Chapter 90: New Start (1)

Since becoming a Tentacle Monster Villain and a Vigilante, I had started being able to do things I could not do before.

The easy-to-understand part was not getting worn out in P.E. class. Yes, only not getting worn out. Sadly, maybe because my temperament was indoor, even with raised physical ability I still could not match the athletic clubs in ball games and the like. Of course if I opened the Monster Villain physical ability all the way I could trample them with that alone, but what would doing that in P.E. class even be.

That aside, another thing was becoming able to run multiple tasks in parallel.

Finishing homework while watching videos on my phone, playing with my phone during class while still listening to the teacher. Maybe because of the Tentacle Monster Villain nature of handling multiple tentacles at once, the efficiency of studying while doing something else had exploded upward.

Yes, therefore May, midterm scores going up was a natural conclusion!

"Look, Niekawa! This time zero failing marks, zero! Math and English not failing either, am I a genius!?"

After school.

I showed off the returned answer sheets to Niekawa and put on a smug face. How about that, I did it.

"The hurdle for genius is too low. Though I will acknowledge the effort."

Unconvincing.

On the answer sheets of Niekawa, who was smiling bitterly in front of me seriously celebrating, numbers like ninety and eighty were written.

You should have made those all hundreds. Are you intentionally missing to appeal as human? Getting jealous like that was probably because it was after the test.

"From you who at last year’s final exam said things like an English test is out of ten points, you have grown. Compared to when you avoided repeating a year with the combo of attendance days, submitted work, and dogeza, it is a difference of heaven and earth. You worked hard, Furezawa."

"A, aa, yeah, well?"

My friend praised me earnestly even while being exasperated, but I felt a little guilty. Frankly I had not changed my study method at all.

Doing it sloppily without concentrating, glancing at my phone, and in the end only watching videos on my phone and making no study progress at all was my study method. I would not even call that a study method even about myself.

But now that I was a Vigilante it was different. I could concentrate on phone videos and also concentrate on studying. Tilting my head at first, huh, why did homework finish this fast, was already nostalgic.

This might also be called a reincarnation cheat in a sense.

If we are talking cheats, I wish I could get perfect scores without studying using previous-life knowledge.

That would probably double the guilt, but in the current situation where I had brought almost nothing but game knowledge it could not be helped that I thought this knowledge is useless.

Even if study efficiency went up, if I did not study I could not get points. While sighing at that, the phone in my pocket vibrated.

’clubroom come please’

The sender of the very concise message was Reiko.

At the lettering like a housewife who could not convert kanji I involuntarily tilted my head. That girl should either dump text in a torrent or abuse stamps with this kind of message.

"My bad, I am going to show my face at my junior’s place a bit. ...Even though answer sheets just came back, being able to move freely is fresh."

"For you it was a two-choice of being called by a teacher or going to meet them and doing dogeza."

I parted from Niekawa who headed to club with his bag while exasperated, and headed for the clubroom.

But what happened with that girl.

It would not be Sacred or Monster Villain related. If it were that kind of talk she would not send a message to Furezawa Senjumaru and would be writing an article addressed to Atel Octo.

So I did not think it was a situation that was no joke, like life or chastity in danger.

"Yo. What is it, Reiko, calling me to the clubroom after school is rare."

I opened the clubroom door looking down on it as no big deal, and saw it.

Leas standing silently like a guardian king, and Reiko sitting seiza while pouring cold sweat.

...What is this.

When I put on a suspicious expression, Reiko paa put a flower of a smile on her whole face. A smile too backward to call it that.

"She came! Senju-senpai came! The main failing-mark person came! With this we win! ...Uehehehe, Senju-senpai, let’s get scolded together. If it is with a cute junior, even if the place we fall is hell it is fine, right?"

"Reiko, first shut that mouth."

It was a really cold tone.

Ah, this girl is seriously pissed. Pissed off at a level there has never been before.

Basically I had an image of Leas being sweet to Reiko, or smiling bitterly and letting it slide as a hopeless one, but she seemed genuinely pissed enough that the temperature in the clubroom dropped two or three degrees. Scary even though it was someone else’s business.

Maybe this situation was rare for Reiko too. She answered Leas’s words with a dry "Haiii..." Her face color was also very blue.

Well, I could roughly guess the reason. Reiko herself had just said it, and first years should be around the time all tests were being returned.

"I wondered what on earth happened, but I mostly get it. ...Is she that bad?"

