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Nanana’s Buried Treasure Volume 3 Chapter 1.2

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“Translator: Foxsunes/Editor: TheNix”

「Hey, Tensai. What’s wrong?」

The life in both her eyes was lost, her mouth half-open and her head was somewhat tilted. While looking like that, as if she was facing the end of the world, Tensai murmured 「I’m going home」.

「…. say that again?」

「I’m going back to my home.」

The great detective’s words resounded in the classroom that had become silent.

「Wai-, You-… what are you saying? What about class?」

「I don’t care about that.」Tensai spit out these words and reached out her hand towards her backpack that was lying on her desk.

「Hey! What’s wrong? Did that girl say something to you just now? Like, did you you receive an envelope from her?」

「Ah, this? If you want it you can have it.」

As she said that, the great detective suddenly flipped the envelope to me, grabbed her bag, and left the classroom.

「Wai- wait! Tensai!」

D’arc, who also saw that, quickly got up from his seat and hurriedly followed after his master.

The classmates that were left behind were all equally dumbfounded by the sudden incident.

Huh? What? What does this mean?

I tried opening the envelope that was thrown at me. When I did, there was money inside of it. This made me extremely confused. 

BANG! The door swung open loudly.

「Excuse me for being late.」

When our homeroom teacher opened the door of the classroom and entered, the dumbfounded class started moving again.

After the homeroom teacher, who was standing on the teaching platform,  looked over the students she opened her mouth.

「Well then, this is a bit sudden but I want to introduce a new transfer student to you.」

At this sudden big event, my classmates forgot all about the trivial things that happened just now. Their expressions were filled with expectations. In this case, I was also one of them. Just like all the other boys in the class, I was wishing for a beautiful female transfer student wearing glasses.

It was too bad that there had not been anything like the anime trope of running into an unknown girl this morning, but you never know what could happen later. Maybe I would get to know the cute transferred girl and ultimately end up in a fluffy relationship with her, right? I was tripping on an astronomical number of such possible outcomes.

By the way, my reaction from seeing the new student wasn’t anything like I imagined.

「Huh?!」

It was not a girl that I had run into this morning while she was holding bread in her mouth. Still though, I stood up from my chair and shouted unthinkingly at the familiar face.

「Wha-?」

At the moment the other person noticed my presence from the other side of the room, he pointed his finger at me in astonishment.

「W..why are you in here?」

「No, that’s my line! What are you doing here, Tetsu-kun?」

The sudden transfer student, a resident of Tsukuyomi Town that I already knew, Tetsu-kun (a guy).

「Hey, transfer student. Chat with your acquaintances later. For now introduce yourself please.」

At the words of the homeroom teacher Tetsu-kun bowed his head 「Excuse me.」With a somewhat dissatisfied expression, he wrote his name on the blackboard.

「I’m from Japan, nice to meet you all. I’m called Tsujimi Tetsunoshin. Please take care of me.」

As Tetsu-kun bowed in a well-mannered way, he got an applause from my classmates. I also clapped along, but I somehow wasn’t really feeling it. I see, Tetsu-kun is actually called Tetsunoshin. It was, how do you say, somewhat old-fashioned? I thought it was very like him.

「Hey, Tetsu-kun.」

It was after school and I finally called out to Tetsu-kun. As for why I didn’t call out to him until after school, there is a good reason for that.

「What is it? From the first class ‘til the last you slept like a log, Yama Juugo.」

Just like Tetsu-kun said, at the time the lesson started, I fell onto my desk right away and completely lost consciousness.

I regained my consciousness right before the final homeroom session. After homeroom finished my homeroom teacher yelled at me and gave me a warning. Whatever the excuse, to be fast asleep during all my classes was taking it too far and because of this behavior I was registered as absent for all my classes.

「You can’t say that a sleeping kid was actually taking his classes.」

Truly a fair argument. To register someone as absent because they slept even though they managed to enter the classroom. I had renewed awe for this island’s school system to enforce such a rule as if it were normal.

Now back to the main story…

「So uhm. Why are you here, Tetsu-kun?」

Tetsu-kun was a resident of what was called Nanae Island’s worst neighborhood, also known as “Tsukuyomi Town”. He was one of the members of the team that ruled over Tsukuyomi Town. So you would think he must be a loser who dropped out of school.

「Due to the circumstances, I had to return to school.」

I saw that he somehow looked dissatisfied with this; it seemed like he wasn’t very enthusiastic about being back in school.

「What about you, Yama Juugo, why are you here?」

「If you ask me why, that’s because I was a student here from the start.」

When I gave him the obvious answer, Tetsu-kun hit his head with the palm of his hand and groaned.

「I didn’t hear of this, boss.」

「Hm? Did you say something, Tetsu-kun?」

「No, never mind.」

As I was talking to Tetsu-kun whose facial expression was kind of stiffened, Yumeji-san approached us.

「Sorry to make you wait, Tsujimi-kun. Shall we go? 」

「Ah, yes please.」

Tetsu-kun got out of his chair for Yumeji-san, who was smiling brightly.

「Eh, are you two going somewhere?」

「Yes. Just like when you came here, it was decided that I have to show the transfer student Tsujimi-kun around.」

「It’s exactly as she says. Bye, Yama Juugo.」

I hurriedly yelled for the two of them to stop as they were about to leave the classroom.

「Wait a sec please! Yumeji-san, I’m coming as well.」

「Eh, you as well Yama-kun?」

「Yes, indeed. Because Tetsu-kun and I are friends. Let me come along please.」

When I leaned on Tetsu-kun’s shoulder with a smile like that, he glared at me intensely.

「Oi, Yama Juugo. When and how did I become friends with you?」

「Don’t be so stiff now, Tetsu-kun. Or what is it? You surely weren’t thinking of doing something bad to Yumeji-san when it was just the two of you, were you? Daddy won’t forgive you for such a thing y’know!」

「……  What are you even saying, Yama Juugo?」

Looking at our bantering, Yumeji-san giggled.

「Certainly. If someone who knows you well like Yama-kun was with us, you might feel a bit more at ease. So, shall we go with the three of us then?」

AFter all was said and done, Yumeji-san and Tetsu-kun happily (?) agreed and I was going to join them.

Just to tell you in advance, but this was definitely an act of goodwill towards the transfer student Tetsu-kun, because he looked after me the other day. By no means was this an act out of my own ego to prevent the possibility that this might turn into a transfer student episode for Yumeji-san. Nope, there was no mistake in that.

While the three of us were walking through the hallway, I (who had slept through all of today’s classes) asked Yumeji what I had been wondering about ever since I woke up.

「Now that I think of it Yumeji-san, what was with Tensai..?」

「Hoshino-san came back before the first lesson started but…. in the end Tensai-san did not return. I asked about it when I was having lunch with Hoshino-san, but apparently ghe was told not to come along. I didn’t ask further after that.」

「Oh, I see.」

「Hoshino-san seemed down about it all day.」

Because she was friendly with D’arc (who passed as a girl in society) Yumeji-san looked worried.

At the moment homeroom ended D’arc immediately grabbed his bag and left the classroom, saying only some quick goodbyes.

What in the world was going on with Tensai?

It was clear that the cause had been her conversation with that first-year this morning.

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