"I didn't really want to come looking for you either, but I'm the big brother, so I've got to look out for you. Hahaha..."
Dick grinned and casually took the window seat in the first row after the entrance, directly behind the driver's seat.
Joker glanced at the little brats through the rearview mirror and immediately lost any sense of novelty. It was boring.
"You're only a few years older than me, and you dare call yourself the big brother?"
Jason jokingly raised his fist and made a gesture. Dick, sitting in his seat, punched and kicked back, providing his own sound effects.
"Hey, hey, aha, ha! Take this punch!"
The two of them roughhoused in their seats without a care.
Only Alexis, chewing gum with her hands in her pockets, wearing gothic smoky makeup and an expression that said she was sick of the world, seemed to notice something. She lifted her foot and kicked the bag on the floor.
It was heavy, with the solid weight of something stuffed full of books.
"Get on, get on! Don't block the way. Everyone, sit down properly!"
A line had already started forming beneath the bus. The teacher accompanying the trip came aboard and told Jason and the others to settle down, preparing to rearrange the seats.
The students, teachers, and accompanying parents all filed in behind them, and the bus quickly filled up.
Except it seemed like there were... no seats left.
There was still a chubby younger student without anywhere to sit. It was not that there truly were no seats left; there was one more. Alexis sat by the window, with an empty seat beside her.
But when the chubby kid saw Alexis's icy stare, he was so frightened he nearly wet his pants.
How could he possibly