Chapter 12: At The Stall

Lingshen, Satomi Hakase and Satsuki Yotsuba, along with Chachamaru Karakuri and Ku Fei, are working at Lingshen's stall, Chao Bao Zi, which is quite popular among the people of Mahora, especially the students of the Mahora Academy. As Lingshen was supervising Satsuki who is cooking, with Satomi, Chachamaru and Fei serving the customers, loud sounds is heard from a distance.

A group of 4 cars, consisting of a dark blue Toyota Chaser Tourer V, a blue Mazda RX7 RZ, a black Proton Perdana V6 and a grey Nissan Skyline 25G GT-turbo sedan. The headlights of the cars shine brightly, especially the RX7's HIDs and the Chaser's combination headlights. The exhausts of the 4 cars rumbled, as they were parked in a lot near the stall. It attracted a lot of attention, especially those at a particular table, consisting of Negi Springfield, Asuna Kagurazaka, Konoka Konoe and Setsuna Sakurazaki, all wearing casual clothes, as it was Labour Day today. Negi looks on with a surprised look at the 4 modified cars as they parked next to each other. Lingshen then comes to the table where they sit and Negi asks the Chinese girl, "Who could be these guys?"

"Them? They're from the boys' senior high," Lingshen replied to Negi jokingly. "The guy in the dark blue car is my colleague in the Engineering Department."

"Oh, I see," the young teacher replied at the revelation by Lingshen.

"Hey, isn't that dark blue car…" a girl with a blue and a green eye, wearing twin ponytails on her head, says, as she saw the licence plate of the Toyota Chaser. "I seen that car somewhere...wait, he almost got me killed the other day."

"Hold it, Asuna, what's wrong?" a dark raven-haired girl speaks in a calm tone, as another girl with a sword behind her looks on.

"Nothing, Konoka," Asuna says as she sits back on her seat.

"Ojou-sama, don't worry about Asuna-san," the girl with the sword says, as she puts it down.

"Hey Secchan, not again with the 'Ojou-sama'?" the raven-haired girl, known as Konoka, replies at being called like that.

"Oh, sorry then, Kono-chan," the 'Secchan' apologizes.

"That's more like it, Secchan," Konoka says to the other girl, and goes to hug her, much to her surprise. The other girl's face turns read as her 'Ojou-sama' hugs her tight with her hands, with their teacher, Negi, looking on.

"Haha, don't worry about Konoka-san, Setsuna-san," Negi tells the girl with the sword, called Setsuna, as he looks on the girls.

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As the 4 teenage boys walked to an empty table, Lingshen goes to serve them.

"Hey Shun, you came to the wrong place. She wasn't here," she tells Shun with a smile.

"What do you say?" Shun, about to start an argument with Lingshen again, who laughs at it. "Just shut up, Chao Lingshen."

"Ahhh, you will never be able to do that." "The usual stuff right?"

"Yes, yes. Get it done. Quick," Shun says to Lingshen, who walks off from the table.

"Haha, it seems that she's at it again," Choo Tin, having a big sweat drop on his head, says to Shun. "Seriously, won't you even consider knowing that red-orange haired girl she has been talking about?"

"I have no idea who she is except that she's TROUBLE."

"Erm…yes…but it wasn't necessary for you to think of her like that," Kyo replied.

"Hoo…I wonder who could it be…" Saniro ponders. "Word has spread that a cheerleader by the name of Shiina Sakurako likes a guy from the senior high driving a dark blue sedan, and it seems that you're the only guy with that fits the description."

"Hey Saniro, do you know what is 'unnecessary attention'?" Shun says to Saniro.

"I don't know…hahaha," Saniro says, and adds, "That phrase does not exist in my dictionary."

"Hey, isn't those 3 girls are from the class we went to that day to return the ribbon?" Choo Tin interrupts, as he sees Negis' group with the girls. "Who is that boy sitting with them? He doesn't seem to be from here." "I wonder if he was the brother of one of those girls or…"

"Him? It's their homeroom teacher from Wales. Started to teach them a while ago," Kyo says. "He officially became their teacher at the start of this academic year."

