37 I Don’t Know What to Do

Author: Bishamon Mine
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n0664js/40/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

Alice and I gladly accept Furi’s proposal.

Ah, right. I try asking Alice.

“Hey, can we put a lot of money into my current family?”
“Current…… ah, yes. You’ll get a lot of salary.”
“If I get a salary, I want you to put it in my parents’ account. Stepmom manages it. My living expenses come from there.”
“——For now, understood.”

Just as Alice is about to ask me something.

“Year 1 Class 3, Suzusaki Suzuhi-san. Please come to the staff room——I repeat. Year 1 Class 3, Suzusaki Suzuhi-san. Please come to the staff room.”

I hear my homeroom teacher, a male teacher’s voice.

“What is it……”
“Did Victor-san come again?”
“Hmmm?”

When I go to the staff room, my homeroom teacher says something shocking.

“Suzusaki…… you might become unable to come to school.”
“Eh.”
“These two months, tuition has been unpaid.”
“Eh!?”

I fall into huge confusion at an event I never imagined.

“My tuition is supposed to be withdrawn from my parents’ account, right!? My parents’ inheritance is close to 30,000,000 even after taxes, there’s no way it runs out in one year……”
“Apparently there was no money that could be withdrawn. At this rate after a suspension, if payment still isn’t made you might be expelled. There are exemption methods and installment methods so consult well with your guardian———”
“I already paid the enrollment fee, and tuition is about 10,000 a month, right!? Even subtracting my living expenses it shouldn’t disappear……”
“……It has disappeared, apparently……”
“——The account is…… currently managed by maternal relatives who have become my guardians.”
“I see——”

Something like light floats at the corner of my homeroom teacher’s eyes, who has an expression like he guessed something.

“——Suzusaki! Tell the teacher anything! I’ll consult on anything! There’s a school-support grant system too! We can turn the school-trip reserve toward tuition, and even without doing that, you can get a scholarship from the school!——If it comes to it I’ll even pay tuition myself!!”
“T-teacher, I’m fine, please don’t worry. I think I’ll fortunately become rich! I’m really lucky!”

If Alice hadn’t invited me to stream then, my life might have become terrible. Thank you truly, Alice.

I turn a refreshing smile at the teacher to show “I’m fine.”

But——what face was I making.
The teacher looks even more like he might cry.

Did the smile fail.

I———am bad at being worried about by people.
If I cause others mental strain, I feel terror.

“S-sorry. Later I’ll let you know a new account, please withdraw from there!”
“Suzusaki! Really tell me! If it’s hard, say anything. Okay!”

Warm. But relying on others is scarier than cutting my own flesh.

“Yes!”

I leave the staff room with a smile.

 

When I go home, all my personal belongings are placed in front of the entrance.

When I open the entrance, stepmom and stepsister are standing with oni faces.

“Get out!”
“Get out!”

Suddenly told, my brain fills with confusion.

“Eh.”

“There’s no place for you in this house anymore.”
“Get out already!”

Indeed, I had been feeling I wasn’t much liked by stepmom and stepsister.
But even so they took me in, so I believed.

Stepmom’s act might violate some law. But it isn’t that kind of thing.
Right now, my chest just hurts.

“……Yes, I’m sorry for causing trouble.”

The door is closed.
I, at a situation so surprising, mutter while laughing in a weird way.

“Fuhihi, what do I do with this luggage———”

There’s a lot, and there’s a desk and a dresser too. The dresser contents and everything are scattered around there.

“Ah, right! I just have to put it in the 〈Key to the Dimensional Warehouse〉!”

While recovering luggage using 〖Psychokinesis〗 and 〖Super Strength〗, voices come from beyond the door.

“Used up the old man’s inheritance too, no more use,” “from here she’ll only eat money,” such voices are audible.

Neighborhood people look at me strangely as they go.

I’m scared of being seen as a weird person, anxious to the point of dizziness.
If it were Ill-san, what tsukkomi would he do.

In front of the place that was home, I recover my luggage smiling while shedding tears and leave.

I leave the apartment and call Swallow-san in the parking lot.

Sometimes apartment residents look at me suspiciously and walk nearby.
No good. At this rate there might be people who worry about me, I mustn’t have that done to me. I have to hide it.
Don’t let the smile die. Don’t shed tears.
It’s okay. For a place to live I have Swallow-san’s one-room.
It’s okay.

——Even so, pathetic.

“I’m really bad at being loved. I get sick of having too little talent.”

Being loved is hard, huh.

 

The only one I can consult about anything is Ill-san. So I try spilling it.

“Ill-san. I seem to have become all alone.”

Then Ill-san’s hologram appears in front of my spinning eyes.

“I am here, My Master.”
“Yeah, that’s right. Thanks.”

I feel a little easier.
That’s right, so what if I’m a loner, it’s always been like that.
At school I was always a loner.

