It Became a Time-Stop Slit-Eye

17. That’s absolutely not the case.

Time has passed since the Friday when Kenichi fainted and kidnapped, and it was Monday.

Kenichi, who was seriously ill, arrived at school safely and fully recovered.

On the contrary, it looks much healthier than before.

My childhood friend, Hotaru, was happy to see him, but at the same time looked surprised and approached him.

“Kenichi! Are you okay? I was very worried because I couldn’t contact you at all over the weekend. I’m so glad you look so healthy.”

“Ken.”

“…… Kenichi?”

“Oh, sorry. Wait, what happened to my hair? I keep getting lost in words. Thanks, Hotaru. I was able to come back alive thanks to you.”

Kenichi, who has become hardened in many ways, seems to be reminiscing about last weekend with a sorrowful face.

How much pain can it be like this?

Hotaru’s anger in the past was nowhere to be found, and he only felt sorry for him for his hard work.

“…… Kenichi.”

And Ichimarushiki, who was watching them from behind, shook his head with a satisfied expression.

I’m glad.

He was relieved inside.

“Whoops, I thought I was going to become an idiot. Were you really cold?”

Fortunately, they let me get some outside air, put me to sleep, and fed me, so I came back to my senses.

“Ken.”

“…… Kenichi?!”

It seemed like they were still going back and forth, but wouldn’t that be considered aegyo?

Well, it can’t be helped if it doesn’t work.

Shiki, who decided to sacrifice himself for the cause, muttered sadly.

“Now then, what kind of training shall we do today?”

“…… Are you still human?”

Sento Sawamura, who had been living in the same Shiheibon family home all weekend and heard the news, shook her head with a frown on her face.

She thought she was heartless, but on top of the running guy, she saw a flying guy right next to him, no, a crazy guy going into space.

Humanity existed in me too.

Seeing the back of Kenichi Kitagawa’s head in front of her with pity, Sento gained her enlightenment.

Of course, he blew off his disgusting expression and eyes at the person next to him.

“hahahaha, it’s embarrassing if you keep glancing at me. I hope you liked me-“

“I will definitely kill you someday.”

Into such a very peaceful classroom, a blonde young lady entered.

Eris Betelgeuse.

She is currently the most popular girl in school and the most beautiful girl in the province.

It’s a secret to ordinary people, but as a wizard blessed by the stars and also a descendant of the Archmage, she strides forward as soon as she arrives in Class A’s classroom.

“Oh, Eris-sama! How are you?”

“Eris-sama, a nice car… “

Her classroom’s loyal followers greeted her, but Eris did not stop her steps for a moment and continued on toward her original destination.

It was the seat where Ichimaru Shiki was.

With all eyes on her sudden meeting, Eris Betelgeuse looked down at the smiling man with a cool expression.

“Oh, what are you doing?”

The narrow-eyed man calmly shrugged her shoulders.

Eris’ expression hardened even more, and she glared at her Shiki with a sharp expression as if she would stab her to death.

“Ichimaru Shiki.”

Eris Betelgeuse said.

“I go out to the back of the school by myself for lunch.”

The moist lips uttered words that made people’s hearts pound.

Sawamura Sento’s eyes widened when he heard those words from the seat next to him, and Hotaru and Kenichi in the front seat, as well as the rest of the class, were stunned.

Sawako, who just entered the classroom after watering the flowers, dropped the vase with a shocked expression.

Clang-!

In the midst of such a sharp sound, silence was maintained for a while.

A sense of desolation descended along with the water from the broken vase.

It’s literally before the storm.

“Ha ha, good.”

Amid everyone’s attention, the man with a sloppy face said something with a pleasant look.

“See you later, just the two of us.”

Ichimaru Shiki showed an eye smile.

***

Lunch time came quickly.

Druck—!

Eris Betilgeuse and Shiki Ichimaru.

Soon after, the players headed to the battlefield, and those who were left stared blankly at their backs.

Someone muttered.

“Shall we follow and take a look?”

“Arthur, can’t you see the Erispa kids are opening their lunchboxes in awe? If you follow and interfere, you will be cursed for the rest of your life.”

