After I gave her my consent, she started preaching me.
“Arakawa-kun, you might be special because you’re the son of Arakawa Miki, but this is the State Technology Academy, especially you’re on the Special Class. Know what I mean? It means that everyone here is special! You’re not the only one special, mind you. And you didn’t take any entry exam to get here right? Everyone’s talking about it, you know?
No, please, I don’t want to hear any excuses.
Everyone else took the entry exam and has every right to be here! Do you really have what it takes to be here? We have tests by next week, make sure you ranked top 10.
And if you don’t, be fair for the others and leave this school. See you.”
Eeeeeeh… What’s with this girl, going on about by herself and left all satisfied like that? This is the first time I’ve seen somebody being that hysterical…
Seeing Aikawa-san and mom, I started to think that being a genius and being weird comes in a set…
And top 10 rank, there’s no way I can do that… What should I do, do I have to quit this school?
Nah, as if I’d get worried by that. Who cares about that anyway. Firstly, there’s no way a fellow student can do anything like getting other students expelled. What did I do to deserve getting glared at and yelled at like that… I’m usually the gentle type of person, but I could do get mad, bitch!
Well, I’m not going to say that to her directly though… I’m a gentleman after all. It’s not like I got scared of her or anything, it’s because I’m a gentleman.
As I was anguishing alone, the homeroom ended and the students are leaving. Oh, today’s the first day so the class is only until noon. I’m so tired I wanna go straight home, but I guess I should stop by the cafeteria to have some lunch. This kind of occasion is a chance to make friends.
Who should I invite?
I wonder if anyone would go have lunch together with me after all that scene with Aikawa-san.
To the front… everyone’s looking away…
To the right… everyone’s looking away…
To the back… there’s only lockers and wall there…
To the left… My eyes met with Saitou-kun.
Chapter 7
Saitou-kun is looking at me!
—- Saitou Shingo POV —-
Arakawa-kun sure is a kind guy… He would have lunch together with someone like me. I don’t know what to talk with him, so I tried telling him about animal trivias from the forum board that I was browsing with my personal device. Well, he’ll probably have no interest in it, and he’ll be making fun of me, it’s just the same everywhere.
“Seriously! Doves gets confused and can’t move if you turn them upside down!?”
He seems to like it. So I tried telling him another.
“No way! Polar bears are all left handed? How in the world could anyone proof that”
His response are so funny. After we’re done with lunch and about to go home, Arakawa-kun asked for my device number and mail address. I feel so happy, and I told him my number and address as I suppress my excitement. As he went into his pick-up car, he told me to just give him a call anytime. In the past, people would always bully me, but now I finally got my first friend… I always hate being bullied, so I tried hard to get into this school, where there’s probably no delinquent, now I’m glad I did.
I saw Aikawa-san picking a quarrel with Arakawa-kun, she’s probably kind of an exception. But if she starts getting annoying, I’ll expose and shame her on some forum board. More importantly, tonight I’m going to tell Arakawa-kun about the homepage that has many interesting animal trivias. As I thought about that, I feel that this is the first time my footsteps feel so light on the way home.
—- Arakawa Kouki POV —-
Man, Saitou-kun is such a good guy! He told me so many trivias I never even knew about. Sorry I thought of him as a weirdo at first, I’ll eat lunch together with him tomorrow. At home, I also told Mom about him.
“It’s good that finally you made a friend”
She said that with a smile. Oh right, now that I think about it, this is the first time I made a friend.
Right before I went to bed, a mail come from Saitou-kun. There was about 20 URLs of homepages with many interesting animal trivials. As I was about to fall asleep browsing those, I recalled a certain thing.
Ah, I forgot to ask the principal to move me to another class.
Oh well… At least there’s Saitou-kun in that class.
EDNote :
Creis: Hurray, the new chapter is uploaded. And yes, we have a photo of illustration in it (Chapter 4 and 6 also have it)
PS: Jen already buy the LN version, but she only give us the photo of the illustration.
Eclairion : will be getting even more busy from September onward, RIP free time
Ruri: Too busy with GW