Overtake The Astral: Searching for Good Life in Another World

Chapter 39: Mikami Shizu

I open my red bag meant for elementary school student. On top of the books lined up inside my bag, there is something that shouldn't be there.

A body of dead cockroach.

Immediately after I saw that corpse, a boy with short black hair and blue school uniform shouts not too far from me.

"Ew~! Guys! Mikami brings cockroach to school!"

Upon hearing that, all attention from the class gathers towards me.

Some of them laughs at me.

Some of them mocks me.

Some of them whispers to one another.

This is not the first time that it happens.

I was really freaked out when this happened for the first time. But now, I am getting angry instead of being scared by the bug in my school bag.

I take the dead cockroach out my bag... and then quickly shove it to the face of the boy who shouted earlier.

And shortly after that, a fight ensues between me and the boy together with his friends. A female teacher quickly comes in to separate us before someone got hurt.

The teacher forces the boy and me to reconcile with each other despite it being obvious that the boy is the one who harassed me so many times before.

Fortunately or unfortunately, the school chooses to not call the parents. The least thing I want is to involve my mother in this case.

... right, this is the memory of me back when I was an elementary school student in my previous life.

After the divorce, my mother and I moved to another prefecture and I had to change school too.

As a result, I had to leave my friends in previous school and cannot make friends at my other school.

But the main reason why I have no friend is not because of that. It's because of myself.

I don't feel like socializing anymore after I arrived at the new school. My childish self back then is thinking so much about the rumours about her parents' divorce at her previous school.

And I don't even try to make the situation better for myself.

That's right, I was an edgelord who always thought that the whole world was against my very existence.

Even so, I still at least graduate from elementary school with average grade.

I never thought that the situation will get better for me even after graduating. I was always convinced that there would always be someone out there who just wants to harass me no matter where I am.

With that mindset, I joined karate club when during my middle school days.

I wanted to learn self-defense. Might as well prepare myself for the next trouble coming to me.

It does not took that long to wait for the next trouble to come.

*splash*

It happens after school. Immediately after I am about to open the door in female toilet, a gush of water comes from above toilet's door.

My whole school uniform became wet. After checking the thing inside my skirt's pocket using my right hand, I open the toilet's door using the same right hand.

I see three middle school girls outside of the door.

The right side schoolgirl has ponytail hair and is holding an empty bucket of water.