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We moved to our seats to go through the admission procedures.

The place we headed to was the student council room, which was relatively intact even in an old school building.

Square Square―

Albert pursed his cute pink lips.

He was gesturing with his pen indifferently and writing down essential personal information on documents such as admission applications and student lists.

“Ah… The ink… Ugh.”

The cheap pens I brought with me to various events ran out of ink several times, making my writing blurry. However, it is a document that is written down to the end. Finally, it ended with her elegantly signing her name.

[Application for Admission]

[Name: Albit]

[Desired specialty: Ether Mutu Application Department]

With all of these listed on the document, Albit officially became a student at . Now, if you report a copy of this document to the administration, Albit’s student ID will also become effective.

“Here.”

“Hehe―☆ I can’t run away anymore~☆”

“I really want to run away, so please change your tone… ”

“Bad children say ‘Duk!’ This is-☆”

Frown☆

When I winked at Albit, who was disgusted, Albit turned his head with a ‘Ugh.’

Thanks to that, I was able to slowly review the admissions documents.

“Hm☆”

“Do I have to add that strange tone to my nasal voice too?”

“뽽―☆”

“Ugh… ”

Uh-huh, what an adult is talking about!

I took the document Arbit handed over with a dissatisfied expression and read it slowly.

Letters written in neat handwriting.

Minor settings that could not be known from in-game settings or data.

For example, they want the dormitory to be placed in a quiet corner.

And although there is no special food, they want meat to be served often.

I internally smiled bitterly as I looked at Albit’s list of desired specialties and final requests.

‘sorry. ‘It’s a crappy school so there’s nothing like you think.’

Special skills are only possible when there are a certain number of students who can share each other’s roles. In a place with few students, I had to become an etheric engineer, martial artist, supporter, and researcher myself. An elite corps where one person must do the work of ten people to survive.

‘You have truly become an elite recruit, Albit.’

Or maybe he’s scheduled to be an asshole.

For reference, did not have a meal service facility that exists at any academy. It’s literally each person’s own life. Even I, who was completely accustomed to Academy City, wandered around the shopping streets and alleys in the surrounding area to get food.

‘Still, I’ll do my best to feed this senior as well as I can.’

In preparation for this time, I built up a network of people by running personal errands for people in the shopping district.

Proper mental management of juniors was a senior’s virtue.

“… ”

I skimmed through the document I had already read once from the beginning.

In fact, I was closely watching the process of writing documents from Albit’s side from the beginning. There was nothing to check. Still, as a gamer, it was deeply moving to see the student list of the main characters written.

‘Actually, it’s no different from notifying me of moving into Academy City.’

Even though I knew that the story would begin someday, it was mentally exhausting to protect the beggar school by myself for a year.

‘Well, actually, I didn’t do anything to protect the school for the first year.’

Clara in the game was incompetent, but her love for school was sincere.

Therefore, she had no qualms about protecting the school alone even though no one came to visit.

‘Instead, I concentrated on martial arts training.’

Even a girl with a warm heart.

Even if he is a man with a passionate heart.

You need somewhere to rest your mind.

It was school for girls and martial arts for men.

However, I went through many things and eventually returned to being a girl named Clara.

‘I used to think only of myself, but now what I can do for Academy City is to follow the original.’

As I let those thoughts flow from my head, I completely imprinted the document I had read over and over again in my mind.

Going forward, as a senior, you must take care of your juniors based on this content.

‘Anyway, a new student has finally arrived. Welcome, comrade.’

I gathered the admissions documents in their original order.

A simple table whose edges were completely worn and blunt.

When I tapped it on a hard table, a stack of documents became angled and organized.

Arbit’s protruding lips were staring blankly at the scene.

I looked at all that, laughed, and talked to Arbit.

“Now, just submit a copy to the administration and you’re done―☆ I sincerely☆ completely☆ congratulate you on being admitted to ☆ Shall we have a celebration☆tea party at a cute tea table together? Actually, I don’t have a cute tea table, so I’m thinking of doing it here, but-♡”

“… Ugh.”

Anyway, I have to follow my mother’s advice and go to school.

Albit, who had no place to run away, sighed with empty eyes.

The ribbon on the middle school uniform she wore was drooping, seeming to represent her miserable situation.

‘Ah, school uniform.’

Oops.

I made this mistake.

I lamented that I had forgotten to do the first thing I had to do at the enlistment screening line. Each of the fresh Assei’s uniforms were caught. Isn’t that the beginning of all school life?

“Ahaha☆ First, let’s start with our cute school uniforms☆ It’s really a girl☆ The High School—! Hey yay!”

“School uniform?”

“Isn’t this truly the romance of youth? Kyaha☆ I might have just sounded a bit like an old man―☆”

“… Youth.”

“That’s right―☆ Let’s have fun at school together!”

After hearing that.

Is it an illusion that Albit’s eyes seem to shine a little?

We got up from our seats and put the admissions documents into the cabinet in the student council room. I left the student council room and headed to the school supply warehouse.

Squeak

Squeak

Even though two light girls are walking, the wooden floor of the old hallway shows off their presence by twisting their entire bodies.

Squeak

Squeak

An old hallway with the faint sound of footsteps.

It is useful when delinquent students wandering around Academy City attack to commit robbery.

At first glance, I noticed that it was an old and poor school, so I felt a little embarrassed.

I know it’s not my fault that this school is poor.

