Until the day I'm forgiven...

A Date?

A Date?

It was now Friday and Gakushu was waiting for their final period to finally end. He soon realised how much free time he really had, and didn't know what to do with it. Back when he was in the main building, his work kept him busy. Even though he thought it was too much for him back when he was 11, now that he was 14 it was much more manageable than he remembered.

Did his reaper abilities give him something more as well? Was is it the fact that he was spending more spend time with a certain prodigy like himself named Gretel, who happened to have 200 years of experience.

Shifts wouldn't start for him until next Tuesday. He was feeling much better after his first 'suicide' and was ready to get back into his shifts. He knew that it was a very bad idea for him to memorise the entire Japanese curriculum in the first place.

Why? What should he have done with this free time? He didn't have any shifts yet, Rilliane was still in her conference in China, Lucia was stuck with teaching duties again and Arthur went to America due to orders from the Department. Wolfie was doing his usual work in his Division.

It was hard enough on Wednesday where there was only Ivan, Gretel and himself trying to past time. Yesterday was okay because Arthur was around so their little dance group could practice although Gretel went off to buy some clothing material. It got him some good quality mocha after her trip though.

'What to do?' Gakushu thought to himself as he ignored Korosensei's lesson since he did memorised the Japanese curriculum anyway. Of course he pretended that he was paying attention to avoid suspicion, but what could he do? Perhaps have a mental overview of the week to past the time?

Avoid showing one's inhumane strength during PE, check.

Complete work and homework on time (or very early), check.

Avoid Miss Irina as humanely as possible and do not stand out in her classes, check.

Today Gakushu have discovered why he should avoid that certain blonde teacher, for he witnessed in her language class that she kissing the students as a punishment and as a reward. Gakushu didn't doesn't want to have his first kiss stolen by that woman.

Gakushu could already imagine the group or the entire Department saying to the boy "That is definitely the cinnamon roll" or Gretel saying "My little Strawberry is far too pure for this world." He just recently found out the meaning of the nickname 'cinnamon roll' was.

Was he viewed as such an innocent person by his reaper peers?

So what if his face turn into a tomato whenever he reads the certain songs written by Gretel. Or when he covered his face yesterday at Gretel's place when Lucia walks out of the shower in only a towel?

Or what if whenever something inappropriate is saib by someone, his ears are immediately blocked by him or someone in the group. It is surely a normal reaction from a 14 year old, right?

Another thing that Gakushu likes to add is that there were too many close calls during PE. He almost added tree number 102 to his tally.

Thankfully he narrowly missed it and avoided the looks from his classmates. He also to avoid the topic of why he lost the Sports Festival if he was that strong in the first place, for it could give away his true nature.

Gakushu couldn't just say that he was following orders from the organisation that fixed the moon. Maybe he could make up an excuse that he didn't ate cake on that day or during exam day?

Yeah... that could work. It was sad to think that the entire community in the Department could reason with that.

Gakushu reminded himself to better control his own strength as difficult as it was. Why must he have twice the strength of a Grim Reaper? Or everything else? Why must his once perfect eyesight be traded off?