Shinobuko crawls away, her body wrapped around the wire, moving like a caterpillar.
She rolls over and turns around at me,
“The next time we meet, we will kill each other-degozaru!
She spits her usual discarded words and slithers away.
Then, as she continued, I heard a moan from under the window, “Ugh ……”.
I look down to see that the pit had caved in.
As I peered into the bottom of the pit, my gaze collided again with a familiar face.
“What are you doing, vice principal?”
The vice principal lying at the bottom of the hole, barely pierced by the wooden spear I had set up.
He looks like he is going to die and pleads, “Help me …….”
I feel sorry for him, so I go out into the yard and use the “Gisu Ladder” I had made earlier to help him out of the hole.
The vice principal seems to have injured his leg from the shock of the fall, but he seems to be in good spirits.
When he notices that the suit he is wearing is tattered and covered in mud, he say,
“Geez! My custom-made suit is ruined! Commoners can’t afford this suit even if he works all his life! I haven’t even finished my monthly installment yet!”
And because I’ve been downgraded, my salary is going down!
And yet, and yet, and ~~~~?”
He hangs his head down, and pats the ground with frustration.
“Vice-principal. If you learn from this, please come in through the gate when you need me.”
The vice principal then glares at me.
“There’s no way I have any business with the students of the Special Training Class. ……!
“Then why were you in that place?”
But the vice principal doesn’t answer. Instead, he uses a fallen tree branch as a walking stick and starts walking like an old man.
Then he turns around at me, just like Shinobuuko.
“There are no classes today. It’s free time for the whole school to explore. You should be digging holes and playing.”
I don’t even know if it’s a throwaway line or not, and he staggeres away.
As I watch him walk away, my body begins to glow like morning dew in the sunlight.
“I’m not sure if I’ve done anything wrong …… by trapping my classmates and teacher to level up.”