As I spent the first year living as I pleased, this hallway seems to have become a little more worn out.

Hiding my shameful feelings, I dragged Arbit by his sleeve and urged him to the supply room.

‘There are a lot of school uniforms left, so I guess I’ll just pick a few sizes that roughly fit and stop by the store to get them altered.’

“Kyaha―☆ Let’s decorate ourselves cutely and do our best to become cute The☆High School☆ girls―♡ It’s absolutely cute♡”

“Yes, thank you… Senior.”

As you walk down the hallway without saying a word, amidst the noise.

When I got used to the old age of this school, a sight suddenly caught my eye.

The blue color shining through the window in the hallway where the paint was peeling off.

After the spring rains in March that made the flowers hesitate, the sky became refreshing again.

The cool spring breeze came through the window, filled with the earthy scent of the campus.

Shoot…

The sound of time walking together down the hallway, following the footsteps of two girls.

The scent of flowers faintly tickling your cheeks and the swaying of clouds after the rain.

“… ”

“… ”

Anytime, anywhere, there are no cheerful students from Academy City.

It is a serenity that can only be felt in a quiet place like this.

It’s an unremarkable sight, but it’s somehow hard to take your eyes off it.

Albit was looking at it blankly.

“… Happy school life.”

“Right☆”

She mutters what I said a while ago.

For some reason, Albit seemed to be smiling faintly the moment he headed to the supply room to look for school uniforms.

I somehow felt like I knew that feeling.

I realize that I have come here in a truly unremarkable landscape.

＊

On the way back after repairing Albert’s school uniform at the shopping district.

We realized that we were faced with a very serious situation.

Albit, who had changed into a school uniform that had been tailored to fit his body, was making loud noises and venting his anger.

“Yes?! There is no cafeteria at school―?!”

“Deh, hehe―☆ It’s shameful that such a delicate girl would have thought that there would be such a facility in a school where she was alone☆ Are you going to get the princess’s hands wet? Puppuppu―☆”

“Stop making that weird noise!!”

“That… But—☆ If you don’t do this. Albit, I thought you would criticize me for being an incompetent senior… ”

“The more you do that, the more incompetent you look!!”

“Such words hurt the girl’s delicate heart like glass crafts☆”

“That’s the case with this damn school!!”

came out

From now on, this is a famous line that Rbit will endlessly repeat in the main story.

I secretly blessed Albit, who had finally become a true Prism person.

“Well, by the way—☆ Albit: That coat really suits you! cute! You’re not as good as me, though. Anyway, it’s cute!”

“You also talk strangely, senior.”

Even though Albit says so with his mouth.

I seemed to like the school uniform of , which had red accents on a white background.

fluttering-

Albert’s white coat flutters in the wind blowing through the shopping district.

A coat that is a symbol of the student council of schools belonging to the union.

At , which has a small number of students, everyone wears it.

Among them, Arbit’s coat had a particularly special pattern on its back.

Seven diagonal lines in an equilateral triangle.

The emblem of and the symbol of the student council president.

The coat Albit wore was the student council president’s coat, which only had one coat.

I pretended not to know that and kept teasing Arbit.

“Oops☆ Are you bragging now? You’re bragging about having a new school uniform―☆”

“It’s just that the wind blew and my coat blew away!!”

“Ugh☆ Arbit really isn’t honest―☆”

“… ”

“Why? Was it really? Kyahahaha☆ Surprisingly cute… ”

“… Senior.”

“Huh?”

Albit suddenly called me in a cautious voice.

“This. What the school’s student council president wears… Isn’t it?”

“… ”

“Why, to me.”

“Umm☆”

I never imagined I would be asked that question.

‘Because I was wearing it during the movie without any suspicion.’

But somehow, the answer to that came out quite smoothly.

“Because those are clothes for the most special girl belonging to each school―☆”

“If you think about it that way, he was the only student… ”

I quietly shook my head at those words.

“I was just at school☆ I was just lucky enough to get into , which only had seniors who were about to graduate☆”

“… ”

“Then, what makes it all the more necessary to wear this coat is…”

“… ”

“I could have gone anywhere, but I guess I should give it to the girl who walked into on her own―☆”

“… Senior.”

“Destiny is destiny… Because what you decide for yourself is the most special thing☆”

＊

came in on its own.

In fact, there was a lie in those words.

Because Albit came after hearing his mother’s words.

but.

The words of my senior, who are always sloppy yet meticulous in unexpected ways, somehow touch my heart.

Albit had no choice but to quietly follow.

‘The most special girl… ‘

Clara immediately took out a bucket in both hands and held it out.

“Now! From now on, hold this and walk around the shopping district. We will receive kindness from everyone in the shopping district☆ Bread corners, cabbage peels, discarded vegetables, etc.☆ That’s how we become noble girls who live off the kindness of others―☆”

“That’s just begging. And when did you bring the bucket again?”

“Kindness is kindness☆”

Clara, as if she would no longer listen to him, quickly handed over a bucket to Arbit and walked out lively, as if she was dancing.

“… ”

pail.

Today, I met that strange senior.

It all started with the sound of a bucket.

“Welcome~☆ If you don’t follow me, I’ll leave you behind―☆ Hey!”

“Ugh.”

A relationship that started with a bucket.

At least so much that Albit will never forget it for the rest of his life.

It was a truly strange relationship.

“Let’s go together, senior!!”

In the end, Albit chose to carry the bucket.