Zannen Kei na Ojou-sama no Nichijou

21. The Round Window Requires Attention

​“Kumoruiwashi-san, about just then, thank you very much”
 
At the end of homeroom, I was called and dragged to the corner of the corridor.
 
“No… I too, to flare up like that… sorry for surprising you”
 
I overdid it a little, saying those thorny lines. Well, it’s still better than being doubted. I guess I don’t need to be doubted on like in the manga.
 
“When Kumoruiwashi-san erased those words for me, I was really happy… I thought it was very cool”
“Eh”
“I’m really thankful”
 
I had the motive of clearing my innocence so against such a pure gaze from Asami-san, my chest hurt a little from guilt.
 
“Un, Kumoruiwashi-san was cool”
“Eeh!?”
 
Turning back, I found Tengenji standing there from who knows when. Is it my imagination, I wonder, that that nonchalant smile of Tengenji’s starting to look a bit idiotic.
No, more than that, what are you eavesdropping for.
 
“I want to find the offender before things get worse so… Who does Kumoruiwashi-san think is the offender?”
“Offender…”
 
Now that I think of it, Tengenji was the one who solved it in the original too. Well, with this, the offender might be found unexpectedly fast. Or perhaps I should say, thinking realistically, those who could be the possible offender is quite limited.
 
The words ‘Disappear, Commoner’ on the blackboard.
“I have day shift and arrived first but… it was already there”
“Even though I opened the door in the morning… what a mystery”
It was said to have already been there when they opened the door this morning.
“I did the closing up yesterday after school, it wasn’t there”
It wasn’t when closing after school yesterday.
 
And the new white chalk with a chip.
 
“I think today’s duty student is a bit more suspicious”
“Eh— Why the duty student?”
 
Opposite to Asami-san who was wondering, Tengenji gazed at me a bit admirably as he went “Heeh~”. It seems like Tengenji got it too.
 
“Saying that the words were already on there when Akashi-san entered was probably a lie, there’s no way it’d be on there”
“Eh, what do you mean?”
“Asami-kun might not know since you haven’t been on duty yet but those on duty here have the role of renewing resources for class if required”
 
Well, I have the manga’s knowledge so I remembered the offender right away.
 
“The blackboard board was written with white chalk. And the white chalk in the classroom was brand new with a bit of a chip. If it was changed yesterday morning then as the colour that’s used the most, it should be more plane”
“I-I see”
“Asami-kun, can you leave this case to me I wonder? I would like to speak to Akashi-san in person”
 
If it is as I remembered, it’d be better if I was the one who went. I’ll solve this case so by all means, please nurture your love together. Pushing a big smile to forcefully make to with the Asami-san who’s she’s sorry to just leave her problem like that, we reached an agreement. In return, I received a verbal message from her to pass on.
 
I’ll end this with a Shu-Pa-Pa!
 
I called Akashi-san over to remain once school ended. She’s on duty today so it made a private conversation a lot easier.
 
“A-Ano… Maria-sama”
 
The gaze from Akashi-san was especially uneasy so I’d take it as that she already guessed the issue.
 
“Akashi-san, about the blackboard”
“….n”
“Akashi-san?”
“… I’m very sorry! I guess Maria-sama saw through everything. That’s why I was called in the morning right?”
 
No, it’s not right.
At that time, I haven’t remembered who the offender was but… if you think that way, then we can leave it at that. More… The original had more battering about, insulting Asami-san and all so I thought it’d be better if I talked to her instead but she seemed unexpectedly docile and really reflecting…
 
“Asami-kun spilled soup on Maria-sama and I couldn’t forgive that so I…”
 
It’s true in the original that she couldn’t forgive Tengenji’s attention and Miyabi-sama having soup spilled on her… Akashi-san was quite a fan of the flower princesses and the Tengenji group. It was me who got soup spilled on so I guess I was the starting point this time.
 
“Akashi-san, Asami-kun already knows that you’re the offender too”
“Eeh!?”
“But if you promise to not do such a thing again, we’ll leave this case at that”
 
It is during these times where the heroine is an unbelievably good child. Asami-san was the type who didn’t receive much hate from readers of shoujo manga.
 
Trying to soothe the crying Akashi-san, I was about to give a pat when… my face cramped and ended stiff.
 
From the classroom door with a round window on it, there was a suspicious character.
 
That… is bad. The pair of eyes were almost widened to a frightening degree as they stared at Akashi-san’s and my direction. Very scary, almost a horror.
 
“A-Ano, Akashi-san”
“Maria-sama…. Sorry…”
“No, that….”
 
I beg you, stop crying… Sumire’s staring real hard.