"Ugh..."
"Come on, how could you treat me like this?!"
Standing before the vending machine in the neighborhood park, Kamijou Touma looked at his now-flattened wallet and sucked in a sharp breath. He could faintly feel the world's overwhelming malice toward him.
For some reason, Kamijou Touma had felt especially unlucky lately...
For example, not long ago, he had only just finished being interrogated over the "Dragon's Calamity" incident at "Misawa Cram School." Before the trouble surrounding him could even die down, he had already gotten dragged into that mess involving the Electric Girl and the others. Besides being questioned constantly, he was also being watched and followed around the clock by a bunch of irritating people, leaving him thoroughly miserable!
And now things had gotten even worse. The damned vending machine in front of him had swallowed a two-thousand-yen bill. He could have tolerated it not giving him change, but in this sweltering weather, it would not even release the drink he had ordered. That not only infuriated him, but also left his recently loosened finances tight once again.
That two thousand yen was all the spending money he had for the past few days! He had not had any allowance for ages. Even when he wanted to eat an egg, he had to go to the supermarket and buy one from the nearly expired discount section. His life was beyond miserable.
"Forget it!"
"I'll just chalk it up to bad luck..."
Kamijou Touma had wanted to kick the machine a few times and see whether it would spit out his money or drink. But after glancing at the suspicious man in a suit pretending to look at his phone beneath a tree in the distance, he sighed again and abandoned the idea, which would probably only bring him