After a rather dull day of school, besides talking with Yoshida and letting her think about my offer I didn't have much else to say about my middle school life for the most part, it was a normal school with almost normal people with her being the only outlier…. So far that is, but I don't think their are other characters in my school as well and if their are I don't know them from whatever series they are a part of.
But like that school was done so I got on the bus and headed over to Hopes Peak and soon enough got started up on my training once more.
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"Ugggghhhh….." after several hours of intense work out it was finally over after getting myself cleaned up and Nekomaru working his magic it was over.
"Nice work rookie! You were able to do 3-5 more reps on all of the workouts than before! And you even lost 3 pounds already! In no time at all we will be getting you in shape in no time!" Nekomaru slaps my back after he was finished with his work as my body felt completely refreshed.
Now it was time for the hood part of the day, eating some of TeruTeru's delicious cooking! After all it being freshly made is always the best so we headed to the cafeteria to get food for dinner, but to my surprise some of the other class members of Class 77 were here as well besides the usual group.
"Cmon Soda! I know you can do it! It's not that hard to rig a flamethrower up to a guitar is it?" A girl wearing what I could describe as a school girl rocker outfit, this was of course one of the best girls in my opinion in the Danganronpa series, Ibuki Mioda, the Ultimate Musician.
"Ibuki your asking a lot from me here! I mean I can but it's not possible for me to make it shoot flames constantly like your asking, you'd need to have gas canisters strapped to your back and connected to the guitar to make it spew out flames nonstop, it doesn't work if you want to have all that and be able to jam out to you…. Music, and besides with all that extra stuff on it will effect the sound of the guitar as your playing won't it?" A guy with sharp teeth, long neon pink hair wearing a mechanics jumpsuit and a beanie said to her, this was none other than Kazuichi Soda, the Ultimate Mechanic.
"Pfft, sounds like a lame excuse from a virgin to me if the 'Ultimate Mechanic' can't figure out something as simple as that." Another girl wearing a traditional Japanese Kimono and all that entails, said with a sinker as she looked at Soda, she's Hiyoko Saionji, Ultimate Traditional Dancer.
"Nekomaru, you never told me children were allowed in Hopes Peak." I say as we walk in on that conversation as we're passing them by, and me specifically saying that loudly and clearly as we were passing them by.
"Pffffttt!" x3 Soda, Ibuki and Nekomaru, surprisingly, had to stifle a laugh when they heard that joke.
"Ahhh?!? What was that fatty?! You say something about me?!" Hiyoko slapped the table as she got up and glared at me.
"Tsk Tsk, temper temper, little girl you won't grow up at all with you acting like that, you know acting like a brat actually stunts your growth, and you'll be stuck looking like this forever." I shake my head as I fight back with mean jokes about her in return while both Ibuki and Soda are trying their damndest not to burst out laughing at seeing someone fight Hiyoko at her own game, Nekomaru got his act together and went to get both of our portions in the mean time.
"I'm not a little girl! I'm a proper young lady of the Saionji Clan Lardass! I'm 16 years old this year thank you very much!" She was getting irritated with all the jokes I was playing on her.
"16? Wow I could have sworn a grade schooler just showed up here because your parents worked here, I mean with your height I'd think that if you fell off the curb on the road that you'd nearly die from the fall." I say with a glint from my glasses as I continued my comebacks on her.
"Bwahahaha!" Soda couldn't hold it back anymore and burst out laughing and that broke Ibuki as she started to laugh alongside him as well.
Seeing she was being laughed at she puffed up her cheeks before quickly the water works began to start flowing, "Waaaa! Why are you being so mean to me! So what if I'm short! There's plenty of short people in the world like me!" She said while crying out.
Now if I didn't know her personality I would feel bad, but those were mostly crocodile tears then genuine ones, "Yeah there are but when you Look like a brat, sound like a brat and above all else act like a brat, guess what? It makes you a brat." I said as I pushed up my glasses as they gleamed in the light.
Hearing that made the fake water works and turn into genuine anger, "I'm not a brat! Take that back!"
"Okay I will, only when you earn it and show you changed, but until then all I see before me is nothing but a brat." I say as I cross my arms and look down at her, both literally and figuratively.
"'Treat others as they would treat into you' as the saying goes, some may put up with your bs and still become your friend with your terrible personality, but if it doesn't change by the time your an adult I can already see you growing old without ever getting married and even if you do and you keep this up your marriage will be a terrible one at that." I say as I put in the final nail in the coffin completely wrecking her ego as a result.
"Grrrrrrr! Hmph! Hmph! Hmph!" She growled out as she 'hmph'd' which every stomp she took heading straight out of the door of the cafeteria.
"Outta my way you stupid fat uggo!" Hiyoko shouted out as she pushed Mikan out of the way and easily onto the floor, not due to her strength but due to Mikans clumsiness, before leaving for good, but that just irritated me to see Mikan treated like that so I went over to her.
"Mikan! You alright? Sorry about that, I was the one to piss her off by giving her a reality check that brat needed to hear." I say as I grab her and help her up as I see a slight blush on her face, not because I'm attractive but because I'm being genuinely nice to her and even though we have met a few times she is starting to slowly notice I don't find her behavior or personality to be weird.
"N-no it's okay Y-Yamada-kun, thanks for your help…." She says nervously though with a very slight bit of happiness in her voice as she stood up with my help after patting off her skirt.
"That's good, though I wished you'd call me by my first name at some point, but that can wait, so come on let's get some food." I say with a smirk as I see her face getting increasingly nervous but I just found to be cute instead.
"S-sure…." 'Is it really alright to start calling him by his first name so soon…. Why does he…. Seem genuinely nice to me' she said before she began to think to herself as she came to join us all together to eat some nice cooking once more.
After we began to eat Soda and Ibuki both introduced each other to me and I did so back which surprised them that I'm not in a different class getting help from Nekomaru but I'm actually their junior, but since some of them are still 15 with others being 16 they didn't really see the class difference as they will be seeing me from now on every other day until I officially join next year.
But after dinner was over and I had a nice conversation with them I left, but not before deciding to do one thing that could hopefully help change Saki's fate.
And the only way to do that is convince the principal himself to let Saki join the reserve course on a scholarship with the grounds she is their to aid in my improvements of my Ultimate.
*Knock Knock*
"…. Come in." After a brief pause I heard Mr. Kirigiri's response so i slowly opened the door to come in only to stop realizing principal Kirigiri wasn't alone.
"Oh I'm sorry…. Am I interrupting you two?" I say as calmly as possible but internally I'm pretty damn nervous as I see the old man sitting on the couch turning to look at me with a steely look in his eyes.
He is none other than Kazou Tengen, the former Principal of Hopes Peak Academy and future, or maybe current(?), Leader of what is known as the Future Foundation.
"Haha, no need to be nervous young man, I was just having a chat here with an old friend of mine, and you coming signaled it was about time I go home and get some rest." Tengen said as he got up and stretched from sitting on the sofa for so long before he headed for me as I came in and held the door for him.
"Well Jin, we will talk again later." He said turning back to the principal before looking at me and giving me a quick glance and nodding before heading out the door and leaving us alone.
Externally I looked fine but inside I was sweating buckets from the pressure that old man naturally gave off, but I shook it off before coming in and taking a seat on the sofa.
"So Yamada-kun, what do you wish to talk about with me today?"