[Date] Sunny
If you're reading this diary, I should already be gone... and the curse has now passed to you. You have three days until the poison takes effect. To save yourself, you must forward this to thirty group chats...
Ugh, what am I even writing? I don't have any roommates, who's going to read this anyway?
So today was my first day at Tracen Academy, and it was way more relaxed than I expected. Symboli Rudolf was definitely just trying to scare me. We only have required classes in the morning, and what they're teaching middle schoolers is way too basic. If I couldn't handle this stuff, I might as well start my whole life over.
...Except maybe everything except math. I can't even understand the textbooks. Seriously, my Japanese is just terrible.
Gotta pay attention in class and aim to be a good student!
No classes in the afternoon—time to sneak out and have some fun.
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[Date] Cloudy
I'm doomed. Completely forgot about yesterday's afternoon training session. I keep forgetting this is basically a sports school.
Okino waited for me the whole afternoon and even ended up shouting under my dorm building. No one answered.
Because I was at the movies, of course.
Now that I think about it, there are so many animated films here...
Overslept this morning and missed breakfast. Had to sit through morning classes on an empty stomach.
I should just keep a box of cup noodles in my dorm room from now on.
Got an earful from Okino at noon, and he also found out I skipped breakfast. This time, he actually assigned Tokai Teio to stick to me like glue—making sure I get to the cafeteria for lunch and then dragged straight back to the training field.
For some reason, while she was watching me eat, Tokai Teio had this weird look in her eyes.
How do I describe it... It was this sort of fond, slightly scolding, almost motherly expression. Kinda creepy, honestly.
Hope I'm just imagining things.
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[Date] Overcast
It's supposed to be a day off, but no rest for the wicked.
Sigh. Uma Musume really have no rights.
Did the usual training session at the field. Special Week overslept again—looked like she was up all night.
How did I know? Because I was up all night too, obviously.
Okino's face turned completely green when he saw the two of us, like he'd eaten something spoiled.
...I kinda feel bad for him.
Anyway, ran a few laps around the field with Team Spica. Tokai Teio made a point of running right beside me, staring at me the whole time. So unsettling.
Also saw the Canopus team members at the training field. Nice Nature was cuter than I imagined, Twin Turbo was super loud and kept challenging everyone to duels.
Honestly, being stuck with a bunch of kids feels so awkward. In my past life, I survived years in the trenches of the internet with my family intact, and all those sharpened skills are useless now. These fillies are all straight out of a My Little Pony episode—even the delinquent ones just yell things like, "You big dummy!" or "You total creep!"
Makes me unconsciously watch my own words.
Hey, come to think of it, being insulted like that by them... could someone actually develop a weird kink for it?
Can't figure it out. Going to sleep.
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[Date] Overcast
Woken up this morning by Tokai Teio knocking on my door. Rubbed my eyes open and there she was, standing right outside—gave me a real scare.
But thanks to her, I wasn't late today.
Slept like a log at my desk all morning—stayed up too late again last night. Of course, when I saw Okino at noon, he looked absolutely furious.
Sigh, it's not that I don't want to sleep early. It's just that nighttime passes by in a blink—close your eyes, open them, and the sun's already up.
Daiwa Scarlet pulled an all-nighter too, haha.
It's been raining for two days straight, and the training field is a soggy mess. Your feet sink right in and get stuck, making it a real pain to run.
But Mejiro McQueen, running behind me, probably had it worse. Every time I pulled my foot out of the mud, it splattered all over her. I could hear her clicking her tongue with every step she took.
The Chairwoman visited the training field today, along with Hayakawa Tazuna. So the school does have a chairwoman—I was starting to think Symboli Rudolf ran the whole show herself.
The Chairwoman is tiny, really short, and full of energy—adorable. I feel like if she starred in the recruitment ads herself, she'd attract way more students. Told her that, and she said she's been doing exactly that since the year before last.
I glanced at Hayakawa Tazuna, and she just gave me this mysterious smile.
...Hayakawa Tazuna, you've done well. Very well!
After training, everyone looked like they'd been rolling in mud. They all suggested heading straight to the baths, but I slipped away quietly.
I know it's not right, kinda breaks the code.
But it is a problem... if this keeps up, I'm going to start smelling pretty bad.
Seriously, since I already have a single room, is it too much to ask for a private bathroom?
Ended up heating some water and giving myself a sponge bath in my room.
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[Date] Sunny turning Cloudy
Forgot to take my medicine today, and it had me really worried. But the whole day went by without any issues—no coughing up blood or anything.
Maybe I'm just overreacting? Besides, it's not even certain that it's Soul Dissolution Syndrome.
I should go to the hospital for a check-up one of these days.
Tokai Teio kept watching me eat with this plastered-on smile, making me feel like it was my last meal. Today, she finally showed her true colors.
She actually wants me to call her 'big sister'?!
I see you as a daughter, and you want to be my sister?
I'm a man, through and through—how could I endure such an insult? So I very seriously explained our complicated relationship to her: 'You can't boss me around just because you've known Symboli Rudolf longer. We should get along as equals. I might reluctantly accept you calling me 'big brother,' but that's about it.'
She didn't listen at all. And she looked really hurt.
I mean... it's not my fault, right? If I had to call a young girl 'big sister,' I'd feel like something important was just carried away by the wind.
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[Date] Sunny
I called someone 'big sister' today.
Not Tokai Teio, of course. Got called into the student council by Symboli Rudolf. She asked if I was feeling unwell, how I was adjusting to Okino's training, and said she'd personally train me once she found the time.
Honestly, I'd almost forgotten you were my trainer, Symboli Rudolf.
It's a bit scary, though—I just went for a health checkup yesterday, and today Symboli Rudolf is asking about my condition. Is she watching me?
The student council room was full of people, all of them bright, lively young women. Way more appealing than a barely-developed girl like Tokai Teio—calling them 'big sister' was no trouble at all.
Air Groove is the cold, businesslike big sister type. I like that.
Narita Brian always has a piece of straw in her mouth and a bandage on her nose. She's the free-spirited, wanderer-type big sister. I like that.
Maruzensky is a genuine, mature big sister. I like that. But she kept dropping 'Gen Z' this and 'Gridman' that—I couldn't keep a straight face. Feels like there's a real generation gap there.
Didn't see Mr. C.B.—heard she went off to climb Mount Kilimanjaro.
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