Lesson04 — What to Do!? Me!!
～ Part 1 ～
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My name is Katsubushi Dashihiko. Formerly the homeroom teacher of Municipal Jindai High-school 2nd year class 4th, now a dried bonito.
But perhaps, dried bonito will be no more.
There’s a possibility I may wake up to a new evolution stage.
Let’s talk in order.
The students of 2nd year class 4 was transferred to the other world, It’ll be soon over two months since then. My cute students have been making the best use of their monster abilities to survive in this fantasy world. Sooner or later, we will return to our world. That is everyone’s wish, they’re striving to make it come true.
On the other hand, I who became a dried bonito can’t even move by myself. Therefore, I have Sugiura Aya (attendance no. 26) who is in charge of the kitchen to shelter me, and I’ve been making delicious soup stock for the students.
Including me, humans who had changed to unhuman form have apparently passed through the thing called ‘Transference Denaturation Gate’ and became our present appearance. This Transference Denaturation Gate doesn’t just change one’s form to monster, it also has the power to grant various special effects.
The transference incident itself was something schemed by a certain vampire group, but the story will be long if I delve further into that so let’s stop it this time.
One can awaken to an ability granted by the Transference Denaturation Gate, it’s the so-called 2nd stage thingy. This state is named ‘Phase 2’. Actually, I have also reached at this state, but in the class, there aren’t too many students who have awaken to Phase 2.
It’s called 2, so there is 3 as well, but this Phase 3 seems to be the state one can reach by taking vampire factors inside their body. Speaking of students who have attained this stage, in the class, only attendance no. 5, Utsurogi Kyousuke exists.
And now, perhaps, this me has gotten the possibility to reach that Phase 3.
“Sorry, sensei…. I also, didn’t think too deeply about it…”
Showing just a little awkward face, Sugiura said.
“No, you’re not bad…. We had no choice to do that in that place.”
“But, sensei…. You must be afraid…?”
“Very, afraid. Perhaps, I, at this rate, may become a vampiric dried bonito…”
Apparent, the fact that I’m shivering has been exposed. Good grief, to show this kinda disgraceful behavior to the students, I may be disqualified as a teacher….
Yes. Taking in the factor means turning into a vampire. Presently, that guy Utsurogi hasn’t shown any blood-sucking impulse, but according to Akai Asuka (attendance no. 1) who gave him that factor, it seems there’s no mistake in thinking he has ‘become a vampire’ in a broad sense.
And I too, have bathed in Akai’s blood.
Due to a certain reason, there was a villain escaping with Akai’s blood. Sugiura used my body to smash that small bottle containing that blood. As a result, a large amount of Akai’s blood stuck to my body.
Being covered in my cute student’s blood is not a big deal. Thinking about how it belongs to a beauty like Akai, it may even be a reward. But I now, am food ingredient before being a teacher or a man. That day, I never got into the pot to make soup stock.
After all, I bathed in Akai’s blood.
Originally, a considerable process is necessary to grant factors. One won’t turn into a vampire at the degree of being covered in blood from head to toes. Unless blood containing high-density factors is poured directly inside the target, or making them drink a large amount, the factors won’t take hold inside them. Therefore, Sugiura who has bathed in blood just like me, doesn’t show any sign of turning into a vampire.
But that’s only in the case of ordinary living creatures. The skeleton — Utsurogi has no blood. When he suffered a serious wound — the bones of his entire body were smashed up — by Akai dropped her own blood containing factors, that guy managed to hold on to his life and turn vampiric.
There’s a possibility I may become like that too.
«Just by being splashed with blood» will turn them into vampires, there aren’t so many monster species that fits that description. But in the database Akai prepared, as well as the documents confiscated in the enemy’s hideout, nothing could be found regarding dried bonito. Will I or will I not turn vampiric just by covered in blood like a skeleton? Even that is unclear.
I’m scared. I have this fear that I will transform into something not myself.
As far as I look at Utsurogi, that may not be the case. I heard that, that guy’s personality is the same even if he has been turned vampiric. But, suppose, suppose I was to turn vampiric. I, I won’t become a devil-like blood-sucking dried bonito and attack Sugiura, right…?
“Sensei…”
Honno-san who was put in a corner of the kitchen, weakly called me.
“What is it? Honno-san…”
“You know, sensei, you’re saying that you’re afraid of changing into something not yourself.”
