Chapter 15: Chapter 15 - Off Campus Study Trip Pt.2
"Say here Jake, I have just heard the latest from young Ryou and Shingo, now I've seen it, just exactly how close are you with Kaori, do you know what an honour this is, it is not every day that she invites someone into her life, I want to be close to princess Kaori!" Akira screamed at the end.
"Um, princess?" Jake asked.
"Why not, Kaori is the chairman's daughter after all, plus there's the elegant way she carries herself, not to mention her warm personality, I mean can you blame people from thinking of her as royalty," Rin explained.
"Well, I guess I can understand it," Jake replied.
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At the outside cooking area, Jake is making dinner for the team. As his cooking progresses further, the aroma began to spread more and more. At the end of the cooking, the aroma spread across the whole campsite, making almost all the teams begin to drool.
"Alright everyone, it's ready," Jake told his team.
Rin, Kaede, and Akira began to drool and also made sounds of utter amazement.
"Jake, why didn't the food you cooked for us when we went to your house, not give off such a strong aroma?" Rin asked Jake.
"It's because I haven't learnt how to make the main ingredients of the meal complement each other yet, I can only make them not interfere with each other," Jake explained to Rin.
"Thanks for the food!" Rin, Kaede, and Akira said happily as they each grabbed one cooked fish with their chopsticks.
After they put it into their mouths, they became extremely silent and didn't make any noise.
"Man drinking alcohol on a mountain just hits different you know," Ms Sawada said as she came near Jake's team's eating area with 2 other male teachers.
"Uh, what's all this?" Ms Sawada asked them in disbelief, she and the 2 male teachers were drunk.
"Oh yeah!" The 2 male teachers exclaimed.
"I'll have a taste," Ms Sawada said as she put the alcohol bottle she was holding on the table, and picked up one of the cooked fish putting it in her mouth, with the other 2 following behind her.
"Go for it," Jake replied to them.
After they had a taste, they went extremely silent just like Kaede, Rin, and Akira.
"I knew this would happen, whenever I invite people to have food cooked by me for the first few times, this always happens," Jake sighed to himself at the situation.
"It's so yummy!" They all yelled in unison.
"We're not kidding, this is insanely delicious!" Kaede told Jake as she was slowly stuffing her cheeks with fish.
"Delicious doesn't begin to cover it, you do realise that we have meals prepared by 1st rate chefs everyday at the academy, so to have food that leaves us at a loss for words is just, seriously who are you?" Ms Sawada explained to Jake before asking.
"Um, I am a student at Ousei Academy," Jake replied.
After they ate all the food, Ms Sawada sighed to herself, "What a meal!"
"I'm so stuffed!" Kaede exclaimed.
"I shouldn't have eaten so much," Rin said as she sighed.
"I can't hold back, what would you say to marrying me?" Ms Sawada said to Jake.
Everyone who heard this exclaimed in shock.
"Yeah, your teacher, she's kind of a slob who can't cook or even do her own laundry, ever since I was a student I only pursued things I was interested in, at this point in my life I don't have a single romantic story of my own, sort of a pathetic situation right," Ms Sawada began talking while twirling her hair around her fingers.
Ms Sawada put one of her fingers on Jake's face saying, "But that changes tonight, here at the off campus study trip, and even with my bonus on the line, not only did I find someone who can cook, but there isn't a better prized specimen anywhere else!"
As she continued to speak, she shocked everyone there and put her face close to Jake, saying, "So marry and take care of me Jake!"
"What are you even talking about!" Everyone exclaimed and shouted in shock at Ms Sawada.
"Are you seriously trying to go after your pupils?" Rin asked in disbelief.
"I realise never having a boyfriend gave you a complex, but you could've handled this situation a lot better," One of the teachers told Ms Sawada.
"And besides, do you really think you would be a good match for Jake? He's out of your league!" The other teacher told Ms Sawada.
"Ms Sawada please, trust me Jake's no good, I can't explain all the reasons why right now, but take my word you want to avoid him!" Kaede tried to dissuade Ms Sawada from Jake.
"I'm not saying you have to decide this instant, your teacher will wait for you as long as it takes," Ms Sawada said to Jake.
"Please Ms Sawada, show a little decorum!" Akira said in shock.
"Stealing his future to feel needed, not a good look!" One of the teachers said, before the rest of the people there repeated the last part.
"I know you all think I'm some kind of goddess, but such criticism can make even me shed a tear," Ms Sawada said before wiping her eyes.
"Um, Ms Sawada, no offence but this is moving too fast, and also can we speak about this another time, and I am your student, but in terms of being a teacher, I think you are incredible," Jake said to Ms Sawada.
"What, you do!" Ms Sawada said in joy as she jumped at Jake, pulling his head into her bosom and smothering him.
