A week passed. Time feels so fast, even though all this time I just sighed every time I listened to Herman-sensei's material.
"Huff… Bored."
Fujita glanced at me for a moment then raised his hand.
"Sensei, Akio is bored again. Get him out of here!"
"Eh?"
Herman-sensei turned around, looking at me seriously.
"Is that true, Samsudin-san?"
"No, no, no, that's not true. Fujitora is lying, Sensei, you can't just believe it."
"My name is Fujita, not Fujitora."
I know Fujita holds a grudge against me, I also felt guilty about it last time. Because I made Fujita have to be locked up in his room by Karin and Shiva.
A week ago, when I just got to my room, I found Fujita's condition was helpless, with the position of his legs and arms remembered on the bed.
He suffered, was tortured, his mouth was gagged with a green gasp. I was wrong for coming home late and letting Karin and Shiva torture him. It's my fault, that's why Fujita is currently holding a grudge against me.
"If only you hadn't wandered off at that time, maybe I would have been fine."
"Oi, oi, oi, you still hold grudges about it, even though I apologized."
"Hmph." Fujita looked away as if he didn't want to talk to me anymore.
Fujitora...
Once holding a grudge, Fujita will always hold that grudge. He's a vengeful figure, that's not good. No matter how much I apologized to him, he didn't respond to my apology and will continue like this.
I am indeed guilty, but that doesn't mean he has to hold a grudge until this week. This is too much, he must immediately accept the fact that the past has already happened and cannot be changed.
When the recess bell rang, I saw Fujita stand up and pass me by.
"Andre-san, how about we go to the cafeteria together?"
He invited Andre, didn't invite me as usual.
Andre stood up, agreeing to go to the cafeteria with him.
"Akio-san, you-"
"Don't invite him!" said Fujita, cutting off Andre's words.
"Oi!"
I can't do anything, because Fujita is already on a childish stage. This is more difficult than advising parents.
"Come on, Andre-san!" Fujita walked past me with a look on his face as if he was looking away. "Hmph."
Andre was standing right next to me.
"Sorry, Akio-san..."
"It is okay. It doesn't matter, after all, it was I who was wrong. So, take it easy, Yasir-san."
"Hey Andre-san, hurry up! You must not speak to the traitor."
"Oi!" I saw Fujita who was already near the door.
"Bye, Akio-san."
"Yes."
As Andre walked over, I let out my breath.
"Huff… why is it like this? He must hate me to this extent."
Well, it's confirmed that Fujita hates me for this. I don't know how long he will continue like that, but I will still apologize to him about that week ago.
No one wants to be with me anymore. Fujita, Andre has walked to the cafeteria together, I am now alone walking to the cafeteria.
"Ah, ah~ to the cafeteria alone."
The more I walked, the heavier my footsteps headed towards the cafeteria.
"Shouldn't I just go to the cafeteria, okay? Besides, my stomach isn't that hungry either, so why should I go to the cafeteria."
I stopped for a moment right near the stairs.
I turned to my left, there was a ladder. I turned to the right, there was a window that showed a slightly overcast sky. I decided to go right, to the window, and look up at the sky.
"Looks like it's going to rain."
During this week, I thought I kept worrying about Mrs. Nagaki and Hinata. I often ask Sakuya about their condition, and Sakuya says that they are fine.
Although it's a bit of relief for me, I'm still worried about them.
I don't know when that will happen. Rin just said that it's a picture of the future that doesn't have time, and I can only see that picture of the future once. I already know the time and place of the incident, in the afternoon and at the park, but I do not know the date, day, and year of the incident. Maybe it could be fast, maybe it could be slow, which I don't know.
But at least I've tried to keep that from happening.
"If that turns out to be a picture of their future, I should have prevented that from happening by now." I looked at the palm of my right hand which had a dot on it. "Am I doing this job well?"
I assume this is a job. I became a Huoltaja, this is quite a difficult and dangerous job for me, protecting this world. Although no one knows my identity yet, because I kept hiding my identity to be free, I feel that something is a little wrong.
I'm not sure about this fault, but I can feel this uneasy feeling. Whenever I think of humans, I always feel inadequate to save them. I don't know what's lacking, I always feel like I can't save them for some unknown reason.
Whenever I saw them laughing, sad, talking to each other, hiding their feelings… I always doubted whether I was fit to save them from that Astra Being.
When I contemplated, I unconsciously got lost in my thoughts, so I didn't realize someone was beside me.
"Samsudin-san? Hello, Samsudin-san."
When I came to my senses and turned to the side, I saw the class president there, Nodoka Yamada.
"Oh, Yamada-san."
"You are okay? Why are you daydreaming? What are you thinking about?"
Besides Yamada, I saw a few girls behind her.
Some girls I recognize, because they are in my class, some girls I don't recognize.
"Ah. I'm just thinking about the cloudy sky."
"Oh, I see. So you're thinking about a cloudy sky?"
"Yes. Looks like it's going to rain today. Luckily I had an umbrella with me thanks to the weather forecast on my cell phone."
