Chapter 20 – The Class President with the Ponytail and Boar Meat
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When we were looking for a boar while riding the fenrir, we found one alongside a pretty girl. Moreover, that girl was being chased by the boar.
We interfered without any hesitation in order to save the girl. Or to be more precise, the one interfering was Mashiro, the local fenrir.
“Take it down, Mashiroo!”
While answering the order of its master, the blond gal tamer Shouko, with a roar, Mashiro charged at the boar from the side. The fenrir likely has never seen the scene of a fleeing criminal being hit by a truck just to be blown away, as it’s sometimes depicted in Western movies. But this looked exactly like that.
The impact felt like when a car suddenly stopped. And out of the corner of my eyes, I could see how the boar whirled through the air before eventually slamming against a tree. It then slid down just like that, never to move again.
“W-With o-one hit…?”
――When it comes to a fenrir, a wild boar will simply get run over, I guess…
“W-What…!? A-A wolf monster…!?”
Apparently unable to see us, the girl pointed the branch in her hands at Mashiro while stunned in surprise. No, if she’s a magician, I guess I should call that stick a wand.
“Please wait, Class President! It’s me! Kuno!”
As soon as I raised my voice from atop Mashiro’s back, the girl――Shijiyo Minori stopped moving at once. And after a few seconds, she raised her eyes, catching sight of us.
“…K-Kuno-kun…?”
Shijiyo is the class president of the 2A and sits right next to me. Because of that, she has often listened to the conversations between Chiyu, Shouko and me. Having heard about the ability topic, she might have come up with an ability of her own.
“I’m also here, Minorin,” Shouko exclaimed.
“It’s surprising, isn’t it? I totally get you, Shijiyo-san,” commented Shion.
“Super comfy ride,” remarked Chiyu.
The three girls called out to Shijiyo. No, Chiyu’s comment just reflected her impressions of riding Mashiro. We had Mashiro bend down and then we dismounted him.
“Everything’s alright now, Class President. The boar has been finished off by this guy here.”
“He’s called Mashiro! Remember it as well, Minorin,” Shouko added while praising and stroking Mashiro.
“…I-Is this possibly an effect of the summoning magic you mentioned, Kanna-san?”
As I thought, Shijiyo has apparently heard our conversation during that dream.
“Yeah, you’re correct.”
“D-Did you save me?”
“Indeed. You don’t have to run away anymore.”
“Uhh…”
Shijiyo is an extremely serious and imposing girl who never shows any openings, but probably feeling relieved, her face became disheveled as she started to cry.
I took out the handkerchief which I got back from Shouko yesterday, and quickly held it out to Shijiyo. Of course, it was clean now as I had taken it out of my Inventory.
Shijiyo accepted it with thanks, but then drew close to me without wiping her tears and placed her head on my shoulder.
“S-Shijiyo!?”
“Forgive me. Let me stay like this for just a moment, please.”
“Y-Yeah.”
I initially transferred here together with Chiyu. And Shouko came to my place together with Shion.
But, what if they had spent the nights and days on an uninhabited island all by themselves? Being able to reunite with her classmates must be very touching for Shijiyo.
After grabbing at empty air with my hands, not knowing what to do with them, I soon placed them on Shijiyo’s back and gently stroked it. Shouko is someone you can describe as my friend, so I was able to smoothly interact with her, but since my relationship with Shijiyo was distant, limited to us only having talked a few times, I didn’t know what sort of distance I should keep from her.
“Yep, yep, I totally get it, Minorin. Being alone in a forest gotta be seriously lonely and scary,” Shouko said, full of sympathy.
“Sousuke-san, Shouko-chan, and Chiyu-chan are very kind and reliable people, so you don’t need to worry anymore, Shijiyo-san,” Shion assured Shijiyo.
“An overly serious, big-boobed class president with black hair and a ponytail…the harem has grown by one more member.”
Chiyu, you really stay true to your own way, no matter what, eh? Though, this character trait is quite reassuring under such circumstances.
Eventually Shijiyo separated from me, seemingly having calmed down. After wiping her tears away with the handkerchief, she bowed in my direction.
“Excuse me. I showed you something unsightly.”
“Y-You don’t need to mind it.”
“That won’t do. It was foul of me. Just because I felt relieved after meeting up with you, I ended up acting indecent…it must have been unpleasant for you, right?”
“No, not at all. Rather, it slightly made my heart race.”
Since Shijiyo was looking so apologetic, I tried to make a joke in order to tell her that she didn’t need to mind it so much. But, her face turned bright red and her body started to tremble while she shouted, “H-Heart race!? Umm, although I’m to blame here, you mustn’t think about anything dirty…!”
