fact worth being happy about.”

“Yeah.”

“…(Nods head).”

All three of them fold their arms and respond in unison. Eh, about that—

“Excuse me…but what’s the situation now?”

“Akihisa’s still Akihisa. You can’t even grasp this level of situation. Basically, here’s how it goes.” Yuuji takes out a piece of paper and starts to draw on it.

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“The person who blackmailed you and me used the same type of camera and microphone inside the girls’ changing room as the one used to blackmail us. Then, if the female culprit has a burn on her butt—”

“Ah, I see! As long as we can find the culprit with the burn mark on the butt, all the problems will be solved!”

Though peeping isn't something praiseworthy, we have no choice but to do this. This is for Yuuji, for me, our bright futures! Thus, we have to PEEP!

"But speaking of which, as long as things involve Kirishima-san, Yuuji would be extremely motivated. I'm really suspicious, is there really a need to go to this extent?"

That was a whole world of difference in contrast to his normally lazy attitude.

"...Actually, a while back, I was drugged by Shouko and got unconscious."

"I'm sorry, I forgot about that. It must have been really hard on you."

"The moment I woke up, I found myself kidnapped to her house."

So Yuuji got kidnapped to Kirishima-san's house. Since Yuuji didn't really care, she used such a hardcore method, huh? Kirishima-san really won't give up.

"Heh~so did you say hello to Kirishima-san's parents?"

"No, it's not that, her house--."

Don't tell me not just her parents, even her grandparents are living with her as well?

"--got my room prepared."

So Yuuji's about to take the last step, huh?

"If her family members hears the marriage proposal, my, my future will be..."

Seems like I'm getting used to Yuuji breaking down nowadays, however, a slightly broken Yuuji has a bit more variety. Oh well, that isn't bad.

"Er, guys, if we don't hurry, the bathing time for the girls will end."

"...(Nods head)."

"Eh? Hideyoshi and Muttsulini are going to help us?"

"Of course. My friend's in trouble, how can I just sit back and watch?"

"...(Nods head violently)."

As expected of my good friends; even if I got some unknown criminal record, even if it's really tough and not worth doing, they're still willing to lend us a helping hand.

"And I do have some responsibility regarding Yuuji's marriage proposal..."

Oh yeah, there's another reason to this. But the one who forced Yuuji to say this was me, so Hideyoshi has no need to be bothered by it.

"...I've already confirmed the location of the girls bathing area."

Muttsulini walks out of the room, his feet moving without any hesitation at all.

"Yosh! Yuuji, hurry and get up! We're going to peep! (Gives him a good hit)"

“Ugh—what’s going on?”

“Now Akihisa’s getting skilled in treating Yuuji.”

This most likely is because Yuuji’s been moving to that other world for no good reason.

“…There’s now 40 minutes left for the later group.”

Muttsulini checks his watch to confirm.

“No time left, we got to hurry.”

“You’re right, let’s run.”

“Got it!”

We didn’t wear any shoes or indoor slips, only socks as we moved about on the corridor. Of course, this is to prevent footstep sounds from being made.

Maybe because the boys and girls bathing times are the same, we didn’t meet anyone on the way.

“…After walking past the staircase and down a bit, it’ll be the girls’ bathing area.”

Muttsulini stopped in front of the stairs.

In other words, once we get down the stairs and go all the way, we’ll reach the girls’ bathing area. Since the place is underground, we can’t peek from outside, and had to go all the way down.

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“Alright, we don’t have much time left. So let’s break through the last line of defence!”

“The goal’s right in front of you.” Yuuji said.

“““…(Nods head)”””

The 3 of us silently nodded our heads and dashed down the stairs at a terrifying speed.

Taking 2 steps down at a time, and then moving down the corridor towards the girls’ bathing area…

“I heard that someone palced a video cam in the changing room, so I came over to stay guard. Didn’t expect the culprits to really come over.”