"Home…room…teacher?" Choo Tin was a bit surprised at that fact, since he never knew about a child being a teacher here in Mahora Academy. "Whoa."

"You won't understand anyway," Shun adds. "And there is word that a foreign guy from the senior have fallen in love with a girl from 3-A who happens to be in the Gymnastics Club, and that guy happens to be you." "It's your fault anyway."

"WHAT!" Choo Tin was shocked at hearing that, and replied not in his usual mild manner.

It drew stares from everyone, especially those at Negi's table.

"Ah, it's boring here. Better I sit somewhere else," Saniro says in a manner that it's not noticed by the rest, as they argue over who is right about the matter in hand. He sneaks off their table.

As they go on, little they did realize Saniro is already at another table.

"Sani…WHAT!" all the 3 of them were shocked to see Saniro already at another table, with Negi and the 3 girls.

"He's dead," Shun said.

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"Oh, so, you're the famous child sensei I have been hearing about," Saniro tells Negi, whom he has been talking to for the past few minutes as his 3 friends have a 'fight'. "My name is Yamamoto Saniro from the boy's senior high, class 2-B, nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you too, Yamamoto-san," Negi says as he shakes his hand with Saniro.

"And sensei, there is no need to be so official with me," Saniro replies with a big smile.

"Who are you to come here and mess with him?" Asuna asks.

"Hey, I just want to know more about him, especially after he teach those senior girls a good lesson." "They're nothing but trouble."

"Hey, are those guys your friends?" Negi interrupts him, seeing that Saniro's friends are having an argument.

"Oh, them? The Mr-Fix-It-All of the Engineering Department, Akimoto Shun." "The one with spiky hair is Watanabe Kyochirou, the hardcore manga fan of class 2-B, and the guy they're holding is Ko Choo Tin, the new foreign student from Malaysia."

"I see…" Negi replied at Saniro's explaination, as the other 3 guys walk over soon after, and grouped around Saniro.

"Saniro, do you know what is called, 'nonsense'?" Shun said to Saniro with a serious tone.

"Oh Shun! Kyo and Choo Tin, there you are! Come on and join in here! These people have some things to discuss with you," Saniro tells the 3 guys, pretending that nothing is happening.

"Do you want to be dead?" Shun says.

"I do."

"Hey, hey, everyone, calm down. Why don't you guys just join us then?" Negi says at seeing that.

"Oh, so you're from the Engineering Department. Heard that you know how to fix a lot of things from Lingshen-san, Akimoto Shun-san," Negi eagerly asks Shun.

"It's nothing," Shun replies in a very cold tone.

"Haruna was a real busybody? Never knew it would be that bad," Kyo was seen shocked at the mention of his friend in the Manga Club being the actual artist of his favourite manga, as he was talking to Asuna. "So, she is the one that started the rumours about them?"

"You come from another country? Cool!" "You seem so nice to Makie-chan that day though…wah…too bad you aren't interested in her after all," Konoka is telling to Choo Tin, who have a big sweat drop on his head, as Setsuna looks on to Konoka. "Not me, Haruna said so," she adds seeing his inattentive expression.

"You're the principal's granddaughter? Whoa," Choo Tin answers in his usual mild tone, after regaining his composure before joining the others. "And stop it, please…"

"It would be interesting if you want to go after that girl," Saniro says hearing that.

"Shut up, Saniro. It's already been done over with," Shun tells him in a stern tone. "Otherwise he will go mad again."

"Hey you, the one with the spectacles," Asuna calls Shun. "You drove that?" she points to the parked dark blue Toyota Chaser.

"Yes," Shun, feeling puzzled at why someone would suddenly ask that, especially a girl. "What is the problem?"

"You almost crashed into me one morning weeks ago with that dangerous stunt of yours," she says with one of her eyes closed.

