Chapter 7: Just Two Months
Kamijou Touma was an ordinary high school boy with extraordinary deeds. He's so strong yet so misfortunate. He liked helping other people while not expecting any form of reward.
It was this form of brute chivalry and manliness that drove him to take care of the Iron Wall Girl in Fukiyose Seiri, who is already just three months away from giving birth. He had to admit that at first, he already wanted to break down emotionally after seeing how hard it was to become a young parent but after seeing how she desperately wanted to keep the baby and went to great lengths to make their child healthy, he saw what seemed to be like a silent love tie between him and the Forehead Deluxe.
In some ways, the boy subtly wanted her.
Any classmate who witnessed him getting beat up in a daily basis can call him insane but if there is anyone who can understand the pain that Fukiyose goes through (probably aside from Himegami), Kamijou can proudly say that he had done a good job in raising up his small family although he wouldn't brag about it. And the two of them were as strong as ever, even after being confronted with the truth that their high school loves might not go back to what it used to.
As for Fukiyose, she had to admit that lately, she found herself wanting to see the spiky haired boy more often. Sometimes, she would just randomly show up in the kitchen where the boy is cooking or in the computer desk where he is busy encoding some school documents. From there, she would just watch him do his work and when Index annoyingly appears to nag the boy to take her somewhere for some snacks, her brown eyes seemed to darken and she would walk away, her foul mood visibly showing.
It's not that she hates the English nun (very far from it) but she had to admit that she doesn't actually enjoys her presence here and she's only enduring it because of the nun's friendship with Komoe and that she was actually Kamijou's first actual partner. But the fact that Index rarely, if ever, helps in household chores and often times, even complains about food or the shows she's watching was changing whatever good opinion she had of the little sister in the past.
"Neh, Touma! Let's go outside!" Index annoyingly nags the boy again as he and the pregnant teen was busy watching some rom-com movie that Komoe wanted thern to watch.
"But Index...." Kamijou sighed as he was too tired to even grant the wish of the boy. "I just finished my job with Komoe-sensei. Let me have this day for poor Kamijou-san to recover. I promise that I'll make up with you tomorrow..."
"But Touma! Today's the Index tried to reason out that today's supposed to be sales day and that means they can have some discount on a family restaurant but she wasn't able to finish her sentence due to a certain someone suddenly standing up quickly and grabbing her head before gripping onto it. "H-Hey! Why are you doing this to me?!"
"Didn't you understand what he said?" Fukiyose glaringly squeezed the head of Index, who cowered in fear under her sharp and dark glare. "He'll attend with you tomorrow. DO. YOU. UNDERSTAND."
Suddenly feeling a chill run through her spine, Index nodded quickly ran back to her room to just watch television but not before telling Kamijou to keep his promise. The boy can only sigh. You're so stubborn, Index.
Nevertheless, he was thankful that Fukiyose managed to subdue the wild nun even before the latter can bite him again.
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It was September 19 which meant that it was the first day of the Daihaseisal.
An annual city-wide interschool sporting competition that takes place September 19 through September 25 in Academy City, it was basically a huge seven-day athletics competition between all schools in the city, which meant that in that place of esper powers research where eighty percent of the total population of just under 2.3 million people consisted of students, it was not an event to be taken lightly.
Even though it was an early weekday morning, the city was already filled with the families of the participants. Had the board of directors allowed the travel by car into the city, the congestion would probably extend for tens of kilometers within the city. Since it would otherwise be faster just to walk at a time like this, they were temporarily increasing the number of running trains and subways, as well as preparing unmanned shuttles throughout the city. It was surprising that with the degree of overcrowding, there just weren't enough drivers to go around.
Although everywhere one looked resembled a station platform at rush hour, that was just a testament to the Daihaseisai's claim to fame as one of the largest events around. But with that said, people are usually prohibited from entering school premises, in order to avoid outsiders from seeing the power development facilities unique to Academy City schools. Sports grounds also tend to be heavily guarded in order to prevent people from stealing DNA maps of high level espers.
