OreShura: Volume 2 Chapter 8

Chapter 8 Toast Attack is Mayhem

The next day, the first class was physical education.

It was neither swim class nor a mixed-gender class. We were playing basketball in the gym --- a game of knockout. The person of each group who made their ball in second was considered the loser, and then a different group would go up and play.

Since I already lost, I had some free time, so I leaned against the wall near the entrance and sat down.

I unconsciously looked outside through the open door --- the girls of class two were on the field doing group stretching. They were split up into pairs. One. Two. Three. They turned and stretched their bodies. When I came back to my senses, I noticed that all the boys around me watching captivatedly. Ah, that’s right. We did it unconsciously. There wasn’t anything we could do about it.

At this moment --- I noticed a doll left out of the circle of stretching girls, as she stood alone in the shade of a tree.

It was Hime.

"She couldn’t find a partner?"

But in this kind of situation, wouldn’t the physical education teacher form a pair with you?

I looked again at the circle they were forming, and I spotted the teacher wearing a red sports jersey stretching with another girl already.

In other words, there were already enough girls to form pairs with everyone already.

Even so, Hime was left out? --- Did that mean her existence was completely forgotten?

Not only students, but also even the teacher forgot her?

"Ah......"

How was that possible?

Isolated in the shade of a tree, Hime still wore a poker face. Was she lamenting the situation? Or was she indifferent? It was very difficult to comprehend. Maybe she wanted to be alone, or maybe her heart was trapped with no way out.

At these times, Chiwa would probably say: "Why are you standing blankly? Come on, let’s go---" And then she was drag Hime away.

But me ---

"Hey, sensei!"

I shouted to our physical education teacher who was currently acting as referee.

"Eh, what? Mr. Popular Kido, what’s wrong?"

"......"

Mr. Popular Kido......

Have the rumors spread even amongst the teachers?

I’ll temporarily ignore it for now.

"It’s about the girls who are stretching on the field over there."

"Oh, there’s a girl you like there? If you do, you want to mingle with them?"

"Ahahaha!" He released a great laugh worthy of his tall stature.

I continued to ignore it.

"Look over there. One of the girls seem left out."

"Eh? Where?"

I pointed to the shade of a tree, and the physical education teacher noticed her.

"Oh, she is left out."

"I think class 2’s teacher hasn’t noticed yet."

"Right! I’ll go say something."

I replaced the teacher as referee, and he immediately ran to the field. He really was a good teacher. Before at the swimming pool, he also saved Yamamoto-kun from the football club and Masuzu.

The teacher from class two finally noticed Hime, and ran to the shade while apologizing, "S-sorry!"

So it was resolved.

The teacher pulled Hime in her hand, and brought her into the circle of girls.

Because I'm from a distance, I couldn’t see clearly --- but from the side, her eyes seemed to gleam with tears.

"......Hmph!"

This was the kind of time one ought to have ｢no need for sympathy, because soldiers are always alone｣.

And even she insisted that she was an active duty soldier.

Yet why do you have to look so happy?

......Is it not cute?

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A day passed uneventfully. After school ---

When I arrived at the club room, Hime was already there writing something. Masuzu and Chiwa said they would be late, so I thought I would be the first to arrive.

"Hey, Hime, you're early."

"After classes ended, I immediately leaped into space, since I wanted to see Eita as soon as possible."

".....R-really?"

As soon as I sat down on the seat opposite to hers, Hime immediately moved into the chair next to mine. Even though we’ve known each other for a few days, she already seemed very intimate. If she could be like this with her classmates, then everything would be fine.

"Was my relationship with you in our past life that good?"

"I'm certain. We had five children."

"Huh? We were married?"

Hime continued to wear a poker face as she shook her head and said:

"Because the Dimensional Logic System disapproved of Eita’s low annual income, you didn’t register our household."

"This setting is too pitiful, isn’t it?"

Normally, you would make your annual income one hundred million, or something like that!

To say I wasn’t a citizen, with low income, yet had five children! That’s just trash!

"It’s not a setting, it’s our past life."

Her Royal Highness Hime said very coldly. Living in the past life must have been very difficult.

"What is this ｢Dimensional Logic System｣? Your parents?"

"I deny this. This body exists to monitor the living beings from the Milky Way on this planet, with the objective to increase evolution. I was appointed to one of its subunits, which had the official name, ｢Adjustment of Earthly Biological Unit for the Adjustment of Earthly Biological Matrixes｣."

" I don’t quite understand, but didn’t you say ｢Adjustment of Earthy Biological｣ twice?"

"!"

Hime flashed a ｢darn!｣ expression for an instant.

But it quickly changed into back a poker face, and she said:

"This body exists to monitor the living beings from the Milky Way on this planet, with the objective to increase evolution......."

