Chapter 418-419: The melancholy of Rotsgard (1/2)
“Jin-senpai, please sign this!”
“Is it okay for you to sign here, Jin-kun?”
“In that case, Jin Roan, here as well while you are at it.”
Jin sighs at how this has become a routine.
A time for relaxation in the Rotsgard Academy.
In other words, the remaining time after you finish eating at lunch break.
It is also an important time that one can use as one likes in order to put their all in the afternoon classes.
But at the same time, this is also an important moment where the curtains open for the ones that put importance to personal connections.
Not everyone can become a famous person or an influential one.
But this is the academy.
Getting acquainted with those exact people and becoming their friends isn’t impossible.
It was a natural turn of events that Jin would get crowded by mainly women as someone who has become a power in this Rotsgard Academy.
“…I am sorry. I still lack experience, so I can’t sign the marriage forms that you have sent me. Also, Senpai, I don’t plan on staying in the academy after graduating, so please stop trying to recruit me for the Purple Haze. Now then, I will be taking my leave.” (Jin)
After properly confirming who they are, Jin glanced at the papers in his hand.
There were 2 regarding marriage, and 1 about entering the treasured squad of the academy, Purple Haze.
Also, they were all noble ladies that would bring trouble in the future if relationships with them were to get sour.
It ended up with him having to cut them off in a lenient way.
“I understand the feelings of Sensei.” (Jin)
“I think the confession rush Raidou-sensei had and the one you are getting is pretty different, you know.”
“…I don’t want to be told this by you who seems to be going to get more wives.” (Jin)
“…Are you really going to be poking that right now? My wife has been pushing me to do that lately all of a sudden. It is scary.” (Daena)
“Your place is pretty weird, Daena. It is normally the husband that has to get the permission to get the 2nd and 3rd one.” (Misura)
“You have it easy, Misura, with you being on the way to marrying into the wealthy Rembrandt family.” (Izumo)
“…What’s making you so tied up in a knot, Izumo?” (Jin)
“Nothing really. I am simply annoyed by the women who approach me despite knowing about my marriage.” (Izumo)
“There’s those kinds of scary women? I don’t wanna hear anything about that.” (Jin)
Jin, Daena, Misura, and Izumo.
A quartet of 2 married and 2 unmarried, but the popularity of the 4 is pretty high in the academy.
Just as Daena said, different from the case where Raidou was being confessed to because of his standing, Jin was being directed steamy gazes.
In other words, there wasn’t any compromise. He is being seen as an ideal catch that has the best conditions and they actually wish for it.
However, the women are students of the Rotsgard Academy and also related parties of it.
When it comes to big catches like Jin and the others, they won’t be playing around and will go for the kill.
It is the kind where, even if their relationship becomes good, there’s no way they would allow it to become just a relationship of the moment.
The matter about Daena being pushed into marriage was him lowering his guard, and ending up going out with a girl.
Izumo wasn’t really conquered, he married a woman from the outside, but a marriage is a marriage.
With two already being married, the storm became more intense.
And thus, they were tired.
It isn’t the pleasant fatigue that one feels after using all their strength in the lectures, but a displeasing something that coils around their hearts and bodies to the point that sighs would escape endlessly.
Jin was bothered by the adventurer Sofia who he met in Kaleneon.
Daena had an approaching marriage with her wife pushing it.
Misura was going out with Yuno and doesn’t have interest in going out with other women.
Izumo just married Iroha and doesn’t want to be bothered.
“Now that I think about it, Shiki-san has been in the library often.” (Jin)
Feeling that there’s the need to change this gloomy atmosphere, Jin spoke about the person that’s basically their master.
“I can’t believe that person still reads books.” (Izumo)
Izumo makes a wry smile as he nods.
“He is the kind of guy that always has an answer.” (Misura)
Misura also nodded continuously at this.
There hasn’t been a time when they have asked a question and he hasn’t given an answer or a path that leads to it.
In the eyes of the students, him still needing books is just shocking.
Shiki feels like someone who doesn’t have anything he doesn’t know and would be able to see through anything.
Of course, there’s a lot he doesn’t know.
This is proof that the vastness in the world of the students and the world of Shiki are completely different. That way of living of Shiki was in part the reason why Jin and the others managed to maintain their humility despite getting stronger.
