Kenkyo Kenjitsu

Reika-sama – 012

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Escalator schools are Japanese (usually private) schools that have associated sections. For example, it might have everything from primary school to high school, meaning that unlike other high schools, there aren’t any tests to get in, and it’s easy to not get kicked out. In Japan, getting into good middle schools or high schools involves testing, and schools where you just go straight up are thus compared to an escalator.

I entered Year 3.
In the primary section of Zui’ran, we change classes in Years 3 and 5.
The praying I did every night during spring break seemed to work because I ended up in a different class to Emperor.
I won against the 1:4 odds.

Oniisama graduated from the middle school section and entered the high school section.
Now that he’s a high schooler he seems more busy than ever, and he spends even less time at home now.
That’s no fun.

Both Yurie-sama and Aira-sama graduated from the primary section and became middle schoolers.
For some reason they suddenly looked a lot more mature once I saw them in their middle section uniforms, and I ended up feeling the difference between primary schoolers and middle schoolers.
I wonder why. It’s only been a month since summer break.
Is it the magic of uniforms?
Mm~mm, the middle section uniform sure is cute.

Because Emperor visits a different salon to Yurie-sama now, his mood has been pretty bad.
They say to leave sleeping dogs lie, so I decided just to watch.
With such a dark aura around him, basically only Enjou can talk to him without a problem.
As expected of Enjou. It would be absolutely impossible for me.

When I look at how beautiful Yurie-sama is becoming, I can understand Emperor’s anxiety about their age difference though.
When you’re an adult, 4 years difference isn’t a big deal, but to children it’s much too wide a gap.
There’s no way a 1st year middle schooler could look at a Year 3 kid romantically, right?
Maybe it’s because Emperor understands that quite well. Whenever there’s a guy who tries to approach Yurie-sama, Emperor just silently threatens him with eyes filled with bloodlust.
From Yurie-sama’s point of view, she probably doesn’t feel anything except a cute little brother’s jealousy, which is yet another tragedy for him.
Sometimes he goes to the middle school section to wait for her, apparently. What a loyal one you are, Emperor.

*imouto*

*imouto*

Also, the cram school that I’ve been attending since Year 1 had a few Zui’ran students enter.
Zui’ran is an escalator school, so as long as you aren’t exceptionally bad, you’ll go straight up into the next section. Thanks to that, there isn’t really any sense of crisis pushing the students to study.
What’s more, almost everybody hires a private tutor instead of cram school.
And despite all this, a number of Zui’ran boys started going to mine.
It felt like the thing I’d been dreading all along had finally came around.

“So you were going to this cram school too, Kisshouin-san.”

A boy from my Year 3 class called out to me.

“Yes, well…”

“Um, would it be okay if I sat next to you?”

“…Please help yourself.”

I get it. That feeling when you’re heading somewhere new for the first time, and while you’re anxious about not knowing anybody, you suddenly spot an acquaintance. You unconsciously want to stay near them.
It’s reassuring, right? It’s relieving, right?
But to me, it’s a terrible development.

“Some other guys are going to start going as well, but they’re going on different days to me. I thought I was going to be alone, but to think that I’d find you here, Kisshouin-san. Ah, are you starting this year too?”

“No, I have been attending since Year 1.”

“Ehhh!? Really!? That’s surprising. I didn’t know you were such a studious typ-… ah, no, umm,”

Mn. I don’t mind, so don’t worry.
As the de facto leader of the ojousamas at Zui’ran, I probably don’t look anything like the studious type who’d join a cram school in Year 1, right?

“I wished to attend because of Oniisama’s influence.”

Well, I suppose I’ll just give him a safe answer here.
At some point I already had the label of brocon stuck to me after all.

“Wow, I see. By the way, how is this place? Is the work harder than the stuff at school?”

“Hmm. This cram school is focused on preparations for entrance exams, so I suppose it is quite difficult after all.”

“I seee.”

After that he asked me various other things as well, but naturally he was somebody who already knew me, so it got harder and harder to ask.

‘What’s your name?’ that is.

