Chapter 2929 Return to campus life?

To be honest, if it were someone else, with the force Jinghua rushed over with, they would probably have both fallen to the ground.

"Humura...that's great...that's great...!"

...Forget it, her misbehavior is mainly my fault.

"Wow! What are you guys doing at the classroom door so early in the morning?"

Huh? It's going to rain red, why are all my acquaintances coming to school so early today?

"Morning, Kirihara-kun, well, we were just saying hello."

As she said that, Jinghua loosened her hands. I tilted my head and just happened to see the name of the student on duty written on the blackboard.

Oh, no wonder Qie came so early today, it was his turn to be on duty.

There is someone in the classroom, so let's talk somewhere else.

"So you all managed to escape the area safely before the fire got out of control?"

Five minutes later, on the rooftop, I learned from Jinghua the whole story of the Port Mafia and the Armed Detective Agency that day.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke and Nakajima Atsushi noticed something strange on my body. The flames didn't distinguish between friend and foe, and Jinghua was seriously injured and unconscious. They had no choice but to escape from the fire.

"Perhaps because of the fire, the previously maze-like dock has returned to normal, and we have reunited with our lost companions."

The other two, except Kyoka, were also injured to varying degrees. Thanks to Ms. Yosano's special ability, the group was able to evacuate quickly with the others.

As for the esper kidnapped by the Arrancar—

"Atsushi-kun said that after we escaped the fire, the group was piled up in a safe area. Tanizaki-kun was there too, and he said he was saved by a black woman."

A dark-skinned woman? Who is she? I remember Urahara-san said he had taken care of the kidnapped people. Could she be one of Urahara-san's companions?

I'll ask him next time.

"Where's Homura? Are you...are you okay?" Jinghua blinked, clutching the hem of her clothes with both hands. She seemed to want to say something, but she opened her mouth and fell silent.

"Me?" Actually, I'm doing pretty well. My injuries have mostly healed—not to mention my memory has returned. I'm incredibly energetic now. "Just as you can see. And thanks to that guy, I also remembered something very important."

"By the way, did the Port Mafia cause you any trouble?"

"No, the president and Kunikida-san came out and said something. And Akutagawa-kun was there, so it should be fine."

No, no, no, it's because he was there that things got out of hand! Did he and Atsu-kun see me draw my sword? What if he reports this to his boss, and that sly old man invites me out for tea again?

Damn it, my phone was broken by that boy named Akutagawa. There were so many important phone calls and text messages saved in it. I get angry every time I think about it!

Forget it, if the enemy comes, we will fight him; if the water comes, we will block it with earth. I am not afraid of them.

"Oh, right! We have a tennis club meeting this morning. What time is it now?"

"Seven o'clock."

Isn’t that the time for morning exercise? I’m going to be late ahh ...

"Let me take you down."

I saw Jinghua pinching the phone hanging on her chest and quickly waved her hand: "No, no need. Didn't I say I remembered a lot of things?"

How can I keep asking people to use their superpowers? This is a good opportunity to practice the skills I learned from Mao.

I smiled and winked at the little girl in front of me, ran forward two steps, and jumped lightly onto the guardrail of the roof.

Well, there was no one around. Most of the students were gathered at the school gate and hadn't looked this way yet.

The spiritual energy flowing in my body was concentrated in my limbs. I slowly squatted down, aimed at the tree below and jumped -!

Everything around me started to slow down. The big tree next to the teaching building became a buffering foothold. In the blink of an eye, I arrived downstairs.

The moment my feet touched solid ground, I looked up at the branches I'd used as cushions. Good, they weren't broken, and they weren't shaking too much.

But this is still far inferior to instant movement... I originally wanted to use it directly, but who knew that I felt rusty at the end. Yeah, I still need more practice.

After waving to Jinghua who was still standing on the top floor, I rushed to the tennis club which should have started morning exercises.

"Good morning—!"

"Good morning, Jiujing, you are five minutes late." Early in the morning, Deputy Minister Sanada was wearing a baseball cap. Even after three days of vacation, he was still as serious as ever.

"I'm so sorry, I was delayed this morning."

"Yeah, I know. Chi also said so."

I looked in surprise at a certain kelp head who had already started his morning exercise by running laps, and secretly gave him a thumbs up in my heart.

Thank you, Kirihara!

The battles we experienced during the long holiday were thrilling, but the tennis club's morning practice was as lively as ever. Standing at the edge of the field, counting everyone's laps and listening to the boys' chants, it felt a little surreal.

Does the world I live in really exist, or is it just an illusion created by a mirage?

"cough……"

My fantasy was interrupted by someone standing next to me. It was Vice Minister Sanada.

"I heard from that kid Akaya that you seem to be in a bad mental state recently. Is everything okay?"

"Huh?" Kirihara, that kid, why is he still upset after I told him I'm fine? "It's nothing, I just have some problems."