Looking around to find the source of the voice, the one that appeared in front of us was a familiar male teacher. It’s Fuse-sensei, the chemistry teacher.

“What now, Yuuji? It’s Fuse-sensei.”

“Don’t worry, we’ll just knock him out with a punch.”

“You should be worried, Sakamoto! I’m still a teacher, you know!”

“Got it, then we’ll settle it with a punch!”

“What are you doing, Yoshii?”

This was to defend out innocence. Once we find out who the culprit is, everyone will forgive us! That’s right, we’re pursuing the truth! Justice will always be on our side!

“—However, I’ll let you feel all this anger that I built up over remedial classes!”

“THAT’S JUST A SELFISH ACT OF REVENGE!”

My iron fist of justice locked onto Fuse-sensei, ready to fire out any second.

“GGGYYYAAA! Su, summon!”

Suddenly, a little body appeared in front of me and blocked my fist.

“A Summoned beast?”

I quickly jumped back and maintained a safe distance.

A familiar magic array appeared besides sensei’s feet. At this moment, what appeared in front of me is a summoned beast of a rather high level, several times stronger than those of the poor performers. If it’s a teacher’s summon, this summoned beast should have an immeasurable power.

However, a normal summoned beast should be unable to touch humans or physical objects.

“Damn it! So the teachers’ summoned beasts can touch physical objects?” Yuuji muttered bitterly.

Like what we’re seeing, my fist got blocked by Fuse-sensei’s summoned beast. In other words, sensei’s summoned beast can interfere with physics.

“Ho, so I finally managed to catch up? Before Yoshii was designated as a ‘punishment inspector’, we had to experience it ourselves, so our summoned beasts can touch physical objects. Besides, who asked us to be teachers? We have to step in and stop the young from going rampant sometimes.”

If so, Fuse-sensei should be rather used to controlling a summoned beast. Damn it, this situation’s getting harder and harder to handle.

“But isn’t this too despicable! Since you’re setting your own questions, wouldn’t your summoned beasts be too powerful!?”

Sensei’s answers should be similar to those model answers! If we’re to fight against someone at such a level, we can only remain in a disadvantageous position and can only try to get back up.

“No, this isn’t a real battle anyway, so it isn’t really despicable. Besides, you boys wanted to beat me up first, right?”

Adults are really despicable, always thinking of ways to trick us.

“And besides, teachers need to take tests. Our tests are set by teacher from other levels?”

“Eh, really?”

“Well, since the principal’s philosophy is that ‘teachers themselves should be at a level competent enough to educate students’.”

Really? Seeing the principal normally acting so nonchalantly, she sure is serious as an educator.

“Alright, time for you boys to be obedient, okay?”

Fuse-sensei’s summoned beast got into a battle position, and when we’re fighting against a summoned beast that’s a lot strong than an ordinary human, we don’t have a chance of winning if we don’t bring out a similar battle ability.

“Is so, we should resist with all we have and beat down Fuse-sensei’s summoned beast.”

“That’s the spirit! I’ll leave it you, Yuuji!”

Using Yuuji as a shield, I hastily moved forward.

“Hold it right there.”

My shirt suddenly got tugged back. What? I’m rush off to the girls’ bathing area.

“Let’s hear your chemistry score.”

Oh my, really. You don’t think you have a chance without me helping, do you? Can’t be helped…

That chemistry test. Almost made it, what a pity…just one mark, yes, if I could get one more mark—

“—With one extra mark, I could have gotten a double digit score.”

“Hurry up and scram, you useless piece of trash.”

It, it’s not what you think! I just accidently miswrote my answers on the next question! It’s not because my minds’ bad!

“If the opponent’s a teacher, it’ll be tough for one person to handle. I’ll stay as well, Akihisa, Muttsulini, hurry up and move on!”

Even if it’s Yuuji, it’s unlikely that he’ll beat a teacher, so Hideyoshi decided to stay behind and help him. If they’re working together, there should be no problems, right?”

“Then I’ll leave it to you then, Hideyoshi. Come on, summon!”

