Chapter 3: Challenge
Atlantis 11:08 AM
After the sports competition officially ended, my life returned to its original peacefulness…probably.
Thinking about it, basically, even if the original wasn’t that peaceful, after experiencing the competition, my little not-so-peaceful life was already peaceful enough. This story tells people to be content with what they have. When you return to your everyday life after being ruthlessly messed with, you’ll thank God that your usual life was actually so cute.
I will never think that suddenly hearing a scream at the door halfway through class would be a very strange thing.
Sure enough, humankind’s adaptability is a very terrifying thing.
This is bad, it can’t be that after I return to the original world next time and didn’t hear any screams when I open the door, I’d think it’s very weird instead? I must think of a way to correct my feelings back to normal, or else I’ll become an alien sooner or later!
The surrounding sounds of discussion continued to drift into my ears from time to time.
On Wednesday, everyone had nothing to do in between class.
It’s rare that our rotten teacher would appear to wander around in our class, “Dear students, the semester will be ending soon. Teacher will now send down the survey form, and you can fill in the student information and also write some thoughts about this semester in passing. Remember, if you write nonsense, beware of teacher very politely taking care of you.”
…Really is such a peaceful life, really, very peaceful.
A form was sent over. I carefully looked at what was written on it. It’s pretty normal; they’re all some basic information. Flipping it over, on the back was the semester reflections.
What kind of reflections do I have for this semester?
Please stop dragging me to run and let me walk on my own two feet, alright?
“Yang~What are you writing?” The five-colored rooster head, whose seat shouldn’t be in front of me but for some reason is sitting in front of me, turned around and casually put his form on my table, completely ignoring the weird looks our classmates threw at me.
Okay, I know, he’s an assassin that everyone fears; I’ve known this for a long time.
“This student, don’t look for people to discuss your reflections, alright?” At some point, the homeroom teacher appeared behind the five-colored head, grabbing his head and turning it back, “If you really like to discuss, then teacher can talk with you to your heart’s content later.”
“Hey, can we talk with our hands?” The five-colored rooster head recklessly answered with this sentence.
Before he took his form back, I clearly saw one reflection written on it: [Didn’t even get to kill half an annoying guy!]
Teacher, thank you for turning him back!
“This student, I don’t think your hands will be enough. You should be using both your hands and feet.” Completely ignoring the other side’s provocation, the homeroom teacher quickly provoked him back.
“Hmph hmph, just one hand will be enough. This uncle never bullies the weak.”
This five-colored student, basically, I personally think that the weak one should be you…
“What a coincidence, your teacher especially loves to bully the weak.”
“Come and try it!”
The atmosphere in the classroom instantly became tense, and the two fired-up people completely had the intention of demolishing the classroom.
“Teacher, someone from Class A is looking for you.” Olivia stepped in between the two guys who were about to fight, completely ignoring the fiercely raging flames of war. Then she very naturally dragged the teacher away; her other hand was even holding an entire stack of information as she started reporting. “Also, there were a few reports brought forward in the last teachers’ meeting that teacher hasn’t signed…”
To be honest, I feel like our class’ class rep is more like a Miss Secretary.
“Hey, wait a minute, I…” The five-colored rooster head, whose opponent was dragged away, immediately protested.
“Shut up! Go back to your seat and don’t harass other people!” Not allowing resistance at all, the class rep directly kicked the five-colored rooster head away after pushing away the homeroom teacher.
The classroom was immediately restored to peace.
“Yang Yang, later at noon we’re going to the restaurant for lunch; do you want to come together?” Miao Miao, who shouldn’t be sitting next to me and yet was sitting next to me, took advantage of the five-colored rooster head’s leaving to tilt her head and ask me. Seems like even after the competition, she still doesn’t really like to come into contact with him, “Chifuyu and Ryan will be going too.”
“I’m fine with anything.” After I quickly finished writing my semester reflections, I flipped the form over to cover it. The nearby population flow was too high. I’d be embarrassed if it was seen.
“Then see you at the restaurant at noon.” Miao Miao very happily left the seat and returned to her real seat. Only then could the original owner, who had been expelled, tragically return to his seat.
Ah…It really is such a peaceful school life. An ordinary person like me currently feels very satisfied.
Just as little flowers were blooming over my head, our classroom was suddenly kicked open by someone, and some kind of being-rolled over scream filled the entire classroom. The other students who were still writing their reflections all raised their heads.
It’s rare that our classroom didn’t go out to stroll; standing outside in the corridor was a girl.
Very familiar, but I didn’t have any impression of her.
That girl had her arms crossed, and was wearing a white robe with long locks of hair tied on both sides of her small head, giving off a rather strong feeling. With just a look, you can tell that she’s the type that’s a bit hard to get along with, “Call Chu Ming Yang in your class out!” She raised her shrill voice and shouted.
Everyone turned their gazes toward me.
Me? I don’t know her?
“Hey! I’m calling you and you’re still not coming out!?” That girl realized that everyone was looking at me, and then she raised an eyesore of a finger and pointed at me, “It can’t be that you have no ability and is also a coward!?”
Basically, even though her words stung a lot, they were quite accurate, because I really don’t have any ability and to be honest, I also don’t have any guts…but then again, no matter how much I think about it, I don’t think I know her?
It can’t be that it happened on some day somewhere or I did something that offended her…yikes, I have no impression at all.
