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Kousei No Ore Demo Boukensha Ni Nareba Riajuu Ni Naremasuka: Chapter #34
Translators: Nyx and Ririi Rain
Episode 34: Star Mother Association
"———— The candidate is seriously Hiyori-chan?"
The next day, Anna
pulled me to the staff room, and I couldn't help but mumble to myself when I
saw the person she pointed at.
Ahead of our line of
sight, a petite, bespectacled female teacher with a baby face was at her desk,
fumbling with some paperwork.
Her name is Hiyori
Tachibana. She is the homeroom teacher of my class.
"Uhh... I don't think Hiyori-chan would be a good
advisor for us."
"Huh? Why?"
"Because Hiyori-chan's hands are already full with
work as a homeroom teacher. She's in her first year as a teacher, but she's
being made to be a homeroom teacher, isn't she?"
I am not an expert in
the world of teaching, but I still think it is a bit harsh to make a new
teacher, who in a normal company would be a new hire, do the work of a homeroom
teacher.
Given the fact that
Hiyori is a new teacher, I thought she would constantly be in a state of
fluster.
When Anna heard this,
however, she grinned and said,
"So, you mean that teacher is really under pressure,
right?"
“Uh, yeah, but...”
What the hell is this
girl up to?
Please, don't corner
Hiyori-chan any further and make her resign.......
She's cute and
actually has pretty big boobs, so she's popular with the male students. You
understand... right?
Contrary to my
thoughts, Anna slowly walked straight towards Hiyori-chan.
I had no choice but
to follow her.
"Excuse me for bothering you. You are
Tachibana-sensei, correct?"
"Huh? Yes,
that's right, but you're a first-year student...? Kitagawa-kun is with
you?"
"Ah, yes. You remember me."
She had only been a
homeroom teacher for a short while, but she already remembered the name of even
a student with a featureless appearance like mine.
Hiyori-chan is working so hard... I'm really
touched......
"Well, the top and bottom of the class caste are the
people who should be first in line to grasp...... cough, cough. O- of course I
know all the names of all the children in my class."
"Ah... yes."
I knew it, the
teachers also paid attention to the class caste,.......
"What is it that brings you here?"
Anna said with a big
smile on her face to Hiyori-chan who was asking her a tricky question.
'Yes, I would love for you to be the advisor of our
Adventurer's Club."
"Okay, stop there, it's impossible. Absolutely
impossible."
Hiyori-chan refused
without a second thought.
"That......."
"I can't. I really can't. I'm already at my limit.
It's hard enough just to prepare for the daily lessons, but I'm also in charge
of being a homeroom teacher, and I have to work at home every day, too. Even though I don't get paid for overtime!"
Hiyori-chan was
completely teary-eyed as she said this.
"Aaah, why is this happening? Is this my punishment
for becoming a teacher, motivated by the fact that if I become a teacher, I'll
have a long summer vacation even though I'm a working adult? Or is it because I
refused the vice principal's invitation to go out drinking? But his eyes were so lecherous that I felt my chastity
was in danger! The other female
teachers also told me to be careful with the vice principal!"
"S-sensei, please calm down!"
When Hiyori-chan
suddenly started mumbling while breaking into a cold sweat, Anna shook her
shoulders.
"...Hah, s-sorry. I haven't been able to sleep well
lately,....... And being the advisor? I
can't do that for sure."
"Uhn, I guess it can't be helped. I thought like
that for the teacher's sake. But okay, I'm sorry for the trouble."
When Anna, who had
backed away more easily than she expected, turned her back to her,
"——Can you please wait? What do you mean, for my sake?"
Hiyori-chan called
out with a curious look on her face.
At that moment, I saw
it.
Anna smiled a sly
smile, as if to say, "Gotcha!"
"No, it's just that... now that you are a new
teacher, doing things like being a club advisor must be hard, so you can't do
it, right?"
"Y- Yeah."