As she was smothering him she said, "You know the right thing to say to melt a woman's heart, no one's ever made me feel this needed before."
Kaede tried to free Jake by pulling his arm, and said to Ms Sawada, "You're teaching him a bit too much, there's some things you don't need to teach him!"
"What a nightmare, who knew being single for so long could do this to you?" One of the teachers said with his hand covering his face.
"There's no use pretending you're not enjoying this," Ms Sawada said as to Jake as she continued to smother him.
"I am wrought with envy," Akira said slightly envious.
As Kaede kept trying to get Jake free from Ms Sawada she asked Rin for help, "Help me get her of him Rin!"
"Um, Ms Sawada, I think Jake needs to come up for air," Rin said to Ms Sawada.
Ms Sawada made a surprised sound before she slowly let him go. A few minutes after she let him go, Jake is drinking some water, and catching his breath on a bench.
Rin laughed and asked him, "Out of curiosity, did you catch a glimpse of paradise in there?"
"Yeah, I did," Jake replied to her absentmindedly.
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Some time has passed and now Jake is using the space warp magic to teleport back to his house to give food to Night. After he teleported Night jumped into Jake's arms, giving him a happy bark.
"I'm not going to be able to stay here for long, I have to go back very shortly, I will make you some dinner though," Jake told Night before making him dinner.
As Night was eating the food Jake made for him, Jake began to talk to him.
"Night, Big Bro Satoru won't let me eat Sukuna's fingers, I want to eat them so that I can defeat Sukuna much more easily and also so that I can kill him much sooner," Jake told Night.
"Do you think that maybe he is afraid of what will happen to me if it goes wrong, that's probably it, however I guess that we have to keep getting stronger so that it doesn't matter if something goes wrong, as we can fix it immediately," Jake continued to talk.
As he continued to talk, Night finished his food, and they played together for about 5 minutes, before Jake warped back to the tent.
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After this he began to walk to the Men's bath to wash himself. At the men's bath, Jake has taken off his clothes and his muscles are fully on display.
All the people in the changing room is staring at Jake's muscles and can't take their eyes off him.
Jake asked Akira, "Why is everyone staring at me, is it because of the size of my muscles?"
"You're seriously asking, you see Jake, your body is quite ostentatious," Akira replied to Jake.
"Is it weird, in a good way?" Jake asked again.
"Well, in a way I suppose, for starters, what's going on with those abs, and what is going on with the muscles in every part of your body, are you like hitting the gym 24/7, not only are you handsome your also ripped, sir can't you leave some women for the rest of us!" Akira said in exclamation.
As Jake took off his underwear, there was only the sound of gasps coming from everyone in the room.
"How's it that big!" Someone exclaimed in shock.
"It's so unfair, he has massive muscles, extremely handsome face, nice personality, and even that is so big as well!" Another person said with envy.
As Jake realised that they were talking about his crotch, he quickly went to take a bath.
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In the woman's baths changing room, Rin began groping Kaede's boobs while teasing her.
"What's going on in here?" Kaori asked Rin and Kaede as she entered the room with Yukine.
"Kaori, Yukine you're just in time, Rin is a menace she's picking on me for no reason!" Kaede told Kaori and Yukine while asking for help.
As they continued chatting, Rin said, "Well it's not like you can compare to Ms Sawada.
"Oh listen to this, Ms Sawada was pressuring Jake into marrying her earlier!" Kaede said to Kaori and Yukine.
"You are kidding around right, her marrying Jake is, so, well, it never happened," Kaori stammered.
"You weren't there, but she was scarfing down his cooking, it was so good she literally proposed to him on the spot," Rin said to Kaori.
"Meeting face to face with that bosom, will K.O. anyone!" Rin continued.
"If those are the rules she wants to play by, then she should watch out!" Kaede said to herself in a firm tone.
"Um, Kaede is Jake someone that you-?" Kaori was asking Kaede before she was cut off by her.
"Don't get the wrong idea or anything, it's not as if I'm talking about Jake in particular, nope," Kaede said to Kaori.
"Uh-huh, come on, you're as easy to read as ever," Rin said to Kaede teasingly.
Yukine said to herself while looking at her breasts, "Sometimes, a D is way better than an A."
Kaori thought to herself, 'I wonder if physical appearance matters a whole lot to Jake?'
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In the actual men's bath, Jake alongside Akira met Ryou and Shingo.
"How have you both been doing?" Jake asked them.
"It's been hard, having to cook the food," Ryou and Shingo replied.
"We have been wondering what we are doing tomorrow," Ryou said to Jake and Akira.
"I don't know but it should be fun," Jake replied.
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It has become morning and every team's gathered food has been thrown all over the place or taken.
"What a disaster, who do you think could have done this?" Someone asked.
