8.25AM
The crystal clear screen on the clock mercilessly presented the time to to her.
After the girl spend 3 seconds to confirm that this is in fact reality, those tired eyes of hers grew as wide as saucers. Allowing her voice to find its way up her throat, she started stuttering..
“Ah…L-..L-..L-…”
She then took a deep breath.
“I’M LATE!!”
This time, yelling as though a tragedy happen.
No sooner, she kicked off the blanket and dashed into the washroom. Similarly, she dashed out just as fast as before at god like speed.
“Why didn’t you wake me?!”
She spoke to the empty room, grumbling to herself. As for the voice that finally succeeded waking her up after plenty of hard work, it replied with obvious frustration…
“I did, several times even!”
“Is that so? You can’t just wake me up by yelling~ You have to hit me to wake me up!”
“Don’t make others do the impossible, would you..”
The voice replied calmly. The girl continued…
“Damn it! Everyday.. Why can’t I just wake up on time everyday.. When I reincarnate, I insist that I become a person that could wake up automatically at the crack of dawn…”
On one hand, her mouth was full of curses, while on the other, she struggled to get dressed. After taking off one piece of clothing and putting on another, followed by putting on the sailor uniform that had been hung up. Lastly, she quickly tidied up her bed-hair that refused to be tamed, leaving a few strands to be sticking out.
“Hyeah!”
In the end, some strength still had to be used. Yes, thanks to it, her hair’s finally neat. Just as she picked up her shoulder bag and was ready to rush out with her room keys in hand…
“Hold it! You forgot something!”
The voice rang out again.
“Oh! My bad, my bad!”
The girl hurried back in and grabbed a small cellphone strap from the table. It was a special accessory done in green and gold. She didn’t own a cellphone, yet she hung the cellphone strap around a key that didn’t even belong to the room. Apparently, the owner of the voice that kept talking from the beginning belonged to none other than the cellphone strap. It spoke, again…
“Thanks!”
The girl hurriedly walked past the room door, taking the belt that hung by it on the way. It was hung by the doorway to remind her not to forget whenever she heads out.
After placing the belt to her waist, she buckled it securely. There are also several green pouches attached to the belt.
There’s a brown holster on the right leg, and inside held a revolver. However, that’s only a fake replica of the original which does not violate any weapon law. In fact, even if it was only a model gun, no normal high school girl would actually carry it around constantly. But if we were to be picky with things like these, the story would never be able to progress.
The girl forcefully opened the door and walked out, closing it behind her and with a ‘click’, it was locked. Sounds of running echoed through the corridor, along with distant voices of two people having a conversation.
“I’m definitely late this time, Hermes! How are you going to answer to that…”
“What has anything got to do with me, Kino? This is your own problem, it’s your own fault!”
Just like that, the heroine of this story- Kino the high school girl and a mysterious cellphone strap called Hermes, starts off the first day in a mess.