chapter 8
Episode 8. If a commoner is an envoy, then I should go too?
“Hey, hyung.”
It took a while to read the detailed description of the guilt of breaking the window like that.
Dale cautiously approached Gillette, who was holding her crutches.
“…Brother?”
Gillette makes a blank expression.
“Oh, can’t I call it that?”
As Dale shrank back, as if intimidated by his attitude, Gillette’s eyes moved slightly towards me.
It seems like they are asking how to react, but what?
It’s just a matter of taking it literally.
“Ah. No. It’s okay. Call it whatever you feel comfortable with.”
“Oh yes!”
Dale smiles at Gillette’s permission.
Unlike before, the questions that followed were filled with aggressiveness.
“Is Gillette hyung a sportsman? That, a club that works out?”
“Uh, well.”
“If you are in the sports department, do you exercise with your friends? Form a team and kick a ball and play!!”
“Dale, it’s rude to tell the sports team that you’re playing. Because what they play is definitely a sport with rules and goals.”
It’s good to see your friend Gak, but wouldn’t it be a burden if you approached him too much?
As soon as I grabbed him by the back and pulled him up, Dale turned to me questioningly.
“Isn’t sports a game?”
“Because I can’t just enjoy playing when something is hanging.”
Moreover, before and after the war, sports were regarded as a substitute for international conflicts.
As the damage suffered by the war is severe, investment in sports will increase, and the athletes from the international academy Lee Maris are bound to receive more attention.
Competent sportsmen are future world stars and warriors succeeding soldiers.
Students and teachers alike can be said to be people to be respected.
“Come to think of it, if the sports department is in full swing, someone might get hurt again. Aren’t there some kids who continue to roll after rolling?”
“Oh, yes. It is, but…….”
“Then it wouldn’t be bad to go on a business trip.”
This isn’t a bad opportunity.
I stopped Gillette, who was about to leave, and looked back at Dale while packing the first aid kit.
“Dale, would you like to go on a field trip with me?”
“Yes? Can I?”
“If you don’t feel like it, you can study on your own here.”
“I want to go!!”
Dale jumped up from his seat with a big smile.
In that appearance, the tears from before had disappeared.
Nothing. Even though he’s handsome, he’s definitely a boy. Wouldn’t he hate playing with a ball?
***
“The ball goes in there!”
“Get out of the way everyone! I’m coming!!”
Spacious lot located on the campus side of Maris Academy.
It is a place where a number of playgrounds and facilities are concentrated, mainly used when the sports club members are active. On the other side of the entrance, students could be seen running on the grass.
No, it’s not about running, it’s about flying.
The image of running and moving across the meadow, kicking the ball, and passing the ball.
In addition to mana, they double and triple jump in the air, and compete fiercely to steal the ball.
-Papapapapapapang!!
A continuation of the destruction that resulted from such a fierce fight.
I felt like I was watching a scene from the classic Shaolin soccer movie.
“Is that enough!?”
“Damn it, then how about this!!”
-Pazu!
At that moment, an electric current bounced off the ball.
Frightened of kicking the ball, the student who spewed sparks from behind as if he had been waiting for it quickly advanced and blocked the ball with his chest.
Looking back, it was Thunder Eleven, not Shaolin Soccer.
I know how to use God Hand too. Shall I ask you to put it on?
“Wow~”
No, I wasn’t here to play.
While following Gillette on crutches and moving forward, Dale, who had been watching and watching the activities of the sports teams while advancing together, started to run wild with excitement.
“Everyone is flying and flashing!! Is that a sport?”
“Um, well…That’s right.”
There are a lot of parts that are too far to be called sports, but that’s a story based on the world I originally lived in, so I decided not to worry too much about it.
“Where did these sports come from?”
“Well, it all started with a simple game or bet. In the case of some games, the royal family devised and made them, and there are also cases where rules were added to the tactics used during the war…….”
After that, I explained to Dale in a common sense way, but what came to mind were reasons outside of the game.
In fact, the sports that are called sports in this world are not much different from reality.
It is a superpower soccer match accompanied by mana, but the base is definitely the same as soccer, badminton, basketball, etc. It goes beyond similarities to things that exist in reality and even the name is often the same.
This may be because developers are modern people, so they tend to stay away from the setting of the times in the case of cultural aspects that do not interfere with important events or historical backgrounds, such as arts and sports.
Typically, the movement we see now is like that, and the food culture is like that.
There is no kimchi, but chicken exists, and when we were active in the battlefield, we were regularly supplied with cola or ice cream.
Ah, coke makes me crave it. Shall I make and drink later?
“Gillette, where is your room?”
“Oh, yes. It’s over there. We will be arriving soon.”
