Dullard Buddy-kun: Heading Reluctantly to School Again Today - Episode 58

Being a teacher is a job that makes you want to drink at least on a Sunday night.

Even so… This year’s school trip had way too many unexpected events.

As the teacher in charge of student guidance, I somehow managed to bring everyone back safely again this time, but… what is this exhaustion that I’ve never felt in previous years?

I thought I had already reached the level where I could call myself a veteran teacher, but…

Yeah. Every year, there’s always someone who looks like they’re going to cause trouble on the trip.

That’s just how it is. We already factor that in, keeping a close watch to prevent any major issues before they happen.

This year, I had my eyes carefully set on Sakaki, making sure he wouldn’t stir up anything…

But to think that someone like that was there…

I completely overlooked them.

No, there was no way I could have seen that coming.

His appearance was completely normal. He wore the school uniform properly, never breaking dress code. No tardies, no absences, no history of causing trouble. His grades were average—nothing exceptional, nothing terrible.

If I had to put it nicely, he was a serious student. If I had to put it bluntly, he was just… unremarkable.

To be honest, I had never even been his homeroom teacher, so I didn’t even know his name.

And yet…

Who would’ve thought that this one student would throw me into such chaos?

No, seriously, that guy is trouble.

Night vision goggles in the hallway…

And not even on the girls’ floor—on the boys’ floor.

And yet, I’m supposed to be known as a strict teacher…

They call me the “Demon of Student Guidance”, don’t they?

Has there ever been a student who was this unaffected by my discipline?

I yelled at him so much that anyone else would’ve pissed themselves—and yet, he just stood there with that calm expression.

How the hell does he stay so unfazed?

And to make it worse—when I locked him in his room, telling him to reflect on his actions, he escaped.

But then, when I finally gave up and decided to cut him some slack—figuring it was a school trip, so I might as well let him enjoy himself—he barricaded himself inside the room instead.

I don’t get it. At all.

In the end, he practically spent the entire school trip inside the hotel…

And yet—

Why did he look so completely satisfied, like he had accomplished everything he wanted, peacefully dozing off on the flight home…?

I seriously don’t understand. His thought process is incomprehensible.

In all my years as a teacher, I’ve never encountered an irregular case like this.

This is bad. No—this is the worst.

People like him are the ones who end up shaking society to its core. No—maybe even before that, he might cause trouble while still in school…

That’s why—I can’t just leave him unchecked.

Absolutely not.

Because depending on his actions…

Tanaka’s actions could cost me my job. My entire standing in this school…

Damn it. What the hell is he?

I never noticed him before, but has he always been like this?

If so, there’s no way someone like me wouldn’t have picked up on it. And what the hell has his homeroom teacher even been doing?

No—I can’t do this.

The more I think about him, the more my thoughts get tangled up in that mess again…

Yeah. I need to think about something else.

Something else.

Now that I think about it…

I haven’t gotten all the details yet, but someone mentioned in the staff room that a student interested in studying abroad had reached out.

Seems like their Japanese is decent, so that part shouldn’t be an issue.

If they actually come, it’ll be the first time in years we’ve had an exchange student. How many years has it been?

Well, it doesn’t really matter.

For now, I should at least take a break from work and just quietly…

Drink.

…But wait.

He wouldn’t have done anything else behind my back, right?

…Right?