But it was just too quiet, and one honestly couldn't tell the difference between a 'normal' class and this one. Most of the students were actually paying attention, and the ones who weren't tended to keep their distractions to staring out of windows or doodling in notebooks. If this was supposed to be some sort of big cauldron of chaos, it wasn't all that blatant.
Of course, that made it all the more amusing when she saw Setsuna glaring at some girl sitting in the front row. "Is something the matter?"
"Well, no, but...." Setsuna began and then sighed. "She is just so blatant. It's annoying."
"Some might say it's cute."
"Yes, but she's been making... googly eyes at Mister Takahata all through class. She keeps giving this cooing sighs the entire time!"
"At least she's... attentive."
"I wonder if Ranma's got the same sort of thing happening," Konoka murmured to herself.
One of Ranma's eyes had a nervous tic working at the corner of it, but it wasn't due to any problem that he had with the subject of the class.
After all, he logically understood that mathematics had to be taught in school. It made sense that kids would have to know how to do things like add and subtract. And he knew that the numbskulls around him would have to be obnoxious and disrespectful in some way shape or form.
What had him nearly twitching was the teacher that he had standing at the board in front of him. Perhaps she was pretty, but that was lost in how she was shaping up. Her long hair was pulled back in two long ponytails, her glasses covered her face, and her tracksuit wasn't exactly all that cool looking.
The thing was that he could have understood it if he had some dopey fresh college graduate stumbling in front of his class. She did seem to be like that given that she was a mixture of pep and misunderstandings of what teenagers liked. Somehow, she actually came off like she was really happy to be there.
And then when a student threw a piece of chalk at her head, she... dodged and caught it while barely moving. Normally that would be impressive, but then she made a big show of jumping in shock thirty seconds after she caught it. When she only stepped in a bucket left to trip her up after, from what he could tell, purposely moving to get caught, it was odd. With all that, it was just a bit much when she took more textbooks than she 'could handle' and dropped them in front of a student who was mouthing off.
Considering the fact that the bang was so loud that it shut him up, it was such a 'fortunate event' that he didn't know if it really was a fumble or not.
All that Ranma knew was that his math teacher, Kumiko Yamaguchi was really strange. He couldn't tell if heaven had made her really lucky to make up for her klutzy behavior, or if she was overdoing her 'ditz' act to cover up for some serious talents. Either way, it seemed to be more like a series of pratfalls than a class, and he didn't know if it was going to be like this every day.
The pigtailed boy just hoped that this comedy routine would start making some sense, while:
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