I haven’t said anything yet, when Chifuyu, who had already been writing his reflection for quite a while and was disregarding everyone, suddenly stood up. His whole chair was pushed back, and then he pushed up his thick glasses, issuing the shiny flash of light that hasn’t been seen for a long time, “This female student from Class B, if you don’t introduce yourself first before charging in to look for someone, you’ll be suspected of shamelessly coming to look for your boyfriend.”
…This brother, you’re thinking too much.
As soon as Chifuyu said that, there were even more people who raised their heads to look at that girl, and most of them had an expression of watching a show.
“Wha, what boyfriend!” The girl’s shrill voice rose. She was clearly taken aback for a few seconds, “I’m first year Class B’s white robe, Liliya!”
Liliya?
What a familiar name…Ah! I know who she is!
That girl who was chasing the Worm of Origin and then talking behind someone’s back from one morning!
“Chu Ming Yang! Come out!” Then she continued to make a racket, completely disregarding the whole class that was staring at her.
Although I recognize who she is, I still don’t have any impression of offending her before.
“This student, you can look for me if you want to fight one on one, even more so if you want to kill. This uncle will definitely kill you until you’re perfectly satisfied, dying without a burial place!” The five-colored rooster head, whose reflection for this semester’s reflection was not getting to kill anyone, suddenly bounced over to the door very happily. With a swish, he showed his beast claw, and several people who were originally watching a good show by the door moved aside one by one, afraid of being involved.
“The one I’m looking for is Chu Ming Yang. You passerby from the Rogeria Clan should get lost!” Liliya arrogantly gave a cold snort. Looks like she’s really the little missy type that’s extremely hard to deal with.
“You said I’m a passerby!” The five-colored rooster head grabbed his chest, with an appearance like he’d received a heavy blow and even took two steps back, “I treated you so well, and you actually treated me like this, completely disregarding our past friendship…”
He started to act out his expertise in dramas, and all the nearby onlookers simultaneously had many black lines falling down their heads.
In order to break up the awkward situation, I was about to stand up to see what that Liliya wanted from me; as soon as I moved, some kind of pressure pressed down on my shoulder, causing me to immediately sit back down on my seat. “Wait.” Ryan, who floated out from who knows where, withdrew his hand and spoke in a very ghostly tone, before quickly disappearing into the background.
“Who has any friendship with your Rogeria Clan!? Get out of my way!” Still arrogant, Liliya completely looked down on the five-colored rooster head, yelling at him very naturally.
According to my understanding of the five-colored rooster head, he shouldn’t be someone who would obediently let himself be insulted, right?
The five-colored rooster head still had an appearance like he’d received a heavy blow, “You, you’re actually so heartless, then, then…then I’ll won’t be polite either!”
In that second! In that magical one second! I saw his beast claw directly punch the person out without warning with a “pa,” and then following the “ahhhh” sound that gradually grew further away and the huge sound of crashing through the corridor glass, Liliya turned into a beautiful meteor before our eyes.
…
She’s a girl…punching her like that, wouldn’t it kill her!?
“Since you’re heartless to me, don’t blame me for being ruthless!” The five-colored rooster head patted his beast claw, and in one second, it turned from a drama about forsaking family to a malicious murder case, “In my life, I love deflowering* the most; consider this an unlucky year for you, to have encountered me, extremely unlucky!”
[T/N: As in destroying beautiful things]
Basically, I already don’t want to know where he learned these lines from.
The door issued a scream and was kicked again. All the students in the class once again lowered their heads and started writing their semester reflections.
Ah…It really is a peaceful everyday life…
Probably.
***
The trouble Liliya brought naturally wouldn’t end just because she turned into a meteor.
Just like how every movie, animation or light novel plays out, the more troublesome a person is, the stronger their vitality; especially when our school has that miraculous barrier and the super strong medical team…
“Chu Ming Yang! I want to fight you one on one!”
During lunchtime at noon, when we were sitting at the same table as a group to eat, that white robe, Liliya, who turned into a meteor that flew away and turned into a meteorite that flew back again, reappeared before us with her still-has-yet-to-heal body covered in bandages.
The spoon in my hand fell, and with a “dong” sound, it dropped into my plate of curry. The spoon immediately issued tiny angry curses—because it simply too small, no one knew what it was roaring about at all.
Chifuyu, who was halfway finished eating his soba, put down the chopsticks in his hand, and then he pushed his glasses issuing a flash of light, “This student, if a girl pursues someone too relentlessly, her social status will fall to the very bottom.”
To draw blood with one prick.
[T/N: Make a pointed remark/hit the nail on the head]
Liliya’s face instantly blanched. After several seconds, she immediately made up her mind not to listen to Chifuyu’s words anymore; turning around, she directly pointed at my nose and said: “I want to challenge you! Let’s see just what kind of ability you have to be able to participate in the sports competition!”
Turns out it’s because of the matter with the competition.
I remembered hearing her complaints last time. This sports competition really brought a lot of trouble after .
“Student Liliya, the sports competition has already ended a couple of days ago. Isn’t it a bit too late for you to come challenge now?” Miao Miao, who didn’t really like having her meal interrupted, put down the knife and fork in her hands, and asked in an unfriendly tone.
