Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume12 The Eleventh Question
Please list a proverb for the following:
“1. You may fail at things you’re good at.” “2. One unlucky event after another.”
Himeji Mizuki’s answer:
“1. Even Kūkai[1] will make mistakes when writing.” “2. When it rains, it pours.
Teacher’s Comment:
Correct. Also, for (1), there is also another proverb, ‘Kūkai can’t choose pens’. A similar expression for (1) would be ‘A kappa[2] can get washed away’ or ‘a monkey may fall from a tree’.
Similarly, for (2), there is a proverb ‘a bee stinging on a crying face’ as well. It will be helpful to memorize these together.
Tsuchiya Kouta’s Answer:
“(1) A kappa can’t choose a pen.”
Teacher’s comment:
You mixed the proverbs up because you can’t differentiate between them?
Shimada Minami’s Answer:
“(2) A bee sting on the eye.”
Teacher’s comment:
It does seem to hurt.
“Now then, what instructions do you have for everyone, Yuuji?”
It’s now the second day of the summoning war.
Once the class representative meeting ended, Yuuji returns to our base, 3-D classroom and answers me.
“Nothing much, we have our F class members at the more intense battlefields, and then we sent D class’ guys and girls to the frontline separately. Finally, I requested for everyone to try and retreat as much as we can to lower the scale of battle.”
This strategic instruction doesn’t seem to be something too big.
Upon hearing this, Kinoshita-san beside me again asks Yuuji,
‘Is this really alright, Sakamoto-kun?”
“Ahh, it is for now.”
In this case, it seems Yuuji has prepared all these to execute the strategies later.
“…”
“What is it, Kinoshita sister? You look like you have a lot of ideas there.”
“I’m not unhappy about this…”
Kinoshita-san seems to be a little disappointed by this instruction. Maybe she’s hoping that he would come up with some great revival.
Yuuji then continues to explain to Kinoshita-san,
“The enemy’s forcing us to a point where we’ll fail if we do something. We need to bring the tide to our side if we want to reverse the situation.”
“Though you say that, aren’t the 3rd years stronger than us if we compare our situations?”
“This is fact, but right now, we’re inferior in ability, and also in a disadvantage right now. First, we have to think of a way in this situation.”
“If there’s a way, we would have—”
“And I gave this instruction so that everyone can fight at their actual ability.”
Yuuji’s instruction is simply just to create a good opportunity, and then we’ll wait for everyone to recover, I think.
“We’re not doing anything big even though it’s an instruction.”
“Anyway, just watch. You’ll know later.”
“…..If you say so. I guess I’ll just watch without saying anything…”
It seems Kinoshita-san seems to be unhappy about something, but she’s no longer asking Yuuji any more questions.
This time, Minami instead approaches Yuuji and asks him another question.
“Speaking of which, Sakamoto, didn’t Nemoto say anything to you during the strategic meeting?”
B class’ Nemoto-kun really humiliated Yuuji on the first day of the strategic meeting. It seems Minami’s worried that he might be coming up with something else this time.
“Ah, I don’t know why, but for some reason, he—”
“…Not around.”
Kirishima-san answers, following up on Yuuji’s words .
“Eh? Not around? That Nemoto?”
“(Nods)…Anyway, he did not attend the meeting.”
“Oh my? Is that really the case? It’s good for Prez and Sakamoto-kun, isn’t it?”
While Kinoshita-san nods,
“Hmm…not around, huh…?”
For some reason, Minami’s giving us a very suspicious look.
“What now, Minami? Why’re you staring at us like that.”
“We didn’t do anything, we don’t know anything.”
“…A blasphemy of the highest order.”
“I’d say I’m surprised to be so suspected.”
Minami however ignores our excuses as she looks around the classroom for a little while,
“It’s around here, right?”
She approaches the cabinet with the cleaning equipment inside.
And reaches her hand for that door.
- Creaks*…………*Thud*
Nemoto-kun, bound and gagged, rolls out from the opened cabinet.
“Then, let me hear your reason.”
“““Akihisa did it on his own!!!”””
“HOLD ON A MINUTE!”
Why’s it that those 3 would gang up and call my name at such moments?
“That’s not it. It’s just an unfortunate incident, you know. Nemoto-kun just so happened to trip over when I was walking, and I just so happened to hold him down, and by chance, Yuuji passed by and send a punch into his chest, and it’s bad luck that Muttsurini and Hideyoshi just so happened to be nearby practicing their rope skills and—”
“Aki, don’t think of passing this off with excuses like just so happened and by chance or something like that.”
I still want to say the omnipotent line that anything can be rationalized no matter what. Looks like the effect will weaken if I say it too much.
“Speaking of which, I’m a little surprised that Kinoshita took part in this.”
“Hm? Is that so?”
It’s just like Minami has said; Hideyoshi rarely takes part in such unethical behavior.
“Yuuji’s an important friend of mine, a buddy. It’s a must to give an equal amount of payback after what Yuuji has suffered through.”
Even so, Hideyoshi’s not a saint himself; he’ll naturally be angry if his friend is hurt, and will use force according to the situation. It can’t be helped that Hideyoshi would gag Nemoto-kun and tie him up after he had already done such a thing.
“What? Don’t worry about such a small thing. There’s nothing in the summoning war rules that says that we can’t knock out our ally.”
“Yes yes. That’s right. That’s just an area between the grey and black.”
“At least say that it’s between black and white…”
I know I did something bad too, but even so, there’s still something I have to take a firm stance on.
As we’re talking about this, Minami looks around the classroom, and says,
“Speaking of which, I don’t see Mizuki.”
“Aiko’s not here either.”
“So is Kubo-kun.”
Yuuji however answers their doubts.
“Yeah, those 3 are waiting behind the F class guys.”
“…For what?”
“Must be to deal with any deserters.”
“What are you saying, Yoshii-kun…how can there be such a thing?”
“That’s one of the objectives.”
“Are you serious!?”
F class has been used to fighting in the war, but even so, they often have to fight battles where they’ll die if they don’t go all out, so it’s not a weird thing to see deserters.
“Your methods are really cruel. Even though you’re classmates…”
“Let me tell you something good, Kinoshita. If you want to make use of the F class guys, don’t hold back. If they know it’s going to be a battle with 100% chance, the situation’s going to be worse. It’s for the better that I don’t say anything.”
And then, we kill off the deserters. That’s really a terrifying rule.
“I say…if you’re going to do such cruel things, I don’t care if you get attacked by them during the replenishing tests, no?”
“Don’t worry too much. The replenishing tests are held in a different place from the remedial room.”
“Ah, that’s true.”
I guess Kinoshita-san has never been beaten in a test summoning war? She just accidentally mixed up the remedial room with the test replenishment room.
“On a side note, since we have a lot more people this time, there’s a chance they might be in the same place.”
But in that case, there’ll be tighter security; they won’t be able to even whisper to us, let alone take revenge.
As we’re explaining about this, the bell chimes, indicating the start of the lessons.
“Alright, the summoning war’s about to start again. Get ready so that you can fight back anytime.”
“““Roger that.”””
And so, the second day of our war against the 3rd years begins.