"But what about next year? And how about the year after that?"
"Well, that's ....... But that kind of thing should
be done by veteran people."
"Ha ha!"
Anna let out a
high-pitched laughter that made her feel strangely uneasy. Well...... it's
quite fitting.
"I'd like to point out that unless a teacher wants
to be an advisor for the club, it's like a game of punishment. Exactly like
service overtime work.
"Tha- that's why I turned you down."
"You should think about it. If the veteran doesn’t
want it, what kind of person do you think will the role be given to?”
"N, no way......"
"Yes, a weak person who can't disobey. Just like how
you were assigned as a new homeroom teacher!"
"Hiii!"
Anna whispered in Hiyori-chan's ear as she clutched her
head and emitted a faint scream.
"Do you know? I
heard that the old lady who worked as an advisor for the girls' volleyball club
will be retiring next year. Ah, it must be tough being the advisor for the
women's volleyball club. Since it's a girls' volleyball club, naturally the
advisor is a woman, right? Hm? I heard
the candidates are Yamamoto-sensei, and ......?"
"Uh, uh, ...... m- me?!"
Hiyori, who seemed to
have looked around the staff room in search for the said candidate, made a face
as if the world had ended.
As if to give her
another blow, Anna patted her on the shoulder with a disdainful hand, and said,
"Tachibana-sensei, are you free this evening? I'm sure you must be having a hard time with your work as
a homeroom teacher. I'll be happy to listen to all your problems. Oh, you don't
want to? Hmmm, that's okay then. I'm
not free either. Ah yeah, you also have to think about being the volleyball
club advisor next year after all. Wah, that's so busy~"
“W- wait a minute! What about the Vice Principal?"
"Hm? Is there something?"
“P- please help me about him.”
"Rest assured, I will not let him harm you."
..... What the hell are these two doing?
I looked at them with
dumbfounded eyes as they suddenly started a weird skit.
What do they think
the vice principal is? They're making him out to be a bad guy. Sure, he's as
scrawny as bones, looks like a scoundrel, is bald, and often chases after the
asses of passing women with his eyes, but he's not a villain either.......
“Teacher, what if there was a way to avoid this kind of
future?”
"! Tell
me, Jushichiya-san!"
'It's simple. You just have to become an advisor for a
club that's easy. When they ask you to be an advisor, you just tell them that
you are already busy being an advisor. They would not ask you to be an advisor
for other club at the same time."
I see. So that's how
it is. Anna's good at this.
"So, what are you going to do? Will you be an advisor for the volleyball club, or will
you be the Vice Principal's woman, or will you be an advisor for the ......
Adventurers Club?"
Before I knew it, it
seemed as if Hiyori-chan's future as the girls' volleyball club was a definite
matter.
However, it seemed to
be a realistic enough future for Hiyori-chan, as she looked quite distressed.
As if to push her
back, Anna whispered to her,
"Incidentally, our high school allows adventurers to
work on the side."
I'm not sure how much I want to do this! I'll be at ......."
"Uu-- 'kay!"
"Yes?"
"I'll be your advisor!"
When Hiyori-chan
exclaimed in a desperate tone, Anna gave her a wicked smile that said,
"Just as I planned!"
"You're so scary."
After school, at a
family restaurant, the members of the Adventurers' Club gathered together.
I said that to Anna,
who was sitting across the table from me.
"Eh? What
do you mean?"
"No, how should I say it... The way you pushed
Hiyori-chan into a corner. It's a complete yakuza move, isn't it?"
"Eh... that's not a nice thing to. I was just
extending a helping hand to a poor new teacher."
"Help......? Actually,
how much of what you said to Hiyori-chan is true?"
"Oh, it was mostly true. If things had gone as they were, I think
Hiyori-chan would have been the volleyball club advisor next year. From the
years of experience, it should have been Yamamoto-sensei. But Yamamoto-sensei
has a reputation for being self-centered and picky. She is not suited to be the
advisor for a volleyball club that has made it to the prefectural tournament.
