My youth story cannot be a knight war

[Kousaka Kyosuke's expression changed as he looked through the glass seat, and his dark pupils reflected the changes in his body.]

[As time passed, the frequency of the spiritual stone on Zaimokuza's waist flashing became faster and faster, and tiny sparks began to rise from the surface of his shoulders, and gradually began to spread to all parts of his body.]

……

【Zaimokuza felt like he was traveling in a warm space filled with red light. He seemed to be able to see the red spiritual stone on his waist. The burning and dazzling light was shining from the spiritual stone. His spirit was absorbed by it. The sounds around him gradually faded away. His own strong heartbeat replaced the echo of the world.】

[Plop—plop—plop—]

[He could clearly hear the beating of his heart, the blood flowing through his veins, and the rise and fall of air as it was inhaled into his lungs... He was aware of every second of his body's changes. The red space in front of him faded and became dark, and his mind gradually sank into a deeper realm of subconsciousness.]

[In the darkness deep in his subconscious, Zaimokuza felt a faint red light gradually appearing not far away, and it was getting brighter and warmer.]

[He felt that as long as he reached out and grasped this ray of light, he would gain new power and become even more powerful! ]

[If I just hold it──! ]

[Zaimokuza suppressed his inner excitement and slowly stretched out his "hand" towards the light. The next moment, he was about to touch the light that represented a new power.]

【However, something unexpected happened. 】

[——Just when Zaimokuza was about to touch the light, the light that had been stable before suddenly flickered and twisted rapidly, and then suddenly expanded, swallowing up Zaimokuza who had not yet reacted! ]

……

[The red flames grew stronger, illuminating the shocked faces of Umina Hime and Kousaka Kyousuke outside the tempered glass.]

[“Uooa ...

[The originally weak flame on the almighty form was like being doused with gasoline at this moment, and the fiercely spreading flames wrapped around Zaimokuza's body and turned him into a pillar of fire. The screams of pain echoed in this sealed laboratory. ]

【"Zaimuza/Yoshiki!?"】

【Two different screams were heard outside. Ebina Hina had never expected the experiment to get out of control in this way. She panicked and pressed the water spray button. The consumption device in the laboratory immediately began to spray water mist downwards, landing on Zaimokuza who was rolled on the ground and engulfed by the flames. However, the fierce fire made this move have little effect.】

[Kousaka Kyousuke's body started moving the moment he called out, and he quickly ran to the side and stretched out his hands to grab the door handle of the laboratory sliding door.]

[Bang!!!]

[With the sound of the door lock breaking, Kousaka Kyosuke actually used brute force to break the lock of the sliding door, opened the sliding door and rushed into the laboratory. ]

[When he came in, he took a fire extinguisher from the door, quickly removed the lead seal and pulled out the safety pin, held the nozzle with one hand and pointed it at Zaimokuza who was rolling on the ground, and with the other hand he lifted the fire extinguisher and pressed down the handle, and white fire extinguishing spray sprayed out of the nozzle and sprayed on Zaimokuza.]

【The flames weakened significantly after being sprayed by the spray, but they still stubbornly entangled Zaimokuza, just like the flames of napalm, and Kousaka Kyousuke did not get tired of it, and continued to spray the fire extinguishing gas with a solemn face, coordinating with the water mist sprayed by the laboratory fire extinguishing device to continuously extinguish the fire on Zaimokuza. The gas from the flamethrower soon filled the entire laboratory and even floated out from the open door.】

【"Yihui! How are you!?"】

[Hina Ebina waited anxiously at the door until a familiar pair of black leather shoes and white canvas sneakers stepped out of the door through the white mist. The next moment, Kousaka Kyousuke walked out of the laboratory holding Zaimokuza's shoulder. She immediately walked forward worriedly and held Zaimokuza's other shoulder. Her tone and expression were full of worry and fear that Kousaka Kyousuke had never seen on her face since he met her.]

[This made Kousaka Kyosuke, who was covered in white spray, raise his eyebrows in surprise. He was surprised to discover another side of Ebina Hime for the first time, and at the same time he became more curious about their past. ]

[You know, the Ebina Hime he knew was always synonymous with cynicism and unreliability. Her words and deeds were always different from those of ordinary people. Although she was a genius, she was also an out-and-out weirdo. Surprisingly, she also had such an ordinary side. ]

[“Cough, cough, cough!”]