“Hmph, during the competition, there’s a rule that prevents us from privately going to challenge the players, so of course I’d wait until the competition ends before coming! You people from Class C think that everyone has no common sense like you guys!?” Liliya, who might also be race and class conscious, spoke through her nose and even snorted out a large amount of air, causing me to feel that her nostrils should be quite big to be able to snort out these air.
Oh no, the five-colored rooster head went to eat in the White Garden; there’s no one who can send her flying.
A heavy smack on the table sounded. Ryan, who had originally disappeared into his seat eating his rice balls, put his things down, then took out a rubber band that may have been used to tie his lunchbox from his pocket, “You dare to insult the three clans of Yukino, Scar, and Phoenix!?” His eyes behind his hair issued a terrifying flash, “Ryan Scar will make you unable to step out of this restaurant’s entrance!”
Ryan, your sincerity toward your classmates really makes one touched, but don’t you think that there should be four clans here instead of three?
Liliya might’ve been a bit afraid as she took a step back. However, she still had that very arrogant expression on her face, “Hmph! I, I only want to go against Chu Ming Yang! It has nothing to do with you guys!” She was still rather sensible as she hurriedly corrected her words.
I noticed that a sunken handprint appeared on the table in front of Ryan.
“It’s all too late!” Second only to the face-changing person, the forefather of the face-changing people, Ryan tied up his hair. With a fierce gaze, he instantly became another person, “Insulters, can only die!”
Turns out Ryan values honor a lot. I get it now, in the future I have to be careful not to step on his landmine.
Liliya took another step back, and the angry Ryan took a step forward. Then under this moving backward moving forward situation, which was quite similar to some sort of dance step, they directly walked out of the range of the restaurant and disappeared from everyone’s sight.
To be honest, I still couldn’t understand what Liliya wanted.
“That’s right, it seems that it’s almost Christmas.”
The first one to speak was Miao Miao, who really likes activities, and what she said was another completely unrelated new topic, “During the sports competition, we missed the Halloween event. Originally, the school would hold a Halloween game every year, but it just so happened to clash with this year. I’m really looking forward to this Christmas; I wonder what kind of interesting games there will be.” She continued cutting the steak in her plate, and said with great interest.
“Christmas activities?” I asked. In the past, during middle school, there were also Christmas activities: everyone exchanged gifts, sang songs, played a little game and whatnot. Could it be that it’s also popular here? It can’t be, right?
“Yeah, the school always holds activities for every holiday. It’s Yang Yang’s first time encountering this so you might not know, but they’re all very fun!” Revealing a sweet smile, Miao Miao immediately fell into the beautiful memories of the past, “For example, last year, a large-scale Santa hunting event was held…”
Wait a minute! Did I hear that right!?
“Hunt, hunting?” What kind of supernatural word is that! What sort of things are you dreaming about with that cute face!?
“Actually it’s not as serious as it sounds. It was just killing a few Santas.” Chifuyu told me with a manner that should be serious, “All the activities have been recorded. Yang Yang, if you want to know about them, you can go to the library to borrow related documentaries. Then you’ll know how chaotic last year’s activities were.”
I suddenly don’t want to know what their last Christmas activities were.
“After that there was also a gift-exchange event. Miao Miao received a human-faced fish with a frog’s body last time. It was so cute, but it was later eaten by Chifuyu’s man-eating shark.” Miao Miao glared sideways at her classmate who was elegantly eating his noodles.
“The man-eating shark that I received was later eaten by your Cat King, right?” Chifuyu pushed his glasses, and snorted.
May I ask what kind of gifts you had exchanged in the gift-exchange…Shouldn’t usual gifts be cups, clocks, notebooks and even ballpoint pens, these kinds of normal, cheap, and cute everyday items or gifts!?
“I’m really looking forward to this year’s Christmas.” Miao Miao let out a dreamy sigh.
That…In fact, I kind of don’t want to celebrate Christmas anymore. I wonder if I can go home on my own to spend Christmas? I believe I’ll probably be happier at home, really.
“Speaking of Christmas, the Mid-Autumn Festival also clashed with the sports competition, and we didn’t get a break. We’ve already missed two important holidays in a row.” Chifuyu put down his chopsticks. Amazingly, there wasn’t even a drop of soup left in his bowl, “Yang Yang, I heard that during the Mid-Autumn Festival, your country would start barbecuing and eating moon cakes, right?”
“Haha…not quite.” At least I’m the one who’s been barbecuing from young.
Wait a minute, speaking of the Mid-Autumn Festival, I have a feeling that I’m going to be done for, because I didn’t even go home for the Mid-Autumn Festival; if my mom doesn’t strangle me to death, it’d be weird. I better hurry up and set aside some time to go back soon.
“The Yukino Clan would always go to a high mountain that has no people and has vigorous spiritual energy to admire the moon.”
“Eh? Miao Miao’s country doesn’t have the Mid-Autumn Festival.” Miao Miao, who should be a foreigner, scrunched her face and said, “I also want to go to a supernatural mountain to barbecue and eat moon cakes, and admire the moon.”
This miss, please don’t mix them up and say them together. It sounds kind of weird.
“The school almost never held any Mid-Autumn Festival events, because every Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone would return home, and the differences in customs everywhere are too big, so the school doesn’t interfere with activities in this aspect.” Ryan, who had already returned to his seat at some point, suddenly spoke, giving me a big scare, “For example, my country doesn’t have any Mid-Autumn Festivals either.”
