Chapter 13: Boiled Green Pepper

"Principal, where does that child come from?"

"He was sent by the Fujimura Group."

"Eh, that's not the yakuza, can't we persuade him to leave?"

"When this school was founded, the Fujimura Group helped a lot, and they also donate a sum of money to the school every year to help us develop education."

The principal didn't say much, but the meaning was obvious: he couldn't be easily persuaded to leave.

"Then why not change his class?"

"Oh please, our school has so few students in first grade; no matter how you change it, he's still in the same pot."

"How about promoting him a grade? Although that child's academic ability isn't enough, the older children in higher grades are more mature and less likely to be influenced by him."

The teachers responsible for teaching first-grade elementary students discussed for a while and then looked to the elementary school principal, hoping he would make a decision.

He couldn't quite understand these teachers—why there was a principal with this kind of buck-passing idea—and decided to go see the transfer student's prowess with his own eyes that afternoon.

Then, after the first class in the afternoon, this elementary school principal had an epiphany and understood the difficulties of the first-grade teachers.

Teaching Broly indeed had an indescribable sense of terror; the whole classroom presented a depressing atmosphere, with only that child constantly asking all sorts of questions, while the teacher at the lectern was exhausted coping with the strange questions that kept extending from the other's mouth.

And the cause of this strange scene had only one reason: Broly subconsciously treated learning as sparring with his old man father Paragus, and in this process unconsciously released his own Opposition Aura.

Although he himself had no hostility, ordinary people couldn't withstand this aura; a short time didn't matter, but a class lasted forty minutes, and whether student or teacher, under the continuous coverage of this aura, would produce an inexplicable pressure in their hearts.

So, correctly speaking, these first-grade elementary teachers were not broken down by Broly's strange questions.

Rather, they were locked onto as the main target by his Qi Machine, and thus broke down under the questioning of all sorts of tricky and bizarre questions.

"Fine, let's try promoting that child a grade."

The principal of First Elementary School of Shin-Far Town rubbed his temples and agreed with the first-grade teachers' idea of passing the buck.

Broly thus successfully, on his first day as a first-grade elementary student, skipped a grade to become a second-grade elementary student.

"Classmates, this is the last class of the afternoon; our class will welcome a new student, who will study with us during this class."

The homeroom teacher of Class 2-A didn't know about Broly's terror; she was just assigned by the principal to bring a child to the class to attend lessons.

"Alright, come in and introduce yourself."

Broly went with the flow; going to school was a somewhat novel experience for him. He followed the female teacher's words into the classroom and stood at the lectern to introduce himself.

"I'm Broly, a Saiyan."

Broly introduced himself very honestly, but the second-grade elementary students who heard his self-introduction were somewhat stunned.

"What is a Saiyan?"

A little boy raised his hand and asked.

"The new student is so strange."

And while Broly seriously answered the questioning boy's question, a girl sitting in the back row quietly said to her classmate girl.

"Strange?"

Rin Tohsaka felt boys were just like that; after all, during recess, some boys played games of space people fighting little monsters.

"Alright, everyone is very enthusiastic, but now is class time; we still need to talk about classroom discipline."

The female homeroom teacher said, and then prepared to assign Broly a seat.

And before she had made a decision, Broly saw a girl in the back row.

【Targetable Objective discovered: Rin Tohsaka, current Happiness Value 0.】

(Note: Happiness Value can only be obtained after the Host intervenes in the target's life.) "Teacher, I want to sit there."

Broly directly pointed to the seat next to Rin Tohsaka and said.

"Fine, then move that empty desk and chair over there."

When the principal instructed to arrange this child, he also told her to accommodate him more.

The homeroom teacher therefore didn't stop the boy's wish.

【Back row by the window, the King's homeland!】

Broly had just moved the desk over and sat down when such a piece of information appeared in his mind.

"He doesn't have textbooks yet; Rin, please share your textbook with the new student for now, okay?"

Seeing Broly sit down, the female homeroom teacher said a sentence.

Rin Tohsaka was considered the Class President of the class, more mature and capable than ordinary children.

"Okay, teacher."

Young Rin Tohsaka was not yet the later high-and-mighty flower; now she was cheerful, enthusiastic, and eager to help those around her.

And this was all thanks to her father's elegant and composed family education, allowing her to act like a mature little adult at the age of seven.

"Hello, I'm Rin Tohsaka; you can call me Tohsaka."

Rin Tohsaka pushed the desk over, and after placing the books between the two desks, she lowered her voice to introduce herself to Broly.

