Lesson04 — What to Do!? Me!!
～ Part 2 ～
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With the help of Okama and Sakuma, my soup stock seems to have safely reached Akai. It was the first time those two saw me who became a dried bonito, so they were considerably bewildered, but they immediately recognized me as sensei.
By the way, that was also the first time I saw Sakuma’s bondage fashion I often heard in rumors, so I was very moved. I’m glad I became a teacher, I thought so from the bottom of my heart.
Sakuma, who came to return the tablewares, told me that Akai’s condition became just a little better.
At the same time of being relieved, I feel a faint disappointment.
Akai’s condition became better, that is to say, it’s none other than the proof that factors are mixed in the soup stock that came from my body. My body is turning vampire. I’m already as good as half-transformed into a blood-sucking dried bonito.
Did she noticed that heart of mine, Sugiura sorrowfully mutters.
“Don’t make that face, Sugiura…”
“But, sensei…. You really are going to become a blood-sucking dried bonito…?”
“May be I already did…”
Saying so, I look up to the ceiling (or mean to). Listening to my and Sugiura’s conversation, Honno-san says «Umm, I’m also here though?» in a little want-to-disappear appearance, but for now, I decide to place importance on the atmosphere.
“Sugiura, suppose, suppose I become a blood-sucking dried bonito without any ego, at that time…”
“At that time…?”
“Please kill me with your hand.”
Sugiura is surprised, she stares at me with those big eyes. Honno-san mutters in a small voice: «Umm, what needs to be done for sensei to die?». Certainly, I too, feel a lot of questions regarding that, but as before, I place importance on the atmosphere and pretend not to have heard.
“Sensei…. Understood, but…”
“You’re a good child…”
I don’t listen to the words beyond «but». Because that will just dull Sugiura’s determination, surely.
That instant, I feel my entire body pulsates. It’s a hallucination. My body is a dried bonito. There’s no way there’s any blood flowing.
But I recall, I have tasted a sensation very similar to this before. That was around the time when not so many days had passed since we were transferred to this world. The time when my Phase 2 ability — «Infinity Regeneration» awakened.
That time as well, I had this body-pulsating sensation and heat that seemed to burn and melt your body.
Ahh, it’s starting. I understand. There’s doubt, this is exactly the sign of awakening to Phase 3.
That is never a welcome thing for me. I feel as if a burning brand is pressed onto my brain. Despite I have no brain! Even so, I understand that the sense of pain that should have been lost is screaming. I stifle my voice, I writhe, no, I clatter.
“U, gu…!”
“Sensei!?”
“Finally, the time has come…. If I’m going to become a blood-sucking dried bonito like this…!”
“You, you can’t! Sensei! You cannot! I…”
Ahh, “no matter what kind of form sensei become, I’ll still be sensei’s ally, okay?”, she did say that, didn’t she?
But that’s no good Sugiura. I am a teacher, I am sensei. Sensei should be students’s ally, but students must not be sensei’s ally. The existence called a teacher is persistently something to be used by students, going any further than that, and the Board of Education will zero in on you, okay?
“Katsubushi-sensei!”
Honno-san also calls my name.
Sugiura reaches her hand to me. But I am already in a state where I can’t even scream anymore. I feel my body gradually changing. The body that extended straight heroically like a wooden sword, is changing. ∗Shuu shuu∗, smoke raises, and then….
Pon–.
Together with a light sound, the smoke bursts open, I roll on the floor.
No, rather than saying roll, it may be more correct to say that I flop down. My appearance is already no longer something like a dried bonito.
Yes, if I have to say, it’s a .
I became .
What’s this? What just happened?
I can’t understand what happened to my body, I look around. No, since I have no neck, I can’t look around.
The heat and pain that seems to wrap up my body has completely withdrawn. I only turn into a dried opened fish from a dried bonito, I don’t feel any changes other than that. Are you saying this is Phase 3?
However, as of now, I don’t have any blood sucking impulse either. I’m still myself.
“Sensei…?”
Sugiura inclines her head, she is slowly reaching her hand to me.
“Sugiura…”
I also call her name.