But although it was a large-scale sporting event, not all the students would be bounded by the events all the time. They just need to follow the rule of reaching the area in the specific time, and any time other than that was free time for them. Schools are even allowed to set up stores to get some earnings like the management or home economics schools that set up booths and bento stores.
Within those places, a group of class from a certain high school gathered. While their athletic uniform shows that they are participants of the major events, something else is actually happening.
"Nyal No Fukiyose-bitch, no suffering! This is a celebration!"
All the students who heard that sweat dropped as the one who is speaking holds a bunch of what looked like magazines.
The one speaking is none other than Tsuchimikado Motoharu, The ecstatic blonde has been busy since morning in selling and distributing the magazines to his other classmates to sell as well.
"Hell yeah! I know that we have planned so hard for this festival so why don't we reward ourselves with these things! And with Fukiyose being out of action, we can finally have some fun before we dive deep into action."
The other one speaking was Aogami Pierce.
The bluenette with a fake Kansai dialect was basically in high spirits as he was also busy distributing magazines for earnings. The rest of their classmates are hesitating to partake in the activity despite the insistence of the two idiot pair of blue and blonde that it's safe since their dictator Seiri isn't present right now.
"But Tsuchimikado-kun..." A certain spiky haired girl didn't want to sell the magazines. "What if this reaches into
the ears of Fukiyose-sama? You know very well that she doesn't approve this kind of business that you are conducting right now."
"What non-sense are you speaking about? That bitch and booby isn't around right now. Kami-yan can take care of that pest!" Tsuchimikado laughed like there's no tomorrow, much to the disgust and horror in the faces of his classmates. "She won't be around the mess our side line. We're free!"
The nerve of him to insult Fukiyose-sama when she isn't even here. One classmate thought nervously.
"We are hitting two birds in one stones. We're winning for Kami-yan and that bitch and we're earning a lot of money. Aogami chuckled as he passes another magazine. 'See? We already earned ¥100,000 in these earnings and we can used this for a week's worth of yakiniku if we managed to raised it to ¥500,000 by the end of the festival.
"I'm not sure with this." Another girl said. "I mean, I would love to earn more money but selling these types of magazines is another story. If Fukiyose-sama learns of this, she'll really kill the two of you."
"Two? That makes three! We're not letting Kami-yan get off that sex toy's shiny forehead!" Aogami shrieked as he nearly crumpled the magazine. "But rest assured, nothing will happen! That bitch will never..."
"And who are you calling a bitch and sex toy, Ahogami?!"
Tsuchimikado and Aogami were both shell-shocked to hear a certain feminine voice suddenly sprout out of nowhere.
And they almost turned to stone and dropped their magazines when they saw an incensed devil in form of a teenage girl.
The rest of the class were shocked to finally see Fukiyose Seiri after having been absent for some couple of months. But what actually stunned them is the large belly of the teenage girl, who was swearing some black casual short-sleeved dress. Behind the Iron Wall Girl is the misfortunate boy on Kamijou Touma, who is dressed in a casual blue-and-white checkered short-sleeved untucked polo shirt and dark pants.
"Heh?! Fukiyose-sama, is that you?!" Terror began to grip in Aogami's heart as he saw the fury in the face of the Forehead Deluxe. "So what Tsuchimikado said to me is true? That you're pregnant?! And with Kami-yan's child?!"
The rest of the class can only gasp in shock at the revelation which began to hit them hard. Prior to this, Komoe had only vaguely told the class that their acting representative would be out because of some disease and that starting from now, the real class representative in Aogami is going to take over. It was hard to believe it at first because it's common knowledge that the Iron Wall Girl is borderline obsessed with health products and fitness although they decided to go with it in the end.
But they didn't expect that this is the "disease" that they were told about.
