Back To High School Part 2

February 6th
Amari High School, Aoyama-Itchome, Tokyo
12:00

During the lunch break, the whole class tried to jump on me to ask me the many questions they had. So as soon as the bell rang, I took Tamamo by the hand and we got out of there quickly. The people who seemed to see that we did not want to talk did not follow us. So I stayed in a hallway with Tamamo, looking for a place to eat lunch. But a moment later, another classmate appeared in front of us.

It was a girl, short black hair, light-skinned, short. In fact, her only distinguishing features were her perfectly neat uniform and a class delegate bracelet. Where I come from, there was nothing like that in high school, so I don't know what they do. But I have seen TV shows, and I have this idea that if she wants to talk to us, it is to scold us.

"What are you two doing?" the girl said.
"What is this way of dressing and behaving?"
"Do you think this is serious behavior?"
"You two are an embarrassment to our school!"

"Forgive me, I don't think we know each other."
"Who are you?" I tried to speak.

"My name is Haru Yamamoto. I am the class representative, and I also make sure that the students follow the school rules."
"The same rules that all new students seem to break as soon as they arrive."
"Why are all foreigners like that?"
"It was hard to take care of one person, but now I have to take care of you too."

The girl in front of me turned out to be just what I suspected, a pain to deal with. She seems to be a pretty honest person to everyone, so she could take advantage of that, let's see what she can tell me.

"I'm really sorry, but there's not much we can do about the way I look," I said, trying to pretend to be sad about what she told me."
"I've been this white since I was born, so for a long time I endured the mockery of my classmates."
"One of the reasons I ended up here was because my parents thought Japanese people were very respectful of each other."

"I'm sorry I didn't mean about your condition."
"But how you acted when you introduced yourself"
"I didn't mean to make fun of you"
"I think I was very rude with what I said"
"Forget it, maybe it's just me who's getting on my nerves because of the other new student," she replied.

"So there are other new students besides Tamamo and me?"

"Well yes, apart from you there is another foreigner, Maria"
"And like you, she also had some problems when she arrived, at the beginning she did not even have a school uniform".
"As they say out there, she hardly talks to anyone, but from what I heard from a friend, Yukiko, she doesn't stop asking questions."
"Once we took her to the city to do some shopping and we noticed that Maria followed us for a long time."
"I had to scold her a lot, but she seems to have calmed down since then."
"Are all the people from outside so strange?"

Haru hadn't finished talking when our teacher arrived. As soon as she saw us, she seemed to make a happy face. As soon as she got close enough, she spoke to us.

"I've finally found you!"
"Don't leave class so fast!"
"I need to talk to both of you!"

Since I also wanted to talk to her, I took the opportunity and we followed her. She led us to the top of the stairs, right at the entrance to the roof. It seemed that access was restricted to students, so there was no one there, a good place to talk no doubt.

"Are you okay?"
"You're not going to attack me, are you?" the teacher asked.

"Who should ask is me."
"What are you doing bringing us to this hidden place?"
"Shouldn't we go to the staff room?"
"Although for you to ask that, I suppose you really must be Warlady," I ask openly.

"Don't say it out loud!"
"This is supposed to be secret!"

"Well then, what do you need now?"
"And why should I care?" I told her.

"Did you know each other before?" Tama asked.

"I've been doing some jobs for her for a while."
"But it wasn't something I liked to go through."
"Though it is good to see that you survived the battle in Vienna."

"I'm sorry for everything that happened in the past."
"I have come to apologize in person," the girl speaks.

"And that?"
"Did you just come to say that?"

"And tell my boss I'm sorry!"
"I did not know anything!"
"I want to return to my former position as a bobyguard!"
"I can't stand being a teacher for these people anymore!"
"They bother me too much!" the teacher burst into tears.

"Was it your boss who sent you here?"

"I'm already aware of you two"
"I will help in any way I can"
"And I'm sorry for what happened before!"
"I never knew that you were one of Adelis' daughters kidnapped by the Empire!"
"I did not know that the operation in Norway was to rescue you from those experiments!"
"If I had been more aware of my work, we would have removed those Empire spies sooner. and freed you from that horrible situation long before."
"And avoid having to make that hopeless plan in Vienna."

From what she said, I could tell that War Lady worked for my mother, and apparently she sent her to work here as a teacher so that she could take care of Maria. It also seems that he was responsible for creating a background for me and what happened in the war against the Empire. I could see that my mother had been working from different sides to spy on Maria and save her. The War Lady was certainly the one who made it possible for me to enter the school in such a short time.

"Very well, I will see what I can do for Maria."
"I imagine you are here for the same reason."
"What have you discovered?" I told her to get back to the main topic.

"I just started when we found out she was here."
"She told me to find out everything I could."
"Although Adelis was also supposed to infiltrate, she called me yesterday to inform me of the change of plans."
"I think it's much better this way."

