NOVEL WEB Chapter 9. Weird Happenings At The Park.
Chapter 9: Weird Happenings At The Park.
Luckily, my first day at school ended without any more unexpected events.
When I offered to walk Reina home, I half-expected her to say no, but to my surprise, she smiled and agreed.
It turned out that her house was in the same direction as mine. As we walked, we fell into an easy conversation. There wasn't the awkwardness I had braced for, given that we barely knew each other.
Instead, our words flowed smoothly, like we had talked like this a hundred times before.
She mentioned she'd been doing Kendo since middle school and was excited to continue, having already joined the Kendo club here. I found it interesting; I was not expecting Kendo to be her thing, but her enthusiasm was clear when she talked about it.
Before I knew it, we had reached her house. We exchanged goodbyes, and I watched her head inside, thinking that maybe today wasn't as boring as I initially thought. At least I'd made a friend. Now that I think about it, my only friend.
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The next day...
"Who knows the answer to this in English?" Miss Aiko, our English teacher, asked, scanning the room. Silence followed.
I raised my hand, though no one else seemed eager to do the same.
"Milo?" she called on me, gesturing for me to stand.
I stood up and, with ease, delivered the answer in fluent English:
"[The Eiffel Tower is located in Paris, which is the capital of France.]"
A few classmates reacted with a mix of light applause and murmured approval. Their impressed expressions were amusing.
English was my one advantage—the only subject I didn't have to worry about. It felt weird to 'show off' in it, though. It wasn't really fair, considering it was my mother tongue.
The other subjects, on the other hand, weren't exactly a challenge either. I had already gone through the entire curriculum a few years back. Things had changed a little, but after a few nights of brushing up on the books, I'd be caught up.
The class continued without much fuss, and soon it was lunch.
I was planning on having my lunch alone like usual, but Raine invited me to have lunch with her, so we ate and chatted for a while.
"Say, how did you get so good at English? I can't wrap my head around it; every time I study for it, it's a struggle." She said with a sigh. "I wish I was as good as you."
"I could teach you if you want," I said around a mouthful of cream buff.
My mother packed me snacks along with my lunch. Today's lunch included rice balls that mom had made and two cream buffs for dessert.
"For real?! you would teach me?" Raina replied, her eyes sparkling...
Yes, actually fucking sparkling because I lived in an anime. Not only that. When someone is angry, their skin goes red, like a very deep, unhealthy shade of red, or even develops a throbbing vein on their forehead.
Or when someone's someone's gets embarrassed, a small amount of steam shoots from their ears. When I was young, I questioned my mom about those things, and she said she didn't notice them or that they were normal and just brushed me off. I was seriously worried about the steam from the ears part, like, what the fuck is boiling inside their heads, their brains? But after some more questions and dismissals from my mother, looking for answers online, and getting met with nothing, I decided to give up. It was just anime logic.
I have always wondered what anime I was in. The last time I watched anime in my previous life was at least a decade before I died. I was too busy with my job and day-to-day life, so I couldn't watch any of the newer shows.
Regardless, Raine was still looking at me with her sparkling, hopeful eyes, so I assured her that I would teach her later when we had some free time. We continued chatting some more until the bell rang and lessons resumed.
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The rest of the classes were boring, as usual, but I sat through them nonetheless. Despite knowing the curriculum, some teachers would drop helpful information from their experience here and there, so at least I was getting something out of this. And it wasn't like I could just skip out. I needed a good reputation among the teachers to be nominated for the scholarship program, which I was aiming for, to avoid paying the equivalent of ten to fifteen thousand dollars on tuition for college. I didn't want to put that kind of pressure on my mother, even though she would happily pay it up to allow me the chance to study at the best universities in Japan.
After lessons, I asked Raine if she wanted to walk back home together, but she apparently had Kendo training today. I wished her well in her training and left school.
On my way home, I decided to visit a park I saw a while back. The park I usually jogged at every Monday morning had closed down recently because of construction work, so I was looking for a new place to have my jogging sessions, and this one looked promising.
It was a fifteen-minute walk from school.
When I reached it, it looked pretty good from the outside, and when I entered, I didn't see many people in it.
The only people I could see right now were quite far away, but they looked like a young couple, a boy with brown spiky hair and a girl with hip-length black hair.
I continued scanning the park, dismissing the couple from my mind as I took in more of the park and started liking it more and more.
'Hmm, I might stop going to the old park even after the construction is done. This place is pretty big, I bet I can do some nice la- wait, why is it suddenly getting dark?' I looked around and noticed the area around me suddenly becoming darker as if the sun had disappeared. It was only 5 P.M., so there was at least an hour of sunlight left, and yet the sky was suddenly dark, with the sun nowhere to be seen... but it was also a little weird. Like the sky was very close, and the darkness itself was artificial.
Looking left and right, My eyes caught something that made my mind freeze as I tried to comprehend it.
The young couple I saw before, right by the fountain in the middle of the park, were not the same as I had last seen them.
The girl has somehow transformed, now wearing only strips of black fabric that barely covered her modesty, and her back sported two fucking massive, black feathered wings.
She was also holding a long shining spear that she somehow pulled out of her ass. Said spear had its pointy end lodged in the chest of now the kneeling boy.
The girl-cum-bird thingy then lurched the spear out of the boy's chest, causing large amounts of blood to gush out. She said some words I couldn't hear before she took off, flying into the distance, the sky brightening at her departure.
'What the fuck, what the fuck, what the fuck!' was my train of thought as I raced to the downed boy.