"Hello, Tohsaka, I'm Broly."

Also thanks to the gentleman knowledge imparted by a certain male yesterday, Broly didn't rudely call the girl wife directly.

"You said it just now; at the lectern, you said you were a vegetable person of the Warrior Race, right? Of course, if you can eat a plate of Boiled Green Pepper without changing expression, I'll believe your words."

Young Rin made a small joke.

"Boiled Green Pepper, is that tasty?"

Hearing this, Broly's attention was drawn over; he was very interested in things to eat.

"Not tasty, it's bitter."

Rin Tohsaka answered seriously; her mother had made this for her before, and claiming that mature adults would eat Boiled Green Pepper, forced her to eat some Boiled Green Pepper.

Broly: "…"

He directly lost interest in Boiled Green Pepper, because he also didn't like bitter tastes.

"For this lesson, let's review multiplication and see how everyone has learned it..."

The homeroom teacher spoke from the lectern, and Broly raised his hand upon hearing her.

"Teacher, what is multiplication?"

"You haven't learned multiplication?"

A boy turned around to ask him, and Broly shook his head.

"I only learned addition and subtraction today."

He answered honestly.

"Haha, you're a first-year elementary student, right?"

The boy mocked him.

"Shinjo, did the teacher teach you to mock others?"

Seeing this, the homeroom teacher immediately scolded him with a sentence.

"Broly just came to our school to study; it's normal that he can't keep up with the learning progress. Hmm, the Tohsaka next to you is our class representative, and also the study committee member. If you have any questions you don't understand, you can ask her."

"I can teach you!"

Rin Tohsaka really liked this feeling of being trusted by adults, wearing an expression of 【entrusting the matter of teaching the new classmate to catch up on studies to me】, and said this to Broly very enthusiastically.

"Then what is multiplication?"

Broly asked without hesitation.

"Multiplication is the operation of finding the sum of several identical addends; as long as you know addition, learning it isn't difficult..."

Rin Tohsaka explained second-grade elementary mathematics knowledge to Broly in a low voice, and unlike the previous situation in first grade where he asked this and that and released an opposition aura, Broly instead sat very obediently in the corner listening to her words, and a lesson ended quickly.

"How is it, Kawaki-sensei, that kid is hard to handle, right?"

After school, some first-grade teachers came over to inquire about the situation with this second-grade homeroom teacher.

"Not hard to handle at all; that kid was very obedient the whole lesson." Regarding this, the female homeroom teacher only felt it was inexplicable.

Broly's performance in class was very obedient.

At least, he didn't have the hyperactivity disorder that mischievous kids have.

"Ah, he didn't ask you questions?"

"He asked, so what?"

"Could you answer them?"

At these words, she became even more baffled.

In elementary school knowledge, could there still be questions teachers can't answer?

"You all couldn't answer them?"

She asked carefully.

"That kid is too hard to deal with; there were some questions we couldn't answer."

Some first-grade teachers spoke the truth.

"Uh, I actually couldn't answer them either, but I had my class's study committee member, a reliable kid, help answer that kid's questions."

The female homeroom teacher thought for a bit, then replied with quite high emotional intelligence.

"Eh, that works too?"

Hearing this, these first-grade teachers looked at each other in blank dismay.

"Maybe children can understand children better."

After a round of discussion, these first-grade teachers reached a conclusion that could barely explain things.

"How was it, today's school experience?"

In the evening, after Fujimura Taiga returned from school, the first thing she did was come to Broly's side to ask about his feelings on attending school today.

"Very good. I asked the teacher many questions, learned the correct way to write five characters, and also addition, subtraction, and multiplication. It feels like I'm growing a brain."

Broly honestly answered today's harvest at school, and before today, he didn't even know what arithmetic was.

"Mm, not bad. Big Sis knew you were a smart, good kid."

Fujimura Taiga was not stingy with her praise.

"Right, I also met a new wife."

Broly thought of something and added a sentence.

"Eh?"

Hearing this, Fujimura Taiga was greatly shocked, but immediately reacted to what the situation with the 'wife' in Broly's mouth was, and calmed down.

"The new wife you met, did she give you something to eat?"

"No, she didn't give me anything to eat."

Broly shook his head.

"But she taught me multiplication."

He said.

"Ah, this, hmm..."

The consecutive appearance of three modal particles highlighted the complex changes in Fujimura Taiga's heart.

"You picked a good wife; you must get along well with her and make friends, understand?"

In the end, she smiled and instructed Broly like this.

