NOVEL WEB Chapter 3: CHAPTER 2
Earth.
Year 2015.
Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Senior High School, Tokyo City.
4th Floor, First-Year Student Dormitory Building.
A male student wearing a school uniform complete with a school bag that has a design like an office bag that workers from Japan usually use is seen standing in front of one of the lifts in the building.
The male student had a well-proportioned body. He was about 170 to 175 centimeters tall and had a slender body. He had black hair that was neatly arranged. His skin was bright white, there were no wrinkles or scars on the skin area that could be seen directly by someone. He had red eyes; like the color of a pomegranate, very beautiful. His face was smooth, he had an appearance that was above the average appearance of men in general.
[Ding!]
The elevator the male student had been waiting for finally arrived.
The elevator door suddenly opened, and it was seen that there was a female student who was currently inside the elevator.
"Hm?" Seeing the presence of the female student in the elevator he wanted to use, the male student smiled, while walking into the elevator, he greeted politely and gently, "Good morning, and long time no see, Matsushita-san,"
Matsushita is a female student who has a well-proportioned body. She is about 165 to 170 centimeters tall and has a slender body, which is already very well-formed. She has long light brown hair with the hair in the front directed towards the right side of her face. The length of her hair reaches her hip area. She has bright white skin and no wrinkles or scars on the skin area that can be seen by someone directly. Her eyes are purple and beautiful. She has a smooth face. Her appearance is sweet and beautiful, and if seen at a glance, she has the charm of a woman who has reached adulthood.
Receiving a greeting from the male student, the female student known as Matsushita smiled, and then returned the greeting given by the male student while watching the male student enter the elevator, standing in front of him, "Good morning too, Rosewood-kun,"
The elevator doors closed, and the elevator began to move down, following the settings Matsushita had made.
"Long time no see, huh? It was only yesterday since we last met,"
"If our meeting was based on the time arrangement of this world, yes, we just met yesterday. But, I am sure, you must have also gone to that world, which is why, the last time we met was thirty-one days ago."
"...It seems so,"
A sudden silence fell between the two of them, indicating that their relationship was not close.
[Ding!]
The elevator finally arrived at its destination; the ground floor.
The elevator doors suddenly opened, and Rosewood immediately walked out followed by Matsushita from behind.
Matsushita suddenly increased the speed of her footsteps and was finally able to walk parallel to Rosewood. Knowing that she was now parallel to Rosewood, Matsushita immediately slowed down the speed of her footsteps, and then asked in a calm voice, "Can I ask you something?"
"Hm?" Rosewood looked at Matsushita through the corner of his eye, and then asked, "Regarding the organization I chose as my affiliate?"
"Yes," Matsushita replied, and then continued, "I chose the Water Country as my affiliation. What about you?"
"Oh? The Water Country, huh? Not the worst choice, and not the best choice either," Rosewood thought calmly, and then continued to answer the question Matsushita had asked him, "I guess I'm a little luckier than you,"
"Huh?"
Rosewood's answer surprised Matsushita a little.
"Konoha. Konohagakure Village. That is the place I chose as my affiliation site,"
"Huh?"
Hearing the answer given by Rosewood to hers, Matsushita's footsteps suddenly stopped. Matsushita, who suddenly stopped was noticed by Rosewood. Rosewood also suddenly stopped his footsteps and then looked at Matsushita with a calm gaze.
"Y-you… Are you serious?" Matsushita asked in a trembling voice, and with an expression full of surprise, "T-that… You're not teasing me?"
"Why should I tease you?" Rosewood asked back while raising one of his eyebrows.
"This…" Seeing the expression shown by Rosewood, coupled with the calm tone he used in replying to what he had said, Matsushita was finally able to conclude and confirm what Rosewood had said to her.
However, there was something inside hers that felt that Rosewood was teasing, or joking with her right now. Therefore, she quickly said to Rosewood with a changed expression compared to before, more calm, "Can you show me your information card?"
"You don't believe what I said?"
"I will only believe what you tell me if there is evidence to support it."
After hearing Matsushita's reply, without the slightest hesitation, Rosewood immediately walked back towards his destination.
"Huh?"
Seeing that Rosewood ignored hers, and did not give hers the chance to look at the information card he had, Matsushita was immediately stunned, and she quickly said, "Wait!"
Rosewood did not stop the footsteps he had and continued to walk forward while saying, "I don't need you to believe me. Whether you believe me or not with the words I say to you, that is your business, not mine. I don't care about that,"
"..."
Matsushita was silent for a few seconds after hearing what Rosewood said to her. After regaining consciousness, and seeing that Rosewood was already a little bit ahead of hers, Matsushita immediately walked quickly after Rosewood until the distance between them was only a few centimeters left, Matsushita immediately said, "I have previously told you about my affiliated place. To be fair, shouldn't you return the favor by telling me about your affiliated place?"
"You told me your affiliation not because I wanted to know, but because of your initiative," Rosewood replied calmly, without lowering or stopping his steps, "Which means, I have no obligation to tell you about my affiliation."