"Yes. It's true that I'm pregnant and Kamijou is the father but at this point, there's nothing wrong with that anymore. Fukiyose's tongue rang sharp, making Tsuchimikado's knees nearly run soft while Kamijou can only sigh, not really expecting that this would go that bad. "What I find disagreeable and abominable is what you're doing right now. I've heard from some bystander that you're selling some kind of magazine. I would have let it off if it wasn't for the contents inside it. Good thing that me and Kamijou decided to go here to meet you all and this is what I find?"
Fukiyose then angrily marched as everyone in their class parted like the Red Sea to make way for the forehead queen as the spiky haired boy followed quietly.
"H-Hey, Kami-yan, saved us!" Tsuchinikado cried.
"Idiot. I'm not getting killed over you two." Kamijou felt sorry for the two but he wouldn't trade away his life for the two at this point.
Fukiyose then grabbed the bunch of magazines that Tsuchimikado is holding and began to read it aloud. "AR Magazine: Girls be Ambitions. Buka AKB48. Shoko Shibata." Everytime she's reading the headlines of the magazines, she seemed prepared to explode in anger. "Cutie: Special Edition..."
Crap, they're that kind of sexy material that I have seen before. Kamijou didn't expect to see those kinds of magazines while being here in the Daihaseisai. They even had that sexy teacher stuff although that was long ago. Well...good thing I already got rid of my adult materials or else, Fukiyose would have murdered me a long time ago.
"Wait...you can't deprive us of our manliness! Even Kami-yan needs it. Look, his hormones is even worse since he even made your pregnant!" Aogami didn't know he just accidentally tripped into a landmine just waiting to explode. "Or how about you? I'm pretty sure that deep inside your healthy lifestyle, you're also curious about having sex...
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?!" Fukiyose was in rage as she stood up, her knuckles ready to beat down the two idiotic pair.
"Nya, you're going to beat us?" Aogami got frightened but foolishly managed to stay calm. "But it won't hurt, right? Because you're much weaker now with all nutrients having been sucked up by your...
Twack!
That was the last straw as the whole class and Kamijou just witnessed the bluenette getting socked in his jaw and he ended up getting violently thrown down in the floor, one of his ribs slightly breaking literally.
"Nyal But I thought Fukiyose-sama got weaker..." Tsuchimikado tried to flee the scene but he wasn't able to as the female teen, despite being a little bit heavier than her pre-pregnancy days, easily managed to grip the blonde in his arms and unceremoniously converted the boy into a heap of smouldered trash. In a few minutes, an ambulance was called in to carry the two victims of Fukiyose's divine punishment to the nearest clinic.
Glad that I wasn't a part of her violent mood swings. Kamijou thought as he shivered at the possibility that he could have been a part of the carnage right now.
"As for all of you, I heard that those two idiots have amassed at least ¥100,000 in those earnings. Return the money to the owners!" She made an order that wasn't to be unheeded as immediately, the class dispersed so that they can find those who bought the magazines and return the money. "Kamijou, come with me. We'll burn those magazines at this spot."
"Eh? But it's a large waste if we do those.." Kamijou quietly muttered before he quickly held back his tongue as he heard the knuckles of the girl quickly cracking. "Okay! We'll burn those idiotic magazines!"
After the certain incident of the indecent magazines, the Daihaseisal event commenced rather peacefully. Since Aogami has been incapacitated for the rest of the festival, someone else had to take over his spot in the high school committee. For someone who used to be part of the committee, Fukiyose can only sigh as she and the spiky haired boy sat in the sidelines to watch the Obstacle Course now on-going. Kamijou bought himself popcorn to eat while he bought the girl a bottle of water and vegetable salad.
"Didn't we lose this one last year?" The boy sighed as all the contestants are preparing in the starting line.
"Yeah, that was because you fumbled in the last lap." Fukiyose huffed.
"Well, a lot of things happened last year." Kamijou didn't want to bring up a certain incident that ended up injuring him badly so he kept mum on that part.
They then refocused their attention towards the game and quietly immersed into the crowd's wild cheers as their schools and the other opposing school finally faced off. After thirty minutes, the school of the two couple-figure emerged out as the victor in the tightly-contested race as the third years of a certain high school emerged in the dust with visible injuries like bruises and cramps although they hid it perfectly with their smiles.
