"While I'm touched by your motivation to live on diligently, I believe you're fine now. Shouldn't you consider going to class?"
The infirmary teacher ruthlessly interrupted Yusei's fantasies and pulled out a report card.
"I was quite surprised to find you ranked 637th in the most recent final exam."
When students come for medicine, the infirmary teacher checks their information on the computer.
As for checking the latest exam results... that was just this particular teacher's curiosity.
'Huh? 637rd? That's not bad at all,' Kazami Yusei was somewhat pleasantly surprised.
In his previous life, he often hovered around 1200th place in his school. He didn't expect to improve by half.
"Not bad? There are 700 students in the entire grade level. You are already among the losers at the very bottom of the hierarchy."
"...."
'Alright then, my predecessor's academics were truly abysmal.' Yusei felt a bit of shame on his behalf.
Since the teacher was starting to shoo him off to class, Yusei didn't want to stay any longer anyway.
Besides, the most crucial thing right now was to figure out where exactly he was!
Because he needed to quickly determine which Anime World this was!
Once he made up his mind, Yusei had no intention of waiting around. After hurriedly thanking and saying goodbye to the infirmary teacher, he headed to his shoe locker.
Since the school didn't allow students to bring phones into the school building, many students kept their phones in their shoe lockers.
Yusei's predecessor naturally did the same.
Skillfully pulling the key from his pants pocket, unlocking the locker, and retrieving his phone, Yusei quickly made his way to the rooftop.
Class? Attending class was out of the question. He could never attend class in this lifetime!
Skipping class was something Yusei was most adept at, especially on the rooftop, the holy land for skipping class.
He quickly went up the stairs, unlocked the rooftop door, entered, then turned around and locked it again.
'Safe!'
Looking down at his phone, Yusei instinctively went to a shaded corner, sat down, and opened the browser.
He wanted to search for those familiar animes from his previous life.
Like Naruto, One Piece... well, this world definitely couldn't be Naruto or One Piece.
But... how should he go about figuring out which world he was in now?
'This is clearly a slice-of-life world...'
Yusei thought to himself, 'If it's a slice-of-life world, then I should definitely search for... Ghouls!'
'Those things are the most dangerous species in a slice-of-life world. It's best if they don't exist!'
Seeing no search results, Yusei breathed a sigh of relief.
'It's good that it's a slice-of-life world. As long as there are no man-eating monsters, it's a world where I can manage.'
Next, he searched for some famous works from his previous life. Since this was a safe, slice-of-life world, becoming a copywriter was the best option.
From his predecessor's memories, the Kazami Family wasn't particularly wealthy, just a simple middle-class household.
Naruto, One Piece, A Certain Magical Index light novels, etc....
Naturally, the search yielded no results!
This excited Yusei.
Thinking about his personal safety being secured and his future financial sources for a comfortable life being guaranteed, Yusei couldn't help but break into a smile.
"While I'm happy to see you've regained your energy so quickly, you are disturbing my studies. Please keep your smiling silent."
A clear, cold, and monotonous female voice reached Yusei's ears, startling him. He instinctively looked towards the source.
There, a black-haired, long-haired girl wearing the Toyogasaki Academy's uniform was looking at him impassively.
The girl wore a school uniform shirt with a school uniform skirt underneath. Her long, shapely thighs were clad in black stockings.
Her exquisitely beautiful face showed a hint of displeasure, seemingly due to Yusei's loud laughter moments before.
"Kasumigaoka Utaha?"
Seeing this girl, Yusei almost instinctively uttered the name.
He couldn't help it. The impression of this senior's sharp... her talents was too deep, so he had to remember it.
"So, could you please refrain from loud laughter?"
Utaha said flatly. She wasn't surprised that Yusei knew her name.
Being arbitrarily called the school belle by others was annoying, but she couldn't control what people said.
It also showed, from another angle, that the number of 'flies' buzzing around her wasn't small.
"Uh... my apologies."
Yusei froze. It really was his fault.
Utaha glanced at him, said nothing more, and continued with her 'studying'.
As for using a laptop for 'studying'... wasn't that perfectly normal?
Curious, Yusei quietly maneuvered behind Utaha, intending to see what she was writing.
But a voice alerted him.
"There are only two people on the rooftop right now, and you're trying to sneak behind me. Don't... you think your behavior resembles that of a pervert right now, Hentai-kun?" (T/N: Hentai means pervert.)
Utaha's tone was flat, but her hands didn't stop, continuing their typing.
Her demeanor didn't suggest she was afraid of a 'pervert' at all.
"Please don't talk nonsense. I'm still a child. I just wanted to learn a bit from senior's 'study materials'."
"Senior? Hentai-kun, we are in the same grade."
"Huh? How do you know that?"
Yusei was somewhat curious. Although he didn't know Utaha's grade level, her tone indicated certainty.
"Because I was right there when Oda-sensei was inputting your medical record information."
Oda-sensei was the teacher from the infirmary.
"Huh? So that means... it was you, Senpai, who took me to the infirmary?"
Yusei already knew he had ended up in the infirmary due to heatstroke, and it seemed Oda-sensei had mentioned a 'Kasumigaoka-san' at the time.
However, back then, Yusei was completely bewildered and didn't notice anything. Thinking about it now, it seemed it was this senior who had taken him to the infirmary.
This... this is fate!