Sensei is a Problem Child but the Strongest (3) - 32

"First, there's one rule for the Make-Up Work Club. It's very simple. Unexcused absences and leaving early are not allowed without permission from me, your Sensei!"

"Wait, that's weird!? How are you a teacher!? You're...... the student council president of Red Winter!"

"What are you talking about! I am undoubtedly the Sensei of Schale! The Tea Party of Trinity will vouch for me!"

"Urk, if the Tea Party says so..."

Koharu denies it, seeing Sensei in Cherino's form, but she backs down when he says that the Tea Party guarantees his identity.

"It's been a while, Sensei."

"Hmm! Have you been well, Faust~"

"Ahaha... What are you talking about?"

"Oh dear~ I misspoke. My apologies, Hifumi. It's been a while since Abydos."

Sensei greets Hifumi, whom he's met before. He jokingly calls her Faust, but immediately corrects himself when Hifumi gets flustered and gives an awkward smile.

"Oh my, you knew Hifumi-san?"

"Yes, we met by chance..."

"I see, so the Sensei of Schale was our peer. And that mark, you were from Red Winter."

Hinako shows interest in Sensei and Hifumi's relationship, and Azusa analyzes Sensei.

"No, I'm from Tokyo?"

"Where's that?"

"It's a place on Earth. I'm not from Kivotos. It's just that, due to certain circumstances, I take on the form of a student here. It's a bit embarrassing, though..."

"I see. But you look exactly like one of us. You're an adult on the inside, huh. Understood."

"Glad you understand! Anyway, today is the first day of our Make-Up Work Club! In that sense, let's have an icebreaker to get to know each other!"

Although it's a club formed to improve grades, Sensei wanted the students, who were meeting for the first time, to become friends, not just study... Especially Azusa, whom he heard about from Mika...

He wanted to get to know her, the culprit who murdered Seia.

"What, we don't have to study?"

"Of course, we'll have to study starting tomorrow. I won't allow unexcused absences or leaving early, or those that don't meet the standards!"

"Ugh... Why does an elite member of the Justice Task Force like me have to do this......"

Koharu, has a strong sense of pride as an elite member of the Justice Task Force. That's why she denied the fact that she failed and didn't want to study, but maybe it was because he was in the form of a student council president from another school. Sensei didn't seem like a pushover. He was definitely a kid, but he had an inexplicable... charisma comparable to Hasumi.

"Then, please wait a moment!"

Sensei then leaves the classroom for a moment. A brief awkwardness ensues... but just as Hifumi was about to speak up, Sensei returns with some things.

"Sorry to keep you waiting."

Sensei brought in a bunch of things.

"What are all those? A shotgun, live and blank rounds? And some cans of soda, handcuffs, a magnifying glass? There are candies too. Are these handcuffs for that kind of play...?"

Hanako shows interest in the items Sensei brought. She touches the handcuffs and looks at Sensei with a smirk...

"Yes, they're items for a game!"

", a game?"

Hanako is a little disappointed and flustered that her adult joke didn't land.

"It's called, Buckshot! Let me explain the rules."

It's a Russian roulette game that was popular in Sensei's world.

A different number of live and blank rounds are loaded each round. Everyone has three lives.

One turn at a time. You decide whether to shoot yourself or the opponent. Basically, you can only shoot once per turn. The first person to lose all their lives loses the game.

And the items Sensei brought. Soda gives you a chance to remove one loaded round, the magnifying glass lets you check the loaded chamber, candy restores one life, and handcuffs seal the opponent's turn and skip it.

"The four of you. From now on, kill each other."

"That sounds a bit off, Sensei!?"

"Says the teacher!?"

"Hehe, I don't mean literally kill each other. It's just game terminology!"

Hifumi and Koharu are startled by Sensei's statement, and Sensei laughs, adjusting his fake mustache. Azusa flinches at his words, and Hanako is intrigued.

"At first, we'll play 1v1 in two groups. The winners from the two groups will face each other, and the final remaining person will have a match with me! The person who wins that... will get a special prize from me!"

"I see, it's a survival."

"Sounds fun~"

"We're using live rounds... Well, it shouldn't be a problem."

"Is this really okay?"

Azusa and Hanako show great interest, while Hifumi and Koharu tilt their heads slightly, wondering if this is really okay. Anyway, they start the game that Sensei prepared.

"But is this really okay? We're the Make-Up Work Club, you know?"

"What do you mean, Koharu?"

"No, I mean, the Tea Party... didn't say anything?"

"Hmm... You don't know, Koharu. Everything about the Make-Up Work Club has been entrusted to me. In other words... I can do whatever I want."

Koharu saw a glimpse of a dictator. She shivered for a moment... but since they weren't studying, she decided to play the game.

The first match is between Koharu and Azusa.

At first, 1 live round and 3 blank rounds. Sensei randomly loads the bullets out of sight. They play rock-paper-scissors, and Koharu goes first.

'There's no way the first one will be it, right?'

Rather than using an item, Koharu decides to play it safe at first. So she shoots herself...

