While I was lost in thought my homeroom teacher Ito-sensei greeted me in Japanese.
"Good morning Carter-kun"
"Good morning Ito-sensei"
"Your Japanese is getting better Carter-kun
"Really? Has it?"
"I'm pretty sure, my Japanese has been the same since last month"
"Yeah, your pronunciation is better than when you first got here"
"Good job"
Ito-sensei then gives me a thumbs-up.
"Huh? Am I seeing things right now?"
"Ito-sensei is complimenting someone? That comes out of nowhere"
"What do you mean?"
"You never complimented anyone ever"
"You were well known for being the grumpy teacher and a jerk"
"To be honest, I don't know how you even became an elementary school teacher
"You seem more like one of those"
"Old"
"Lonely"
"Depressed"
"Underpaid"
"And maybe divorced high school teachers or university professors in movies and shows"
Edmund's painfully honest and accurate words absolutely destroy Ito.
Ito-sensei sigh.
"Haa, this is what I get for trying to be nice"
I gasped in shock.
"Ito-sensei is trying to NICE??"
"Did something happen sensei?"
"Are you ok?"
"Are you sick?"
"Should we get you to the hospital?"
"I have to tell Yamada-sensei!"
Ito-sensei sighs again.
"Damn, why am I getting roasted by a child"
"What did I do to you?"
"I'm just joking Ito-sensei"
"But your class did give more homework to students than any other teachers in school"
"And you somehow made my favorite class, history class boring"
"So, maybe that's why"
"Maybe you should change, I don't know"
"Carter-kun if you keep talking like that people won't like you, you know?"
"That may be true Ito-sensei"
"But unlike you, I'm young so I get a pass"
"Yeah, but when you get older what will you do?"
"That also may be true but also you forgot one thing"
"And what did I forget?"
I put my hand on my chin with a smug face.
"I'm also good-looking and smart"
"You are talking to me just to show off?"
"Yeah, partly"
"No, but seriously Ito-sensei did something good happen?
"Why do you think that?"
"Because one, you complimented me, and as I said before you never do those"
"And two, because my guts say so"
"Yeah, you're right something did happen"
"Like what?"
"What happened?"
"Why are you even asking me?"
"Because I'm curious… and bored"
"Then why don't you talk to Sato-kun"
"Look around there's no one here"
"It's 7 AM, most of the school isn't even here yet"
"Fine I'll tell you"
Ito-sensei's face turns a little bit red.
"I'm dating someone right now"
"And she told me to be nicer to people"
"So that's why you're acting strange today"
"When did you guys meet?"
"We first met each other in high school but we didn't start dating until a month ago"
"A month ago?"
"That's pretty recent"
"What's her job"
"She's an elementary teacher just like me"
"Oh really"
"What school does she work in?"
"In this school"
"HUH? REALLY?"
SHE WORKS HERE?"
"WHO IS IT"
"Yamada-sensei"
"Yamada-sensei next door?"
"Yeah"
"...."
I stared blankly at Ito-sensei.
"Are you telling the truth"
"Y-yeah why? What's wrong?"
My brain short-circuited.
"WHY DID YAMADA-SENSEI DATE A PERSON LIKE YOU"
"YOU GUYS ARE TOTAL OPPOSITES"
Ito-sensei's face turned red with anger, and the veins on his forehead became visible.
"HUH!? WHAT DO YOU MEAN"
'Yamada-sensei is kind, patient, popular, beautiful, fun and she is actually good at teaching unlike you"
"Who is mean, unpopular, not fun, terrible at teaching, and looks like a depressed alcoholic"
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN I LOOK LIKE A DEPRESSED ALCOHOLIC!?"
"What a cruel place this world is"
I shed some tears.
"You know what I'll show you cruel"
"I'm doubling your homework!"
"AND I'm telling your parents about this"
"NOOOOOO PLEASE I'M SORRY"
"I WAS WRONG, YOU'RE A KIND TEACHER"
"PLEASE FORGIVE ME"
"But you just said I am a cruel teacher, I'm sad and hurt now"
"How am I a kind teacher?"
"You need to tell me"
"Uhhhh, because you…"
"Because not kind and cool teachers might have been less tolerant of me making fun of them?"
"Good enough"
"Also Ito-sensei what do you know about a girl name Yuki Yoshida?"
"What? Why did you just ask me that out of nowhere?"
"You know I normally don't pay attention to rumors or gossip or class but I keep hearing about her all the time in school and even in an 11/7"
"So I'm curious why do people keep talking about her"
"You're a foreigner so you don't know about what the Yoshida family did during the Great War"
"What did they do?"
"To summarize it for you, the Yoshida Clan's head at the time basically caused the Elysian-Saranese war"
"A war in which the Saranese empire has no chance of victory and we got absolutely destroyed"
"Saran lost countless lives, its empire, economy and a city got nuked"
"But luckily we didn't lose any land on the mainland or pay too much war reparations and the UCE government even helped us recover"
"Why did the United Commonwealths do that?"
"It's simply because the UCE needed more allies for the Cold Wars that happened after the Great War stalemated and ended"
"Now getting back to the original topic"
"You can guess why the Yoshida Clan is so hated even till to the modern-day"
This is the end of the chapter