"I'M SORRY, I'M LATE SENSEI!"

The female lead and the heroine of the novel showed up at the door. Unruly hair, messy school uniform, bread sticking out of her mouth, and unzipped backpack. Such was the benevolent entrance of the heroine: Hana. 

Yoshihisa Hana.

Julia loved this girl: To hell that is.

Clenching her pen with her white knuckles, which was fuming in frustration because it had taken her half an hour to get down the first fifteen names in the attendance roll sheet.

But keeping a tamed, and composed smile, Julia smiled and said: "Please do not be late next time, young lady."

"Of course!" The heroine said with a Buffon smirk as she saluted and then stridden to one of the empty seats left in the classroom. The class started murmuring to themselves and started to secretly mock her.

"..ugh! Who is this ugly hag!?"

'Have you taken a look in the mirror today?'

"I can't believe that she actually can arrive so shamelessly."

'Oh, what about you?'

"Ummm... I don't want to next to her."

'I don't think anybody wants to sit next to you either.'

"She seems boring."

'Huh? What are you then, entertainment for everyone?'

But Julia kept a calm face as she heard all of this commentary. She barely darted a look towards the female lead who sat down as the chair screeched louder than everyone in the room.

Of course, like any other cliché scenes, the aloof and cold Male lead didn't bother and looked out of the window as if he was bored to death. The Second-male lead said nothing but kept a small smile as he watched everyone. The Villainess had an unreadable poker face as she studied the heroine.

On the other hand, the villainess' mobs were snickering to themselves and then sending rejecting looks towards Hana. But Hana, herself didn't seem to notice as she sat down.

"Tsuchiya Mina," Julia called out to the Villainess's best friend, who was busy whispering to her friends only waved her hand to Julia.

'Ah... this unruly girl.'

"Kanno Ayao," Julia called out to the female lead's best friend in the future, who was writing notes to herself and raised her hand.

'Also very unruly...'

"Nakashima Arima." The second male-lead, who smiled gently at Julia.

'What are you doing? Raise your hand!'

"Yoshida Toshiro?" Julia said, to which Male lead barely blinked to give a reaction.

'Are you even human?'

"Ashikaga Erena?" The villainess's name, where she just simply nodded.

How come there was no reaction to anyone's name?

Did children these days forget how to say "Here" and "Present?" Parents, what have you taught your children?

Hold it back. Hold it back.

"Yoshihisa Hana." She called out at last.

"Here!" Yoshihisa Hana was the only girl in the entire classroom who answered normally.

'Ah... Yoshihisa...! Thank you! Truly, my one and only sane student!' Kids learn from her! Julia scolded all of her classmates mentally. But sadly nobody looked in her direction.

Julia barely finished her roll-call and her class already ended. She slapped the attendance book close and said: "Yoshihisa Hana, would you mind taking this to the office before this class ends?"

"Yes, ma'am!"

When the bell rang and the period was over, everyone jostled out of their seats without listening to Julia and left without the care of the world.

People happily strode in the corridors, waiting to go to their next class. When everyone left, Julia left her desk, locked the classroom door, and punched down a wall.

"F*CK THIS MISERY!" She yelled. 

'Damn you! Why did I get such a horrible class!'

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