This sure is troubling.
Even though he’s being so friendly, if I told him that I didn’t know his name, he’d feel hurt, right?
Isn’t there some kind of hint…? Ah-, I know.

“Class is about to begin, so it would be best if you took out your exercise book. Have you taken a look at the contents of the textbook?”

“Ah, you’re right.”

After rummaging through his back, he took out his Japanese study books and placed them on the table.
Let’s see, let’s see. The name written on the exercise book is──

“秋澤匠(Aki-Sawa Takumi)”-kun.
Alright, got it.
I’m not sure if his surname is read Akizawa or Akisawa though.

“What class did you end up in during the class changes, Akisawa-kun?”

I casually emphasised that I already knew his name.

“Ah-, Kisshouin-san, you knew my name? I was sure that your group had no idea who I was. Um, I’m in Class 4. Also, my surname is read as Akizawa, not Akisawa.”

…If you were thinking that I didn’t know your name, then introduce yourself first, dammit.

Here I was, worrying over whether a classmate would have his feelings hurt because I didn’t know his name.
Is this boy actually a bit of an airhead?

Class began before long, and brought an end to our conversation.
The contents were a little difficult for a Year 3 class, but for now I’m still fine.
Sitting next to me, Akisawa-kun, now known as Akizawa-kun, looked nervous, but he was trying his best to listen to the classwork and answer the questions in the exercise book.

After that came break time.

“Aah, I was so nervous! It’s a lot further ahead than our classes at school, isn’t it.”

Akizawa-kun stretched as he spoke to me like it was natural.

…Of course, right~?

This was what I was afraid of.
If a Zui’ran student entered my cram school, then naturally they would notice me. And then after that, they would pay attention to me.
Either that, or like Akizawa-kun, they could come over to talk to me.
I didn’t expect that there would be someone so friendly from our first conversation though.
But like this, it gets in the way of my original purpose of going to the convenience store!
Aahhh~ I knew this would happen…

“I think so too. In exchange, the classes at school become easy though.”

“I seee. Your grades have been good, haven’t they, Kisshouin-san. You didn’t seem the type at all, you know.”

This boy really is an air-head. His tongue slipped.

“Do I appear that lax a person?”

I decided to give him a jab.

“That’s not what I meant! Umm, how do I say this, it felt like you lived in a different world to hardcore students, I guess? The girls around you are like that too. And also, you’re a member of that Pivoine, after all.”

Well, that’s true.
Even amongst my peers, my family is quite powerful, so in a school that emphasises tradition, being descended from a noble family really gives you influence. Because of that, those kind of girls gather around me, and I naturally end up with the most intimidating group amongst all the girls.
Everyone feels more like followers rather than friends, so it’s a little sad though.
Rather than “Reika-sama”, it would be great if they called me “Reika-chan”, huh~
I wonder if I actually have any friends in that school…

“I’m pretty surprised! Kisshouin-san, you’re hard to approach and I thought you wouldn’t give me the time of day, but to think that you’d be this easy to talk to.”

Akizawa-kun laughed happily.

Mn, so I really am hard to approach after all.

“Do you think it would be okay if I sat next to you next week as well?”

I suppose I won’t be able to go to the convenience store either way now, right?
What’s more, there aren’t that many people I can talk to so closely.

“Yes, of course.”

I wonder if Akizawa-kun will become my friend.

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63 thoughts on “Reika-sama – 012”

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  8. hey apparently EGA’s sequel is being tl’ed(?) by someone atm and lets just say I feel he needs someone to spell check his tl’s

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      1. Hey, when you have no other way to get real friends I’d say the snacks for 1st friend trade is fair. It’s not like she gets a particularly large amount of snacks either, and eventually she’ll be proper friends with him, and thus able to trust him to keep the snacks quiet.

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  11. Poor Akizawa-kun.
    Friendzoned even before he could develop feelings.

    I wonder how smart Reika actually is…
    Her grade in school aren’t really a hint since she is reincarnated.