If that’s so, then that should be right. It seems that the Mid-Autumn Festival is only celebrated in eastern countries.
“Miao Miao wants to barbecue.” Blinking her beautiful big eyes, Miao Miao used a very eager expression to look at me, “And also go to supernatural mountains to eat moon cakes, and admire the moon.”
You can omit that supernatural mountain.
“If it’s simply to barbecue and admire the moon, then you can just do it at the school.” Chifuyu pushed his glasses, flashing a shiny glare.
“No! There must be a supernatural mountain!” Miao Miao, who suddenly insisted on a supernatural mountain for some reason, started to act shamelessly, “It’d only be fun if we barbecue and eat moon cakes, and admire the moon on a supernatural mountain.”
You just want to “have fun”, right?
“Barbecue…”
Some sort of dripping noise sounded beside me.
Turning my head, I almost got scared again.
What’s with this!? Is silently appearing recently popular with everyone!?
A certain little black snake MeiMei was drooling by the side. Her eyes glittered as she looked at us, and then she sat on the table.
Just where did you pop out from!?
***
“I insist on going to a supernatural mountain to barbecue and eat moon cakes!”
“Xiao Ting also wants to go to a supernatural mountain to eat moon cake meat!” Quickly joining the same side as Miao Miao, the little black snake MeiMei, who I have no idea where she popped out from or why she did, raised her hand and very happily said, “Meat, meat, meat, the mountain has lots of walking meat!”
Hey! You got the wrong definition for the “meat” in barbecue!
[T/N: Barbecue is 烤肉 Kǎoròu, and separately, it means roast and meat.]
“If you want to go outside to barbecue, it can probably be carried out soon with a bit of planning.” Chifuyu, whose brains work quickly, took out a set of paper and pen, and immediately began to write and erase. His efficiency was so fast that I didn’t have time to stop him.
“That, I…” I wanted to tell him not to add me in, because every time I go out with them, it was always very terrifying.
“Meat meat meat~there has to be meat! Must have bloody meat that can walk, can run, can jump, with strong vitality!” Interrupting my words in a second, Xiao Ting directly glued herself next to Chifuyu’s paper and started to be noisy.
“Barbecue rice balls.” Ryan straightforwardly ordered.
I heard… that this seems to be only a plan; why did it directly skip to the food preparation?
“Miao Miao can help prepare a lot of little desserts. Other than that, we can also ask Senior and the others to come out with us for barbecue. The more people there is, the more fun it’d be.” Miao Miao held her face and very happily said. Then she cracked her knuckles and started to count the number of people.
I discovered, the situation seemed to be heading towards some strange place and was starting to get out of control…Just who was the one to mention barbecue first!?
“That’s right, none of us have ever barbecued meat before. I heard that we also need to carefully stack the charcoal when we barbecue. That way the barbecued food will smell nice.” The only normal girl here said.
…Where did you guys hear this wrong information from?
In fact, every year, when my family barbecues, we always randomly throw the charcoal in, start the fire, and directly barbecue the meat. Who would be that leisurely as to carefully stack the charcoal? If you weren’t kicked to death by the people behind waiting to eat, then that’d be strange. And in recent years, because of technological advances, a lot of people use flamethrowers to heat up the charcoals before directly tossing them in. There’s probably not much people who would very carefully stack them now.
“Don’t worry, there’s nearly a hundred different ways to stack charcoal in my head.” Shaking his pen, Chifuyu very seriously said.
…
You guys are crazy.
I suddenly really wanted to lift my legs and run away.
“If you want to make up for the Mid-Autumn Festival with barbecue, it seems that the winter solstice is approaching soon too. How about we cook TangYuan together? Miao Miao has learned how to make them before!” Very cheerfully starting to plan the food, Miao Miao said.
[T/N: It’s made from glutinous rice flour and is rolled into balls]
“Instead of cooking TangYuan, how about making hot pot so that it fills us up more?” Ryan, whose food is rice balls, actually proposed a food that isn’t rice balls.
“Yeah! Miao Miao wants to eat hot pot too, so let’s barbecue while cooking hot pot then!”
“Meat meat meat~~Must be fresh, bloody raw meat that can move~~”
You guys are crazy! You guys really are crazy!
The second I stood up and was about to secretly escape, everyone immediately shifted their gaze to me, causing me to freeze right where I was, not daring to move at all: “Wha, what’s wrong?” I’ll get scared if you guys stare at me like this.
“Yang Yang, the mission of asking Senior will be handed to you. We’ll be responsible for gathering the food.” Miao Miao cutely gave a sweet smile.
“I, I…” I had a feeling as if I was riding a tiger and couldn’t get off*. Just who was the idiot that mentioned barbecue and hot pot!?
[T/N: Can’t back down]
“Xiao Ting will also go back to find Master~~” The overjoyed little black snake MeiMei turned around in a circle. Up to now, she still hadn’t said why she came. I guess even if she had a task, she probably forgot about it because of the barbecue and hot pot.
“Then it’s been decided.” As soon as Chifuyu’s judge pen* stopped, the decision was made, making me unable to even get the chance to talk back, “I will find a supernatural mountain as our location.”
[T/N: Seems to be an ancient Chinese weapon that looks like a pen]
Still a supernatural mountain…
Looking at the ceiling of the restaurant, I had a feeling of speechlessly asking the heavens.
