A Preview for Next Time: The Eccentricity of Himeki Chifuyu
Bright and early one morning, I was walking along the path to school, just like I always did. Hatoko had run ahead of me so that a friend of hers could take a look at her homework, so I was walking on my own for once.
“Hmm...?”
Less than a minute before I would’ve arrived at the school gates, I happened to spot a familiar face: Chifuyu. She was standing right by the gate, her backpack slung over her shoulders and Squirrely held tightly in her arms. A lone elementary schooler stuck out like a sore thumb among the crowd of high schoolers filing through the gateway.
“Good morning, Chifuyu!” I called out as I walked over to her.
“Morning, Andou,” she replied in her usual monotone.
Well, this feels kinda refreshing, I thought. She came over to hang out at our school pretty much every day, but that was always after school. I’d never encountered her this early in the morning before.
“What’re you doing here, Chifuyu?” I asked. “Are you waiting for Miss Satomi?”
She shook her head.
“Oh, okay... But what about your school? You’re gonna be late if you don’t get a move on, you know?”
Yokoi Elementary, the school Chifuyu attended, was a decent distance away from my school. That said, Chifuyu could always use her power, World Create, to teleport there in the blink of an eye. I figured that she’d taken that fact into consideration and was loitering around here knowing perfectly well that she could still beat the bell...but, as it turned out, that assumption was drastically mistaken.
“I won’t be late. I don’t have to go,” she replied indifferently.
“After all, I quit school.”
Oh? Hmm. Yeah, okay. That would do it. No need to worry about being late, in that case. Wow, who’d have thought? Chifuyu dropped out of school! Wild!
“...You what?!”
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