“He is an incredible person. It makes you want to chase after his back. Right, a teacher isn’t just someone who teaches knowledge and techniques, they also…” (Daena)
“Daena began his passionate speech about teaching. I only wanted to make it a light chat…” (Jin)
Seeing Daena begin talking a storm, Jin got weary and drooped his shoulders.
Jin isn’t finding any fun in the academy lately and was feeling stagnation from it.
The times when he is working in the Kuzunoha Company are more fun, and he felt as if he were opening the doors to a new world.
It is truly like a high schooler that began working part-time, feeling that faint misunderstanding that you are more of an adult than your surroundings. Jin left the academy and headed to the Kuzunoha Company as usual with everyone.
Even though he has been reprimanded every time he says it out loud that he wants to quit the academy, that choice is still burning inside of him.
“What’s with you hatchlings coming all today.”
The brown demi-human that was sweeping the front of the store stopped when she noticed Jin and his group.
The front of the store looked pretty clean already, but no one noticed that she was slacking by pretending to clean.
The Forest Oni, Eris.
One of the employees of the Kuzunoha Company and the one teaching Jin.
“Heya there. Thanks for your hard work, Eris-senpai. We were too into our talk and ended up coming here together.” (Jin)
“Talking, huh. Just do that stuff in a fancy cafe or something, and while at it, bring some gifts for your senpais for take-out. You really don’t take in the teachings given to you.” (Eris)
“…When I kept that teaching of yours, Shiki-san and Sensei got angry though.” (Jin)
“! What?! To think they would catch it! What about the names?! You didn’t snitch on me, did you?!” (Eris)
“Uhm…Sensei looked up while saying ‘there’s not even a need to ask who it is. It must be Eris’.” (Jin)
“…God daaaamn.” (Eris)
She falls with both hands on the ground.
It is comical, but she is decently depressed here.
“N-Now now, I was thinking about buying something, so I will contribute to the sales a bit, Eris-san.” (Daena)
Daena tries to cheer Eris up.
“As if our store will be closing any faster with your wallet that’s being seized by your wife.” (Eris)
“Guhah?!” (Daena)
“If this were the main branch, I could make you all take the special of Tsige, a Ribo Loan, to have you guys buy the highest priced stuff to the point that you are on the verge of bankruptcy. You have escaped with your life, you brats!” (Eris)
Eris stood up while mixing in ominous words.
“…Main branch.”
“Main branch, huh.”
“If I remember correctly, Tsige is the homeland of Yuno.”
“The one that had a complete victory against Aion and went independent.”
““…””
The students reacted to the word main branch, spoke their own thoughts about it, and went silent.
“? What’s with you guys, making tired faces despite being students. Just telling you here, but the line up of products in the main branch can’t even be compared to here. The number of employees is also completely different. It is also full of tasty stuff, and the stimulus and ranking is on a different level, you know?” (Eris)
“Delicious stuff and stimulus, huh. We are talking about that remote region of Tsige, so it does sound true…” (Jin)
“Of course. Get in trouble with a hoodlum there. Even with you four, you would get beaten up to a pulp. Well, if you are together with the ladies from the Rembrandt place, you won’t have much problems though.” (Eris)
Eris goes ‘tsk tsk tsk’ while swaying her finger left and right with a smug face.
They thought ‘if she is the one saying it, it must be somewhat true’ and smiled wryly.
“Tsige, huh. I would like to see it one day.” (Jin)
“Also, Jin, that place is already a country. Don’t go calling it a remote region. Spit that out there and ya getting an actual beating.” (Eris)
This time Eris acts like an outlaw.
But the interest of the students was gathered on the place that’s the base of Raidou and the others, and the remote city that made its name echo in the whole world.
“And so, it is time for work, you rascal. What are you standing here for? Get changed already. As for the others, go buy stuff already and scatter!” (Eris)
Eris once again unleashed her broom onto the surroundings as if sweeping them away.
The melancholic students entered the Rotsgard branch of the Kuzunoha Company which has unending liveliness.
Chapter 419: ‘Temporary’ teacher and the popularity of the company corner
“I understand what you are trying to say. But in the end, we are simply teachers hired temporarily. Also, it seems you will be marrying again? Congratulations.”
Daena, who has gone weird from his teaching passion, directed his passionate talk to us, but I washed it away lightly.
He also added the talk about him having a second wife as if it were an afterthought, so I also deal with that.