My peaceful school life…
Chapter 3: Challenge
Atlantis 11:08 AM
After the sports competition officially ended, my life returned to its original peacefulness…probably.
Thinking about it, basically, even if the original wasn’t that peaceful, after experiencing the competition, my little not-so-peaceful life was already peaceful enough. This story tells people to be content with what they have. When you return to your everyday life after being ruthlessly messed with, you’ll thank God that your usual life was actually so cute.
I will never think that suddenly hearing a scream at the door halfway through class would be a very strange thing.
Sure enough, humankind’s adaptability is a very terrifying thing.
This is bad, it can’t be that after I return to the original world next time and didn’t hear any screams when I open the door, I’d think it’s very weird instead? I must think of a way to correct my feelings back to normal, or else I’ll become an alien sooner or later!
The surrounding sounds of discussion continued to drift into my ears from time to time.
On Wednesday, everyone had nothing to do in between class.
It’s rare that our rotten teacher would appear to wander around in our class, “Dear students, the semester will be ending soon. Teacher will now send down the survey form, and you can fill in the student information and also write some thoughts about this semester in passing. Remember, if you write nonsense, beware of teacher very politely taking care of you.”
…Really is such a peaceful life, really, very peaceful.
A form was sent over. I carefully looked at what was written on it. It’s pretty normal; they’re all some basic information. Flipping it over, on the back was the semester reflections.
What kind of reflections do I have for this semester?
Please stop dragging me to run and let me walk on my own two feet, alright?
“Yang~What are you writing?” The five-colored rooster head, whose seat shouldn’t be in front of me but for some reason is sitting in front of me, turned around and casually put his form on my table, completely ignoring the weird looks our classmates threw at me.
Okay, I know, he’s an assassin that everyone fears; I’ve known this for a long time.
“This student, don’t look for people to discuss your reflections, alright?” At some point, the homeroom teacher appeared behind the five-colored head, grabbing his head and turning it back, “If you really like to discuss, then teacher can talk with you to your heart’s content later.”
“Hey, can we talk with our hands?” The five-colored rooster head recklessly answered with this sentence.
Before he took his form back, I clearly saw one reflection written on it: [Didn’t even get to kill half an annoying guy!]
Teacher, thank you for turning him back!
“This student, I don’t think your hands will be enough. You should be using both your hands and feet.” Completely ignoring the other side’s provocation, the homeroom teacher quickly provoked him back.
“Hmph hmph, just one hand will be enough. This uncle never bullies the weak.”
This five-colored student, basically, I personally think that the weak one should be you…
“What a coincidence, your teacher especially loves to bully the weak.”
“Come and try it!”
The atmosphere in the classroom instantly became tense, and the two fired-up people completely had the intention of demolishing the classroom.
“Teacher, someone from Class A is looking for you.” Olivia stepped in between the two guys who were about to fight, completely ignoring the fiercely raging flames of war. Then she very naturally dragged the teacher away; her other hand was even holding an entire stack of information as she started reporting. “Also, there were a few reports brought forward in the last teachers’ meeting that teacher hasn’t signed…”
To be honest, I feel like our class’ class rep is more like a Miss Secretary.
“Hey, wait a minute, I…” The five-colored rooster head, whose opponent was dragged away, immediately protested.
“Shut up! Go back to your seat and don’t harass other people!” Not allowing resistance at all, the class rep directly kicked the five-colored rooster head away after pushing away the homeroom teacher.
The classroom was immediately restored to peace.
“Yang Yang, later at noon we’re going to the restaurant for lunch; do you want to come together?” Miao Miao, who shouldn’t be sitting next to me and yet was sitting next to me, took advantage of the five-colored rooster head’s leaving to tilt her head and ask me. Seems like even after the competition, she still doesn’t really like to come into contact with him, “Chifuyu and Ryan will be going too.”
“I’m fine with anything.” After I quickly finished writing my semester reflections, I flipped the form over to cover it. The nearby population flow was too high. I’d be embarrassed if it was seen.
“Then see you at the restaurant at noon.” Miao Miao very happily left the seat and returned to her real seat. Only then could the original owner, who had been expelled, tragically return to his seat.
Ah…It really is such a peaceful school life. An ordinary person like me currently feels very satisfied.
Just as little flowers were blooming over my head, our classroom was suddenly kicked open by someone, and some kind of being-rolled over scream filled the entire classroom. The other students who were still writing their reflections all raised their heads.
It’s rare that our classroom didn’t go out to stroll; standing outside in the corridor was a girl.
Very familiar, but I didn’t have any impression of her.
That girl had her arms crossed, and was wearing a white robe with long locks of hair tied on both sides of her small head, giving off a rather strong feeling. With just a look, you can tell that she’s the type that’s a bit hard to get along with, “Call Chu Ming Yang in your class out!” She raised her shrill voice and shouted.
Everyone turned their gazes toward me.
Me? I don’t know her?
“Hey! I’m calling you and you’re still not coming out!?” That girl realized that everyone was looking at me, and then she raised an eyesore of a finger and pointed at me, “It can’t be that you have no ability and is also a coward!?”
Basically, even though her words stung a lot, they were quite accurate, because I really don’t have any ability and to be honest, I also don’t have any guts…but then again, no matter how much I think about it, I don’t think I know her?
It can’t be that it happened on some day somewhere or I did something that offended her…yikes, I have no impression at all.
