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Chapter 31:Reason? Who needs that?

Kumagawa got up from the floor, standing on his own two feet now that his death had become undone. Seeing such a scene once again Saki gave a neutral observation.

Saki:Ah, Kumagawa-kun. You came back to life.

Kumagawa:[You sure are awful to pull out the sword even if there was no guarantee of me reviving. You've gotten way too used to bathing in blood, haven't you? Good grief.]

Kumagawa patted himself and his uniform down to fix things up. That is, he returned everything to as it was using All Fiction.

As a result, the hole in his body and the hole in his uniform closed up just like that. The blood that colored her entire body also disappeared.

Seeing it again, it really was absurd, or even like cheating. It was a frightening skill that made it seem almost obvious for former President Jakago Aki to have been chased out.

The Skill that couldn't be undone, All Fiction. She didn't think that she particularly wanted it, though.

Saki:I definitely can't allow this Kumagawa-kun to meet Kushi-chan...

Kumagawa:[Hmm? Did you say something, Saki-chan?]

Saki:Ah, no...Or rather, Kumagawa-kun. Why did you die? Did you get killed by someone? Perhaps, by that Anshin'in-san...

Kumagawa:[No way, no way, something like that is impossible. Well, I skipped class because it was boring, and came to the Student Council office to read old issues of Weekly Shonen Jump...]

Skipping class because it was boring? This Student Council President has some pretty straightforward principles.

Kumagawa:[When I read Jump from ten weeks or so before, it feels good because it's like it's stimulating my memories, you see. It's a pleasant feeling, to remember things that you've vaguely forgotten. It's a kind of ecstasy that I doubt people with good memory can get to taste.]

Saki:Uh huh...So, what happened? Did you get killed by Jump?

Kumagawa:[Don't be silly! Weekly Shonen Jump is a wholesome magazine. It wouldn't do anything like kill people. To sympathize with people instead of killing them, that's Weekly Shonen Jump's slogan.]

Saki:I thought it was "Friendship, Effort, Victory"?

Kumagawa:[Anyway, I was reading old issues of Weekly Shonen Jump when suddenly, for no reason at all, I felt like examining the Hero's Sword that I'd stored in the cleaning supplies locker. You know, since after school today, Yakeishi-chan and I are going to murder the heck out of each other, right? I thought that I'd better prepare for that-it would be unbearable if it ended up breaking or becoming dull when I finally used it. You know, like a gunman that doesn't regularly overhaul his guns.]

It was quite a splendid idea to have, but why was it a gunman and not, say, a master fencer? The subtle weirdness of his sense was one cause for Kumagawa's unpleasantness, I'd have to say.

Kumagawa:[So, I thought I'd test out the sword on my own body, but I accidentally messed up and stabbed myself instead. I only planned on giving myself a little cut, but I was so surprised at how much it hurt that, while rolling around and writhing in pain, the sword ended up sinking deep into my body. Ahaha, I would have died if you didn't show up, Saki-chan.]

Saki:No, I think you did in fact die, even if I showed up...If you keep dying in happy-go-lucky ways like that, aren't you going to forget the joys of living?

Kumagawa:[Ahaha. I've never known the joys of living from the very beginning, after all. If only Anshin'in-san weren't there, I'd die as many times as needed.]