Eh?! Damn it! Damn it! Arghhh! Such misfortune!!!"
Though he realized his frantic shouts must have made him sound like a maniac, Kamijou Touma
has no intention of stopping his headlong flight. Fleeing down a back alleyway late at night, he
glanced back over his shoulder.
Eight people.
Even after he had run nearly two kilometers, there were still eight people in pursuit of him. Of
course, as he was neither a cook from an ex-foreign unit[1] nor a cyber ninja still surviving in the
modern era, Kamijou Touma would have stood no chance against their numbers even if he chose
to fight them. To begin with, any fight between high school students that exceeded 3-on-1 wasn't
worth mentioning. At those numbers, things like true strength and such are useless from the start.
Kamijou kept running, kicking a slightly dirty polyethylene bucket and scaring a black cat away.
July 19.
Yeah, it was because it's July 19.
Because he had been reveling in the fact that summer break started tomorrow, he picked up a
manga at the bookstore that was obviously a dud. This fact was also why he went into a family
restaurant thinking Maybe I'll splurge a little on something to eat, even though he hadn't been
very hungry. And so, when he saw a middle school girl surrounded by drunken thugs, he got this
wacky idea in his head telling him, Hey, maybe I should help.
However, he couldn't have dreamt that all their buddies would start popping out of the bathroom
together. He thought, Only girls were allowed to use the bathroom together, right?
"I had to run out of there before I could get the bitter melon and escargot hell-lasagna I had
finally decided on. Now I'm a dine-and-dasher without even getting to dine! Arghhh, what's with
this misfortune?!"
Kamijou grabs his head as he bursts out from the alleyway onto the main street, yelling.
"Gyuh!"
Moonlight descends upon Academy City, which is approximately one-third the size of Tokyo
and therefore crowded with couples. It's definitely July 19. This is all July 19's fault, the single
thought roared within Kamijou's mind.