"Oh, it turns out that way. I thought you were contemplating being left behind by your friends."
"Hahaha, that's impossible."
"Okay then, I'll go to the cafeteria first."
"Yes."
Yamada left me, and a few girls behind her followed her down the stairs.
"Woah, she has followers. Terrifying."
I looked back up at the sky, contemplating again.
I'm used to being left like this. I'm used to being alone in overcoming anything, even in thinking. This is a natural thing to happen because being alone is something that happens in society. Not that I was being bullied, but indeed no one wanted to take me to the cafeteria together. They, they, and they easily invite other people, while I was not invited.
Even Yamada didn't invite me. She left after asking why I was daydreaming. Isn't that bad? I was left alone in this solitude.
I feel like I want to end the day as soon as possible.
***
Herman-sensei went back to explaining things after the break ended. Fujita was still the same, looking away from me.
Even so, but I can't blame him and get angry with him. I'm quite patient in any case, especially in overcoming his stupidity.
"Huff…" I sighed. "Bored."
"Sensei, Akio-san is bored again while you're explaining," Fujita reported this the moment he heard my breath.
"Samsudin-san, is that true?"
"No, no, no, that's not true. Don't believe what he says, Sensei!"
The learning continued despite Fujita several times reporting something to Herman-sensei about this bored me.
His mouth really couldn't keep a secret when his childish nature came out. His mouth had to be shut immediately, so he couldn't say anything.
"Huff..."
"Sensei-"
"Stop it!" I pushed my desk to stop him from talking.
But because of that, it made the students and Herman-sensei look at me.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing," I answered as quickly as possible, so as not to make a fuss about it.
"Akio-san is back-"
I pushed the table quickly, hitting Fujita's stool.
"What about Samsudin?"
"No, it's nothing, Sensei. Please just continue!"
"Oh, alright." Herman-sensei stood up from his chair and wrote something on the whiteboard. "I have an announcement for you. Since I explained the material about the creature, your mentality is ready, and your attributes are complete, then all that's left is your combat training."
Herman-sensei wrote a date on the board, and the students could only see the board.
On the board was written the date that would come in 3 days.
"So, in the next 3 days, prepare the things you need to go to the training camp."
"Eh? Training camp?"
The students could only wonder about this.
"You will be tortured—I mean…"
Oi, I heard that!
"You will be made tough in your training period later in the training camp. Your mental strength will be made as strong as possible to be ready to fight these creatures, and you will be taught how to use a weapon. You will also be guided by great people there, according to the type of weapon you choose."
I knew this would happen.
This is a good thing to strengthen the mentality of those weak, cowards. So in this way, they will be ready if the creature suddenly appears with a strong mentality. This is pretty good, I like this challenge.
Even though I like this, but their facial expressions don't look good with this. They looked like they didn't want to go to that training camp and talk to each other.
"How about this? I don't want to go to that training camp. As the rumors say, the training camp is a place of torture for humans."
"Eh? Really? No, I don't want to go there."
"I don't want to either."
"Hmph." Fujita nodded repeatedly, looking confident. "Training camp, huh? I can't wait to… hehehe."
I can feel Fujita's aura of evil intent from behind him.
"Oi..."
He must be wearing a lewd face right now with his dirty thoughts.
"So everyone, prepare yourselves for the training later. I hope that when you return home, you will have the mental strength to help the humans in this world."
Herman-sensei convinced them and had high hopes. Even though he knows that his students don't look like they want to go to the training camp, he still tries and believes that his students can train there.
He is a good teacher, accepts everything his students do, whether good or bad. What he wanted was only one, to make his disciples strong.
And without realizing that time passed so quickly, the doorbell rang.
When I stood up to pick up my bag in the back, I saw something flying in the overcast sky.
"What's that?" I focus on that.
When my eyes focused on that, I slowly saw a white object flying so far away from where this school was.
And after I looked carefully, it turned out to be a drone that looks very much like an airplane.
"Drones? Who flew that?"
DEG! DEG! DEG!
My heart suddenly beats so fast, signaling an uncomfortable feeling.
"..." I was silent for a while then panicked. "Shit..."
Without thinking I ran past Fujita, Herman-sensei, the exit.
"Oi, where do you want to go?"
I heard Sakuya's voice before I left this class.
As I ran along this corridor, several swords fell and almost hit me.
"Watch out! This feeling… feeling like my father and mother were killed."
"Oi, where are you going?"
Sakuya turned out to be following me from behind.
Not only Sakuya, but Fujita who still hates me suddenly came running after me.
"Akio-san, what are you doing? I'm sorry about that earlier. I don't mean to hate you, I'm just kidding. So, don't leave me to the dorm."
"Tch..." I remembered my lips were bleeding and didn't answer their words.
After running along this corridor, I finally arrived at the stairs.
I jumped high to go down the stairs. But in the end, my ankles felt sore on landing.
Even so, I still ran to get out of this school and headed to Hinata and Mrs. Nagaki.
"Please... please stay at home. I ask."