57-Teaming




'Then we'll divide up the teams. There are thirty of us in all, so we'll have two seven-man teams with two eight-man teams. I'll call each of you a name. First, we'll call ourselves the A team.

 Cantor calls out names.
 I suddenly felt a strange feeling around the end of calling the B team.

 After the roll call of the C team members' names, everyone but Ted noticed something strange.

'So, the remaining seven of you are on the D team.

'Wow! Same team as my master!

 Goodness. You are always so easygoing, aren't you?
 A dark cloud had already begun to hover in our team when we noticed something had happened.

I'm sure you're aware of this. This teaming is ......?

 The feeble-looking dark-haired girl who's been assigned to the same team as me screams in confusion.

'What's your beef? It's easier to team up with an opponent you each know, right?

 I see.
 I remembered what I said yesterday.

'You'll remember that in class tomorrow! I'm going to make a huge embarrassment out of you for sure!'

 This made sense to me.
 Yesterday's words weren't just a throwaway line, they were probably in anticipation of today's PE time.

 It's possible that the insiders and the PE teacher were in on it, if they knew about it in advance.

''As you know, any magic that interferes with the opposing player is forbidden. And of course, using body strengthening magic to protect yourself is not a problem. Each one of you is responsible for your own injuries and take great care in your matches.

 Cantor looks at us and says that.
Huh. It sounds as if he's going to say, "I don't care if I get injured.

The A and B teams will go to the back court while the C and D teams will move to the front court. Let me know when you're ready.

 The cantor claps his hands with a pang.
On cue, the students stand up and move to the court in a private conversation.

'Heh. Nice to meet you. Inferior eyes. Now I'm going to pay you back for what I owed you yesterday.

 As we passed each other, an insider from yesterday threw such words at me.

 Huh.
 I'm almost impressed by the too blatant division of teams.

 Our opponents, the C-team, were the insiders who had been getting involved with the outsiders with such hostility in recent years.



 Oh, man. What were they planning to do to us?
 This is how our team of outsiders ended up fighting against the inside students.