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Published at 31st of August 2022 09:37:49 AM


Chapter 50

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Maya Is Depressed

Translated by Dawn

Edited by Dawn

Maya Is Depressed

Sunday, May 20.

After finishing work in the morning.

Everyone gathered in my and Kiriha’s room for a study session.

This was all so that I could get into a special course.

We all sat on the long sofa around the living room table, and with a cup of tea with honey in one hand, which Kiriha made for us while doing our homework.

“Okay, I’m done with 1,000 fourth-grade level arithmetic questions. What’s the score?”

After finishing the answers to the last question, I touched the grading icon in the lower right corner of the screen with my pen.

Then, the homework screen slid to the top of the screen. After that, the screen slid down at breakneck speed, with red circles running one after another in the answer columns, indicating the correct answers.

And finally, the score was 1,000 points, meaning that all the questions were correct.

It was natural for a 4th-grade math problem to be answered all correctly.

However, I felt that my basic arithmetic skills, or rather, my mental arithmetic itself, had improved considerably.

After sending the math homework file to the school’s server, I took a break with a cup of tea in my hand.

“Phew, my head’s tired.”

“Good work, Honey.”

As if to soothe my exhaustion, Kiriha leaned over my shoulder with a soft voice and a smile.

“You too, Kiriha. Kiriha’s suggestion that we all get together and do our homework together helped me get more done than I thought it would. With everyone’s eyes on me, I don’t feel like slacking off.”

“It’s just as well for both of us. Ku~, Shisae has also finished making today’s kanji example sentences. Now 1000 kanji characters have been completed.”

“You’re not making up another weird example sentence, are you?”

When I asked her in a bitter voice, Shisae’s cheeks relaxed and her voice filled with amusement.

“Don’t worry, the subject is me, just like everyone else, and the other person is Honey-chan.”

“I said to stop doing that, wait a minute, did you just say everyone!?”

Looking around at everyone’s faces, Miina smiled bashfully, Maiko blushed, and Matsumi made an evil face.

“Darn, so that’s why my Japanese teacher has been looking at me so coldly lately. Until the other day, there was a warmth in her eyes, half-smiling, yet somehow looking over young people!”

My Japanese teacher must think I look like a crazy harem guy.

“No, when everyone calls you honey, you can’t get away with that, can you?”

Matsumi said something too plausible.

“That’s right! You guys need to stop calling me Honey!”

“Eh? But Honey-chan, don’t you call your friends’ sisters ‘big sisters’ or ‘little sisters’?”

“Why are you using the Kiriha standard?”

Having swallowed the cruel words, “I mean, you don’t have any friends,” I was kind.

“Eh? That’s because……”

Shisae gazed at Kiriha’s flaxen hair, honey-colored eyes, and breasts larger than a melon, in that order, before turning her blurry gaze on me.

“You see, right?”

“Are you saying I’m Kiriha’s accessory!?”

“Don’t worry, Honey. After mating, the male deep-sea anglerfish is said to be absorbed into the female’s body and assimilated, spending the rest of its life as part of the female’s body.”

“What does that have to do with anything!?”

If anything, Maria was a caring person, but fatally bad at following through.

“Honey, you’re that one, the friend’s boyfriend position.”

“Terrible, I thought you were all friends with me!? What is this study session for!”

Miina made a cruel smile.

“To be in the same classroom with Kiriha-san? Because Kiriha-san is watching over Honey-kun, and if Honey-kun doesn’t get into the advanced course, that means you’ll be separated from Kiriha-san, right?”

“That’s right, Kiriha is his observer! So isn’t it confirmed that he will be with Kiriha!?”

“No, I got a message from the school saying that they respected my human rights and didn’t want me to be forced to be monitored on school grounds.”

“Then, Honey, you don’t have to study with me. We’re in the same class anyway.”

“Count me in that circle!”

When I put my hands in the shape of a karate chop, Miina, Shisae, and Maiko laughed like ringing a cute little bell.

I was sad that even Maiko was laughing.

–Maiko, you’ve gone over to that side too.

But that smile suddenly cooled.

“Huh? Maya, haven’t you finished your history homework?”

Maiko twisted her head as she peered at Maya’s MR screen.

“We’ll start the Asuka period tomorrow, and if you don’t finish the Kofun period by today, you won’t be able to keep up with the class, okay?”

Inou Academy, Japanese, mathematics, and science are taught at the elementary school level, and English begins with memorization of vocabulary and progresses to the first grade of junior high school.

However, history is not taught at the elementary school level, but at the high school level from the beginning, starting from the Jomon Era.

Still, I don’t think it is that difficult, perhaps because of the order in which it is presented.

Unlike previous teachers, the book does not abruptly say, “This era was like that” or “This kind of thing just happened,” but rather focuses on explaining how things happened, which gives the reader a sense of reading a novel.

And there was no way that Maya, who was ranked 18,020th out of 300,000 in the whole school examinations, could not understand it in her head.

I was worried and watched her reaction, wondering what was wrong.

But Maya said nothing. She quietly closed the MR screen and got up from the sofa.

“The rest, I will do on my own.”

Saying this, Maya walks toward the front door, slowly but cheerfully.

“It’s not safe for you to go home alone. I’ll walk you home.”

Following Maya’s little back, I decided to send her on her way a little too forcefully.

She was always expressionless and emotionless, but today, I could see that she was clearly depressed.

I didn’t have the courage to let Maya go home alone.




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