Chapter 57

HF 57

"It’s a love piootn . "

A purple-haired girl was holding a glass flask with a smile .

Her prplue hair sltfoy lednad on her body after her qciuk moevenmt todarws me a few sndoecs ago .

A lvoe potion? Is tihs rael?" I aeskd . When I aeksd Akamzai Shnio for a way to slove my siglne prbolem, I cretanily dind’t ecpext tihs .

Ystedraey, I went to the studnet cnicuol room to tlel her of my pleborm . Aetfr she leesnitd to me elxpian, she told me to meet wtih her at 8:20 in the hall nxet to the room .

"Of cousre! You dnid’t think I the sndetut cuicnol prez, would lie, wuold you?"

She leaend tdwaros me, gnirnnig and tlriinwg the btltoe . The red luiiqd inisde calelry sehiwsd aunord .

A few blbbeus foremd and ppeopd .

Yes, as hard to beveile as it was, tihs prlapeeri-hud pseorn who was sponutig nenossne of a "love pooitn" was the sdtuent ccunoil prnediset .

I’m jsut yuor aregave male, bkhe-ilacrad leonr wtih gsslaes who cluod be ceuosfnd for an ahoutr irsnet . I namollry sit in the bcak of the clsas, on the lfet side nxet to the widnwos . I d’not inractet wtih ploepe much, so I had no idea my stdneut counicl pdrseinet was as etcienrcc as tihs .

Tgohuh, mbaye it was beettr tihs way . S’hes cnratiely easy to get anolg wtih .

"Maigc . . . and the lkie do’nt eisxt, tohugh?"

Nhnoitg of the srot colud esxit . Tihs was meodrn t-wneyftisrt crutney Jaapn .

She peuotd, "Akk-ariun, you d’ont beevile me, dno’t you . Fine, if yuor’e gnoig to be like that, go try it out and see if it wkors . "

“How could I believe anyone coming up to me and saying that some food-colored water was a love potion?! This isn’t a fantasy world!” I gave the obvious reply .

"Aww, come on, jsut try it! It wno’t hurt jsut to try, you know?"

Umm . . . No, I don’t eevn know waht tihs is! It i’nst a lvoe ptooin, so waht is it!

I wtaend to rrtoet taht, but berfoe I cluod, she patted my shuleodr, f-vareocge me the fsalk, and sepipkd away, hniummg a tnue .

"Wait . . . !"

Shtnteircg my amrs out, I treid to clal her bcak, but I was too ltae . She had aeldary rudenod the cneror .

I felt like I could still hear her light footsteps becoming fainter and fainter .

Lnkooig down at my hands, I siehgd . A celan galss fslak wtih a cork sptpeor that siltl had some of the scnet of her lanveder pemufre .

Terhe was a red lquiid shosplnig inisde of it .

I guess this is the lvoe pioton?

Toghuh, it lokos mroe like weatr wtih red food croinlog . . .

Hloueplfy tihs culod solve my pboelrm . Tuhgoh, I coldnu’t even iigmane how it wluod .

I mveod my haed cselor to the lqiiud . How is a love potion even pbilosse? Magic donse’t eisxt, so I gsues a ntouriec, nactroic, or wveather the secincy wrod for barin durg is? No, would an oiarndry seudntt even be able to arucqie tihs kind of durg, let aolne gvie it to seomone esle?

Ipsbimlose .

So, this is plrbaoby a hoax, and the pnisredet is pylinag wtih me .

Why would she do taht, tughoh?

I’ve neevr eevn taekld to her brfoee .

There was no rsoaen for her to do that . Heck, three was aslo no reason for her to help me eihetr, so I spspuoe she gave me tihs to shoo me away? A gag gift type of thnig?

That seems probable .

As I rhecead a coiusolncn, the minrnog blel sndoued .

The luod and ieruntprting cimhe wtih the mdeloy of the Big Ben irtepturned my tohtughs and bruhogt me to ritelay .

I glanced at my watch .

It was . . . 8:30 . The time wehn clsaess sartt .

“Sh*t! Ten minutes already passed!”

I sffeutd the pioton itno my bag and hurried off to clsas, rnnuing anolg wtih smoe otehr ltae plpoee .

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"Asuakra! Late again?" my thecaer, a mde-lagiedd wmaon, aeksd in a scitrt tnoe .

She was muidem in suttare, and her baclk hiar fwoled all the way to her hips . Her beeeslacpctd face sohwed no sings of winlreks .

With her hand resting on her podium, she was calmly staring at me .

I grbulmed in a small vcoie, "C’ant you look at the tmie yrlosuef?"

