THE CRIMSON EYED WITCH

Volume 2 Chapter 1

I was looking at my phone screen, waiting for something to happen.

“Ne ne, Shiro-san, look up.”

Kei called me

“Wanna go shopping for some clothes after school?”

Maya asked

“Oh come on, what about points?"

I asked them. I still had about 40,075 points. I would have had more, had I not been so influenced by these girls. A certain Karuizawa Kei to be frank.

“Liven up, today is the day.”

“You too, Chihiro?”

To be honest, she was the last person I expected to hear that from. Much like she me, she preferred to preserve her money, rather than spend it. She simply shrugged, then responded

“Can you blame me? I’ve been looking forward to today.”

“We all have.”

Maya added.

Of course I knew why they were all excited. I myself had been looking forward to today. It was the first day of July, and that meant we were getting points delivered to our cell phones.

Hopefully that incident wouldn’t ruin it. I had decided to keep quiet about it, as spreading the story would create unnecessary confusion at the moment. Sudou had told me that they started the fight and he ended up beating them, but that was a hardly believable. The part about them starting the fight was no doubt true, but I couldn’t believe Sudou fought those three and came out unscathed. They must have been plotting something, so I was on high alert.

It didn’t take long for the bell to ring. I left the girls and returned to my seat at the backrow, third column. Sensei walked in, beginning homeroom.

“Good morning. Looks like everyone is more excited than usual.”

“Sae-Chan-Sensei! Do we have 0 points this month too!? When I checked this morning, I didn’t even have a single point!”

Ike went straight to the point.

“Oh, so is that why you guys were restless?”

“This month, we worked our asses off! We got past the midterms…. So isn’t it cruel to still be at 0? We weren’t late to class, weren’t absent and didn’t even whisper!”

“Don’t go off deciding things on your own. Let me talk first. Ike, you’ve certainly worked harder than I’ve ever seen you try. We recognize that. Naturally the school understands how you feel too.”

Ike sat down with his mouth shut.

“Well then, these are this month’s point totals.”

She put the paper on the board, and as usual, it started with A class. I was a bit surprised, because if I compared these points to before, I would say every class had received about 100 points. Every class except for Class D of course.

Class A was leading with a total of 1004 points, whereas Class D was at the bottom with an amazing 87 points. Quite the gap.

“….Not a pleasing development. Have they already figured out how to reliably increase points?”

The girl sitting next to me, Horikita Suzune must have been thinking out loud, because she would know that I wasn’t interested in whatever she had to say. It seems she was worried about the other classes. Contrary to her, most of the students only cared about our class points.

“Huh? Is that, 87… did we actually increase our points!? Woohoo!”

Ike jumped up in excitement. We had successfully earned 8,700 private points. Not much compared to 100,000 private points, but I could live with that.