In that case, it would fall on Hiyori-chan, who is new but doesn't cause stress
to the students, to be the advisor.''
"I see... And what about the Vice Principal's
interest in Hiyori-chan?"
"That's just a guess based on the way he looks at
her every day."
"Isn't that prejudice......?"
When I said this in
shock, Oribe-san objected,
"I don't like ...... that vice principal, or rather,
all the girls don't like him."
"When we pass each other, I can feel his eyes on my
buttocks or chest."
"I-I see..."
The vice principal
was unexpectedly disliked by many. I thought he was a normal teacher who was
just a tad bit hard on the boys,.......
The school's vice
principal position was apparently blacker than a black company, so it was a bit
sad.
After all, girls are
sensitive to that kind of gaze. ......
"Rather than that, let's talk about club activities,
okay~, club activities."
Anna clapped her
hands and said so.
"Well-- the purpose of our adventurer club is to
bring together students who are serious about becoming professionals, work hard
together, deepen friendships, and improve the overall quality of the club by
providing mutual support.”
Though she was using
somewhat rigid wording, I could understand what she was trying to say.
When we nodded our
heads, Anna's eyes flashed and she clenched her fists.
"But that's only the surface purpose! The true purpose of our Adventurers' Club is to create a
force strong enough to survive the coming extinction of humanity!"
"Oh?!"
Oribe's eyes lit up.
It seemed that the
true purpose of the Adventurers' Club, which was somewhat cynical feel, had
struck a chord with her.
However, I had
thought that since she was brought over by Anna, she would have known about it
long ago, but it turns out that it was her first time hearing about it.......
Anna then proceeded
to tell Oribe-san the same story she had told me the other day, in voluminous
detail.
The number of
dungeons has been increasing year after year due to the influence of Angolmore.
On the other hand, mankind had not yet found any means of erasing the dungeons.
If this trend continued, the dungeons would eventually fill the world, and it
would be impossible to contain the outbreak of Angolmore. The world's richest
people are beginning to prepare for the end of the human race.
"Well, I'm not asking you to believe everything
right now, but I can guarantee you this: The demand for cards and magic items
will continue to increase for the next 10 to 20 years. And so will the demand
for skilled masters. The adventurer boom is not a temporary phenomenon. I
promise you that all the hard work you put in at the Adventurer's Club will not
be in vain."
Anna finally
finished.
Oribe-san, who had
finished listening to everything, laughed meaningfully.
"Kukuku, a secret society that gathers forces in
preparation for the extinction of mankind, huh? What an exciting setup. All
right, let's lead our adventurers' club to world domination---'
"Okay, stop! Don't say it as a setting! I also
didn't say anything about world domination!"
And that was when the
food we had ordered began to arrive one after another.
The dishes were lined
up at a table for six people.
"Oh, they're here. Uh, cough. ......At any rate, we
have now found three members and an advisor. We've also submitted the club's
application...... and now we just have to wait for the student council's
approval. I know it's a little early, but I'd like to announce the
establishment of the Adventurers' Club! Cheers
to the future of the Adventurers' Club!"
"Cheers!"
The celebration
party, which was held at Anna's sudden suggestion, turned out to be an
enjoyable and lively event.
We talked about our
activities as adventurers, boasted about our cards, and chatted about the cards
we wanted the most. The conversation gradually shifted to personal matters, and
by the end, we were talking about our favorite manga and anime, and the time
passed in a flash.
Even after we left
the family restaurant, saying that we had to leave soon or we would be
seriously late when we got home...... we couldn't stop talking, as if we didn't
have enough to talk about.
"By the way, do you know? About Senpai's monster cards."
"What about my cards?"
"It looks like there will be quite a few doujinshi
coming out in the next summer comiket..."
