Devil's Luck

Chapter 22: Let's Go Swimming! 2

"The inter-club swim meet with an increase in club funds on the line continues! The second competition event is the three-legged race!!" The announcer loudly proclaimed through the speakers for everyone to hear. "The rules for this competition is simple! 2 members from each team will tie their legs together, and swim the 50m length of the pool!!"

"The first to the goal gets 15 points! 2nd place gets 14 points, 3rd is 13 points and so on..."

Zenkichi, sat on the ground with his back against the wall, then tunes out the announcer as he leaned down and looked at the ground without any expression, lost in thought.

'I got careless. I knew that this world could be a fictional one from my past life, no one could have natural blue hair! I was cautious enough since I had no memories about this world from my previous life but I never thought of a possibility that there'd be other characters from other worlds to end here!'

'Uzaki-chan and that purple haired girl from earlier with a bombastic figure, both of them are from respectively different anime series. Just how in the hell are they here? I'm 90% sure that they didn't go to this school!'

'But they aren't important, what's more important is the potential of a character from an anime with god-like powers and world destroying enemies! Gangs, mobs, and hell even the military I could somewhat deal with but someone akin to a god?! Hell no!'

Zenkichi shut his eyes and took a deep breath, calming himself down before he gets a heart attack from the sheer panic he was feeling.

It was normal to feel scared at the unknown, especially when it comes to anime, manga or whatever fictional worlds he's in because if there's one correlation they have–it's craziness and insanity.

"God, who's real probably, I hope that you don't fuck me over quickly. As long as I can get lucky, and live longer, I can get some reality warping skills then I wouldn't fear anything!" Zenkichi nodded. "I just have to continue laying low and enjoy my school life and get rid of whatever shady group this school has that threatens me and other students."

"Oi~ Hitoyoshi!" Shiranui said as she came walking up to him, looking at him with her usual cheery expression. "What are you doing here sulking like some outcast of society?"

Zenkichi opened his eyes and looked up at her. "Just thinking, Shiranui."

She sat down next to him, still smiling. "Well, you can think later, we have a competition to win!"

Zenkichi raised an eyebrow. "Three-legged race? Didn't Medaka-chan and Nabeshima-senpai participate in it?"

"Well, yeah they are. But we should at least cheer them on, it'll help motivate them even more to win it." Shiranui replied, thinking. 'Especially Kurokami. I know for sure she'll swim like her life depends on it when you go cheer for her.'

Shiranui wasn't blind or ignorant about Medaka Kurokami's feelings about Zenkichi, it's her job as her double to know and it honestly wasn't that difficult to figure it out through her complex mind.

Because despite all her intelligence and strength, Medaka was also just a simple and straightforward girl in the most unbelievable sense.

'Well she wouldn't be the abnormal of all abnormals.'

Zenkichi sighed, then stood up. "You're right, let's go cheer them on."

As they walked towards the pool, Zenkichi couldn't help but feel a small flutter in his chest when he saw Medaka and Nabeshima already standing at their starting block, their legs already tied together. They were chatting amicably with smiles on their faces.

He didn't know why, but seeing them interacting with each other as friends just made him feel...fulfilled for some reason.

For a moment his mind flickered with a past memory, his previous life. He showed facial features; no eyes, no lips, no eyebrows; just a chubby figure staring blankly at himself at the mirror wearing nothing, completely exposing himself.