"I did not mean that"
"What do you know about Maria?"

"I'm so sorry!"
"Forgive me for going off topic!" She replied with fear.
"She doesn't stand out in class"
"She doesn't have any friends from what I've seen."
"She's not that good at sports, but I've been informed that she's not supposed to be good at it."
"Other than that, we only know that she brings and picks up by car."
"We try to check the car plates, but they are fake."
"We think it should also be the I.S.C."
"Other than that, I can't do anything."
"I hope you can discover something else."
"There's not much a substitute teacher like me can do."

Does anyone really know anything about her?

"As I said, I will do everything I can to help you," the teacher continues.
"So don't worry so much about the grades."
"But please remember that you must at least pretend to study."
"I can't help it if you turn the history book upside down in front of the whole class!"
"In the afternoon, I will leave a project to be done in groups.
"This is the best opportunity to leave you with Maria"
"You must take advantage of it.
"And avoid somehow attracting more attention than you already have"
"I know that they are really married and that the ears are real"
"But I do not agree to do such conspicuous things, because why not!"
"I have to do this if I want to get my old job back!"
"Help me!"

"Okay, I'll try my best"
"You focus on creating opportunities for me to be around Maria and not let her discover who you are or who you work for."

"I also have this for the two of you."
"Since you have such peculiar problems, I managed to convince the teachers to give you this key to access the roof."
"So you two can have your moment alone without the others bothering you with questions about what happened to you."
"Also, we can use this place to talk to me if you need anything," she added.

After talking with Warlady, Tama and I went to have our lunch on the roof. Although it cost us a little to find a place to heat it after asking another teacher for help, we did it.

"The view from a tall building is amazing!"
"People look small down there!"
"It's like seeing them from above."

"Wait, what?"
"What did you just say?"
"Can you do that?"

"Well, as a goddess, I can watch people from above, but it's not as much fun as it seems because you can't do anything."
"It's more like being able to fly and follow the people you like."
"But it also has limitations".

"So are you omniscient?"
"Can you know everything that happens all the time?"

"Of course not, only THE BOSS is able to do something like that, all the other gods are not that powerful compared to him".
"That power is more like being able to watch the believers and what they do with their lives, to know what is happening on earth.
"Although it is more fun to see the box with the moving pictures. I already understand why no one uses that magic anymore"
"But if I can do more goddess things, would you like to see how I can bring my moon closer to Earth?"
"I could make it as close as you want"

"No thanks!!"
"I've already said I don't want panic in the streets."
"Besides, we have little time to eat"
"We spent a long time talking to people, asking and looking for a microwave"
"We'd better finish eating, because I'm sure my mother made them happily, so I don't want them to go to waste."

"Does your mother really like to cook that much?"

"She always liked to cook, since I was a child, she always wanted to have her own restaurant"
"Actually, I think it took her a long time to make it happen."
"She wanted to have a family restaurant, a place where everyone could go and relax from life's problems."
"My mother even wanted my father to help her in the kitchen, to do the dishes as a family."
"But Maria's illness came first."
"And although I am happy that she fulfilled her dream, I am also sad that it took so long, because if I had done it earlier, maybe my father would have been lucky enough to see her with her restaurant".

"May I ask what happened to your father?"

"I don't really know all the details."
"I know he worked as a bodyguard for someone important to the I.S.C."
"They said he was pretty good at his job, maybe one of the best."
"But one day, while he was working in Germany, something happened."
"Apparently it was the day the continental war broke out, he was close to where it all started, and he did everything he could to get his employer's daughter to safety."
"Not much is known about what happened.
"When I asked around, I was told that he had been betrayed.
"Supposedly he discovered something very important about the I.S.C. and that's why they killed him from behind that day."
"Others say he died protecting a group of locals who were hiding in a hospital when the Imperial troops began to advance into Germany.
"The most striking is that he was the first to face the first doll, and although he defeated it, he died from its injuries.
"My favorite story is that he destroyed several tanks by squeezing a grenade through the barrel, but I couldn't get away enough with the fifth."

"I'm very sorry to ask you about that."

"Don't worry"
"I'm fine, I know he's in a better place"
"Although I wish he were alive too"
"Now he is devoted to trying to spend my money and gambling my things on card games.
"In addition to throwing parties that everyone in heaven seems to know about and having a statue in his honor at the year-end party on another planet.
"I think the worst thing was when I died, I went to visit him and he pretended not to be home, even though I could see the TV changing channels.
"Now he won't tell me how much of my money he spent.
"I had to hire Momo to take care of the finances and not spend the rest on more bets.

"Is he doing that?"

"I think being away from Mom must be affecting him a lot."
"Maybe he just wants to keep his mind busy with something to fight the loneliness".

After we finished eating, the bell rang again and classes started again. So Tama and I gathered everything up and went back to class to continue trying to figure out what Maria was doing here.