I haven’t said anything yet, when Chifuyu, who had already been writing his reflection for quite a while and was disregarding everyone, suddenly stood up. His whole chair was pushed back, and then he pushed up his thick glasses, issuing the shiny flash of light that hasn’t been seen for a long time, “This female student from Class B, if you don’t introduce yourself first before charging in to look for someone, you’ll be suspected of shamelessly coming to look for your boyfriend.”
…This brother, you’re thinking too much.
As soon as Chifuyu said that, there were even more people who raised their heads to look at that girl, and most of them had an expression of watching a show.
“Wha, what boyfriend!” The girl’s shrill voice rose. She was clearly taken aback for a few seconds, “I’m first year Class B’s white robe, Liliya!”
Liliya?
What a familiar name…Ah! I know who she is!
That girl who was chasing the Worm of Origin and then talking behind someone’s back from one morning!
“Chu Ming Yang! Come out!” Then she continued to make a racket, completely disregarding the whole class that was staring at her.
Although I recognize who she is, I still don’t have any impression of offending her before.
“This student, you can look for me if you want to fight one on one, even more so if you want to kill. This uncle will definitely kill you until you’re perfectly satisfied, dying without a burial place!” The five-colored rooster head, whose reflection for this semester’s reflection was not getting to kill anyone, suddenly bounced over to the door very happily. With a swish, he showed his beast claw, and several people who were originally watching a good show by the door moved aside one by one, afraid of being involved.
“The one I’m looking for is Chu Ming Yang. You passerby from the Rogeria Clan should get lost!” Liliya arrogantly gave a cold snort. Looks like she’s really the little missy type that’s extremely hard to deal with.
“You said I’m a passerby!” The five-colored rooster head grabbed his chest, with an appearance like he’d received a heavy blow and even took two steps back, “I treated you so well, and you actually treated me like this, completely disregarding our past friendship…”
He started to act out his expertise in dramas, and all the nearby onlookers simultaneously had many black lines falling down their heads.
In order to break up the awkward situation, I was about to stand up to see what that Liliya wanted from me; as soon as I moved, some kind of pressure pressed down on my shoulder, causing me to immediately sit back down on my seat. “Wait.” Ryan, who floated out from who knows where, withdrew his hand and spoke in a very ghostly tone, before quickly disappearing into the background.
“Who has any friendship with your Rogeria Clan!? Get out of my way!” Still arrogant, Liliya completely looked down on the five-colored rooster head, yelling at him very naturally.
According to my understanding of the five-colored rooster head, he shouldn’t be someone who would obediently let himself be insulted, right?
The five-colored rooster head still had an appearance like he’d received a heavy blow, “You, you’re actually so heartless, then, then…then I’ll won’t be polite either!”
In that second! In that magical one second! I saw his beast claw directly punch the person out without warning with a “pa,” and then following the “ahhhh” sound that gradually grew further away and the huge sound of crashing through the corridor glass, Liliya turned into a beautiful meteor before our eyes.
…
She’s a girl…punching her like that, wouldn’t it kill her!?
“Since you’re heartless to me, don’t blame me for being ruthless!” The five-colored rooster head patted his beast claw, and in one second, it turned from a drama about forsaking family to a malicious murder case, “In my life, I love deflowering* the most; consider this an unlucky year for you, to have encountered me, extremely unlucky!”
[T/N: As in destroying beautiful things]
Basically, I already don’t want to know where he learned these lines from.
The door issued a scream and was kicked again. All the students in the class once again lowered their heads and started writing their semester reflections.
Ah…It really is a peaceful everyday life…
Probably.
***
The trouble Liliya brought naturally wouldn’t end just because she turned into a meteor.
Just like how every movie, animation or light novel plays out, the more troublesome a person is, the stronger their vitality; especially when our school has that miraculous barrier and the super strong medical team…
“Chu Ming Yang! I want to fight you one on one!”
During lunchtime at noon, when we were sitting at the same table as a group to eat, that white robe, Liliya, who turned into a meteor that flew away and turned into a meteorite that flew back again, reappeared before us with her still-has-yet-to-heal body covered in bandages.
The spoon in my hand fell, and with a “dong” sound, it dropped into my plate of curry. The spoon immediately issued tiny angry curses—because it simply too small, no one knew what it was roaring about at all.
Chifuyu, who was halfway finished eating his soba, put down the chopsticks in his hand, and then he pushed his glasses issuing a flash of light, “This student, if a girl pursues someone too relentlessly, her social status will fall to the very bottom.”
To draw blood with one prick.
[T/N: Make a pointed remark/hit the nail on the head]
Liliya’s face instantly blanched. After several seconds, she immediately made up her mind not to listen to Chifuyu’s words anymore; turning around, she directly pointed at my nose and said: “I want to challenge you! Let’s see just what kind of ability you have to be able to participate in the sports competition!”
Turns out it’s because of the matter with the competition.
I remembered hearing her complaints last time. This sports competition really brought a lot of trouble after .
“Student Liliya, the sports competition has already ended a couple of days ago. Isn’t it a bit too late for you to come challenge now?” Miao Miao, who didn’t really like having her meal interrupted, put down the knife and fork in her hands, and asked in an unfriendly tone.
