TEASER
Volume 4 Chapter 5.1
Acceleration to Collapse Part 1
After being
hospitalized for several days for examinations, Nozomu was finally allowed to
go to school today.
"Good grief, I'm
finally freed......."
Nozomu breathed a sigh
of relief as he walked along the street to the school. Although he was under
observation, he had been told to rest and was bored out of his mind during his
stay in the hospital.
"But the rumors
haven't been completely dispelled yet. What do I do? ......"
Nozomu was able to
dispel the rumor that he was weak during the mock combat, but the main issue
here was the rumor about him being the worst scumbag who betrayed Lisa. Nozomu
believed that the mock combat would have no effect on this one.
"Well, it's no
point dwelling over it. At any rate, let's go to the school first."
After arriving at the
school, Nozomu headed to his classroom.
It was already the
second period. The hallway was deserted, and Nozomu's footsteps were the only
sounds echoing in the spacious hallway.
Nozomu looked over to
the windows and saw first-year students engaged in basic training.
They were being taught
how to swing wooden swords and wield weapons, just as Nozomu and his classmates
had done two years earlier.
In his hometown, he
himself wielded a wooden sword as part of his training, but here was the first
time he learned how to wield it properly.
If one were to look
closely, one could see among the sword-wielding students, there were Eldor and
others that Nozomu had rescued in the sewers recently.
(Which means, this
class is the 1st class of the first grade, huh?......)
Nozomu kept looking at
the training grounds with a sideways glance as he proceeded down the corridor.
When he passed by the first-grade classrooms, the bell rang to announce the end
of the second period.
"Did you
understand the lesson just now?"
"No, not at all!"
First graders came out
of their classrooms, their voices filled with excitement.
Nozomu is currently at
the crossroads that connects the first-grade classrooms and the crossing
corridor. Inevitably, the underclassmen coming out of their classrooms would
head toward where Nozomu is.
And then Nozomu's eyes
met those of one of the girls coming out of the classroom.
"Ah......."
"Hm?"
The female student who
saw Nozomu had a surprised expression on her face. Nozomu tilted his head at
the strange reaction of a girl he didn't know.
When he looked
closely, he saw that the other students who were with her were also looking at
him with surprised expressions for some reason.
At first, Nozomu
thought the reaction might be because they knew about the bad rumors about him,
but he could not detect any negative feelings of contempt or ridicule in their
gazes.
At that moment, the
female student whose eyes met Nozomu's stepped forward.
"U-Umm. Nozomu
Bountis-senpai, right ......?"
"Well,
yes.......?"
The girl was looking
up at Nozomu while fidgeting and intertwining her fingers in front of her
chest.
To a junior who spoke
to him with a timid air, Nozomu also replied awkwardly
"Umm, I'd like to
ask you something... I heard that you possess Ability Suppression, is that true
......?"
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