By the way, there are occasional surprise checks by the discipline committee at the school gate in the morning. However, I’ve never seen anyone get warned or have anything confiscated. I can’t help but wonder what they exist for.
The other day, during a bag inspection, there was even a student with a gun in their bag, but they were naturally passed through with “Alright, no problem.” That’s nothing but problems. Is the “Discipline” text on their armband just decoration? It’s lawless to an extreme degree.
As for the uniform matter and everything else, the rules and common sense of the supernatural power academy are naturally vastly different from what I’ve built up over my ten-plus years of life.
Therefore, one day after enrollment, thinking I might lose out or be embarrassed by not knowing the school rules, I decided to read the rules written in the student handbook.
I flipped through the student handbook, and the first item that caught my eye was the [Dress Code] section. It said— “Uniforms must be worn properly.” …Hmm?
I checked the cover, wondering if I was reading a different school’s handbook, but the name written there was indeed my academy’s name.
…Hmm, apparently there’s a possibility that the text written in the student handbook has no meaning. I continued reading the school rules, but finding rules that were being properly followed was rather difficult.
What particularly caught my attention was the part stating “Using supernatural powers without special permission from teachers is prohibited.” I didn’t know power use required permission. Everyone uses them freely, duels using powers are held here and there, and the other day there was even someone unleashing their power at a teacher…
By the way, it said that those who break that rule get expelled in one strike. Extremely strict. If that school rule were actually enforced, probably almost all academy students would disappear from the academy. When I thought that maybe it was good it was so lax—I remembered this morning when I got caught up in a private fight between students.
The reason for the private fight was apparently that a male student fell and accidentally stuck his head under a female student’s skirt. Before the duel, the female student showed anger to the extreme, but after the duel, she recognized the male student’s powers, and with the misunderstanding cleared, they exchanged a firm handshake… in front of many spectators and passersby who got caught up in the form of being completely soaked by the female student’s water magic. I was Passerby A, by the way.
…Shouldn’t they be expelled after all? I was suspicious.
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– Family Talk
Weekend days off. That’s the blissful time given to ordinary students. It’s no exaggeration to say that how you use this time changes the quality of life, and that doesn’t change even in a world where supernatural powers exist.
Go out somewhere with friends? But I have no friends to go out and play with. What about Touji? He’s probably flirting with a heroine right now.
Devote myself to club activities? But I’m in the go-home club.
Do part-time work? But I’m not struggling with money.
Spend time with family? But I’m living alone in the dorm.
Apply myself to studies? No way.
Then there’s only one thing to do. Gaming.
~Several minutes later~
“Take that, you piece of trash!! Just because you scored four runs in the first inning, you got cocky! You show off with an infield grounder with no runners throwing to second, then lose by giving up six runs in the final inning—how do you feel now!? Hey, how do you feel!? It’s not the pitcher’s fault, it’s your pitch calling!! Why can you only throw breaking balls low and outside when in trouble, you monkey brain who immediately gets full of yourself~!?”
…Phew, looks like I got a little excited. Online matches aren’t good. I lose my rationality right away.
Anyway, like this, my holidays are full of gaming. In the end, how I spend my days off hasn’t changed even after coming to this world.
Huh? Train my powers? …I hate harsh truths!—that’s a joke, but I did have that intention when I first came to this world.
However, when I sought advice from teachers, they said there’s no general training manual or anything like that, and I’d have to face my powers myself and train them. So I tried various training methods.
The most standard would be receiving instruction from someone. But with no connections, I couldn’t find that someone to teach me and gave up.
So what I referenced was fiction like manga. Because that was all there was. Magic manipulation, learning special moves, presence concealment, even regular muscle training—I tried everything I could think of. Of course I tried the Turtle School training too. Nothing changed though.
After devoting myself to training for half a year, lo and behold! —nothing changed. Goddammit. No special constitution manifested, I couldn’t learn the Rasengan, and I remained E-rank.
I’m not patient enough to continue efforts that don’t produce results indefinitely. This is probably one of the reasons I can’t become a protagonist. Then I have no choice but to game. Because the more time I spend on this, the more results I get.
“My throat’s dry from shouting—wait”
As I stood up to head to the refrigerator for a break, I noticed someone standing in front of the room door. It was a girl around lower elementary school age, looking at me like I was some strange creature. And I know this girl.
“…When did you come in? Lou.”
“Before Yuki-kun started the P○wer pr○ game.”
“You were here the whole time? You should’ve said something.”
“Yuki-kun occasionally shouting like he’s dying was funny, so I kept quiet.”
This brat…
“If you’re done with the game, I’ll play with you!”
With a joyful smile, this girl shaking my arm and begging to play is named Lou-Elesius. She speaks Japanese fluently, but as you can tell from the name Lou-Elesius and her appearance—blonde hair and blue eyes that are un-Japanese—she’s not Japanese but has European blood.
By the way, she’s the granddaughter of the man who scouted me to the supernatural power world—who also serves as the academy’s chairman. In short, a born young lady. As you can tell from her behavior, she’s already growing up arrogant.
“I won’t play. Why should I babysit on my precious day off? Have your grandfather play with you.”
“Grandfather is busy with various things so he couldn’t play, but Yuki-kun doesn’t have any friends anyway and is probably bored, so go play with her—that’s what Grandfather said.”
That old man…
Last year’s summer long vacation—there was a period when all academy dorms were closed for about two weeks for cleaning, etc. Normally you’d go back to your parents’ home or something, but apparently returning to general society where supernatural powers don’t exist requires quite complicated procedures. Finding that troublesome, I was thinking of ways to somehow get through two weeks without a home when the chairman told me I could stay at his house, and I gratefully accepted that kindness. That’s when I met this child—Lou.
By the way, the chairman’s house was a mansion far exceeding my image of wealthy people. There were many helpers, and there was even a real butler.
There I was treated courteously as a guest and was able to spend two weeks living elegantly. It was the best, to put it mildly.
By the way, what was Touji in the same situation doing? Apparently staying at the home of one of his harem members. If I hadn’t been living the wealthy life, I definitely would have lost it.
Anyway, that’s how I met Lou, and because she got strangely attached to me from being her playmate out of gratitude for letting me stay, she occasionally sneaks into my room like this now.
“So I’ll play with you!”
“I don’t need playing with.”
“Aw, stingy!”
“I’m not stingy. Did you forget that when I played with you last time, you broke my bone?”
Kids really don’t know how to hold back, it’s scary. Plus they mercilessly use supernatural powers, so it’s seriously scary. I never thought I’d get kicked with real supernatural powers during Precure pretend play. I haven’t watched it properly, but there’s no way a physically-focused magical girl exists in that girls’ anime… right?
“I already apologized for that. Then let’s just talk today. You won’t get hurt that way, right?”
“Even if you say talk, what would we talk about?”
“I want to hear Yuki-kun’s stories. I’ve never heard anything about Yuki-kun’s family.”
“I don’t think listening to that would be interesting.”
“It’s fine!”
Saying that, Lou jumps onto my lap. Apparently she intends to stubbornly not move until I talk.
“Geez, fine. Um… what should I talk about first… let’s see, my family consists of–“
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