Dullard Buddy-kun: Heading Reluctantly to School Again Today - Episode 54

I wonder what this indescribable sense of fulfillment is…

For now, the man, Kento Mamiya, is once again up in the sky.

Yes. This time, he is already safely on the plane heading back to Japan from the school trip.

Outside the window, a pure white carpet of clouds is illuminated by the rumble of thunder in the bad weather.

But inside my heart, unlike the outbound flight, it’s a clear blue sky with not a single cloud in sight.

Above all, I am just so happy that I can return to Japan safely, without any issues. It brings me immense joy to be liberated from the mental strain of what was the peak of my high school life—this school trip.

On this third and final day of the trip, as expected, thankfully nothing particularly unusual has happened, and here I am.

The person sitting next to me must also be quite tired from everything.

Yes. Next to me is Tanaka-kun, peacefully sleeping with a serene expression.

For some reason, Tanaka-kun also seems to have that fulfilled look on his face, as if he has accomplished something.

Still, I truly appreciate that he sat next to me on the return flight without making a single unpleasant face.

And since I don’t have anything in particular to do, I’m thinking of quietly closing my eyes to sleep again.

Well, if you ask whether nothing happened since this morning, there was actually a little incident, but it’s nothing significant to me right now.

Yes, right after I woke up this morning, my smartphone screen froze and became unusable, which was quite the inconvenience, but it’s okay. If it had happened on the first or second day, it would have been a big problem, but today is the final day.

Moreover, for me, it’s not like I receive messages on LINE very often anyway…

In reality, it has no significant impact.

I can just take it to a smartphone shop when I get back to Japan and have them check it out.

There’s no problem at all.

Still, the return flight is somehow noisy as usual.

“Yes!!! Take that, justice prevails!!!”

“Well, all things considered, I had pretty much drained that guy’s stamina back then. Yeah.”

“Yo! The man loved by the gods!!! Daiki Sakaki!!!”

Well, those guys being loud is nothing new…

But what’s up with today? The girls seem particularly noisy overall…

“I can’t believe John turned out to be such a terrible guy.”

“I always thought he was a bit shady, you know?”

“Ugh, I ended up giving him quite a bit of tip money. This is the worst.”

John…

As I recall, the name of the dog owned by the person who used to live next door to me was John….

Well, it doesn’t matter.

Hey, but even in the video, I only saw his face for a moment, but that handsome guy! I seriously wonder who he is.”

He’s too good-looking, and his body is too good-looking. But the girl’s uniform that was being protected was definitely our school uniform, even though it was mosaiced. That means she could be a student at our school, right?

But have you ever actually seen a good-looking guy of that caliber at our school? If there were a guy like that, he would definitely stand out, wouldn’t he?

And then, ah… Talking about good-looking guys again, huh?

Girls really like good-looking guys, don’t they? Good-looking guys.

I knew life would be easy for you… Good-looking guys.

Well, whatever. The conversation I’m hearing is about nothing but topics that have nothing to do with me.

At any rate, I don’t think I’ll be able to sleep like Tanaka-kun next to me in this situation, but that’s not a problem for me right now.

I am just happy that this school trip is over. There is no better feeling than that.

And tomorrow is a holiday, Saturday and Sunday.

And I don’t have a part-time job.

In short, I can just relax and use the time to recover my strength.

It’s great.

Well, I guess the boring but tough daily life of just being idle and enduring will continue from next week until graduation, but even so, the fact that I was able to safely cross the most difficult stage of this school life is seriously significant.

Well, it was really tough, and a lot happened…

But in the end…

Maybe, miraculously, it wasn’t that bad after all…

School trip.