Chapter 34: Simple Happening (3)

“Ugh….”

Right after the test this morning, I collapsed on my bed as soon as I arrived at the annex. The other members were also exhausted and collapsed, but… I was probably worse off since I threw myself into direct combat.

It’s clear that fighting a large number of Hot Spring Development Department members alone is something I can’t do again…

Every part of my body aches, and I feel like playing hooky, but since the time is already past the afternoon, everyone has probably already woken up and started studying in the annex classroom or making plans for the future…

“…Maybe a day would be okay….”

I rub my eyes and decide to go down to the classroom. Hair? Uniform?

Who cares… Anyway, the Tea Party members who are busy preparing for the other Eden Treaty won’t come here, and the other members… Wouldn’t they understand if I think about yesterday….?

“But if it were me, I’d break the joints first. There are too many meaningless hand movements.”

“Wow-oh… Always like this?”

“Auuu…. Sensei…. Please….”

[Yeah…. I’ll try, Hifumi….]

“Thank you…”

I open the door to the classroom where familiar voices are heard and appropriately enter.

I think I heard a voice that shouldn’t be heard, but my condition wasn’t enough to judge that, so I grabbed my unorganized hair without thinking and opened the door.

“Ahaha☆ Yeah! Sensei! Still, I’m glad you’re lively?”

[Hmm… It’s better than being depressed, but…]

As soon as I entered the classroom, the familiar voice and appearance, but the protagonist of the voice that should not be heard here, was sitting in the middle of the classroom with other members of the Supplementary Class Club.

“Eh?”

“Wow-oh… Sora-chan…? It’s the first time I’ve seen you disheveled? Hmm… It might not be bad….”

“Ehhhh?! I, I’m sorry!!!!”

Mika-sama?! Why is Mika-sama here?! Why?! I somehow hold on to my fading consciousness, close the door, and run away. I have to get ready right away. I showed my superior a completely disheveled appearance. I’m screwed…

“Ah, she ran away…”

“Auuu….”

[Hahaha… She must have been tired…]

While preparing the groundwork for the plan, it’s also time to inform the members of the Supplementary Class Club, so I visited the annex where the Supplementary Class Club is, wanting to see Sora-chan’s face as well.

From today onwards, I also have to hide and act… It’s a ploy to transmit information through Sora-chan.

I visited on the pretext of meeting Azusa on the Arius side, and on the pretext of having something to discuss with Sensei on the Tea Party side.

I heard from Sensei that Sora-chan was exhausted and passed out yesterday, so I was waiting while having a simple chat? with the other members. Koharu-chan… Was she called that?

It was a bit of a struggle to lighten the mood because she was visibly burdened… Especially Hanako-chan, who kept being wary of me.

Sora-chan, who came down late, saw me and screamed, not a scream, and ran away… It was quite a good sight… She was wearing only the bottoms of her gym clothes…

Her top was a slightly loose T-shirt… She was holding the top of her gym clothes in her left hand, which was quite provocative.

It wasn’t particularly revealing clothing, but it’s quite rare to see a child who is always properly dressed in a disheveled state. Huh? But Sensei is also here, isn’t he? Isn’t her sense of modesty a little strange?

It’s good for me, but… I’ll have to hold her a little later. Yeah, it wouldn’t be good if a Tea Party attendant looked too unrefined. Yeah, anyway, that’s it.

“Maybe it’s a little disappointing~”

“Hmm…”

While Sensei and other Supplementary Class Club members were chatting, Hanako-chan sneaks up next to me. I have this much awareness. I subtly step back and distance myself from Sensei’s group.

“So, what’s the purpose of coming here?”

“Huh? Isn’t there something like an icebreaker?”

“I think we’ve done enough.”

Hanako-chan asked the point from the beginning. It would be beneficial to talk when Sora-chan came, so I wanted to kill time for a while, but I was blocked. It’s not something to hide, so I’ll just tell her.

