Chapter 92: Makoto’s worries and unexpected rumors (1/2)
Chapter 92: Makoto’s worries and unexpected rumors
The company is going well.
I think it is stupid that I didn’t think about it, but after opening there have been conspicuous resales and things like buying all the goods. It isn’t perfect, but I made some counter-measures.
Specifically speaking, things like limits on how many goods one can buy and “requests” for the people that want to resale.
It isn’t something that I can completely stop anyways, so giving up somewhat, I made a plan to the extent I can. Because doing the same thing repeatedly and going stale is just unproductive.
The lectures too… One might say, they are going well.
Since then, the students that were introduced by Brait-sensei some of them remained, and those that remained introduced the class to other students, so we succeeded in securing a fair amount of students.
… That only 5 people remained, well, it’s probably good like that. Having too many just makes it troublesome, yeah.
The 5 people are all scholarship students and have the nature of craving for power. Seeing it from a normal student perspective, my lectures didn’t fit their taste, but the highest percentage felt danger from it. It was probably not a very desirable lecture.
For the time being I am still accepting students, but I am not really expecting much. As for the students that remained I will do some light “experiments” without permission on a level where their health is not affected, and while at that, have them take the lectures.
Because I use a weakening [Sakai] in the practical skill area the whole lecture, it looks flashy but since it is not on a dangerous level, the academy side decided it was okay. Just as planned. What I was worried about was that the effect should weaken depending on the scope of the effect, but lately, maybe because I am getting used to it, the effect seems to have increased.
Currently, there haven’t been any interference from the teacher faction and it has been peaceful.
In short, the livelihood in Academy Town is going favorably.
And yet…
In the library I have been going to as a habit after my lectures, I find a book I am looking for and sit on a desk that’s slightly to the front of it, and just like that I fall prostrated.
A long sigh leaks from my mouth.
Right now, I am being cornered in a sense.
“To think that in this world the hyumans practiced polygamy” (Makoto)
A sacred system that was established by God, or so it seems. Yeah, God.
A monologue comes out from my mouth. Maybe because no one understands me, I feel like my monologues after coming to the Academy have increased. I don’t want them to look at me with strange eyes so I am trying to not do it that much though.
But, to think they practice polygamy. That bug, she really gets me every time. That total idiot.
It looks like a system convenient for men, but it is actually not the case. In my lack of imagination, I thought of the polygamy system as something like a harem. I was really naïve.
After looking at the hyuman society I have finally noticed.
This is not something like having as many wives you want and going “uhauha”, rather, it is more like the qualitative difference between modern Japan gets even worse.
People that have the most beauty and riches, in other words, the women gather onto the superior men and it isn’t like everyone can have a harem.
On the contrary, it increases the chances of males that can’t marry. Goddess, just how many terrible things do you have to do in order to be satisfied? There’s no need to screen them out that much.
Polygamy system is actually a really dream-like system for the majority of males.
Even so, it makes the chances of me marrying even lower, or not.
… It’s the opposite.
It has been several months since I come to this Academy but, maybe it was 2 weeks ago?
That I was confessed to.
For someone like Shiki, from the first day there were numerous girls that wanted to go out with him, but I just laughed as if someone else’s business and didn’t envy, nor soothe, or hear his complains.
At the time when my company had rode on the tracks and the Academy had somewhat approved of my abilities; well it is something recent though.
It began with a call that said a student had something to consult. It was a girl I have never seen in my lectures. In short, a student I have never met before.
“Is sensei already married?”
That was the beginning of my nightmare.
[I’m single. What about it?]
Of course, that’s how I responded.
I don’t know how it turned this way, but after that, the girl said this:
“Then after the third one, could you please marry me?”
The inside of my brain… became a complete mess. In my previous world, when I was confessed to by my kohai and my club friend, I didn’t feel anything like tension or excitement.
I was just dumbfounded. Because, even if a person I first met suddenly asks me to marry her, my feelings are zero. Also she said something about numbers. At that time, I didn’t understand the meaning.
To the female student that said something absurd with an unexpected serious face, I breathe out a sigh, knowing that it was rude.
[I am sorry, but I don’t have any intentions to]
I was somehow able to write that and left the place.
The next confession was that day at evening. No, instead of confession it was like the first one, a proposal.
And so, in the store, outside, inside the Academy; without caring about the place, they called me and if it gets bad they make a marriage proposal right there.
Moreover, there’s always the “please make me your wife number X”. However, in the X number, it is always a number that’s not number 1. They were mostly 3 to 5.
Polygamy. Really the worst.
I have a business and have a decent amount of money as well as having fair amount of ability. Then they ignore my face and just suggest to be the number 2 wife and on to gold dig. That’s probably how it goes. Just their objective of having me support them is cruel and yet, it feels like they might even bring out something like rebuilding their home and have all of my money taken. There were girls who had some transparent ulterior motive like that.
Leaving the love and raising the child to the number 1 or 2, they aim to do nothing at all.
In truth, that’s just how it is.
There was once when a girl who had an appearance that was truly to my taste came wearing a white robe and, I couldn’t tell if she was demanding research expenses or proposing marriage, but when she did, I said jokingly:
[If you become my number 1, I will marry and give you as much money as you want]
And when I said that, not only did she show me an expression of incredible disgust, she also said:
“No thanks!”
As if her life was at stake, and ran away as fast as she could.
I have been confessed as if looking down on me several times, but that one really got me.
… Really, I give up. It isn’t popularity, I am just being locked on as prey. It was a lot easier when they just didn’t treat me like a human being. The way they are now makes it hard for my spirit.
In the library there haven’t been those kind of developments, but it is just a matter of time.
Now that I think about it, why is it that the library is a safe zone?
Do they have some sort of rule? Or is someone keeping them in check? No matter which, I am grateful.
I raise my head and hold the book in my hands. Now then, let’s study today as well.
Today I don’t need to go to the store. At first I was doing business with no breaks, but most of the stores normally have a 1 or 2 days break. We even work till late, so thinking that it would be okay to have regular holidays, I made it so in a day when I have lectures it will be a free day.
The small one of the Forest Onis said “Gloria~~!!” and raised her hands in the sky. That girl is someone I still don’t understand well.
“Ara, today is a book about religion? Raidou-sensei really reads books of many different types. Magic, combat, history, geography, customs, also demi-humans… The ones I haven’t seen you reading are probably tales, math and biography”
[Eva-san huh. If you suddenly talk to me like that, it will scare me. Also, do you remember every book someone like me reads?]
“Yeah. I am interested in Raidou-sensei after all” (Eva)
The librarian Eva-san smiles teasingly.
[Please give me a break. You won’t be coming to ask me for marriage as well right?]
“… Ah, so the reason of your fatigue was that. Superficial love. It seems like there are many girls that want to marry. I sympathize with you sensei” (Eva)
[Right now this is the only place in the Academy that can bring me peace. Concerned about my appearance and after my popularity increased they now want to suck on the sweet nectar. Geez, just what do they take marriage for?]
“Well, here the number of students that are nobles or have a big mercantile house is not small, so there are a lot of students that don’t think of marriage as mutual love” (Eva)