After that, Gillette strides toward the building holding on to her crutches.
Looking at the well-organized building, it seemed to be a place that received a lot of support from within the athletics department of Maris Academy.
I thought it was a baseball club?
That’s what the baseball club is all about. Exclusive property of insiders paired with the soccer team…….
I once submitted an application to the baseball team with the dream of becoming an insider, and then picked up the ball and hung up.
The fact that I can’t be an insider is still the same.
-Kudangtang!
It is only for a while to feel the bitterness of such past memories.
The moment the sound of collapse was heard from the stale room, Gillette’s body shrank greatly as she was moving ahead.
“Oops…… !”
His rush to the scene really happened in an instant.
Even though his leg was sprained, he threw away even the crutches he was holding.
“What the hell are you doing!!”
I immediately followed him and checked the sluggish room, and it caught my eye that fixtures were scattered all over the place.
And at the center of the scene was a noble young man who knocked out one of the 10 members.
“Oh, long time no see Gillette? I heard you hurt your leg, are you okay?”
A high school student with bobbed green hair and an impressive tear spot.
The moment Gillette saw him, his expression softened.
“Eric. You!!”
“hahahaha! Even after becoming manager, I used to struggle with not being able to guard myself.”
Eric.
The student with that name began to shrug his shoulders in high spirits at Gillette.
He’s as if he doesn’t feel guilty about what he’s done.
“Hey, since the manager is this kind of guy, all the members must be stubborn. Why don’t you hand over the manager’s position to me since you’ve become a crippled leg?”
“Sounds that make sense! Do you think we’ll be able to get over it quietly even after they come in and cause a commotion!?”
“Is it important to go quietly and go to sleep? It seems to me that it is more important that you do not have the awareness that the team you have formed is an asshole.”
Gillette makes a grinding sound.
Judging from the fact that the refutation was not immediately returned, the words of that student called Eric seemed to come as a fact.
“Get away from the deputy director immediately!”
“Ah, if you want to fall, you have to fall~ Of course, you have to get off here, but that way. Ha ha ha!”
Eric laughs with sarcasm, and his followers show off as if they agree with him.
However, the students around them, including the fallen deputy director, were unable to respond to their reaction.
I just keep a close eye on Gillette, the general manager.
“Teacher… ….”
“Be quiet.”
I looked over the situation, pushing back Dale, who was worried.
Looking at it, I can guess how it works.
In short, I, Eric, a high school student, is dissatisfied with the baseball team, and in this situation, he is trying to change his wealth by taking advantage of the generational change.
Since even the manager is injured, it must be difficult to rely on the members.
Of course, if it was just pushed in, there would be some areas where it would be punished or something, but even so, the members were not actively trying to calm down the situation.
The reason……. Yes.
Perhaps it is because more than half of the members gathered here are commoners, or come from aristocratic but low-ranking families.
“Anyway, to fill the baseball club of a school where the best talents from all over the country gather are full of thugs who have no name value. Is the previous squadron manager really weird?”
“That is because of the policy of recruiting everyone equally. It is definitely the result of fair recruitment!”
“The commoner quota system sucks! Do you know how much you fall behind every time you play against another academy? At least while you were the former general manager, did our baseball team ever get good results? In the first place, knowing how much of a difference there is between those from aristocratic families and those from commoners, why are you trying to recruit students from among commoners?”
“… You were expelled from our department because of that prejudice, Eric.”
“Yes, it is because of the pretentious and hypocritical former unit manager. If you think discrimination is bad, you will just do individual volunteer work. Why do you change the department’s policy as soon as you become the manager and turn a strict person into an asshole?”
Ugh, Gillette grinding his teeth.
There is something to refute, but the atmosphere around him was on the side of Eric, not him.
Even if the means are radical, talent cannot be ignored in sports.
It is said that you can do something with hard work, but isn’t it now that you can prove it?
“Still, Gillette, you are from a promising paladin family, so your body is on the strong side. So, at this point, throw away this weak team full of commoners and join the team I will build. Yes?”
Gillette clenched her fists that stretched downward.
After that, his eyes turned to the other students around him.
“…… Director.”
“I’m sorry. Jeon… ….”
Many of the kids were just swept away by the atmosphere without actively stepping out, and some were showing guilt or resentment toward the manager.
Hey, if you’re from an aristocratic background, running around with commoners would be unfair and embarrassing.
Even from the point of view of commoners, they would feel uneasy about whether they were suitable for such a position.
If you leave it alone, your wealth will be taken away like a nose cut with your eyes open no matter what the rules are.
“…… If a commoner is an envoy, should I go out too?”
I can’t help it.
For now, as a teacher, I have no choice but to apply restraint.