【Zaimokuza, who was being held up by two people, looked very miserable. Not only was there white spray from the fire extinguisher all over his body, but even his clothes and skin had traces of burns. His bright and transparent white hair was curled up by the flames. He did not have the demeanor of a male god who could easily attract girls with his appearance in the past. He looked disheveled and dirty like an American homeless man or beggar.】

[“I, I’m fine… Himena.”]

[Zaimokuza lowered his face, which was covered with white spray and burnt marks, and smiled bitterly at the face and worried eyes of Himena Ebina who was close at hand.]

[“But as expected, I failed again.”]

58. Therefore, Hiratsuka Shizuka wants to resign (two in one)

[Shortly before Zaimokuza, Kousaka Kyosuke and others conducted the almighty form awakening experiment at the Metropolitan Police Department.]

[Saitama Prefecture, Sakakino Gakuen, teacher's office. ]

【05:34 PM 】

"Hey, Mr. Kujo, have you heard? Suzumiya-san from Class 3-3 died during childbirth. Apparently, her boyfriend was killed by Unidentified Lifeform No. 21 while they were on vacation in Tokyo, and the emotional outburst caused internal bleeding and a malpositioned fetus."

"I heard that the principal strictly forbade any spread of this matter during the meeting today. They just told everyone that Kimura-san had transferred to another school. It's really surprising, though. They've only just entered the third grade, and they've actually done something like this."

[“Actually, this isn’t the first time. Similar things have happened in this school before. A student named Ito got many girls in the same grade pregnant. Some of them even committed suicide because they couldn’t accept it!”]

[“Really? You are kidding, how come I don’t know about this?”]

[“Because this matter was also suppressed by the principal, so the principal was so angry after this incident. He must have been thinking about what happened in the past.”]

[“Teacher Kiyono, how did you know about this?”]

[“Well, this is what Teacher Saotome told me. She said that she was also a student of this school back then, and happened to be in the same grade as the student named Ito, so she knows some inside information, and she also warned us to pay attention to the students…”]

[Two female teachers were whispering to each other. They turned their heads to look in the direction of a desk from time to time. As they were talking, they walked out of the teacher's office door. The sound of their conversation became farther and farther away.]

[Pfft. 】

[The flint of the lighter flew sparks as the trigger was pulled, igniting the butane gas that spewed out of the flame vent. The blue tail gushed out of the flame vent and ignited the hand-rolled cigarette that was close at hand.]

【"call out--"】

[The lit cigarette was bitten by a pair of moist lips, and it burned quickly to the middle of the cigarette with the sound of inhalation, and then stopped. ]

【"well……"】

[A thick white smoke ring came out of the teacher's open mouth and slowly dissipated in the air. She looked down at the class roster on the table in front of her and sighed silently.]

The female teacher pulled out a steel plate from the pocket of her white coat, made a fancy move, and then placed the tip of her pen against the page of the roster. On a page filled with the names of the students in the class, she wrote the names of two students named "Suzumiya" and "Narumi" in a sharp, even stroke.

"They've already done something this outrageous before even graduating from high school. Today's students are truly a headache and a worry."

[“…But since you’ve both passed away, I hope you can still find your soulmate and get married in your next life, provided you don’t kill anyone in high school again.”]

[The female teacher put out the cigarette, which was only the butt left, into an ashtray filled with many other cigarettes with the same butt, and closed the class roster with a melancholy expression.]

[The nameplate on the female teacher's white coat has her name on it. The plastic surface of the nameplate is flickering in the sunset light.]

[Three years in the third group: Hiratsuka Shizuka, Yoshie: Served as a teacher. 】

Chiba Prefecture, Sobu High School, health room.

"It's me who's appearing this time???"

Shizuka Hiratsuka looked at "herself" in the video smoking in the sunset with a melancholy look on her face and raised her long eyelashes, her tone obviously showing some surprise.

Ever since she saw her students appearing one after another as the main characters in this mysterious video, she has been harboring a hidden expectation in her heart, hoping that she could also appear in it and experience the addiction and treatment of being a world-class star.

