Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Taboos of Alchemy
Nagi’s reintegration into the class went very smoothly.
Both the homeroom teacher and her classmates greeted her with smiles.
This surprised Nagi regarding her previous popularity.
After all, is a beautiful girl always a welcomed presence wherever she goes?
In Class 2-A’s class meeting.
After Nagi’s little interlude.
The homeroom teacher took out a stack of documents as planned.
She distributed them one by one to all the students at the podium.
This was the itinerary for the school trip this year.
It was more detailed than the previous version.
The specific timing for the upcoming two-day, three-night school trip was laid out.
When Nagi saw the location of the trip, she couldn’t help but voice her confusion.
She felt inexplicably familiar with this place.
“Nagi, what’s wrong?”
Ling, sitting next to Nagi, noticed her reaction.
To accommodate Nagi, who had amnesia, the homeroom teacher had arranged for Ling, who had a better relationship with her, to sit beside her at a shared desk.
“Um, I just feel like the name of this place is somewhat familiar,” Nagi replied candidly, “but I can’t remember where I heard it before…”
“Well, you do have amnesia now…” Ling thought to herself, although Nagi looked perfectly fine.
“That’s true.” Nagi didn’t dwell on the matter.
“Starting next Monday, there are still three days left.” Ling glanced at the schedule, feeling thankful that Nagi could return to school today.
After all, tomorrow is the weekend, and the school trip starts directly on Monday.
This year’s school trip is scheduled to begin next Monday.
Students are to arrive at school before noon on Monday for assembly.
They will then take a bus to Aoyama City and board a luxury cruise ship from the port of Aoyama City to Nanase Island.
That evening, students will spend the night on the luxury cruise ship, landing on Nanase Island the next morning.
They will then participate in two days of school activities on Nanase Island.
These include visiting the island’s most famous “Sea God Festival,” an island parade, and a barbecue by the seaside, among others.
Due to the large number of participants in this school trip, accommodations and activity times have been arranged separately for the three grades.
However, the departure and return times are the same.
The last night will be spent taking a regular ferry back to the nearest port, followed by a train ride back to Kawano City.
“Until you get home, this is all part of the school trip.” This sentence was highlighted in bold above.
“Isn’t this just tourism?” Nagi said to Ling after reading the content above.
“Hush, you can’t say that out loud~”
Although everyone knows, even the teachers.
The schedule includes a particularly large number of times allocated for playing and free activities.
…..
…..
At noon.
Nagi and Kanade arranged to have lunch together.
The place for their meal, of course, was the Super Research Club room.
Kanade and Ling led Nagi there first.
Today, as the duty student, Mana would rush over after finishing her work.
“Nagi-san~ I’m so glad you’re okay~”
When Nagi arrived at the Super Research Club, she found a beautiful girl waiting for her.
“Hello, I’m sorry, may I ask if you are…?” Nagi appeared a bit reserved.
Perhaps she was not quite accustomed to dealing with such an overly enthusiastic beauty in front of her.
“Ah, I’m sorry, I almost forgot, ahem.” Yukino gently cleared her throat and put on a dignified, elegant demeanor:
“Good day, Nagi-san, I am Tsukimi Yukino, Kanade’s younger sister. You can call me Yukino-chan as usual~”
After Yukino finished speaking.
Nagi could almost visualize a few roses blooming beside her, as if she were a young lady from some aristocratic academy.
This left Nagi dumbfounded.
Could someone’s aura really change so drastically in an instant?
“Seriously, I thought you would perform that act like usual, Yukino?” Ling said from the side.
“Um, actually, I wanted to perform it in front of Nagi-san, but I felt it would be too rude to her~”
Yukino smiled with a hint of disappointment.
Kanade secretly sighed in relief.
If she had really performed that act in front of someone with amnesia, they might have to spend a long time explaining it.
However, Nagi’s next sentence was: “Tsukimi….. could it be that you are Kanade-kun’s…. wife!?”
“She’s my sister!? Didn’t I mention that in Yukino’s introduction just now?” Kanade reflexively retorted.
In the next moment, he quickly realized and rushed to apologize to Nagi.
“Kanade-kun… did you marry your sister?”
“Why is it that Nagi is the one playing this game of teasing!?”
“The diary says that at this moment, one must do this to comply with the Tsukimi family’s etiquette…..”
“Our family has no such strange etiquette!?”
“Nagi-san really has amnesia? Why can’t I feel it at all!” Yukino blinked in confusion and asked.
“Right, right, I actually feel the same…” Ling nodded in agreement.
“…..Maybe it’s because I read the diary?” Nagi turned her head in response to the voice and explained to Yukino.
“Such a powerful diary!? What is written in it?”
“Emm…. Human transmutation?”
“The Taboo of Alchemy!?”
“65% oxygen, 18% carbon, 10% hydrogen, 3% nitrogen, 1.5% calcium……”
“Stop! The essence of alchemy is equivalent exchange! To obtain something, you must exchange it for an equal price!”
“I know all this, but I must bring my mother back to life—” Nagi looked up at the empty ceiling, her expression pained, and clasped her hands together.
“Nagi——san——” Yukino cooperatively extended her hand towards Nagi.
“What is this performance about…..” Latecomer Mana looked at the scene before her, thinking she had walked into the wrong club room.
“And Tsukimi-kun, you should have stopped their nonsense earlier~” Mana said to Kanade, who was watching from the side.
“Ah, no, because I really didn’t know how to join the conversation…”
“Kanade, I really don’t know what to say about you. Let me teach you here.” Ling confidently stepped forward, “What you should say here is—”
“Stop! People cannot be brought back to life—ow!?”
Ling received a hand chop from Mana.
…..
After the farce ended.
Everyone took their seats at the table in the Super Research Club.
Kanade, Yukino, and Mana took out their lunch boxes.
Ling was still eating bread bought from the school’s convenience store.
As for Nagi’s lunch, everyone had discussed it last night and decided to share with her.
In this regard, Ling generously stuffed the most expensive fried noodles into Nagi’s hands.
Though it clashed with the various homemade dishes in the bento boxes beside her.
“Nagi-chan, are you really feeling okay now?”
“Yeah, the doctor also said there’s absolutely nothing wrong.”
During lunch, Mana and the others began to express concern about Nagi’s health.
As they discussed this topic.
A question that everyone was curious about was posed—
“So what exactly happened? How did Nagi-chan end up in a car accident?” Mana said as she looked at Kanade.