If you add up all activity time like classes and breaks in elementary and middle school, it’s almost 10,000 hours, they say.
If a human learns 10,000 hours they can become first-rate at anything, they say.
The 10,000-hour rule.

I was a loner for 10,000 hours straight.
Then I am a first-rate loner.
So it’s okay. Thank you, Ill-san.

Because I’m a first-rate loner, even becoming alone I don’t get hurt.
Thank you truly.

In a room with gravity off, I quietly close my eyes as if dozing.

I’ll try a little by myself.
I’ve gotten scared of living with someone, but being a loner isn’t scary.

I am humming one of the songs called Mother Goose.
A lullaby Mom often sang for me.

“♪Rock a bye baby, on the tree top, (baby swaying, on the tree)
When the wind blows, the cradle will rock. (rocked by the wind, cradle, dreaming)
When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall. (if the twig breaks, nowhere to go)
And down will come baby, cradle and all. (if it breaks you fall, love’s cradle, everything)”

The pattern Mom sang for me, after this the lyrics become like Mom catching everything…… but originally it ends here.
Yes. If my mom isn’t there, originally it ends here.

——What am I thinking.

I’m sorry, Mom——for thinking help me.
I’m really sorry.

Inside Swallow-san floating in cold space it is warm like a cradle, and far away many stars are twinkling.

 

◆◇Sight: Third person◇◆

 

“Shit! No matter how many comments I write putting Suu down, the other comments are too many and I get buried! ——”

Akakiba——in other words, the other person besides Suu who cleared 〈Insanity〉 Death Road.
This man has made it a daily routine to dump a huge number of comments putting Suu down every time Suu streams.

❝Hiding a two-seater and clearing 〈Insanity〉 Death Road, good job, apology video when❞
❝Suu’s a liar, seriously creepy right?❞

❝Your account has been blocked by a moderator❞

“Again! Who’s the moderator. Crimson Flash Alice? Well I have as many accounts as I want.”

When he plays Suu’s stream on a new account, footage of Suu storming a hotel like special forces flows.

“Okay, shall I resume comments.”

Akakiba throws in comments putting Suu down.

❝What’s this Suu, chuunibyou lol❞
❝Goblins are weak huh lol even two-seater Suu can beat them this easy lol❞
❝Two-seater Suu is too creepy, I’m leaving the channel lol❞

❝Your account has been blocked by a moderator❞

“Shit! Well I have as many accounts as——…… haa? Only one more left? What a pain…… well if I register new……”

❝You have obtained many accounts in a short period so you cannot create accounts for a certain period❞

“Don’t screw with me!”

Akakiba loses it and kicks the cockpit floor.
But he has no more accounts so he decides to quietly watch Suu’s stream.

“Oi oi, Otoko’s pinch? I think that one’s channel subscribers were over 2,000,000?——Tch. If I’d been nearby I could’ve gone to help and increased viewers…….——Uwa, Otoko’s seriously getting assaulted by goblins (laugh) it’s heating up (laugh) shall I write a comment to hype the stream for once (laugh)”

❝Otoko fans assembling huh www❞

Akakiba writes a comment intending to hype, but Suu, Alice, and the viewers are in a completely different atmosphere and Akakiba’s comment is ignored.

“What, everyone ignoring me——these guys are seriously annoying, I’m Akakiba you know.”

After that, footage of Suu facing a Dominant Ogre appears on the screen.

“This one, an idiot right (laugh). Going at a Dominant Ogre (laugh). I might get to see Suu die (laugh)”

Akakiba waits for miserable footage of Suu, but such a scene does not appear.

“Don’t run, small fry! Boring.”

After that Suu throws the Dominant Ogre into outer space.

Otoko says things like “Suu is the first human to beat a Dominant Ogre,” and comments of applause flow.

“The situation is different from when the US military lost to a Dominant Ogre! When it was the US military, goblin pirate ships attacked a US space battleship and they got invaded inside so it became a big deal, right! These viewers, are they getting money from Suu!?——This US military major guy doesn’t understand the situation at all either, he’s fake, right!”

Eventually it becomes a scene of Suu rapid-firing 〈Critical Blackbody Beam〉 at the Dominant Ogre in outer space.

“No, that’s cheating! What’s this one doing! Farming Dominant Ogre sealstones, someone stop her!! Suu’ll become too strong to handle!! And why do only this one drop so many sealstones——!! Even if she has the same 〖Luck〗 as me it’s too many!”

Akakiba has definitely cleared 〈Insanity〉 Death Road too, so he received a sealstone as a clear reward.

But Akakiba stopped at 〖Luck〗 because they cleared with multiple people. In contrast Suu, who cleared solo, possesses 〖Miracle〗.
But Akakiba does not know that. He thinks Suu only has 〖Luck〗 too.

“Mystery Management, playing favorites with Suu!?”

Akakiba irritably checks SNS and such.

In the trends, Suu beating a Dominant Ogre and such is up.

“What is it with these viewers seriously, what’s good about Suu who isn’t even a beauty!”