“For the sake of clearing the name of my friends, this is nothing. Summon!”

Yuuji and Hideyoshi have summoned their summoned beasts, and the summoning mechanism set within the hotel reacted to their call, causing familiar patterns to appear on the floor.

In the blink of an eye, both Hideyoshi and Yuuji’s summoned beasts appear.

“Muttsulini, as according to plan, leave this to Yuuji and Hiedyoshi. We’ll go—WHAT THE HELL, HE DISAPPEARED!?”

Muttsulini had already hastened his feet as he moved towards the girls’ bathing area. What amazing movement; I've got to catch up!

“Oi, you two! Tsuchiya, Yoshii! Hold on a minute!”

“Sorry, Fuse-sensei, but I won’t allow you to stop them.”

“That’s the case, so please stay behind and play with us.”

I could roughly hear Yuuji and the others talking, but Muttsulini and I dashed forward without looking back. Just at this moment though—

“Hold it right there.”

Another teacher blocked us.

“Daishima-sensei.” Muttsulini lets out a moan of agony.

It’s expected that he would be like this, since to Muttsulini, this opponent is like a grand master! This person who came over, Daishima-sensei, is in charge of Health Education.

But since the opponent is the Health Ed teacher, it might be good for us in a certain sense. Though Mutsulini is truly a rare national-class idiot when it comes to other subjects, his ability can really match a teacher. Seems like we’ll have an exciting match between these two.”

“Muttsulini.”

“…(nods head).”

Muttsulini looks serious as he nods his head, walking towards Daishima-sensei.

“…Daishima-sensei.”

“What.”

“…This isn’t peeping.”

Getting ready to summon, Daishima-sensei stopped what he was doing.

Seems like Muttsulini’s not intending to fight right from the start, but will try to convince Daishima-sensei. This is rare, especially for him.

“Then if it’s not peeping, what is it?”

Seems like Muttsulini’s tactic worked as Daishima-sensei retorted. Maybe it’ll be easier to convince him than Ironman? I got to see this.

“…This is—”

Though it’s soft, Muttsulini’s voice echoes inexplicably in my ears.

“—Practical health education.”

“Summon.”

Unfortunately, his attempt to convince sensei failed.

“I’ll leave it to you here, Muttsulini!”

“…Summon.”

Muttsulini looks unhappy as he summoned his summoned beast. Did he really think that he could convince Daishima-sensei with that? If he really thought so, I can only say that he is one enigmatic guy.

“I’ll go off first, Muttsulini! We’ll meet up once you beat sensei!”

After leaving Muttsulini with these words, I ran on ahead.

“So you think you can take me? You brats better listen, don’t ever—UNDERESTIMATE YOUR OWN TEACHERS!”

P.E. Teacher, Daishima Takeshi, Health Education 663 points

F class, Tsuchiya Kouta, Health Education 424 points

“…eh?”

I continued to run, but stopped due to being shocked.

Did I see Daishima-sensei’s points correctly before I left? 663 POINTS…IS THAT EVEN HUMANLY POSSIBLE? DID SOMETHING GO WRONG?

“Did they change the marks or something…?”

“You idiot, we teachers will definitely not do such a stupid thing!”

My little mutter got a familiar response. This, this voice is—

“YOU APPEARED, IRONMAN!”

“CALL ME NISHIMURA-SENSEI!”

His back facing the girls bathing area, my eternal enemy Ironman, also known as Nishimura-sensei, stood there, his muscular and brawny body blocking me.

“Really, I guess you people don’t know, but we teachers have to study as well! This is for us teachers to be professional!”

“Ah, I see. It’s been tough on you~”

“That’s right, an educator’s life is tough.” Ironman muttered painfully to himself.

Though I really can’t see it, it seemed like it’s really tough.

“On a side note, how much did Nishimura-sensei get?”

“I was busy relieving the ex-homeroom teacher, so I didn’t have time to take my tests, and so I don’t have any marks.”

