Tensei Shoujo no Rirekisho - Volume 3 - Chapter 78

78. Student Activities 6 – Miss Katerina Attacks

I gave the petition to the principal, but there’s been no progress since that. Even when I check with the principal, he just starts sweating and says, “Please wait a little bit longer.” I guess it was tough with that number of people after all… I thought so, maybe it would be better to do a signature event for real…

Assuming Sleazy is already out of the question, another strong candidate would be Miss Katerina. When we were first-years, she was at the top of the first-year girls’ faction, but now that we’re second-years, it feels like she’s the boss of all the girls from first- to third-years. Wh-what a scary girl! But she’s always glaring at me, so it’s hard to ask for her help.

Still, I stole a glance at Miss Katerina in the auditorium before classes, and as usual she was staring at me. What’s more, her glare seemed more powerful than usual. She always averts her eyes, as if to say, “Humph, it’s just that our gazes met!” But today, she isn’t averting her eyes so easily. Rather, she keeps glaring as she approaches…! Ah, she came right up to me!

“Miss Ryou, do you have some time right now?”

Miss Katerina stopped in front of me, looking down at me with crossed arms as I sat. Her usual gang was gathered behind her.

“U-until class starts…”

“That’s fine. Actually, everyone says you’ve been getting a little carried away recently. Did you know?”

Eh, carried away…? I felt like saying, “Same goes for you with all those followers behind you!”

“No, I was unaware.”

When I answered like that, one of her followers said something like, “How conceited, no wonder she’s getting carried away!” Wh-what’s the matter with these children? I don’t remember accumulating such hate!

Then the crowd of followers chimed in with things like, “Don’t get carried away just because Sir Alan and Sir Henry pay attention to you! They’re just playing with you!”

Oh, I see. Setting Alan aside, Sir Henry might be sleazy inside, but he’s good-looking and popular with the kids who don’t know the real him. I guess they’re jealous because Sleazy is hanging around me recently? Damn it, Sleazy! You’re always making trouble for me! No matter what I say to the Sleazy-lovers, they’ll just say, “How insolent!” While I was thinking about what to do, Alan stood in between Miss Katerina and me.

“What do you want with Ryou?”

He stood proudly in front of Miss Katerina with his arms crossed. As expected, my henchman!

“Oh, Sir Alan. Greetings. I’m just talking with Miss Ryou. This has nothing to do with you.”

“Ryou is certainly a bit sassy, but you have no right to tell her that.”

It felt like there were sparks flying between Katerina and Alan. Alan, I know you’re trying to protecting, and I’m grateful, but what’s this sneakily agreeing that I’m sassy, henchman!

“Why… She’s just an ordinary human…! Aren’t you a magician?!”

Katerina shouted suddenly. Since she was always so stuck-up and left the work of yelling to her followers, looking on elegantly from afar, I was surprised. Not just me, the girls around her looked surprised, too.

“Yeah, so what. Does me being a magician mean there’s some kind of problem between Ryou and me?” Alan said, and Miss Katerina fell silent with a look of extreme frustration.

Then, as the teacher came in, Miss Katerina and her entourage left, looking embarrassed. A sexy girl at the back of the group, in passing, patted my shoulder and gave me a look as if to say, “Good luck!” Oh, she’s definitely the one who warned me to watch out for Miss Katerina after the vacation. Miss Salome.

Ugh, since I started my second year, not only has Sir Henry noticed me (as livestock), Miss Katerina has also noticed me, and I was called sassy by my own henchman…

For now, I think my henchman and I need to have a little talk.

After the incident with Miss Katerina, she began to attack me a lot. Sometimes I had to deal with Miss Katerina, sometimes I had to deal with Sleazy, so my breaks were very busy. If Alan didn’t do his best to step in sometimes, I’d go bald. The kindhearted Miss Charlotte was worried that it might be her fault, but she’s fine. Miss Katerina thinking I’m insolent seems to be unrelated to Miss Charlotte. A-although I don’t think I’m being sassy!

However, after hearing her speak over the course of several attacks, I get the impression that she doesn’t like that someone like me who can’t use magic is friends with magicians. “No way, isn’t that the same sleazy way Henry thinks?!” I thought anxiously, but she doesn’t seem to have Henry’s sheltered lack of common sense, she just thinks something like, “Magicians should stick to other magicians!” The way she thinks of magicians, they shouldn’t get along with people who aren’t magicians more than necessary. Therefore, she got annoyed when they were on good terms with me.

