Mob
Kousei No Ore Demo Boukensha Ni Nareba Riajuu Ni Naremasuka: Chapter #33
Translators: Nyx and Ririi Rain
Episode 33 Debut in High School is a Double-Edged Sword
Forming a club.
It may seem simple
enough in words, but in reality, it was not so easy.
First of all, we
needed to gather members. According to our school rules, we needed five members
to start a club. It is not just a matter of numbers, but we need members who
will continue to belong to the club for a year.
Next, we need to find
an advisor. This is the most difficult task.
For a teacher, being
an advisor for a club is like a punishment game, with not a penny to gain.
After all, it is not only a job that does not pay overtime, it also increases
their responsibilities.
Veteran teachers tend
to avoid it, highly motivated and ambitious teachers are already taking on club
advisor positions, and new teachers are too busy getting used to the job to
take on an advisor role.
Finally, after these
requirements are met, the application must be submitted to the student council
for approval. The student council also needs to gain approval from the school,
but this is not a problem at this stage, since an advisor has already been
found.
So, the first thing
we have to do is to look for club members and an advisor......
"I can't find ---- at all!"
Lunch break, on the
rooftop.
I was having lunch
with the East-West duo, with my head in my hands.
On the club's
application form in front of me, there were only two names on it: 'President: Anna
Jushichiya' and 'Vice-President: Utamaro Kitagawa'.
Two days had passed
since my reunion with Anna. We still hadn't found a single member.
"Seriously? I
know it was a hot topic in our class, and I heard that quite a few people
wanted to join."
Higashino was surprised at my words.
"We did attract some, but the club president
rejected all of them."
As Higashino said, a
good number of people came when we put up a notice asking for new members.
There were people who
genuinely admired being adventurers, people who wanted to get closer to Anna,
people who wanted to become adventurers like me, and some of the few
adventurers in the school.
But Anna had rejected
all of them after a simple interview.
According to her, she
"didn't feel they have the passion or talent to become a
professional".
Certainly,
considering the true purpose of this Adventurers' Club, "to create a force
that can survive the destruction of the world," it is understandable that
she would not let half-hearted people into the club, but ......
"If it's only the ones who qualify as
professionals... ughh, does she know the probability of people becoming
professionals ......?"
Of the 150,000 adventurers in Japan, only a few hundred
or so are considered professionals, making it less than 0.1%.
Now, to find five such people from a high school of less
than seven hundred students is a ....... The fact that there are already two is
already a miracle.
Nishida chuckled at
my lament.
"No wonder you can't find anybody. I was thinking
that if there weren't enough people, we could just add up the numbers, but...
it doesn't seem possible under those conditions."
"Then, how about you guys becoming adventurers for
real too?"
If these guys are serious about becoming adventurers, I'm
willing to lend them some of my D-rank cards that I was planning to sell.
That was what I was
thinking when I made the suggestion. ......
"Ah, no, it's impossible for us. It looks
spectacular at first glance, but it actually involves a lot of hard work."
"Above all, it's life-threatening. Even among the
people who became adventurers because they admired Maro, it seems like many of
them were cowering after just one trip to the dungeon, you know?"
"Uu, I see......."
The two of them said
those things with a wry smile, and I had to back off.
There is no doubt
that a D-rank card is a great protection in the F-rank dungeon, but the fear in
of the dungeon is a completely different matter.
Haunted houses are
safe, but they are still scary,....... I guess that was how it was portrayed.
It was a common story
that people who became adventurers because they were only attracted to the
bright parts of adventurers broke down when they saw actual monsters.
That was when
Higashino asked me, as if he had just remembered,
"By the way, why is it that the club president is a
junior girl and not you?"
"Oh, yeah, I was wondering about that too. Why is a
freshman the president? Isn't
it usually done by an upper grade student?"
"Ah~ ......"
I answered their questions with a strained smile,
" [In a special club like this, a beautiful girl
should be the head of the club!] was
what she said."
It was a complete
geek's mindset. Even the East-West duo laughed at this.
But this was
seriously not going to get us any new members. I have to somehow compromise the
acceptance criteria for the new members. ......
As I was thinking
that, I received a Line message from Anna. When I saw it, I couldn't help but
let out a surprised "Oh?!"
"What's wrong?"
Nishida asked, to which I showed him the text of the Line
and said,
"She found a new member of the club."
After school, I went
to the meeting place with Anna.
The place was Denim's, where I had chatted with Anna
before.
Anna liked this
family restaurant so much that she would always designate Denim's as our
meeting place.
When I entered the
restaurant, there was already a distinctive redhead waiting for me at a table.
I told the waitress
who greeted me that I had a companion already waiting for me, and as I made my
way to the table, I noticed someone sitting next to Anna, a girl I didn't
recognize.
She was a girl about
Anna's age, with short black hair. She has modified her uniform so much that it
was even obvious from a distance. She was wearing frills and a number of belts
and ...... something that could be described as gothic lolita punk style, an
extremely chuuni1-like clothes.
Even though my high
school allows the uniforms to be modified, it was a little surprising that they
were changing things up this much.
While wondering if
she was the third member of the club, I took my seat.
"Sorry for being late."
“No,
we just arrived too!”