Bang!

A hot live round hits Koharu in the gut.

"Ugh..."

"I win."

"I-I still have lives left, you know!?"

Koharu loses a life right from the start. Since a live round was used, new rounds were loaded. 3 blank rounds and 2 live rounds. Now it was Azusa's turn.

Azusa uses the magnifying glass to check the chamber. And then, Azusa immediately uses the handcuffs.

"Koharu-chan in handcuffs... How cute? Hehe.

"Ugh, putting me in handcuffs... Lewd! death penalty!

"Don't just throw around the death penalty! If you do it again, it's a purge, Koharu!

"That's not what Sensei should be saying!?"

It was Sensei's purge in response to Koharu's death penalty.

And so, Koharu's turn is sealed. Azusa drinks the soda without hesitation and removes the loaded blank round. The soda was just a regular Pocari.

Then, Azusa aims the gun at Koharu.

"...No way, right?"

There are 4 rounds left. Half blank, half live. There's no way she'd get two live rounds in a row, so once she's out of the handcuffs, she plans to use an item and shoot Azusa......

Bang! Bang!

"......This game sucks."

Still in handcuffs, Koharu is eliminated after getting hit by two live rounds in a row.

Azusa wins. Next was Hifumi and Hanako's match......

"I lost~"

"I-I won!"

After going to the third round, Hifumi wins. If it had been Hanako's calculated play, she could have won overwhelmingly, but Hanako deliberately made the match almost even to enjoy the game and then purposely lost.

"So my opponent is the head of the club."

"Ahaha, please just call me Hifumi."

"Okay, I won't go easy on you, Hifumi."

The match between Azusa and Hifumi continues.

"I-I win. You're pretty good, Hifumi."

"Ugh... I lost."

After about 20 minutes of a psychological battle. After both of them used all their items, Azusa barely won with one life remaining.

"Ugh, since you beat me, you better beat Sensei too!"

"Good luck, Azusa-chan~"

"I'll be cheering for you!"

"Yeah, leave it to me."

"Hehe, so I'm the villain, huh? This is nice too!"

And the match between Azusa and Sensei begins. This time, it's a short and intense match with 2 lives......

Ting~

"...?"

During the game, a live round hits Sensei, but it gets deflected and bounces off.

"Since the bullet didn't hit me, I don't lose a life!"

"...What's that."

"That's cheating!?"

"Wow... Sensei, are you serious?"

"Auuu... I didn't know you were like this..."

"Winning is all that matters!"

Could it be Cherino's influence? Sensei makes an unreasonable move, unlike himself. He cheats and ignores Azusa's attack...... and thus, he achieves a cheap victory against Azusa.

"The world is truly meaningless. After killing my classmates to get here, what a meaningless end."

"Sensei, that's so cheap......"

"Is that a bit too much, perhaps?"

Azusa looks dejected, Koharu gives a look of contempt, and Hanako also looks disappointed. Hifumi, on the other hand, recalls Sensei from the Abydos incident and wonders if he has changed too much...

"Hehe, well, well... There's no winner. So, the special prize is gone...... but still, everyone worked hard, so you all deserve a present!"

"A present?"

"Yes... It's, I'll treat everyone to yakiniku tonight!"

"Meat, huh... That's nice."

Hifumi finally understood why Sensei was throwing a tantrum and not letting a winner emerge. It was to create an excuse for everyone to have a get-together. Of course, he could have forced them to participate using his authority, but by making it a reward for the game, even the somewhat prickly Koharu and the awkward Azusa would naturally participate.

Even Azusa had a slightly brighter expression at the mention of meat.

"But... what was the special prize?"

"Ah, that was... my autograph!"

"That's nothing special..."

"What!?"

Koharu is disappointed that the special prize was just an autograph and thinks that the yakiniku is better. However, Hanako observes Sensei carefully... and catches a slight smile, realizing that Sensei was deliberately acting that way.

He deliberately played the villain and acted foolishly to create common ground for the Make-Up Work Club students to bond. Having deduced this, Hanako smiled. She thought that this person might be okay after all.

"But, it's all-you-can-eat!?"

"Ahem! Understand that Sensei's wallet is light! You Trinity bourgeois!"

"I like it. To think there's a paradise where you can eat unlimited meat in this meaningless world."

"I'm not sure if the word 'paradise' should be used here, though~"

"I think this is nice too. Ah, let's go get some drinks!"

They had dinner at an all-you-can-eat yakiniku restaurant, and the Make-Up Work Club had time to get to know each other.

The next day, during the Make-Up Work Club's time.

Everyone arrived in the classroom on time and waited for Sensei...

"I'm so sorry. I overslept and didn't even have time to change. Did everyone sleep well?"

"Le-Lewd things are not allowed!!! It's punishable by death!!!"

"Ahaha, I'll go change quickly~"

"Hmm, a bunny girl, huh? That's nice. Would you be interested in wearing this to school together sometimes, Sensei~?"

"No! Death penalty! Death penalty!!!"

It seems like there will still be a lot of trouble for a while.