Term 2 is busy.98Please respect copyright.PENANAUlfJkcSlgU
Right after the Athletics Carnival is the School Festival.98Please respect copyright.PENANAtGR1SHNazy
As usual, I only participated in the events where I wouldn’t hold back my class.98Please respect copyright.PENANAgZtLEBDEKv
On the other hand, all the gyaru-type girls eagerly signed up for the relays.98Please respect copyright.PENANA8e21ssNcVe
Speaking of which, Mochida-san ended up bullied last year because she messed up during the Athletics Carnival, didn’t she.98Please respect copyright.PENANA5pJwIOwJwi
Well, I doubt that even I would end up bullied, but I’d better be careful regardless.98Please respect copyright.PENANAyVS5ivFdQT
Enjou signed on for the relays, but apparently not the cavalry battle. How surprising. I would’ve thought he’d be as excited for it as the Emperor.98Please respect copyright.PENANAaxXoiybV7O
But thinking about it, I didn’t see him in it last year either. Although if he did join, everyone would be even more excited, wouldn’t they.98Please respect copyright.PENANAtgu7NpkkiT
When I told him this, he replied with a laugh,
“Unlike Masaya, I don’t really have much zeal for the cavalry battle. When I see him all eager from up close, it really makes me want to avoid it.”
Eventually we decided that the sacrifices would be chosen by rock-paper-scissors, and the unlucky candidates would try to increase their meagre chances of survival through training. It was around that time that Enjou dropped the bombshell,
“Apparently he’s been really frustrated ever since that close game with the Stuco President last year. He’s even reading books on war strategy now,”
sending the already depressed boys into further depression. Thank goodness I was born a girl.
As usual, the girls were drunk on Enjou during practice, so I encouraged them to cheer for the other boys a little more. Those guys are working hard for our class too, so the earlier treatment was a little too pitiful.98Please respect copyright.PENANA3fUJaoFzZn
I’ve never been in either of their classes before, so I was shocked by the fervour. I remember my peaceful days last year. How nostalgic.98Please respect copyright.PENANAUV4myVpJVa
But apparently my class isn’t even that bad. Maiden Class Rep who’s in Kaburagi’s class already looks exhausted, and the Athletics Carnival hasn’t even started yet. And with the girls cheering for Kaburagi in stuff like the baton relays too, all the boys competing with him were being pressured like crazy. I’d hate to be in their place.98Please respect copyright.PENANAvHB6cOKPT9
Thank goodness Enjou isn’t the hot-blooded type…
In the end, an External from the Student Council survived to the end, but now that Kaburagi had learnt war strategy as well, he wasn’t a match for him.98Please respect copyright.PENANAgNTKJLqhvD
I wonder if Kaburagi is going to try even harder for next year. Well, good luck, Silver Hair-kun.98Please respect copyright.PENANArKWyOEPv4x
After the Athletics Carnival was the midterms. And after the midterms was the Cultural Festival. So busy.98Please respect copyright.PENANAJZKa7Golw9
It was only optional for classes to get involved, but apparently mine was. There were the options for a haunted house or a refreshment booth, but to begin with, none of these kids had ever had takoyaki or pancakes or the like, so we couldn’t come up with any good ideas.98Please respect copyright.PENANAXQ0jzBJczW
Somebody suggested a café as well, but all the girls were like, “but it’s our Enjou-sama” and quickly shut down the possibility of him being taken by girls in other classes.98Please respect copyright.PENANAPhmypcs6qF
In the end, that only left a handmade candle store.
Together, we made stuff like aromatic candles, gel candles, mosaic candles, flower candles, just lots of candles.98Please respect copyright.PENANAAkV50Lsf6Y
Nobody was ever thinking of making a profit, so we used all sorts of good materials and I think we ended up with fairly good products considering a bunch of middle schoolers made them.98Please respect copyright.PENANAAlzeic2Ttr
Enjou’s candles already have preorders.98Please respect copyright.PENANAii0cUO4Eiu
I got involved too, and melted hot wax to make small flower-shaped candles.98Please respect copyright.PENANAgJrFsJkl6C
They had some pink to them, and were pretty cute. I mixed some blended aroma oils in as well. Isn’t this pretty good for something Reika-made?98Please respect copyright.PENANAKeWNcpC2MR
Before long, some of the girls started mixing in perfumes and stuff too, and because there were so many smells in the classroom, some people started complaining of headaches and we had to ventilate the area.
