Chapter 34: You're Doing Your Best, Sensei! ... No, Seriously?

You're Doing Your Best, Sensei! ... No, Seriously?

Around last year, when I first set my sights on Sumire-chan, by that time, her mentality had fully matured and was unshakable as an adult. She also possessed common sense and good judgment, so I concluded that my training would be pointless.

I'd gotten this far because my target was an innocent, impressionable child with no past experience. My evil methods were only effective because she was a pure, innocent child.

Normally speaking, it's impossible to build up experience from a young age before you even knew what was going on. The only reason I was able to do this was because I was a reincarnated person.

The other children were also special individuals who potentially had been in stressful environments before I did anything, so it was possible to push through.

However, such potential doesn't exist in people like Sumire, who grew up in ordinary families and reached adulthood.

Furthermore, once a person's sense of self is established, childhood imprinting is naturally impossible. Time can't be rewound, after all.

After all, no matter how much I fantasized that "Sumire's loli body would never look ugly even if she evolved into a monster, and she'd be adored forever!" it was pointless.

Because I had no way to turn Sumire, who was an independent adult, into a monster.

But that was only up until last year.

Over the past year, the tragedies that had befallen her, the reality that had been thrust upon her, and the stress she had endured were immense. Now, bags under her eyes are clearly visible, and the tone and firmness of her voice are no longer a shadow of her former self.

I recently heard that the intense stress and excessive drinking had caused her stomach to become so irritated that her doctor had told her not to drink, and she was no longer able to relieve stress through alcohol.

In other words, she had spent a year without being able to release any of the stress that had been building up inside her.

On top of her already demanding work at school, she was also busy dealing with problem children and was treated as something of an outcast among the teachers.

The students ignore her and she has to give up her only hope, drinking alcohol.

...It was really quite a coincidence, wasn't it?

A series of circumstances came together in my favor. The reason she exceeded her capacity was because she was forced to be the homeroom teacher of a class of problem children, and particularly problematic students in that class started coming to school.

Yes, precisely because they started coming.

Ironically, Sumire has been strangled by the return of the cute students she wanted.

It wasn't much of an effort for her back then, since the only problem was that Kagari-chan and Rindou-san, her biggest source of worry, weren't coming to school, but now that they're both here, she's busy every day dealing with the problems they create.

And to add to that, Kagari's change was truly a coincidence. Who could have predicted that she, who was originally just a delusional girl and a compulsive liar, would now become a full-fledged Mama's girl monster?

By coincidence, Kagari-chan transformed into a stress-induced monster, by coincidence, Rindou-san returned to school, by coincidence this, by coincidence that, all of my plans went smoothly when I started high school, by coincidence, the class was filled with monsters and ultimately led to the collapse of the class.

Coincidence, coincidence, coincidence.

The coincidences that piled up eventually became inevitable and fell upon Sumire, an individual, to the point of shattering the pillar of the person named Kamitsure Sumire had built up over decades.

It's so convenient that it's almost like someone is pulling the strings behind the scenes, and everything is nothing but a burden on Sumire-sensei.

She's doing a great job.

If you think about it, this is an environment that's sure to lead straight to depression. If she just gave up quickly and became mentally ill, she could escape from her current environment. Still, she continues to stand on her own, unable to give up, deep down, searching for something to do.

But this earnestness, this fastidiousness is actually eating away at her.

If she just gave in, she could run away, but because she doesn't give in, she continues to feel stressed. It would be easier to just run away, but she can't even think of a way to do so.

She finds herself trapped in a spiral of stress, forever and ever.

The seeds of possibility have now fully grown.

Training, which was impossible a year ago, is now easy.

Right now, she's constantly accumulating stress, unable to release it on anyone. It's like a balloon filled with air. It never lets the air out, and it just keeps building up, never bursting.

So, either it bursts on its own, or someone else pops it.

It's one of those two options, right?

If it's going to pop anyway, I want to be the one to pop it.

Isn't it human nature to think that way?

Besides, the things about how she's trying so hard and just putting up with it, all of that is a lie, fufu~♪