"Someone went out of their way to mess up our stuff," Another person said.
"Was it a thief?" Someone asked.
"Hey, all the vegetables we collected yesterday are gone," Somone sighed.
"Whatever's going on is scaring me," A girl whined.
Akira at this moment is looking at the trashed food with tears falling from his eyes.
"This is way too disturbing," Kaede said.
"Our gear wasn't touched though, it was probably an animal," Jake said to them.
"Well, we'd better go looking for more ingredients to make breakfast with," Rin said.
As they began to walk away, Rin looked back and said to Akira, "Hey, what's your deal young noble, do you want to get left behind?"
As Akira heard Rin call him young noble, he looked behind him as Rin finished speaking. After he heard her finish, he ran to catch up while saying, "Uh, actually no, wait for me."
"Why're you all so impatient?" Akira said dramatically.
As they are gathering the plants to eat, Kaede asked Rin while pointing at a cluster of orange mushrooms, "Do you think these mushrooms are safe to eat?"
"Let's see, according to this they shouldn't be poisonous, so grab them," Rin told Kaede.
Jake noticed Akira was standing in 1 place slightly trembling, he walked up to him and saw that there were claw marks on the tree that Akira was looking at.
"These are fresh!" Jake exclaimed, as he activated his Six-Eyes to look at everything in the surroundings.
As he looked around, Jake found that there was a bear creeping up to them, he said, "Shit, run back to the camp, there's a bear!"
After Rin, Kaede, and Akira heard this they began running alongside Jake. When they began to move, the bear realised that they noticed it so it began to chase them. After they ran for a while, Kaede, Rin, and Akira screamed every now and then, which when they got close to camp, alarmed everyone close by.
As the people at the camp looked at where the sound was coming from, someone said, "I'm dreaming right?"
Another person shouted, "Run, for it!"
After Jake and the other's reached the camp, Jake realised that he had to fight the bear as there were too many people around the vicinity. Jake decided to use the special feature of the [Divine Black Flash] Skill when it reaches the Max Level, the feature allows him to enter the deep zone, which is an upgraded version of the regular zone.
The regular zone is what happens sometimes for the best athletes and is a state of mind, when they enter the zone they become so focused that they can use their physical capabilities to their peak, can drown out unnecessary distractions, and can temporarily slightly lift their limiter (increase the strength they can use from 30 - 40% up to 60% of their full strength), which makes them consume their stamina extremely quickly. Jujutsu Sorcerers can enter the regular zone whenever they hit a regular black flash, which also increases their cursed energy output to 120%.
The deep zone, is essentially a more powerful version of the regular zone, which has a chance for one in 1000 people that have entered the regular zone to enter, or when Jujutsu Sorcerers hit a divine black flash, which is much stronger than a regular black flash. When someone enters the deep zone, they can use their physical capabilities beyond their peak (eg. someone has an attack stat of 100, then if they enter the deep zone they can have the attack stat of 100 have the strength of a stat of 150), can drown out unnecessary distractions more efficiently (can automatically filter information that will be useful for the user from all unnecessary distractions), and can temporarily lift their limiter (increase the strength they can use from 30 - 40% up to 100% of their full strength), which makes them consume stamina at only the same speed as they would if it was a regular zone.
Jake quickly turned around and steadied himself, with pitch dark lightning in his eyes (a sign that someone has entered any version of the zone, not actual lightning), he prepared to meet the bear.
"Jake, what are you doing, keep running!" Ms Sawada shouted at Jake as the teachers have arrived.
"Jake, why are you trying to face the bear, listen to Ms Sawada!" Kaede yelled anxiously as she, Rin, and Akira just noticed that Jake stopped running.
"It doesn't matter if I keep running, it's after me, anyways, I have fought much scarier things than bears," Jake responded in an almost emotionless voice. (a side effect of the deep zone and one of the signs of entering it (doesn't actually lose emotions just doesn't show them))
"That doesn't matter, it's our job to protect the students!" A male teacher shouted at Jake.
Jake didn't seem to hear it, as he almost disappeared from sight, being just a blur. He quickly appeared in front of the bear as he sidestepped the charging bear and punched it on the head, knocking it out.
As he turned around to look back at the teachers and students, they saw pitch black lightning in his eyes for a second, as he exited the zone, he smiled at them broadly as he said, "Look, no problem, I'm not injured and the bear is knocked out."
Ms Sawada went up to Jake and sternly told him, "There is a very big problem, you were not listening to the teachers instructions, and you did something very dangerous, you are lucky you are not hurt and I've decided to only give you a warning!"
After being lectured by Ms Sawada, she took him for a check up from Ms Yomikawa. After the check up, Jake's friends asked how he was and not to do it again as it worried them.
Some more time has passed and the off campus study trip has ended and Jake is going back to his house.