Honestly, I’m relieved. I reached a new stage without becoming a terrifying dried bonito monstrosity. I can no longer make soup stock for everyone in the class, but with this, I can still stay in the kitchen. No, even dried food can make delicious soup stock. If infinity regeneration is still working that is, however….
“Sugiura, sorry. I made you worry. Apparently, I…”
Just as I start saying so, Sugiura who is reaching her hand to me, suddenly stops.
“…Sugiura?”
“…Stink.”
“Eh?”
Immediately after that, Sugiura holds her nose, she takes 1 step, 2 steps back. I don’t know how much the concept of 1 step, 2 steps, can apply to that lower body with octopus legs growing, but for now, according to my former human sense, she backs off about that much.
Her face has a look like she saw something unbelievable.
“So, sorry sensei! This is a little … impossible–! Impossible impossible impossible impossible–!!”
As soon as she says that, Sugiura holds her nose and dashes out of the kitchen.
“Sugiura!? Oi, Sugiura–!?”
Even if I desperately call, Sugiura won’t come back. What the heck is this? Just when I think about asking Honno-san, she has closed her cover and collapsed on the shelf.
Honno-san seems to have fainted.
Apparently, I have become a .
Furthermore, if asked whether if this is Phase 3 ability or not, it seems impossible to tell. In the first place, I am an irregular in this class, speaking further, I reincarnated as an unforeseen thing like a dried bonito, so it’s difficult to apply the existed data.
Akai, who took in blood and her complexion has become completely better, informs me so while pinching her nose.
“In the first place, why did he become a dried horse mackerel? Does Akai-san’s blood have an effect like horse mackerel juice?”
“Please don’t say anything disreputable?”
Similarly pinching her nose, Sugiura inclines her head, Akai sends a cold look to her.
“Because the appearance after reincarnating is dragged along by one’s mind to some extents. It’s pretty much because sensei is mentally rotten, and physically rotten as well, isn’t he?”
“Really–”
It’s not “Really–”. I really want to object. If you say that, then that means the other guys were also changed to various appearance depending on their frame of mind.
But even if I was to say that, I feel they will just dismiss it as «Because sensei is an irregular», so I didn’t. Let’s just be glad that I didn’t become surströmming or something.
After that, Akai left the galley still pinching her nose. I am told that there’s something she wants to explain to the entire class.
“Shit, what am I going to do now…”
“…There’s no choice but to look for a method to return you to a dried bonito, is there?”
While pinching her nose, Sugiura speaks as if it is someone else’s problem. I become a little sullen.
“In the first place, why do you hate it so much. Aren’t you a daughter of a restaurant!?”
“Ours doesn’t deal with dried horse mackerel. I have a good nose you know–”
“Despite being an octopus!?”
“I’m not an octopus. I’m a scylla. There are cases when scylla has the lower body of dogs too, okay?”
“What are you doing saying your nose is good just because of that! If you keep making up settings after the facts like that, you’ll be ruined someday! I know that well!”
“I don’t want to be told that by sensei who suddenly became a horse mackerel.”
Ku–.
I have no comeback.
Dried horse mackerel is delicious. Because our grocery store deals with it once in a while, I know that well. But dried horse mackerel is food, never is it something to guide people. Even if a dried horse mackerel become a teacher and started throwing their opinions around, that in the end, is only a nuisance to the students.
In my case, it’s the opposite pattern where a teacher become a dried horse mackerel, but I guess that’s not much of a difference now.
“…Even though you said you’ll be my ally no matter what form I am…”
So I mutters.
“If it’s dried bonito Katsubushi-sensei, then I can say that, but dried horse mackerel is a little…”
Saying so, Sugiura heads for the exit of the galley, all the while pinching her nose.
“Then–, I have to go to the deck to listen to Akai-san’s story…. Sensei too, please think of a method to return to a dried bonito…”
As it were, Sugiura really did left the galley. What a cold-hearted guy.
I, still in a huff, send my gaze to the top of the shelf. Honno-san is still unconscious. I feel that her treatment is also quite rough, I secretly sympathize with her. For Honno-san as well, I guess I have to find a method to return to a dried bonito.
Shortly after I decided that, a mysterious light surges forward and my consciousness ceases.
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