But she actually knew that this was unlikely, because according to the images of several characters that appeared in the previous video and the intelligence information revealed, the scene in the video was already several years in the future. You see, Yukinoshita Yukino is even studying for a master's degree at Jonan University. According to this clue, unless she skipped a grade, she has at least finished college.

In the real world, Yukinoshita Yukino is only in the second year of high school. Comparing the two, the time in the video has at least seven years passed than now.

Except for Nagano Prefecture where the life form was not confirmed to have officially appeared at the beginning, the rest of the story in the video was all concentrated in Tokyo, the center of the country's capital. The students who appeared in the video were all adults who lived in society. Logically speaking, there would be no chance for me to appear in Chiba Prefecture.

But this thing that was originally not expected at all actually came true. Shizuka Hiratsuka was actually able to see her own appearance in the video. According to this situation, she might be a major character.

The only thing was that the location of the performance was not Sobu High School in Chiba Prefecture, but Sakakino Academy in Saitama Prefecture, which was quite unexpected to her.

"Sakakino Gakuen? I remember that this school's admission rate and deviation value were quite high, only slightly lower than Sobu High School. Hiratsuka-sensei, you actually appeared in the video as a teacher of that school instead of Sobu High School. It seems that the future Hiratsuka-sensei will be assigned there."

Yukinoshita Yukino sat beside the bed where Zaimokuza, who was originally lying unconscious, and Hikigaya Hachiman, who was now unconscious under his pressure, held her phone in both hands, watching the video of her own club teacher, then turned around and spoke to the current Hiratsuka Shizuka, with a hint of surprise in her cold voice.

However, her future self, Zaimokuza, and Yuigahama Yui and other members of the Servant Club had already appeared in the previous video. Except for Hikigaya Hachiman, who was suspected to be dead according to the information revealed in the previous video, the appearance of Hiratsuka Shizuka, who is now a club teacher, did not surprise her. What surprised her was that the future Hiratsuka Shizuka was actually assigned to another school as a teacher.

Yukinoshita Yukino knew very well how deep Shizuka Hiratsuka's feelings for this school were. This was not only her alma mater, but also the place where she had taught for many years. The time she had spent studying and working here was probably more than ten years in total. She had an inseparable bond with this place. If nothing major had happened, she probably would not have chosen to leave here.

"Huh? Why does it feel like the future Hiratsuka-sensei is basically the same as she is now? Obviously, if we count the time, she is almost 40 now---Eh!?"

Zaimokuza, who was watching the video next to Yukinoshita Yukino because his cell phone was left behind in the Service Club, looked at Hiratsuka Shizuka in the video with surprise, who looked almost the same as she does now. But when he was halfway through his words, he suddenly felt an incomparable chill coming from behind him, and he felt like a rabbit being stared at by some terrifying predator, and his body trembled with fear instinctively.

A white and tender hand gently patted Zaimokuza's shoulder. Zaimokuza turned his head with a stiff expression and looked. Hiratsuka Shizuka's smiling face, as gorgeous as a flower, was facing him at a very close distance. Her eyes were extremely gentle... but for some reason, they were a little empty and dead.

"Ah~ Zaimokuza-san, did you have something to say to your dear teacher just now? It's okay, don't be afraid, just tell the teacher honestly, even if it's a confession~"

Hiratsuka Shizuka's voice was so kind that it reminded Zaimokuza of his grandmother in the countryside, but he read another meaning from those emotionless, empty eyes:

I give you three seconds to think and reorganize your language. Don’t say that I killed you without teaching you!

Between the two options of risking his own safety and telling the truth, General Ashikaga Yoshiteru, who possessed admirable virtues such as courage, justice, honesty, and respect for the elderly, made his choice in less than a second.

"Teacher! I think you will be so beautiful in the future! Although you are as beautiful as a blooming flower now, that beauty will be more beautiful under the influence of time, just like the fragrance of mellow old wine, and like a lotus blooming in the valley under the abyss! If you are just a blooming flower now, then you in the future will be a gorgeous sea of ​​flowers with fragrance spreading all over the valley when you bloom. This shocking beauty is simply adding wings to a tiger! It makes all the onlookers admire it! It is comparable to the world-famous masterpiece "The Birth of Venus" by Botticelli, the representative painter of the Florentine School of Painting in Italy! Your existence is to this world as the three masters of the Renaissance are to the Renaissance in the Middle Ages. Without you, there would be no Sobu High School! Without Hiratsuka Shizuka, there would be no world! Hiratsuka Shizuka is the best in the world!"

