Mayuten ~The Demon King and the Hero Reincarnated as Twin Elementary School Students~ - Volume 2 Chapter 4

Volume 2 The Demon King and the Hero Confront the Bully

Chapter 4   Demon King Reads the Diary (Part 2)

[July 2nd (Thursday)]

When I entered the classroom in the morning, I found a vase with white flowers placed on my desk.

Sasakura said, “I guess chrysanthemums are more suitable for funerals, right?”

After that, he looked around the class and smirked, saying, “Who would want to talk to someone who’s dead, anyway?”

[July 6th (Monday)]

Everyone is ignoring me.

Even when I try to talk to them, they won’t make eye contact or respond.

I asked Sora-kun if he wanted to play, but he just ignored me.

This morning, Isumi told me, “Don’t talk to me outside of home, especially not at school.”

[July 8th (Wednesday)]

During the morning attendance check, the teacher skipped my name.

I can’t tell if it was intentional or not.

Lately, even when I raise my hand during class, the teacher doesn’t pick me to answer.

Is the teacher avoiding me too?

[July 9th (Thursday)]

In the morning, when I arrived at school, my desk and chair were gone.

When I told the teacher, they avoided eye contact.

Today, I’ve been standing at the back of the classroom the whole time, trying to attend the classes.

Am I an invisible child?

Am I dead?

Am I a ghost?

[July 14th (Tuesday)]

After school, Sasakura and his gang grabbed me by the collar and dragged me to the back of the school building.

I knew I was going to be treated horribly, but for a moment, I thought it might be better than being ignored.

Most of the boys from our class were waiting there.

Sora-kun was among them.

Sasakura pulled out a knife from his pocket.

I was so scared that I started crying.

Then, everyone laughed at me, saying, “Look at the crybaby.”

Though he didn’t stab me with the knife, Sasakura kicked me into the flowerbed.

“Stop haunting the school forever!”

They said that while pushing my face into the ground.

After that, they made me eat dirt.

They said it’s a luxury for ghosts to have school lunches and that I should be content with eating dirt. I don’t understand the reason behind it, though.

When I returned home covered in mud, my mom asked, “What happened?”

I wanted to tell her everything, the whole truth.

But I didn’t want to worry my mom.

Besides, it’s not like parents getting involved in kids’ fights ever turns out well.

It was the same way at my previous school.

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What’s happening between these kids isn’t just a simple fight.

Threatening with a knife and forcing someone to eat dirt is beyond a fight.

Just reading about it makes me furious.

That boy named Sora is no better.

He was helped by Kageyo, but he’s capable of betrayal.

Isumi knows that her sibling is suffering, yet she does nothing.

And even the homeroom teacher is involved in all this…

At the same time, I can’t help but think.

Kageyo, you should fight back at least a little.

But I found out the reason why he doesn’t fight back in the following entry of the diary.

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[July 16th (Thursday)]

Today, I was stabbed in the back with the compass needle.

It hurt so much that I cried.

Everyone laughed at me, seeing me in pain.

Even Sora-kun and Isumi had a smug grin on their faces.

Maruki-kun, the class representative, didn’t laugh, but he looked annoyed.

I wanted to fight back.

But I couldn’t forget what happened when I stood up to them during the wrestling play.

“If you resist, maybe I should wrestle with your little sister?”

At first, I thought they were talking about Isumi, but then they mentioned, “Wasn’t she in Setagaya Valley Kindergarten?”

I couldn’t involve Hikaru in this mess.

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I felt my head boiling as I read this far.

Sasakura not only bullies as a group but also attempted to harm Hikaru?

Words like “cowardly” are not enough to describe this!

In the wars of my previous world, I, too, employed various strategies.

I might have done things that future historians would label as “cowardly.”

However, I never resorted to tactics that involved taking someone hostage.

Whenever my subordinates proposed such ideas, I rejected them.

Apart from humanitarian concerns, once you take such a path, there’s no turning back.

I didn’t want to become like the former king of the humanoid race, who once took my mother hostage.

I can’t be sure if that boy called Sasakura truly intended to harm Hikaru.

But, nonetheless…

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[July 19th (Sunday)]

Sundays are a relief.

No elementary school, so I can relax.

Isumi said to me after lunch,

“Hey, have you thought about quitting school?”

Maybe she was worried about me being bullied.

But it’s frustrating.

Too frustrating.

While crying, I said, “No, I don’t want to.”

Tomorrow, it’s back to school again.

The only hope is that summer vacation is just around the corner.

*     *     *     *     *

A few days later, it seems that the long summer vacation has started.

During the summer vacation, there were hardly any entries in the diary.

Apart from this journal, they were also required to write a “Picture Diary” for a school assignment.

Occasionally, a few lines are written in this diary too, mostly about visiting grandparents’ house or other enjoyable experiences.

By the way, I tried looking for the Picture Diary, but couldn’t find it. It must have been turned in as part of the school assignment.

What surprised me was the diary entry from mid-August.

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[August 19th (Wednesday)]

I played with Sora-kun after a long time.

The game was so much fun.

After the game ended, I suggested playing outside, but Sora-kun said, “I don’t want Sasakura to find us playing.”

However, we made a promise to play games again at Sora-kun’s place tomorrow.

*     *     *     *     *

Kageyo, you’re still playing with Sora, huh?

It’s just kids being kids.

I can’t judge based on one-sided information from the diary, but still…

After that, there were no more diary entries until the end of summer vacation.

Then, September came, and the second semester began.

Only half a month left until the incident involving Kageyo and Isumi.

The entries from that point on were filled with contents that I no longer wanted to face.