"If you're not feeling well, it's best to rest as soon as possible. Taking a break won't affect your assessments." This was the first time the school's stern head of discipline spoke so much in front of me. "If you fall ill because you're forcing yourself, then you're truly lax!"

Vice President Sanada is actually a very nice person. "I understand. Thank you for your concern." He always feels like the patriarch of the tennis club. Even though we're only junior high school students, he's so mature. "Actually, it was my mentality before, but now I've figured it out."

I stretched and stretched my muscles: "I really still like it here!"

I like Yokohama, I like this school, I like my aunt and Saburo, the sword men, and my new friends.

I don't want to leave.

"Really?" Vice Minister Sanada smiled at me. "Then keep working hard from now on."

Maybe he misunderstood and thought that "here" I meant the tennis club, but it doesn't matter, because he was right.

After the morning training, Kirihara and I returned to the classroom together.

Just before I opened the door, I heard the girls' giggling voices coming from the classroom:

"Hey, have you heard? Jiu Jing is really going to be the manager of the tennis club."

"Hey—doesn't our school's tennis club accept female managers?"

"Don't you see her relationship with Kirihara? She might have gotten in by relying on him."

"How is it possible? Kirihara is so slow~"

"It's because you're slow that you're easy to fool..."

"Hmm? Jiu Jing, why don't you open the door?"

...It seems that the door panel has a good sound insulation effect, but my hearing has become more sensitive.

"Nothing, I just suddenly couldn't remember where I put the counting board." I smiled at the boy next to me and pulled open the partition door.

The whispering in the classroom stopped, and the girls standing around the desks glanced at us and then looked away unnaturally.

"Ah? Isn't that what Senior Liu usually takes away after morning exercises?"

The moment I walked into the classroom, I saw Jinghua sitting at the desk looking at me.

"Is that so? Then Senior Liu also took it away today?"

"Yes, you put it on the table after you finished writing it, and Senior took it away. I saw it."

"That's good."

"Hey, you, why are you even more confused than me sometimes?"

Of course, that’s because I don’t want you to hear the gossip of those girls. The counting board is just an excuse, silly boy!

But just because he didn't hear it doesn't mean others didn't hear it.

Because during lunch, Jinghua took the initiative to mention this matter to me.

"You don't mind?"

"What?"

"You heard what those girls said this morning, didn't you?"

Ishikirimaru prepared my lunch today, and Ran arranged the ingredients into cute little animals. Kyoka also brought a lunch, but she said she made it with Atsu-kun last night.

That's right, she lived with Nakajima Atsushi. Apparently, since they were both employees of the detective agency and had no other relatives, they decided to live together and save on rent.

It's not impossible, but why does it sound weird?

"It's okay, just gossip between girls. And it was indeed Kirihara who recruited me into the tennis club." I poked the small octopus-shaped sausage on the rice. "But it's quite unpleasant to talk about Kirihara in that tone."

"Actually, there's more to it than that." Jinghua put down her chopsticks. "Some things about you have been said in other places, by the girls in my class, and sometimes by people from other classes as well."

"Oh? What did you say about me?"

She was silent for a moment. “A lot, but none of it is true.”

"That doesn't matter."

"...I thought you would at least mind a little."

"They're all rumors, so why should I care?" I took a bite of my bento. Hmm, this pickled radish is not bad. "At least it's better than me...than Tatsuya Hongo, right?"

If you care so much about everything, you might as well hide back in Honmaru and become a Shinsengumi who is ignorant of the world.

"It's just gossip from a few people. Rumors stop with the wise."

Besides, there have been too many discussions like this in my previous life and this life, so I’m used to it.

Oh, no, based on my previous temper, it would be normal for me to just fight?

Forget it, don’t bully the weak.

"Is that so, um..."

"Let me be clear, this is just my personal perspective on life. And if I hear them say bad things about their friends, I'll get angry."

Jinghua was amused by me and picked up a piece of cooked pumpkin for me. I gave her a piece of fried chicken in return.

After the tennis club training in the afternoon, because my cell phone was broken in the previous incident, Jinghua and I went to the operator store near the school to report the loss and buy a new cell phone.

Then I ran into one of the people I don't want to see again anytime soon—

"Oh yeah? What a fortuitous encounter."

A port mafia boss, wearing a somewhat worn suit and unshaved, brought his red-dressed blonde lolita and me and Jinghua to an intersection less than fifty meters away from the store.

"I haven't seen you for a few days. Miss Jiu Jing looks well."

You're really bringing up things that are not related to the topic. You insist on asking for something you don't want.

My new phone can’t be broken again this time!

The author has something to say:

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Since it is a daily routine, how can we miss the wonderful sense of class in Japanese schools (?)

In fact, it was because Homura usually didn't make friends with girls on purpose, and wasn't that conspicuous in the class (intentionally), and suddenly she gained the favor of the tennis club, so some people naturally became unbalanced and started gossiping about it.

But there are really many twisted school bullying stories in Japan (from a distance)