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ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 422 Part 1

ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 422: When Someone Tries To Punch You, Make Them Eat a Flashy Counter Part 1

「…… Oh, won’t you look at that? It seems that we have already arrived at school.」

「Ah…… I guess that’s true. We have really…… already arrived at school.」

I feel like when you are talking with someone on your way to school, the time and the distance seem to fly by in an instant, without you even realizing it.

That, and……

「Hmm?」

Someone was coming our way? But why? There would be no reason for anyone getting out of school during the class hours, so……I mean, do my eyes deceive me? Or was that person looking straight at us?

「Who is that…… Saiga-san, could it be that this is one of your acquaintances?」

「Eh? N-No, he’s not an acquaintance of mine, but……」

Why the sudden hesitation right there? As I tilted my head in puzzlement, the person approaching us was so close that I could clearly see the details about that person’s appearances.

He looked like…… Yeah, like an amalgamation of a street survey the topic of which was “a handsome man” something like that.

Of course, playing games give you opportunities to see many handsome and beautiful characters. But it is really rude to think about someone you are meeting for the very first time as “beautiful like a character from a video game”. But he seems like a handsome guy who is also really easy to forget.

Even if I try to remember his face, other characters will come to my mind at the same time and the face before me gets somewhat blurred out.

「Hello there, Saiga-san.」

「Ah, hello to you, too…… Ishido… -san……」

「When I saw you coming here, I just could not help myself but to come over to you like that……」

Are you perhaps ignoring me? No, I mean, we meet for the first time, and honestly if I were to talk to someone like that of my own volition I would be somewhat scared and reluctant to do that.

I mean, his face is so good looking. Even if you take into account the fact that Saiga-san is also a really high on the scale of beauty and cuteness, this guy can also rival her…… Ishido-san, was it? What a high spec character he is! Not to mention that he’s also pretty tall! How tall are you? One hundred eighty or even bigger?

「I hate the idea of being a bother first thing in the morning, but I must ask you this: have you given any thought to what we were talking about the other day……?」

「…… And I believe that I have told you this last time as well. I politely decline.」

「Alright, don’t mind me you people. I’m just going to go right ahead and……」

「No way! Someone as talented as you, Saiga-san, should absolutely……」

Ah.

At that moment, my hand grabs and stops Ishido-san’s hand as it was stretching towards Saiga-san.

「………… Ah.」

「…… What do you think you’re doing all of a sudden?」

「If you don’t want to die, you’d better not move.」

Whoa there, was I just a little bit TOO intimidating right now? I guess all of that Presidential roleplaying was finally starting to take its toll on me. However, it was okay, because the matter right now was pretty urgent.

I hold down Ishido-san’s wrist and slowly and carefully extend my other hand towards Ishido—san’s neck.

You may be irritated, you may want to show hostility, but please, I beg of you, don’t do that…… At least not until I make sure that the thing that was sitting on your neck is no longer there and you are safe……

「Are you going to let go of me…… Or not!?」

「Ah!」

Ishido-san’s body tenses up all of a sudden as he forcefully break his hand free from my grasp. He did so even though I stayed perfectly motionless, so could it be that was actually good at reading the atmosphere of other people, and recognized me as “hostile”……? And as expected, the yellow and black striped fellow who was just right next to him saw that sudden move as an act of hostility and shifted into attack mode as well. It took a motion back and then went forward, digging right into Ishido-san’s neck.

「……!? Ouch!? It hurts!?」

「That’s because there was a bee……」

Of course, bees come in many different shapes and sizes, such as a honey bee or a carpenter bee. But right now we saw a bee that was flying away from here, and looking back I could see Ishido-san looking all pale and confused.

「A-Anaphylaxis, shock ……? Ugh! It hurts!」

「Have you ever been stung by a bee before?」

「H-Hospital! Take me to the hospital! Otherwise I’m going to die for sure!」

「Stop over-exaggerating. You are not going to die from something like that. Now calm down and listen here: have you ever been stung by a bee before?」

「N-No……! At least, I don’t think I was……!」

Oh, then I guess that he should be okay for now. Maybe. Probably.

Bee venom is something that you apparently start to build immunity after your second sting. However, as far as I can see, the thing that stung the guy seemed to be a simple paper wasp rather than anything else, and it was certainly not one of those dangerous kinds of bees and wasps. More than anything, it must have been a simple shock from getting stung like that.

「You…… seem to know quite a lot about things, huh……?」

「Hm? O-Oh, yeah, I mean, well…… You see, there are various circumstances behind this. Believe me.」

For some time in the past, my mother was obsessed with collecting beehives of various shapes and sizes. …… Actually, one time there was a hornet’s nest in my house that was bigger than a bowling ball, and the whole family decided to go with the flow and install a beekeeping facility in the garden. That turned out to be a rather poor idea on our part, but it was also good. Because it showed my mother that sometimes in life, it is important to know that just because you CAN do something, it doesn’t mean that you SHOULD do it.

You see, back in our house, my mother is the most dangerous person out of every family member. That is because her fuse tends to be quite short sometimes, and as a result when mad her firepower can grow rapidly over the course of a few seconds. And when it grows, it’s as high as you can possibly imagine, bordering on being boundless.

「Just in case anything happens, you should go to the infirmary and let the school nurse see it. But it should be okay, you may feel weird for a day or two, or it might cause you some slight pain or discomfort…… Now, stop crying! You can walk normally, don’t be such a drama queen!」

「Uhhh, uuugh, uuuhhhhhh……!!」

I look for a moment how Ishido-san was walking away, staggering with each single step, and then a certain realization hit me: for some reason, it was really hard for me to remember just how his facial features looked like. Shocking, I won’t lie.

「How should I put it, he seems to be an interesting person…… But that is actually all that I know.」

「That person…… He should be the Student Council’s… Vice President, right……?」

Eh, really? I don’t even remember the faces of anyone being on the Student Council in this school. But judging from the conversation just now, I guess that person is one of them? I guess?