An Ordinary Elementary School Day

Li Chongxuan.

A current transmigrator who had been an ordinary citizen of the Celestial Empire in his previous life, he had spent that entire life alone as a single dog, finally dying in some obscure little corner nobody knew about.

He was now a child of just seven, born into the relatively ordinary Uraraka family.

At the moment, he was in class, fretting over the Japanese textbook in front of him.

"Sigh, heaven sent me to this world to stir up storms, not to sit in an elementary school classroom like some elementary schooler, staring at the sour-faced old hag at the podium and playing at this boring teacher-student 'Good good study, day day up' stuff..." (The English expression was incorrect.)

"Shige, pay attention in class. And your English was wrong. It should be 'Study hard and make progress every day.'"

As Uraraka Shige's older sister, and conveniently his neighbor at the next desk, Ochaco Uraraka had naturally heard her brother muttering. She promptly reminded him to pay attention, as their mother had instructed, and kindly helped correct his English grammar and wording.

"Sigh..."

Hearing his sister quietly remind him from the next desk, Uraraka Shige sighed, then let himself drop straight onto his desk, face first. The muffled thud startled the middle-aged teacher, who was diligently lecturing at the front of the room. She even lost her grip on the stub of chalk in her hand, dropping it on the floor.

"Of course I know it's wrong... I was just making a joke..."

Uraraka Shige was a selfish fellow, so he paid no mind to the displeased gaze from the podium or the fact that he had disrupted the studies of his classmates around him. Instead, he lay there on his desk, muttering in boredom and continuing to set a thoroughly negative and gloomy example for the other students.

As Uraraka Shige's older sister, Ochaco Uraraka also had orders from her mother, so she couldn't quite stand watching her brother behave this way in class. She quietly reminded him again.

"Shige, Mom said you have to pay attention. And the teacher looks like she's about to get angry. She'll throw you out of the classroom!"

Hearing his sister's kind reminder, Uraraka Shige raised his head from the desk and stared at the middle-aged teacher on the podium with his remarkably lifeless, dead-fish eyes. Just as his sister had said, the teacher was staring back at him, looking furious.

So Uraraka Shige kindly gave the conscientious middle-aged teacher a great big smile. Paired with those dead-fish eyes, though, it looked unsettling no matter how one looked at it... Like a lone salted fish head smiling at you while rolling its lifeless eyes.

Bang!

The furious middle-aged teacher rapped her desk with the heavy teacher's textbook in her hand. Eyes wide, she glared at Uraraka Shige, who was still sprawled across his desk like a salted fish... and called his name.

"Uraraka Shige! Stand up!"

Keeping his Quirk active to increase his weight, Uraraka Shige rose somewhat clumsily to his feet. His dull, dead-fish eyes opened a little wider as he tried his best to look innocent.

Come to think of it, weren't salted fish generally innocent? That would explain why they so often had a pair of dead-fish eyes... Perhaps they resented becoming salted fish despite being innocent?

Seeing Uraraka Shige like this, all the middle-aged teacher's anger vanished in an instant, replaced by an indescribably stifled feeling. She sighed.

"Sigh... Uraraka Shige, go stand in the hallway and listen to the lesson. Don't come back into the classroom until class is over."

Uraraka Shige bowed to the middle-aged teacher and politely thanked her.

"Yes, thank you, teacher..."

Though he sounded rather listless...

Then Uraraka Shige nodded at his sister at the next desk and gave her a look that roughly meant, Dear sister, I'll go get some fresh air first. You just keep enduring it in the classroom~

He then left the classroom, swaying as he adjusted to the "heavy shackles" on his body, and entered the empty hallway.

Along the way, occasional bits of gossip came from his classmates: "He's just relying on having a good Quirk," "But a kid who doesn't study hard won't amount to anything when he grows up, right?" "Does this guy actually want to become a 'hero' when he grows up?" "Hehe, that guy got sent out to stand in the hallway again." Uraraka Shige paid them no mind at all, acting as though he couldn't hear them.

Looking at the state of her class, the middle-aged teacher felt even more stifled. She was completely at a loss when it came to Uraraka Shige, including his relationships with his classmates. With no other choice, she sighed again, set the matter of Uraraka Shige aside for the time being, and returned to her duties, focusing on teaching the children in the class.

Once in the hallway, Uraraka Shige did not obey the middle-aged teacher and stand obediently against the classroom wall. Instead, he went to the end of the hallway, climbed the stairs to the top floor, and went through the doorway onto the school building's rooftop. He looked at the wire fencing securely enclosing it on all sides to prevent children from accidentally falling off, then turned and shut the door behind him.

A refreshing breeze blew in from some unknown place in the distance, brushing through Uraraka Shige's messy, tousled hair and bringing a little life back to his dull, dead-fish eyes.

"Rise!"

The word came briskly from Uraraka Shige's lips. He used his Quirk to briefly reverse the direction of gravity within half a meter beneath his feet, then sprang lightly onto the small platform above the door he had used to reach the rooftop. He brushed the dust off the platform with his hand, then lay down facing the blue sky, both arms behind his head, and let the gentle breeze drift past his ears.

"Mm... Hah! This is so relaxing..."

Watching the ever-changing clouds on the distant horizon, Uraraka Shige gave a gentle stretch. Then he comfortably narrowed his eyes and emptied his mind, with only one thought faintly lingering there.

"This is nice... This interesting world..."

The clouds on the distant horizon drifted slowly beneath the blue sky as the wind blew. At some point, the handsome, strong winged horse with its head held high had quietly turned into a little turtle, its head tucked in and its soft-looking body seemingly floating through a blue ocean.

I'll rest for a bit...

The thought unconsciously flashed through Uraraka Shige's mind. He then used his Quirk to remove the "heavy shackles" surrounding him, which strengthened his body at every moment. His mind gradually cleared, and, soothed by the gentle breeze, he slowly fell asleep.

It looked as though, barring any surprises, he would have a good dream.