"Huh?" Matsushita was immediately stunned by the answer Rosewood gave her.
Without giving Matsushita a chance to intervene, Rosewood then continued, "Although I have no obligation to answer, I have already answered by telling you about my affiliation. However, you do not believe me and want to ask me to show you my information card. Matsushita-san, the relationship between the two of us is not close. We are not best friends, nor are we friends, we are just classmates. With the relationship that we have, I feel it is inappropriate for me to show you my information card, which is also what I did by not asking you to show me yours after you told me about your affiliation,"
"..."
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Classroom D, 2nd Floor, First Year Student Teaching Building.
The classroom atmosphere of Class D, First Year Batch was very lively and lively. Almost all students who were accepted, and then placed by the school in the class had arrived and were doing their respective activities. Some were doing activities alone, and some were doing activities together with friends they had.
[Entrance door is open!]
The entrance door at the back of the classroom suddenly opened. The opening of the entrance door at the back of the classroom immediately attracted the attention of several students who were in the classroom. Several students immediately stopped the activities they were currently doing and directed their gazes toward the open entrance door in the classroom.
A male student walked into the classroom through the entrance. After successfully entering, using his right hand, the male student immediately closed the entrance door of the classroom that he had passed through and opened it by him.
"Rosewood!"
"Hmm?"
It turns out that the male student who had just entered the classroom from Class D, First Year Batch, was Rosewood.
Hearing someone calling his name roughly, Rosewood immediately turned his gaze toward the source of the voice calling him and found that the person calling him was a tall man with short black hair and a mole under his left eye.
The teenage boy who was called Rosewood was currently hanging out with the friends he had, surrounding a small, brown-haired male student.
"You were also one of the people who went to that world, weren't you? Which organization did you choose as—Huh?"
Before the male student could finish saying the sentence he wanted to say to Rosewood, he discovered that Rosewood's gaze was no longer directed at him, like before, but rather, currently, Rosewood's gaze was directed at the male student who was surrounded by the male student and his friends.
"Looking at the treatment Ike received, it seems like he was quite lucky to choose one of the five strongest ninja villages as his organization—Huh?"
"Hey! Rosewood!"
A call made by one of the people currently surrounding Ike immediately pulled Rosewood out of his thoughts.
"Didn't your parents teach you manners?! When someone talks to you, you should listen carefully! Not look at other people!"
Rosewood's gaze immediately glanced at the person who said those last words to him, "What you said is a fact, Miyamoto. My parents did not teach me manners because since I was born into this world, I have been an orphan. So, you are lucky if you have parents, then both parents or one of your parents taught you manners,"
"..."
A sudden silence fell in the classroom of Class D of the First Year Batch.
[Entrance door is open!]
The front door of the classroom suddenly opened. The opening of the door only attracted the attention of a few students in the classroom, due to the impact of what Rosewood said to Miyamoto.
A female student walked into the classroom, and it turned out that the female student who entered was Matsushita.
"Huh? This atmosphere… What's going on?"
Matsushita, who had just entered the classroom of the class she was currently occupying, felt the atmosphere was a little tense.
Rosewood's gaze immediately glanced towards Ike, a male student who was surrounded by several male students from the same class as him, "Seeing the treatment you received, which you should not have received before, it seems like you have chosen one of the five strongest ninja villages in the world to be your affiliation. Which one of the five villages did you choose, Ike?"
Hearing the question Rosewood asked him, Ike smiled, and said in a tone filled with pride, "Sunagakure,"
"Oh? Sunagakure, huh?" Rosewood thought calmly, "This organization is indeed far better than any other organization, even if it is compared to the five great nations, or to a ninja village that is not one of the four ninja villages that are equal in status to Sunagakure Village. However—"
"What about you, Rosewood? Which organization did you choose to affiliate with?" Ike asked while maintaining the smile he had.
Matsushita, seeing everything that was currently happening, suddenly looked towards Rosewood, and thought, "He… Did he choose Konohagakure Village as his affiliation? If he did, how did he know that Konohagakure Village was one of the five strongest ninja villages? As I recall—"
"My luck seems to be much better than yours, Ike,"
"Huh?"
The words that Rosewood said immediately stunned almost all the students in the classroom.
"Oh?" A student with an athletic build and golden hair that was pulled back listened with interest to the conversation that Rosewood and Ike were currently having while his gaze was directed towards his two hands; he was seen tidying up one of his left hand's nails using a tool.
Before continuing, or fully answering the question Ike had asked him, Rosewood had directed his gaze toward a table in the very back row, in the middle column, between the tables currently being used by two female students, both of whom were currently looking at him.
"Konoha..."
"Huh?"
Rosewood walked slowly towards the table that was between the tables that were currently occupied by two female students while saying one word, that one word could be heard by everyone in the classroom at that moment, which made almost all the students in the classroom stunned especially Ike, and the group he had.
"...Konohagakure Village. That is the organization I chose as my affiliate,"
"..."