High School Hack and Slash Chapter 78 Part 1
Outdoor School
It’s the arrival of the chirping, bustling season in earnest.
The place where the academy is located is like that of a highland resort, so it’s a relief that it doesn’t have dehydrating heat and humidity.
The mosquitoes and horseflies are also of a large size, different from those in the city.
Moreover, they emerge in a considerable number, so insect repellent measures are a must.
Asagi-sou, which I have ended up coming to recognize as my home completely, is also tinged with the summer vacation atmosphere.
The hung wind chimes are playing a refreshing ringing sound.
The breeze blowing into the dorm through the window screen is plenty refreshing.
It seems that air-conditioners are standard equipment in the higher-ranked dormitories, even in the middle class ones.
Of course, we at Asagi-sou, a bottom-ranked dormitory, don’t have such a blessing of civilization.
No, I guess I should say, we didn’t.
The relaxation area adjacent to the Adept Orders’ club room (provisional).
With massage chairs lined up along the wall, it’s a space that has turned into a wonder blend of Japanese and Western style.
At the entrance of the club room (provisional), a curtain reading『Ice』 is hung, and a self-made, hand-cranked, retro shaved ice machine is open to the public.
Syrups with poisonous colors such as melon, strawberry and blue Hawaii have also been arranged, and everyone can shave some ice and eat some shaved ice at self-service.
Doggy-senpai, who came to play, dyeing a bucket of shaved ice with poisonous colors, before then rolling around while holding her head that was aching is still fresh in my mind.
Her tongue was in a psychedelic coloring.
Well, the ice cubes that have also served as the source of the shaved ice machine.
These ice cubes are left installed in the machine even at room temperature, but they never melt.
Such wondrous ice cubes are something we cut off from the eternal glacier that was on the twelfth stratum of the dungeon.
It’s a field of extreme cold, a complete change from the savanna style of the eleventh stratum.
We wound up having to retreat once, but through the completion of the snugly equipment by Mikan-senpai and the others, it became a walk in the park all at once.
Good graciousness, I am totally no match for the senpais.
The level of difficulty is that of having gigantic mammoths and ice tigers attacking you amidst a sub-zero blizzard, but in what manner are the other students conquering it, I wonder.
By the way, the mammoth’s sliced meat is very hard and stuffy.
Originally, it seems that the constituent substances existing in the dungeon cannot be brought back to Rashomon.
I don’t know the difference between these and monster drop stuff, but for better or worse, it appears that there’s a theoretical study pertaining to it.
Like pertaining to EXP-esque ownership rights or the authority being this and that, but well, it doesn’t matter.
Since all that matters is that everything is fine as long as I can take them back by tossing them into the Item Box.
Speaking of the gigantic ice cubes that we’ve cut off from the eternal glaciers in such a manner, some are used as material for shaved ice while some as primitive ice-coolers.
The icicles, cut into large blocks, are enshrined like obelisks on a wooden tub.
If you arrange such chilly obelisks around the entire relaxation area, a comfortable chilly area will be completed.
It seems that the ice cubes from the eternal glaciers will also melt quickly if the surrounding miasma concentration is low.
However, the Asagi-sou site maintains a mysterious miasma concentration, so, well, it appears that they’ll be able to easily last for a week or so.
In the Japanese-style tatami room area, which had been expanded under the dorm residents’ demand, girls dressed in an immodest manner of shirts and panties are lounging around, crowding like chilled potatoes.
The problem is that since almost all the dorm residents gather in such a relaxation area, a second massager war is close to breaking out.
As eating shaved ice while win-winning on the massage chairs and enjoying the cool breeze while listening to the sound of the wind chimes seems to have become a trend here, a strife of no humanity and justice over waiting for one’s turn reoccurs.
An emergency meeting of the Asagi Sorority is hastily called and governance is instituted for a healthy summer vacation life.
A demand for a mini version of the tub obelisk in each room is raised and rejected, a vote to install tub obelisks in the dressing rooms of the open air bath and other places as an alternative, reports of ill health due to eating too much shaved ice, and many other things.
In the end, it’s decided that we will store the ice cubes in the warehouse Umeka-senpai had built in the basement, and dorm residents will be free to cut them off and use them as they wish.
It appears that students living in other low-ranked dormitories either go to the school cafeteria to cool off, lazing about and killing time, or go all the way to the student street to laze about and cool off in air-conditioned shops.
However, the residents of the Asagi-sou this year are lazing about and holed up in the dormitory.
Up until now, there have even been boys who have come to stay overnight at such an Asagi-sou and mess with the dorm residents every now and then.
In other words, guys like me and Seiichi in the beginning.
For better or worse, we, who as members of Sorority are registered as advisors, act as some sort of bouncers to keep them from getting out of line.
I thought I hadn’t seen much of them recently, but it seems that a policy has been established to refrain from bringing in students from outside the dormitory.
Sometimes there are guys who misunderstand and come as if they are visiting a cabaret club, but they are beaten to a pulp by the dorm residents without us having to step up.
It seems like the rates of the martial arts faction of the Asagi dorm students have gone up.
As a compensatory act in return, or perhaps that they have ended up becoming backed up, the gazes they direct toward us are getting more and more bewitching and dangerous.
When I actually experience being suddenly dragged into a room and surrounded by big sisters, it’s terribly scary.
Seiichi seems to be doing well, so let’s pray he doesn’t get dango ballistic missiles shoved into his ass.
Amidst such a summer vacation, we live a reasonably lively life.
As we hold the second installment due to the popularity of the ☆Asagi-sou Yakiniku Festival☆ a little while ago, and Black Honey come along as if it’s only a matter of course, well, from onlookers’ point of view, we also do normie-ish events.
Of course, we do dungeon dive and proceed with our conquest in between, arriving at the fifteenth stratum.
And then, in the blink of an eye, the X-Day of the outdoor school is about to begin.
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「Take care, everyone!」
We receive words of encouragement from Mikan-senpai, who has come to see us off.
The members of the Adept Orders have gathered in front of the entrance of Asagi-sou.
Given that only four of us have to go to the outdoor school upon getting red marks, I do feel ashamed as the club president.
「Well, just be sure not to overdo it, I suppose. We’ve entrusted you with enough items to allow to survive even if you go to a deserted island, so make sure you come back alive, okay?」
「… Please spare me from raising any strange flags.」
Seiichi’s face twitches as Rinko-senpai floats a wide grin.
This time, we’ve got various useful items prepared for us by the senpais, who are being considerate to us.
There are some bulky items and even some prototype mobile weapons, but everything is settled by Item Box.
「Uu~, Danna-sama. I’ll go with you after all.」
「You can’t. You’re house-sitting, Saki. Okay?」
「U~u~, but Shizuka-nee-sama….」
Shizuka is soothing Saki, who is groaning cutely.
Just as I have a sudden thought that something is missing, I notice that I don’t see the figures of the twins.
We had breakfast together, so there’s no way they have overslept, and I have a somewhat bad feeling about this, so I try reaching out my hand toward the Item Box.
「Ahn!」
「Ahn!」
What I end up taking out are Miharu and Natsumi, who are carrying bulging backpacks on their backs.
How did they get in, I wonder?
Did they ask Yuki-chan or Doll-kun for help?
I let out a sigh as I stare at the twins, who are looking away from me with a face like that of runaway girls who have been found.
They look docile, but these girls are quite the daredevil.
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