"I see. And... you are?"
I turned my attention
to the gothic lolita punk-looking girl sitting next to her.
The girl looked like
a doll, with a reasonably pretty face. She was a beautiful girl with a slightly
cold look, rather than pretty. I didn't notice it when I saw her from afar, but
it seemed that she had dyed only the inside of her hair blue. Something called
inner coloring.
The girl smiled
meaningfully at my gaze.
"Huh, are you curious about my name? Fine, I'll tell you. My name is--gof!"
"Gof?"
As I tilted my head
at the strange name, Gof-san glared at Anna.
...It seemed that
Anna had elbowed her in the side with her elbow.
"Wha, what are you doing!"
"Ah, it looked like you went wild again. I thought
you'd stopped doing that after all the pain you'd been through."
"Uu......."
When Anna said this
in disgust, Gof-san looked down as if she was stumped for words.
"What is this about?"
"Hmm, I was in the same junior high school as this
girl, but she wasn't really like this. She was more of a plain person. Then
when she went to high school, she became like this..."
‘I
see.’
I nodded.
"So this is what you call a high school
debut......"
"............................"
Gof-san blushed up to
her ears at my words.
High school debut. It
is a kind of ritual in which people who lack self-confidence dye their hair or
change their fashion once they become high school students in order to change
themselves.
While many of them
succeed and end up joining the normie group, there are also plenty who, in
their attempts to shed their dull junior high school selves, take a sharp turn
and run headlong in the most oblique direction.
Gof-san is probably one of those who have rushed in the
oblique direction.
Furthermore, in her
case, she seemed to be suffering from chuunibyou behavior as well.
There were many
people in this age group who developed chuunibyou behavior because of their
admiration of the monster card's good looks and demeanor.
"It seems that she wanted to change her plain self
and ended up going out of control. I felt like I had to do something about it,
so I brought her here today."
"I see... that.. means this girl will join the
adventurer's club too?"
“Yes, even though she looks like this, this girl is also
a two-star adventurer.”
“Two stars!?”
I stared at her
intently at the unexpectedly high rank.
I mean, if she's a two-star adventurer in middle school,
then why would she need to make her debut in high school?
Hmm, maybe she didn't really aim to be in the top of the
school caste? Maybe she just wanted to change herself?
"Then, is Gof-san..."
"No, not Gof! That's
just because I choked!"
Gof--or rather, the
girl--cried out in a small voice, as if to cover my line.
"Oh, oh. Sorry about that. Umm, what's your real
name?"
"My name is Christina Schwartz--"
"Huh, a lie. It's Oribe Sayo, you know?"
"Hey!"
Oribe, who changed
her name to Christina, tried to cover Anna's mouth.
“I
don’t think it’s such a strange name, but…”
".....Because Sayo is old-fashioned and my surname
sounds like a warlord2 ......."
It seemed that she
had a complex that only she could understand.
“Old-fashioned...
but it's elegant, though…”
"E- elegant..."
Hearing my murmur,
Oribe-san started playing with her hair, looking embarrassed.
When Anna saw
Oribe-san like that, she turned her eyes towards me.
“Senpai,
did you suddenly make a pass on a girl?”
"Wha- no!"
I seriously don't
mean it that way.
Because ......
Oribe-san's bosom was very modest.
"Well, in any case, there are finally three of us.
Only two more."
"That's true, but I'd like to take a break from
recruiting new members and give priority to finding an advisor."
"That's fine. But why?"
Anna answered my
question while opening her notepad,
“Apparently,
after looking into it, it seems that you can apply for a club with three or
more members and an advisor. The only difference is that there is no club room
and no club budget. Since we don't need a club room or club budget right away,
I thought we could start with just a club for the time being. I heard that if
the club is active to some extent, it will be easier to be promoted to the next
level."
"If that's okay with you, that's fine..."
When I said this
while looking at Oribe-san, she silently nodded.
"But finding an advisor is even harder than finding
a club member."
Anna grinned at that.
"Don't worry. I've already found a candidate for
that position."
[Tips] Team System
The Adventurers'
Guild recommends that adventurers work as a team to conquer the dungeons for
safety reasons, and offers various preferential treatment to adventurers who
work in teams. Benefits include the opening of some dungeons that are not open
to the public, discounts on magic items, cards, and converting magic items into
cards, as well as 'quests' that can be arranged. But the most notable of these
is the relaxation of entry restrictions based on team rank.
This allows even
amateur adventurers to enter professional-class dungeons. But there are also
some malicious teams that require adventurers to pay up to a certain amount for
their membership, as well as for cards and other items.
Even so, there are
many adventurers who wish to join a team because it is extremely difficult to
conquer the pro-class dungeons on your own.
There is a big
barrier to promotion from a three-star adventurer to a four-star adventurer,
but it is said that there is an even greater difference between D-rank dungeons
and C-rank dungeons...
***
Notes:
1 Chuuni from Chuunibyou. Chuunibyou is a term typically used to describe early teens who have grandiose delusions, who desperately want to stand out, and who have convinced themselves that they have hidden knowledge or secret powers. It translates to ‘middle-school syndrome’.↩
2 It seems to refer to the warlord and Tea master, Furuta Oribe. ↩
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