Dirty, eh? I’m sure she has also noticed that her attempt to avoid using lewd words has instead led to her words sounding all the more lewd.
Well, it might also be a problem on the guys’ side since it sounds perverted to them. If the one saying it was class president, a boy’s dick would react, regardless of whether she calls the thing penis or male genitalia. That’s the sad nature of the creature called man…
Shijiyo lowered her voice as if taken aback, took a deep breath and then cleared her throat, “Forgive me. I lost my calm there for a moment. Allow me to kindly thank you, Kuno-kun, Iyama-san, Kanna-san, Yomiumi-san, and Mashiro-san, for having rescued me.”
She politely bowed her head.
“You’re welcome! We gotta help each other out at times like these!” Shouko replied with a smile.
“Hehe, I haven’t done anything. By the way, are you by yourself, Shijiyo-san?” Shion probed casually.
“Yes, I’m alone. Having said that, you’re not the first classmates I encountered.”
“Is that so?”
“Umm, I will not reveal their names, but yesterday I ran into two boys in the forest. They offered me to act together with them, but…their looks were kind of…scary. I tried to get away from them, but the two kept following me for a while. When they eventually tried to touch me, I gave them a warning shot with my magic.”
As the two boys didn’t seem to have any way to deal with her magic, both ran away together.
“Whoa, these sorts of guys exist as well, right? They look at girls like they only exist to vent their sexual desires, completely forgetting that we’re humans as well,” Shouko snarled full of contempt.
Shion and Chiyu nodded in agreement and faced Shijiyo with a sympathizing look.
“Ugh,” I felt like a knife had been stabbed into my heart.”
“Eh? No, no, you got it wrong, Sousuke! You’re different, you know?”
Noticing the damage inflicted on me, Shouko revised her words in a hurry.
“R-Really…?”
I mean I totally recall how I focused on their chests and panties as well.
“Hehe, I also consider you to be different, Sousuke-kun. You see, whenever this happens with you, it feels more like it’s unconscious, or rather, a reflex. Moreover, you will always avert your eyes or apologize, if you think that you made us feel uncomfortable.”
“Mmh, what bothers us are those self-centered, perverted looks directed at us. It’s not unusual for people to pull faces as if they’re licking their lips without considering that the other party might hate it.”
“Yeah, that’s it! I mean, everyone’s free to have their own impressions, but guys, who just simply laugh like idiots even if you tell them to stop ogling, really piss me off, you know!?”
Although it’s often said, girls who wear relatively revealing clothes don’t necessarily do so to show off to guys. Everyone should be free to wear whatever they like, and looking at such outfits indecently is rude. At least, it’d be nice for people to keep a certain level of reason and refrain from getting too pushy, if the other party dislikes it.
“…You three sure have a close relationship with Kuno-kun, don’t you?”
Suddenly Shijiyo smiled gently.
“But, Kuno-kun, I don’t think it’s good if you look at all three of them with evil thoughts so often that they actually notice them.”
“Yes…”
“I’m fine if it’s Sou-kun.”
“Sousuke-kun is a gentleman and he has taken good care of me ever since coming here, so I think I’m alright with it as well.”
“Uh…me too…a-as long as it’s just a bit.”
The three covered for me, but Shijiyo’s face became stiff because of their answers.
“Kuno-kun, just what did you do to them during the first night…?”
Shijiyo’s ears were burning red, but I don’t think that she’s imagining the correct things there.
…Well, if I exclude the progress with Chiyu, that is.
“For the time being, let’s pick up the boar and return to our base. Shijiyo, how about you come with us, if you don’t dislike the idea? There are some things I want to ask and we can also eat together.”
In case Shijiyo doesn’t want to act together with me, that’s her choice. If she likes, we can even share some resources with her.
I do have the intent to help others, like Shouko said, so I wouldn’t mind helping out Shijiyo this much. A girl like her, who tries to make sure that the rules are kept around her in school, tends to be shunned by others. Yet, Shijiyo always tries hard to be fair. We only sat next to each other, but I don’t really hate a person like her.
“…U-Umm, I will gladly take you up on that. I did say some s-strange things earlier, but I also trust Kuno-kun.”
Hmm, was there some sort of event that let me earn her trust? Well, asking this would be kinda tasteless, I guess.
I headed towards the boar and put it away in my Inventory. Seeing this for the first time, Shijiyo was surprised. In the meantime I approached Mashiro-
“Mashiro, can you carry five people? Eh? you’re going to carry Minorin even if it kills you? Ahahah, you’re such a pervert.”
Afterwards, we got on Mashiro and returned to our base while Mashiro showed his fighting spirit.
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