Chapter 27 Part 1
Going home from school on a certain day (1) ~Scenery of the town~
「We can go home together today, right?! Yuu-kun!」
Just as Yuu was about to start getting ready to go home after the sixth period class was over, Higashino Rei, who was sitting in front of him, turned around and said to him with an expectant look on his face.
「Yeah. Today, we can go home together for the first time in a while.」
When Yuu answered so, Rei beamed, sporting a truly happy smile on his face.
About one week after enrolling in high school.
「It’s hard to say ‘Higashino’. Can I call you by your given name?」
With those words of Yuu serving as the trigger, they came to call each other by their given names instead of their family names.
This week, on Monday, he was able to establish a relationship with not only Sayaka, the student council president, but also Riko and Eimi.
However, from this week until the end of the Golden Week holidays, their schedule was jam-packed with stuff related to the New Students’ Orienteering.
A special committee had been set up for the welcome and send-off for graduates and new students, and had been working together with the student council since around the beginning of the year.
It would be improper for Yuu to join them midway, so although for reference he had more or less heard about how it was going from Sayaka and the others and had expressed his opinions, he had not been involved in the actual activities.
As such, today, Wednesday, all three members of the student council were absent as they had some business with the school.
Yuu himself had no plans after school.
「Masaya-kun, you are visiting the concert band club today, too, right?」
「Yeah. It’s fun to play a musical instrument, after all. It’s annoying when the girls talk to me all the time, though.」
Yamada Masaya, who lifted his silver-rimmed glasses with his fingers, was so like the boys of this world, and was keeping his distance from the girls.
Even so, having taken piano lessons through middle school, he seemed to like playing musical instruments, so he had joined the concert band club.
Of the 30 members of the concert band club, about 1/3 were boys. And the club activities were held three times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Yuu did not know his actual attitude toward girls, but from what he had seen of him usually, he seemed to be taking a casual attitude toward them.
Even so, even while mixing with the girls, he seemed to be enjoying the club activities.
Even though he was like that, as he grew more and more accustomed to girls, he would surely get himself a girlfriend eventually. It was unknown if it would be one, two, or perhaps three, though.
That, too, is typical of youth; Yuu thought.
On the other hand, Rei seemed to have taken a look at several cultural clubs, but in the end, he did not join any of them.
Truthfully speaking, he seemed to have wanted to join the same club as Yuu, but Yuu himself had ended up joining the student council.
「There is no club in particular that I want to join, after all.」
So he said, but… When Yuu saw his obviously lonely figure, as they ended up going home separately even though they were living in the same condominium, he ended up feeling a little bad for him.
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It had been almost a month since Yuu entered high school.
In the all-boys class, the ones Yuu could call friends seemed to be Masaya and Rei only.
It was not that he was hated by the others or anything, and he could talk to them normally.
However, most of the time, those two were the ones he usually acted with, be it when they moved between classes, talked during recess, or had lunch.
According to Masaya, 「Yuu is an oddball, after all. Also, the fact that air around him appears to be calmer than his appearance tells might have ended up making them feel as if there is a wall around him.」
According to Rei, 「Certainly, when you talk to Yuu-kun, it feels like you are talking to someone older than you, right? Ah, I think that is a good part of him, since it makes him more dependable! But I find how defenseless he is against girls questionable….」
In other words, being an old man inside, Yuu’s values and attitude were far removed from those of the high school boys of this world, so he had ended up being kept at a distance by them, apparently.
In the first place, the boys in this school were generally meek compared to the ones Yuu remembered.
The fussy and serious-looking type like Masaya.
The delicate and androgynous-looking type like Rei.
The types who were cheerful and sociable, but only among the boys.
The introverted, otaku type like Yuu’s friends of the past.
They were all boys like that, and there were no delinquents or aggressive types.
Back in his middle school days or now in high schools, it was common to hear harsh opinions about girls, but it was rare to hear them being directed toward those of the same sex.
All of them were total herbivorous boys, never showing the uselessly overflowing liveliness or mischievousness that were common among 15- and 16-year-old boys.
From what Yuu saw, girls were the side that was much more energetic, aggressive, and active.
He thought that, as expected, this was probably related to the fact that the chastity between the two sexes had reversed.