"Bffttt, gohoho, gohoho ......!"
I was so shocked that
I choked up.
"What?!"
"Cards that became popular on MonColo tend to be
preyed upon by otaku."
"Hmm...I guess it's the sad fate of girl monster
cards."
“Renge-chan and Eliza-san seem to be particularly
popular.…And Yuuki-chan is a bit popular as well.”
“Yuki too!?”
The karma is too deep.......
“Where did the portrait rights and honor infringement
go?!”
"The cards are not actual people, so ......"
"What? Cards are not protected? They do exist, though?"
"Well, the laws and regulations are still
underdeveloped in many ways, you know. In Europe and the United States, it
seems that the human rights of cards are being discussed more and more."
While we were talking
about this,
"......Nn?"
There was some kind
of commotion in front of the station. A large number of people were gathering
in the square in front of Tachikawa Station.
"Hmm? Is there an election speech?"
"No, it seems not. ......It's the Star Mother
Association--a dungeon cult.”
The moment I said
that with a frown,
"Good day, everyone. We are the Star Mother
Association, a cult religion that loves and is loved by people.''
The owner of that
voice was a pretty girl who looked like a fairy. She has white hair, white
skin, and pale red eyes typical of albino people. The sister uniform she wore
was pure white, and combined with her doll-like face, it gave her a fantastical
atmosphere.
"I have a quiz for you. Do you know what day July 7,
1999 is? ”
Even through the
microphone, the girl's voice was crystal clear, and she babbled a few answers
in a puzzled tone.
"Tanabata? Too
bad! It's important that it's in
1999~. The Great Prophecy of Nostradamus? Too
bad! But you made a pretty good point. Huh? What
what? Yes! You there, that's right! You've hit the nail on the head! July 7, 1999 is my birthday!"
The girl's speech was
somewhat buffoonish, despite her fairy-like appearance. Exaggerated body
language, playful facial expressions, and lighthearted talk.
The air that had been
somewhat clouded with caution due to the fact that she was the saint of a
dungeon cult somehow eased up, and it felt as if the audience was watching a
casual show.
"Well, I'll stop with the boring jokes and tell you
the real correct answer: July 7, 1999, as you might know, is the day when a
dungeon first appeared in this world. And ----"
She paused for a
beat. The girl scanned the faces of the crowd, one by one. Red eyes and my eyes
met.
My heart pounded.
“It was also the day when 'great calamity' vanished from
this world."
I felt the air
tensing up all at once. All of the crowd's signs were rapidly fading away from
the mind. It was a strange feeling ...... as if she and I were the only two
people in the world.
I guess I was not the
only one who felt this illusion.
Before I knew it, all
the people present, including Oribe and Anna, were listening to the girl's
story without making a single sound.
"Do you know? In
the twenty years since the dungeons appeared, there has not been a single
disaster that resulted in any deaths. Not a single war has broken out in this
world that used to be so war-torn. Developing countries that were once
poverty-stricken are gradually becoming prosperous. That the number of people
dying from accidents and diseases is drastically decreasing...''
Indeed, in the past
twenty years ...... there certainly had not been a single big war or disaster.
The interest of the countries of the world was directed more toward the
dungeons of their own lands and its resources than toward those of other
countries.
The magic stones that
can be harvested from the dungeons as much as possible have the power to
progressively turn deserts into lush fields when used as fertilizer, and they
are more energy-efficient as fuel than nuclear power plants.
With the discovery of
potions and the development of medicines that use them, incurable diseases that
were said to be untreatable have disappeared one by one, and deaths due to
unforeseen accidents, unless they were instantaneous, have virtually ceased to
occur.
It can be said that
the world was currently in the most peaceful era in history.
'Yes, you see that by now, do you not? The dungeons are
God's mercy, absorbing the various tragedies of this world and returning them
as blessings in the form of magic items and other benefits."
As the girl smiled
and said these words, a number of objections float in and out of sight.
