Catharsis | AVOOCU Sequel

Chapter 10: Once More, Unexpected

[Chapter 10: Once More, Unexpected]

Damn... The screen in front of me shone brightly, thousands of words displayed. My lips pressed together as I leaned back. All the results all are about games.
"Tae, did you find anything?" I glanced over to the Seong who was sitting on my desk.

His back was facing me, but I heard him grumble. "Not yet— though there is a shit ton of something called 'Harry Potter' whenever I search 'transportation magic'."

I rose a brow, why did he phrase it like that?  It's like— I closed a tab before looking up, "Wait, do you not know what Harry Potter is?"

His head tilted back, eyes staring back at mine. "... am I supposed to?"

I snorted, "Wait— really?!" I blinked multiple times, leaning forward slightly. "Is it like non-existent from where you lived or something? It's, like, super famous!"

"I did not even use the internet until a few years ago." He replied with squinted eyes. Huh— it's not even an internet thing though. I giggled, waving him off. Anyways, I thought to myself as I went back to work, there's not much that helps us. Like, there's a bunch of stuff that are characteristics of people getting reincarnated— not being transported itself.

My lips pressed together as I darted my narrowed eyes away. Maybe there's a connection between this situation and how we got reincarnated. But then again— I was the only one that got hit by Truck-kun (with my knowledge) and as of now, only Tae-young and I have gone back. It's just— the circumstances are too different. My hand fell under my chin. Was it really someone who did this? Or is this some sort of universal concept by the other world? Other worlds?

"You know, I'm surprised to see you two like this." My head perked up at the new voice, eyes moving over to the doorway. Kakashi's body was slightly out of the doorway, with other bobs of hair behind him. Awww, they're all together— spying on us like that!

Wait... it just dawned on me. Damn, if I wasn't for this body, I would've been able to sense them. "How so?" I asked, pushing a hair strand back.

In that instant, Naruto's head popped up behind him. "Aren't you two supposed to be fighting?! You were really miserable, dattebayo!"

"Oh, we made up." I explained nonchalantly with a careless shrug. "Well, not that we fought in the first place." But did I make it that much of a big deal?

"Hah?!" Sakura loudly exclaimed with disbelief.

"You were miserable?" Ah.

My hands waved up, frantically waving around at my crush's sudden crestfallen face. "I mean, yeah— but like, it's gone now! Don't worry!" I giggled with a small smile. "Isn't it better than, uh, wanting to stab you???" I mean, that was the original idea. I mean— what?

Despite my words, the man only frowned with narrowed eyes. Like he was— okay, he was totally judging me. "...Sto... ing... like that..." Hah? His voice had muffled when he turned his head away that I couldn't hear him clearly. What did he say? My lips pressed into a deep line, oh well, it's probably not important. I can also him later.

"But I'm surprised," I suddenly thought, turning my attention back to the fictional characters. I ignored the small hum and heat that my laptop gave off. "You guys seem... too relaxed." My brows furrowed in confusion. Shouldn't they have taken more caution in this? "Shouldn't you be more worried?"

"That's right," And they're agreeing??? Stepping in, the teacher opted to sit on one of the other bunk beds. "But for some reason, we can't help but feel at ease."