Chapter 51
"Absent,"
Seated in the third row, some chairs away from the window, Jun frowned. The two seat meant for Yuki and Renji were empty. Having an empty Renji seat was normal but that of Yuki, wasn’t .
He smuggled his phone into his sleeves from his pocket, and glanced stylishly down at his phone.
He unlocked it with a quick swipe, kept it on mute just in case. He went straight to the sms app on his phone. After a bit of loading, his fingers tapped out a message hurriedly.
Jun: [You just disappeared without warning. Bruh, where are you? You gonna be in big trouble for missing Prof Kuroda class again. Hurry up.]
He hit send, the message sliding up from the keyboard to the screen. He raised his head to avoid suspicion however subsequently checked for Yuki’s reply.
No "read" receipt. No typing dots. Nothing from Yuki. Jun stared at his message, his index fingers both hovering over the keyboard unsure of what next to type.
He sighed and locked the phone. The screen went black and tossing it face-down on the desk, Jun crouched backwards in his chair.
"Thirty-two present and sixty-four people absent," Professor Kuroda announced flatly, eyes still scanning the clipboard. "Not surprised about that." Kurosawa had a one last crosscheck of the names of people present to be exact that no one had answered present in someone’s absence.
He closed the file, after being sure that the numbers were exact, the clipboard was finally slapped shut and dropped on the table.
Sixty-four? That was nearly two-thirds of the class. Even for an elective, it was ridiculous. Jun glanced around—row after row of empty seats, a few scattered groups of students packing their things half-heartedly pretending to understand whatever Kuroda was teaching.
"That’s it for attendance. You’ll find the prep sheet for tomorrow’s digital conference uploaded to the portal. Don’t forget to submit a rough draft of your role analysis by midnight. I expect effort, not AI work. I promise you if my AI detector reads more than 4.5% of AI, I will give you a carryover!"