School First Day

The atmosphere between the new couple somehow became awkward, and just a few minutes ago, both of them just declared their feelings to each other. 

It's not a mere instant hypothetical feeling where there's a real affection between them and the seeds of love that have been planted from the past, already grown and blooming.

Akira finally feels how the world seems to be focused on the two of them, as if there's a main camera that highlights their presence where there are no other people around them along their journey to the school.

There are actually other people, but their faces have been automatically blurred from his vision, as if they're an NPC that's a passerby and hasn't made a contribution to his life.

Akira and Megumi were walking side by side, and if you're a passerby, you can just tell there's something between them, as if they're a shy couple and it's not good to express their thoughts when they're together.

Some may yell at Akira to act like a straight man and show his skill to Rizz, his new girlfriend, who walks beside him. 

Yeah, for Akira, it's fine for now, as his heart was really beating at an unrelenting pace.

He who never fell in love in the first place in his previous life somehow asks himself, Is this the feeling of falling in love with someone?

It feels funny and warm at the same time when he glances at Megumi, who has been quiet like him while always looking down at the paving block under her feet with a flushed expression, sometimes smiling by herself.

Stranger can even tell that she was at her peak of happiness, where she always fell in love with the man named "Akira Kurusu" as a child, keeping his promise to come back to her.

Fulfilling her selfish demand as the little girl who acts like she knows what the meaning of love is at the time.

If observed quietly, it's a false memory that was made by "Alaya" and "Gaia" to integrate Akira in a natural way into this new daily slice of life.

But it's okay; Akira's love for Megumi was perfectly real. Megumi was a "perfect" ideal girl that he hoped to spend his life with.

...It's quite disgusting, too, that Akira fell in love with a 2D character rather than a real-life woman.

But, hey. It's perfectly fine where he seems to have used his entire luck in the previous world to have a second life and been placed into this world by those two as a service to them, where all those fictional characters have really lived like normal humans.

It's fine, and he bet all those men of culture in his previous life were going to vomit blood like in that urban fiction.

The distance between Kato's home and school was not that far, and those who had been walking from the start finally reached the school in under twenty minutes.

A bunch of students were walking to get into the school, and the look of the building was quite huge and different from the original school, where the uniforms were.

The school name was the same as the persona game: Shujin Academy. It's just that the that the name and school uniform were the same, but the building itself was completely different and more huge and vast than the original.

This made Akira sigh relivedly as he had no mood to face those phenomenon shadow thing, cognition, persona, arcana, etc.

He just wants this world to be completely a daily world without any supernatural happenings, and he already has a handful of troublemakers in the Nasuverse that he must invade and balance later in the future.

"Let's go, Akira, to the teacher's room." Megumi, who had been quiet from the start, finally opened her mouth with a tiny smile on her face and led Akira into the school building.

The atmosphere of the environment of the school was great for Akira, and at the same time, he could already detect some of the protagonists and heroines who had been mixed into this school compared to the original timeline of the story.

As for who and whom, it's not his business, as he just wants to spend his time slowly in this world while honing himself as the "First Counter Guardian."

The teacher room was in the east of the lobby school, where the moment Megumi said, "Excuse me," while putting her hand on the slide door,.

Akira, who had been walking beside her, smiled helplessly where she already saw those famous teachers that are usually used as the heroines of the fanfiction that he usually reads in his spare time.

One of them was the "iron-fist teacher who loved to smoke and has always been described as a pushover who implements her own idea of youthfulness into her students."

Shizuka Hiratsuka.

"Sensei, there's a transfer student who wants to report about his transfer matter."

Shizuka, who sits while reading some documents that seem to be related to the teaching matter, is quite startled when greeted by Megumi.

Akira, who already knows this kind of moment because of the weak presence of his girlfriend, cannot help but chuckle in surprise seeing this live with his own eyes.

"Oh, it is you, Megumi. As always, you continue to surprise me..." Shizuka then shifted her gaze back to Akira, who appeared unexpectedly right beside Megumi.

"Since when have you been standing there?" 

Akira, who can easily be an attention seeker because of his natural charm and look that he's inhirted according to the explanation of Megumi Mama, was easily erased from his presence by his parents, far worse than Megumi.

Megumi raised her eyesbrow to learn about this, then looked at Akira as if she had just found a fellow in the same condition as her.

Her reaction was so cute that Akira smiled softly when he saw it.

"I've already been standing here and entering the room at the same time with Megumi, sensei." Akira explained.

"I see..." Shizuka just sighs, as there's another one who seems to have the same tendency as Megumi.

Shizuka then grabs the file transfer student on her desk, who seems to have already been set by "Alaya" and "Gaia" the moment Akira entered the world.

Forged Identity.

What else can those two do when suddenly there's an alien looking like an identity that's invading the world?

"Akira Kurusu, 16 years old..." Shizuka read the information on the file while sometimes glanced at Akira, who stood still like a good boy.

"Right. Then, student Megumi, you need to go to your class first as the first period is going to start soon." 

Megumi then nodded, taking a glance at Akira while murmuring something with a hopeful gaze at her boyfriend before leaving the teacher room and walking into her class.

"Student Kurusu... In the file, the reason you transferred to Japan is because of some circumstances with your parents." Shizuka glanced at Akira to confirm some information that was on the file.

She tried to tone down her words to not make the others feel uncomfortable. Akira nodded, then explained his circumstances, which made him transfer to the school.

After confirming all the information, Shizuka then nodded before getting up from her seat, as she was going to teach modern Japanese in her homeroom class.

"That's it, then, student Kurusu, you need to follow me as the class you're going to be placed in is a class under my guidance, class 2-D."

"I see... Then please take care of me, Hiratsuka Sensei." Akira slightly bows his head, then shows a grateful smile.

"Good, it's nice to have a polite student like you." Shizuka nodded before leading Akira into the classroom.

The bell for the first period just rang a few minutes ago, and there's no student wandering around in the lounge or lobby.

Sophomore class was on the 2nd floor, where the first floor was for freshmen, and the third year was on the third floor, according to Shizuka's explanation.

There's also a rooftop, and like the rest of the slice of life school setting, it's been locked and not open to the public.

Still, there's got to be a way for someone to get in there or someone with a duplicate key to open it, like a certain novelist third-year student who had a venomous tongue.

"Hiratsuka Sensei, I want to ask. Is it mandatory for students to join the club?"

"Hmmm? In this school, there's a rule like that. Why do you ask that?"

"I see... then there's a ban for students to work part-time while attending school?"

"No, but you need to report to the perspective homeroom teacher for the schedule of your part-time if there's something wrong with the student while they do part-time. The school can take action to help the student.

Well, we also had a scholarship for those who needed it. This school was, after all, a famous one in Chiba Prefecture, and it had many donors that invested in it."

"I see, then thank you for the information, sensei." 

"Haha, well, just ask anything to this sensei if you have another question."

They then finally arrive in front of class 2-D, where they can hear some students making sounds that chat with each other.

"Sigh. They're really lively, aren't they?" Shizuka sighs helplessly before looking at Akira, who stands beside her.

"You're waiting here first," she said before opening the slide door, then silently addressing those students of her with a bam on the desk in front of class while scolding her student to be quiet.

Akira just chuckled softly, as it really looked like what Hiratsuka does, before peeking inside the classroom.

His corner lips are naturally bent, where he can easily spot the passerby heroine beauty, who has a weak presence and looks in anticipation at the door while seems to be praying at something. At the same time, there's an empty seat beside her desk.

"Well, let's make some sweet snacks for Alaya and Gaia to give me this kind of privilege."