How in the world will she explain the damage caused by
Angolmore? What will be the end that awaits us beyond the ever-increasing
dungeons?
But I could not utter
a word about any of them.
......After all, I am
one of the people benefiting from the dungeons.
Even if you think the
dungeon is dangerous, you can't ignore the benefits it brings.
I was grateful to the
dungeon for letting me meet Renge and the others.
As if she could see
my inner thoughts, the girl whose eyes met mine smiled at me.
"Everyone, let's offer a prayer of gratitude to the
dungeon. For the dungeon is the very savior...... we have been waiting
for."
And at that moment, I
heard shouting and yelling from a little distance away.
I was about to be
half-drunk by the girl, but I suddenly came to my senses and looked at Anna and
Oribe.
"What is this prayer of gratitude? You've got to be kidding me!"
"Please calm down! Please
don't be violent!"
"Cult group, get out of here!"
"Get the saint out of here!"
Anna, who had an
uneasy look on her face, tugged at my sleeve.
"Senpai, it's not good, it's dungeon haters."
"Oh, ah, .....let's run away?"
"Uh-huh (nod)."
We left the place in
a hurry.
...The Star Mother
Association, which was a minor religious group, became known to the general
public after a large-scale conflict with the dungeon haters that occurred
several years ago.
The insistence of the
Star Mother Association on the supremacy of the dungeon was not acceptable to
the bereaved families who lost their loved ones in Angolmore and the like, and
one day some radical dungeon-haters attacked the Star Mother Association.
As a result, several
people died, and the Star Mother Association, which had been a small religious
group, became a well-known name throughout the country.
At that stage,
however, it was not yet seen as a dangerous cult.
Because the deceased
was a mother and her young daughter who were members of the Star Mother
Association, they were seen as victims.
However, afterwards,
some followers abducted a group of dungeon-haters who had escaped arrest and
killed them in a dungeon, leading the Star Mother Association to be treated as
a cult at once.
The reason was that
it was discovered that at the time of the murder, they were performing a
ritual-like sacrifice in the dungeon.
Since then, the Star
Mother Association had become synonymous with a dangerous religious group
...... a dungeon cult that upholds the supremacy of the dungeons.
To the general
public, dungeon haters and dungeon cults were similar in that they were both
things the people did not want to be associated with.
In fact, what the
Star Mother Association is saying is absurd.
It was a typical
technique of cults to stir up a sense of crisis by talking about dangers and
tragedies.
Like, "Let's
avoid World War III with everyone's prayers."
"A major
disaster was supposed to hit the Earth, but thanks to the labyrinth, we were
able to avoid it!" There's no limit to how ridiculous this is.
Thinking of this, I
turned my head and looked back.
"!"
Red eyes met mine.
She was being
approached by dungeon haters with menacing expressions, but she seemed calm and
was staring straight at me.
I felt a strange
feeling in her eyes, and I left the place as if I was running away from the
girl, not from the dungeon haters.
[Tips] Dungeon Cult
In this world, there
have been no major disasters that have resulted in deaths since the dungeons
appeared.
There have been small
conflicts, but the typical wars have disappeared from the world.
In addition, the fuel
generated from the magic stones, which is regarded as the cleanest energy
source in the world, produces more energy than nuclear power without causing
any air pollution or other environmental destruction. Fertilizers made from
magic stones are gradually erasing deserts from the earth, and in the near
future deserts will disappear, leaving only those for tourism.
The development of
potions and medicines that utilize them has eliminated one by one the
intractable diseases that were said to be untreatable, and deaths due to
unforeseen accidents, unless they were immediate death, have almost entirely
vanished.
The Star Mother
Association claims that all of this is due to the dungeons and is a mercy of
God.......
It
is true that many 'calamities' disappeared with the emergence of the dungeon,
but we must not forget that a new threat, Angolmore, also arose at the same
time.
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