Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume3 The First Question

"Shouko."

"... I have nothing to hide."

"I haven't said anything yet?"

"Such devious methods of interrogation."

"Please look up on the proper usage of interrogation. And also, what are you hiding behind your back?"

"... Nothing."

"Shouko, give me your hand."

"Ok."

"Here, hm, an MP3 player."

"... Yuuji, you are so mean."

"How can a technologically incompatible person like you be carrying a machine? What's inside of this?"

"... Normal music..."

-ksha(recording playback sounds)- <If I win, I will marry you. Shouko, I love you.>

"....."

"... Normal music."

"After deleting the sound track I will return this back to you tomorrow."

"... So mean, I haven't even given this to my father to listen to yet. And also we haven't held hands yet."

"Father... You are trying to increase the number of weaknesses that you have on me, aren't you?!"

"... It's not like that. If I let father listen to this, we can have a smooth marriage."

"Shouko, go to the hospital now. If you take two or three shots, you may recover being a normal human being."

"... I don't think I'm pregnant yet."

"You need to go to the psychiatrist department! Hm?! What's that in your bag?"

"... Nothing special."

"MMm... What's this? [Yuuji and I future baby name list], hold it."

"... The name in most favor is using a character from our first names."

"[Shouko] and [Yuuji] makes [Shouji]. Why this particular combinition?"

<Note. [Shouji] reads as soy sauce in japanese>

"... I hope to raise a tasty child."

"I can only see a child being brought up with a wrecked conscious."

"... Also to note, if our child is a son, his name is [Koshou]."

<Note. [Koshou] means pepper in japanese, and also [Koshou] is derived from [Shou] [ko] and no characters used from Yuuji's name>

"(Soy Sauce) is a daughter's name..."

First Question

Please explain why "you" would be in such grief from the following situation.

Father announced to me in a painful expression.

"He has left this morning. Please forget about him."

Having heard the news, I could feel a shocking pain splitting my body in half. My mind was wiped blank and devoid of any other thoughts. How he would end up would be a mystery. And my relationship with him is undetermined. Even as I had this idea in my mind, my emotions are still in disarray.

Himeji Mizuki's Answer

"His existance is as important as half of his body."

Teacher's comment:

Correct. As it is as important as half of his body, therefore if "he" is no longer there, the body will experience pain as if it has lost half of it.

Yoshii Akihisa's Answer

"He is as important as the lower half of my body."

Teacher's comment:

Why is it only limited to your lower half?

Tsuchiya Kouta's Answer

"Because he is the lower half of my body."

Teacher's comment:

Teacher believes this self conscious is not good.

After two months have passed after the new semester, where the daylight saving is starting to become more apparent. Because of the climate having the best temperature to sleepin in, I arrived school earlier than usual.

"Oh? You are early today, Yoshii."

As my foot just entered the classroom door, a classmate called out to me. Her face was petite with large and round eyeballs. Although having used a weird dialect, anyone can easily see that her face is of absolute stunning beauty.

"Morning, Hideyoshi. It's just that I woke up earlier than normal."

To have such appearance is our Kinoshita Hideyoshi. He is part of our class, and is the reason why I start to disregard gender when it comes to love.

"Good morning. Then are you preparing your feelings for tomorrow's training course?"

Hideyoshi's brilliance was shining. And I was able to experience Hideyoshi's wonderful smile.

"Hahaha. Perhaps so."

Treading across the tatami mats that were recently recovered from the previous school festival, and have school bag placed on top of a folding table. The difference in placing objects on a folding table and a cardboard box, sincerely moved my heart.

"Even though the aforementioned goal was to increase our knowledge, because of gathering everyone to stay in the same place, it is hard to to avoid changing the event to be a pleasurable one. I can feel excitement gathering on my chest."

"Oh how terrible, even if you say you feel that your chest feels like swelling, your chest volume has not increased."

"No, if my chest grew bigger, it would cause problems for me..."

While taking the objects out of my school bag, I continued my usual useless banter with Hideyoshi.

"But, a five day and four night trip feels like a vacation, so I have anticipation for it."

"Hm? What's this?"

The contents of the drawer that was supposed to have been confiscated by Iron Man should have been empty, but after detailed inspection, the empty desk drawer seemed to contain a letter, a letter that was never seen before.

<Addressed to Yoshii Akihisa>

The recipient of the letter was my name.

"-- OH!"

It it it can't be... a love letter?!

