Chapter 12 – It’s Magic for Me
The academy boasts a huge site with dozens of huge buildings.
At the center of the academy was an intentionally created plaza.
I don’t know if it’s to appease the academy students who must be tired from hard and dreary studies, or it’s just for aesthetic reasons.
The square, beautifully decorated with flowers and grass, served as a park for the students.
Due to the huge structure called the clock tower, the fountain surrounding the elaborately carved statues, and the high-quality wooden chairs that fit well into the background,
The students of the academy naturally gathered and moved around this place.
Place of meeting… In a place called by a rather old-fashioned expression,
I decided to meet my junior.
“…”
But I was far away from the plaza even though it was close to the appointment time.
I, who was properly positioned near the plaza, hid behind a tree planted for aesthetics as a shield.
I was waiting for my junior to come.
Because, well, there are always too many people over there…
It was a place I didn’t want to go to for me, who felt a great repulsion at the unverified gaze of others due to my inferiority complex.
However, it is also true that there is no other place to meet other than there, so I couldn’t refuse my junior’s proposal to meet at the plaza.
Good.
Like now, if you wait from a distance and a junior appears,
Let’s grab it quickly and get out of that crowded plaza.
… Realizing that my strategy would never be of any use,
It was the next moment.
I thought the entrance to the plaza would become quiet as if I had been hit by cold water.
Suddenly, it becomes very noisy, like a market trough.
I knew who showed up just by the girls staring at me and making a fuss like crazy, what should I do, so handsome, like a dream.
I was dumbfounded by the reaction that seemed to be a surprise to any celebrity, but I was soon convinced.
6th week of the new semester.
A junior’s position in the academy might be on par with or even higher than that of a popular celebrity.
Proof of this was that sophomores in the same class as me would talk about their juniors whenever they had a chance.
It’s amazing that people can go up and down so much just by looking, but when I think of my junior’s appearance, I thought it could be something like that.
Anyway, I got into a lot of trouble.
Of course, I should have expected this, but my thoughts were short-lived. It was also the first time I actually saw juniors driving crowds like clouds like that.
To see me and get in between me, no, not even, to stand next to my junior, who is the center of all attention, to get the attention of so many people?
Why don’t you tell me to die
I can’t go, no I won’t
I felt that way.
That’s why I still hid myself in a tree,
I’m just sticking out my face and examining the situation…
“Wow.”
… We made eye contact with each other.
With that handsome junior, who I hate to death.
“Senior!”
Run away, let’s run away anyway.
Master, no junior, what kind of eyesight is that good?
If we decided to meet in the square in the first place, wouldn’t we have to look around the square first?
It’s my behavior pattern, if I find it right away like it’s obvious, what am I going to be?
Even though I thought it was really useful to find me as if to pick me up from so far away at once, I avoided the spot for now.
Senior? Who is the senior? It was because I could hear the buzz of the public saying that.
I was really, really, really, really, really reluctant to get swept up in useless rumors.
Yeah, people still don’t know that I’m here, and that I’m the senior called by my juniors…
“Senior Eve!”
Damn son of a bitch.
This is why I have no choice but to hate my juniors.
I ran to the other side with all my might.
…
…
…
And in less than a minute, I was caught up.
I had a lot of stamina that could be called low quality.
“Hehe. Hehe. Hehe…”
“Whoa. Senpai, why did you run away?”
“Whoa, haak, heck, kyahak, whoa…”
“… It’s hot senior.”
“Hey, don’t say anything strange…”
Immediately after realizing that there is no point in running away,
It has become a situation where I have no choice but to drag myself like cattle being led to a slaughterhouse.
I passed in a straight line through the plaza I was so reluctant to set foot on.
“Gyaaaaa,”
Sure enough, people stare at me a lot.
Who is that? From,
Saying it doesn’t fit
A few blue ties recognizing me, so the sophomores, oh, that sullen kid… I even heard whispers while doing it.
Thanks to you, the world seems to go round and round.
I feel like throwing up.
Let’s die let’s just die
Let’s disappear
Cosmic dust, yes. Let’s become cosmic dust.
When my complexion turns blue in an instant,
My juniors have been worried about me.
“Can I hold your hand?”
“No, never, never, no, no, no.”
“Hmm.”
“Why is the flow going that way in the first place?”
“You caught me yesterday when there were so many people.”
“I’m begging you, please, lower your voice…”
If you talk so proudly, everyone around you will hear it.
As I listened to our conversation, I almost fainted at the gaze of the crowd, who were horrified.
Is this a new type of bullying?
I thought that maybe the juniors might be vicious dyssexuals who take pleasure in embarrassing people who are inferior to themselves.
I got hit. I was completely beaten.
I should have recognized you from the time I asked to meet you at the plaza…
I barely came to my senses and answered the junior’s question a while ago.
