In the
end, Leon did not return to the classroom. He was also absent from the school
the next day and the day after that.
It seems
that Urza's kick had a considerable impact on him. Since his injuries should
have been healed by the healing magic, he might have suffered a great deal of
psychological shock.
No
matter if he is the hero or the last boss, there is no way he can survive after
being kicked in the vital point. And so, Leon is still in the process of
recovering from the injury.
”Well...
it's understandable. He's a boy, too”
At
lunchtime. I sat down on a chair in the cafeteria and murmured somewhat
sympathetically.
I am
sitting at a rectangular table for four. Urza is sitting next to me, and Jean
and Arisa are facing us.
It's
been a week since then, and still Leon has not come to school. Thanks to the
absence of the irritating hero, my school life continues to be peaceful.
Ciel
Uranus, his childhood friend and the heroine, still stares at me, but she
doesn't seem to want to get involved because she did not even talk to me.
Furthermore,
the purchase of Urza seems to have had a positive effect on the people around
me.
The
charm of this little oni seems to have eased my villainous look, and more and
more of my classmates, including Jean and Arisa, have started to talk to me.
I feel
that I have been able to blend in with my classmates, albeit only a little.
Despite
all the commotion this girl has caused, I am once again glad that I bought
Urza.
”This
meat is... delicious, desu~no!”
Urza was
eating a lot of food next to me after I had already finished my meal.
Perhaps
it was because of her race as an oni-jin, Urza was a very big eater contrary to
her appearance. I was always amazed at the way she happily ate a meal for five
people.
Arisa,
too, who was sitting opposite to Urza, shouted excitedly as she watched her
stuff a mountain of meat into her small body.
”Aww,
Urza-chan, you are so cute when eating. You look like a hamster with a cheeks
stuffed with food. You can eat this one too, it's delicious, you know!”
”Mwah...
Thank you, desu~no”
Urza
took a bite of the cupcake offered to her.
Since a
while ago, some of the girls, including Arisa, have been feeding Urza with
desserts and sweets.
Urza
looked unhappy at being treated like a child, but her appetite got the better
of her and she reluctantly accepted them.
As I
watch Urza chew with her cheeks full, Jean, who is sitting on the chair
opposite me, opens his mouth.
”Anyway,
that brave guy, he didn't come today either. Is he still feeling down?”
”...It
seems so. A kid kicked his groin and almost made him unable to have children.
If it were me, I'd be traumatized too”
”Uh...
yeah”
Jean's
face is drawn and he holds his crotch with his hand.
Although
he was not involved in the situation, that was a spine-chilling shivering
scene. It was no wonder that Leon, the person concerned, was down.
”But...
he's an idiot too. Trying to take someone else's slave. I wonder what he's
thinking”
”......”
At
Jean's words, I sip my tea in silence.
I had
the same question.
Leon is
certainly the type of hot-blooded protagonist whose sense of justice goes out
of control, and he often acts on his emotions without thinking.
But I
never expected him to do something so stupid.
”He's an
intuitive fool, but I thought he was smarter than this. I don't know what's
gotten into him”
I don't
think Leon is the same person today as he was in the game.
Legal
issues aside... trying to rescue a child from slavery was a very good-natured
Leon-like action.
The only
difference is that this is not a game but a reality.
The
protagonist is not bound by the rules, but follows his own will. In the world
of manga or games, this may seem unprecedented and attractive. However, if it
were someone close to me in the real world, he would be a very troublesome
person.
They
would deny and try to take away what others have obtained by legitimate means,
based on one-sided and unreasonable reasons such as a sense of personal
righteousness. It was not a pleasant experience for those who were actually
victimized.
I mean,
in reality, it is not as simple as dividing the world into good and evil. There
is a gray area in the world that is neither black nor white. Even the people on
the gray side, who are not right but not wrong, are painted black by the hero's
subjective viewpoint, which was a nuisance in itself.
While
thinking about this, I open my eyelids with a depressed sigh and lift the
corners of my mouth sarcastically toward Jean.
”...He's
too serious and clumsy. There are things in this world that need to be
overlooked and ignored. Isn't that what 'social skills' are for?”
”Well...
you're probably right. Although Brave is an idiot, I don't think he's a bad
guy”
”I agree
with you. I hope we can understand each other one day”
I gulp
down the rest of the tea in one gulp.
Next to
me, Urza had received the third cupcake and threw it into her mouth, which was
covered with a sticky cream.
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