Zaimokuza's expression was solemn, his voice was as sincere as a seeker under Lothric, his eyes were as sincere as Leonardo da Vinci who was looking for scientific truth when he was facing the female corpse he had stolen and dissected, and these words also emptied all the ink in his stomach.

But the effect was very significant. Hiratsuka Shizuka, who already had a kind smile, smiled even kinder and patted Zaimokuza's shoulder with satisfaction.

"Aiya~ Although I already know that I'm beautiful, your straightforward praise makes me, as a teacher, a little shy. It's better to be more tactful in the future. There's no need to be so blunt."

Zaimokuza: “…”

At this moment, Zaimokuza inexplicably understood the feelings of Hikigaya Hachiman, who was now sleeping on the hospital bed where he had just been.

The upright and honest Yukinoshita Yukino listened to Zaimokuza's shameless flattery and silently turned her head away with an expression of "I don't know this person". Hayama Hayato and others next to her also had a stern face and tried not to laugh, for fear that they would laugh and become the next unlucky person to be targeted by Hiratsuka Shizuka.

[In the teacher's office, which was almost dusk and left alone, Shizuka Hiratsuka stood by the window, watching the few students walking towards the school gate, holding another lit cigarette in her mouth and in a daze.]

[The lit cigarette became shorter and shorter as the fragrant mist drifted away and time passed, and it would soon burn to the end. Some of the ash formed after burning had already fallen on the white coat in front of her chest and the high-end leather shoes she was wearing because it could not bear its own weight. However, Shizuka Hiratsuka still stood in front of the window without moving, and ignored the fact that her clothes and shoes were stained by the ash. ]

[It was not until she subconsciously wanted to take a puff of the cigarette out of habit that she suddenly felt the scorching heat on her lips, causing her to spit out the cigarette with a scream of pain, that she reacted and immediately stomped her foot to extinguish the cigarette that had fallen on the floor.]

【"well……"】

[She sighed helplessly, picked up the stubbed cigarette and threw it back into the ashtray, then sat back in her chair, leaning back and letting the soft cushion support her body. She looked up at the unlit light above with a blank expression, emptying her mind.]

[Shizuka Hiratsuka has been very confused recently, and the reason is because of her work. 】

[From the time, since I graduated from university and took over the teaching position, I have been a teacher for nearly fifteen years. No matter which country I am in, I am definitely a senior in the education system. In Japan, a country that values ​​seniority above all else, I am even more senior. All new teachers have to respectfully call me "senior" when they see me. Whenever the school has any benefits and benefits, they will first consider me and several other teachers with the highest seniority, and then other teachers.]

【It stands to reason that Shizuka Hiratsuka should have no worries at work. She only needs to continue living her life as usual. Then she can find a good man to marry at a social gathering or through a matchmaker, have children, work until retirement, and enjoy a peaceful life with her children supporting her. Her life can be said to be completely smooth, so smooth that she can see the future after she is buried.】

[But Shizuka Hiratsuka is not satisfied with this. She wants to do better. Otherwise, she would not choose to be a teacher, but continue to be a young lady at home and live an upper-class life attending various high-end banquets. ]

[——Yes, Shizuka Hiratsuka's family background is not ordinary, and she is not short of money. This can be seen from the fact that she lives alone in a luxury apartment, drives a limited edition Aston Martin to and from get off work, and wears high-end brand-name clothes and smokes cigarettes.]

[Hiratsuka Shizuka used to be arrogant. After graduating from university, she refused the job arranged by her family elders. After a big fight, she chose to start her own business and become a teacher.]

[Many elders in the family were puzzled and angry about why she chose to be a high school teacher, a job that was not even worthy of them, but out of blood ties, they could not bear to see her suffer like many college graduates who had just entered the society, so they gave Shizuka Hiratsuka a little financial assistance and left her alone.]

[Although the little bit of financial assistance they understand may be a little different from what ordinary people understand, it doesn't matter. They all hope that Shizuka Hiratsuka can change her mind with the passage of time and the blows of reality, and return to the stage that truly belongs to her.]

