Chương 24: Chapter 22.5 Bookworm's Thoughts

Jaime Wilkin's Point of View My name is Jaime. Through good or bad luck, I was summoned to another world and made part of a "hero's party" with my Friends and 1 interloper. It's been 3 days since coming to Gaia. On the first day, we were appraised by an old woman. She told me that I had the Job Class of Wizard. Apparently, it's a Class that requires a lot of hard work and studying to be useful, learning both Black and White Magic Spells. I never found studying to be hard...

However, I wasn't too sure about the hard work. I breathed a sigh of relief when my teacher told me the hard work was through meditation and not physical activity. / Flip. / As I turned the page on the Grimoire I was reading, I thought about Laura. She's one of my Best Friends. She was given the Class of Cleric, it was apparently a Class based on Healing and Support. But given time, she could Upgrade her Class through Evolving it. It could go into Classes with serious firepower.

Ashley, the 2nd of my Best Friends, was given the Class of Monk. A Class where you use punches and kicks to fight. It fits her well. She has always been restlessly moving around in one form or another for as long as I've known her. Lucy, the last of my Best Friends to be transported here with me, was given the Class of Thief. Despite the name, it seems the Class is useful for trap detection and tracking. Its strength in combat being the blinding speed the user has. And finally, we have the interloper, Luke.

He was given the Hero Job. It's what it sounds like, after we were appraised, the King of Promethia who had summoned us, explained why we were here in the first place. Simply put, he wants us to defeat the Demon King of a demonic country called Diablos. / Flip. / We 4 girls were apprehensive about it, Luke was excited. The King, seeing our apprehension, said that only after defeating the Demon King could we go home. It seems the Demon King is in possession of a Spell to send us back Home.

After hearing that, all 4 of us had sharp looks in our eyes. It seems we all had similar thoughts of returning, but not for Home, for a Boy we all knew... Grip. Yes, I need to get back to him! So, I can make up for all the wrongs I've done to him through the years, due to my cowardice. Release! Thinking about him made me almost damage the Grimoire I was reading... I need to calm down... / Flip. / He... John... John was always so kind to me.

Starting from our first meeting, he saved me from hurting myself and since then, I've always held feelings for him. But I was always afraid to talk to him due to my shyness. I always wondered what he thought of me, but it seems it wasn't much, because I never took the warm hand he kindly extended to me. All due to my cowardly self... But no.. It's all excuses to hide behind, I was too afraid of what would happen to our friend group if I were to try to advance.

I sense this is also why no one had made much progress with him. no matter how much we all would try to steal glance of him in school, it amounted to nothing. I hoped at that party I could have some time alone with him to talk to him for once, but we all fell into routine. And it all went so wrong because of that idiot. This novel's true home is a different platform. Support the author by finding it there. / Flip. / It had finally reached a breaking point because of that idiot. That insufferable fool!

Any time one of us were ready to approach John, he would always interrupt the attempt and make it awkward for us. If not for Lucy desperately apologizing for her brother, I wonder what would've happened to him in high school. Laura has never forgiven him for what he did in freshman year, many a night had passed with all of us trying to reassure her that she wasn't hated, but it seems from slight after slight, John has stopped thinking well of us.

Which only fuels our wanting to get back as soon as possible, and our anger towards Luke. / Flip. / The day after we had arrived, we were all given teachers. My teacher was an elderly woman called Ethel. She was an S-Class Adventurer. She is a Wizard Lord a Higher Version of my own Job. She's kind but strict, her classes were the type I enjoyed. When I would stumble onto a question, she would answer it in a calm and warm voice for me. My time with her was very comforting and enjoyable.

Then the rest of the day would come. Laura, who had originally been despondent since arriving, like her entire world had ended, suddenly had endless vigor in her training. The same was true for Lucy and Ashley. It's plain to see why, it's the same reason I attack my classes with diligence, even doing extra work at night to try to gain one step towards my goal of returning to him. Having said that, our Friendships are still strong, but a little strained right now. We all have complaints for each other...

No one wants to take the blame for what happened... The only thing we all agree on is our bubbling anger towards Luke, who continues to try to talk to us regardless of how curt our responses are to him. Laura looks at him like she wants to kill him and for some reason even Lucy is looking at him with very distant eyes. / Flip. / That may have something to do with the way he has been acting. Ever since he found out he had the Hero Job, he's been acting even more selfish and self-centered than before.

Ashley and I try our best to avoid talking to Luke, using our classes and fatigue as reasons why. Unfortunately for Laura and Lucy, they can't seem to be rid of him, Luke has always liked Laura and it was plain to see from his singling out of John or how he would attach himself to our group like a parasite due to Lucy. Lucy being his sister, has had to play middleman to Laura and Luke since I've been friends with the girls. But now, that relationship is actively starting to cause Laura to be angry with Lucy.

And it is with these frayed nerves and tensions bubbling that we continue to train in hopes of getting back and never speak to Luke again. But more importantly, the hope that we can talk things out with John... Before it's too late...