NOVEL NEXT Chapter 4: Friends?..
Okay… This in itself is not very shocking, I mean, seeing Bocchi from this point of view… fits, someone with social anxiety, depression, and who knows how many more mental illnesses, would fit perfectly into the profile of someone really cursed.
The world has its ways of making things logical, interesting, very interesting, in fact now that I think about it leaving aside my favorite girl.
Ghosts can say a lot about a person, among the group of students I can see certain personalities with peculiar ghosts… A good basis to know what kind of people I hang out with.
That said, I will look for a way to help Bocchi, not only because I genuinely wanted to be her friend, but also because she does not deserve the treatment she has been subjected to.
Continuing on my way, I stop before the idiots who stop looking at the figure of our favorite patient with extreme social anxiety and communication disorder, of course I am talking about Shoko Komi.
Looking at her from here I have to admit, this girl really is blessed by the gods, her beauty is almost ethereal.
And curious fact, there is no tadano yet, hum, curious, has he not discovered her yet? It seems that my time has come.
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"Yahallo… Ebina chan" I greet my seatmate happily, she acknowledges my greeting in the same way, but I try to stay as far away as possible, Hina Ebina may seem like the typical semi-nerd student, but she is part of the popular group of the class and most importantly, she is a fearsome Fujoshi who will not last long in pairing me with Hayato and in the worst case with Hachiman.
Just thinking about it makes my butt hurt, ignoring, that's the best way to deal with her, now that I think about it, where's my other seatmate? Being Kawasaki Saki, I'm guessing at this point in the story she's still working late nights, so she's still late for class.
And as I expected, after our teacher Hiratsuka Shizuka started classes, Saki arrives.
The tension between teacher and student is palpable, but Hiratsuka gives up first, I guess she's used to it.
And so a new day of classes began, math, language and English. Typical Japanese school, I wish in my old world it had been like that, normally classes there were, you came, if you wanted to study… If not, you ended up smoking marijuana in the bathrooms.
Yes… that's how bad the educational institution that used to educate my generation was, now you see why most of them ended up in jail or in a coffin.
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Half day – Sobu High School
Leaving quickly, because a certain Fujoshi was about to call me, when she said my name, the only thing left was a figure of my silhouette that was blinking.
"Ehh… Sai-chan?" Hina said tilting her head in thought at how fast her favorite shota had disappeared.
Already at the door I give a sigh of calm, I dodged a bullet there.
"Scary…" A sinister voice whispers beside me, with a fixed gaze, I slowly turn my head to the idiot who dared to point at me.
I was about to hit him… But, I realized it was another ghost, damn it, calming down I continued on my way, there was no need to look like a schizophrenic in front of the others.
So I walked away… Noticing in passing, that Miko and her friend Hana Yurikawa, passed by me… and shit, Hana almost shines like the sun, and then they wonder why poor Miko is flooded with ghosts.
Shaking my head, I slowly walked away, but Saika didn't seem to notice that Miko was also following him with her gaze.
Her friend Hana noticing Miko's gaze on the cute boy, playfully asked, "What's wrong Miko, are you interested in a boy now?"
What I didn't expect was Miko's response, "Hana chan… How do I start a conversation with a boy?"
"Ahhh…"
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Sobu High School – Lunch.
As expected after searching for possibly the loneliest place in this school. A small sound immediately caught my attention.
So I slowly poked my head out to see if my assumptions were correct and sure enough a familiar head of pink hair stared back at me.
A familiar back with exactly the questionable fashion sense of tucking old-fashioned sweatpants under a skirt, had found a Shiny Pokémon, Gotoh Hitori, Bocchi the rock.
Bocchi was listening to music and seemed to be lost in those thoughts, now how did one approach such a skittish Pokémon?
Bocchi who is quietly enjoying her lunch suddenly felt a small chill, and felt the sky darken.
