CH 21

Mob Highschool Student Thinks

On the way home, the normally quiet street feels very noisy today.

Is it because I am later than usual since I went to study in the library?

No, I went to the library yesterday too so it makes no sense that it would get noisy just today.

Then is there some event or attractions near here? As far as I know, I haven’t heard about any shooting for magazines or TV dramas around here. Moreover, it seems like people are looking over here.

Don’t tell me, some kind of accident happened here earlier so people gathered to see what happened?

No, if that’s the case then I should hear the siren by now and I can’t feel any restless atmosphere from the people around here either.

They seem like they are puzzled or confused about something. It was like they are seeing something curious.

By the way, I have encountered this kind of atmosphere many times before.

When was it?…….that’s right, when I walk home as Kousei after the shooting!

“If I have club activities this would be too early, and if I don’t have club activities it would be too late. It’s kinda like we took a detour and ended up walking home a little later than usual isn’t it!”

“That’s right. If we go to a coffee shop now, I would be worried if I can get back by dinner time, and even if we go home as it is, we will end up having more free time than usual.”

“Alright, since I managed to borrow the book today, I guess I will just head straight home to give it a read today!”

“I also borrowed a book from Hiura-san but I still haven’t read it yet…..umm, it feels like I formed some kind of bond with that book now…..”

“No, no, no, you should just share your thoughts after you read it and ask him for the next volume right!”

I never knew that there would be so many people around this street at this time and unfortunately, I can not change anything by escaping reality.

That’s right, this restlessness is caused by the two beauties who are walking home together with me……However, it seems that I am the only one who minds these noisy surroundings.

At the very least, I am walking a little away from them as my final effort to resist but from the surroundings’ eyes I am only walking a short distance behind them and I now have the disadvantage of not being able to properly hear their conversation as well.

To be clear, from the perspectives of the people around us, my existence is just like some foreign object that got mixed in with these two. A suspicious guy walking behind two beautiful girls.

Even with that said, there is no doubt that the cause of this is not my, or Ichinose-san’s fault

It might be a little rude but if it is just me and Ichinose-san, there wouldn’t be so much noise.

I haven’t mentioned it before but Ichinose-san belongs to the track and field club. There are both boys and girls in that club and the ratio is almost equal including the manager.

So it’s not that rare to see Ichinose-san walking home with a boy from her club. I think she might attract some attention but even if she walks home with me people would only comment [Ah, Ichinose-san is walking home with someone huh]. And that’s it.

In that case, even if we are seen walking home together, I don’t think that it would create any topic for conversation on the spot but since it is still unusual in a way, it would cause a minor rumor to spread on the next day.

However, unlike Ichinose-san, Eihashi-san is entirely different. Like a difference between having a humidifier and not, or like having gray hair and silver hair, no, it’s more than that……it would be like a difference between being bald and skinheads haircut.

When you ask what kind of person is Eihashi-san, anyone at the school can supply you with the information that ever since she enrolled let alone walking home with a boy, even when she walks home in a group of friends, there was never a boy included in that group!

Even on her way home, the boys couldn’t touch that transcendental beauty, anyone who wandered near her was shot down and cut off.

Being tall or handsome doesn’t make a difference. Everyone was treated equally.

…..Eh? Didn’t I just walk home with her last week? At that time, even though I had a little chat with Masato, the time I went home with her was still early. In other words, we were not seen.

If no one knows then it won’t be a crime. This means that if there is no testimony from eyewitnesses then there is no way to confirm that I indeed walked home with Eihashi-san. That’s why Eihhashi-san has never seen walking home with a boy to this day. A flower that no one can touch.

In other words, I, who is not the ace of the football club or the pitcher of the school baseball team, am a mysterious existence that suddenly appeared at her side, and the first boy she walked home with……

“The guy that is walking home with Eihashi-san, who is that?”

“No way….this is the first time I saw Reika-chan walking home with a boy you know…..”

“Who? No, what is that? Stalker?”

“……..so an invisible man really exists huh?”

What the hell is this? A challenge quest?

Or is this a compulsory event for me to change class into a hot topic mob?

I can’t avoid it?

Am I losing the first round in Ina**ma eleven?

Am I that spiky turtle that kidnapped princess peach?

Can I survive to see tomorrow…….

To explain to those who don’t understand, a hot topic mob is a mob that mandatory appears in a whisper game.

People in this job all have a strong case of communication disability.

The troublesome part of this job is that if the top caste gets into this class, they will use it as their weapon instead. Also, one could say that an average Joe can not change into this class.

If I change into that class, what would happen to me? Would I become the scary type or the handsome type? Allow me to explain.

In the case of a scary-looking guy, the only impression you would give is that your face looked scary due to your poor communication skill. Bad rumors might get attached to you while you have no ability to deny it

Then one day, he fed an abandoned cat.

“Hey hey! The other day I saw Scaryface-kun helped an abandoned cat you know!”

“Ehh! Really! I thought that Scaryface-kun used that abandoned cat as fishing bait or something!”

“So the rumor that says ScaryFace-kun often throw away an abandoned cat is true after all!”

Then the next day, what would happen to that rumor?

“Hey, you heard…..? It seems that Scaryface dude just beat up a cute kitten you know…..?”

And all he did was only help a cat.

Now, people around him think of him as a kitten beater.

HE JUST HELPED THE CAT!

That’s right. If Scaryface-kun changed his class into this, no matter what kind of good deed he does, the story will always turn sinister in the end.