Chapter 12: Picking Up Girls After School

Translated by Hikaru

Edited by Mel

At the end of school, while I was putting my stuff in my bag and getting ready to leave, Glan, who was standing beside me, opened his mouth in frustration.

“Damn those heroes. They’re getting worse day by day.”

Indeed, in the last few days, the behavior of the Heroic Department students had been abysmal. It’s not just me who’s being harassed, but all the students of the Regular Department. The teachers at the school warned the students when they saw their brutal behavior, but there was still no end to the number of hero students who do the same thing.

“Calm down. I thought you didn’t like conflict.”

“I don’t like it, but that doesn’t mean I can’t do it.” Glan said with anger in his voice.

Because Glan was outstandingly large among his classmates, he was relatively free from the harassment of the Hero Department among the regular students. Since that was the case, he was probably holding that anger not for himself, but for the others. He doesn’t like to fight, but he will not give up if necessary. He is a man with a strong sense of justice.

“Well with that level of harassment, it would be faster to ignore it. No real harm was done anyway.”

When I said that, Glan chuckled.

“I’m sure you’ll be able to understand why I’ve been so impressed with your work.”

“Hey, if that’s not harmful, then what kind of thing would Tweight think is harmful?”

When being asked, I thought a little. Since I was in the youngest group in the institution, the number of times I was harassed was not small. Still most of the time, if I decided to ignore it, it would disappear on its own, so what I said was based on my own experience. One such harassment that I had to deal with in the past was…

“I explained before that I was working until I came to school.”

“Yeah, a city cleaner, right?”

“That’s right. One of the people I worked with is like a sister to me. She’s also my boss, but one day I had a long-term assignment and we didn’t see each other for a while. So when we decided to meet again after a long time, we promised to go out somewhere together. On the day of the meeting, I had an urgent job again. In the end, we could not meet that day.”

“Well, that’s too bad. So?”

“Well, I was pretty busy, so this kind of thing is not unusual, and I thought at the time that she would forgive me. But apparently it was her birthday that day. According to my colleague, she had been looking forward to that day for a while. I hadn’t known that, and she was very upset with me for being so casual about it.

For a while after that, I was forced to work almost tirelessly under her direction. Just when I thought I had finished a job, another one would come in right away, or when I was tired and went to sleep, she would call me out of the blue as if she had been waiting for the right moment. I couldn’t hold my strength, so I went to apologize to her and said, “Please give me a break.” But she laughed and said, “Isn’t it okay? Work is the most important thing for you, right? Then you should work until you die.”

“…..”

“In the end, I had to work for a month until her mood got better. I ended up working in tatters… I’d say this kind of thing is harmful. It can interfere with life activities. Blood and urine were also spurting out. I don’t want to have to go through that again.”

“Things like real harm, it’s not up to that level, isn’t it?” Glan said, pulling back slightly.

At the time, I really thought I would be killed, too.

“Well, compared to such things, the harassment of the Hero Department is trivial. As I said in the beginning, if we ignore them, they’ll eventually get tired of it.”

“I hope they’ll get bored with it. Well, it’s definitely troublesome to confront head-on.”

I nodded at Glan’s words and closed my bag.

“So, what does Tweight do after school?”

“After school? I don’t really do anything, but if I had to say, I went to the school library the other day.”

“Library. I don’t read a lot of books, you know.”

Reading had been a habit of mine since my days at the institution. Originally, I was ordered by my instructor to start reading in order to improve my education, but I later realized that it was the best way to kill time in an institution where there were no playthings. Perhaps this was a common experience among the soldiers of the institution. I don’t know about senior officers like Chris, but the other soldiers and myself often read in our spare time.

Well, come to think of it, even though I came to the academy, my days were still the same as when I was at the institution. Training and assignments have been replaced by school lessons. I wondered if I’m really living a normal life, in the true sense of the word.

“What is Glan doing after school?”

“Me? I guess… even though I’m a regular student, I’m still a student of the prestigious Bildarz Academy. I’ll do my own training regularly so I don’t lose any credits. The rest of the time, I can laze around in my room or go out to the city and buy whatever I like. Speaking of which, I picked up a girl the other day.”

“Picked-up?”

I tilted my head at the un-student-like word that immediately came out.

“Oh, what’s that, Tweight? Are you interested?”

“I’m curious, is that something a normal student would do?”

“I don’t know if it’s normal or not, but I’ve seen a few other guys picking up girls in the same area. You can find a lot of beautiful women here in the royal capital.”

Glan looked somewhat fulfilled as he said this. I have no experience of picking up girls, but I’ve started a new life as a Tweight. If I’m going to do this, I should actively experience something I’ve never done before.

“I’ll give it a try.”

“Oh, great! Then let’s do it now! I’ll show you how it’s done!”

I told Glan, who gave me a reliable smile, “Please.”