Overloaded With Attributes Chapter 24
Everyone's Fired Up—Self-Introductions
"My high school life: off to a pretty decent start. Found a friend I can talk to right away... (though, she's probably just the 'straight-man' to my gags)..."
"...Did you just... start narrating your own life? And I'm not your 'straight-man,' okay?"
"...he narrated, 'little did he know, she was actually a 'secret pervert' boyish guy.'"
"Who are you calling a secret pervert! And I'm a girl! Not a 'guy'!"
"And just like that, the noisy classroom was silenced by the chime..."
"You know, it's really rude to ignore people. You were the only one being noisy. Everyone else was just 'quietly buzzing' while stealing glances... 70% of that 'buzz' was interest in you, and the other 30% was pure resentment aimed at me for daring to talk to you."
"...Ah. Teacher's here. Better be quiet."
"Why are you treating me like I was the one making noise...?"
The teacher's arrival calmed the buzzing... or so I thought.
"A boy?! There's really a boy here?!"
...And now the teacher is freaking out.
"Well, I'm the first male student in the school's history. She looks young. Can't be helped."
"What's with that 'know-it-all-student-with-his-arms-crossed-in-the-back' look?"
...Isn't that... just... a normal student crossing his arms?
It's the first day, so we all—all the first-years—had to move to the gym for the entrance ceremony. It seemed like a totally normal, boring ceremony except that out of the 500+ people (teachers, guardians, students), I was the only male. Even for me, an isekai-returnee, this felt like an alien world.
"Hey, I thought this school had some male students?"
"In the upper grades, yeah. But for new students, I think it's just you. And... even if there were others, a 'normal' boy wouldn't even show up to an event like this."
"I see. ...Hey, stop talking about me like I'm the weirdo."
"I'm not saying 'like' a weirdo. I'm directly stating you're a weirdo."
And from there the terrorists attacked! ...Is not what happened. The ceremony ended without a hitch, and we returned to the classroom. The buzzing started right back up for the self-introduction time.
"Everyone seems really 'fired up' for this, don't they?"
"That's 100% your fault."
I mean, every girl in this class is so beautiful I'd prostrate myself for a date back in my old Japan. Then again, it was the same at the hospital. Dr. Saitou and all the nurses were "beautiful & cute."
"Haaa... I wanna be surrounded by nurses in cosplay again..."
"What is that 'all-I-can-see-is-white-coats' mystery event...?"
"No, no. It wasn't 'cosplaying as nurses.' It was 'nurses in cosplay.' Only two of them were in white coats."
"Your explanations just make it more confusing. Anyway... how are you okay? We were in that gym, surrounded by that many girls. A normal boy would be foaming at the mouth and passed out. Or... he just wouldn't have been there in the first place."
"Oh, I wasn't in a 'normal' state. I was 'excited' and 'my heart was pounding' and I was a little 'turned on'."
"...So, an 'abnormal person' either way."
By the way, the person with the most overwhelming presence and beauty during the intros was "Akashi Shizuka." That... 'horror girl'... from this morning. She's not human. She's a spirit, or a fae... of darkness.
"You're... not bad, Atena. You're trying. But you're less in the 'girl category' and more in the 'novelty act' category."
"If you think I won't hit you just because you're a boy, you are sorely mistaken."
"Still... when it comes all down to it... you're the one who's easiest to be around."
"Stop that! The emotional whiplash from 'dropping' me and then 'raising' me is so bad I'm gonna get Stockholm Syndrome... And I did introduce myself. Call me by my name, not 'you'."
Her name, by the way, is Kudo Atena.
Named after the goddess of war... it's a little 'kira-kira' (cutesy)... but the kanji (亜帝那) look like they belong to a biker gang.
"Well, if you're gonna say that... you should call me by my name, Atena."
"Calling you 'you' (kimi) is just a habit... Besides, calling a boy by his name... that's... a pretty high hurdle, you know?
O-Okay... th-then... Yuugiri-sama?"
Is there a law in this world that women have to add '-sama' to a man's name? ...Watching how every woman I've met acts... it's... disturbingly plausible. Of course, I don't have the kind of fetish that gets me off on my friends calling me that.
"Too long. Just 'Yuu'."
"A nickname?! No way! That's... that's 'lover's-level' distance!"
"What? We're just two guy friends."
"...I will stab you."
There were others, too... like a girl who looks like an elementary schooler and speaks in a mosquito-like whisper... and a girl who's not flashy at all but somehow... oozes... "schoolgirl eros"... like a 'walking piece of indecency' (who is sitting right in front of me). But... I probably won't interact with them, so who cares.
"By the way, how are these seats decided? My last name is 'Kashiwagi,' but I'm in the back corner by the window. And you're 'Kudo'..."
"You're 'quarantined' in the back. What reason other than 'you're a boy' could there be? As for me... probably because I've always dressed like this. They probably figured I'm 'easy-going' and 'frank,' so I'd be a 'safe' person to put next to you."
"O-Okay..."
So I'm in quarantine.
Also, isn't her self-evaluation a little high?
...Everyone knows a girl who calls herself 'easy-going' (saba-saba-kei) is a total landmine...
After the intros, I thought we could finally go home... but first, textbook distribution. Except, it's not paper books, it's a tablet. It's light, so that's nice.
Man, in my old world, they tried this... but they used some crappy, non-cost-effective domestic-brand tablets. I mean, if it's for education, just hand out the good ones! And the students just used them for games and (porn) sites. I swear I remember seeing some "monster parent" on the news, screaming at the school board... ranting... that the government should pay to fix the tablet their kid broke.
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