“Hmph, during the competition, there’s a rule that prevents us from privately going to challenge the players, so of course I’d wait until the competition ends before coming! You people from Class C think that everyone has no common sense like you guys!?” Liliya, who might also be race and class conscious, spoke through her nose and even snorted out a large amount of air, causing me to feel that her nostrils should be quite big to be able to snort out these air.
Oh no, the five-colored rooster head went to eat in the White Garden; there’s no one who can send her flying.
A heavy smack on the table sounded. Ryan, who had originally disappeared into his seat eating his rice balls, put his things down, then took out a rubber band that may have been used to tie his lunchbox from his pocket, “You dare to insult the three clans of Yukino, Scar, and Phoenix!?” His eyes behind his hair issued a terrifying flash, “Ryan Scar will make you unable to step out of this restaurant’s entrance!”
Ryan, your sincerity toward your classmates really makes one touched, but don’t you think that there should be four clans here instead of three?
Liliya might’ve been a bit afraid as she took a step back. However, she still had that very arrogant expression on her face, “Hmph! I, I only want to go against Chu Ming Yang! It has nothing to do with you guys!” She was still rather sensible as she hurriedly corrected her words.
I noticed that a sunken handprint appeared on the table in front of Ryan.
“It’s all too late!” Second only to the face-changing person, the forefather of the face-changing people, Ryan tied up his hair. With a fierce gaze, he instantly became another person, “Insulters, can only die!”
Turns out Ryan values honor a lot. I get it now, in the future I have to be careful not to step on his landmine.
Liliya took another step back, and the angry Ryan took a step forward. Then under this moving backward moving forward situation, which was quite similar to some sort of dance step, they directly walked out of the range of the restaurant and disappeared from everyone’s sight.
To be honest, I still couldn’t understand what Liliya wanted.
“That’s right, it seems that it’s almost Christmas.”
The first one to speak was Miao Miao, who really likes activities, and what she said was another completely unrelated new topic, “During the sports competition, we missed the Halloween event. Originally, the school would hold a Halloween game every year, but it just so happened to clash with this year. I’m really looking forward to this Christmas; I wonder what kind of interesting games there will be.” She continued cutting the steak in her plate, and said with great interest.
“Christmas activities?” I asked. In the past, during middle school, there were also Christmas activities: everyone exchanged gifts, sang songs, played a little game and whatnot. Could it be that it’s also popular here? It can’t be, right?
“Yeah, the school always holds activities for every holiday. It’s Yang Yang’s first time encountering this so you might not know, but they’re all very fun!” Revealing a sweet smile, Miao Miao immediately fell into the beautiful memories of the past, “For example, last year, a large-scale Santa hunting event was held…”
Wait a minute! Did I hear that right!?
“Hunt, hunting?” What kind of supernatural word is that! What sort of things are you dreaming about with that cute face!?
“Actually it’s not as serious as it sounds. It was just killing a few Santas.” Chifuyu told me with a manner that should be serious, “All the activities have been recorded. Yang Yang, if you want to know about them, you can go to the library to borrow related documentaries. Then you’ll know how chaotic last year’s activities were.”
I suddenly don’t want to know what their last Christmas activities were.
“After that there was also a gift-exchange event. Miao Miao received a human-faced fish with a frog’s body last time. It was so cute, but it was later eaten by Chifuyu’s man-eating shark.” Miao Miao glared sideways at her classmate who was elegantly eating his noodles.
“The man-eating shark that I received was later eaten by your Cat King, right?” Chifuyu pushed his glasses, and snorted.
May I ask what kind of gifts you had exchanged in the gift-exchange…Shouldn’t usual gifts be cups, clocks, notebooks and even ballpoint pens, these kinds of normal, cheap, and cute everyday items or gifts!?
“I’m really looking forward to this year’s Christmas.” Miao Miao let out a dreamy sigh.
That…In fact, I kind of don’t want to celebrate Christmas anymore. I wonder if I can go home on my own to spend Christmas? I believe I’ll probably be happier at home, really.
“Speaking of Christmas, the Mid-Autumn Festival also clashed with the sports competition, and we didn’t get a break. We’ve already missed two important holidays in a row.” Chifuyu put down his chopsticks. Amazingly, there wasn’t even a drop of soup left in his bowl, “Yang Yang, I heard that during the Mid-Autumn Festival, your country would start barbecuing and eating moon cakes, right?”
“Haha…not quite.” At least I’m the one who’s been barbecuing from young.
Wait a minute, speaking of the Mid-Autumn Festival, I have a feeling that I’m going to be done for, because I didn’t even go home for the Mid-Autumn Festival; if my mom doesn’t strangle me to death, it’d be weird. I better hurry up and set aside some time to go back soon.
“The Yukino Clan would always go to a high mountain that has no people and has vigorous spiritual energy to admire the moon.”
“Eh? Miao Miao’s country doesn’t have the Mid-Autumn Festival.” Miao Miao, who should be a foreigner, scrunched her face and said, “I also want to go to a supernatural mountain to barbecue and eat moon cakes, and admire the moon.”
This miss, please don’t mix them up and say them together. It sounds kind of weird.
“The school almost never held any Mid-Autumn Festival events, because every Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone would return home, and the differences in customs everywhere are too big, so the school doesn’t interfere with activities in this aspect.” Ryan, who had already returned to his seat at some point, suddenly spoke, giving me a big scare, “For example, my country doesn’t have any Mid-Autumn Festivals either.”
