Owari no Seraph – Ichinose Guren, 16-sai no Catastrophe v1c2

Homeroom.

"............"

In Year 1 Class 9, in the seat by the window right at the back.

By the way, Sayuri and Shigure were not in this class.

Shigure was in Class 2; the two of them were assigned to the classes that were furthest away from Class 9, which clearly could be thought to be the product of someone's meddling.

The reason was because, the place that Glen was in, was one whose objective was to show to the next upcoming head of Ichinose the exceptional, overwhelming power possessed by the Hiiragi House.

Glen smiled.

As such, his father did have a good reputation among the 『Mikado no Tsuki』.

His father had just been doing what he was able to within his limits. As long as he was able to avoid conflict for their organization with that, it was fine.

"............"

The memory of that time, when he was a child.

The memory of when he was beaten up by the people from the Hiiragi House and brought back to his home.

"Please forgive your powerless father......"

Even though his son was the one getting beaten up, he still apologized.

"............"

He looked around.

The males and females each made up half the class.

Jyuujou House.

Sanguu House.

By the way, Ichinose House used to be the highest ranked supporting family of the Hiiragis. But right now, they had fallen to the lowest rank.

The lady teacher furthermore said.

Following that, the lady teacher turned her gaze joyfully to Glen,

The rat was referring to Glen.

And then, even the rat also grinned foolishly for now.

It did not matter whether he was ridiculed.

But, he could not allow himself to lose in power. He could not allow himself to lose when it came to spell invocation ability.

Since, unlike his father who ran the organization in a gentle and peaceful manner, he had a different ambition hidden in his heart.

While grinning foolishly, Glen looked around.

The guy of Goshi House.

By the way, he already knew from the register that there was just one special person assigned to this class.

To the those who owed allegiance to 『Mikado no Oni』, the Hiiragi name held a special distinguished status - so much so that the Hiiragis could even be called as the representatives of God.

But right now, that seat was empty.

In other words, it was at the first row of the classroom, close to the entrance.

"Everyone should already have realized this, but this is the very class that Shinya-sama will be in. The honor to be with......."

In other words, they would be together in the same class with such a wonderful person.

Glen smiled again at the idiotic, easy-to-understand change in attitude. Following that, he looked out the window. The roadside cherry trees outside the school gate could be seen from the window.

"I'm worried about Shigure and Sayuri."

At that moment, he could hear the sound of the classroom door sliding open. In that instant, it was evident that the classroom returned to silence and he could feel the class tensed up.

"My, why is it so quiet?"

It was the voice of a man.

"Oh my, it's Shinya-sama, welcome to my class...... Shinya-sama, here is your seat......"

"Eeh, I don't want such a front seat."

"I, would like that seat. So can I swap?"

Glen could hear an ongoing conversation that seemed to indicate the arrival of a king.

Glen looked up, and turned his gaze into the classroom.

The reason was because, the man there, was the one who had thrown a talisman at Glen at the school gate this morning.

It seemed like this person was none other than Hiiragi Shinya.

To top it off, that very Shinya approached Glen. With a grin on his face, he said to the girl who was seated beside Glen.

The girl was stunned for an instant and she then said as she got up frantically,

"Hey? I'd like to sit here. Can you swap with me?"

"B-But, sitting beside that rat......"

"Hey Sensei. Is it really okay for a teacher to be calling her student a rat?"

"We are all in the same class. We have to get along."

The girl who had been seated beside Glen then made way.

Shinya grinned and took the seat beside Glen.

"Aah, everyone, I'm sorry for interrupting. Please continue the homeroom lesson."

She talked about the protocol for the school entrance ceremony.

Shinya listened on with a grin for a while.

At that moment,

Shinya called out to him.

"Erm, Ichinose Glen-kun, right? Can I call you Glen?"

Glen stared at the face of Shinya, and replied.

Shinya then smiled and said.

"I had been strictly taught since young that I must not defy the Hiiragi House."

"Yes."

"I'm very sorry."

"But then, you received my attack on purpose this morning right?"

"My, I wonder why you did that? Perhaps to hide your true power?"

"Isn't that a clear act of defiance? Your ambition is so obvious you know?"

Glen looked at Shinya and said.

"Oh, you admit to it pretty readily huh?"

"Fuhn. I see."

"I see ~."

With a slightly lowered voice,

"............"

"I'm not ly......"

"Well, doesn't matter ~. But it's just that I've been hoping all this time that we can actually be comrades you know."

"Since both you and I hate the Hiiragi House, I was thinking that we could actually join hands and secretly do lots of interesting things together."

"By the way, the Hiiragi blood doesn't flow in me. I'm a foster son. Since I was a kid, I've been raised in a manner to be fit to join the Hiiragi House. That's why I hate the Hiiragi House. In other words, we are comrades."

Glen had heard of something like this before. In order to strengthen the power in sorcery in the descendants of their bloodline, the Hiiragi House would seek out capable children, teach and raise them, then through the process of sifting and selection, adopt those who survived as their foster children.

Such a rumor had been around for quite some time.

Thus, Glen was about to reply with a "you've misunderstood". He was about to reply with a "I'm not the person you thought out to be".

Shinya said.

Instantly, Glen could tell that he had reacted.

Receiving Glen's stare head on, Shinya smiled.

"What may you be referring to?"

"............"

On hearing those words, Glen responded while keeping his expression unchanged.

"Now she's my fiancee though."

In a flash, Glen's words stopped, and he directed a slightly forceful gaze towards Shinya.

"Why? Vexed?"

"Ha, haha, that face. Your ambition's completely written on your face. So why don't we get along? Just saying this, but Mahiru and I aren't really on that close terms so don't worry. Even though I got the Hiiragi name, I'm still just a foster son. I'm still just a filthy spawn of lowly birth. At the main house, the treatment I get is the same as what you're getting here now. I'm of course pissed by that, so I'm thinking of destroying everything."

He said something that would have gotten him executed immediately if it got leaked outside.

Even though he did not know, it did not seem like Shinya was a guy he should get involved in, thus Glen changed his approach.

"Tch, you're really a talkative fella huh. My goal is different from yours. I don't know what you want to accomplish, but don't get me involved in it."

"Ah, you stopped your polite speech."

"Then, are we friends? Let's be friends?"

"Ah-haha. Well, whatever. At any rate, I'm the only comrade you can have here. So you have no choice but to get along with me."

Glen then took a glance at Shinya. His mood became bitter at having attracted the attention of a pretty troublesome fellow right on the first day of school.

"All right, it's about time for the school entrance ceremony. Everyone, shall we go?"

Shinya too stood up and said.

The goddess was probably referring to Mahiru.

But, right now, he was going to head to where Mahiru was.

Though he had never thought that he would meet again under such circumstances.

"Come on, let's go, Glen."

Glen looked up at that hand, scowled, and brushed it away.

"Haha."

And then, Glen and the rest of the class moved to the auditorium.

Chapter end