“It was because I was afraid I would get lost. Now, everyone is looking at you.”
“Are you okay.”
“I’m not okay!”
“Oh. The senior spoke half-heartedly.”
“It’s not like that… !”
“And the senior’s voice is louder than mine.”
“… .”
To the truth that the nasty guy spits out,
I’m running out of things to say.
The junior who was watching me shrinking in real time, rolling my eyes here and there in a fit of seizure, pointed at himself as if he had realized something.
“Am I embarrassed?”
“It can be, it can’t be.”
“Hmm.”
Junior, then why? It seemed like he wanted to ask.
I wanted to leave this place right away, but
If I couldn’t convince him, I wasn’t in the mood to let him go.
I couldn’t help but say it.
“Kouhai-sama, this way… Aren’t you ashamed?”
“Why?”
“Yeah…”
What are you trying to say?
You and I, who receive all kinds of envy and jealousy just for having a face, are not on the same level. The words reached the top of my throat, but I couldn’t bear to say them.
It was because I had a premonition that no matter what I said, I would be lightly refuted.
Showing fragments of one’s inferiority complex is, of course, hurting one’s pride,
More than that, the juniors who saw that filthy and lowly thing,
Isn’t it a big deal? I was more afraid to think.
On the subject of having it all.
With lofty eyes as if looking down from above…
The thing I don’t like the most about my junior is,
Even if he had lived the same life in the same situation as me, the result would have been completely different.
No matter what I say here,
Regardless of the natural environment,
It was purely because I was a poor person that I met this result… I thought I would be in charge of it,
I couldn’t say anything in the end.
Seeing me suddenly quiet, my junior wanted to think about something for a long time,
In the end, he spoke first.
“Doesn’t it bother you to look at your seniors around you?”
“…”
Even that way of speaking that resonates kindly as if I understand everything is annoying.
I was filled with indifference, but I couldn’t get angry because of the eyes I was watching, and I just hated my junior to death in my heart.
But my patience just ended there.
I will not be able to stand it any longer if he even shows signs of sympathizing with something he could never know or know.
If you give me any more clumsy empathy and comfort,
Or if you forcefully cover me up by getting angry at the people around you and telling them to stop talking,
I was confident that I would hate my juniors even more than I do now.
But, as always, juniors
I was behaving unexpectedly.
It was a third option that I hadn’t considered at all, that was hidden rather than non-existent.
“It sucks.”
“… Suddenly, what is it?”
“A gift.”
What my junior suddenly took out of his pocket was a hairpin.
A simple hairpin with a cherry blossom pattern engraved on it.
“My magic for seniors has been imbued.”
“… You don’t know how to do magic.”
“How did you know?”
“I know just by looking at it…”
“Still, I am listening to the basic lecture properly. Ah. Please stay still for a moment.”
The juniors came close to me without a chance to stop me,
My gloomy bangs that covered my cheeks were tactfully brushed aside, pinned to my ears, and pinned with hairpins.
And he said it with a smile that best suits juniors.
“It’s a magic that opens the eyes of fools.”
Then like a lie, as if it was really enchanted,
The countless mutterings surrounding us, saying that I don’t fit in, that I look gloomy, that I look dirty, and what that is, all of those murmurs disappeared in an instant.
What, what did you do?
“Cook-cuck-cuck… Even if you look at it like that, I will never tell you.”
“… Joy…”
A junior holding back a laugh, shaking her shoulder as if he was going to die of laughter,
I still hated it.
Barely, barely, what is a hairpin like this?
If you present these things as a solution, what will become of the worries and mental illness that I have lived my whole life.
But what I don’t like more is
His solution was very effective.
I never dared to imagine that that one hairpin would blow away not only people but also my paranoia all at once.
However, there was also a slight side effect, which was that many people even flocked to the event.
But no matter how many or even dozens of people come,
Even if the crowds of people look at us and gossip freely,
For some reason I didn’t care anymore.
However, I have a very weak personality, so
I was the kind of person who couldn’t live without eating a room like this.
In my own way, I thought of revenge as much as I could at this moment.
And I immediately remembered.
Good. Good. That’s right… !
“Excuse me.”
“Yes?”
“Um, well, since there are a lot of people, it seems like I’m going to get lost…”
“… Her?”
“Like yesterday, Cow, please hold my hand…”
“…”
Kyaaak,
But if you catch on like that.
Even though my ulterior motive to undermine the reputation of my juniors by involving myself, you, is working too well, hey, why are you smiling with such a strange face? Aren’t you stupid?
In the end, even though I suggested it first,
I was really caught in the hands of my juniors for a long time,
I walked around the academy worrying that my juniors would be offended by sweat from my extremely nervous hands…