[But no one expected that after nearly fifteen years, Hiratsuka Shizuka was still working as a teacher alone and did not choose to go back. This made the elders unable to tolerate her willfulness any longer.]

[Thinking of the ultimatum her family had sent her not long ago and the blind date they had introduced her to, Shizuka Hiratsuka sighed silently again, her brows full of fatigue and boredom.]

【To be honest, even she herself was beginning to feel bored.】

[Unlike when she first entered society and thought she could do anything, after years of working and working, Shizuka Hiratsuka has matured in both her character, experience, and vision. She already knows her limits, what she can do, what she can't do, and her strengths and weaknesses.]

[This includes one's own teaching ability. ]

[When she first became a teacher, the students she taught were actually of the same generation as herself, so Shizuka Hiratsuka understood the students' thoughts and feelings very well. Coupled with her own good looks and approachable personality, she easily blended in with the students and was welcomed by almost all of them.]

[However, as time went by and her teaching work continued to grow, Shizuka Hiratsuka's thinking became closer to the "older generation" of teachers whom she despised when she was a student. Or, in other words, she has in fact become the "older generation" to herself.]

[Especially when there was a class whose age difference with her own students exceeded the maximum age difference of "twelve", Shizuka Hiratsuka suddenly found that she had begun to not understand the current students. ]

My generation used to love reading Jump shonen magazines, discussing their dreams and striving to get into their ideal university. But this generation of students is more interested in being online, chasing after popular idols and celebrities, and watching hit dramas. They prefer to just sit back and relax rather than strive for success... Whether it's perspective, ideas, ideology, or anything else, Shizuka Hiratsuka and today's students have absolutely nothing in common.

[The recent incident of a student getting pregnant in class made Shizuka Hiratsuka doubt her ability to teach and judge people. She knew both students involved and had a very good impression of them. Putting the boy aside, she still remembered that the girl was very well-behaved, the kind of girl who loved reading. She had a chubby face with two dimples when she smiled, which was very cute. She had a good relationship with her and often talked to her about study and further studies during her spare time and vacation. Shizuka Hiratsuka also had high hopes for this student named Suzumiya.]

[Therefore, if she hadn't heard the principal's confirmation with her own ears, Shizuka Hiratsuka would never have been able to associate an unmarried pregnancy with her, and the most serious thing was an unmarried pregnancy in high school. This completely shattered Shizuka Hiratsuka's impression of this girl.]

[It was this incident that made Shizuka Hiratsuka doubt herself, because she had never doubted it before it happened, and Suzumiya, who was close to her, had never mentioned it to her. It was obvious that she did not trust herself in this matter, just like other people she did not trust. ]

[Hiratsuka Shizuka couldn't imagine what Suzumiya's expression would be when she came to class with a belly that couldn't be concealed at all, or when she received the notice that she had to drop out of school because of an unmarried pregnancy. ]

[Is he angry that she and that boy named Ming Hai had quietly done something that would have greatly changed both of their lives, or is he sad that she didn't tell him about this, even though he had a very good relationship with her?]

[Angry? Not sure, because the person is no longer with us, and the funeral has been notified to be held next week. Shizuka Hiratsuka also received an obituary from the other party's family, hoping that she can attend the funerals of the two students as a teacher. ]

[Sad? I don't know, because the people involved are already dead. Now she can only see the two people for the last time at the funeral. After the funeral, the bodies will be cremated. The dead are the greatest, and all emotions have no meaning to them who have already left this world.]

[So now all Shizuka Hiratsuka feels is confusion and doubt about her own abilities. ]

[Am I really capable and qualified to continue teaching students now? Am I sure that doing so will not mislead the students? Or will something similar happen again?]

[The phone call from her family yesterday was like adding a chip to the already tilted balance of thought, causing Shizuka Hiratsuka to accelerate the speed at which the balance of her mind began to tilt to one side.]

[She pushed the floor with her toes, causing the chair she was sitting on to spin continuously on the floor, while Shizuka Hiratsuka kept looking at the light above her head that was not turned on, until the light of the setting sun gradually faded from her confused face and the campus outside the window was shrouded in the dark night.]

[…Perhaps, it’s time to end this job and return to the stage that truly belongs to me. ]

[Looking at the light that kept changing its angle in her field of vision depending on the chair she chose, this thought came to Shizuka Hiratsuka's mind. ]