Chapter 33: Chapter 32 - Plan
The hustle and bustle of school life, with students busy with various activities in the morning. The disciplinary committee, who guarded the front gate to prevent students from breaking the rules, the sports club that had started even earlier, as well as the other students who went to their respective classes.
It was the same with Ryousuke. He too, walked towards his class to start his school lessons for today. Although, inside, he knew that today would be a little different for him.
While walking to class, he recalled the conversation he had with Sayaka Mayu over the weekend. On Friday, he met the girl, who was a close friend of Kawajima. She asked him to discuss something, and it was about her friend Kawajima.
They ended up talking about it at the cafe. And after they were done with their discussion, they both agreed to exchange phone numbers to make it easier to communicate for their discussion.
On weekends, with the living room sofa as his base. Ryousuke, in casual home clothes ate snacks while watching television. *tinining!, until in the middle, he heard a notification ring from his cell phone.
It was a message from Sayaka Mayu.
[good afternoon, Toru-kun. Are you free?]
[good afternoon Mayu-san. Yeah, I'm not doing anything. Just sitting comfortably while watching TV]
[humu humu. Good, then let's continue our discussion yesterday], Mayu declared her intention.
Reading her message, Ryousuke wondered if Kawajima knew about this? He thought maybe Mayu told Kawajima about this, so he asked, [sure. But, you didn't tell Kawajima-san about this right?]
[no, I knew she would only cover it up if I told her about it, so I didn't tell her anything. She doesn't even know that we met yesterday]
Mayu replied. She didn't seem to tell her, so Ryousuke could reluctantly continue.
[okay, so what's your plan? Does yesterday's plan still work?]
What he meant was the plan they discussed yesterday when they were both at the cafe. The plan was to go to the book club after school, to see firsthand what kind of activities Kawajima and the other members were doing.
[Yes. But it doesn't seem possible to go there with Midori-chan. I think we should visit by ourselves, I think it will be better because then all the book club members will be doing their usual activities]
Mayu explained her plan. Indeed, it's better to go with just the two of them after the book club carries out their club activities. So, when they came they would see what kind of club Kawajima had entered. Was what she said about her having fun at the book club true? Or is Kawajima covering up something?
[I agree. I think this plan is better], he replied.
[So, Toru-kun. Since Midori-chan's book club activities are on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, when are you free? I'll adjust my schedule to yours. My club isn't strict anyway]
[Monday. I'm free on Monday]
[okkay~ then it's decided on Monday huh? We'll meet after school at the bench near the vending machine yesterday. How about it? ]
The book club seems to have activities every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. So he chose to do it on Thursday. Which was free.
Speaking of that... Ryousuke still didn't know this. But... What exactly is the club that Mayu is in? Thinking at a glance, the girl seemed to be an athletic girl. With how excited she was, especially when it came to food. So was it a sports club? But on second thought, she also just said in the message she sent that the club she went to wasn't a strict club. So it doesn't seem to be...
There was only one club left that Ryousuke could think of that still suited her, which was the cooking club. Because, usually people who like to eat can also more or less cook. Right?
There was no point in just guessing. It was better for him to ask directly.
[Okay, then we have a deal. By the way, Umm... Mayu-san, I'm just curious about this, but what club did you join? ]
[are you curious Toru-kun? Anone~~ I'm a member of the eat eat club! ]
"eeeeehhh? Is there such a club?! " Ryousuke was surprised by her answer. He almost guessed it right.
It's just that it's worth remembering that the school he's attending is an elite school. An elite school means that it also contains elite students, and elite students are synonymous with their backgrounds, which usually come from upper-middle-class families, aka rich.
Sometimes, rich people have freer thoughts than the average human being. And coupled with Kamigaoka highschool having a rule that every student must enter a club, causes things like this to happen.
Students began to take the initiative to create clubs that they liked. Starting from the common ones, to the ones that are very rarely known. Because after all, the requirement to create a new club is to have at least 5 members and a clear goal (learning).
"But, the Eat Eat Club... It's so simple and obvious that I didn't even think about it" Ryousuke lamented his seemingly naive thinking about the clubs in his school.
He did not forget to answer the message sent by Mayu, [I see, it suits you very well, Mayu-san]
[thank you! You're a good person as always Toru-kun!]
If Mayu was happy then it was fine. Even though he wasn't actually praising her...
Sometimes the physiology of the body can indeed be strange. He saw that Mayu, who was a girl who loved to eat, had a very nice and athletic body. It seemed like she only had a little fat on her body. Sometimes it was hard to understand...
Or maybe all her fat is focused in one or two places. Like maybe breasts and butts, for example, hehehe...
[then it's decided, we'll visit the book club on Monday! ]
And with that message coming from her, his activities for Monday, which means today, were decided.
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In the middle of class, Ryousuke thought about this.
It is widely known that, although Japan is a very beautiful, comfortable and peaceful place, but behind it all, what is also famous is...
'suicide rate, and bullying cases'
Japan, with its high standard of living, has the problem that the suicide and bullying rate is very high.
In the old world, these bullying stories started with a group of mischievous kids who usually wanted to show off their power or dominance in the classroom. Or, it could just be an outlet for stress.
The target? Of course, quiet students, weak students, and bad face students, or just unlucky students.
When he successfully reincarnated and came back to life in this new world, he had also seen many cases of bullying before his own eyes. After all, the reason he learned karate was to defend himself from people like them.
From primary school to elementary school, he saw at least one student in every class who would be targeted for bullying. And in this case in the world, face plays a very important role.
Most of the time, the student who had a handsome or very handsome face (Ryousuke's standard), would always be the target of bullying. The reason? Because they (the bully) think his/her face is hideous and are sick of looking at their (the bullying student's) face.
Please keep in mind that in the Japanese this world, it would be strange if you see someone who is handsome/beautiful (Ryousuke standard). Because the comparison is rather large. However, people who are born naturally beautiful/good-looking are rare.
He couldn't do anything in elementary school. But after learning martial arts, he was able to rescue those bullied people from the people who did it. Of course, some tried to take revenge on him, but they eventually ended up in the school's medical room. Or worse, the hospital.
He just got angry when dealing with people like that. Just annoying others and making their school life miserable.
In this school-no, in this class to be exact, luckily he didn't see any cases like that. At most he saw only a few people who tried naughty things like smoking behind the school building.
He didn't know what about the class that was Kawajima and Sayaka Mayu's class. They didn't seem to be bullied or anything, so maybe not.
However, what he was afraid of was trouble outside the classroom. Kawajima told him that she had fun with the club, and today he, along with Mayu, would see if her words were true.
'... Let's hope that nothing happens... ' Ryousuke wholeheartedly hoped.
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Note: Do you know the game Bully on ps2? I used to play it a lot and it was fun. But when it comes to real world problems, don't even think about it. Bullying will only make others miserable.
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