"Being kouhais, nothing makes me more proud than seeing them win." Kamijou smiled as he crunched his popcorns.
"Yeah. As a member of the committee last year, it makes me happy that our efforts have bore fruit this year." Fukiyose nodded.
But as the racers were already clearing the area, the announcer then said. "Next event, Scavenger Hunt competition!" Immediately, the starting line was already filled with middle schoolers and when the boy raised up his eyes, he immediately caught sight of a certain brunette girl, who is actually waving back at him-albeit, in a sadistic-looking way.
"Misaka-san?" Kamijou blinked and blinked as he just stared at the Level Five Railgun, who seemed to be mocking him as she is preparing to join the competition. She even vigorously made a series of jumping jacks to the point that Fukiyose can't actually tell is she's just that energetic or she's simply showing off. Afterwards, the race had started already as the sound of the starter pistol has been heard.
After just thirty minutes, Misaka can be seen already dragging what looked like a carton box into the finishing line as she emerges as the champion. But the moment she had already arrived, Kamijou then decided that it's time to do something else.
"Hey, let's grab some lunch and head to the supermarket." The boy smiled to Fukiyose.
"Huh? We barely caught glimpse of all the games. She protested.
"Yeah but to tell you honestly, I just don't feel like watching today." Kamijou scratched his head for an excuse until he finds one. "And you know Index. Even if we leave Maika to cook for her, it might not be enough for her stomach."
"Ah, you might be right." Fukiyose, as much as she wanted to watch the rest of the games for the day, knew that the young boy was right. "Then lead the way, you idiot.
Kamijou and Fukiyose then stood up and began to go towards the exit doors of the bleachers. By the time Misaka had already gotten her medal, she then realized that the spot where the two once sat upon was already vacated
"Eh?! Where the hell did those two go?!"
Meanwhile, the two young soon-to-be-parents went straight to the Seventh Mist where there is an on-going sale In the supermarket. Since Kamijou is going to cook some meals for lunch and dinner, he decided to just double quadruple it so that they can feed both Index and Othinus although the former is the likely priority. He moment the boy got the cart, he began to fill it with various ingredients such as cabbages, soy sauce, frozen pork, etc.
"I already had an idea on what to cook but with that sister's tummy, I think I'll have to maximize everything that we have bought." He boy sighed as he then saw some bunch of carrots then carted it away. "Damn stupid Necessarius...why did they had me take care of that glutton?"
While Fuklyose didn't actually hear him, she was looking at him with a somewhat creeped expression. The boy simply smiled nervously as he then knelt down to find something else.
"YOU IDIOOTI
Guess I'll just have to invite her to lunch and dinner. Kamijou said as he raised up his right hand in anticipation to the electricity of Misaka Mikoto, who suddenly entered the mall while looking like she was ready to commit murder.
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September and October had quickly passed and the lives of the two couples continued to just go on as seamlessly as possible. With each days passing, Fukiyose had noticed that her belly was getting larger and larger and she knew that would meant having to eat nutrient twice her actual needs. Because of that, Touya and Shiina as well as the grandparents of the girl all sent money to the boy although only half of it was actually used for the Intended diet of the Forehead Deluxe because Index was also eating up large portions of the budget. Komoe can only shake her head in dismay as she watches the nun almost bite the head of the boy when she stopped from eating the food of the girl.
Aside from that, Misaka's visits were also getting frequent to the point that even Shirai Kuroko learned of the pregnancy when she decided to stalk the Railgun in the dormitory at Komoe's. The moment she saw what is happening, she nearly freaked out as Misaka was forced to control her while dragging the teleporter out of the room.
But aside from Misaka, even Accelerator and surprisingly, Shokuhou (who was picked up begrudgingly by the Railgun), were both coming to their student apartment and on one occasion, they were just sitting idly on the bench after they all visited in their apartment. As Kamijou and Fukiyose were busy in the kitchen, one of them suddenly began to complain.
