A Different Kind of Borrower

Chapter 15. School

Ryu's POV

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Aaaaaah, I have to go to school. I better stand up.

I look for my uniform, which I always have at a side of my bed.

...

It is not there. Weird.

I just go for another one at my closet.

5 minutes later

I go to the door and... why is dad looking at me that way?

"Ryu, why did you take it?"

Huh?

"What are you talking about?"

"The size-shifting ray, I found it on your bedroom, despite I never opened the box that I left on the kitchen tonight"

"I didn't take it!"

"Then how did it get there?"

Wait.

My uniform is missing, the ray was in bedroom... now that I think about it, wasn't Rai interested in that thing yesterday?

"Dad, where is Rai?"

"I don't know, on his house I think"

"I think that he was the one took the ray to my bedroom"

"But how would he be able to lift... OH MY GOD!"

"But where would he go? Is not like he knows the city or how to get there"

"I think it is safe to think that just went through the road to the city, but where could he be?"

"Just take me to school, look around the city, and if by the time I finish classes you haven't found him, we should call the police or something"

"Ok, let's go"

On school

"Look for him dad!"

I start looking through the campus.

"Hey, Himura-kun!"

"Hi Yoshimaru, have you seen a boy with blue hair and green eyes going around here?"

"Yes, the weird new boy that is there"

He is on the school? How did Rai get here?

"Can you show me?"

"Sure Himura-kun"

He takes to the entrance of the school, and there he is. Rai, but human sized, and with my school uniform!

"Hey Himura-kun, it's funny how you have red hair, and that boy have blue hair, both are so weird colours, it's like you were anime characters"

"Yeah, yeah, I heard that a lot; thanks for taking me here anyway"

"No problem Himura-kun"

I go to talk with Rai.

"Oh, hi Ryu, I was wondering when you were supposed to come"

"How did you get here?"

"I was walking through the city when someone noticed my uniform and bring me here"

Everybody is looking at us in a weird way.

"We have to talk in private"

"Yeah, yeah"

We both go to corner, where nobody would look at us.

"What are you doing?! And why are you legs so separated?"

"I felt really ditzy when I got this size, and it was hard for me to move, but I think I can stand normally now"

He closes his legs, and starts touching my body.

"As I have told you, I envy that humans got this body, while borrowers like me are so small, so I wanted to know how it feels to be human"

"But what is your problem? Why you cannot continue being a borrower?"

"You don't even know my normal size, don't you?"

"Yes, you are... 10 cm tall"

He slaps me.

"No, I'm 14 and half! But you don't really care about that, you don't know how it feels to be a borrower; if you excuse me, I have to go to classes"

"But you don't even study here!"

"Like I cared"

He just goes onto the school.

I need to find a way to fix this.