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Chapter 22: The First Week and Faction Division
🕑 Added 2025-12-07 11:19:44 +0000 UTCNatsuki Subaru was also a little interested in Suzune Horikita.
If Kikyō Kushida was his ‘kindred spirit’ at this stage, allowing Natsuki Subaru to see a bit of his current self, then Suzune Horikita let Natsuki Subaru see his former self.
That disguised, ‘lofty’ genius.
Suzune Horikita finally turned her head.
Her cold gaze fell upon Natsuki Subaru as she said flatly, “There's but a fine line between blind confidence and ignorance.”
“Never mind. I hope you can always maintain this ‘composed’ demeanor.”
With that, Suzune Horikita paid Natsuki Subaru no more mind, returning to her own business.
In response, Natsuki Subaru, who had been inexplicably mocked, didn't say anything more. He merely smiled and let his thoughts continue to wander.
As for how his academic ability actually was?
There was no need to even mention the Natsuki Subaru who became the Purge King after being transported; even the Natsuki Subaru who dropped out of high school to become a shut-in otaku before being transported to another world couldn't be called ordinary. He was at least at an excellent level.
When Natsuki Subaru graduated from middle school, he was still one of the top students in the school. In the first half of his first year of high school, Natsuki Subaru's attitude toward learning became even more serious in order to prove himself.
Even if the him from that time came to this current school, he would still be considered to be at a decent level.
Ordinarily excellent—it was just that the former Natsuki Subaru had considered himself ordinary, but he was still among the very best, just no longer able to be the focus of the school.
As for the Natsuki Subaru after he became the Purge King, there was even less to say.
The reason Natsuki Subaru was able to successfully earn his first pot of gold and become the world-shaking Purge King who could make children stop crying was entirely reliant on his mastery and practical application of modern knowledge!
Not to mention that one of Natsuki Subaru's few hobbies later on was reading.
Because Natsuki Subaru knew one thing very deeply: with no special talents of his own, the only thing he could rely on, besides the ability to infinitely loop and reset, was knowledge.
...
Ding-dong~~~
The bell for the end of class rang.
The homeroom teacher, Sae Chabashira, who had been lecturing, ignored the suddenly boisterous classroom and left in a straightforward manner.
Over the past week, Sae Chabashira had always been like this, and everyone had gotten used to it.
It also made some of the students in the class completely lose their reverence for her.
Natsuki Subaru had just walked a short distance from the classroom when he came across a few classmates gathered together. In this past week, Natsuki Subaru had been able to simply divide the boys and girls in the class into two factions each.
The girls were roughly divided into the delinquent faction led by Kei Karuizawa and the good-girl faction led by Kikyō Kushida.
The boys were naturally divided into the normal-person faction led by class representative Yōsuke Hirata and the troublemaker faction with no clear leader.
Of course, there were also the fifth and sixth factions, with Natsuki Subaru and Suzune Horikita each forming their own.
Right now, the students gathered together were from the troublemaker faction.
“Hey, hey, hey, what do you guys think of the homeroom teacher's boobs?”
“Not small at all, right?”
Several people were gathered, discussing the chest sizes of the girls in the class.
One of them was Haruki Yamauchi.
“I think she's probably an E-cup.”
Haruki Yamauchi smacked his lips, looking like he was fantasizing in his head.
As the saying goes, when well-fed and warm, lewd thoughts arise.
The hundred thousand points a month plus the relaxed environment had already let Haruki Yamauchi completely cut loose.
“Hahahaha, Yamauchi, you're really desperate.”
“I actually think she's an E-cup, maybe even an F-cup.”
A classmate next to him named Kanji Ike also laughed and said, “To be honest, I think if they're too big, it's not beautiful. Compared to those large cups, I actually prefer Kei Karuizawa-san.”
“Kei Karuizawa is definitely top-tier in my heart!”
The group was discussing this fervently.
This was fine, after all, it was the age of budding romance. Natsuki Subaru could understand.
Thinking back to the first moment he saw Emilia, Natsuki Subaru himself couldn't tell if he had been attracted by Emilia's personality or by her beautiful face and figure.
Natsuki Subaru couldn't deny that part of the reason he had chased after Emilia in the past was because of her appearance.
The only thing that surprised Natsuki Subaru a little was that Kiyotaka Ayanokōji was also in the group discussing this.
From Natsuki Subaru's understanding of Kiyotaka Ayanokōji, Kiyotaka Ayanokōji shouldn't be concerned with such things. Or rather, Kiyotaka Ayanokōji was hardly concerned with most things.
Natsuki Subaru's gaze paused for a moment on Kiyotaka Ayanokōji's expressionless face.
Besides Kikyō Kushida and Suzune Horikita, Kiyotaka Ayanokōji's clumsy acting had also piqued Natsuki Subaru's interest. Over the past week, Kiyotaka Ayanokōji had been trying to make himself ‘unremarkable’.
However, these attempts by Kiyotaka Ayanokōji to make himself seem ordinary were what Natsuki Subaru found interesting.
Because it was an 'ordinariness' created by a lack of a great deal of basic common sense for daily life.
And... mixing with people like Haruki Yamauchi was, in itself, a symbol of being extremely 'un-ordinary'.
‘He hasn't realized that at all, has he, Kiyotaka Ayanokōji.’
Natsuki Subaru lamented slightly in his heart.
“Yo, isn't it Natsuki?”
“Natsuki, which girl in our class do you think is pretty good?”
Haruki Yamauchi spotted Natsuki Subaru.
Perhaps because he remembered being pushed away by Natsuki Subaru last time, his wrist hurting from the grip, Haruki Yamauchi called out to Natsuki Subaru with a smile, as if doing so would make him seem less pathetic than last time.
“Hey, Yamauchi-kun.”
Not taking up Haruki Yamauchi's topic, Natsuki Subaru asked him in return with a smile, “I wonder how many points you have left for this month?”
“Huh?”
“Less than thirty thousand, I guess.”
Hearing Natsuki Subaru's question, Haruki Yamauchi was stunned for a moment, then said somewhat inexplicably, “I spent a bit too much at the beginning, but making it to next month should be no problem.”
“Is there a problem? Natsuki.”
Subconsciously thinking Natsuki Subaru was going to criticize him for spending recklessly, Haruki Yamauchi made an excuse for himself.
After all, with one hundred thousand points every month, it was normal to spend a little more in the first week.
He wasn't even one of the biggest spenders; there was a guy next to him who had spent eighty thousand points on a game console on the first day.
