We moved to complete the enrollnt process.
We headed to the student council room, which was relatively intact compared to the rest of the dilapidated school building.
Scribble scribble―
Alvit, with her pink adorable lips pursed grumpily, was casually playing with a pen, filling out essential personal information on the enrollnt application and student roster docunts.
“Ah… the ink… haah.”
The cheap pens I had diligently collected from various events kept running out of ink, making parts of the writing faint. But she continued writing the docunts to the end. Finally, it was completed with her na signed elegantly.
[Enrollnt Application]
[Na: Alvit]
[Desired Specialty: Applied Ether Combat Departnt]
With all of this recorded on the docunts, Alvit officially beca a student of . Once we submit a copy of these docunts to the administration departnt, Alvit’s student ID will also beco effective.
“Here you go.”
“Huhu―☆ Now you can’t escape~☆”
“Please do sothing about that tone, it really makes want to run away…”
“Bad children get a ‘Tsk!’ ―☆”
Wink☆
I winked at the disgusted Alvit, and she turned her head away with an ‘Ugh’ sound.
Thanks to that, I could slowly review the enrollnt docunts.
“Hmm☆”
“Do you have to put that weird intonation even in your humming?”
“Tsk―☆”
“Ugh…”
Hey, where are your manners when an adult is speaking!
I slowly read the docunts Alvit had handed over with a displeased expression.
Neatly written characters.
Trivial details that couldn’t be known from in-ga settings or data.
For example, she wants to be assigned to a quiet corner of the dormitory.
And while she has no particular food restrictions, she hopes for frequent at dishes.
I inwardly smiled bitterly as I looked at Alvit’s desired specialty and final requests.
‘Sorry. This is a beggar’s school, so there’s nothing like what you’re thinking.’
Specialties are only possible when there are enough students to divide roles. In a place with few students like this, one had to be their own ether engineer, combat specialist, supporter, and researcher. An elite corps where one person had to do the work of ten.
‘You’ve truly beco an elite new recruit, Alvit.’
Or maybe a planned handicap.
By the way, lacked the facilities for providing als that exist in any academy. It was truly every person for themselves. Even I, who had beco completely accustod to the academy city, had to wander around the surrounding shopping districts and alleys to solve my als.
‘Still, I’ll try my best to feed this junior well.’
I had been building goodwill by running personal errands for people in the shopping district in preparation for this ti.
Proper ntal managent of juniors was a virtue of seniors.
“…”
I skimd through the docunts again from the beginning, even though I had already read them once.
Actually, I had been staring intently at the process of Alvit writing the docunts from beside her from the start. So there wasn’t really anything to check. But as a gar, watching the creation of a main character’s student roster was deeply moving.
‘It’s essentially the sa as registering a move to the academy city.’
Even though I knew the story would start soday, guarding this beggar’s school alone for a year was ntally exhausting.
‘Well, I didn’t really do anything to protect the school during that first year.’
The Clara in the ga was incompetent but truly loved the school. That’s why she had no qualms about guarding this beggar’s school that no one visited, all alone.
‘Instead, I focused on martial arts training.’
Even a girl with a warm heart.
Even a man with a burning heart.
Needs sowhere to lean their heart.
For girls, it was the school, and for n, it was martial arts.
But after experiencing nurous things, I finally returned as a single girl, ‘Clara’.
‘The only thing I can do for the academy city now is to follow the original work.’
Letting such thoughts flow through my mind, I completely imprinted the docunts I had read several tis into my mory.
From now on, I need to take care of my junior based on this information as a senior.
‘Anyway, a new student has finally arrived. Welco, comrade.’
I gathered the enrollnt docunts back in their original order.
The makeshift table with completely worn and blunt edges.
The stack of docunts aligning neatly as I tapped them on the hard table.
Alvit’s protruding lips as she stared blankly at the scene.
I looked at all of this and smiled as I spoke to Alvit.
“Now we just need to submit a copy to the administration departnt and we’re done―☆ I sincerely☆ completely☆ really congratulate you☆ on enrolling in ☆ Shall we have a celebratory☆ tea party at our cute tea table? Actually, we don’t have a cute tea table so I’m thinking of doing it here―♡”
“…Haah.”
Even though it was a school she had to attend according to her mother’s words anyway.
Alvit, who had completely lost any chance of escape, sighed with empty eyes. The ribbon of her middle school uniform she was wearing drooped, seeming to represent her pitiful situation.
‘Ah, the uniform.’
Oh no.
How could I make such a mistake.
I lanted forgetting the first thing to do at an enlistnt inspection. The crisp, well-fitted uniform of a fresh recruit. Isn’t that the start of all school life?
“Ahaha☆ First, we need to fit you with our cute uniform☆ It’s truly girlish☆ The high school―! Yay!”
“A uniform?”
“Isn’t it the romance of youth? Kyaha☆ I might have sounded a bit like an old man just now―☆”
“…Youth.”
“That’s right―☆ Let’s have fun together at school!”
Hearing those words.
Was it my imagination that Alvit’s eyes seed to shine a little?
We got up from our seats and after putting the enrollnt docunts in the student council room cabinet, we left the room and headed towards the school supply storage.
Creak
Creak
Despite two light girls walking, the old wooden floor of the corridor boasts its presence, twisting its entire body.
Creak
Creak
The old corridor where footsteps are blatantly audible.
It’s useful when delinquent students roaming the academy city break in to rob,
But it’s clearly visible that it’s an old and poor school, which made feel a bit embarrassed inwardly.