"I'm very sorry over that," he replied, after hearing that he almost crashed into Asuna one morning. "It was unintentional."

"Ahhh, it's useless to have a grudge over that. You must be good at driving that. If a normal person does that I would not have been sitting here." "I got something else in mind too to talk with you about."

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"So, Haruna was actually right for once." "Thought she was making up stories as usual."

"Must be the work of that stupid Lingshen again…" Shun says to himself in his mind. "Wonder when she will stop."

"Hey, don't try to deny it." "It's better for you to do something about it. I don't want her to end like one of our classmates, Izumi Ako. She got rejected by one of her sempais, although we don't know who it is." "I would have finished him off if I was her." "Believe me, I know her long enough, Sakurako-chan was actually a nice girl."

The mentions of Ako's name made Saniro keep quiet, as he is the one that did that.

"Haha, can see that you have become quite embarrassed. Never have a girlfriend before heh?" the outspoken Asuna goes on seeing that Shun have become partially embarrassed. "Never mind that, she also have never been in these kind of relationships before, and this brat here got a girl confessing to him some time ago," she adds, referring to Nodoka Miyazaki, one of the 3-A girls who really likes Negi, along with Ayaka and Makie.

"Asuna, why don't you talk about yourself and Takahata-sensei?" Negi interrupts Asuna.

"What did you say, you brat?" Asuna shouts to Negi as she goes and hit Negi on the head with her fists. The 4 guys looked on with total shock, as they would never expect someone to hit her own teacher.

"He may be my sensei, but inside he's still a brat."

"All right, food's ready!" Lingshen comes to the table. "Can see that you guys have decided to join them huh? It's nice to see you guys socialize with my friends and my teacher."

"No thanks to me," Saniro praises himself.

"How idiotic," Shun says at hearing that.

As food is served on the table, the group chat on as they eat.

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As they eat, suddenly Saniro says, "Hey, these meat buns are zenzen okay!" "Try them Kyo."

Kyo eats one of them, and adds, "Yeah, zenzen okay!"

"Zenzen?" Choo Tin was curious about the word.

"It means completely, although it means not at all in the negative sense," Shun says. "Idiotic. Just because you all watch that anime about that group with the rebel monk, perverted demon, a idiotic monkey and a…um, no idea, you should not follow them."

"Rebel monk? Oh I know that!" Choo Tin says. "I do watch them too!"

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"Wow…that child sensei is certainly interesting. He's only 10 and is already teaching…that is so cool," Choo Tin speaks as they are walking in the dormitory, after parking their cars. They left the group after they have finished with their food, stating that they wanted a rest.

"Yeah right, teaching a class of 31 girls is never easy," Kyo remarked.

"Haha, but who's complaining? It's only 31 girls, unlike us in our class," Saniro laughs. "Hey, what's wrong Shun?"

"Nothing. It's all right. Anyway thanks for your concern guys," Shun said.

"What are friends for, Shun-sama?" Choo Tin says. "Still thining what that girl with different eye colours said?"

"Shut up."

As they reach a room written 'Akimoto Shun' and 'Watanabe Kyochirou' on the door, Kyo says, "Well, guys, time for us to go off. Night, everyone."

"OK, see ya then tomorrow," Choo Tin says

"Same here too," Saniro adds.

As Shun and Kyo have entered the room, Saniro and Choo Tin walks off.

"So, when can you help me with the e-Manage?'

"Patience, my friend. I will, I promise." "Or how about right after school tomorrow?"

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Shun lies on his bed, with his eyes still open. He was in a total loss over what he should do. As he tries sleeps, he senses that the name 'Shiina Sakurako' sounds like something familiar to him. He have heard of it somewhere before, and it is even before the meeting in the rain.

Why she seemed familiar…why?

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Time for some KonoSetsu cameo, and the main gang appears in this episode as guests of the ever popular Chao Bao Zi. We can see that someone is confronted with sensitive issues.