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After parting with Masaya, who was heading to the music room with his club mates from the same class, Yuu and Rei went out the front door toward the bus stop.
The commuting bus was already parked and the door was open.
A rope was stretched on the first school building side of the space from the entrance to the bus stop.
It was by no means insurmountable, but the unspoken agreement to just watch and not go out beyond that point was kept.
From Yuu’s point of view, he felt that the girls at Sairyo Academy were more gentlemanly… or rather, ladylike and considerate toward boys than the girls at his middle school.
Perhaps this was because they had the luxury of having school-authorized dating opportunities as they moved up through the grades.
Maybe they did not want to be disliked by the boys for being greedy.
When Yuu and the others went out the front door, although the number of girls had decreased compared to when they first enrolled at the school, there were still about 50 girls, most of whom seemed to be first-year students, gathered there.
As soon as they recognized Yuu and Rei’s figures, shrill voices rose from the gathered girls.
「Ahh, it’s Hirose-kun!」
「Today is our lucky day! As I thought, Hirose-kun is so cool.」
「More.o.ver! Today he’s with Higashino-kun. They sure are a picturesque pair.」
「Ahn, Higashino-kun, you’re so cute~!」
「Look over here!」
Yuu felt like an idol.
He hadn’t gotten used to being called out in shrill voices by girls yet, but it didn’t feel bad.
When Yuu smiled and lightly waved his hand, more and more cheers rose.
「C’mon, Rei, they’re calling out your name too, you know?」
「It, it’s embarrassing, alright?」
Unable to respond to the voices calling out his name, Rei kept his face down in embarrassment.
Perhaps, that part of him was a part of the reason why they called Rei cute.
Smiling wryly, Yuu got on the minibus marked as the No. 1 bus.
The bus that Yuu and the others rode was on a course that went around the new town via the front of Saiou Station.
By the time the bus departed on schedule, 15 boys ranging from first years to third years had boarded.
In addition to the driver, there was one uniform-clad security guard hired by the school riding in the front and back.
The name of the school being not written on the body of the bus, and the windows on both sides being tinted so that the inside could not be seen from the outside were most likely done to prevent crime.
Unlike in other countries where security was poor, it seemed that there were no people who would attack buses in Japan, as expected, but even so, as they got on and off the same bus every day, they would inevitably catch the onlookers’ eyes, so the guards would properly watch over the boys when they got off until they were handed over to their guardians (or male security personnel).
Yuu and Rei sat side by side on a double row seat located around the middle of the bus.
Yuu was on the window side.
Sairyo Academy High School was located in a place somewhat far away from the urban area, so a rural landscape with striking fields and forests was stretched in its surrounding areas.
It was said that suspicious people who seemed to be after male students often appeared there, so it seemed that security guards were patrolling the area.
The bus departed.
As soon as they hit the road facing the main gate, a new residential area that had just been recently built came into view.
Sayaka must be living in one of the condominiums standing in that area.
As he chimed in here and there as Rei, who was sitting next to him, spoke to him, Yuu thought that he would like to visit the house where Seika lived someday.
「So, you see, don’t you think that Dei-sensei, the math teacher, is a little bit lewd in the eyes? She looks at each of us strangely as if peeking at us as she goes around our seats, or like….」
「Ah, now that you mention it, I guess so.」
The math teacher, Dei, was a female teacher in her early thirties. She was not married, but Yuu had heard that she already had a child.
Perhaps she was not used to it as this year was her first year teaching a boys’ class, she behaved strangely from the first day. She was timid, or perhaps strangely subservient.
Recently, she seemed to have finally gotten used to it, but this time, the way she looked at the boys had become dubious.
It was just that, when she entered Yuu’s field of view, her face was plain, but both her breasts and buttocks were large, so she was a feast for the eyes.
Recently, she had taken off her jacket and switched her outfit to a tight skirt and a blouse where her bra was seen-through, so Yuu find it irresistible.
To put it bluntly, she had an erotic body.
However, the only one who looked at her sexually was Yuu, and her suspicious behavior seemed to be receiving a bad reputation from the other boys.
Taking an example from Yuu’s former world, it might be like a macho male teacher ogling high school girls during class.
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i find that comparison disturbing