Zannen Kei na Ojou-sama no Nichijou

20. Words Written without a Heart

​The next morning, heading over, I found the classrooms to be a bit noisy. Lowering their voices as they chattered, it seemed to be targeted towards the Asami-san who arrived just after me. Maybe it was the soup incident or so I thought but the reason was apparently different.
 
Looking towards the front the blackboard had white rough words etched on it. I frowned upon those words without a heart written in chalk.
 
‘Disappear, Commoner’
 
It was words targeted towards one person. Anyone would know that Asami-san was the target.
 
Asami-san gazed at the board in surprise. Really, to have no one in the class erase such a thing… incidentally, Tengenji isn’t here yet. This is… I remember there was such a scene in the original too. Where Maria targeted the heroine and laughed, saying something like “Something like a commoner, there’s no one else but you that comes to mind”.
 
In the original, it was doubted that Maria had someone do it for her but the me now has no such thought. However, with yesterday’s event and all, suspicions seemed to have moved onto me. The gazes from the boys hurts especially. Amongst the flower princesses in the class, I seem to have the highest pride and full of the will to attack. All that’s left is the puppet. Those who go against members of the flower princess is basically the same as not having a place.
 
“I wonder when this was written”
“Ma-Maria-sama…”
 
The girl who sat diagonally in front looked surprised as she gazed this way, then to the board.
 
“I have day shift and arrived first but… it was already there”
“But when I did the closing up yesterday after school, it wasn’t there”
 
Today’s student in duty said that it was already there, but yesterday’s said it wasn’t before shutting it. Then when did the offender write it? Uun… who was the offender again?
 
“Even though I opened the door in the morning… what a mystery”
“… indeed”
 
A mystery it is but there’s something to do before that.
Walking over to the black board, I wiped out the words with an eraser.
I noticed the back starting to get even noisier.
 
It’d be nice if my suspicions got weakened by this… rather than that, it gets to me more over the fact that no one tried to erase it. The offender might start rushing now that I moved. They probably didn’t think that I’d erase something for Asami-san.
 
Noticing someone’s shadow, I turned to find a boy with light brown hair erasing the other part of the word.
 
“Te-Tengenji-sama…”
“Good morning, Kumoruiwashi-san”
 
I wonder when he arrived… Ah, I see. Even if I didn’t move, it was an event that he would’ve to protect Asami-san.
 
“I heard a bit earlier but, yesterday, it wasn’t there when closing up happened right?”
“Yes, it seems that way but…”
 
Tengenji’s eyes seemed to have narrowed a bit. However, he didn’t open his mouth after that.
 
Erasing it all, I was about to put the eraser down before my eyes landed on something. White, prink, yellow… in that, there was a new white chalk that had it’s end a bit chipped. The offender probably used this… aah, so it was like that. Now I remember.
 
“Ano… sorry, thank you very much”
 
Rushing over, Asami-san looked apologetic with her eyebrows low.
Even though she shouldn’t be the one apologizing…
 
“Unbelievable. To think someone like Maria-sama and Tengenji-sama had to do something like that”
“Maybe she even wrote it herself to perform a play”
“There is that possibility since she’s poorly brought up”
 
It was probably meant to be done stealthily but, we hear it all you know? Possibly noticing my irritation, Asami-san smiled a bit helplessly as she told me “It’s alright” in a small voice.
 
“Completely, not alright”
 
Ah, or so I notice, the words already left my mouth.
 
I mean, self-play? If I had to say, isn’t it you guys who need to work on it some more? Poorly brought up doesn’t have to do with money. That’s purely prejudice.
 
Writing insults without feelings and loudly talking behind one’s back on purpose. It’s what kids in primary and middle school isn’t it? Things like this never really change huh, ruins the mood.
 
Asami-san didn’t do anything to them yet the air is if she has. Why does the victim have to feel like it’s something to be ashamed of I wonder.
 
“Really, it’s hard to believe, right? Something like the style of bullying between children included, today morning when the words were there for so long but no one tried to erase it too… don’t you think it’s funny?”
Smiling at the girls who were laughing at Asami-san just then, I found them stiffened pale in return. I wonder what the offender felt listening to these words.