High School Hack and Slash Chapter 73 Part 1
Thou Art Arrogant
After completing the joint raid quest with the Black Honey Club, we are now back to our usual daily life.
Although the thrilling struggle was fun, it is important to have a good balance in order to enjoy life.
It can be said that time to relax and laze around is also necessary.
Time flies, as the gloomy sky regains its blue color, the air is also changing from warm to hot.
Once the month changes to July, summer vacation will be finally upon us.
「But first, don’t forget we have a final exam, okay?」
Seiichi, with a straw stuck in a triangular milk pack in his mouth, chants a curse word.
The curse caused indiscriminate damage, and even the surrounding classmates are also showing an unpleasant look on their faces.
Amongst them, the one with the most apparent effect is Mai.
Remains plopped down prone on her desk, she’s twitching and spasming like a cockroach.
「… Why, are you saying, those things?」
「Well, no matter whether you ask or not, the test will always come. That’s just the way it is, isn’t it?」
「Just why?! There’s the possibility that a meteorite would fall and hit the school building before the test, isn’t there?!」
She unabashedly shouts out what everyone has fantasized about at least once.
「As if. What are you, a grade schooler?」
「Then the probability of the evil god sealed beneath the school building resurrecting and the test getting canceled is not nonexistent, you know!」
「There’s not much difference even if you go from a grade schooler to an eighth-grader (chuuni). Stop daydreaming.」
Well, actually, when it comes to the written test, I guess I’ll be able to manage somehow.
With me being at the level where I can do factoring and such and all.
Even specialized subjects such as Introduction to Labyrinths are of the general knowledge category, such as writing down the types of traps, or describing the method of distribution at the time of settlement.
What I ought to pay attention to is the dungeon practice test.
I am ashamed to say, but this one wound up getting a red mark in the last mid-term test.
I ought to prepare myself without letting my guard down.
「It’s okay. There’s no problem at all.」
Shizuka-san floated a wide smile.
I wonder what it is.
It’s a smile of tremendous pressure, or rather a bloodcurdling smile.
I think it’s not my fault that the girl sitting next to me is becoming pale.
Well, I left my student handbook with Shizuka-san this time, so there’s be no problem, should be.
「— Stand to attention, greet, be seated.」
「—Now then, today, we will continue where we left off last time.」
It feels like it’s been quite a long time since I’ve had a class.
There are time differences when we dive into the dungeon, especially to a raid domain, so I guess my senses must have gotten out of order.
There’s also the fact that we have classes of general subjects, which are classroom-only, every other day.
But sitting at my desk with my textbook and notebook open like this, I feel like I’ve returned to being a normal student again.
Example sentences in English are being written on the blackboard.
The English teacher, who seems to be called「Old Miss」, is probably around thirty, or rather probably hasn’t even reached her thirties yet.
To begin with, I’ve almost never seen any elderly teachers on the academy grounds.
「be verbs, in other word these are used with nouns or adjectives to express–」
The air in the classroom is, to put it bluntly, lax.
Many of the students are asleep, plopped down on their desks, and most of the rest are also in a daze, yawning.
A few empty seats can also be seen here and there.
Are they playing hooky, I wonder?
Talk about deplorable, even though the main duty of a student is to study.
I guess all my classmates are also beginning to adapt to this academy life, in a bad way.
Even if you skip class, there is no penalty as long as you regularly go into the dungeon.
Paper tests are just a formality, and as long as you write your name on the answer sheet, you won’t fail.
Given things, it is difficult to keep your motivation in learning.
Well, as reluctant as I might be, recently I have also been missing some classes because of raid conquests and sanctioning pilgrimages.
I see, it’s proof that all of my classmates are also vigorously striving on raid attacks and tsujigiri acts.
In other words, this listless and depraved appearance of theirs is a mimicry.
It is the same as saying, 「Ah~, I didn’t study~, I didn’t study at all~」, before a test.
In fact, I heard that the clubs my classmate started are ranked C, the same as us, Adept Orders.
I was almost thoroughly deceived.
I guess I will have to put my spirit into it and straighten up myself.
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「In, in addition, there are also cases where be verbs are used in progressive and passive sentences…」
Saeko, one of Toyoashihara Academy’s teachers who were in charge of English, endlessly transcribed the spelling as she remained facing the blackboard.
At the gaze she sensed from behind her, she ceased to be able to turn around.
If it was a sexual gaze, she was used to it.
Although she was sometimes made fun of by being called「around thirty』, she never slacked off in her training to maintain her sexual appeal as a woman, or rather, she prided herself to be a thicc mature female.
It was neither that of a naïve childish woman nor a bitch who lacked sex appeal.
It was the flesh that could take the sex of monkeys that were raring to go.
Especially, when the classes of the first-year students she was in charge of were over, those applying for a supplementary lesson would draw near her.
It, was not that kind of licking and ogling gaze.
「In, in other words, j, j-j-just as in the example sentence…」
The same was true for the students, whose faces were fixed like stones toward the blackboard.
By all means, to never make eye contact with it, they continued to simply stare straight ahead.
The untouchable zone that had already become an unwritten rule in the first-year third group.
The backmost seat by the window, and its surroundings.
The men and women seated there were unusually all nodding off.
Usually, they were members whose class attitude alone was uselessly that of honor students.
They were sleeping soundly and peacefully, either plopped down on the arm pillows on their desks or with their chins resting on their elbows.
After all, they had just finished conquering a raid quest.
The day and night were reversed due to the time difference, and their biological clocks were also still out of sync.
Above such them, a floating eye was intensely lording over the classroom.
The eyeball, which seemed to be floating in mid-air, boasted a size about that of a basketball.
The pupils – which, like those of a cat, were thin and vertical – moved around in a curious manner.
Closing once, what peeked out, starting from the tip of its nose to half of its face, next was a huge, dog-like, tiger-like, monkey-like face.
The raw head that popped up from the empty space above a certain male student’s head was akin to a stuffed animal head (hunting trophy).
It boasted a reality that even a fishy breathing of *ha-ha-ha* could be heard.
It cried *Iyou* and unleashed a booming cat punch, as if wishing to be cared for.
It was a cute gesture, but its size was that of a heavy construction equipment.
It was akin to the arm of a backhoe that was being swung around.
The surrounding classmates, their hair fluttering in the typhoon-like strong winds, were trying to assimilate into the background, staring intently at the blackboard with a single-minded focus.
Saeko, who was writing earthworm characters on the blackboard that were no longer discernible, was mumbling「That’s a Null Mob, it’s harmless, it’s a Null Mob, so it’s okay, it-it-it-it’s okay」 like an incantation.
If this were a resident of Asagi-sou, it would be a matter that could be casually passed off as「I wonder if they’re remodeling the open air bath」, but unfortunately, there were no other dorm residents in the third group other than the members of the group.
The miasma concentration in the Asagi-sou nowadays had reached the level where Null Mobs were roaming the hallways with impunity, so it could be said that their senses had gone numb in many ways.
*Grr~* Stretching out its paws and gathering its strength, it was about to launch a cat punch with all its might, as it showed a face that seemed to be saying「I would get scolded if I were to do it, but I want to give it a try」.
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