Mocks and Smocks
SUMMARY: Smocks wasn't a big contribution to the club, but that didn't mean that she wasn't a full-fledged member. Bossun suspected she was here just to laugh at them. OC
Chapter 4: Paint Mask Part 2
NOTE: This is all chronicled by the manga.
After being reassured that the red substance covered all over Sugihara was indeed paint (and having Smocks apologize for purposefully scaring them all like that), everyone calmed down as they listened to Sugihara explain what happened while Himeko handed him a towel.
"Well…I was watching the carps in the pond, and paint suddenly splashed on me from the second floor…"
"What the heck?" growled Himeko. "What a screwed-up thing to do!"
"Did you manage to see who did it?" inquired Bossun.
"Um, he ran off pretty quickly… Although, it looked like he was wearing a mask," Sugihara said.
Himeko scrunched up her face. "A mask? Seriously?"
"If this guy wore a mask, then he obviously wary enough to assume that someone would recognize him while catching him in action," Bossun assumed.
"Right. You guys stay here," Himeko said, getting up while grabbing her hockey stick. "I'll go beat the crap outta this guy…"
"Oi! Didn't you hear what I said?" Bossun cried, grabbing onto her shoulder to make her stop. "The guy was wearing a mask to hide his identity! We don't know who he is!"
"We don't know what's this guy's deal is," Smocks added.
"It is unlikely for a newly transferred student to have already earned someone's grudge," Switch typed. "Therefore, this would be an indiscriminate attack, in which many other students could be in the same predicament as Sugihara-san as well."
Unless it was anything like the twin debacle from last year(1), Sket Dance never had to face a problem that could test their skills. Already could Smocks see all three fidgeting in anticipation. Could trying to stop a strange masked guy be really that exciting? Well, Smocks suppose so since all they did so far was do the simple stuff.
"I-I thought so too," Sugihara agreed. "I found it strange at first, and then I figured that I should go to you guys since you're Sket Dance."
With this mentioned, the three other second-years perked up in excitement. "Now you're getting it!" Bossun exclaimed ardently. "Yeah, let Sket Dance find the one responsible for this and bring him to justice!"
"And I'll rip him to shreds!" Himeko added eagerly.
"Rip him to—? Oi, waitta minute…"
"U-um, I'm grateful for your help," Sugihara said. "Really! But I don't want to make a big fuss of things, especially when it's someone like me, who just arrived to this school…"
"Hey, don't worry about it—Sket Dance is always here for the sake of a troubled client!" Bossun said, grinning.
At some point of their investigations, Smocks found herself wearing an afro wig. Another point was when Bossun nearly got a bucket of paint dumped on him, and then the three of them crashing into a depressed guy who got out of an unattractive relationship. And what's more, Switch wasn't there with them the whole time. In fact, he was just hiding behind a tree, playing hide-and-seek.
Anyway, in the end, Switch found them a lead. They all returned to the clubroom and listened to what Switch had to inform them. After listening, Bossun then used his concentration ability by placing his goggles over his eyes.
That was when Smocks decided that this was a problem that took too much effort, so she stated, "This is too troublesome," and lied back against the tatami mat to take a nap, ignoring the sempais' "Hey, not right now!"
When Smocks woke up, it was by Himeko shaking her awake. "So," she yawned, rubbing her eye, "did you guys solve the problem?"
"We sure did!" Himeko chirped.
"Turns out that the transfer student was the masked pranker himself," Bossun said, looking rather proud of himself.
"But he did it only because Jogasaki, his bully back in elementary school, pressured him to get back at us for ratting him out to a teacher for graffiti," Switch added.
"I guess he did," Smocks said.
"Hmm? What do you mean, Smocks?" Himeko asked.
"Well, Bossun's covered in paint, so…"
"Ack! No, this is…" Bossun gestured wildly.
"Paint that Bossun poured on himself!" Himeko finished.
"Yeah! Paint that I—wait, that sounded extremely lame! You should make it sound cooler since I did a really cool thing back there, just so you know!"
"Ha? As if that could ever compare to me beating Jogasaki senselessly."
"So, what happens with Sugihara-sempai?" Smocks asked.
"What do you think? Obviously, after seeing how awesome we are, he's gonna wanna join our club!"
In the end, Sugihara joined the basketball team.
The members of Sket Dance were mildly depressed.
Smocks, once again, proved herself to be useless in another mission. Not that it really mattered to anyone.
(1): I'm referring to the one-shot.
