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Chapter 5 — Rather, Perhaps the Fact That a Beautiful Young Girl Has Yet to Appear Is Actually Relatively Comforting

“Waking up and immediately commenting on the unfamiliar ceiling is ordinary enough, but I have not spent enough time staring at ceilings to know if this one is familiar or not...”

Hanakawa awoke, staring up at the ceiling above him in a daze, but having never put much thought into the ceiling above him before, he couldn’t tell if much was different this time. However, he should have been somewhere in Suudoria Academy on the eastern continent.

“I sure hope this is not the kind of situation where after sleeping for an entire day, the intense training begins immediately again...”

He was lying on a clean bed. He had no memory of what had happened after he’d survived his absurd training session, so he guessed that he had passed out from the exertion.

The exercise had been in the outdoor training grounds, so Ingrid, the second-year student at the academy in charge of his training, must have carried him here. The clothes he had worn during the exercise were in tatters, but he was now wearing something like a military uniform. It didn’t seem he had been thrown out for being useless yet, so it looked like the training would continue until he became useful. He didn’t mind if it made him stronger, but he had little hope of that happening. At this rate, his life would turn brutally difficult for no reason.

“I suppose I should start by healing myself.”

After running around so desperately, his body hurt all over. For some reason, he couldn’t heal fatigue, but he could at least deal with the pain in his muscles.

He sat up and looked around. He was in a small room furnished with a simple bed, a desk, and a bookshelf.

“I would have hoped to awaken in some sort of infirmary with a beautiful nurse at my side or perhaps a girl sleeping nearby. No, I have learned better than that. Even when attractive young women appear around me, things do not turn out well, so having expectations like that will only hurt me. Rather, perhaps the fact that a beautiful young girl has yet to appear is actually relatively comforting, is it not?”

It was a room for one person, and one that seemed useful for little more than sleeping. It felt like a single room in a cheap hotel or dormitory. Naturally, he was alone, with no young ladies there to nurse him back to health.

“Hmm...it appears this place has a rather heavy Japanese influence.”

The room’s furnishings looked like they had been lifted right out of Japan, but that wasn’t especially strange. There were plenty of things that had made it to this world from Japan, people who could replicate the technology used in modern Japan, and those who had the power to bring things here from other worlds.

“Now then. I suppose there is no point in recklessly moving about.”

It was possible this would be one of his few opportunities to quietly think things through on his own. He began to contemplate what his next move should be.

“What to do next... First, I suppose I would like to secure my safety. In that case, I should either obtain power sufficient to survive easily in this world, or return to my own. Yes, returning is the only option!”

When he had first been transported to this world, he had managed to pull through the conflict between the Heroes and the Demon Lord. However in this world, that war was tiny in scale. Since his second time being summoned to this world, he had met numerous unimaginably powerful beings. If he became stronger, that would only invite even stronger beings to appear before him. In short, no matter how strong he became, he would never be safe here.

“If a god or something were to appear, there would be nothing I could do. It is like I am balanced on a tightrope. Only a little wind is all it would take to send me tumbling. I cannot afford to dream of being pampered by a harem of otherworld girls any longer.”

If he hid in some rural area back home, his healing abilities could make him a local hero, and he could live in relative safety. But there was no telling what would happen in this world. After everything he had been through, he couldn’t bring himself to be optimistic anymore.

“But as far as returning to my own world, I have no connections or information to aid me. It appears I must reunite with Sir Takatou after all! Though he seemed quite terrifying at first, despite his behavior, he appears to be quite fond of people. If I were to stick by his side, I am sure he would not abandon me! Or so I would like to believe, but I cannot help feeling a bit unsure. I can easily see him cutting me off for a rational reason, and Tomochika seems unlikely to act like a true heroine and stand up for me. But regardless! If I was truly about to die, surely they would protect me...or maybe they would not...but sticking by their side seems the best way of getting home!”

With no other leads, making use of Yogiri seemed like the surest way of getting back to Japan.

“But if I wish to reunite with him, I will need to both discover his current location and secure a method of transporting myself there. I suppose I will need to investigate this academy further.”

Hanakawa had been sent off to train the moment he arrived at Suudoria Academy. He had been given a rough explanation of how things worked on Belm, but he didn’t really know anything about the academy itself.

There was nothing he’d learn by sitting in this room, so he made his way outside. A long, bare hallway stretched to his left and right, lined on the opposite wall with windows. Behind him was a wall lined with doors similar to the one he had just exited from. Hanakawa stepped up to the nearest window and looked outside. He was quite high up. A rather modern-looking cityscape was spread out in front of him.

“Perhaps...this is something like a college town?” Dorm-like buildings and sports fields dotted the city. “That would make this a dormitory then. Does that make this my assigned room?” Hanakawa turned back around and looked at the door. It had a plate on it with the number “123111107.”

