Chapter 10: Class 78 rollcall (part 2)
I watch in hopes that the man dressed in black with a interesting hairstyle could resolve this misunderstanding. He glares at Junko where she turns around to the call. Instead of the usual cowering in fear like most normal people would, the insane Fashionista just laughs at the newcomer.
"Oh, you are possibly the last person to anyone expects to show up here! Didn't think that they start letting meathead brutes like you in here." She sneers at him, but I could pick up the slight tremor in her voice. "I guess they must be either desperate or morons to let gang leaders attend here! What unbelievable incompetence!"
The man in question does give a sort of gang leader vibe. His partially bleached hair is styled into a pompadour, and he's wearing a white tanktop underneath his long black coat. Even without all that to aod his image, his scowl currently on his face just screams, "I can't wait to beat the crap out of you."
"Glad that I didn't get in his way... I would have been on the end of glare."
He only glares harder at her snide comment. "I was gonna say the same about letting a psycho bitch like you in. You don't know when to quit, do you?" He cracks his knuckles and closes the distance between her and him, a little jojo style except Junko wasn't posing. Junko shrinks back a little as he does. I was expecting him to pull out his shotguns instead he just slams the table next to Chihiro's, causing some of us to jump.
"Just back the hell off. I bet you don't even know this chick's name, and you still decided to make a scene."
Junko fumes at his attitude. "Oh please! You don't even know what she did!" She crosses her arms and flares her nostrils. "Don't butt in on something you're not a part of!"
"Get over yourself." He growls. "I know you well e-fucking-nough to assume you picked a fight with her." He gestures towards me. "Or are you gonna tell me she's the one who came up to you and started mouthing off? I don't buy it one bit."
"Oh, why don't you just back off, you idiot hooded hobo!" She flips him the bird. "It is hard to process peabrains like you. It's no surprise that little twit left your gang!" A vein becomes visible on his forehead, and he looks ready to smash her head into a wall.
At that moment, I step in and voice out for a peaceful truce between this fued. "Please you two, there is no reason to argue over this. Can't we settle this peacefully without bloodshed?"
Junko then weirdly stares down at me before asking me, "And who might you be, shortie?"
"I-I'm Hanako Yuki, I ask of you to just let this slide for once, there is no need to lose your composure over such a minor matter, it is not worth tarnishing your reputation."
The gang leader guy begin clenching his fist, getting ready for any sudden resistance. Chihiro and I begin praying in our thoughts, hoping she calms down.
Unexpectedly, Junko just did a complete 180 and return to her normal cheeky self. "Finally, someone who is civilised around here and makes a valid point." She comments while nodding in agreement.
She turns to Chihiro, with a smile on her face which is still creepy, given that she was at her throat just minutes ago. "No hard feelings, okay... Water under the bridge and all... Probably should thank him later." After apologizing, uncertain whether it is sincere one or not, she just ignores the blockhead brute on her way to her seat while gazing at me before whispering into my ear. "You're cute by the way..."
That complement just cause me to blush almost instantly. Wiping off the flushing red off my face, I attend to Chihiro, checking whether she is feeling okay now.
The programmer just release a sigh of relief and grab my hands, thanking me with her usual cheeful smile. Which reminds me, I also would like to thank the mafia man for standing up for Chihiro and she is on the same mind as me.
As we both thank him, the guy just scratches his head, saying it is no big deal. Before leaving for his seat, he turns to my best friend.
"Sorry you had to go through that, little lady. I'll try to straighten her out for you later, just in case." He then takes out a box of cookie sticks from his coat and hands it to her where she gladly accepts.
Then, he turns to me and adds, "Hey man, nice work back there, you got guts yourself. Sorry I don't have any more on me, but you earn yourself a pat on the back." I nod with a warm fuzzy feeling of a hero.
"Catch you later, lil' guy", he says after giving me a literal pat on the shoulder.
When things settles down, Taka clears his throat. "Now since that's over, let's get back on track with the introduction!" He calmly scans the room before adding, "Are there any takers?"
No one answers for a while, but then someone eventually raises their hand and to my surprise, it is Kyoko volunteering.
"I'll go up next." As she gets up from her seat, she walks up the stage before seriously greeting. "Good morning, my name is Kyoko Kirigiri. Pleasure to meet you all."
She pauses a while before saying, "If you are wondering what are my interests and favourite things, that is not on the need to know basis."
Taka, seeing that it is difficult to convince her to say anything more, he just asks to wrap it up with a few words.
Kyoko quietly pauses again and replies, "I look forward to be classmates with you, thank you.", before returning to her seat.
At least, I can see that she is still an approachable student, in a secretive behaviour. Meanwhile, while Taka calls out the next one, I could see Chihiro talking to the black coat dude, getting along fine. It is nice for her to open out to others, so she has someone to back her up.
Next is the humumgous martial artist, Sakura Ogami, which left almost everyone I know in a bizarre look of her muscular build and the fact she is a girl.
Moving on, Taka immediately shoves Hifumi off the podium after introducing himself and shortly after his comics.
"Wait but I still have much to show them..." Hifumi begs for more time but Taka refuses to grant him that chance, for the good of the school and his clasamates.
"Indeed not a chance, have you not learnt your lesson from last time?! Oh well, it doesn't matter! You!" He points to the gang leader student to be next.
"Why the hell should I?" He crosses his arms indignantly. "I was sorta having a conversation over here!"