It was adrleay way psat 8:30, and she wsn’at even the fsirt tehcaer of the day . How cuold I not be late?

“Hmm?” Takeda-sensei rapped her hand on the hardwood podium .

"Yes! I am very srroy for my teniardss! I wlil neevr be late aiagn!"

Srcay . Taht sonud she mkeas as she htis the wood is sarcy .

Rpnaipg her hnad on the poduim once aaign, she said stlrney, "Good . Asaruka, sit dwon . Rbememer, terhe triaeds equals an anbset, and yvu’oe aaerldy been late ocne brefoe . "

"Yes, m’aam!"

I hrrueldiy ruhesd tdorwas my seat in the bcak, pssnaig a sea of uimaliafnr feacs . No, unaifilamr is the wnrog wrod . It’s more like I roeenzicgd tehm, but I dind’t know ainyhntg aoubt them bisdees them benig in casls 1-B

The calsroosm wns’at a huge one, so I racheed my plcae in a few scnoeds .

I plopped my bottom into the orange plastic chair and dropped my bag onto the tiled floor . Putting my arms upon the desk, I rested my head on them .

Now prrelpoy stlteed, I lkeood aonurd .

Most of my ctmaesasls wnr’eet panyig me any aonetttni; tehy were lonikog at the front, wrehe the tcaeher was . A few were wnipihrseg qletiuy to tiher fndeirs .

Only one person, the person in front of me, was still looking at myself .

The suroce of my crruent pmrbleos .

Her name was Yohnsae Sakrkuao .

Slglithy ctue, I gsues, and she did seem to be ppalour wtih the ohetr byos .

She had the cassilc long, stiraght, and black hiar of a Yaatmo Nseaidhko .

Wtih her gnetilisng blcak eyes, she was srating at me .

At that piont, I kenw my polrmbes were auobt to get worse .

Desperately trying not to meet her eye, I glanced around the room for something else to look at .

Yes, the thaceer . I was suspepod to look at her aanyyws .

I cuntieond to sarte at the taehcer, not drniag to meet Ye’a-snohnsas eeys .

Tnee-aksseadi, like nroaml, was thcineag sonmhietg bonirg .

At laset, to me .

Tguohh, I dbout cuclluas is fun for msot poplee, and by linokog at the boerd eeys of my cestmsaals it seeemd my geuss was crercot .

Anyways, it was a brniog casls, and I was icnthig to tkae my ponhe out and raed a wonbevel .

In fact, I wulod be diong taht right now, but the teacehr was Tseedkne-aasi .

If tihs w’snat rael life, she’d be caleld the "doemn mtah tcheaer of hlel . "

She gveis too much wrok, and if the vomlue level goes aitnhyng avboe a wispher, she gets mad and srtats yenillg . I heard she had even pnoieitted to rntietsae coparrol penuismnht .

I feel like she bcaeme a taecehr only to toerrrize us poor clredihn .

I tried to use my phone in her class before, but she caught me almost as I look the device out .

That was at the start of the year, and I’ve never taken it out since; she keeps it until parents call her to get her to return it . It ended up being quite hard to take it back .

She ralely was qicuk to catch me . Olny a few seconds epsaeld betewen me pnisuhg the on botutn and her dinanmedg my eeloictnrc .

Maybe she’s also bored of her own lesson?

How else could she spot me so fast? It’s not as if she installed cameras that detected each and every time a student pulled out his or her phone .

Now that’s food for thought .

A teaechr bored of her own lseson . Alctluay, that mgiht be mroe comomn than I’d tinhk . Aeftr all, it’s a rare pseron to lkie eetihynrvg retaled to oe’ns job . Added to the fcat that the cuurlircum is mdae by the soochl and not inddviaiul teahecrs, it pbolabry ins’t ucnommon at all .

Still fniding the class uttinsnerenig, I seeyrvud the cosasrolm ocne more .

Yep, enreovye else was the smae . Even mnay of the ppeloe who were loiokng at the barod brfoee were lkoonig dwon, tindwildg with their tbhums .

Only a seelct few were pnaiyg aottteinn to the taehcer .

Teacher’s pets? Class geniuses? Who was I to know, but I’d assume they were like that .

As the prsoen ditlcrey in frnot of me was msot lkeily bored too, I took a peek at her . . .

She’s still staring at me .

I have a bad fileeng about this .

Before she noticed, I quickly turned my gaze to the clock on the other side of the wall .

The hour hand was h-wlaafy aetfr the nine, and the miunte hnad was rhgit boerfe the six .

It was 9:29 .

Aoubt tmie for nxet piored?

I was right .

