The Date of the King of Humans: Chapter 2

It was 8:15 when Shido reached his high school. Since it was the beginning of a new year, he must go to a new class which was assigned in a class list posted in the corridor.

"Year 2, Class 4, huh?" Shido mumbled to himself before he walked to his new classroom.

Soon, he arrived and opened the door, before he surveyed the classroom. There was still some time before the class began, but there was still a lot of people gathered inside.

Shido looked at his right, where a seating chart was drawn on the blackboard, but his thoughts were interrupted from a familiar pair of words coming from an unfamiliar voice.

"Itsuka Shido."

Turning around, Shido found a slender girl with snow-white hair that barely reached her shoulders and a doll face.

"...Huh? Me?" Realizing that she was looking at him, Shido tilted his head.

The girl gave a small nod and said. "Yes."

"Why do you know my name…?" Shido asked with a raised eyebrow, confusing the girl.

"You don't remember?"

"...Um…"

"...I see." Dejected, the girl gave a short comment and walked to a seat by the window.

Shido scratched his head with an awkward look on his face. "What is going on, exactly?" Maybe they met when they were little, but he didn't know her at all or at least remember her.

*Whack!* Someone slapped him in the back, bringing Shido out of his thoughts. Clearly remembering this feeling, he shouted at his back. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING, TONOMACHI?!"

Tonomachi Hiroto, his friend, folded his arms and laughed. "Hey, you seem quite energetic, you sexual beast!"

...What? "...Sex...  What'd you say?"

"Sexual beast, you brute. I take my eyes off you for just a moment and you got so much manlier. When and how did you get close to Tobiichi, huh?"

"Tobiichi…? Who's that?"

"C'mon, don't act dumb. Just now you guys were happily talking, weren't you?" He pointed to the white-haired girl that seemed to know Shido.

Shido glanced at her and raised an eyebrow, that name didn't ring any bell. And as if noticing their stares, the girl glanced up from a thick book she took out before and looked back at them.

"..." Shido awkwardly turned his eyes away, while Tonomachi smiled and waved back at her.

"..." Silent, the girl just shifted her eyes back on the book, as if not acknowledging Tonomachi.

He looked at Shido and pointed out. "There, look, she's always like that. Out of all the girls, she's the most difficult, having been compared to permafrost or the Cold War or Mahyadedosu. How in the world did you get her to open up?"

"Huh…? Wh-What are you talking about?" Clueless about the situation, Shido asked.

"No way, you really don't know?"

"...Was she in our class last year?"

Tonomachi looked at Shido with a surprised expression and gestured around as if to say that he didn't believe the situation he was facing in.

"C'mon man, it's Tobiichi, Tobiichi Origami. She's the super genius that our school boasts about. You've never heard anything like that?"

"...No, this is my first time hearing about it, but… Is she that amazing?"

"Amazing can't even describe it. Her grades are always at the top of the year, and in the mock exam not long ago she got some crazy results and went straight to the top of the nation."

Surprised, Shido asked. "Huh?! Why is someone like that at a public school?"

"Dunno. Probably something like family circumstances? Anyways, that's not all. Her PE scores are also top class, and at the same time, she's a beauty. In last year's 'Most Wanted Girlfriends Ranking - Big Thirteen' she came in third, I think. Didn't you see it?"

"...There existed such a thing-No, wait. Best thirteen? Why is it such a random number?"

"Because the girl who organized this was thirteenth."

"Ouch…" Shido flinched, while the Trivia-man didn't stop giving his Trivias.

"By the way, the 'Most Wanted Boyfriends Ranking' goes up to the best 358th."

"That many?! The bottom of that is nearer to the worst ranking, isn't it? Did the organizer decide that too?"

"Ahh. He really didn't know when to give up." Tonomachi shook his head in a frank manner.

Shido curiously asked. "Which place are you Tonomachi?" 

"358th place."

"The organizer was you?!"

"The reasons I managed to get that rank included: 'his passion seems it'd be too strong', 'he seems to be hairy', and 'his toenails seem to smell'."

"..." Shido silently stared at his suicidal friend as he kept stabbing himself with his own words.

"By the way, you were entered as Mr Anonymous and got one vote and 52nd place. Some of the reasons were: 'he doesn't seem interested in women', and 'to be frank, he seems like a homo'."

"W-What?!" Shido was surprised at the sudden information, while Tonomachi didn't stop. "Also, in the 'Fujoshi Selected Best Couple', you and I made the top ranking as a pair."

"I'M NOT HAPPY WITH THAT AT ALL!!" Shido shouted while backing away from Tonomachi.

Finally, Tonomachi stopped with his trivia and turned back to the main subject. "Well, anyway, it's not an exaggeration to say that she's the most famous person in the school. Itsuka, your ignorance manages to surprise even this great Tonomachi."

"Who are you trying to be…?" As Shido muttered those words, the warning bell that he used to hear since his first year rang, bringing him back to the very first thought he had when he arrived in class.

Which was his desk?

Following the seating arrangement, he went to the seat two rows away from the window, and he found a little surprise there.

"...Ah." As if by some twist of fate, Shido's seat was right beside Tobiichi Origami's seat. He turned his eyes away from her in an awkward manner and looked at the blackboard before the door of the classroom opened again.

From the door, a short woman wearing glasses and light brown middle-length hair entered in the class and reached the teacher's desk. "Alright, good morning everyone. For the following year, I will be everyone's homeroom teacher, my name is Okamine Tamae."

"So it's Tama-chan…"

"Ah, it's Tama-chan."

"Seriously? Yeah!"

In the middle of the excited students, Shido's expression stiffened and momentarily glanced at his left, where he found Origami staring at him. As soon as their eyes met, Shido immediately averted his eyes.

…

3 hours have passed since then. Since it was the first day at school, there wasn't anything to do at the moment so they ended soon.

"Itsuka, you've got nothing to do anyway, right? Wanna get something to eat?" Tonomachi, with his school bag slung over his shoulder, started a conversation.

"Sorry. I had plants today." Shido betrayed Tonomachi's expectations with a simple answer.

"What?! Is it a girl?"

"Ahhh, well… Yeah."

"No way!" What the hell happened over spring break?! You're not satisfied even after being able to talk on good terms with that Tobiichi, but now a promise to eat lunch with a girl?! Didn't we swear to become magicians together?!"

"No, I don't remember such a promise… and anyways, it's just Kotori."

Tonomachi heaved a sigh of relief. "What the hell, don't scare me!"

Shido shrugged. "You're the one who jumped to conclusions."

"Meh, if it's Kotori-chan then there's no problem. Can I come along?"

"Hmm? Ahh, I think it should be ok…."

Right when Shido finished, Tonomachi placed his elbows on Shido's desk and spoke in a low voice. "Hey hey, Kotori-chan is in her second year at middle school, right? Is it alright for her to get a boyfriend or something now?"

"Huh?"

"Uhm, there's no hidden meaning behind this but, what would Kotori-chan think about a guy around three grades her senior?"

"...Don't you dare come." Shido narrowed his eyes in annoyance and pushed Tonomachi away. He laughed and spoke.

"Haha. In any case, I'm not so much of a jerk that I'd disturb your happy sibling get-together. I try to play by the rules.

"You always say just a bit more than you're supposed to." Shido sighed with an exasperated air around him.

"But man, don't you think that Kotori-chan is super cute? To be able to live with her under the same roof must be the best."

"If you like getting stepped on in the early morning in your sleep, then yeah, it will be the best."

"Ouch…" Tonomachi gave a small comment before something happened…

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