    Thanks for the chapter :D

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      1. So he will become another girl’s friend?
        Or he already is…
        Also, why would you post a spoiler :'( ?
        Why?
        …
        Well, I’m not going ot complain, I’ll already have forgotten it in a few hours.

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  12. [I apologize for my terrible English in advance, Grand Arbiter-sama]

    Thank you for the Translations!

    So on one hand we have no more sweets, on the other hand we have (maybe) first second-life real friend GET.

    Since this seems to be a nearly forgone conclusion, is that why Reika-san seems to be ~somewhat okay~ about it?

    PS, can you please explain the relation between the gif and the attached post? Because I honestly don’t get it]

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      2. Tree of Saviour? And it’s coming to Steam?

        Is it any good? I’ve been looking for a good upcoming MMO to get into ever since GW2 was a disappointment and I started reading all these MMO LNs. Black Desert Online was going to be my choice once it comes out but if you guys can vouch for Tree of Saviour I might pick that up instead.

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      3. Make an announcement when you do.

        I want to join in that since I didn’t really join any guilds since RO1 and the last TOS beta.

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      4. @Kiri: https://treeofsavior.com/
        After registering an account on that site, if you don’t see register for 2nd beta on the front page to a cache reload (Ctrl + F5)
        You have til Monday Oct 19th to count.

        As for whether it’s good, I don’t want to think my opinion = THE BEST so I’ll just say why I prefers this over GW2 or other MMOs I’ve tried recently.
        1. There’s no trinity (tank-dps-healer), even if you pick all support classes you can still do damage.
        2. FREEDOM – stat allocation is up to you, and the game have class ranks where after 15 job levels you can pick either to upgrade one of the classes you picked already or pick one of the new classes from the ever increasing pool of classes possible (2 new classes added per next circle, so after picking one of the 4 base class, at rank 2 you’d have 3 choices, rank 3 5 choices. Classes can be upgraded 2 times to Circle 3 at most) http://www.tosbase.com/game/classes/ (try their class builder/skill sim)
        3. Good gears aren’t allocated to only max level – For example, one of the best physical attack glove, giving +10 Str and +2 AoE (how many things you can hit in a single attack, not the range of attack) can be acquired very early on if you’re willing to grind the uncommon spawn enemy for its rare drop. While there’s other glove that can give more damage increase, this is the only one that give Str.
        4. It rewards exploration – Quests except for the story one aren’t marked on the map, so you might be walking around, get a ‘you can interact here’ pop up, do it and SURPRISE A BOSS APPEAR.
        5. The art is gorgeous.
        6. The game’s combat ‘pace’ is quite slow. Some people hate this, saying it’s too easy, but I think it’s at a good speed to not cause bs death. Think of it as something like Dark Souls played at 1/2 speed, you don’t have invincibility on rolls (cuz there’s no rolls) but it’s easier to tell if something is about to kick your ass. (at low level there’s even AoE indicator saying where things will hit to give you a sort of tutorial of it, at higher level this disappears)
        7. This might be the biggest one for me – it’s possible to solo things. Sure it’s tougher due to lower damage + in instances it means all the enemies are coming to you, but the fact that it IS possible is enough.

        Since the beta is free and open for all (before deadline) anyway, I’d say give it a go. Play til around rank 3-4 classes and decide for yourself.

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  22. Soooo, first I’d like to say I really enjoy your work. I think you do a great job translating and you pick up some really fun stories. Second, um this story had been a project of kobatochandaisukiscan…. when you picked it up she decided to drop it since she hadn’t had time to update it in a while…. but she did make it to chapter 21… so maybe ask if you can use those and give her credit?

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  23. That cream gif. I… where do you even find these? I come here for the stories, occasionally for the links you post but you obviously have an amazing source to find things like THAT.

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  24. Oh man there are other people in the world who read something awful? craziness. Also that dude was totally wrong; all hail the Grand Arbiter

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  30. The waiting is a royal pain the ass -.-

    Btw note i said “waiting”. Something is better than nothing, but im allowed to voice my thoughts right? ~~

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