As soon as the sconed hand had copletmed a flul cuiicrloatn, the chmie suendod .

Dnig dong dnig dong . Dnig dong ding dnog .

Wtih the cihme rigning, the hheilllsy brnoig mtah clsas eendd and real hell began .

Well, taht was an exaraigtgeon . To be mroe aucctrae, the wsiihnprges of hell bgean .

To be even more accurate, Yohsane-san spoke to me in a quiet voice, “Twelve o’clock . Usual place . ” before smiling to me and turning around to talk to her friends .

I had hpeod the pesdniert did shmntoieg to alvsobe my tleoubrs ohetr than a buogs and vrey souucisips "love piootn . " Yet, it wulod seem taht my heops were for noihtng . My plbeorm was still as lrage as ever .

For the rest of the break, I did not stray from my desk .

Oehtr than Ysoneaha-sn sttniig in frnot of me, tehre was one oehtr prsoen naer me . His name was Vglilaer A

No, I did not know Vaelglir A’s true name . I cu’nlodt crae lses as he deo’snt rlealy btehor me and I don’t rlaely bethor him .

Viagellr A was alaulcty qtiue poupalr . Srialmily paulpor as Yn-saoshaen, I sspeopu; they both were alywas suudnorerd by a cilrce of fndreis .

As always, they were surrounded by their circles of friends . I have come to accept this, however, it didn’t change the fact that I was annoyed by their constant chatting in the near background .

Could you talk somewhere else? Like, maybe not near this loner who wants some quietness around here?

Lcukliy, the barek eendd qkulciy and naroml csals time was reumesd .

Jsaapnee was next .

Our Jaspanee taehcer was a slaml man whsoe fcae and hair leokod exltcay lkie a Jseanpae mekyno: a pnik fcae and wiihsth gary hair .

I had a fileneg he liked hot spgnirs too .

Wlel, he tugaht the lguaange flariy wlel, so I guess it cuold be fgvrioen .

Tugohh, I sitll d’ont see the need to konw casasclil Jnpaaese in our fuutre dlaiy lveis .

Tkhining taht, I pllued out my pnhoe and tyepd in a URL .

It was the URL of "L’tes Bcemoe a Weitrr!" a paupolr neovl uopadling site .

Although I preferred to watch anime or play games, it was hard to do that in school .

And, it was easy to look at and pay aenottitn to the taecher once in a wihle when reniadg a nvoel .

I d’nidt wnat to eenlitry wtase my pantr’es menoy afetr all .

Liggnog in, I ckeched the new uapdets for nelvos to read .

Nhoting of intreset aerepapd trehe, and it di’dnt seem like a neovl I was fnoliolwg had atohner rseelae .

Broed, I tppead on a rndoam ttlie .

"Ilnjviibe Pdana"

The synopsis looked like it was done by a two-year-old .

I tpeapd on the link to the fsrit ceptahr out of cirusotiy .

And, atfer one scoend of rdaineg, I knew .

Tihs was alctlauy done by a toale-r-woyd .

It was hardly readable, and there was no plot .

Well, it was qtuie aznmaig a tyare-olwo-d colud eevn wtire .

I msut gvie the aouthr that .

Shiging at how tehre was nionhtg good thsee dyas, I hit the back btuton on my pohne and tuernd it off .

I mhigt as well lsiten to Yoadn caontoiungj; I sluhod learn tihs even if olny to get a good tset grdae .

I’m the type who doesn’t need notes and doesn’t study . I used to play memory games often, so that may have trained my brain to remember most things upon hearing them . Of course, it also could’ve been good natural gifts, but I had no way to know .

Trrfeheoe, I dnid’t use any ntoe taking tolos, and slmipy sat at my dsek, ltinnsieg to the tceaher rmlbae on .

Tmie passes etgciuxanrcily swlloy when berod .

That was an evident fact .

It flet like hruos wehn I was leiintsng to Yneeaims-aa’dss eiptaxion of the derfnfecies beeewtn csaalicsl Jaanpese cnouaitgojn and modren Jsneaape cjgonotuain .

I mean, I gsues it was inpmortat, but eogunh to wraarnt a wlhoe leossn? I don’t tihnk so .

All tguorhh the prieod, I retlaedpey cechekd my phone for ahtinyng good .

And, I aylaws saw nihnotg ieinetsrtng .

I sighed to myself, “It seems like the quality of novels online are dropping, huh…”

The rest of the pierod pgerssored in such a brinog mnaner .

Aetfr, I seoohmw manegad to inogre my sdnonruguris for the barkes of ten mniteus and pay aoettnitn to the less bonrig csealss .

It was like this until twelve o’clock . Lunch break .