Cid - Random Chocolates

The bag of chocolate sways as I walk around the library. I usually never come here. It’s nice.

I speak to the first girl from the Academy of Science that I pass. “Here’s some chocolate.”

“Huh?” She’s a hottie with light-pink hair.

I hand off the bag of chocolate and leave.

“Wait! What?”

I can hear her getting all confused. I think I’ve seen her face before, but I can’t remember where.

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She smiles cheerfully.

“I-if you wouldn’t mind, I’d like to start off as friends.”

“Friends? Sure thing.”

My general policy is to not embarrass women—with a few exceptions.

“Yay! Foster Father, I’ve made a friend!”

Foster father?

I follow her line of sight to see a middle-aged man walking toward us. He has black, slicked-back hair with gray streaks. I know I’ve seen this skeletal fellow before.

“Assistant Principal Lutheran…”

I’ve heard the assistant principal of this school is a master swordsman who’s won the Bushin Festival.

Which means this girl who loves him as her foster father must be…

“Sherry Barnett…!”

“Yes?”

According to my personal research, she has the most potential to become the main character in the Academy of Science. I believe she’s supposed to be in a position where she gives the protagonist advice, solves the greatest mysteries, and creates powerful, Boss-toppling devices. I never thought I would have to fight someone from the Academy of Science, so I honestly didn’t care and forgot all about her.

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Volume 1, Chapter 5