This Japanese Slice-of-Life Isn’t Lame

Chapter 55: The Moment Kitagawa Smiles, Life and Death Are Unpredictable

After a while, Kitagawa Tera raised his head and said, “The leaders, come with me. The rest can return to their classes.”

As soon as he said this, the standing troublemakers stepped back neatly, leaving only that tall boy, Seki, and Ikegami behind.

Feeling that the rest had decisively sold them out, the faces of the tall boy, Seki, and Ikegami sank, standing on the spot, neither moving forward nor backward.

But Kitagawa Tera did not have the mood to understand what they were thinking. After waving his hand to dismiss the crowd and only leaving the sentence ‘Follow me,’ he headed for the back of the school building.

Seeing this, the tall boy, Seki, and Ikegami could only follow behind Kitagawa Tera.

All the students witnessing this were stunned.

Before long, all kinds of inexplicable rumors about what had happened started spreading in all the grades.

For example, nicknames like ‘Devil King Kitagawa’ and exaggerated words like ‘more than twenty of you were surrounded by me, Kitagawa, alone’. There were even rumors like ‘the moment Kitagawa smiles, life and death are unpredictable’.

In any case, Kitagawa Tera was stuck with the name of the leader of the troublemakers from the moment he was surrounded by the seniors and called aniki this morning.

And Kitagawa Tera, being the main person involved, was completely unaware of this.

But when he found out, he only remained quiet and expressionless, regardless of what rumors were spreading among these high school students.

Almost there.

Kitagawa Tera went around behind the school building and walked a large distance forward before stopping and turning around.

The uneasy trio followed behind, with them was Kamiya Mirai not far away.

Kitagawa Tera beckoned to Kamiya Mirai first.

This made the short-medium hair little girl happy for a bit.

Look! Kitagawa called me first.

Kamiya Mirai felt that her relationship with Kitagawa Tera had taken a leap forward and was no longer just a simple relationship between acquaintances.

Her heart was jumping as she slowly approached Kitagawa Tera…

Then Kitagawa Tera conveniently took his bag from her.

Er…

Kamiya Mirai blinked, stunned on the spot.

Over a hundred words made up her thoughts, but in the end, Kitagawa Tera only regarded her as a bag stand?

Kitagawa Tera looked strangely at the stunned Kamiya Mirai but could not be bothered with her. He turned to look at Seki and the rest.

Under his questioning, he learned their full names.

The tall boy was called Hase Masato, Seki was Seki Naoya, and Ikegami was Ikegami Kazuto.

The welcoming event at the school gate was their idea, and the main motive was to accomplish Kitagawa Tera’s assigned task.

After all, the troublemakers mixed around with other troublemakers, and getting them to publicize Kitagawa’s affairs to normal students was a challenge for them. Thus, it was better to be direct. On the other hand, Kitagawa Tera’s fighting prowess had impressed them, so these troublemakers might as well take advantage of the situation to push him to the top.

Yes, now that they had achieved their motives, Kitagawa Tera could almost predict how many nicknames the students of Kyokuboku High School would give him.

With this thought, Kitagawa Tera raised his hand and punched each of them in the abdomen.

Despite him not using much strength, it left the three of them in pain for a while.

“Why did you still hit us… Kitagawa-san, we obviously did everything according to what you wanted…” Seiki Naoya wanted to cry.

To his question, Kitagawa Tera only lightly slanted his eyes and calmly asked, “Do you have any opinions about me hitting you?”

“… No.” Seiki Naoya trembled and shook his head with some difficulty.

Kitagawa Tera ignored his sad, aggrieved look and pondered for a bit before saying, “You guys can return to class. At the same time, tell those troublemakers that since I’m known as the leader, you’re not allowed to bully normal students anymore. Or else…”

“Or else?” Hase Masato blurted out.

“Or else…” Kitagawa Tera smiled coldly. “I can break a leg with a kick. Do you want to see it?”

This was much more difficult than kicking wooden boards. Hase Masato and the others turned pale and shook their heads frantically, obviously not wanting to see this kind of thing.

“Go back to class then. Don’t bother me if there isn’t anything.” Kitagawa Tera gave each of them a kick.

After watching these three ‘seniors’ leave, he turned around to look at the Kamiya Mirai behind him.

Seeing that she still looked stupefied standing in the same spot, Kitagawa Tera extended his hand, waved it in front of her, and asked, “Did it scare you?”

“Huh? No.” Kamiya Mirai shook her head hard.

She was still concerned about the fact that she was regarded as a bag stand until now. But as soon as she saw that calm face of Kitagawa Tera, her concerned emotions unknowingly vanished into thin air.

Maybe Kitagawa Tera wants me to see his true colors privately, so he tacitly allowed me to follow?

While comforting herself in her heart, Kamiya Mirai felt that she could work hard again.

“It’s good that you weren’t scared.”

“Tera-kun! Wait for me.”

Seeing Kitagawa Tera dropping this sentence and turning around to walk away, Kamiya Mirai stamped her foot and moved her frozen stiff ankle to follow.

…

Lunch break was now an enjoyable, relaxing time for Kitagawa Tera.

Kamiya Mirai helped bring his bento over, and while strolling, he took some time here and there to reduce Asamiya Hitomi’s curse. It was one of his few rare luxurious leisure times in the past three days.

The golden stream was a bit thicker.

Under Kitagawa Tera’s vision, the black aura overflowing around Asamiya Hitomi seemed to be reined in a bit more.

But in total amounts, the golden stream was still incomparable to the curse’s black aura and could only barely maintain the state of suppression.

Seeing this, Kitagawa Tera had some ideas about that inexplicable growing golden stream.

However, he did not know if it was as he thought.

Seeing that the golden stream should be able to hang on for one to two weeks, it was sufficient for him to make a roundtrip to Hassan City before exorcising the curse on Asamiya Hitomi.

Since the golden stream had grown, he could postpone his appointment with Asamiya Hitomi tomorrow.

After all, his intention was to weaken part of the curse to buy time for Asamiya Hitomi, but that was unnecessary now. The golden stream had already accomplished this for him.

In that case…

Kitagawa Tera stopped.

After requesting leave today, he could find time to leave for Hassan City in Iwate Prefecture.

Kitagawa Tera now had a clue on Sakura Yuuki, who was hiding in the dark. And since he did not have any more urgent matters to see to, of course he did not intend to continue wasting time in Kyokuboku High School.

A decision had been made.

Then, what he had to do next was to deal with that little girl Chinatsu Chiyuki.

Kitagawa Tera looked up.

Chinatsu Chiyuki had coincidentally just walked out from that long corridor.