"Eh… Is it going to rain? But the weatherman said today would be a calm day…
When she turned around to check and saw a figure that vaguely resembled a human being, her neck immediately stiffened, her breathing quickened to the point of panicking, she realized that the figure was a boy, which from a certain perspective could be bad and good at the same time.
So in his eagerness to get away for fear of something happening he took a few steps back, since the space under the stairs was obviously narrow, it wasn't long before his head hit the wall.
"Ouch…"
Hitori covered her head with her hands, letting out a groan of pain like the little Pokémon she was.
"…" Saika who thought of greeting her normally like he did with the boys in his class, stood there confused with the events that had just happened.
Well… Now, trying to look like someone who cares about his classmates, he asked.
"Are you okay?"
Bocchi immediately crouched down and began a tirade of apologies.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, …, I'm so sorry"
That only made poor Saika not understand what was happening anymore, Bocchi definitely had a lot of problems, that only made Saika want to help her much more than she expected.
Why was she apologizing?
"Umm, why are you apologizing?" Saika asked, tilting his head thoughtfully, which was too dazzling for the girl.
Bocchi's heart was beating hard, just a little of Saika's smile and the poor girl immediately lowered her head again, full of anxiety.
Her body trembled and she didn't dare to look him in the eyes, really a girl with problems.
"You don't need to apologize, on the contrary I should apologize for scaring you." Saika raised his hands trying to appease her.
"Err… I, I.."
"By the way, Gotoh-San, do you want to be my friend?" Saika was direct, throwing the punch and then apologizing.
The question seemed to take her as a curveball, because she had gathered some courage to see him again and at his question… She went blank, literally.
Seeing that he didn't respond due to some short circuit, Saika approached, caressed his head and said "Yes, only if you want you can be my friend."
For a moment Bocchi came out of his state to see him again but seconds later he apologized again.
"I-I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, I'm sure having someone like me looking at you made you feel disgusted, right? I'm totally sorry for being unconscious of myself!"
Uhhh, is he really apologizing for that?
"No, of course not, it's not disgusting at all, and you don't have to apologize, I really just want to be your friend"
But for his part Bocchi just took out his wallet, taking out a 1000 yen bill.
"Here you have this, it's my way of making amends! And I… , I promise that I will soon give you a friendship fee, so, forgive me!"
Eh.. Friendship fee? What? …, shit, Saika was getting more and more confused.
Seeing Bocchi's money, Saika just sighed, it's going to be a little difficult to become his friend if he sees me as someone who charges friendship fees to lonely people.
"No, Gotoh-San, when I said I just wanted to be your friend, I meant it" he said, making him put away the exposed money.
"And since you didn't refuse until now, from now on you are my friend." Saika happily waved her hand.
"Oh, and it seems that recess time is over, see you tomorrow Gotoh-San" she said before leaving behind a totally confused Bocchi.
"I… I must have fainted and now I'm dreaming about these things" was Bocchi's last thought before falling on her butt and a silhouette shaped like Bocchi's soul came out of her body.
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Sobu High – End of School.
After taking all the factors into account I was definitely going with Bocchi, not simply because she's the best girl, but because I honestly really wanted to make her happy.
"Meanness?".. maybe, but that was okay.
Now something has been bothering me for a while now, you see… My vision had a little red tab, which is normally a notification of something I didn't do.
And the weird thing is that this shitty system didn't even have the decency to inform me, but oh well, we had already established that the stupid thing was full of Bugs.
It seems that someone from From-software programmed it.
Back to the topic, when I open my system panel what greets me is pleasantly greeted by me.
CONGRATULATIONS HOST – YOU HAVE RECEIVED 2 GACHA ROLL. (0.0002% chance of getting a legendary item)
Yeah… Damn system, I already understood that I might go my whole life without seeing another legendary item, but since the last legendary item was so random, I don't really care.
Now I should be a bit more responsible with my rolls, but I've always been a gacha maniac, so without much hesitation, I almost immediately use up the rolls
CONGRATULATIONS USER YOU HAVE RECEIVED..
…. TO BE CONTINUED….