Once we all finished our quotas, we were ready for the day of the Cultural Festival.98Please respect copyright.PENANAfQJgri6H6u
Apparently we sold quite well.98Please respect copyright.PENANAMTNHVJGMOH
The customers were people like other students, fathers, brothers, “old girl” alumni as well. To prevent crime, Zuiran’s guests are carefully selected, so most of the people who came were relatives and the like.98Please respect copyright.PENANAmuj2r3UUyx
Eventually people started bidding for the Enjou candles but since the prices skyrocketed――which was ridiculous for candles――that was eventually put a stop to, and there was a lottery instead.98Please respect copyright.PENANA8CulWyoV2t
When I nervously glanced over to see how my candles were selling, I gave a quiet sigh of relief when I saw that a few people had bought some. What was shocking though was that one of them was Ririna, who had brought along her underlings too.98Please respect copyright.PENANAvNcBxGuoop
Since we only needed a few people there to take care of the sales, everybody else went to other classes, or their clubs, or just the refreshment booths and exhibits.98Please respect copyright.PENANABnZrafRERq
I decided to tour the place with my friends as well.98Please respect copyright.PENANA1w6qMKetAi
Since we didn’t know where to start, we sat down in a café with high class French tea and helped ourselves to cookies and tea as we read a pamphlet.98Please respect copyright.PENANAS0wRXionpm
Wow. There’s a bunch. They’re all pretty plain though.98Please respect copyright.PENANAk2EYGQgFUk
It was all stuff like flower arrangement exhibitions that only middle-aged women would go to.98Please respect copyright.PENANAcrim7KH4Xw
In the end we all decided to give everywhere a once over, and maybe see what was most popular.98Please respect copyright.PENANA6g7RGexA4h
When we walked past the literature club, I remembered that Class Rep was in it, so I decided to go in and have a look.98Please respect copyright.PENANAa6DoklINhm
It was stuff like book reviews, or student-written novels, haikus and poems.98Please respect copyright.PENANAIZkxqq8zqM
As I was having a casual look through them, my eyes became nailed to something shocking.
On a light blue postcard with a drawing of the sea were the words,
“My ashen grey world was painted with vivid colours. I see. So I’ve fallen in love.”
CLAAAAAAASSS REPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!
Class Rep, what the heck are you doing! Are you okay!? What went through your head!?
His name was written clearly underneath the love poem.98Please respect copyright.PENANAsv89G9Rotu
I was so shocked that I staggered.98Please respect copyright.PENANAdWZj8ZxoL4
I-, I see. So this is what people meant by “that incurable illness that you contract in eighth grade”.98Please respect copyright.PENANAko3xNOAPml
Class Rep, you sure are bold for a guy who couldn’t even confess.98Please respect copyright.PENANA6h4MztCky3
So after talking about how you were afraid of being rejected, you go and announce your unrequited love to the masses?98Please respect copyright.PENANAyXEjloajkv
Is he tired? It must have been rough taking care of the Kaburagi class through both the Athletics Carnival and Cultural Festival.
“My, isn’t this that Class Rep’s entry? He fell in love!? With whom!?”
“That serious-looking Class Rep huh~”
“How shocking… Does anybody have any idea which girl it is?”
My friends began growing noisy. My heart was noisy too.98Please respect copyright.PENANAXmVW8oEfre
Class Rep. I really admire your courage. So go use that courage to freaking confess already.98Please respect copyright.PENANAideqLSdZAJ
With just this, I really don’t think Miharu-chan is going to realise, you know…?98Please respect copyright.PENANAp46E34Pk5M
Or could it be that you never meant to let her know to begin with? Did you just want to express your poet’s soul?98Please respect copyright.PENANAMbBv7EgfRm
Aaah, Class Rep… You really gave a shock to little old me.