BXBX NOVEL [Ln] Volume 4: Chapter 3.2
Rampage at the Martial Arts Garden Part 2
Translator : PolterGlast
Having lost track of Lisa, Nozomu had no choice but to head toward the school.
Passing through the civic district and around the central park, he arrived at the main gate of the academy on the south side. At the gate, Mars had arrived and was waiting for him.
"Yo Nozomu, you're late."
"Morning Mars, just a little something to do in the morning......"
When Nozomu shrugged his shoulders, Mars replied with a curt, "I see", and the two headed for the classroom.
He must have guessed a lot from their conversation at the Ox-head Pavilion the other day. So Nozomu was grateful for his silence.
The majority of the students had already arrived at school, and the number of students walking down the hallway was sparse. However, when all the students saw Nozomu, they all frowned and began whispering behind his back.
The content of the few conversations that circulated was not very pleasant.
However, when Mars glared at them, they stopped talking and quickly hid themselves away.
Stunned yet grateful for his best friend's actions, Nozomu made his way to their classrooms.
When he arrived at the hallway lined with third-grade classrooms, he was once again met with countless stares.
Nozomu thought it was another rumor involving Lisa, but he noticed that the intensity of the stares was different.
"...... Say, Nozomu. Is there something wrong with the atmosphere at the school?"
"Yeah, the whole school, or rather the whole area where the classrooms of the third grade are located, has a strange atmosphere. I wonder why?"
The two arrived at their classroom and opened the door, while tilting their heads at the unexplained atmosphere.
Inside the classroom, their classmates were studying on their own, talking with friends, and doing whatever they wanted.
However, the moment Nozomu entered the classroom, the eyes of the students in the class suddenly focused on him.
They looked at him with doubt, confusion, disbelief, and curiosity. Nozomu was slightly flinched by the pressure.
But when Nozomu glanced back at each of his classmates, the ones whose eyes met his, for some reason, looked flustered and averted their gazes. Then, as if to make up for it, they resumed their self-study or started talking with their friends again.
"W-What in the world is this ......?"
"Who knows? I don't know either......"
"Ah, this is because of the last Special Comprehensive Exercise."
"Jin. And Deck and the others, good morning."
There were five classmates, Jin, Hamuria, Deck, Tommy, and Cami. They had previously formed a party together in the last Special Comprehensive Exercise. Since that exercise, they had become one of the few classmates who talked to Nozomu normally.
"By the way, Jin, there's something strange going on in the classroom, what do you mean by this being caused by the Special Comprehensive Exercise?"
"Well, it would be faster if you take a look at it. This way."
Urged by Jin, Nozomu and Mars went to the back of the classroom. There was a small blackboard with a variety of notices posted on it. Jin pointed to a corner of the board.
"Here, look......."
"Is this the result of the Special Comprehensive Exercise?"
"Yes, look at our party's ranking."
There, the scores and rankings of each party were posted. Nozomu's eyes widened involuntarily when he saw their scores written there.
"Sixth place overall in the grade......"
"Yep, sixth place! What an amazing result, beating out all the other top parties!"
"...... I see, so that's why the atmosphere at the school was so strange since this morning."
Mars muttered in an understanding manner.
It was unprecedented in this Soluminati Academy for the lowest 10th class to be ranked in the top 10.
Moreover, the party was led by two well-known inferior students in the school.
One was a regular attendee of the supplementary examinations, known as the bottom of the barrel. The other was a problem child who was treated as a hazardous material that could explode at any moment.
Considering their reputations up to now, it was not surprising to see the surrounding people's reaction to this result.
"Nevertheless, of course, there are people who don't seem to believe it. ......"
"Oi, bottom feeder. What the hell did you do in the Special Comprehensive Exercise?"
Amidst all this, there was one person who spoke to Nozomu in a questioning tone, raising his voice. He walked toward Nozomu, his shoulders shaking with anger, as if he couldn't take it anymore.
"O-Oi, Simnal. Calm down."
His friend tried to stop him, but the strong suspicion in the eyes of his classmate, called Simnal, remained.
"There is no way you could achieve such a result! What kind of dirty tricks did you use!?"
"I didn't though......"
However, their enthusiasm was even greater than one had expected, perhaps as a repercussion of the considerable suppression they had been subjected to up until now.
In the blink of an eye, their initially sparse questions turned into a raging storm, and they pounced on Nozomu.
"H-Hold on! I don't know which one to answer first!"
Nozomu's processing capacity was finally overwhelmed by the sheer number of questions being thrown at him.
He was so overwhelmed that he asked for help, but Jin, Deck, and Hamuria, who were teaming up with him, were also getting bombarded with questions from their classmates.
"Mars, lend me a hand!"
"Don't be unreasonable. I was away from the party at that time. So I don't know all the details of the battle."
Mars' face broke into a grin as Nozomu asked for his help. Apparently, he was amused by Nozomu's bewilderment.
Nozomu returned a resentful glance to Mars, but even in the midst of this, the storm of questions showed no sign of abating.
But it wasn't unpleasant. It was certainly irritating to be teased by Mars, but there was no malice in his classmates' eyes that were gathered around him.
It might be temporary. It might be gone later. In fact, the rest of his classmates who have not come to listen to him are still looking at him with suspicion.
Still, for now, he felt happy that his hard work in the Special Comprehensive Exercise had been acknowledged.
"Everyone~, good morning~~. Let's do our best today as well~~!"
At that moment, the classroom door was opened energetically. Anri-sensei entered the classroom.
"Anri-sensei, just in time!"
"Fue~?"
"Everyone, it was Anri-sensei whom we were fighting against. She's a teacher after all, so she can explain everything that happened to you in great detail!"
The classmates who had been crowded around Nozomu turned their gazes on Anri.
The greedy eyes of those who had been rotting as failures until now were directed at the young teacher.
"U-Umm~~. Everyone~, what's the matter~~? Fuwa-wa-wa-wa!"
Immediately afterward, half of the classmates who had been crowded around Nozomu rushed toward Anri. She was left struggling, completely unable to comprehend the situation. As a result, questions did not cease even after the bell rang for the start of the first period, and Anri's classes were delayed considerably.
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