Shimizu-kun, please calm down. There is no one here that will harm you... sensei only want to talk with Shimizu-kun. Just why did you do that... I don't mind if we talk about something else. Will you, let sensei hear Shimizu-kun's feelings?"
Because Aiko matched her gaze to Shimizu, he stopped looking around. Following that, he averted his eyes and looked down then spoke with voice that couldn't be heard easily... rather he started cursing.
"Why? You still don't understand that. That's why this guys and that guys are so incompetent. Treating me like an idiot... the hero, that hero is annoying. Even though I could do better if it's me... unnoticed, and treated like a mob character... honestly, there are only idiots... that's why I thought of showing my worth..."
"You... know your place! You almost destroy the town!"
"That's right! If you are talking about idiot, it is you!"
"Think how much you made Ai-chan-sensei worried!"
Far from reflecting, Shimizu was cursing out his dissatisfaction to the surrounding, so Tamai, Sonobe, and the other students were angry and said their objection one after another. Maybe because he was pressured by their momentum, Shimizu looked more and more down and assumed silence.
Because Aiko couldn't stand Shimizu looked like that, she tried to held down the further heating up students, and questioned Shimizu with a voice which carried as much warm as possible.
"I see, you have a lot of dissatisfaction... however, Shimizu-kun. If it's about triumphing over everyone, that made sensei don't understand it even more. Why, did you tried to attack the town? If you attacked the town as is... a lot of people will be dead... aside on how you subdued a lot of demonic beasts, that cannot show your "worth.""
Aiko's justifiable question made Shimizu slightly looked up and his dreary, dark eyes turned towards Aiko from the gaps of his dirtied forelock which hanged down, then he floated a faint smile.
"... I can show it... if it's to the Demon race."
"Wh-!?"
Those unexpected words which came out from Shimizu's mouth made not only Aiko, excluding Hajime and his party, everyone in that place were shocked. Shimizu raised a satisfied expression when he saw their appearances, and though it was the same as before, he began to talk with a voice that stronger than the previous pressure which made him shut up.
"To capture the demonic beast, I went to the mountain range area in the north alone. At that time, I met a person from demon race. At the beginning, of course I was cautious... but that Demon race wanted to talk to me. Then, we came to an understanding. That guy know my true worth. That's why I came to that guy... demon race's side and made a contract."
"A contract... you say? What do you mean?"
Aiko was shaken by the fact he was connected to the Demon race, their enemy in war, but she was sure that the Demon race must have coaxed her student and she asked that while restraining her anger.