My Bothersome Life 51 A Prank?

Everyone who used to be a follower of Luke greeted me back kindly with a smile. Was it just me, or is it just me that thought this was really strange?

In light novels or mangas, everybody would usually hara.s.s the main protagonist who had the attention of the male lead.

Even when I was teaching later on in the day, everyone was behaving even better than the previous days that I taught.

When the day had finished and I peacefully returned back to the hotel, I determined that maybe I was overthinking things and decided to forget that negative thoughts as it may disturb my sleep anyways.

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A female student came up to me after school had ended, "Rika..."

Her soft voice and teary eyes compelled anyone to help her from miles away, which earned the attention of many pa.s.sersby.

"What's the matter?" I asked softly in attempts to try to comfort her.

"I know...I know- this has nothing to do with your math cla.s.s, but I was wondering if you could help."

It was probably not a big of a deal, I decided to accept the challenge and asked, "What is it?"

"I lost my heirloom inside the forest that is near the church when I was showing my friends how pretty it was."

Why would she be near the forest? The forest was a bit far from the school. And I was guessing she was asking me to try to find her 'heirloom'.

"Why were you and your friends inside the for-"

Before I could complete my sentence, the female student burst into tears earning us more stares from the people nearby.

I had already guessed what was going to happen, it was either go into the forest or keep her crying and have the possibility to lose points. It was obvious this act was fake as she cried each time I asked why she and her friends were inside the forest that was oddly a distance away from here.

Maybe it was a bit of a welcoming prank to the third district. "Fine, I'll go. Tell me the entrance into the forest!" I said while trying not to yell.

The student smiled like she got what she wanted, "Thank you..."

This is how I was currently in front of a forest with the sunset indicating it was about to become dark soon.

I started to search for a jade pendant fitted into a gold molding.

Unfortunately, this was a forest with many bushes, meaning I would have to search through every single bush to find a single pendant.

I couldn't use mana, as it was forbidden to use besides emergencies. Mana was not to be seen in front of the third district whose people who didn't know the existence of it yet.

As the sky went darker and darker, my hands became bruised with calluses and scars from repeatedly searching through the bushes.

I knew I should have made that girl search with me! (knowing it was a prank, we could've suffered through it together!)