Chapter 129: Beginning
[Wilderness Survival Test] was originally a twice-a-semester test for the Hero Department of Shikoku Gakuin, designed to train students’ ability to cope with various situations in the wild and their familiarity with combat methods against heroes.
It usually consisted of a professional hero leading numerous Hero Department students as a standard, in order to test the students’ learning achievements for the semester.
Later, through the promotion of the Principal, the period was extended to once a year and implemented in the Regular Department of Shikoku Gakuin as well.
After the change, the test method was certainly not the same as for the Hero Department, which tested students’ command of their abilities. Instead, it tested the more comprehensive qualities that a hero’s assistant in a hero agency should possess for civilians.
Coupled with the fact that it was a rare course for Regular Department students to come into close contact with heroes, and it was just before the time for the second and third-year students to prepare for internships at hero agencies, over time, the meaning behind this test became much more important than what it originally represented.
“Not even taking such an important course seriously, what were you thinking about every day in your previous life!!”
At this moment, Kazumi, dressed in a gray and white sports uniform, stood in the formation on the playground. her face still held that expression of cold disinterest in everything, but in her heart, she couldn’t help but complain.
It wasn’t until today that Kazumi realized how important this so-called [Wilderness Survival Test] course was. It was not only a test that affected her final grades, but also a large-scale event that required the entire grade to gather on the playground to listen to the Principal’s speech.
As for the future graduation grade rating, the evaluation by various agencies, and whether she could secure an internship position at an agency after completing her basic studies, all of which were related to this test.
Seen this way, it was basically equivalent to her transmigration’s college entrance examination, after all, Shikoku Gakuin did not have graduation exams. Completing three years of study and gaining recognition and invitations from formal hero agencies meant successfully graduating from school and becoming an excellent hero/assistant.
And yet, for a “college entrance examination” that should have been taken seriously, both in appearance and in reality, there was no impression in the girl’s originally barren memory, or rather, it was placed in a position that did not require special attention by the original owner?
For everyone else, the importance of the [Survival Test] could be known more or less from elders or well-informed classmates, and these two points were precisely what Kazumi lacked.
Kazumi Shimizu, who basically had no friends in class, didn’t even have a friend she could talk to on a daily basis. As for her elder, Fukada Akihiko, in the past, due to their stiff relationship, he didn’t know how to approach Kazumi, and later, he was wanted by the Heroes Association and didn’t have much time to pay attention to such matters.
Ishiryu Daito had mentioned this matter to the original owner a few times, but for some reason, it was forgotten by the original owner.
It wasn’t until Sato Shinichi chatted with her casually a while ago that she discovered her girlfriend had no preparation for this upcoming test and even thought it was just an ordinary outdoor course.
However, Kazumi was not someone who panicked due to unexpected events. As a qualified adult, “cutting losses in time” was the attitude she should have in life.
With the intensive study of relevant knowledge in the past few days, coupled with some “internal information” obtained from Doggo, and coupled with the pride of a scholar, this test should not cause any problems. Although her practical combat score might not be very good due to her slightly weak body, it should be enough to reach the passing line.
After all, both her current self and the original owner’s wish were just to graduate and work stably in an ordinary agency.
The old man in the blue uniform on the stage was rambling into the microphone about the precautions needed for the wilderness test, which made Kazumi involuntarily recall the scene of listening to the principal’s speech during morning exercises in her previous life. It seemed that even changing worlds, this kind of thing was still unavoidable.
Her eyes were cast downwards towards the floor, and she automatically filtered out these regulations that she had already memorized, starting to let her thoughts wander and review the knowledge points she had previously read.
“Kazumi!”
Just as the girl was staring at the ground in a daze, she felt her hand being touched by something, and a familiar voice, noticeably lowered, sounded in her ear.
Snapping back to reality, Kazumi turned her head to look to her left. Sure enough, it was the cheap boyfriend she had mentioned before who was calling her.
The young boy was also wearing a gray and white sports uniform. The same style of uniform was fitted quite evenly on Sato Shinichi’s sturdy body. His pair of bright blue eyes were always full of spirit, staring at the girl beside him with keen interest.
“What’s wrong?”
Turning to look at the classmates around her, in fact, for these long speeches from leaders, even for them, the elite students, no one was willing to listen to such a thing, and they were more or less resting in their own ways, just like Kazumi.
Frowning, not knowing what this boy was up to, she leaned her body closer and asked in a low voice.
“Kazumi, don’t be so nervous, just treat it as usual practice.”
Sato Shinichi nodded. His originally high-pitched tone sounded particularly comical when deliberately lowered.
“…….”
Well, Kazumi did not expect that the reason this guy was secretly pulling her aside in the formation was just to cheer her up.
What an interesting little brat, he thought she was nervous about the test in that state?
She scornfully mocked the boy’s silly behavior, but a certain string in her heart seemed to be plucked, and it couldn’t help but beat twice.
Turning her head to look at Sato Shinichi, he showed his signature sunny smile, and then, as if feeling it wasn’t enough, he slightly raised his hands and made a gesture of encouragement. His childish and funny appearance made Kazumi can’t help but rub her forehead.
But at some point, a faint smile appeared at the corner of her mouth, and even her originally straight posture relaxed a little, and she helplessly looked at the boy who was fooling around beside her.
“Mhm.”
……
At the same time, on the fifth floor of the second teaching building of the school, in the Student Council President’s office, the kind-looking boy with glasses was holding his coffee and drinking. Looking out the window beside his seat, he could clearly see the crowded first-year students on the playground.
“Screech—”
A strange sound echoed in the office. The boy with glasses seemed to not hear any sound and gently put down the coffee cup in his hand.
But the next moment, the boy’s originally warm and gentle appearance instantly became ferocious. The skin on his body writhed in a bizarre state, and the entire room, as if it were another part turned inside out from the body, slowly changed into another form in a way that drastically reduced sanity.
In just an instant, the originally gentle boy transformed into a humanoid creature bound with strange bandages, with only a mouth on its face. The originally normal office also transformed into another appearance, filled with disgusting flesh buds and fleshy masses covered in mucus.
The eyes on its tongue looked at the thick stack of documents in front of it, and finally let out a sickening, nauseating scream. It directly picked up all the documents on the table and stuffed them into its mouth, swallowing them as if gnawing on human flesh. Its bloodshot eyes stared fixedly at the formation outside the window, and finally revealed a sinister smile.
“That guy’s….. daughter?”
