Living Normally In An Abnormal World - Chapter 39: The Interview Came, But...

Chapter 39: The Interview Came, But…

“A TV interview?”

“Yes, Yuuto-kun. That’s why I want you to take a break for a while.”

At the end of the homeroom period, as I was getting ready to go home, I was called to the staff room by Miki-T.

“Considering your tone, it doesn’t seem like they specifically know about my true identity..”

“Yeah, if it got out, it wouldn’t just be bad, it would be terrible. There are already a lot of people who want to enroll their daughters here next year.”

“I’m really sorry.”

“It’s fine. The fan club’s membership rules are too strict, and it’s taboo to wait outside the school gate, let alone move here just to enroll your daughter.”

“Haa, I see.”

That’s how far they have to go. Well, never mind that for now.

“Why so suddenly?”

“In the past few years, our school’s academic level has risen quite a bit. So, they might be coming to ask about the secret behind it, right?”

Haa… It’s just about that. It doesn’t seem like I’m involved in that.

“How long do I have to take a break?”

“A week.”

That’s quite a long time.

“And so I have to take a week off from school.”

“Hmm, so you’ll be at home all the time, Yuuto?”

“Yeah.”

“Then just stay there forever.”

“Huh?”

“There have been some suspicious people around lately, so order your groceries online for a while.”

“Oh… Okay.”

 I just became a full-time househusband.

I couldn’t just relax at home all the time, should I do some cleaning?

“Nii-cha, that’s unfair! I want a break too!”

“It’s no use saying that. I’ll be making your favorite dishes as I wait for you to come home. What do you want to eat tomorrow?”

“Tom Yum Goong!”

 Hey, Yuuna. I’ve never made that before.

“Is that a no?”

“Leave it to me.”

 Ah, I’ll do it. I’ll do it. I’m Yuuna’s Ni-icha. I should be able to make Tom Yum Goong if I follow the recipe.

“Yuu-kun, what about the ingredients?”

“I recently found out that there’s a delivery service for men. If you order from them, they’ll come right away.”

“Yuu-kun, you really like cooking, don’t you?”

“Well, yeah…”

 It’s not that I like cooking. I just make whatever Yuuna or Mana says they want to eat on TV since it looks good, but I don’t need to say that, do I?

“Mana, what do you want to eat?”

“Hmm… Maybe shrimp chili?”

“Okay.”

 I’ve made it before, so it should be fine.

However, a week… That’s a long time, I’m quite bored.

“And so, Yuuto-kun won’t be coming to school for a week~.”

The teacher’s words were like a death sentence for the entire school.

Among the students, some panicked, some cried, some fainted from shock, some were angry at the TV company, and there were various other reactions.

All except a few.

 They are, of course, those girls.

 Kimura Rina, Tachibana Maria, Samejima Asuka, Kinoshita Yuuna, Takahashi Sanae, and Yanagida.

 They didn’t panic because they had already been informed by Yuuto via LINE.

 Yanagida was worried that the TV company might go bankrupt, as it had created a week-long blank in the newspaper.

 And because she had always been chasing after his back, she forgot how she had spent her time before that.

 In the end, except for his sister, everyone said, “Oh, Yuuto-kun~, let’s play games~,” and went to his house, so they could just go and see him. Such carefree thoughts and words came from those girls.

 Samejima Asuka, on the other hand, lives next door with Yuuto, so she has dinner with him almost every day.

 It’s obvious to everyone that he values them more than the others.

He treats everyone at school equally and doesn’t start conversations with the other girls, but only responds to them when they talk to him. Along with the letter exchanges.

He does it not only because he is kind but to also keep the other girls from being too jealous of his close friends.

When he has something urgent to do, he always informs them on L○NE, and when he followed them on Twitter, he also followed the other girls that asked him.

 Even so, there are times when they are jealous of each other, but he tries to prevent it as much as possible.

 So, they (except for his sister) are…

 “Abababab!”

 They act.

 “Thats…”

 They act.

 “Wh-what should we do?!”

 They act.

 To be thought of as the same as others.

 To not waste his efforts.

 “But I want to be spoiled when I come back home!”

 However, the sister steps on a landmine.

 Because she’s family.

 By the way, the reason for the rise in academic level of the school is, of course, Kinoshita Yuuto.

 Textbooks are something that must be read in class. However, some students end up falling asleep out of boredom of reading it.

 So, the first-year homeroom teacher at the time thought.

 Why not have Yuuto-kun read it to them?

 And so, when she consulted with Kinoshita Yuuto, he agreed to cooperate.

 The result was a great success. Far from falling asleep, the students’ eyes sparkled. Especially the love story reading in the Japanese textbook was popular.

 The teacher didn’t stop there. She recorded it. Of course, with Kinoshita Yuuto’s permission.

 Kinoshita Yuuto has forgotten about it, though.

 And by giving that voice recorder to another class’s teacher and having them use it, she improved the class’s interest, motivation, and attitude as well.

 And because it was uploaded to the fan club, they could easily listen to it even when they are at home, making it useful for studying at home as well.

 The Yuuto-style speed learning has been completed.

 As you can see, not only did it raise the grades of all the students in Asano Elementary School, but also those of his classmates and juniors who were his fans.

He wasn’t unrelated in the least, some can even say he’s the perpetrator.

“Everyone seems listless and lacking energy.”

“Yes. Everyone’s in low spirits, and the TV appearance was terrible. In the end, it seems like the interview was called off.”

“That’s not funny.”

 As you can see from Asuka’s reaction, the interview was canceled on the very first day of the break.

“Did they think the school was forcing the students too hard?”

“That’s fine. The teacher was also low on energy.”

 Hey, hey, did they think this school was a black company?

“By the way…”

“What is it?”

“That TV reporter. She knew about Kinoshita-kun.”

“Seriously?”

 Are my fans scattered all over the place?

After that, the school contacted me and told me I could come to school from tomorrow onwards.

 The next day,

 “Yuuto-kun! I’ve been waiting for you!”

 I was surrounded by familiar classmates and given a hero’s welcome.

 My impression was that it was scary because I almost hit the ceiling.

 Well, of course, everyone was scolded by Miki-T.