“I see, so in other words, you don’t have any marks now, right? As expected of idiot Nishimura-sensei who has only brawns and doesn’t have a brain at all.”

“Yoshii, for safety’s sake, I’ll ask you this—what’s your blood type?”

Am I thinking too much? Why do I feel like he’s about to beat me down to death before transfusing blood back into me again?

“An, anyway, I got to get through! Move aside! Summon!”

I’ll reach my goal as long as I get past Ironman! Got to get through no matter what!

Remedial teacher, Nishimura Sochi, combined subjects NONE

Class F, Akihisa Yoshii, combined subjects 929 points.

“BRING IT ON!”

Facing my summoned beast, Ironman only clenches his fists and gets into a fighting position.

Eh? Fists? Isn’t he going to summon?

As far as I know, a summoned beast’s power is several times stronger than an ordinary human, so only a summoned beast can only fight against another summoned beast. But it seems like Ironman isn’t going to summon one.

“So sensei, did you forget that my summoned beast can touch physical objects?”

It’s true that normally, an ordinary student’s summoned beast can’t touch humans, so Ironman can just ignore the existence of the summoned beast and go after the human. However, my summoned beast has the ability of the ‘punishment inspector’, which allows it to touch humans and use it’s tremendous strength to easily beat Ironman. So in order not to allow me to do whatever I want, Ironman should summon a summoned beast to counter.

“You big idiot. How can I forget what kind of ability does the summoned beast of the one problematic student in our school’s history has?”

“But if so…”

“Didn’t I say it before, I don’t have any marks.”

Ironman answered me in an uninterested manner.

So without any marks, he can’t summon? If so, this is a once in a million rare chance.

“If so, including all the hatred that I accumulated up till now—TAKE THIS, IRONMAN!”

The summoned beast aims itself at Ironman and charges over. I’ll let him think that I’m attacking from the front before jumping to the side and throw my wooden sword at him from a blind angle—

“TIIIUU.”

Before I could send out a heavy hit, Ironman swung his fist down.

“…Eh?”

The wooden sword lets out a clatter as it lands on the floor.

“How can something like this be possible! For an ordinary human to beat a summoned beast…!”

Something must have gone wrong. I shouldn’t have used a weapon that I’m not used to, if I used only my summoned beast’s strength to fight, I would have beaten him now!

“Yoshii, do you know why I didn’t cancel your summoning rights up till now?”

Ironman quickly kicks my summoned beast lightly.

“GWWAH!!”

He merely kicked my summoned beast lightly, but it got kicked high into the air. Has he completely grasped the rhythm of my breathing?

“Oh my, good thing you’re a punishment inspector. If it’s just hitting a summoned beast—then it shouldn’t be considered corporal punishment, right?”

Flying high into the air, my summoned beast is defenceless as it shows itself before Ironman.

“Eh? I never felt that corporal punishment—”

“GRIT YOUR TEETH AND DIE!!”

In an instant, I got hit by his fist 5 times.

“GUAH!”

The sharp pain that caused my sight to go dark reverberates throughout my body.

How, how can there be such a ridiculous punch? Just the recoil from the punch alone is enough to flip all the contents in my gut…

“However, since you did attack in a manly way, I won’t let you get suspended. For gentle and kind Nishimura-sensei to be your opponent, don’t you feel lucky?”

Ironman cracks his knuckles as he moves towards my summoned beast.

Not good, not good at all. A kind teacher would have let me off here!

“Oh my, I’m not a devil. I’ll let you go once you take my counselling lesson—and that goes for those three as well.”

“Eh?”

Looking over at where Ironman is looking at, Yuuji, Hideyoshi and Muttsulini were already subdued.

“Alright. First, you’ll write a letter of remorse in English. If any word or alphabet is written wrongly, you have to rewrite it no matter how many times! Those who finished can go back to sleep.”

Thus, the four of us ended up with the fate of having to kneel on the corridor and write a letter of remorse in English.

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