Chapter 80: Petty

The mornings are usually normal for Taro. The routine of waking up, followed by a "light" warm up and then a cup of lemon tea had stuck with Taro after doing it for a repeat for many days.This routine made him happy; gave him peace. Back in the day, it was usually followed by them going to work in some construction site, which made him happy as well, since it gave him a chance to put his strength into some use. However, since John's arrival and the Karate tournament's events, he had to be careful about how to deal with stuff. And that's how he ended up joining a school as a teacher and it had been a pain in the ass.

It's not like he hated the profession. Actually, he loved it and the kids were co-operative, a thing that he didn't expect from the teenagers. However, the ones acting irrational weren't the students but the teachers. Within just a few days, they managed to isolate Taro and made him into an outcast. He would have dealt with that too if they didn't dawn this condescending face, which constantly was begging him to punch the shit out of.

However, that day, Taro decided to focus on the job in his hands rather than what some asshole says. So, as a man with a mission, he decided to go even earlier than his roommates because if he wanted to avoid people from the staff room, he had to get there early and head straight to the twelfth graders' classroom. And that's exactly what he did.

Shivani, who wondered what happened to her class teacher because he wasn't in the group that she walked with that day, was surprised to see him sitting at the teacher's desk. Like, she knew that the spot was for the teachers to have a seat, however a teacher coming into their class this early was unusual since they usually loiter around in the staff room.

With Taro's presence in the classroom, the atmosphere became really awkward. None of the students were comfortable trying to have a decent chat before him because they had to tone down and censor parts of their conversations. He didn't ask them to do so, however that's how it usually worked.

Some of the students were so uncomfortable that they actually headed to the loo to have a decent conversation there. However, one could see a few daring ones like Abhirami who took it upon herself to talk about various unrelated matters in her loud obnoxious voice. While the others thought that their class teacher might annihilate Abhirami for her loudmouth, seeing that he didn't do literally anything gave them some much needed confidence to just talk like crazy. In a few minutes of time, what was initially a rather quiet class ended up bustling with noise, which Taro didn't particularly mind.

However, he knew of a few who minded this sorta behavior. They came rushing to scold the students, but seeing their class teacher sitting silently even after all this commotion angered them to limits unknown. However, rather than taking it on the class teacher for his irresponsibility, they decided to take it on the kids instead, because their voice was deemed to be the lowest with no position to give out an opinion… In other terms, a perfect sacrificial lamb to take up all the blame.

Taro didn't speak of it, because he had already spoken about what his thoughts were on this the day before to the students. So, he simply stared to the floor as the teachers talked. Seeing their class teacher behave so, the students acted similarly as well. Thinking that they were sorry about their behavior, the teachers let them go for their "grave" offense.

Anyway, the rest of the day seemed relatively fine… or initially it was. Taro had completed his schedule and was playing Gacha games on his mobile. Almost twenty percent of what he earned always went into buying in-game currency of these Gacha games which allowed him to summon some characters of the game. However, he was so unlucky because he only gets high rated characters if those are guaranteed in a particular summon. It sucked to be him in that aspect.

So, while he was getting frustrated about his unluckiness in the game,he was asked to lead his students for their Physical Training class because the teacher was absent. It wasn't that hard since all he had to do was to tell the kids to do whatever they wanted on the ground and they ended up doing it. Hell, they even played stuff like chess and caroms when the period was supposed to physically train their bodies. If it was in Taro's hands, he would've just taught them his warm up exercises, the ones deemed difficult by his peers in the Holy Land.

In the end, he decided otherwise and just simply let his students do what they want. It rained quite a bit that day, so the main ground was a bit muddy. Hence, most of the students confined themselves to the indoor stadium that the school had and played badminton and other games that required them to stay indoors.

Meanwhile two of the students were adamant about stepping out to the muddy grounds to play because they wanted to play football. They were Shivani and one of her best friends, Sujatha. Although Shivani wasn't that interested in that sport, since her best friend whom she basically considered as a sister was, she was adamant about playing it as well.

Taro was reluctant to let them play in the mud, however when they said that they were only gonna do some kicking practice, Taro allowed it. Sujatha was a member of the Kerala Under-18 football team, so people understood her craze behind the sport. The entire forty minutes, the only thing that the two of them did was doing penalty and free kicks while the others played the other games. Although at that moment, they didn't expect to get in another tussle with the teachers.

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After the period ended, the students were asked to come back. However, Sujatha headed to the sports room to put the ball there, while Shivani cleaned her shoes since it was muddy. However in her rush to get back to class, Sujatha actually forgot to do so and ended up unintentionally muddying up one of the mats placed on the corridors. However, Mary, their physics teacher, had keen eyes and didn't miss this.

"Mr Sadanandan, can you bring the ones who played on the other ground today?" Mary barged into the twelfth grade and asked.

Since he didn't know what went wrong, he asked Shivani and Sujatha to follow him, who ended up following Mary to the aforementioned carpet.

"You see what this is?" Mary asked.

"A carpet?" Taro asked back.

"Not that. You see the muddy stains in this? Now, I didn't see this stain until an hour ago and now it magically appeared. So, who do you think is responsible for this?" She asked.

"Is this it?" Taro sighed and asked. He didn't get why Mary was acting so annoyingly. After all, it was just a carpet.

"Is this it? This is one of the school's properties. And these two here dirtied this carpet. How are you gonna answer this?" She asked furiously. The two girls didn't know what to say about this and decided to remain silent.

However, Taro wasn't one to stay silent when the one opposite to him said something idiotic. "Ooh, that's mighty low. How low can you go after this, huh? School's property… Like, what made you so angry, dude? That's some petty talking right there." He replied.

"What do you mean? I didn't say anything wrong! What are you gonna do about this carpet, huh?" She asked.

Taro sighed. "Fuck it!"

"Huh?"

"I said fuck it!" He raised his voice as he took the heavy carpet up his shoulders.

"Mr Sadanandan, that sorta language is vulgar. You know that too, right?" Mary was flustered by Taro's swearing.

Taro stood still for a while before turning his attention back to Mary. "You know what? Fuck that as well." He spoke as he walked away with the carpet, while Mary stood still without any witty comeback in her mind.

A few minutes later, when the kids came out of the school to head to their homes, they saw the twelfth grade teacher washing off the dirt in the carpet and stared curiously. Meanwhile, the two girls came up to help him on this, which he clearly refused.

Taro didn't do this because of what Mary said, but because of how she acted as if she needed to hear an apology from the girls for what they did. While many teachers continued to look upon him with disdain due to his so-called over attachment with his students, one teacher came for help from the teacher's side.

"You didn't have to come, you know?" Taro spoke to Rita who helped him to lift the carpet, unaware of his super strength.

"What did I say? I said I'll help you, didn't I?" Rita tried to smile as she was crushed under the weight of this heavy carpet.

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