“That number seems unnecessarily large!”

“That’s because we have a lot of students here. And the first few digits are the building number, I think?”

Hanakawa turned to the voice to see a blond, blue-eyed young man standing beside him. He was wearing the same uniform as Hanakawa, but it fit him so well that Hanakawa couldn’t help but feel inherently inferior.

“Err...uhh...”

“I’m Van, a first-year student like you. You don’t have to be so formal.”

“Uh, well. Are you not older than I, Sir Van?”

“Oh, yeah, the year levels here are determined by your unit type, not your age.”


“Ah, is that how it works?”

“Yep.” He seemed obviously stronger than Hanakawa, but the gap apparently wasn’t as great as it was between him and Ingrid. Hanakawa felt surprisingly at ease despite speaking with this rather good-looking guy.

“My countless experiences in battle lead me to believe you are not particularly weak, but if you are a first-year student, that must mean we are on a similar level!” Hanakawa stepped forward and patted Van on the shoulder. “My name is Daimon Hanakawa! As fellow first-years, I hope we can get along!”

“Yeah. By the way, Hanakawa, are you okay? You look worried about something.”

“True, I am concerned about a number of things, but I am impressed you were able to notice.” Having just stepped out of his room for the first time, it was natural he would look a little bewildered, but he didn’t think he gave off such a disturbed impression.

“I try to help all kinds of people, so I’ve gotten pretty good at figuring out when others are in trouble.”

“Oh-ho, that is quite impressive!”

“Yeah. So, if you need help with anything, you can ask me anytime.”

“If I need help? Well, it is difficult to say succinctly...” He couldn’t just say he was trying to get back to his home world to someone he was meeting for the first time. It may have been best to start with asking how he could get out of the academy and search for Yogiri, but he had been brought here because he’d been drafted. Whether it was possible or not for him to just walk away from the academy, he couldn’t plainly say to another student that he wanted to leave.

“Ah, well. Are you much invested in this academy, Sir Van?”

“Not really. I didn’t care where I went, so I just picked one faction at random.”

“In that case, do you perhaps know how one might leave? Not that I am planning to! I am simply curious, is all!”

The continent was divided into hexagonal areas, and there were limits on moving between them. He had heard you couldn’t just pass through, but he didn’t know specifically what the limits were.

“Oh, you want to leave? Did you want to quit the academy?”

“Uhh...I cannot say it is something I have not considered or that I do not have a vague desire to explore the option...” Unable to simply nod, he tried to be as vague as possible, gauging Van’s reaction.

“Ha ha, no need to be so hesitant. I’m not going to get mad at you or anything. But I wouldn’t say that to our upperclassmen. They’re really trying hard for the future of the academy. They’d be upset about losing a useful pawn.”

“I see. Well, I find it hard to believe someone like myself disappearing would have much of an impact.”

“So, a way out, huh? That’s a bit difficult. The home base is surrounded by walls, so there’s no exit.”

“Then how does one come and go? I cannot imagine everyone simply remains trapped inside.”

“They teleport. L units, which are third-year students here, have the authority to teleport people around.”

“So it is impossible to leave, then?!”

“Not at all. From what I’ve said so far, there are a few ways you could go about doing it. First of all, you could force your way out. You could climb over the walls or break through them. The walls are made of metal that is dozens of meters thick and is reinforced with magic and constantly under watch, but it’s not impossible. You could probably find a way.”

“Ah, so no matter how hard I try, there is nothing I can do.”

“You can also try leaving through the proper means. If you were strong enough to be deployed to the field, you could be sent to the front lines as a soldier.”

“That...seems like it would take a considerable amount of time.”

“Right? You don’t seem like you have much promise as a soldier, so it would probably take a few years for you to get anywhere like that.”

“Ha ha ha. If I wait that long, Sir Takatou will have long since made it back home...” Hanakawa muttered, hanging his head. The main reason he wanted to escape so quickly was because the training seemed like it would kill him, so engaging in that training to escape defeated the purpose.

“Hmm. I really want to help you, but it’ll just cause more problems if I take you out. Oh! How about I look for another first-year who can get you out of here?”

“Sure...but did you not say that first-years are unable to teleport?”

“Yes, but there are plenty of strong people among them. There might be someone who could get you out.”

“But are there any who would be willing to disobey the rules of the Academy to do so?”

“That’s where negotiations come in. Anyways, we might as well go take a look.”

“Go? Where?”

“To the cafeteria. That’s where most people go when they have nothing to do. This dorm is for the first-years, so you’ll probably only find them there. That means you can talk about trying to get out without getting yelled at.”

Van started walking, so Hanakawa had little recourse but to follow him.



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