680 is My Target Score!?! -ORCA Series

❲5❳ |Starting Point|

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【Pov: Kato Kazuki】
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"As expected of Aniue!"

Akito came out from the kitchen. I smelled a pleasant favor both from the tea he served and the food he just made. He's into cooking since he was 5 years old. Eventhough me and my mom restricted him to go to the kitchen, he would always think a different way to approach the kitchen. The biggest fear of mine was him getting cut from the knife. Akito suffered from hemophilia, and we both knew how it would goes for every hemophilic people, especially for the men.

"Crab soup?"
"Yes. I tried another modified recipe. I added medicinal herbs from Hozuki's new recommendation."
"It is a bit sweet?"

Hahaue (mother in formal lang) with her hair down and her daily clothes seemed satisfied as always. She's really bad at cooking, the kitchen never suited her, and Akito would always cover her weakness for us.

"I used cinnamon for this time. How does it taste?"
"Delicious!"

She put her hands on her cheek, grinning from enjoying the taste of her son's cooking, while I put a mouthfull soup on my spoon, ready to enter to my tounge.

"Thanks Akito. The tea you made also brilliant. It neutralizes the flavor of the crab soup- but in the same time, it makes me feel the urge to taste the soup again and again."
"Glad you loved it. Here's for you, Watabe-san."
"Akito-sama? Me, too?"
"You're allergic to crab?"
"! Then, please excuse me."

Watabe-san took sit near me. His face shown his happiness just from gettig a portion of Akito's cooking. Indeed, I'd guarantee everyone would enjoy his cooking even from the scent faraway. Watabe-san also seemed to have been relieved from the stress I gave on his back. Next to him, Akito's butler, Kanon, also sipping the tea he made for him.

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【Pov: Kato Kazuki】
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"Then, I'll introduce myself. I'm Kato Kazuki, a student from PVS University. I'm excel on physics and math, so you can bombard me questions related to them."

I did try my best to look at her to make her feel that I'm respecting her, hoping she didn't caught a bad impression of mine.

〈An albino teaching me?! Sure God loves me so much!〉

She really did think something like that with her face staying straight. Is it just like me, or God trying to say that she's the mirror of mine?

"Okay."

〈Right. I should keep my mind straight or else he may expose anything bad.〉

As I thought, she would be so cautious.

"Since I'm new to you, I prepared a pretest sheet for both physics and math to make sure I can keep on track on how far your ability before I teach you. Is it alright?"
"Yeah."

Oh. She was surprisingly obedient to me. That's good. I pulled my paperwork I did last night and let her filled it. Normally, it should be finished around 45 minutes, but I prolonged it to an hour. Once she took a scanning on the paper, I could feel she was on the verge on giving up.

〈Say, I still not over the basic, these questions are monsters themselves- I'd definitely cry if this is the national exam!〉

She glanced at me quickly, and continued mourning on her paper.

〈Guess I'll scratch something just to make it looks like I do some proper work- No. He may be able to read my mind, right? Should I do it seriously? Eventhough I will get bad marks? Sigh. I'll do it anyway. Kato-Teach, I do hope you don't expect me too much.〉

I looked to the side. I felt bad for making her stressed out right from the beginning, BUT I DID CHECKED THE QUESTIONS BEFORE I GIVE IT TO HER. It should be easy peasy, right? Anyway, about the questions level, it's also my fault because I didn't properly check the past questions of national exams so I don't understand 'their' standards, tho. I'm sorry, Kitajima-san.

An hour passed, and as the agreement said, I collected her paper and scanned on her answers.

〈If it is possible, please skip my physics.〉

I knew, Kitajima-san. I was glad that she was able to answer the math pretest about a quarter of correct answers. For physics- there's nothing but false answers. I felt disappointed about this- however, I noticed she got half of the concepts of every questions I made. It seemed like she was having a trouble in memorizing the equations, or she was having a trouble in understanding the concept in a whole. I see, so that's it.

"Kitajima-san."
"Yes!"
"Do you love physics?"
"!"
〈NOOOO!〉

I figured it out. It's clear from her heart!

"Why?"
"Because it makes no sense."

Makes no sense?
Which POINT of physics MAKES NO SENSE?
I gripped my palm hard, pulled my lips to make sure I'm showing respect to her.

"Kitajima-san."
"Hhmm?"
"Everything here's physics! See, I'm here in front of you it's because of physics! And you, you sit here without flying or being absorbed somewhere, it's because of gravitation! The normal force! Your weight!"
"If that's all about, I know!"
"SO WHAT PART OF PHYSICS MAKES NO SENSE?"
"SO WHY SHOULD WE NEED TO CALCULATE THE FORCE AGAINST YOU OR THE VELOCITY OF WATER WHEN YOU JUMPED OUT OF THE SHIP? WHY SHOULD WE CALCULATE THE DISTANCE OF TWO CARS WHEN THEY JUST NEED TO MEET EACH OTHER! WHY WOULD THEY CARE ABOUT-!"
"FOR GOD'S SAKE, IT WILL BE USE-"
"NOT FOR OUR DAILY NEEDS!"
"BUT THE MACHINE USES IT!"
"I DON'T MAKE MACHINES!"
"BUT THE CONCEPTS ARE THE SAME!"
"NO, BIOLOGY IS BETTER! WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND BIOLOGY, YOU CAN LIVE HEALTHILY!"
"NO NEED IF YOU JUST NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT SHOULD YOU AVOID AND WHAT SHOULD YOU EAT!"
"WHAT ABOUT MEDICINES? IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW HOW AMAZING YOUR BODY, YOUR ORGANS, YOUR CELLS ARE WORKING TO MAINTAIN YOU ALIVE AND KICKING! LIVING THINGS ARE MORE PRECIOUS THAN MACHINES! IT'S GOD CREATION!"
"MACHINES ARE HUMAN WAY TO GET MORE EFFICIENT FOR THEIR LIVES! IT'S NOT TO RIVAL THE GOD!"
"I KNOW, BUT WHY SHOULD I STUDY PHYSICS WHEN I DON'T WANT TO BE AN ENGINEER!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

This was my first time I clearly make a voice to reject someone's idea. The debate took a long time and we both speaked up to our brain's content. However, I felt strangely relieved. This way, I could understand a bit about her, and how I would approach her steps by steps.