"Yes, very bad. I received a consultation from a first-year teacher that this is honestly bad. Reiko would be reflecting too, so I thought I would finish with a light remonstrance, but she told me with a sunny face that she was going to go play."

I see, so lightning fell.

At the end of my gaze Reiko was turning her face away.

Well I understand the feeling, junior. If they were humans who take failing marks and reflect, the majority would not become a catastrophe of failing marks.

"So Senjumaru, how about your side? Depending on the case you may end up sitting there together with Reiko."

"Last year’s me pulled something like ninety percent failing marks, but this time it is as you see."

I took the answer sheets out of my bag full of confidence and handed them to Leas.

Hmm, she nodded and checked them one by one, but each time she flipped a sheet her expression tightened.

"I, I see. It is not a lie that there are no failing marks. There are also none above fifty."

"Ha? Midterms are out of fifty, right? ...That is a lie, my bad! It is a joke so do not intimidate me!"

The figure narrowing those large pupils like a sword and glaring was even scarier because I knew her usual expression.

Please calm down, let us talk. I stuck out my palms and explained, and Leas let out a deep, so deep sigh.

"I am also the type not good at study and such, but even so if you do it seriously you can get points. Or rather, Senjumaru. In English class the teacher taught the places that would be on the test, right. There is no way they were only favoring my class, so I think your class was taught the same way...?"

"Sorry, maybe halfway through it was a pain and I did not copy the board."

Even if I became able to run entertainment and study in parallel, my original motivation is at the bottom! It cannot be helped.

Leas looked this way with a face like eeh..., but unmotivated students are all like this.

"U, traitor! Senju-senpai, you were bottom-tier enough they wrote an article about the staff-room full-power dogeza incident, right! Let’s get scolded together! I am lonely without comrades!"

"Reiko."

It was a bone-chilling tone.

Hie, I involuntarily stepped back. Reiko who could not move in seiza just kept making her expression blue.

"I am making you do things you are not used to. There will be times you get tired, and times you cannot take study time. I understand that and respect it. Even if scores are a bit bad I intended to say let’s properly work hard next time. ...But Reiko, these scores mean you did not even feel like studying in the first place."

"N-no, that is, as you say!"

Maybe she judged that a poor excuse would backfire. She immediately shifted from seiza to dogeza.

...I thought this last time too, this girl is weirdly good at dogeza. In the original after defeat and forced transformation release there was a scene where she was stripped naked and made to do dogeza by onlookers while being violated from behind. Was this skill at dogeza foreshadowing for that? Nasty foreshadowing.

"Haa... thinking back, even though it was exam period you were playing around. I will look after you for the next finals, prepare yourself. You may uncross your legs already."

Maybe she thought scolding more would be meaningless. She let out a heavy sigh and cut off the lecture.

"Yesss... uaa, my legs, my leegs..."

Reiko gorori put her hands behind her and threw her legs forward.

Even though she was wearing spats, both legs were pakari open, so the area around her lower abdomen was completely exposed. This was a complete M-shape split.

When I involuntarily stared, the back of my head was supaan slapped.

"...Senjumaru. I understand men are like that, but you should not look so freely. And Reiko, fix your skirt properly. It is indecent."

"Eeh? I am wearing spats so it is fine."

"Is that so. Then look at Senjumaru."

"Heh? Senju-senpai?"

Reiko put on a suspicious expression, looked at my face, understood I was looking at something with serious eyes, learned it was near her crotch, and awkwardly lowered her skirt.

"I thought this last time too... spats are always visible, right, why are you looking that much."

"The part that always sticks out from the skirt and the part hidden by the skirt cannot have the same value, what are you saying."

Maybe she felt danger to her person at those words I involuntarily ran off with. Reiko started sliding away with numb legs. Leas’s gaze looking this way was also very cold.

"...Well, yeah, it seems that is how it is. Reiko should have a little more of a thing called modesty too."

"That is so... maybe I should do that..."

Being directed a jito gaze I got a feeling of wait, did I mess up again.

No, I understand in logic. I at least know you cannot gain girls’ favor by talking dirty.

But since becoming a Monster Villain my mouth in this area has really gotten loose and it is troubling. I try to restrain it as much as I can, but at timings like this my true feelings leak out before thinking.

"Ara, so you were here after all."

Right as I thought, since becoming aware of reincarnation are there more minuses than pluses, the clubroom door opened garari.

A girl with long blonde hair in vertical rolls. Like Leas she wore a blazer neatly, yet the skirt length was very short to match modern girls.