Taka doesn't say anything, but he continues to press him by staring at him with his arms crossed until he groans in submission. "Augh, fine! I'll do it, alright?" He trudges up the podium and takes his place, cursing softly under his breath.
"Alright... Name's Mondo Owada." He crosses his arms at us. "You all prolly heard the fashion chick mention this, but I'm here cause I'm the best damn biker gang leader there is."
After hearing the name, I remembered hearing it from a friend of mine, his name is Okamura, a biker most likely in his bastion, he claimed that he is a tough man like none other and totally hardcore.
"So his name is Mondo... I smile to myself. "He is tough looking alright, a gang leader for sure but an honorable dude no doubt. I want to know about him and what he has to add.
He looks toward Taka with a look that remotely says, "am I done yet?", but Taka just simplu waves him on.
Mondo groans. "Fine... What else... My motorcycle is one of the best damn ones you can find. It's a Kawaski with a twin motor, and basically rides like a fucking dream... Ya really can't get any better than that!"
I know ample amount to know about mechanics on vehicles so I can understand what he meant by living a dream on his hog.
Without waiting for Taka's approval, Mondo heads back to his seat. On his way there, I give him a thumbs up with an interesting intro there and he makes a one second happy grin at me before proceeding.
After that, Mukuro Ikusuba is called out next, and starts off her introduction by apologizing for her sister's actions with Junko smilling and waving at her sister at the back, making it awkward. Apart from that, everyone finds it impressive that she is a skilled military soldier with exceptional combat and weapon skills.
"A splendid introduction, Mukuro. Don't worry about what happened before, it is all in the past now." Taka turns to the rest of the class. "Who should go next?"
The rest of the introductions proceed smoothly, with me learning the names of all my peers I wasn't acquainted with. There are two others, one of them is a black suit male with glasses and has blonde hair with a snobbish look of a surperior being.
"The name is Byakuya Togami, the Ultimate Affluent Progeny. As for my interests, one word, "Winning". Thank you very much for your time, peasants." before turning his back on the class intentionally. There is of course a guy in every movie who is spoiled rich kid or something like that.
Then, the other is a black haired girl with glasses too, dressed in violet or indigo female uniform with a long skirt. She appears to be quite timid, but she tries to speak up.
"M-my name i-is Toko Fukawa, Ultimate Writing Prodigy, I'm not much of a talker, go ahead call me hideous or whatever, I can tell by the looks on your faces."
However, I did quite the opposite and ask whether she is a famous writer who wrote many books that quickly became bestsellers. She immediately feel a little flabbergasted that one would recognize her talents.
"Well, I'm not really that good. No need to say much." She quietly replies but she follows by saying that I hope to mingle with you all soon. She would be a bit difficult to approach due to her introvert behaviour but she is actually nice, I could tell.
Next, is the red haired boy with the carefree attitude. "Name's Leon Kuwata, professional baseballer or the Ultimate Baseball Star, but wanna know something, I don't even like the sport, I just wanna do something different for a change. So, sup my peeps."
"Okay, anyone else?" Then, Sayaka volunteers to be up next, most of the boys are all gazing upon the Ultimate Pop Sensation, can't blame them though, you don't get to see a pop idol every single day."
"Hello everyone! My name is Sayaka Maizono, it's so glad to be here as a student of Hope's Peak Academy. I would like to get to know you all better." signing off with a idol pose, leaving nearly everyone in awe including me.
Taka keeps the ball rolling with a big round of applause which everyone follows too. "Very nicely done, Miss Maizono, now how about it is your turn, Hanako?" He welcomes me.
Knowing it would eventually be my turn, I should not keep my friends waiting.
"Okie dokie..." I stand up and walk calmly to the podium to ready my speech. I could see everyone's eyes are on me now. I brace myself and toughen up, telling myself 'just be yourself'.
"Good morning my fellow friends and newcomers, my name is Hanako Yuki, I'm honored to be in the presence of all you amazing talented Ultimates and I wish to learn from all of you." I boldly present my inroduction right off the bat like Captain America from the Avengers movie.
Everyone is all clapping towards my spirit of enthusiasm but I am little embarassed with the applause. The ahoge swimmer, Aoi asks me about my talents.
To answer that I would have to answer in a modest fashion. "My alias is the Ultimate All Rounder." To the majority of the class, they are all whispering to each other, wondering that I was the 'Hanako Yuki', the Jack of all trades.
Again, I wish to turn that fame off, before adding, "As for why the reason to learn from you all, I wanted to meet new people around the world, so I travel to places and curious to try new things so I found learning new skills from the best is a way to improve myself."
Makoto and Chihiro just stand up and give a big hand in awe of that amazing statement both benevolent and awe-inspiring. In a matter of seconds, everyone else also applaud in rhythm.
"Thank you so much, I hope that we can be friends and guide me to become better together." I politely thank all Ultimates.
"Alright! Thank you so much for your ambitious speech, Hanako" Taka commends me before calling out the final Ultimate. "Last but not least, take it away, Chihiro, if you'd be so kind."
Chihiro smiles and nod, inspired to present herself like I did, although she shakily make her way up to the podium. Once she gets up there, I am all ears and thrilled to listen my best friend's speech.
"M-my name is Chihiro Fujisaki... I'm glad to be here today, meeting you all. I'm a programmer."
To be continued...