"Hm? What's wrong, Akihisa?"

CCCCCCCCccalm down Yoshii Akihisa! If I was discovered with such a letter, the students in this class will be engulfed with envy and definitely execute me. With the past events leading up until today, it was hardly difficult to come to this conclusion. What is most important is to pretend that nothing has happened.

{What's up, Hideyoshi? Everything goes so well...} (This is in english in original context)

"This must be serious."

Oh crap! I was busted so quickly!

"A.. ah. I must hand it to Hideyoshi. To have so easily uncovered my acting."

"Um, no, before the issue of your acting skills, I think your language..."

I guess having the crowned the title of a future actor was not for naught.

"A... Actually it's nothing very important, can you pretend to have not noticed?"

I placed both of my hands together infront of my face to beg Hideyoshi. If acting doesn't work, it would have to do persuade him using sincerity.

"Mm... If Akihisa says so, then I will avoid asking then..."

Suspicion arose on Hideyoshi's face, but ceased to ask further on, such a gentle person!

"Thank you for your help! Then au revoir!"

With extreme care, under no arousing attention, I secretly slipped the letter into the school bag and made a mad dash out of the classroom.

There was no problem with time, there was still time left before class. And also I could not feel anyone trailing behind me, it seems it has not yet been discovered by my classmates.

"It is possible that my spring has arrived...!"

Holding various happy feelings, I increase my pace on running on the staircase.

"Haa haa."

Having reached the rooftop heavy metal door, opening it gave way to the clear blue sky.

"Great, there is no one around."

Gave the irresistible urge to monologue to oneself.

As if to the avoid the strong piercing rays of the sun, I headed towards the shady cool areas of the rooftop and retrieved the letter from my bag."

"Hm, so who wrote this letter?"

The letter had no name on it. What kind of girl could it possibly be? was the sensation that I was having at the moment, while my heart hammered noisily.

Having closed my eyes to calm myself down, slowly I took the contents of the letter out. But possibly due to being very nervous, this took a great deal of time.

Today is the best day of all day. I could feel luck pouring from every crevice of my body.

With the happy rays of sunshine pouring over my body.

The wide clear blue sky.

The gentle breeze that blew across.

[I have your secrets.]

Was a blackmail.

"This can't beeee!!!!"

To me, it seems spring is still a distant thing.

• * *

"Akihisa, what's wrong?"

Having noticed that I returned to the classroom, Hideyoshi spoke out in concern.

"No.. Nothing special. Ha haha."

Having misunderstood that a love letter was actually a blackmail, it was something I could not bear to say aloud. With my pride on the line, no matter what, I cannot let this get out.

"Full of lies. We could hear a strangled yell from the windows, you must be hiding something?"

"Oh, Minami. Good morning."

Having appeared from the behind of Hideyoshi, was the student from Germany, Shimada Minami. She is a girl with a ponytail and eyes full of vigor.

"Good morning Akihisa, what are you hiding? Unless it is...?"

The corner of Minami's eyes rose sharply, indicating that she is about to enter battle status.

"How is that possible, Minami. I am really hiding nothing."

"Unless you want to say you received a love letter?"

"Minami, such accusation should not be spoken lightly. Everyone's reaction to 'love letter' are extremely explosive, look, everyone is aiming crafting knives at me!"

My classmates are such a dangerous bunch of individuals. To have such strong killing intent against another member of the same class is simply abnormal.

"Everyone, the craft knives are too early. Cool down and think it over. This is Akihisa that we are talking about, he surely couldn't have received a love letter. He must be hiding something else."

Minami raised one of her hands to halt the onslaught of the class.

Although her intuition was completely correct, but under this situation, her words stung greatly against my pride as a man. Even if I have to bullshit my way through, I still have to say it!

"Yes, it is actually that. I discovered a love letter in my shoe locker this morning!"

THWUNK! (Was the noise of the craft knife piercing the tatami mats.)

"Next time, it will be the ears."

"My sincere apologies."

Pride? What the hell is that? Is it edible?

"Then answer honestly, what are you hiding?"

"Well, I am hiding ..."

Blackmail, is when I thought that on most TV dramas, the contents of the blackmail normally should not be told to the police or another party. And also to my own interests, I also wish to let the minimum amount of people to know of the blackmailing. Smarten up Yoshii Akihisa, what can you do?!

"Uhm..."

At this point, time slowed down to a crawl.

Under the extenuating circumstances, my brain recalled the advertisement shown on the TV