Episode 29 — Class Meeting in a Different World #3
～ Part 2 ～
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“Utsurogi!”
When Rin and Kyousuke were walking in a passage of the royal castle, Ryuzaki called out to them from behind.
It had already been 3 days since the students of 2nd years class 4 came to the royal capital. They had been allowed to stay in the royal palace, but the aristocrats coming and going were still looking at them with the same flustered eyes as usual. As the Empire was gradually becoming suspicious that they were keeping monsters in the royal palace, the opposition seemed to be quite considerable.
Nevertheless, Ryuzaki negotiated with Her Majesty the Queen and managed to attach a promise to be able to stay here for a week.
“Oh, yahhoo. Ryuzaki-kun!”
“So Rin is together with you too? You’re going to eat after this?”
“Yeah! The two of us are going to a small restaurant!”
“…We must go a little bit later, or else we’re going to disturb their business?”
There were many small restaurants in the royal capital, but the ones that would received even the monster students were limited. Although Kyousuke group was heading to one of those, naturally, as many common citizen customers were also entering, they were told to come just at the last moment of the opening hours in order to avoid uselessly frightening the people.
“Well, it’s fine. Utsurogi and Rin also, listen to me. I have a request.”
“Request? What could it be?”
As the class rep, Ryuzaki was in a position to carry on his back heavy responsibilities, still he had been relying on Kyousuke one way or another these days. While he didn’t think of himself as a substitute for Goubayashi, Kyousuke still felt pretty good.
“Actually, it’s about the class meeting a week from now, but.”
“Ahh, the 4th. We must make a decision by then. I wonder how many people are going to come along?”
“According to my judgement, about 30 people are going to come.”
Ryuzaki readily said. Rin’s body bounced as she was visibly surprised.
“So much!? To gather so much!?”
“Everyone wants to go home quite a lot. Right now, they are feeling lost over the safety and balance. But still, they got the hope of 『I may go home』, and the choice of 『By any chances, I may have to spend the rest of my life here』. Probably, not many students will choose the second option.”
This was Ryuzaki who wouldn’t fall behind any other people in observing his classmates. His words had considerable persuasiveness.
“So, what is this so-called request of Ryuzaki?”
“Ahh, it’s just that…”
Ryuzaki looked around the surroundings and then softly whispered to Kyousuke. Rin also stretched her body and listened attentively.
“I want to take all 37 of us.”
As expected, Kyousuke stared in wonder at these words ——— this is impossible, at the very least, the level of his surprise was comparable to that.
“Are you seriously saying that?”
“Umm, even though I’ve stated my standpoint like that in the class meeting, I think we shouldn’t make separated decisions here.”
Ryuzaki told them that it was better to draw a united conclusion, whichever choice it should be. If they respected each individual’s opinions here, the class would fell apart and there was no merits to it.
If they parted way with some of their classmates here, the thought of 『Someday disagreement will break out with my other classmates』 would be born unconsciously. Trifling friction and discord would happen in the class. At that time, they couldn’t say who was going to leave the class again.
Even now, Goubayashi had already left the class. There was plenty of possibility for the atmosphere to become like that.
“I have come to understand it when Goubayashi left, but can you bear it when you have to part way with our close classmates? How about Utsurogi?”
“No, I also … understand.”
Recalling the face of a boy who was already no longer his friend, Kyousuke then nodded.
“For example, Sugiura and Hanazono. Those two are quite close, aren’t they?”
“Ah, yeah. That’s right. They were already on good terms to begin with, and I feel that it becomes better after coming here.”
Rin agreed to Ryuzaki’s words.
The cook Sugiura and Hanazono, the one who was growing food ingredients in the home garden. There were many opportunities for them to talk because of their roles at the base, even at the class meeting just earlier, they were sitting next to each other.
“But probably, Sugiura is going to come with us and Hanazono is about to stay. If we break up here, it may very well be the farewell of a lifetime. To prepare ourselves for that, one week is too short indeed.”
“If stay, everyone should stay, if leave, everyone should leave, is it something like that?”
“That’s right. As for this, it is only my selfishness, but I don’t want to stay leisurely in this country.”
Is it about Goubayashi? Kyousuke thought. Kyousuke and the others had received the information that Ryuzaki’s close friend, the ogre Goubayashi Genshuu had headed south a little while ago. Of course, he will want to go and meet up with him.
He roughly understood what Ryuzaki was trying to say.
In other words, he was trying to say that Kyousuke and Rin should lay the groundwork for consensus in the class.
They had to persuade the students who wanted to stay in this country somehow within one week.
Kyousuke who had little communication skills wasn’t confident, but it might be possible if he worked together with Rin.
Ryuzaki floated a little self-deprecating smile.
“I am a selfish class rep.”
“No, I think it’s fine to be a little selfish. It’s typical of humans.”
“Is that so? What about Utsurogi?”
“Eh?”
When asked, Kyousuke involuntarily raised his face.
“Utsurogi also, do you have anything you want to stick to despite it being your selfishness?”