Even though I know it’s not my fault that this school is poor.
It seems like this corridor has beco a bit more worn down during the year I lived as I pleased.
Hiding my embarrassed feelings, I tugged on Alvit’s sleeve and hurried her to the supply room.
‘There are plenty of leftover uniforms, so we’ll just pick a few that roughly fit and get them altered at the shopping district.’
“Kyaha―☆ Let’s do our best to beco cute☆high school☆girls by dressing up cutely together―♡ It’s truly a cute alliance♡”
“Yes, thank you… senior.”
As we walk silently down the corridor amidst the noise.
When the shabbiness of this school becos familiar, a scene suddenly catches the eye.
The blue visible through the corridor windows with peeling paint.
The sky that has beco fresh again after the March spring rain that made the flowers hesitate.
That cool spring breeze brought in the full scent of soil from the school grounds through the window.
Whoosh―
The sound of ti walking along the corridor, following the footsteps of the two girls.
The faint tickle of flower scent on the cheeks and the rippling of clouds after the rain.
“…”
“…”
A quietness that can only be felt in such a silent place.
Where there are no lively academy city students anywhere.
It’s nothing special, but sohow it’s hard to take your eyes off it.
Alvit was staring at it blankly.
“…An enjoyable school life.”
“That’s right☆”
She muttered the words I had said a while ago.
Sohow, Alvit seed to be faintly smiling, at least for the mont as we headed to the supply room to find her uniform.
I felt like I understood that feeling.
In this unremarkable scenery, we truly felt that we had arrived here.
* * *
On the way back from altering Alvit’s uniform at the shopping district, we realized we were facing a very serious situation.
Alvit, who had changed into the uniform altered to fit her body, was shouting and venting her frustration.
“What?! There’s no cafeteria at school―?!”
“Te, tehe―☆ It’s presumptuous to think such a facility would exist in a school where only this fragile girl was alone☆ Were you planning to get the princess’s hands wet? Boo boo boo―☆”
“Stop making those weird noises!!”
“B-But―☆ If I don’t do this. Alvit, I thought you’d curse as an incompetent senior…”
“That makes you look even more incompetent!!”
“Such words are wounds to a girl’s delicate glass-like heart☆”
“This damn school, I should have known!!”
There it is.
From now on, the famous line that Alvit will endlessly recall in the main story.
I inwardly blessed Alvit for finally becoming a true Prism student.
“A-Anyway―☆ Alvit, that coat really suits you! So cute! Not as cute as , but. Anyway, cute!”
“Even your way of changing the subject is weird, senior.”
Although Alvit said that, she seed to like the uniform with its white base and red accents.
Flutter―
Alvit’s white coat flutters in the wind blowing through the shopping district.
The coat, a symbol of the student council of schools affiliated with the union.
In with few students, everyone wears it.
Among them, Alvit’s coat had a particularly special pattern on the back.
Seven diagonal lines within an equilateral triangle. The emblem of and the symbol of the student council president.
The coat Alvit was wearing was the one and only student council president’s coat.
I pretended not to know this and continued teasing Alvit.
“Oh☆ Are you showing off now? Are you bragging about getting a new uniform―☆”
“The wind just blew and the coat fluttered, that’s all!!”
“Oh my☆ Alvit really can’t be honest―☆”
“…”
“What? Was it true? Kyahaha☆ Unexpectedly cute…”
“…Senior.”
“Yes?”
Alvit suddenly called in a careful voice.
“This. Isn’t this what the school’s student council president wears…”
“…”
“Why, to .”
“Hmm☆”
I never imagined I would be asked that question.
‘In the original story, she wore it without any suspicion.’
But sohow, the answer to that ca out quite smoothly.
“Because it’s a garnt for the most special girl belonging to each school―☆”
“By that logic, you, the only student, should be…”
I quietly shook my head at those words.
“I was just at the school☆ I just happened to enter where there were only seniors about to graduate☆”
“…”
“Then, all the more reason, the one who should wear this coat is…”
“…”
“Shouldn’t it be given to the girl who could have gone anywhere, but chose to walk into on her own―☆”
“…Senior.”
“Fate, destiny… what one chooses for oneself is the most special thing☆”
* * *
Ca on her own.
Actually, there was a discrepancy in those words.
Because Alvit ca after hearing her mother’s words.
But.
Sohow, the words of the senior, who was always sloppy yet unexpectedly ticulous in certain areas, struck a chord,
So Alvit had no choice but to quietly follow.
‘The most special girl…’
Clara then produced two buckets in her hands and held them out.
“Here! From now on, we’ll carry these and go around the shopping district. We’ll receive kindness from the people of the shopping district☆ Bread crusts, cabbage leaves, discarded vegetables, and so on☆ That’s how we beco noble girls who live on the kindness of others―☆”
“That’s just begging. And when did you bring the buckets again?”
“It’s kindness, kindness☆”
As if she wouldn’t listen anymore, Clara quickly handed one bucket to Alvit and walked away briskly with dance-like steps.
“…”
A bucket.
eting that strange senior today… It all started with the sound of this bucket.
“Co on~☆ If you don’t follow, I’ll leave you behind―☆ Yay!”
“Haah.”
The relationship that started with a bucket.
Was truly a strange relationship.
At least enough for Alvit to never forget for the rest of her life.
“Wait for , senior!!”
In the end, Alvit chose to follow with the bucket in hand.
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