I Quit the Going-Home Club for a Girl with a Venomous Tongue

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“The counterfeit one I made in Hong Kong.”

“There’s really something wrong with your head!”

 

I finished my breakfast quickly before leaving my home at a speed comparable to a bullet train.

 

This was my newly acquired movement technique.
It would reduce my lifespan by three minutes whenever I used it, but if I didn’t do this, I wouldn’t make it in time.

 

Like the opening of a silly anime, I used all my strength to run.
Too bad, there wasn’t a beautifully placed title with flowers falling and a cute heroine in this opening.
Instead, there was a tall high school guy, running with bloodshot eyes, bulging veins and scattered sweat.
It wasn’t something that I would let a child see.

 

Attendance wasn’t mandatory and you could come late if you wanted to, but I was a punctual person, being late wasn’t acceptable.

 

Thanks to that, I managed to miraculously arrive in time.
I managed to make the impossible possible, creating my mark in the annals of history!

 

“You look like a mess.”

 

Said Arina who bumped into me.

 

“I know.
They haven’t started yet, right?”

“Yes, but they will soon.
Let’s go.”

 

There were students that looked at me as if I was an idiot.
I ran as fast as I could.
They didn’t know that I had to get three heart transplants because my heart kept bursting into pieces on the way.

 

When we got into the gym, I was looking all over the place to find empty seats.
Then I found Makoto and Tsuru inside.

 

“What happened, Sui? Why are you on your last breath?”

“Every capillary in my body ruptured… I failed to beat the gravity in that dogfight…”

“What the hell are you talking about?”

 

Soon after, the ceremony began.
I had been having trouble catching my breath, but I regained my composure as I turned my attention toward a certain place among the teacher’s seats.
Akakusa-sensei was there with tears covering her eyes.
Too soon, Sensei.

 

The ceremony proceeded smoothly.
Bouquets of flowers were presented to the teachers as they came on stage.
The female teachers started to cry, so were the female students.
Like they said, women get emotional quickly, huh? I turned my gaze toward Makoto… Who was also crying.
You too, huh?

 

After the ceremony ended, the students exited the gym and lined up in the hallway. 

 

This would be where the teachers who would be transferred walked.
This would be the last chance where they could have conversations with their students as their teachers.

 

“Oi Makoto, wipe your tears.”

“Sniff… Sniff…”

“If I close my eyes and listen to the sound you make, you sound like you’re being choke–”

“Shut up!”

 

I didn’t know why he was crying, but he looked so sad.

 

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After a while, Akakusa-sensei came out.
While holding a lot of gifts from her students in her hands, she walked while nodding her head.

 

Then Makoto’s tears turned into streams.

 

“Sensei! I’ll miss you!”

“Thank you, Makoto-kun.”

 

With a wry smile, she shook his hand.
Suddenly, he begged for her photobook, so I quickly grabbed him by the collar and pulled him away from her.

 

“Good luck at your new workplace, Sensei.”

“Thank you.
Good luck with your exam, Sui-kun.”

 

Our parting words were simple, but that should be enough.
We conveyed everything we wanted to convey with our eyes anyway.

 

Before she left, she gave me a wink.

 

“There’s a souvenir for you.
I left it somewhere in the school.”

“Oh, really? What is it? Where did you leave it?”
“Look for it yourself~”

 

Was it a photobook? No way, right? Suddenly, Makoto wiped his tears and declared war on me.
Dumba*s, there was no way that she’d leave that kind of thing for me.

 

Besides, I won’t lose to you.

 

*   *   *

 

Short break.
The students were hanging out in front of the school building.

 

The class lineup announcement would be posted there.

 

“I wonder what my new class will look like…”

“I hope mine will be peaceful.
I don’t want any monkeys there and I hope that there are a lot of pretty girls!”

“I thought you’re going to stay single forever, why does that matter to you?”

“Pretty girls serve as eye candies for the exam!”

“What a thing to say in front of a girl’s face…”

 

I ignored Arina’s and Tsuru’s looks of disgust and waited patiently for the announcement. 

 

Since I had some free time, I was talking with Toma and Shinji who were nearby, but I suddenly remembered about Aki-senpai.
She didn’t come to the ceremony for some reason, or else she woulda talked with Arina already.
It was unfortunate but it couldn’t be helped.
She probably had started living on her own somewhere outside the prefecture.
Well, I never thought that I would be able to say my goodbyes properly to everyone.

 

After a while, the teachers appeared with several cylindrical rolls of paper, each was as tall as a person.
The students roared in excitement, bringing smiles to the teachers’ faces as they started their preparation.

 

“Finally.”

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“If your name isn’t on there, Sui, I’ll laugh at you.”

“I’ll destroy the board if that were to happen.”

 

The teachers, working in pairs, opened one side of the rolled up papers and stuck the corners with duct tape.
As they did this, the students shouted ‘Quickly!’ in excitement.
There was someone who even moaned in a lewd voice while they did that.
Wait, I knew this voice, it was Mugiyama Kaya.
What the hell was that girl doing? Someone, please stop her!

 

Not long after, the teachers made a final check to make sure that everything was ready.

 

And then, the lineup was available for us to see.

 

“I’ll look forward to working with you this year too, Sui.”

 

Said Arina to me.
That confused me since it had been three months since the New Year started, but I kept my mouth shut after seeing her calm look.
She wasn’t joking when she said that.
That meant there was a clear reason why she said that.

 

The students were excited enough to bounce around and scream, meanwhile I desperately looked for my name in the lineup.

 

“Oh, I’m in class 3-1.
Finally I got to be the number one–”

 

In the same class as mine, I saw the name Hiwa Arina.

 

Dumbfounded, I turned my gaze at Arina.

 

She smiled at me before repeating what she had said to me before this.

 

“You… Is this the souvenir she left for me?”

“Who knows, it’s a secret.”

 

She turned her head away and hugged Tsuru.
Guess we were in the same class again, huh?

 

Seriously, this was chaotic.

 

Then I noticed Makoto standing beside me.
He gave me a salute.
I looked at my class’ lineup again and noticed that his name was there.

 

Seriously, this was chaotic.

 

Kaya’s name was also there.

 

Seriously, this was the end of the world.

 

“I’ll be looking forward to working with you for the third year, Sui.”

“At this point, this is a curse.”

 

I bowed as I said that.
This situation was like when two enemies on the battlefield met up again after the war was over.
Their hatred toward each other was gone.
Only those two men who strongly wished for world peace remained.

 

My last year would be a good one, it seemed, Sensei.