Chapter 6: Utahime’s revenge
[A/N What do ya think of the new image? Made it myself editing an image in the phone gallery app. Its perfect 😤😤]
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Waking up abruptly from my peaceful slumber, I shoot a half annoyed half sleepy glance at the perpetrator. It was a man, quite the large one at that. Not as in obese but packed with muscles. A burn scar running across their left eye.
This was a first year? No way-
"You! Whats your name?"
The towering beast of a man roared as loud as possible in my ear. What the hell was happening in my life?
"Urhgg… Ryoko Jikan, first year. And you are?"
The towering man did not care about my obvious drowsy state and continued talking in his booming voice, "Aoi Todo, third year,"
Third year? Did all the years share the same classroom?
The now introduced Aoi Todo continued to ramble about something incomprehensible for a while before he stopped his mutterings and looked me dead center in my eyes.
"Ryoko Jikan, I will decide if i remember your name if you answer a question to my satisfaction."
The sudden change in demeanor greatly threw me off guard, but this question wasn't enough to make me slip. I had long prepared this answer even without knowingdx I would be asked this.
Even though I couldn't see it, I felt it, my face had morphed and… locked in, for lack of better term.
"Lower body, excluding the feet, are where my interest peaks. Having a good upper body would also be nice, but I care more about the ass and legs."
Todo stopping in all of his motion, turning his head slowly upwards to fave the celling, I could hear an unidentifiable sniffling sound. Raising my head upwards to look at Todo, I saw rivers of tears flowing endlessly from his face.
Baffled by this strange phenomenon, I began to wobble if I had said something wrong.
Todo's mouth unceasingly flapped shut and open before he eventually managed to say a single word, "Brothza… 😭😭😭(Todo looks like the emoji right now)"
Brother? He and I had just met 3 minutes ago. We were certainly not brothers. Before I could voice my thoughts, I found myself being crushed by a bear hug. Squirming wildly, I managed to slip out of his hold.
"What you doing?" I breathed out moments before the crying juggernaut spoke again, "Its been so long… brothza…"
Seeing the juggernaut stop in his tracks for a moment, I hurriedly escaped from my eminent death.
Hiding in the farthest seat from Todo possible, I looked at the clock on the wall.
8:30
What? Didn't the old man tell me classes start at 7:00? Unless… that bastard wanted me to get to class early. So I was deceived in my first conversation here huh?
Anger started to bubble for the briefest of moments before I suppressed it. I couldn't do that again, not here at least.
Observing the now much fuller yet still mostly empty class, I found a few other people had joined us.
A blue haired girl who sat next to Mechamaru and was currently chatting away with them happily. Then there was a black haired girl who looked bored sitting
Next to a rare commodity in Japan, a blonde haired short girl.
Next up was a man with quite the atrocious haircut, two long strands of hair black hair that went all the way down to his belly button area. Sitting next to said man was a blonde young man probably my age, though his hair was probably dyed.
That counted 7 other students, 8 if you include me.
And if they were anything like Todo, I was in for one hell of a ride here. But, I was willing to bet that humanity wasn't completely crazy.
Utahime, noticing that everyone was here, began to speak.
"Welcome back to another day of class for most of us, but today something a little extra is happening. We have our newest student, Ryoko Jikan."
All eyes in the classroom turned to me, excluding Todo who was still standing and crying like a bafoon.
"Now, Ryoko, why don't you tell us more about yourself?"
As something in between an introvert and extrovert, that wasn't much of a challenge. Standing up from my chair, I spoke with confidence.
"I was born and raised in Kyoto, and I had been fighting cursed spirits for years prior. That was until I was attacked by a curse user and decided it was about time I enrolled here."
Utahime looked at me blankly, "I was thinking more along the lines of favorite color, favorite food, but whatever."
Oh… AHEM! I guess I should talk about the more minor things as well, "My favorite color is red, favorite food cheeseburgers, favorite band AJR, favorite song Inertia by AJR."
[A/N Pretend that those are all Japanese things]
Sitting back down in my chair, I began to ponder if I said enough.
"Now then class, why don't we introduce ourselves to Jikan?"
The class which had been previously silent, suddenly started whispering to their nearest neighbor. Until eventually, Todo spoke first. Because of course he did.
"Aoi Todo, the brother of Ryoko! We bonded during our time in middle school"
I sweat dropped. Taking a quick glance around the class, everyone just looked exasperated at Todo. Clearly used to his… Schizophrenia.
The second person to speak was the one with the bad haircut, "Noritoshi Kamo, future head of the Kamo clan."
Kamo clan?
The third to speak was the black haired girl, "Mai Zenin, pleasure to meet you."
Well, she didn't have much to say.
The fourth to speak was the blond girl, "Momo Nishimiya, third year."
And neither did she.
The fifth to speak was the blue haired girl, "Kasumi Miwa, future grandmaster sword user."
The sixth to speak was the blonde haired dude, "Arata Nitta, uhm… first year."
And finally, after a few long moments of silence, Mechamaru spoke, "Kokichi Muta, otherwise known as Mechamaru. But you already know that."
Quite… hostile? Yeah, thats how he sounded.
Anyway, that rounded up all the introductions for today.
Utahime, coughing to draw everyone's attention, spoke once more, "Today, we were going to continue on the topic of cursed tools, but since Jikan has arrived, why don't we do something a little special?"
An ominous feeling enveloped me while Utahime glared evilly at me.
"Why don't we do a spar?"
The ominous feeling intensified 10-fold. I was going to get pummeled into the floor wasn't I?
Although my reserves may be 'Special grade', if I couldn't use the energy efficiently, that didn't matter.
It was like a player with 10 strength against a player with 10 strength. But, one player has an ability to boost his stats by 20 times while the other could only do 10 times.
It was obvious who would win then. Although my comparison wasn't to astounding, it was pretty much the situation I was in.
And judging by Utahime's evil glare, I would be right to worry. She was clearly still mad about this morning, and I was afraid of what she planned for me to do in the spar.
She would probably put me up against someone way about my level, and give me a beating through them a couple of times.
The perhaps her rage would subside. And if not, then I could proudly say the phrase, 'Women ☕️'.
"Follow me to the training field."
Everyone in class did as told without a sound, not even Todo dared to.
After a few minutes of walking, we eventually made it the gigantic training field that my face would soon be pummeled into.
Turning to face us, Utahime spoke terror into my heart, "Since it's Jikan's first day here, why don't we set him up first? Personally, since Todo and Jikan are brothers, they should fight each other first."
Fear.
I took a quick glance at Todo's menacing form, and instantly knew I would be pounded to death.
Todo, on the other hand, merely smiled and yelled something.
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