“Yes, it’s terrifying.”
“But we have accomplished a dramatic transformation once already though…?”
Certainly, there’s that way of interpretation as well. But that’s that. This’s this.
“Sensei, today, what are you going to do about soup stock…?”
“Sorry…. Please let me rest today as well…”
“Yeah, understood…”
Only one day has passed since that battle. To prepare for the trade fair that is going to be held on this island tomorrow, most students seem to be getting things ready. Since Sugiura also has the job of preparing cookings, she should’ve been busy, but now, she’s going along with me.
“Sensei, it’s okay. No matter what kind of form sensei become, I’ll still be sensei’s ally, okay?”
Saying so, Sugiura gently strokes my body. With this, the standpoint is reversed, isn’t it? I slightly scoff at myself in my heart.
Now, at that time.
“Sugiura, is sensei there?”
A carrying voice echos in the kitchen. Sugiura parts her hand from me, she turns around to the direction the voice came from. However, this time, not her hand but many of her octopus legs are touching my body. They’re a little slippery.
“Ahh, class rep. If sensei, then he’s here?”
The owner of the voice is attendance no. 39 — the class representative, Ryuzaki Kunihiro. In this class, there are few students who know about mine and Honno-san’s situation, but Ryuzaki is one of those.
Ryuzaki peeks into the kitchen, he does a slight bow to me.
“Ryuzaki…?”
Even I myself think I responded in a miserably small voice.
“Sensei, more or less, I tried to ask Asuka as well, but as expected, it seems she doesn’t know whether sensei will ‘turn vampiric’ or not.”
“Really…. How’s Akai doing now?”
“We let her rest. The symptoms of the Blood Crave Illness is harsh so…. By tomorrow, we can collect blood from the islanders, but this painful situation will have to continue until then.”
Ryuzaki who said that has a grim expression. This guy has become very reliable class rep.
That we can accomplish the difficult mission called collecting human blood, and that the class is currently united as well, this guys have been a great help to all of those. After this, no matter what kind of crisis befall this 2nd year class 4, surely, he will be able to unite the class again.
That surely, is thanks to this man name Ryuzaki Kunihiro.
Compare to him, I am…
“Ah–h, sensei is fermenting again…”
“Dried bonito is already fermented from the start…”
“Sense~, your appearance is a dried bonito, but your filling is surely tofu.”
Sugiura gives an amazed voice, but as expected, deeper inside that, a tinge of a little worry is seeping.
“Sensei, sorry that I’m not too helpful.”
“No, you’ve been plenty helpful.”
At least, as a teacher, I can’t cause Ryuzaki to worry anymore than this, therefore, I put up a toughest front possible and answer.
Ryuzaki smile a little, my heart is probably being seen through. Again, he bows slightly and leaves the kitchen. That guy should be quite busy for sometime. Seeing of the leaving Ryuzaki, I sigh. No, I’m a dried bonito so I can’t sigh, but I feel like I did.
The future where I become a blood-sucking dried bonito is terrifying. But before that happens, do I have no regret left as a teacher, as a dried bonito? Before the factors permeated in my body bring about a fatal transformation, is there nothing that I, the present Katsubushi Dashihiko can do? Thinking of Ryuzaki’s back, the composure to think about that much is born in my heart.
“That’s right, Akai…”
I muttered.
“What’s wrong with Akai-san?”
“No, I forgot to make Akai drink my soup stock.”
“Ah, really. Which reminds me, since then, sensei works hard to become delicious, so you want to take revenge soon, isn’t it?”
Akai Asuka is the only student who drunk my soup stock and didn’t say it was delicious. As Sugiura says, I want to fulfill my revenge.
But, this body is afflicted with vampire factors then….
“No, wait.”
Possibly, that may be good?
My body was bathed in Akai’s blood. That girl’s blood has permeated in my body. That is to say, the thing Akai is forced to use up as to maintain life activities, the ‘factors’ also permeated in my body.
If I can bring that out as soup stock and make that girl drink it, at least, it should be possible to make her a little more comfortable during the time until tomorrow?
“All right!”
I raise my voice.
“Sugiura, shave me!!”
“Ehh, ah! Yup!”
For a moment, Sugiura makes a surprised face, but she immediately switches over to a beaming smile and picks up the plane put in the corner of the kitchen.
Right after that, my scream as I’m being shaved reverberates inside the kitchen.
To be continued…
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