There's a saying: 'He who stays near vermilion gets stained red; he who stays near ink gets stained black.' Making friends with people who study, you'll definitely absorb some ink too.

She treated Broly like a younger brother, but now it seemed there was an additional feeling of being a mother; she sincerely hoped this child could make friends with outstanding, learning-capable children.

"Mhm."

Broly responded and committed Fujimura Taiga's words to heart.

But even if Fujimura Taiga hadn't said it, he would still get along properly with his new wife.

In order to farm the happiness points on her that could be exchanged for this world's food after returning to Planet Nappa.

Three days remained until Broly's return to Planet Nappa; that night, Einzbern Castle on the outskirts of Fuyuki City came under attack.

The attackers were the Caster pair who had only that morning been targeted by a bounty Command Spell and designated as 【Prey】.

Because that pair indiscriminately abducted and murdered children and exposed Mystery with criminal acts they didn't even try to conceal, the neutral party of the Holy Grail War — the priest presiding over the Fuyuki Branch of the Holy Church — could bear it no longer and made them the primary target that had to be eliminated from the ritual.

For this, the Holy Church mediated the Holy Grail War.

Besides that visually impaired attacker Caster, the Clock Tower Lord who had his building blown up by Kiritsugu Emiya just last night and played a round of high-altitude free-fall without dying also reciprocated, bringing his own Servant in hot pursuit to attack the Einzbern castle.

That night, the inside of Einzbern Castle rang with the sound of fierce combat; Clock Tower Lord Kenneth El-Melloi II, due to carelessness and underestimating the enemy, was unfortunately struck by Kiritsugu Emiya's Origin Bullet, destroying most of the Magic Circuits in his body.

During this, two Servants possessing chivalry also appeared, fought side by side in mutual admiration, then each pulled a stunt on their own Master.

One failed to seize the chance to delay the enemy, letting the enemy Master be killed by his own Master; one promptly saved his own severely wounded Master but didn't attack the enemy Master right in front of him.

Compared to the Servants' strength, Masters are fragile; Kiritsugu Emiya, as a Magus Killer with despicable methods, could not understand his own Servant Saber's behavior, nor could he understand the enemy Servant Lancer's behavior.

More directly put, this man named Kiritsugu Emiya could not understand the two Heroic Spirits who existed in a past era, and the spirit of chivalry they persisted in.

Next to Fuyuki City, the Zenjou Family Villa in Shin-Far Town.

"Sakura, did you know? A strange kid came to our class today......"

Rin Tohsaka shared today's amusing school happenings with her younger sister; the girl beside her listened with relish, sitting on a chair swinging her two dangling little feet.

After returning to her parents' side, her heart wounded in the Matou Family had clearly healed; as the saying goes, only after losing something do you know its value.

Young Sakura now cherished every minute and second by her family's side incomparably; consequently, the Happiness Value on her kept rising.

Just watching her, Broly in the quilt of the Fujimura family guest room fell into a state of incomparable delight.

Like an old stockholder seeing a stock he'd only bought a short while ago constantly soaring bright red.

1 Happiness Value converts to 100 Happiness Points, and among the items exchangeable in the Crystal Palace, the Happy Water Broly likes to drink costs only 2 Happiness Points.

Young Sakura's skyrocketing Happiness Value plunged him into the wonderful fantasy of achieving Happy Water freedom after returning to Planet Nappa.

Of course, besides Happy Water, Broly also likes cake, katsudon, pudding, grilled meat, ice cream......

The prices of these things are all within 30 points, completely acceptable.

"When I go back, I'll let Father taste this world's food too."

Broly murmured to himself lying in the quilt.

"Rin made a new friend at school? That's truly a happy thing. Come, Mom peeled and cut apples; both of you come eat."

Aoi Zenjou brought over peeled and cut apples and had the two daughters come over.

"This piece of apple meat is the biggest; Sakura, for you."

Her younger sister's return made Rin Tohsaka cherish her even more, hoping her sister would get the best things.

"Thank you, Sister."

Young Sakura felt sweet in her heart; whether Father, Mother, or Sister, they all treated her better after she came back; she had previously doubted they wouldn't let her return home, but that was truly needless worry, over-anxiousness.

"Right, did little Sakura make any new friends while at the Matou Family before, have any happy experiences there?"

But suddenly, the gentle mother's question made Young Sakura's expression, immersed in happiness, freeze for a moment.

The Matou Family — that was a nightmare of a place; although there were two people who could count as caring for her, compared to the miserable suffering in the basement Insect Warehouse, it made Sakura not want to recall it no matter what.

(Chapter End)