"We’re starting again at the beginning?"

We should just leave this part out.

I didn’t have time, okay?!

Because I was in a bad mood, I went and pulled on Hime’s face.

Soft! Extraordinarily flexible!

"R-retreat from Bright Monk Mound Thing Zone, and take advantage of the bare window!"

Even so, she still finished speaking.

It made me admire the perseverance of this eighth-grade syndrome.

"Oh, what were you writing before?"

"The subject that the president gave yesterday."

"Ah --- any progress?"

Hime rubbed her face as she vigorously shook his head.

"I was just applying to the Higher Dimensional Logic System to re-evaluate the difficulty of this mission from A to S."

"Meaning, making progress has been difficult for you?"

"It was a powerful enemy that exceeded my expectations."

Maybe that was the case. After all, ｢deciding what kind of maiden you want to be｣ is a bit abstract.

"You don’t need to make it complicated. Just write about something you want to do, or something you feel is interesting. If you just write like that, you’ll be fine."

"......I will do some research."

At this time the door opened, and Masuzu and Chiwa walked into the clubroom. It was quite strange that these two were together.

After confirming the presence of Hime’s figure, Masuzu smiled and said:

"How about it, Harusaki-san? Akishino-san did come today."

"I-I wasn’t worried!"

It seemed like they had been in a discussion about whether Hime would come today.

"You were even saying, ｢Weren’t you a little harsh with what you said yesterday?｣"

"I just said I wasn’t!"

After putting her bag in the corner of room on two large Japanese-style tatami mats, Masuzu sat down as Chiwa stood in front of the whiteboard…. normally this was the opposite.

"For today's extracurricular activities, I heard that Harusaki-san already had something planned."

"Eh, Chiwa?"

"This is, um, Ei-kun, a test for the temporary member."

Chiwa looked at Hime, gave a ｢humph｣ snort with her nose, and said:

"Let me warn you first, I'm very strict, so are you mentally prepared?"

"As long as I’m with Eita, there won’t be a problem."

Hime hugged me again.

The muscles on Chiwa’s face became rigid.

"T-today, using Ei-kun as a partner, we will have club activities with the subject being…."

Chiwa wrote several large words on the whiteboard:

Toast Attack to Become Popular! Fight!

"What is ｢Toast Attack｣?"

When I raised this inevitable question, Chiwa gave an amazed look, straightened her chest and said:

"While dangling toast on your mouth, surprise!"

"Ah?"

"While eating toast, attack the boy that you like! Fight!"

"......"

My childhood might already be beyond cure….

"But, haven’t you already tried this in the past?"

Before ｢Jien-Otsu｣ was established, Masuzu had Chiwa do ｢Fighting is Popular｣ to make fun of her. I remember there was a similar kind of behavior.

"Back then, I just ran to school while dangling toast in my mouth, but that’s not enough. When I was re-reading shoujo manga a few days ago, I realized that if one does not collide with anyone, there’s no opportunity to have an encounter!"

Chiwa wrote on the whiteboard below ｢Toast Attack to Become Popular! Fight!｣:

Step 1: While dangling toast in the mouth, say, "Ah --- I’m late! I’m late! ---" while running on the street. 

Step 2: Hit the handsome guy. 

Step 3: "I'm so sorry! I’m really clumsy, giggle~" 

Step 4: "What an interesting girl...... what's your name?" 

Step 5: Become popular! 

"......"

I want to say this sentence that I haven’t said in a long time.

This is exactly --- exactly like ｢Jien-Otsu｣!

"The key point is that this is a ｢Crashing Method｣."

Masuzu proposed a suggestion that suited her position as president.

"So we’re using a ｢Crashing Method｣ to display a beautiful encounter? This would probably be very challenging without a considerable amount of practice."

"Therefore, Ei-kun, sorry to inconvenience you to play the role of ｢the person being hit｣?"

"Eh, so it was this kind of assignment......"

We left the clubroom, and went to the neighboring building near the science preparation room and audiovisual classroom, also known as the ｢Practice Floor｣ building. Even though it was a bit noisy here, we would not disturb the other culture clubs, so we could practice all we like.

Dangling toast......

Hit the handsome guy......

......Practice.

It was so bad, I couldn’t even cry!

Depending on the result of rock-paper-scissors, either Chiwa, Masuzu, or Hime would hit me in order.

For the toast dangling from the mouth, they used sweet bread that Chiwa stocked up on as a substitute, since the ｢cooperative store doesn’t sell toast, and it would be too much trouble to go to the convenience store｣. I felt as if I would be defeated at any moment now.

"Ei-kun, I going noww ---"

[~45% complete~ WIP]

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