"Why are we sitting here together anyway?" Misaka grumbled.
"You could always sit to wherever you want to be, you fool." Accelerator replied.
"I didn't ask you anything!"
"Did I say that?!"
"Uwah! So noisy!" Shokuhou childishly complained. "But I'll endure it just to help my prince and his partner go through a difficult time."
"Well, you're not helping." Misaka grumbled.
"Neither are you, idiot." Accelerator spat. "In fact, not one of you is even helpful at this point."
"And what does that makes you if we're not helpful?" Misaka retorted back. "At least, we're being useful here."
"Helpful by being a nanny that cleans their clothes for breakfast, third rate? Tsk, that's nothing compared to what Last Order has pestered me to do." Accelerator mocked the third-ranked. "To think I'm wasting my time just to bring them something."
"Well, that's why..."
"Can you three both keep quiet?!" Komoe slightly reprimanded them as she had just finished organizing the shelves in the cabinet. "We're already busy here. If you're going to be noisy, at least go outside."
"Tsk. Then I'm leaving." Accelerator rudely excused himself and was about to go outside of the room when suddenly, everyone in the room heard what looked like a thunderstorm suddenly striking nearby their place. After that came what looked like heavy rain which was violently splattering, quickly shattering the contrasting evening peace in their area.
As a result of the rain (and Komoe's insistence for them to stay out of the rain), the three Level Five Espers were forced to stay at the student apartment for the night as they were all given futons to sleep in the living room.
Somehow, Kamijou, who was already in bed while hugging Fukiyose, already expected of the outcome of this setup as he isn't even bothered by what seemed to be and endless stream of arguments coming from the two of the three Level Fives as the other one seemed to have a scent familiar to him but he can't quite put a finger on it.
"Neh Kamijou..." Fukiyose knew this wasn't going to be a peaceful sleep at the start. "Are they really that...noisy? I thought that the Ace of Tokiwadai is a model student..."
"Fukiyose, there are a lot of things that you don't know..." Was the only thing that the boy said before he closed his eyes. "And you know what? It's better if you keep out of it."
The girl suddenly looked at the boy with shock and was about to say something but seeing that he was already sleeping, she decided to let it slide for now and just sleep as she turns off the electric lamp.
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It was early in the morning and Fukiyose was getting up and for some reason, she felt tired despite just waking up. Kamijou was in the kitchen, making breakfast already. The girl then walked into the bathroom while in the dining table, Index, Misaka, Accelerator, Shokuhou, and Othinus are already waiting so they can eat breakfast with the two. The former Magic God was under the table while the albino was inching to go after eating.
But today, Fukiyose wasn't feeling well. Behind her usual steel eyes, she felt slightly sick.
She thought it may just be morning sickness. She felt nauseous, placing a hand over her mouth and she leaned towards the toilet, puking. She wiped the vomit from his mouth. As if he just heard it from the kitchen, Kamijou opened the door, asking if she was okay.
Fukiyose simply nodded.
"Just morning sickness." Fukiyose used it as an excuse so he didn't need to worry. Kamijou flushed the toilet and patted the girl's back and she seemed a little better.
"At this point, you can't stay alone in this home. I can always ask Maika to temporarily stay with you while I'm away in classes." Fukiyose shook her head.
'I'll be okay, Idiot. I'll send them that useless nun and that cute kitten in Sphynx to you if I can't do so myself." Fukiyose answered.
"I suggest you don't go with that suggestion. Index might end up screwing it all up." Kamijou snorted, helping her up.
"Then I guess I'll be fine with that Maika."
"Deal. Well, breakfast is ready. I'll help you walk to the kitchen."
It took a while to bring Fukiyose to the dining table but he did manage to bring her to the dining table and together, they all started to eat peacefully, save for Shokuhou's intense stare and Misaka's somewhat loud munch. But all of it had no effect on the boy, who had one thing in mind.
Just less than two months before Tetsuya goes out. Argh...I don't know if I'm even prepared for this or not.
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