Being told so, he pondered. Something that I want to stick to despite it being my selfishness, and to the extent of bending the will of other people? Now that I think about it, there’s nothing coming to mind immediately. If I have to say, it would the the feeling of wanting to rescue Kogane as soon as possible.
However, I don’t think I would bend other people’s will just for that reason.
“…There’s nothing in particular.”
“Really. You’ve changed. Utsurogi.”
“But I don’t think I’ve changed as much as Ryuzaki.”
“Iya~a, I also think that Utsurogi has changed more…”
Rin said in a slightly sulking tone just like a little while ago. Kyousuke scratched his head.
“Is that the case?”
“Such a thing, Utsurogi-kun…”
“Hmm?”
“Wel—. Yeah. It’s nothing.”
In the end, Rin hesitated like that and fell silent.
“Anyway Ryuzaki, I understand your request. Is it okay? Himemizu.”
“Yeah. I understand what Ryuzaki-kun is trying to say, I also want to depart with everyone if it’s possible.”
“Ahh, thank you. Sorry to have detained you.”
Ryuzaki said so and laughed, then passed over a sheet of paper. Apparently, it seemed to be a list of 『Students who are thinking about staying』 that Ryuzaki had likely predicted. There should be around 7 or 8 people, but only about half of them were written there. I wonder if Ryuzaki is going to take care of laying the groundwork for the other half.
After giving a brief explanation, Ryuzaki bid farewell to Kyousuke group and left the corridor.
Kyousuke and Rin also waved their hands, seeing him off, then they decided to head for the royal palace’s courtyard right after.
The two people were enjoying their conversation about their meals after this as Ryuzaki watched them anxiously from a place some distance away.
When Kyousuke and Rin came back to the royal palace, the sun had already completely set.
The food at the small restaurant was very delicious. It seemed likely that there were many earthlings here in this country, and there were also many dishes from Kyousuke and the others’ world as well, but the most delicious had to be the pâté-like chicken paste dish. Because Rin also ordered a lot, Kyousuke’s pocket money had been completely reduced.
By the way, when eating out, Kyousuke and Rin came up with a method of eating while combined. It was a method where Rin caught and digested all the food that fell down Kyousuke’s throat. This way, the two of them could enjoy their meals properly with only a portion for one. It was at a level where they wondered why they didn’t do that from the start.
“Well then, Utsurogi-kun. Good night~.”
“Ahh, good night.”
Kyousuke waved his hands toward Rin and went back to the boys’ shared room. He had to walk a little.
Tomorrow, he, along with Rin, had to run around making the necessary arrangements. As the result of completely troubled about where to put the sheet of paper, he decided to just roll it up and thrust it in his eye socket. As expected of the place usually used to keep the brain, the skull was quite an excellent storage space.
“Utsurogi,”
Being called suddenly, Kyousuke turned around. My name has been called quite often today.
However, standing there behind him was an unexpected person.
“Akai…”
Bathing in the gentle moonlight coming through the windowpanes, Akai Asuka stood. Her eyes revealed a different kind of feelings than the usual always being bored kind of eyes. She wasn’t even polishing her nails. As usual, she had a tall and slim model-like figure, her back leaning against the wall, arms crossed as if embracing herself, it felt just like a piece of art.
“This is rare. You need me for something?”
“It’s not about need or anything, but…”
Akai parted from the wall, unwrapped her crossed arms and started walking toward Kyousuke.
“For the time being, I think I’m going to talk about my blood.”
“Ah, right. That…. Owing to you I’m saved big time. Thank you.”
It was Akai’s vampire blood that resuscitated Kyousuke’s body when it was smashed to tiny little pieces.
Since then, the skeleton body of Utsurogi Kyousuke had become much more robust than before. Despite the fact that his bones were as easy to disconnect as usual, the bones themselves had become extraordinarily hard. It was worthy of saying so since he could withstand Rin in her compression form which was like the pressure of the deep sea itself.
“Yeah. Well, that part was only an elementary effect though.”
Akai lightly thrust a finger into the gaps of Kyousuke’s ribs, then she turned it around and round like drawing a circle.
The blood of Akai which was soaked into Kyousuke’s entire skeleton gathered together at her fingertip and took shape.
“……!?”
The blood gathered at one place between his ribs beat and pulsated as if it was a heart, and then, Akai’s blood started circulating through Kyousuke’s whole body.
“Perhaps, Utsurogi. You will always become stronger one stage earlier than our other classmates from now on.”
“Wh–why are you so sure about such a thing?”
When Akai pulled pack her fingertip from Kyousuke’s ribs, the heart burst open and that blood once again soaked through Kyousuke’s entire body. Apparently, it seemed to be already impossible to remove that blood.
“Because what you need to move from Phase 2 to Phase 3 is my blood.”
What is the meaning of Akai-san’s words! Why was it that Ryuzaki and Akira were looking at Kyousuke with complicated expressions! Will the consensus-building of Kyousuke and the others really succeed?
Next Episode: Red Shadow
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