When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace: Volume 1 [Complete] by Kota Nozomi

Author:Kota Nozomi
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 4: Allure of the Dark Dragon

“Heeey, Juu, whatcha doing?”

Hatoko, as casual and carefree as ever, came over to strike up a conversation with me one day after school in the club room.

The five of us had all shown up for club on that particular day. Sayumi was poring through some complex-looking tome she’d dug up from the Used Bookstore of the Divine, Chifuyu was hugging her favorite plushie and zoning out, and Tomoyo was messing around with her laptop, as usual.

Speaking of Tomoyo, she’d been acting sort of strangely ever since the day I met Kiryuu...in the sense that she hadn’t been acting strangely in the slightest. You’d think an encounter like that would’ve had some sort of impact on her, but she was behaving exactly the same as she always did. I had to assume that she and her brother had some sort of mutual understanding going on.

“Not now, Hatoko! I’m trying to concentrate,” I said, shooing off my meddling childhood friend. Unfortunately for me, she was not so easily shooed.

“Oh, c’mon, just tell me!” she whined, playfully pushing my shoulder.

“Gah! Hey, cut that out! You’re gonna make me screw up!”

“Why not just tell me what you’re doing, then?”

“Can’t you tell by looking?”

“I wouldn’t be asking if I could!”

I heaved an exasperated sigh, holding my arms out for her to see as I prepared to explain the obvious. My right sleeve was rolled up, and I was holding a pen in my left hand.

“I’m drawing a dark dragon on my right arm!”

Crash!

I heard the unmistakable sound of shattering tableware. Turning around, I found Tomoyo frozen in place, the remains of her teacup scattered across the ground. “Why...? Why are you always like this...?” she muttered under her breath.

“Pull yourself together, Tomoyo. You’re better than this,” said Sayumi, patting her on the shoulder. At the same time, she casually repaired Tomoyo’s teacup using Route of Origin without missing a beat. “I understand how you feel, but stay calm. I’m sure this is normal behavior on whatever planet Andou’s from.”

“Sayumi... Yeah, you’re right. That dumbbell’s a space alien for sure.”

“Impossible!” I shouted. “How did you know that I’m the crossbreed progeny of an earthling woman and Lig-Nahn, the leader of the Agna, a tribe of intergalactic warrior-nomads?!”

“We were already insulting you. Please don’t use that as a chance to give us even more reason to look down on you,” said Sayumi, cringing conspicuously.

Ugh! I thought I’d made a pretty clever comeback too!

“Why do you chuunis always love pretending to be mixed-race, anyway?” asked Tomoyo. And, I mean, she wasn’t wrong. Being half-something’s a core element to so many great characters! Like half-demon, or half-monster, or half-vampire! I dunno how to put it, but it’s just...just great, somehow!

“It’s because it’s a convenient plot device to drive a narrative forward,” Sayumi answered in my place. “You can have a character face oppression and adversity on account of their heritage and make them angst about not being able to fit in with either race.

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