“Hmm… I want to say it all at once when Sora-chan comes, is that okay? Yeah, it would be more beneficial to spread it all at once… And it would be helpful to have Sora-chan here to explain.”

“…”

…I’ll do that.”

It wasn’t that she didn’t want to explain itself, but she wanted to explain when Sora-chan came. She seemed to understand that and agreed.

Hanako-chan, I remember encountering her a few times before.

She was definitely much colder back then. If it’s related to the Tea Party, she’d be joking with the people around her even though I was in front of her… It’s a personality that needs to ask what’s curious. I ask directly.

“By the way, Hanako-chan… Haven’t you changed a bit…? You’ve become a little softer, I guess… Hmm….”

“Oh my? Are you curious?”

“You were very harsh when you were called to the Tea Party before…”

“I haven’t changed…? You’ve changed.”

Huh? I heard something I didn’t understand. I’ve changed? While I was slightly worrying over such meaningless words…

“Phew… I’m a little late. I’m sorry. Sensei.”

[No, it’s okay. You worked hard at dawn.]

Sora-chan is back.

“Phew… I’m a little late. I’m sorry. Sensei.”

[No, it’s okay. You worked hard at dawn.]

I quickly washed up, put on minimal makeup and proper clothes, and came back down.

“Sora-chan~ You’re back?”

“It’s been a while. Mika-sama.”

“Huh? It’s been a while, but we just saw…”

“It’s been a while.”

I emphasized that it’s been a while, hoping she’d forget. Mika-sama seemed a little disappointed, but she didn’t seem to have any intention of continuing, so she agreed.

“Hmm… Then Sensei? Can you call everyone for a moment?”

[Yeah, let’s get started.]

As Sensei gathered everyone, Mika-sama began to explain. With something very intense from the start.

“First of all… I’m not good at explaining, but I’ll try my best… So everyone, listen. First… The real traitor of Trinity is actually me.”

Everyone except me and Hanako showed bewilderment on their faces. Hanako… She said she had deduced it herself to some extent.

“The traitor Nagisa-chan is looking for is Azusa-chan, but… Ah? But that doesn’t mean Azusa-chan is one of the bad guys, so don’t misunderstand?”

She informs everyone of Azusa-senpai’s identity. Everyone’s expression changes to one of not understanding the meaning. Mika-sama didn’t seem to have any intention of stopping here, and explained about Arius.

“I heard that they were hiding in seclusion somewhere in Kivotos….”

“That’s right, you’re right, Hanako-chan. You know everything.”

“….Yeah, it’s true. I’ve never been out of the Arius Autonomous District until I came here.

I infiltrated this academy to support the mission ordered by Arius.

That mission… was the removal of Tea Party’s Seia and Nagisa, the destruction of their halos.”

Mika-sama’s expression darkened slightly. I silently go next to her and grab her hand. As if she understood, she made eye contact with me once and continued speaking.

“Yeah… The one who ordered and supported that was me… What I ordered was not removal, but suppression… It seems that Arius changed it in the middle, but… I’m definitely the culprit… Yeah…”

Oh.

“Don’t worry, Seia-sama is properly alive.”

I cut off Koharu, who was starting to be horrified, one by one. And…

“Yeah, that’s right. Seia-chan was planning with Azusa-chan to stop Arius.”

“It’s true…. Seia told me that if the conflict between Gehenna and Trinity ends, the problem of Arius might be solved.

She said that the only way to solve this problem that Trinity has had for a long time is this Eden Treaty now.

But Arius is trying to destroy the halo of the Tea Party. If that happens, Kivotos will become a real battlefield.

I asked if she wanted to stop that…. And…. She said she would lend me her wisdom….”

Since I was able to hear the truth of Azusa-senpai and the truth of the incident directly from Seia-sama’s mouth after Mika-sama and Seia-sama’s reunion, I wasn’t particularly surprised. The explanation continued after that.