If that’s so, then that should be right. It seems that the Mid-Autumn Festival is only celebrated in eastern countries.
“Miao Miao wants to barbecue.” Blinking her beautiful big eyes, Miao Miao used a very eager expression to look at me, “And also go to supernatural mountains to eat moon cakes, and admire the moon.”
You can omit that supernatural mountain.
“If it’s simply to barbecue and admire the moon, then you can just do it at the school.” Chifuyu pushed his glasses, flashing a shiny glare.
“No! There must be a supernatural mountain!” Miao Miao, who suddenly insisted on a supernatural mountain for some reason, started to act shamelessly, “It’d only be fun if we barbecue and eat moon cakes, and admire the moon on a supernatural mountain.”
You just want to “have fun”, right?
“Barbecue…”
Some sort of dripping noise sounded beside me.
Turning my head, I almost got scared again.
What’s with this!? Is silently appearing recently popular with everyone!?
A certain little black snake MeiMei was drooling by the side. Her eyes glittered as she looked at us, and then she sat on the table.
Just where did you pop out from!?
***
“I insist on going to a supernatural mountain to barbecue and eat moon cakes!”
“Xiao Ting also wants to go to a supernatural mountain to eat moon cake meat!” Quickly joining the same side as Miao Miao, the little black snake MeiMei, who I have no idea where she popped out from or why she did, raised her hand and very happily said, “Meat, meat, meat, the mountain has lots of walking meat!”
Hey! You got the wrong definition for the “meat” in barbecue!
[T/N: Barbecue is 烤肉 Kǎoròu, and separately, it means roast and meat.]
“If you want to go outside to barbecue, it can probably be carried out soon with a bit of planning.” Chifuyu, whose brains work quickly, took out a set of paper and pen, and immediately began to write and erase. His efficiency was so fast that I didn’t have time to stop him.
“That, I…” I wanted to tell him not to add me in, because every time I go out with them, it was always very terrifying.
“Meat meat meat~there has to be meat! Must have bloody meat that can walk, can run, can jump, with strong vitality!” Interrupting my words in a second, Xiao Ting directly glued herself next to Chifuyu’s paper and started to be noisy.
“Barbecue rice balls.” Ryan straightforwardly ordered.
I heard… that this seems to be only a plan; why did it directly skip to the food preparation?
“Miao Miao can help prepare a lot of little desserts. Other than that, we can also ask Senior and the others to come out with us for barbecue. The more people there is, the more fun it’d be.” Miao Miao held her face and very happily said. Then she cracked her knuckles and started to count the number of people.
I discovered, the situation seemed to be heading towards some strange place and was starting to get out of control…Just who was the one to mention barbecue first!?
“That’s right, none of us have ever barbecued meat before. I heard that we also need to carefully stack the charcoal when we barbecue. That way the barbecued food will smell nice.” The only normal girl here said.
…Where did you guys hear this wrong information from?
In fact, every year, when my family barbecues, we always randomly throw the charcoal in, start the fire, and directly barbecue the meat. Who would be that leisurely as to carefully stack the charcoal? If you weren’t kicked to death by the people behind waiting to eat, then that’d be strange. And in recent years, because of technological advances, a lot of people use flamethrowers to heat up the charcoals before directly tossing them in. There’s probably not much people who would very carefully stack them now.
“Don’t worry, there’s nearly a hundred different ways to stack charcoal in my head.” Shaking his pen, Chifuyu very seriously said.
…
You guys are crazy.
I suddenly really wanted to lift my legs and run away.
“If you want to make up for the Mid-Autumn Festival with barbecue, it seems that the winter solstice is approaching soon too. How about we cook TangYuan together? Miao Miao has learned how to make them before!” Very cheerfully starting to plan the food, Miao Miao said.
[T/N: It’s made from glutinous rice flour and is rolled into balls]
“Instead of cooking TangYuan, how about making hot pot so that it fills us up more?” Ryan, whose food is rice balls, actually proposed a food that isn’t rice balls.
“Yeah! Miao Miao wants to eat hot pot too, so let’s barbecue while cooking hot pot then!”
“Meat meat meat~~Must be fresh, bloody raw meat that can move~~”
You guys are crazy! You guys really are crazy!
The second I stood up and was about to secretly escape, everyone immediately shifted their gaze to me, causing me to freeze right where I was, not daring to move at all: “Wha, what’s wrong?” I’ll get scared if you guys stare at me like this.
“Yang Yang, the mission of asking Senior will be handed to you. We’ll be responsible for gathering the food.” Miao Miao cutely gave a sweet smile.
“I, I…” I had a feeling as if I was riding a tiger and couldn’t get off*. Just who was the idiot that mentioned barbecue and hot pot!?
[T/N: Can’t back down]
“Xiao Ting will also go back to find Master~~” The overjoyed little black snake MeiMei turned around in a circle. Up to now, she still hadn’t said why she came. I guess even if she had a task, she probably forgot about it because of the barbecue and hot pot.
“Then it’s been decided.” As soon as Chifuyu’s judge pen* stopped, the decision was made, making me unable to even get the chance to talk back, “I will find a supernatural mountain as our location.”
[T/N: Seems to be an ancient Chinese weapon that looks like a pen]
Still a supernatural mountain…
Looking at the ceiling of the restaurant, I had a feeling of speechlessly asking the heavens.
My peaceful school life…