Someone else stopped them, so instead of quenching their curiosity, everyone in the classroom entered into an atmosphere of stuffing the lunch they brought from home into their mouths.

Of course, I still had questions.

The fire shrine maiden, Hotaru Ichinose, was also interested in the results behind the teacher.

With Sento Sawamura, who joined her for lunch today, and sat around, Hotaru talked with a bright smile.

“Are you finally the 1st couple? Well, it’s later than I thought. Ichimaru-kun and Eris might get along unexpectedly…… “

“It’s pitiful.”

“…… Huh?”

Hotaru, who had been excited about a love story after a long time, looked at Sawamura Sento with a puzzled face at the sudden tackle from the front.

She was looking at the back of the teacher with a pitiful expression on her face without the slightest flutter.

Already convinced of the outcome, Sento murmured softly.

“Why are you bringing the ordeal on yourself?”

“…… Uh? No, what? I didn’t really know, Ichimaru-kun, are you that impregnable?”

“Hotaru, Shiki can’t be a couple.”

“…… Huh?”

This time it came from right next to me.

When Hotaru blankly turned her head, her old childhood friend Kenichi Kitagawa seemed to be recalling some memory with melancholy eyes.

“There’s no way a monster like that would date a girlfriend.”

However, what was spat out was a vague voice that did not contain even 0g of romance.

“As expected.”

“…… No, you have to.”

The gazes of Sento Sawamura and Kenichi immediately met, and they felt that they had a mutual understanding.

Inner intimacy has greatly increased.

Hotaru, who was momentarily alienated from the relationship, looked at them alternately with her dazed face and muttered.

“…… People can date.”

“No.”

“That is absolutely not the case.”

I was immediately refuted.

***

Same time, behind the school.

The two stood side by side on a deserted road and looked at each other.

The narrow-eyed man said with a smile.

“This is so exciting! It’s the first time in my life that I’ve been confessed to like this!”

“What kind of bullsh*t are you talking about?”

Eris Betelgeuse shook her head with a more distorted expression than in the classroom.

“There’s no way I would confess to something like you.”

“Oh, that sounds a bit sad.”

Ichimaru Shiki shrugged.

Even though he heard a statement that trampled on his dignity right in front of him, his sloppy face didn’t even shake for a moment.

He looked at the mage below my shoulder, still smiling.

“Then what is your business?”

“I saw it on Friday.”

Eris, the star wizard, replied with a firm expression.

“No matter how much I think about it, it was strange that Kenichi Kitagawa, who was a normal male student, suddenly collapsed, so after school I looked around the entire school, starting with the classrooms and hallways.”

“Umm, so what?”

“I could feel the magic in the playground. It remained very minute, but it was a trace of witchcraft. I used magic to sweep the afterimages of the earth right away. Do you know what I saw there?”

Eris Betelgeuse spoke while glaring at the man in front of him.

“Ichimaru Shiki, this is the image of you beating up your classmate Kenichi Kitagawa.”

“If you say that, it sounds like you’ve been bullied. It was sparring with swords.”

“…… There’s nothing shameless about it. You said it was sparring? No matter how you look at it, it’s a picture of a matured ability harassing a beginner! He may have even secretly touched his memory, but he is with him without knowing anything. Seeing you today, your body has become strange.”

“Hmm, it must have been trial and error. I did get a little weird about what I was doing wrong.”

“…… Trial and error?”

Ichimarushiki calmly shook her head, and Eris, who had just heard the obvious culprit’s confession, distorted her face even more.

“Thousands of years of mage lineage is not full of purity and justice, but I have no intention of condoning the obvious injustice. Ichimaru Shiki, quickly restore Kenichi Kitagawa to the way he was and sincerely apologize to him.”

“Yes? Even if it’s an apology, why don’t you put it back the way it was? No matter how hard we worked, how can you say that! Kenichi will have a seizure if he hears it?”

“…… If you repent of your mistakes even now, you won’t reach the worst end. But if you keep acting like that, I won’t stand still.”

“Hey, don’t stay still, la.”

The sly, narrow-eyed man asked back with a flustered face.

“Then what happens?”

Eris Betelgeuse, the wizard, replied with an expressionless face.

“I will fight.”

Soon there was a storm.