“…Saying this to us is, after all…”

“Yeah, I… I want to overturn this. It might sound like an excuse… But I think Arius can also be embraced by us… It’s just that we weren’t ready when the Council was created… It’s definitely going to happen… It has to be… I chose the wrong method, but I want to alleviate the sins… a little, if I say that, would it be selfish…? Yeah… But I want to do it…”

[Mika, raise your head.]

At Sensei’s words, Mika-sama raises her head.

[Didn’t I tell you before? I’m on the students’ side, and… Even if the method was a little wrong, your intention wasn’t wrong.

Until now, it was just a mistake because there was no one to tell you that the method was wrong, that there was a better way, right? And now… Look at your side.]

Mika-sama and I make eye contact. A smile came out on her face, which looked much better than before.

[Isn’t there a child who will show you your path by your side?]

Mika-sama seems to be a little foolish. I told her before that it’s okay now, that we’re students, that we can make mistakes, but she still seems to have it in her heart. But now, Mika-sama’s face is

“It’s unpleasant that you can’t refuse after hearing it… You’re making me cooperate by saying it to others… It’s like Trinity, but… This time, sigh… I don’t dislike it.”

“Auuu… I feel like I’ve been involved in something ridiculous…”

“Ugh… A scary story that has nothing to do with us has come out… Augh… It’ll be a mess, right…?”

Everyone was muttering complaints mixed with sighs, but their expressions were not unpleasant. It’s like, “It’s a big deal… We’re going to have a hard time,” a determination for the future, not avoidance.

However, only Azusa-senpai couldn’t erase the hesitation from her face.

It’s clearly whether she belongs here, isn’t this depression I created, do I have enough qualifications to be here?

Fortunately, everyone accepted it well, everyone overcame it in their own way, but if it weren’t for her, there would be no reason to fall into that mire.

She must be thinking things like, “Even now, shouldn’t I take responsibility for everything alone and solve everything?”

And everyone in the Supplementary Class Club wouldn’t let this go easily. Hanako started to speak when she saw this.

“Oh my? It has nothing to do with it? It’s already too related to us, isn’t it?”

“Uh… Yeah?”

“Azusa-chan, for the original purpose, there would have been many ways to disappear secretly or escape appropriately. But despite that, the reason why you didn’t is…. Definitely… Because it was fun…”

“…No… I…. Yeah… That’s right, it was fun. That’s why I did it….

Learning something… Doing something together… I didn’t want to quit… I still want to know more… There are many things I want to do… There are still plenty of places I want to go, things I want to know more about…”

It’s a bit of a stretch to say it, but I understand the feeling of a person who knows the trick… No, let’s stop. I’m similar, too.

“…”

I was the type of person who was praised by those around me even if I did well… Such a person…”

Hanako closed her eyes for a moment… As if pulling something out of the bottom of a well, she began to bring out her true feelings that she had buried deep inside.

It must be the truth of a girl who turned her back and ran away because she hated this world, a girl who turns her back again and faces the front.

“I couldn’t tell anyone my true feelings, and I couldn’t show my true self to anyone.

Because everything was meaningless to me, because the academy was like a prison to me.

But Azusa-chan was different from me… It’s certain that life in Trinity will end when this is over.

Even though she knew that, she did her best in this Supplementary Class Club.

Everything is futile and futile, but Azusa-chan still did her best.

The reason is… Definitely… As Azusa-chan always said… Even if everything is futile and futile… We shouldn’t stop struggling until the end.

Thank you. Thanks to you, I also found out. I found out about the joy of school life.

Azusa-chan, you still want to do a lot of things, right?

And… There’s no reason to give up wanting to do a lot of things together.”

Hanako finished speaking.

“…Sora-chan…”

“Yes, Mika-sama.”

“I… Maybe I did well… Yeah… Definitely…”

“Yes, definitely…”

This depressing story has clearly become just a happening for us.

But if it’s a little heavy, so what. Everyone is together, and at the very end, it will end as a simple happening.