Well, even if she’s upset by that, I can’t do anything about it. I mean, isn’t it funny to point her spear at me? Shouldn’t she be aiming at Alan, the magician? Despite that thought, it’s clear that Miss Katerina thinks of me as the enemy. No matter how frustrated she is, I can’t help but get along with Charlotte, Alan, and Ritz. Lately, just Henry’s opposition has been wearing me down… I’m not sure I can manage Miss Katerina’s too. It’s way too late for Henry, but I was hoping I could still have a relationship with Miss Katerina…

Hmm, what can I do… Would she like to fight Alan and beat him to a pulp? But I think he’d get cold feet dueling against a girl. And since Alan has that kind of personality, even if he took part in the duel, I don’t think it would be a savage enough duel for Miss Katerina. If I can make Miss Katerina’s animosity disappear, she might feel good about the signing event…

While I was thinking and waiting for Alan and company by the library, I saw someone heading toward me. I’m still going to the library with everyone, but lately the magic classes have been running long, so I often wait alone in front of the library elevator. When I heard the footsteps, I thought, “Oh, everyone’s here, finally!” but the distant silhouette isn’t Alan and the others.

It looks like a group of schoolgirls. Isn’t that Miss Katerina at their head? Her ringlets are bouncing. Why is she here… To be clear, we are the only students who regularly use the library.

“Greetings, Miss Ryou.”

Katerina approached and greeted my with a sneer, so I decided to return the greeting.

“Greetings. How did you all come to be here together?”

Miss Katerina had a squad of about seven girls behind her.

“We decided to come here so that we could talk to you alone. Don’t you always gather in the library? You’re such good friends. But aren’t you tired, talking to magicians as though you’re on the same level?”

Miss Katerina had a roundabout way of talking.

“So, what’s your point?”

“You’re so impatient. Fine. Actually, I’ve got something good to tell you. Why don’t you come with me? You’re tired of only hanging out with magicians, right? I’m a magician, but I have a lot of friends who aren’t magicians, too. I’d like to introduce you to some of my friends who aren’t magicians. I’m sure you’ll get along right away.”

Miss Katerina’s network! Certainly, Miss Katerina has many friends, or at least a lot of minions. I’m happy to be introduced, for the sake of the signing event, but…

“I’m happy to be introduced, but I’m not going to quit being friends with Alan and the rest.”

At my declaration, Miss Katerina’s face, which had a generous smile, distorted.

“But why! Wouldn’t you rather be with people in the same position as you?!”

“I don’t really think about our situations, though. Miss Katerina, when you make friends with someone, do you only look at their position?”

When I said that, her face turned red and she began to tremble. There were wrinkles between her brows. She was very angry. I could feel the heat of her anger. It feels like her ringlets are sharpening into drills! She must be the type who gets angry easily. Miss Katerina. It’s a little like Alan when he was five.

While I was studiously observing her, Miss Katerina raised her right hand. I-Is this The Slap! But isn’t she out of reach to slap me?! There’s a little distance between us, you know?!

I was scared of a slap attack, but apparently it wasn’t a slap after all, and one of her followers put an egg in her hand. The other followers are also holding eggs from their baskets. Oh, those baskets were full of eggs. I was wondering why everyone had baskets. The ladies grabbed eggs and held them up.

“Only looking at position, aren’t you guys only seeing me as a magician!” With a shriek from Miss Katerina, raw eggs were simultaneously launched at me.

What kind of line is that! I don’t understand what you’re talking about! I mean, what a waste! Eggs are expensive! I caught some of the eggs about to hit me, juggled some more that fell close to me with my toes while putting the other eggs in my pockets, then kicked them up and caught them with my hands. I got eight eggs! Eight eggs! I’m so happy, eggs are expensive!

“Are these fresh?”

I got a little anxious and asked the question uppermost in my mind, but the ladies had gone into a huddle. …No, what am I going along with? Although freshness is certainly important! That’s not important right now. They tossed eggs at me! This is unforgivable! Throwing eggs! Incredible boiled eggs! How can you throw a delicious omelet at someone!

Ah, it’s no use. My thoughts go straight to cooking eggs. Because I got eight eggs! I’ll find out whether it’s fresh when I break the shell, so I need to get home right away and try breaking the eggs…

“T-that’s what I mean by impudent!”

I just noticed, Miss Katerina’s face is getting redder and redder. Uh, sorry, I’m just crazy about eggs… Sorry. B-besides, I’m not ignoring it. It’s true. I’m aware it’s not the time to be throwing out egg recipes. You shouldn’t throw eggs at people. Charlotte also had a tast… a terrible experience where she cried because someone threw an egg and dirtied her skirt.

With the stress piling up from Sleazy, my signature activity not going well, and on top of everything Miss Katerina attacking me, I was on the verge of an anger egxplosion!

…Okay.

“Miss Katerina!”

When I called her name imperiously, Miss Katerina’s shoulders jumped and she gave me a cautious look. I managed to puff up my chest and speak with a loud voice to intimidate the ladies.

“At the next school break, please gather your friends and come to the vacant lot. I’m going to teach you what real ball throwing is.”

Miss Katerina and her friends looked at me with stunned faces, realizing I’d caught all the eggs.